Category: timeline
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“The Sad Beauty of Locked Gates”
“The upstart rebel kids turn into dignified men and women, committed to the rights of their people, flying the flags and manning the barricades of a genuine revolution.” Robert Mayer This coverage of the events at City College is much more poetic, elegantly written and outwardly sympathetic to the demands of the protesters, described as…
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“Gallagher Resigns, Blasts Budget Hatchet Job”
After months of student protests and a declaration of budget cuts, longtime president Buell Gallagher of CCNY resigns. This report from the Daily News is much more emotive than the times supporting, juxtaposing a frantic and distressed-looking Gallagher with a smug looking Albert H. Bowker, then chancellor. This type of visual flourish completely contradicts the…
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Protests at City College
Black and Puerto Rican students begin lead protests at City College, insisting that the college expand its admissions and programs to accommodate the residents of the community that the campus resides in. These protests were led by liberal arts students of CCNY’s south campus. One of their primary demands was for an expansion of available…
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“At City College, a Division . . .”
This is one of the articles that most clearly delineates the cultural differences between the humanities students of City College’s south campus, and the science and technology students of the north campus. In no uncertain terms, it suggests that disciplinary practices shape the student outlook on contemporary issues; and it paints the different student groups…
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“Council of Scholars to Guide New College Here”
This article, on the founding of York College, demonstrates that the City University was never a monolith when it came to its structures and goals in terms of its educational goals. The group of advisors reported on in this article say that liberal arts education has “become irrelevant to everyday life,” and that they are…
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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…
