Category: era 2
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“Don’t Shut Welfare Recipients Out of College”
Op Ed by Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy. The Chancellor in this piece argues against the loss of state assistance for people who enroll in bachelor’s degree programs. He discusses liberal education as both a right who should be available to all, and as necessary training for employment. The piece also includes a large visual element…
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“New Role for CUNY: Big Brother to Public Schools”
Another article that speaks to an attempt to rehabilitate CUNY’s reputation through stronger partnering with the “campus schools.” It details the integration of liberal arts and humanities programs into these initiatives. Read more.
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“Queens College, 50 Years Old, Seeks to Rebound”
A long piece about the revamping of both curricula and facilities at Queens College, 50 years after opening. This article details the need for an expansion of humanities programs. Specifically, it mentions a program to train teachers who are working with Latin American student populations, and a study to provide a framework for teaching American…
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“Panel Proposes CUNY Abolish Education Major: End to Education Major Proposed In CUNY’s Training of Teachers”
One of two Times reports in succession after a quiet period in the mid-80s. The detailed proposal suggested eliminating “education” as a major, and having education students specify another major like history or mathematics. They would sill need 24 credits minimum to certify as a teacher. The goal was to give new teachers more well-rounded…
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“College Meeting to Discuss Migration”
This piece is another indication that reporting about CUNY and its initiatives has moved into more populist papers like the Daily News. This piece reports on “The Caribbean Diaspora: Process of Migration and Settlement,” a conference on the Caribbean diaspora. This is the third annual conference in this series hosted at Brooklyn College, showing a…
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“CUNY Chancellor Blasts Administration Policies”
Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy decries cuts to CUNY’s funding. The most interesting thing about this article is that the story wasn’t reported in the New York City papers. During a trip to Washington D.C., the Chancellor blasts the Reagan administration’s “strangulation” of graduate funding for studies in the humanities and social sciences, saying that working…
