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The Bridge, 2017 Spring
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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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, Marshall, Helen, Sanctuary Coalition, The Latin Culture Symposium, Photography Program, Poetry Workshop, Creative Writing Read-a-Thon, Amazigh Film, Berdy, Sean, Queens Correctional Facility, Trump, Donald, President's Society, Rios, Federico, Immigration
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
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Student Photo Essay
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This is a student photo essay assignment given at the beginning of the Covid lock down. The photo essays came from Non-Verbal Communication course HUC 119. Students were required to document their lived experience during the early stages of the pandemic through a non-verbal artifact - photo.
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COVID-19 Experience, Photography
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9/11 Community Poster - Top
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This is the top half of a hallway size poster set up for people at LaGuardia Community College to write down their own reflections on the events and immediate after math of 9/11. The poster was hung in a hallway from September to end of October 2001.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
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LaGuardia Community College
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Connecting Threads Online Showcase
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Due to COVID-19, the opening showcase for Connecting Threads: Fashion Identity in a Global World was held via zoom. Conecting Threads is a collaboratory exhibit between LaGuardia Community College Fine Arts Program and Bard Graduate Center. The online exhibit can be found here: http://bgcxlaguardia.bgcdml.net
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Fine Arts, Bard Graduate Center
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Dorrie Williams
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Dorrie Williams at the time of the interview was Associate Dean of Cooperative Education. He talks about establishing the Cooperative Education program at the College, the changes in the college, and the future of work.
Timestamp summary of VHS interview:
(1:16) Talks about work experience at IBM before coming to LaGCC, finding out about the college and coming in for an interview.
(2:27) Meets with Sheila Gordon at the new college, and said he thought he went to the wrong address – “it was not a college”. Goes on to describe the M-Building in its original condition as an empty factory.
(5:57) He also meets with Gordon’s co-worker Ben Baim. There were only 2 people and the secretary that made up Cooperative Education.
(6:50) They could not hire Williams until they hired the Dean of Cooperative Education – The Dean would make the final decision – but they would recommend Williams to the Dean.
(7:29) After an interview with Dean Harry Heinemann Williams was hired and started working on May 1, 1971.
(7:55) Williams said, that summer there was lots of work in terms of recruiting.
(8:52) He said, Cooperative Education was on the 3rd floor of the Main building, along with all of the other college offices.
(9:19) President Joseph Shenker (Williams also mentions Dr. Rose Palmer) had mandated the Cooperative Education program for all students and built the mission of the college around the concept.
(10:56) LaGCC had a division of Cooperative Education at the Deans level – reporting directly to the President.
(12:28) They had looked around the country at other established Cooperative Education programs at Antioch College in Ohio, and Northeastern University in Boston. Also looked at BMCC’s (Borough of Manhattan Community College) program in the CUNY system.
(13:40) Talks about hiring new staff and the general excitement at the college- coming right out of the 60s
(15:31) Williams spoke about the history of the idea of cooperative education history starting from the University of Cincinnati – LaGCC looked at all theories and spoke about how to attract students in Western Queens.
(17:49) Speaks about the curriculum and relevant education.
(18:48) Williams discussed technology and the work environment beginning to change – “We as a society had to better prepare our future workers.”
(21:35) He said they all sat down, himself, Dean Heinemann, Sheila Gordon, Ben Bain, and other members and agreed to build a marketing plan.
(23:17) Williams said they were lucky to have companies here in the Metropolitan Area - they had established a brochure for Cooperative Education.
(29:00) Talks about contacting CEOs or Human Resources managers in the first few years of the college “We would send literature of who we were and what we needed and would get back to them.”
(41:43) Williams discussed the changes over the first 25 years of the college– society having evolved, the college growing, and changes in student demographics, especially in the end of the 1970s to the mid-1980s.
(50:26) Williams discussed the year 1990 and the changing future of work
(52:33) Discussed students learning to work and interact with others.
(55:16) Summarizes the Cooperative Education program and how the college served as a model for Coop Education worldwide.
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, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Williams, Dorrie, Cooperative Education
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LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
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Faces of Islam
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Poster using photographs from the collection.
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