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CUNY Dollar - Occupy Wall Street An anonymous critique of the CUNY Chancellor and Board of Trustees circulated during the Occupy Wall Street movement. -
"Students Stage Demonstrations Against War" New York Times photo accompanying an article on a 1935 City College student demonstration against U.S. involvement in war in Europe. Caption reads: "The Protest Meeting at City College. Where the Police Finally had to Interfere to Prevent a Riot, There Was No Disorder at Demonstrations at Other Colleges here." -
"Meeting the Increased Demand for Education in New York State" (Heald Commission Report) Upon his election as governor in 1959, Nelson Rockefeller established a committee to examine the expected increase in demand for higher education in New York in the coming decades. The committee, chaired by Henry Heald, issued this report calling for an expansion of the SUNY system as well as public aid to private colleges, increased student scholarships, and an end to the tuition-free policy in New York City's municipal colleges. -
"Brooklyn College Defends Actions" In May 1968, 42 demonstrators were arrested following a 16-hour sit-in at the Brooklyn College registrar's office. Their goal was to secure the admission of greater numbers of black and Puerto Rican students to the mostly-white college. In this New York Times article from the following week, school officials defended their efforts to diversify the student body, the faculty, and the curriculum. -
Interview conducted by former Vice Chancellor Julius C.C. Edelstein with former CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker In 1986 former CUNY Vice-Chancellor Julius C. C. Edelstein conducted this interview with former Chancellor Albert Bowker about Bowker's tenure as the second Chancellor of CUNY. The discussion focuses on whether CUNY is a "system" or a "university" and what significance each holds. Other topics include the role of the Graduate Center, the independence of the colleges, and positions taken by certain administrators. -
Oral History Interview with Former CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker (Tapes 2-4) In this oral history interview, conducted in May 1985, Julius C. C. Edelstein interviews former CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker. Both men were administrative architects of CUNY's Open Admissions policy. This transcript was compiled from tapes 2-4 of the interview—tape 1 is lost as of this writing. -
Crisis at CUNY As the 1970s wore on, students and faculty at CUNY found themselves faced with an ominous environment. While the open admissions struggle of the late 1960s represented a signal achievement in the struggle to secure democratic access to quality higher education, now rising costs, overcrowding, layoffs, and other cutbacks threatened this ideal.Crisis at CUNY grew out of the research of the Newt Davidson Collective, an ad hoc group of faculty from several campuses who sought to understand reasons for this new climate. Their search for answers took them deep into the complex bureacracy of the City University and its links with other key institutions. The booklet would go on to circulate among CUNY radicals and others, influencing an entire generation. The authors were prescient—in many ways, the publication describes the CUNY of today as much as it does the CUNY of 1974. -
Report of the Citizens' Commission on the Future of the City University of New York In November 1969, CUNY's Board of Higher Education formed and tasked the Citizens' Commission to "study the future of the University in all its aspects." Their analysis resulted in the creation of an extensive report in 1971 that detailed the group's findings and recommendations. This section of that report is focused entirely on the university's funding. While funding had been a contentious topic in prior decades, the report's publication came at an especially trying time for CUNY as the rapid implementation of Open Admissions in the prior year placed new demands on the university, and the full effects of the city's decade-defining fiscal crisis were yet to be felt. -
Photograph of Queens College CORE at the March on Washington This photograph shows the Queens College chapter of CORE at the March on Washington in 1963. In the photo (right to left) are unknown, Bob Freeman, unknown, Matt Gventer (with glasses), Betty Bollinger, unknown and Nick Freeman. -
Student Union, College of Staten Island, 1969 Photo of students in College of Staten Island Student Union -
Discussion Club, College of Staten Island, 1969 Photo of students in College of Staten Island Discussion Club -
"I Think That I Shall Never See a Plant as Repulsive as a Pea" 150 Brooklyn College students spent the summer of 1943 in Morrisville, NY picking peas and string beans by day and studying farm biology, geology, rural sociology, and war service courses in military topography and navigation. A Brooklyn College report on the program described students' "enlistment" for three months "so that they could contribute useful war service but not lose all chance to gain regular college credit." The title of this post is the first line of a theme song adopted by the students. -
The First Student to Register for BMCC This 1964 photograph depicts the first student to register at the newly-created Borough of Manhattan Community College. -
College of Staten Island Afro-American Society Members of the Afro-American Society at the College of Staten Island pose for a group photo. -
Stop The War Now Photo of Queensborough Community College students marching to protest the Vietnam War -
Money For Education Not War 2007 Professional Staff Congress (PSC) members march under the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC.
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