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The Bridge, 1988 Fall
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The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today.
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Tuition, Campus Safety, Cooperative Education, Accounting Resources Center, Vassar College program, Mathematics Department, Health Center, Williams, John
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LaGuardia Community College
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Fiorello's Flute, 1974 October 31
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Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It superseded The Bridge.
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Consumer Assistance Bureau, Independent Study Program, Student Council, New York State Intercollegiate Mock Senate, GI Bill, Student Clubs, Construction, Cyril, Janet, Newball, Leo, Watson, Sandra, Weithermer, David, Williams, Dorrie, Wittek, Emil
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)
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Fiorello's Flute, 1974 October 17
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Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It succeeded The Bridge.
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Cafeteria, Change of program, Student clubs, Extended Day, Bonaparte, Marion, Construction, College Radio, Women's services
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)
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The Gadfly 2010
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, Plato, Utopias, Nussbaum,Martha, Cultural pluralism, Gender identity in mass media, Food comsumption, God--Proof, Ontological, Crime, Moral motivation, Surgery,Plastic, Psychology, Socrates, Knowledge,Theory of, Prostitution--Religious aspects
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
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The Gadfly 2012
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, Buddhism; God--Proof, Ontological, Qualia, Philosophy of mind, Perception, Duchamp, Marcel, United States--Politics and Government, Social Media- Social aspects, Cyberbullying
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
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The Gadfly 2017
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, Asylum, Right of--United States, Right to die, Ethics, Hip-Hop, Love, Sex discrimination, Marriage, Addiction
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
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LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 2
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This week the our news team takes a look back at the history of LaGuardia Community College.
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Celentano, Holly, 40th Anniversary of LaGuardia Community College, Katopes, Peter, Mellow, Gail, Shenker, Joseph, LaGuardia, Fiorello, Enrollment
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Sandra Watson
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Sandra Watson Director of Family Staff (at time of interview) talks about her experience in the Division of Adult and Continuing Education and as a counselor in the Veterans Program
(00:46) Sandra Watson spoke about the founding of LaGCC in the early 1970s -- a period when people struggled during the Civil Rights movement and CUNY was in position to respond – at a time for women and people of color wanted to come into the institution -- it was a time after the Vietnam War.
(2:23) Goes on to describe the student body
(2:47) Talks about her coming to LaGuardia Community college as a vocational counselor for the Veterans Programs.
(4:05) Came to LaGCC in 1974 and said it was a very exciting place. Talks about the Great Hall, Leonard Saremsky who would drive up in his motorcycle right up to the door; tennis courts in the back; partitions separating the space, no offices – a feeling of oneness.
(4:47) Talks about Joseph Shenker’s age and the overall young staff.
(5:43) The Division of Adult and Continuing Education was written in the Governance Plan – the arm to reach out to the community – a community that was very diverse.
(6:53) Speaks about Adult and Continuing Education creating programs which would later be turned into degree programs – The Dean of Adult and Continuing Education was Ann Marcus, Sandra spoke about different faculty lines in Adult and Continuing Education and support for President Shenker.
(8:18) Sandra said, most of the people in the division ran program areas and knew how to write grants.
(8:47) Mentions the Single College Concept
(9:38) “We were told we could fail, we could try, we could experiment”
(11:22) Discusses the Veteran’s Program and says it was one of the most challenging programs she ever worked in. Talks about how the counseling and workshops were organized
(14:14) Mentions that the Veteran’s program was not funded for the first time in 24 years (1996), in her opinion due to the sharp conservative political turn in government
(15:11) Talks about how ACE programs were funded, developed and community involvement in the process. Discusses the Deaf Program
(17:55) Speaks about Fern Kahn
(18:19) Speaks about collaborating with funding agencies and city agencies
(19:19) Goes in depth about the Deaf Program and its diversity
(22:31) Discusses the continual need for space in the college, the Great Hall, moving offices
(25:44) Speaks about changes in the college now and before, and innovation and LaGCC.
(30:11) She also discussed changes and development of programs for changes and the community. Sandra spoke about Queens and the development of programs and going to the community – Children’s College was built.
(30:11) Mentions the change of the ESL program – credit and non-credit programs.
(36:11) She discussed the college and its growing older.
(37:04) Sandra says she comes to a place where she works with social problems and social change – happy to be here. The institution is for the students.
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, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Watson, Sandra, Veterans Affairs, Adult and Continuing Education, Program for Deaf Adults
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LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
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