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1960-2025
1960
“City Colleges Get First Chancellor After Long Hunt: Everett of Hollins College in Virginia Named to Unify 7 Institutions in System”
Jun 9, 1960
“Student Survey Shows Switch to Humanities”
Aug 13, 1960
“For Free City Colleges: Opposition to Heald Committee Proposal Is Detailed”
Dec 7, 1960
Municipal Colleges Become City University of New York
Dec 14, 1960
1961
“Student Poll Reveals Wide Disbelief in God”
Jan 8, 1961
Early ’60s Accusations of Discrimination
Mar 3, 1961
1962
“EMPLOYERS FOUND SHIFTING CRITERIA: City University Study Shows High Ability Is Now Being Put Above Personality”
May 7, 1962
Humanities Curricula Expanding
Oct 18, 1962
1963
“Evening Courses at Bronx Community College”
Aug 25, 1963
1964
“Unrequired Reading”
Jan 5, 1964
“SEARCH FOR TRUTH” – Letters to the Editor
May 24, 1964
1965
C.C.N.Y Plans to Expand
Feb 22, 1965
“A YOUNG COLLEGE INSTALLS LEADER: Community College’s Role Cited at Kingsborough”
Mar 26, 1965
“A Kind Of Proletarian Harvard: A Kind of Proletarian Harvard”
Mar 28, 1965
“STORK OUTRACED, A PH.D. IS EARNED: Woman Will Be First to Get City University Degree”
Apr 25, 1965
1966
“CITY COLLEGE ASKS CURRICULUM SHIFT: Liberal Arts Faculty Acts to End Freshman Confusion and Senior Boredom”
Mar 21, 1966
“Hunter Girl Is Graduated With Perfect 4.0 Rating”
Jun 12, 1966
1967
Baruch Separates from City, Almost Eliminates Liberal Arts Program
Apr 1, 1967
New Methods for Humanities Instruction
Jul 9, 1967
“Council of Scholars to Guide New College Here”
Sep 25, 1967
1968
“At City College, a Division . . .”
Jan 12, 1968
1969
Protests at City College
Feb 6, 1969
“Gallagher Resigns, Blasts Budget Hatchet Job”
Apr 2, 1969
“The Sad Beauty of Locked Gates”
Apr 25, 1969
“Art and Engineering Students in Separate Worlds: Different Motivation Found on Protests and Life Aims”
May 12, 1969
Open Admissions Policy Announced
Jun 1, 1969
City University In Perspective
Jun 14, 1969
The Establishment of Ethnic Studies at CUNY
Oct 26, 1969
1970
“A Crunch Is Coming in Higher Education”
Jul 13, 1970
“The Wrecking of a College”
Dec 27, 1970
1971
Ethnic Studies Revisited
Sep 2, 1971
1980
“Upgrade of Humanities Courses”
May 3, 1980
“Hostos: At the Dawn of a New Decade”
Jul 26, 1980
“City U. Considering a Plan That Would Limit Tenure: Enrollment Decline Foreseen”
Aug 4, 1980
1981
“Why Must English-as-a-Second-Language Be ‘Remedial’?”
Mar 25, 1981
“The Market for Ph.D.’s”
May 1, 1981
1982
“An Experiment in Reschooling the Scholar”
Feb 9, 1982
“The National Writing Project”
Aug 17, 1982
“Black Studies at CUNY Tech looks to the future”
Oct 2, 1982
1983
“City U. Graduate School Gains High Rank”
Jun 14, 1983
“City U. Profiles Its ’81 Graduates a Year Later”
Aug 28, 1983
1984
“See ray of hope for Evers College”
Mar 10, 1984
“CUNY Tech Student Theatre Works Productions”
Sep 29, 1984
Ad: “Scholars Against the Escalating Danger of the Far Right”
Nov 2, 1984
1985
“Medgar Evers College regains four year status”
Jun 8, 1985
1986
“Writers Conference at Evers”
Mar 1, 1986
“CUNY Chancellor Blasts Administration Policies”
Mar 5, 1986
1987
“College Meeting to Discuss Migration”
Mar 1, 1987
“Panel Proposes CUNY Abolish Education Major: End to Education Major Proposed In CUNY’s Training of Teachers”
Oct 5, 1987
“Queens College, 50 Years Old, Seeks to Rebound”
Oct 11, 1987
1988
“New Role for CUNY: Big Brother to Public Schools”
Mar 18, 1988
“Don’t Shut Welfare Recipients Out of College”
Sep 23, 1988
“Cuts at Hunter”
Dec 28, 1988
1989
“When Welfare and Schooling Don’t Mix”
Nov 28, 1989
1990
“Lehman College to Open Satellite Campus in Japan”
Feb 1, 1990
“Minorities at Baruch College Charge Neglect of Ethnicity”
Apr 21, 1990
“Facing Budget Cuts, CUNY Turns Away Students”
Sep 26, 1990
“CUNY Head Weighs Requiring New General-Education Courses”
Oct 5, 1990
2000
“DeVry Gives Career Training the Old College Try”
Jan 12, 2000
CUNY Ends Open Admissions: “286 PASS ‘SECOND CHANCE’ CUNY ENTRANCE EXAM”
Jan 29, 2000
“Get Your College Degree Tuition Free”
Feb 23, 2000
“Graduate Center Adds Life to a CUNY Institution”
Apr 5, 2000
“A Narrowing Gateway at CUNY: English Skills”
Aug 30, 2000
“CUNY MAKING ‘HISTORY’ WITH NEW CURRICULUM”
Sep 16, 2000
2001
“CUNY VOWS CRACKDOWN ON ANTI-U.S. HATEFEST”
Oct 4, 2001
“Defeat Capitalist Assault on Public Education – For Open Admissions and Free Tuition!”
Dec 1, 2001
2002
“Van Sertima: Africans first to New World”
Jan 24, 2002
“Revisiting the 50s”
Mar 17, 2002
“An Invitation Ruffles Philosophical Feathers”
Jun 29, 2002
“GOING PUBLIC: How the “public intellectual” went from a buzzword to a relic, in one short decade”
Jul 7, 2002
“CUNYS COMMIES – HONORING A FELLOW TRAVELER”
Nov 27, 2002
2004
“For Visitors to See These Works, It’s Just a Click”
Feb 4, 2004
“CUNY to hold conference on African Diaspora”
Oct 28, 2004
2007
“CUNY Moves Beyond “Brick and Mortar” Education”
Aug 1, 2007
“City Tech addresses needs of under-represented students”
Dec 6, 2007
2008
New CUNY Center to Focus On the Art of the Biography
Feb 23, 2008
“America at War”
Mar 10, 2008
“In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined”
Apr 6, 2008
2009
“CUNY LAW SCHOOL EXHIBITS ART BY EX-RIKERS INMATES”
Apr 29, 2009
2010
“Unlikely Group Charges Bias at University”
Sep 14, 2010
2020
“What We Lose When We Go From the Classroom to Zoom”
May 4, 2020
“The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus”
May 26, 2020
“Florence Howe, ‘Mother of Women’s Studies,’ Dies at 91”
Sep 13, 2020
2021
“CUNY premieres new program to help LGBTQ+ students”
Jun 10, 2021
2022
“CUNY student petitions to cancel Emmett Till opera written by white female playwright”
Mar 20, 2022
2023
“Shellyne Rodriguez, Unhinged NYC college professor who cursed out anti-abortion students, holds machete to Post reporter’s neck”
May 24, 2023
“Petrona de la Cruz to be honored at Lehman College”
Oct 5, 2023
2024
“City College, Against Its Nature, Asks Police to End Campus Protest”
Aug 4, 2024
“The Organizers Are Jewish. The Cause Is Palestinian. This College Won’t Be Hosting.”
Sep 14, 2024
“Refusal to crack down on antisemitism made CUNY school a ‘hostile’ workplace: Jewish studies director”
Dec 21, 2024
2025
“CUNY Removes Palestinian Studies Job Listing on Hochul’s Orders”
Feb 27, 2025
“Mayoral wannabe Zohran Mamdani joins other lefty pols in ripping CUNY for pulling ‘antisemitic’ job posting”
Mar 18, 2025
“Cumbre Afro at CENTRO looks to unite cultures from Puerto Rico to Harlem”
Mar 20, 2025
“CUNY Posts Modified Palestinian Studies Jobs After Gov’s Removal Order”
Mar 25, 2025
A Poem for CUNY, the School ‘That Runs Its City’
Apr 7, 2025
“Department of Education shutdown threatens its purpose of equal access”
Apr 10, 2025
