Category: era 1
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New Methods for Humanities Instruction
Later in 1967, reporting turns to different innovations happening in humanities instruction at the City University. These reports create an impression of the City University of New York as a site of evolution and innovation rather than an institution that seeks to uphold traditional academic methods, in a generally complementary way. Included among these stories…
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Baruch Separates from City, Almost Eliminates Liberal Arts Program
Education, and specifically liberal arts education, connect again with political and cultural debate in the process of establishing Baruch College as a separate campus. Protests broke out over a recommendation that the campus eliminate its liberal arts programs and be solely an “upper division” campus for business and administration. Coverage focuses primarily on the elimination…
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“Hunter Girl Is Graduated With Perfect 4.0 Rating”
More than the historic moment that the article is titled for, this article reports on what was said by various figures at Hunter’s commencement ceremony that year. The outgoing president states that “liberal arts should create liberal persons – people who are equipped with principles – who are ready to act in accordance with these…
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“CITY COLLEGE ASKS CURRICULUM SHIFT: Liberal Arts Faculty Acts to End Freshman Confusion and Senior Boredom”
MORE SCIENCE IS URGED Plan Limits Required Courses to First 2 Years Latin Faces New Setback This article is extremely informative both in terms of what changes were going on at the university and how it was reported out. “Liberal arts” again is being positioned as a combatant, this time against “specialization” rather than strictly…
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“STORK OUTRACED, A PH.D. IS EARNED: Woman Will Be First to Get City University Degree”
An article about the first recipient of a Ph.D. from a CUNY campus. Her degree was in English Literature. The article is celebratory and lighthearted in tone, sympathetic to the nontraditional gender roles that the couple occupies, with Dr. Stern’s husband proofreading her writing and being excited about taking care of the baby when she…
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“A Kind Of Proletarian Harvard: A Kind of Proletarian Harvard”
This is a long, detailed piece from the New York Times about the history and evolution of CCNY. It argues that the school has become significantly less politically radical since free speech and anti-fascist demonstrations that took place during the 1930s. There is also a recollection of a time during the Depression where liberal arts…
