Tag: Hunter College
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“When Welfare and Schooling Don’t Mix”
“They say that going to a four-year school and studying liberal arts does not prepare you for a job. But liberal arts makes you well-rounded. You learn how to speak, how to present yourself; it teaches you the essential things.” This article deals with a fundamental issue that faces CUNY during all time periods: educational…
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“Cuts at Hunter”
This letter to the editor argues against retrenchment and the firing of English faculty, who mainly teach introductory level and remedial English. This is framed as another issue of educational access for first-generation New Yorkers. Read more.
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The Establishment of Ethnic Studies at CUNY
As a result of the protests at City College, campuses begin adding programs in various fields of ethnic studies. The addition of these programs faces both support and opposition from faculty and outside sources.
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“Hunter Girl Is Graduated With Perfect 4.0 Rating”
More than the historic moment that the article is titled for, this article reports on what was said by various figures at Hunter’s commencement ceremony that year. The outgoing president states that “liberal arts should create liberal persons – people who are equipped with principles – who are ready to act in accordance with these…
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“STORK OUTRACED, A PH.D. IS EARNED: Woman Will Be First to Get City University Degree”
An article about the first recipient of a Ph.D. from a CUNY campus. Her degree was in English Literature. The article is celebratory and lighthearted in tone, sympathetic to the nontraditional gender roles that the couple occupies, with Dr. Stern’s husband proofreading her writing and being excited about taking care of the baby when she…
