This article, on the founding of York College, demonstrates that the City University was never a monolith when it came to its structures and goals in terms of its educational goals.

The group of advisors reported on in this article say that liberal arts education has “become irrelevant to everyday life,” and that they are working with an imperative to modernize the university. This is a different tone than university stakeholders take in different articles, where they uphold the importance of the liberal arts and the place of humanistic disciplines in college reforms.

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This take is strongly juxtaposed in an anti-protest op ed by Hunter president Robert Cross, published in the same paper a few months later: read more.