CUNY Digital History Archive

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$2.5k for students to help design, develop, and draft an introduction to CUNY history OER to be published on the CUNY Manifold platform!

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Save Hostos! · CUNY Digital History Archive The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project that centers the experiences of students, workers, faculty, community residents, retirees, and alumni of the City University of New York.

During the 1970s, the Save Hostos Movement became one of the most prolonged and successful mass movements in New York City.

Read more about the Save Hostos! movement and explore documents collected by Gerald Meyer (RIP) at the CUNY Digital History Archive

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Black and white photo from the 1970s, with activists climbing a chain-link fence to hang a banner in front of the "500 Building." The banner has text in Spanish and English that reads, "Este edificio pertenece al colegio eugenio maria de hostos. This building bleongs to Hostos Community College"

From 1973-1979, Hostos students, staff, faculty, and community members mobilized three massive campaigns in the South Bronx, each of which accomplished its goal.

There is a reason we use this image on our homepage.

"Students and Faculty Take Over the 500 Building" cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/6...

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Front page of the bilingual student newspaper at Hostos (De Hostos Echo) dated November/December 1975. Headline says "Thousands march to save Hostos" with a black and white image of a march outside Chase Manhattan Bank on 149th Street and 3rd Avenue in the South Bronx. Visible signs say: "Education is your right - fight" and "Don't let Hostos die, no more cutbacks"

Hostos was created as part of Open Admissions at CUNY to meet the needs of the Latino community in the South Bronx. First offering classes in 1970, it became the sole bilingual college in the New York City tri-state area.

But Hostos was soon threatened with closure during the 1975 fiscal crisis.

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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...

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.

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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!

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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!

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Get Involved · CUNY Digital History Archive The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project that centers the experiences of students, workers, faculty, community residents, retirees, and alumni of the City University of New York.

Are 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

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Black and white protest flier. Headline says: Black Students Union and Black organizations demonstration against genocide and racism in the city's university, at the United Nations Building, 1 UN Plaza, April 9, 1976, 12pm. Paul Robeson Birthday. Line drawing of the UN building and student protestors beneath, birds and flags visible overhead. One student wears a Hostos sweatshirt and another wears Hunter College, and signs for John Jay, Medgar Evers, Staten Island, and Bronx Community College are visible. Another sign says: We want to see black people live again.

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...

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