Category: era 2
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“City U. Graduate School Gains High Rank”
A celebratory piece on the Graduate Center’s programs in the humanities ranking nationally for the first time. The content of the article reflects the blow to reputation that CUNY faced in the 70s, after its rocky implementation of Open Admissions and the broader fiscal crisis in NYC. It suggests that the GC wasn’t able to…
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“Black Studies at CUNY Tech looks to the future”
As in other Amsterdam News articles on CUNY and the arts and humanities, an emphasis is made on the connection between the newly robust programming and the local community that it is meant to serve. This is one of the earliest articles from the decade in this narrative thread. Read more.
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“The National Writing Project”
A longform article on the need for writing instruction and how it has progressed in the post-1960s era that pushed for universal higher education. CUNY’s Basic Writing program is featured along with the work of CUNY professor Mina Shaughnessy. The movement at CUNY is taken as a jumping off point for a national dialogue around…
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“An Experiment in Reschooling the Scholar”
This article is one of many concerning retraining teachers to better serve the current needs of students in a changing job market. For example, the article discusses the potential for retraining humanists in fields like computer science. It describes the English major as an “endangered species.” Read more.
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“The Market for Ph.D.’s”
A female philosophy professor from the Graduate Center rebuts a claim in a previous letter that all unemployed philosophers are male. I include this brief and eloquent reply to illustrate how the dialogues around the humanities Ph.D. are changing just over two decades later; while the university was scrambling to increase capacity to provide Ph.D.’s…
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“Why Must English-as-a-Second-Language Be ‘Remedial’?”
An article from the president of CCNY objecting to the classification of ESL as “remedial” work. This piece also defends the strength of CCNY’s continued programs in the arts and humanities, rejecting the notion that ESL has somehow replaced the core curriculum. This is one of the only City College-centric pieces of news media during…
