People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
CUNY Digital History Archive
@cdha.bsky.social
A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York. cdha.cuny.edu
Read her excellent book: uncpress.org/978146966932... and remember that you have a role in shaping the present.
The Young Lords
Against the backdrop of America’s escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla...
uncpress.org
I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.
In the pages of a campus paper, Jewish college students in New York lamented Israeli children sleeping in shelters, debated alleged Israeli war crimes, discussed colonialism in the Middle East and criticized anti-Zionist Jews. Read more: www.timesofisrael.com/9-miles-of-a...
Last call! Join us tomorrow, Thurs. May 7, from 5–7 PM at the GC for Art, Justice, and Research. Food will be served! RSVP today; link in the bio! Please spread the word! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu @psc-cuny.org @cdha.bsky.social @johnjayrec.bsky.social @baruch.cuny.edu
✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities
Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...
centerforthehumanities.org
Great opportunity for Graduate Center students, next week! #TeachCUNY
GCTLC@gctlc.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin us on April 29 for the CUNY Digital History Archive Assignment Remix! Learn to teach with CDHA materials, enjoy lunch, and earn a $100 stipend. 12:30–3:30 pm, Room 3317. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/tGiq7806bm
✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities
Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...
centerforthehumanities.org
Are you interested in teaching #CUNY history in your spring classes? Join our educators group for a winter workshop this Friday, January 16 from 1-3pm at City Tech Library in downtown Brooklyn. Space is limited, RSVP here: tinyurl.com/5n7euzme
I know these are really tough times for many, but if you have any cash to spare for Ron McGuire, lifelong social justice advocate, veteran of the CUNY student movement in the 60s, pro bono attorney for generations of student activists, it would be so appreciated. gofund.me/57aef830f
Donate to Fundraiser for People's Lawyer Ron McGuire, organized by Ronald McGuire
Linda Clarke, Sandra Barros and Orlando Green are co-organizers of this fund… Ronald McGuire needs your support for Fundraiser for People's Lawyer Ron McGuire
gofund.me
Please donate to help Ron McGuire, “the people’s lawyer,” who fought for so many #CUNY students and needs our help now
Alexis@offalcute.bsky.social · 11mo agoI know these are really tough times for many, but if you have any cash to spare for Ron McGuire, lifelong social justice advocate, veteran of the CUNY student movement in the 60s, pro bono attorney for generations of student activists, it would be so appreciated. gofund.me/57aef830f
New week new opportunities! $2.5k for students to help design, develop, and draft an introduction to CUNY history OER to be published on the CUNY Manifold platform! libguides.gc.cuny.edu/jobs/grad-fe... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @minareeslibrary.bsky.social @cdha.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social
The Center for Humanities@humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 2y agoDeadlines starting next week! 🧵
Congrats to Eugenio María de Hostos Community College for being one of the six inaugural winners of the Education Department's Postsecondary Success Recognition Program, h/t @insidehighered.com Hostos has long pioneered in instituting educational initiatives responsive to its students’ needs.
Education Department names "Postsecondary Success" honorees
The U.S. Department of Education has named the six inaugural winners of its Postsecondary Success Recognition Program, which were selected out of a pool of 200 institutions invited to apply, according...
insidehighered.com
Today is a great day to think about how you might contribute to assembling the people’s history of the people’s university, because CUNY is contingent on us. Apply to join our project team!
CUNY Digital History Archive@cdha.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you passionate about collecting, sharing, and mobilizing CUNY movement histories? We're recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project advisory board, research & editorial board, education & outreach committee, and collection curators: cdha.cuny.edu/participate
Today is a great day to think about how you might contribute to assembling the people’s history of the people’s university, because CUNY is contingent on us. Apply to join our project team!
CUNY Digital History Archive@cdha.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you passionate about collecting, sharing, and mobilizing CUNY movement histories? We're recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project advisory board, research & editorial board, education & outreach committee, and collection curators: cdha.cuny.edu/participate
Hello, Bluesky! We are excited to share our grassroots #CUNY histories with all of you. Here's one of our favorite items that speaks across generations, from a 1976 demonstration at the United Nations organized by the Black Students Union to protest campus closures cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/4...
