The turn of the century ushered in the age of technology – and of inter-academic fights becoming extremely public. The University struggles to answer a question that has been asked since its founding: who gets to go to CUNY?
The history of CUNY is a history of adaptation – and this era includes new efforts to reform, such as offering an online degree program, and the Graduate Center’s turn to focusing on public scholarship. This span of years covers the end of Open Admissions and remediation at the City University of New York. As a result of Mayor Giuliani’s efforts to restore the University’s “elite” reputation, progress made after widespread student protests in the 1960s was lost, and CUNY became less accessible to those with fewer resources. The effects of 9/11 are also apparent in these pieces.
Articles about the humanities at CUNY during this decade center around three major themes:
- Academic Standards (including Entrance Exams, ESL, and Remediation)
- Public Humanities (including Public Intellectuals and Public Programs)
After ending Open Admissions, those working at CUNY struggled to find ways to keep public education accessible to all New Yorkers. However, they faced extreme setbacks, as funding for remediation and ESL was also limited. There’s also a distinct element of CUNY’s relationship with the public at play, with articles talking about “celebrity professors” and public programming.
To read more about CUNY’s history, please visit the CUNY Digital History Archive. The site draws especially from Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, by Stephen Brier and Michael Fabricant.
“DeVry Gives Career Training the Old College Try”
CUNY Ends Open Admissions: “286 PASS ‘SECOND CHANCE’ CUNY ENTRANCE EXAM”
“Get Your College Degree Tuition Free”
“Graduate Center Adds Life to a CUNY Institution”
“A Narrowing Gateway at CUNY: English Skills”
“CUNY MAKING ‘HISTORY’ WITH NEW CURRICULUM”
“CUNY VOWS CRACKDOWN ON ANTI-U.S. HATEFEST”
“Defeat Capitalist Assault on Public Education – For Open Admissions and Free Tuition!”
“Van Sertima: Africans first to New World”
“Revisiting the 50s”
“An Invitation Ruffles Philosophical Feathers”
“GOING PUBLIC: How the “public intellectual” went from a buzzword to a relic, in one short decade”
“CUNYS COMMIES – HONORING A FELLOW TRAVELER”
“For Visitors to See These Works, It’s Just a Click”
“CUNY to hold conference on African Diaspora”
“CUNY Moves Beyond “Brick and Mortar” Education”
“City Tech addresses needs of under-represented students”
New CUNY Center to Focus On the Art of the Biography
“America at War”
“In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined”
“CUNY LAW SCHOOL EXHIBITS ART BY EX-RIKERS INMATES”
“Unlikely Group Charges Bias at University”
