Category: timeline
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“For Visitors to See These Works, It’s Just a Click”
Lehman College did not have a formal art gallery – but it did create a website documenting public art pieces around the Bronx. This is a celebratory piece from the New York Times that fits in with narratives about higher education personalities and work being more accessible to the general public. It’s not a piece…
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“CUNYS COMMIES – HONORING A FELLOW TRAVELER”
I include this as a counterexample to the many Amsterdam News pieces on events at CUNY. The tone is as anti-communist as something written in the 50s, with plenty of name-calling and anguish over CUNY’s decision to host a centennial about a New York politician who had communist ties (and never mind the fact that…
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“GOING PUBLIC: How the “public intellectual” went from a buzzword to a relic, in one short decade”
A piece from the Washington Post on the aforementioned controversy surrounding celebrity professors and their academic credentials in the context of being “public intellectuals.” It mentions that the controversy reported on in the Times was particularly strange considering that West had actually published extensively on Sidney Hook. This is a rare instance of CUNY being…
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“An Invitation Ruffles Philosophical Feathers”
This piece is a particularly interesting collision of politics, the humanities, and media. It covers a conference hosted at the Graduate Center which reviewed the work of Sidney Hook, a controversial philosopher – but the piece is mostly about controversy between professors. They were upset about the attendance of celebrity professor Cornell West. It is…
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“Revisiting the 50s”
A moment of direct collaboration between the Times and CUNY to put on a series of events examining the “music, art, and culture” of the 1950s. It’s a fun and visually appealing advertisement; a distinct appeal to a public audience to engage with humanities subjects. Read more.
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“Van Sertima: Africans first to New World”
Continued engagement with CUNY, and specifically Medgar Evers, from the Amsterdam News. They report on an event that examines controversial research from a humanities professor who published research in the 70s that African settlers had integrated with indigenous Americans long before the arrival of Columbus. Even over a decade after the last former part of…
