Category: timeline
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“See ray of hope for Evers College”
This article details the rise of a new president at Medgar Evers, who is described as the first president of the college “whose academic qualification and experience there could be no question.” He promises to set up a Division of African and Caribbean Studies and the Humanities. He promises to raise the prestige of the…
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“City U. Profiles Its ’81 Graduates a Year Later”
This piece suggests that the University is doing well at meeting its goals in terms of serving unrepresented students who normally would not have access to a college education. It also reflects a growing concern for the financial state of humanities graduates. Read more.
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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.
