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1960-1971
1960
“City Colleges Get First Chancellor After Long Hunt: Everett of Hollins College in Virginia Named to Unify 7 Institutions in System”
Jun 9, 1960
“Student Survey Shows Switch to Humanities”
Aug 13, 1960
“For Free City Colleges: Opposition to Heald Committee Proposal Is Detailed”
Dec 7, 1960
Municipal Colleges Become City University of New York
Dec 14, 1960
1961
“Student Poll Reveals Wide Disbelief in God”
Jan 8, 1961
Early ’60s Accusations of Discrimination
Mar 3, 1961
1962
“EMPLOYERS FOUND SHIFTING CRITERIA: City University Study Shows High Ability Is Now Being Put Above Personality”
May 7, 1962
Humanities Curricula Expanding
Oct 18, 1962
1963
“Evening Courses at Bronx Community College”
Aug 25, 1963
1964
“Unrequired Reading”
Jan 5, 1964
“SEARCH FOR TRUTH” – Letters to the Editor
May 24, 1964
1965
C.C.N.Y Plans to Expand
Feb 22, 1965
“A YOUNG COLLEGE INSTALLS LEADER: Community College’s Role Cited at Kingsborough”
Mar 26, 1965
“A Kind Of Proletarian Harvard: A Kind of Proletarian Harvard”
Mar 28, 1965
“STORK OUTRACED, A PH.D. IS EARNED: Woman Will Be First to Get City University Degree”
Apr 25, 1965
1966
“CITY COLLEGE ASKS CURRICULUM SHIFT: Liberal Arts Faculty Acts to End Freshman Confusion and Senior Boredom”
Mar 21, 1966
“Hunter Girl Is Graduated With Perfect 4.0 Rating”
Jun 12, 1966
1967
Baruch Separates from City, Almost Eliminates Liberal Arts Program
Apr 1, 1967
New Methods for Humanities Instruction
Jul 9, 1967
“Council of Scholars to Guide New College Here”
Sep 25, 1967
1968
“At City College, a Division . . .”
Jan 12, 1968
1969
Protests at City College
Feb 6, 1969
“Gallagher Resigns, Blasts Budget Hatchet Job”
Apr 2, 1969
“The Sad Beauty of Locked Gates”
Apr 25, 1969
“Art and Engineering Students in Separate Worlds: Different Motivation Found on Protests and Life Aims”
May 12, 1969
Open Admissions Policy Announced
Jun 1, 1969
City University In Perspective
Jun 14, 1969
The Establishment of Ethnic Studies at CUNY
Oct 26, 1969
1970
“A Crunch Is Coming in Higher Education”
Jul 13, 1970
“The Wrecking of a College”
Dec 27, 1970
1971
Ethnic Studies Revisited
Sep 2, 1971
1980
“Upgrade of Humanities Courses”
May 3, 1980
“Hostos: At the Dawn of a New Decade”
Jul 26, 1980
“City U. Considering a Plan That Would Limit Tenure: Enrollment Decline Foreseen”
Aug 4, 1980
1981
“Why Must English-as-a-Second-Language Be ‘Remedial’?”
Mar 25, 1981
“The Market for Ph.D.’s”
May 1, 1981
1982
“An Experiment in Reschooling the Scholar”
Feb 9, 1982
“The National Writing Project”
Aug 17, 1982
“Black Studies at CUNY Tech looks to the future”
Oct 2, 1982
1983
“City U. Graduate School Gains High Rank”
Jun 14, 1983
“City U. Profiles Its ’81 Graduates a Year Later”
Aug 28, 1983
1984
“See ray of hope for Evers College”
Mar 10, 1984
“CUNY Tech Student Theatre Works Productions”
Sep 29, 1984
Ad: “Scholars Against the Escalating Danger of the Far Right”
Nov 2, 1984
1985
“Medgar Evers College regains four year status”
Jun 8, 1985
1986
“Writers Conference at Evers”
Mar 1, 1986
“CUNY Chancellor Blasts Administration Policies”
Mar 5, 1986
1987
“College Meeting to Discuss Migration”
Mar 1, 1987
“Panel Proposes CUNY Abolish Education Major: End to Education Major Proposed In CUNY’s Training of Teachers”
Oct 5, 1987
“Queens College, 50 Years Old, Seeks to Rebound”
Oct 11, 1987
1988
“New Role for CUNY: Big Brother to Public Schools”
Mar 18, 1988
“Don’t Shut Welfare Recipients Out of College”
Sep 23, 1988
“Cuts at Hunter”
Dec 28, 1988
1989
“When Welfare and Schooling Don’t Mix”
Nov 28, 1989
1990
“Lehman College to Open Satellite Campus in Japan”
Feb 1, 1990
“Minorities at Baruch College Charge Neglect of Ethnicity”
Apr 21, 1990
“Facing Budget Cuts, CUNY Turns Away Students”
Sep 26, 1990
“CUNY Head Weighs Requiring New General-Education Courses”
Oct 5, 1990
