Click here to download the paper. The Struggle for CUNY: A History Of The CUNY Student Movement, 1969 – 1999 By Christopher Gunderson Contents 1 Introduction 5 A Brief History Of Cuny 7 Cuny Student Activism Before 1969 9 The Global Context 12 The Open Admissions Strike 22 The Effects Of Open Admissions 24 Struggles [...]
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The Struggle for CUNY
Posted in access to education, Hostos Community College, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, pre-SLAM radical CUNY organizing, Radical people of color organizing, SLAM founders on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spring 1998: Demands for Open Admissions
Posted in access to education, Hostos Community College, Open Admissions, Organizing tactics and strategy, Radical people of color organizing, welfare rights on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A victory of the Civil Rights Movement, Open Admissions meant working people, the poor, people of color, and immigrants whose segregated, inferior public education may have failed to adequately prepare them for college-level work would not be denied the chance for a decent education a second time by being denied access to college.
From original website: “Active Groups” circa 1998
Posted in access to education, Hostos Community College, Open Admissions on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This list was made in 1998, at a time when many of the original SLAM groups had ceased being active on various campuses. So this is only accurate for the 1998 era of SLAM.
February 1998 New York Times article
Posted in access to education, bilingual education, Hostos Community College, Open Admissions on June 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
That protester, and another who clambered onto the table earlier in the meeting, were pulled down and arrested by CUNY security officers. Other demonstrators lining the back of the boardroom chanted, “Education is a right,” an angry rejoinder to proposals by Herman Badillo, the vice chairman of the board, and others to restrict enrollment of students who require remedial classes.
