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CUNY Digital History Project
The CUNY History Project team will coordinate, collect, organize, and present material to facilitate the study and understanding of this unique institution and its local and global significance.
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CUNY DHP Project themes + summary – initial brainstorming – add to these
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| Title | CUNY DHP Project themes + summary - initial brainstorming - add to these |
| Content | Initial brainstorming List of Themes:
Activism- faculty and students
Free access to public education
Pre-post '61 unification
Funding
Curriculum—evolution (bilingual, SEEK, remediation)
Academic freedom
Public influence
Student demographics/immigrant experience
Faculty profile/identity
Central control/admin
Open admissions
CUNY relevance to city and state politics
Labor--unions
Themes and goal summarized:
The purpose of this project is to construct a social history of CUNY as a unique, urban educational institution and a focal point of struggle for open, equal quality education for all.
a. Academic freedom/curricula
b. Struggle for open admissions
c. Funding/free higher education/tuition fights
d. Labor
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