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Shirley Saulsbury
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Shirley Saulsbury, Executive Associate to the Dean and Assistant Dean of Affirmative Action at the time of interview, started at LaGuardia Community College in 1974 as an employee, later becoming a student at LaGuardia which served to help her continue both her professional and academic careers.
Timestamped summary of video (follows Andy Saluga on tape):
(33:28) Saulsbury started as an hourly worker in 1974 in the Adult and Continuing Education department. She was convinced by a counselor at the time to begin to attend LaGCC. Talks about the student side of the registration process in the 70’s
(36:00) Talks about working in the Human Services department and Augusta Kaplan, one of the department’s chairs.
(37:14) Describes the positive classroom environment and professors she had as a student, as well as crowding issues. Mentions Professor’s Deborah Harrell and Elaine Leff.
(39:16) “Students were vibrant and vocal, they knew how to voice their opinion and there was student unity.”
(41:09) Describes her Coop Seminar with Professor Janet Cyril.
(42:16) Talks about physical growth of the college “…it’s so large we barely know the people in our immediate area. It’s changed.”
(43:00) Talks about getting her Bachelors Degree at York College and Master’s Degree and Baruch College.
(45:30) Goes into her career at LaGuardia working for Human Services, Adult and Continuing Education, and then Assistant to the President. Describes writing grants, specifically for the Sheet Metal Program.
(50:24) Describes the evolving campus, E-Building and Main Building
(52:55) Talks about her role as Vice President of the Alumni Association and working with President Shenker to develop a more diverse Alumni program.
(53:55) 1989 is interviews and hired by President Bowen as Assistant to the President. Talks about the Deans and Administrators and their involvement with the college.
(1:00:01) End
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, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Saulsbury, Shirley, President's Office, Cooperative Education
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LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
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Raymond Schoenberg
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At the time of the interview, Raymond Schoenberg was Director of the Registrar Office. He talks in depth about the college’s early years and how the campus developed over the years.
Timestamp summary of interview (follows John Hyland’s interview on tape):
(45:23) Raymond Schoenberg started at LaGCC in its first semester in Fall 1971. Talks about his career at Hunter College and seeing the sign for Community College Number 9 and his first meeting with Mary Ryan, Assistant to the Dean of Faculty, Freeman Sleeper, Dean of Faculty, Raymond Bowen, Associate Dean of Faculty, and Janet Lieberman, Assistant Dean of Faculty.
(47:54) Sees starting at a new college as an opportunity.
(48:40) Talks about the Great Hall which had an area to the side for the Registrar Office, it was also used for classes, for tennis and registration, anything that required a large area and it was were all the action was at the college.
(50:35) Mentions how faculty would drive their motorcycles into the back of the building and park their bikes in the Great Hall until they left.
(51:11) Talks about working during the summer of 1971 and how the Registrar had needed paper. They received paper from the College of Staten Island with the Staten Island logo and had to remind students for several years that LaGCC was not in Staten Island and it was in Queens.
(52:38) Says what was unique about LaGCC all the offices would put their feelings and input into the college. Talks about luncheons at a restaurant on Queens Blvd to discuss the policy of the college.
(56:00) Mentions that the College Senate was called the Academic Programming Committee.
(56:29) Speaks about technology in the workplace and in the Registrar Office at the time and compares his experience to that at Hunter College.
(01:00:39) Schoenberg discussed the changes over the years at the Registrar Office. He had left the Registrar in 1983 – he spoke about the functions of the Registrar office.
(01:05:06) He also spoke about the college and service with students and the procedures with computers and technology.
(01:11:55) Discusses grades and students and the mail and calling systems.
(01:12:29) Talks about the college’s need to grow and the different buildings such as the Satellite Building (Sony Building), Center 3 Building, and the L and P Building
(01:12:58) He discussed wider CUNY growth in headcount which continuously grows and says there is a tremendous demand on space.
(01:20:43) He discusses the importance of Cooperative Education and students. And the word on the street was LaGuardia cared.
(01:24:20) Ends on graduation and changes in credits needed to graduate. Schoenberg mentioned technology and student mobility. He also discusses change in later years.
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, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Schoenberg, Raymond, Registrar, Great Hall, M-Building
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LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
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