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- Title
- 1984-1985 Student Handbook
- Description
- 1984-1985 LaGuardia Community College Student handbook.
- Subjects
- , Student handbook
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- Course Catalog 1973-1974
- Description
- 1973-1974 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
- Subjects
- , Course catalog
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- 1987 Yearbook
- Description
- 1987 LaGuardia Community College yearbook.
- Subjects
- , yearbook
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- 1982-1983 Student Handbook
- Description
- 1982-1983 LaGuardia Community College Student handbook.
- Subjects
- , Student handbook
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- In Transit, v.6, Spring 2014
- Description
- In Transit The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning, Spring 2014, v.6
- Subjects
- STEM, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Natural Sciences, Lucca, Louis, Lucca, Louis
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- World Trade Center Vigil
- Description
- A recording of the World Trade Center Vigil held at LaGuardia Community College with college members and local leaders speaking on the 9-11 attacks
- Subjects
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Alvaro Imbrett 3
- Description
- An open lot with a parked trailer cab and a dumpster
- Subjects
- , Landscape photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Lina Reyes 4
- Description
- Children stand and play outdoors near a colorful wall mural
- Subjects
- , Chile, Children
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Course Catalog 1999
- Description
- 1999 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
- Subjects
- , Course catalog
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- Course Catalog 2000
- Description
- 2000 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
- Subjects
- , Course catalog
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- Course Catalog 2002
- Description
- 2002 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
- Subjects
- , Course catalog
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- Course Catalog 2008-2009
- Description
- 2008-2009 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
- Subjects
- , Course catalog
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- Course Catalog 2004-2005
- Description
- 2004-2005 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
- Subjects
- , Course catalog
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
- Title
- President Raymond Bowen
- Description
- President Raymond Bowen was president of the college from 1989 to 1999. He talks about his earlier career at the start of the college as Associate Dean and developing the curriculum. Also covers Middle College High School and going to Baltimore to start another Cooperative Education program. Timestamp summary of interview: (00.00) Introduction and talks about career before coming to LaGuardia Community College (2:17) First heard of Community College Number 9 and came in as an Associate Dean (4:59) Talks about planning the curriculum starting from scratch and going to Brooks, the restaurant by Court Square, to sit down and talk about how they wanted to plan out the curriculum. Also goes over the grant for the helicopter ride at the first orientation. (5:47) Describes the conditions of the M-Building before the college was opened and the work done to get the college ready to receive students. (7:24) Talks about the atmosphere of the early years of the college, especially the close relation between faculty and students (9:02) Gets George Hamada to come to the college to set up the Science Department. Also asks Ralph Garrett to join the college and set up the Extended Day Division (10:02) Talks about creating the Mortuary Science program and discusses the Nursing program. (12:42) Sets up a program in the Sony Building and describes “collaboratives” which involved professors team teaching different courses. (15:32) Talks about Division Chairs stopping the cluster teaching. (18:27) Goes into faculty initial concerns over Middle College students using the college’s space. Also describes bringing the Middle College model to Memphis, Tennessee with Janet Lieberman and Cecilia Cullen, and similar faculty concerns they faced there. (19:45) Leaves LaGCC, and helps set up the Cooperative Education Program in Baltimore, Maryland. (20:36) Covers the LUCED Program [?] and money brought to the college for economic development. (21:38) Describes the diversity and changes in the student body. (23:40) Talks about the Pluralism Taskforce and incorporating pluralism into the curriculum. (25:40) Mentions that 80 percent of graduates go on to get their Bachelor’s degree. Finishes with summary remarks on the interview and his outlook on the future of the college.
- Subjects
- , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Bowen, Raymond, President's Office
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
- Title
- John Hyland
- Description
- John Hyland was a professor in the Social Sciences and an early faculty member. He was very involved with the PSC Union (0:28) John Hyland is a long time member of LaGCC. He started at LaGCC in 1972. (0:42) Professor Hyland discusses the faculty in the beginning of LaGCC. Says it was a very lively faculty and there was a sense of LaGCC being a different college (2:48) Professor Hyland speaks about past faculty of LaGCC. He mentions Tom French who was involved in the student movement of the 1960s and John Cato involved in civil rights activities. Talks about his past as a priest and involvement in community organizing and the welfare rights movement. (4:16) Professor Hyland did his PhD on the formation of LaGuardia Community College. (5:11) Mentions Prof. Lenny Saremsky, (Leonard Saremsky) who was in the Math department. (7:47) Discussed the curriculum, the notion of innovation in the college, and Intensive courses related to the urban environment. He also spoke about the Main Building and about the surrounding area of businesses and companies. (8:43) Professor Hyland described how Intensives were taught. (9:37) Speaks about Social Science department and early faculty interest. (10:28) Talks about the organization of academic departments. The Social Science department started as Personality and Behavior and then became Social Science. (11:58) “LaGCC was established as a Cooperative Education College and [it] was, in some ways, one of the defining characteristics of the college.” (13:09) Talks about how faculty worked collaborated to coordinate teach courses and the Satellite College (14:49) Discusses a course on community control of public education for paraprofessionals. (16:33) Speaks about the curriculum for the Social Science department and Introductory courses. Talks about creating textbooks to fit student’s needs. (24:21) Discusses the fiscal crisis in 1975 and how the college shut down for two weeks. (27:19) Speaks about the late 1980s and 1990s fiscal crisis and it effects. (29:42) Discusses student enrollment and diversity in the early years and the 1980s. (34:06) Says there was a strong population at LaGCC of female students, women going to college and women and the workforce. (34:44)Says there was a variety of programs and Cooperative Education was a very strong component at the college and very community oriented. (36:20)Goes over student internships. (41:52)He said the fiscal crisis had taken its toll on innovation at the college, and how that makes the college distinctive.
- Subjects
- Hyland, John, Hyland, John, 25th Anniversary, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Oral History
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
- Title
- George Hamada
- Description
- Dr. George Hamada was Provost, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Chair of the Natural and Applied Sciences Department and one of the original faculty of the College. He talks about the establishment of the college, the Long Island City area, Cooperative Education and helping develop the Health Sciences program. Timestamp summary of interview: (00:57) Dr. George Hamada discusses the start of LaGCC and the effect of the culture shifts in the 1960’s greatly impacted the mission of the college and how it would be organized. (3:00) Speaks about the faculty at LaGCC during the beginning of the college – “We were a college born in Open Admissions.” Goes onto the talk about the philosophy of the college. (4:10) Talks about coming over to the college from Queens Borough Community College and the differences between the two colleges (5:32) Describes the college as an environment of innovation and allowing for experimentation. (6:33) Goes onto the excitement he felt during that time “Intellectually the most exciting time of my life” and the overall commitment of faculty and staff (7:08) “If we were an alternative college – they were alternative students” Talks about the student body and how it evolved over the years (8:14) Discussed teaching science and his Ecology Intensives course, which involved off campus trips to the beach. (10:24) Describes the first day he walked in and had a room in the M building on the 4th floor and the conditions the building was in (12:56) Talks about the orientation sessions for employees before the college started, including a helicopter ride. (15:23) Describes the area the College was in, such as train tracks on 31st St for the Macys and Gimbels warehouses. (16:00) Hamada discussed the Science and Math area combined with the Math department. Explains how the different divisions were organized compared to the present [1996] (17:01) The college saw itself as a business college because of Coop and Human Services – never saw themselves in health. Talks about the state of the science courses and professors (18:40) Goes on a walk around the college with President Shenker to find a room suitable for the first science lab (20:15) They ran their first class of 13 students, some who eventually worked at the college themselves. (20:55) Curriculum was developing slowly – developed general science – he was coordinating Science – Michael Hoban was Chair of the Department. (21:10) Talks about the inclusion of Occupational Therapy into the college and department (22:48) Makes efforts to modify the college’s Master Plan to include Allied Health as an employment connection for the Health Sciences and to develop the that program. Naomi Greenberg became director of the Occupational Therapy program. Later the Dietetic Technician, Mortuary Science, Animal Health, and Nursing programs were developed. (24:58) Receives a grant in 1975 from the Veterans Administration to collaborate with the VA hospital in Brooklyn (25:42) Discusses the different science programs. (27:17) Returns to talking about the Nursing Program. (29:18) Covers 1980’s nursing shortage and need to increase enrollment. (30:41) Discussed sorting out the Nursing Program to fit the Quarter System and Semester credits, (32:48) Talks about the Mortuary Science program (38:46) Talks about the closeness of the faculty/staff community (1975-1976) and the fiscal crisis and uncertainty of the college’s future in that time (39:42) “We were very unusual – we were making an impact – mission to generate success. Physically we never had enough room – never kept up.” (41:15) Speaks about renovations and moving offices many times (48:12) Hamada talks about changes in the college, and speaks about the 1980s and his position, the different programs and about technology. (52:41) End
- Subjects
- , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Hamada, George, Health Sciences, Cooperative Education
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
- Title
- Maxine Lance
- Description
- Maxine Lance was a student in the first graduating class of LaGCC in 1973. She later became a CUNY Office Assistant, eventually working in College Discovery and retiring in 2019. Timestamp summary of interview: (1:05) Maxine Lance said she decided to attend LaGCC because all of her friends were applying to college. She didn’t want to be left out so she applied to LaGCC. (1:53) Talks about meeting people through Student Activities and her major in Data Processing (2:52) Describes the M-Building and Great Hall and how encouraged interaction and impacted student life. (4:15) She discussed prices in the cafeteria for breakfast and lunch and compares them to the present time. (5:16) Talks about being part of the first graduating class (7:01) Talks about her courses, especially in Data Processing and her professors (8:13) Describes how the college and student body has changed since she was a student (having remained at the college as an employee) and how she thinks it has affected student life. (10:32) Speaks about her experience with Cooperative Education and the challenges of attending class and while working. Talks about the different internships she had, including working in the Extended Day department with Ralph Garrett. (14:05) Continued to work at LaGCC in the Registrar office. She said during that time she believed Eileen Murray was the Director and she had also worked in the Adult and Continuing Education Department part-time with Allen Goldberg. She now working at Student Affairs in the College Discovery program and is working there for 13 years. (18:05) Goes on to talk about the Cooperative Education program and the opportunities and skills it builds. (19:23) Lance talks about her work history at the college, working as a hourly for about 10 or 11 years and now she is Civil Service for almost 9 years. (20:01) End
- Subjects
- , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Lance, Maxine, Students, Cooperative Education
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
- Title
- Gil Muller
- Description
- Dr. Gil Muller was Special Assistant to the President at the time of the interview and overall a long time member of the English Department. he talks mainly about the development and changes in the English Department. Timestamp summary of interview: (1:18) Dr. Gil Muller said he had interviewed for LaGCC in the Winter of 1970 here in New York City at the annual Modern Language Association Meeting. At the time, Muller had lived in Berkeley, California and had taught overseas after graduate school. (6:25) Talks about first seeing the college and meeting President Joseph Shenker (6:34) “It was a very raw factory – it was a college in the making.” (7:26) Muller went back to Berkeley, California and received a formal letter to appoint him as Assistant Professor in Division of Language and Culture. (8:30) Talks about the college orientation in the summer of 1971 to plan for the opening of the College (10:10) They were creating a college from scratch. (10:43) Talks about Prof Harvey Weiner another English professor from the start of the college (11:24) Muller spoke about the courses they had created and spoke about one week Intensives. Talk’s about Professor Judy Gomez “Utopian Society” course in Staten Island, NY and Professor Sarah Barbara’s “Wilderness Experience” course in the Catskills of New York. (14:41) Muller spoke about the helicopter ride – circle tour around Manhattan and Long Island City. (17:00) Describes teaching in an environment where construction was happening all round the building. (17:51) Talks about The Great Hall and its many functions (administration, counseling and teaching.) (18:41) Describes the “founding” faculty members of the college, especially their youth and President Shenker’s age. (19:20) Muller talks about the work environment and long hours worked. Mentions open admissions. Talks about off campus food and meeting spots, specifically Brooks Restaurant (20:53) Spoke about the first fiscal crisis (1975/1976). Muller talks about the tenure and discusses President Joseph Shenker and George Groman. (24:30) Talks about the hiring of professors and hiring a diverse group of faculty members. Talks about bringing John A. Williams and Richard Price to the college. Discusses adjuncts at the college. (30:27) Discusses the English department and its courses. (31:48) Talks about the creation of the Faculty Council, college governance and splitting the English Department from the Humanities Department (34:12) Discusses students that were attending LaGCC and changes in the English department’s mission (37:48) Muller spoke about what he thought made LaGCC different – and how the college has adjusted its mission. Ends at 40:30
- Subjects
- , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Muller, Gil, English Department
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
- Title
- Janet Lieberman
- Subjects
- Janet Lieberman, 25th Anniversary, Oral History
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
- Title
- Max Rodriguez
- Subjects
- Rodriguez, Max, 25th Anniversary, Oral History
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)