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Title: Campus Activities Office Schedule December 6, 1971
Description: The Campus Activities Office Schedule of events and newsletter.
Subjects: Student Activities, Veterans Education Center opens, Extended Day session, Clubs, Budget

Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1976 April 19
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It succeeded The Bridge.
Subjects: Middle College High School, Continuing Education, Student Clubs, Bicentennnial Festival, Photo contest, T.A.R., Cooperative Education, Afro-American Culture Club, CUNY Caws Contest Winners, Recreation Center, Intercambio Cultural Club, Daycare Center, CUNY Budget Cuts, Kwanguvu, Umoja, Shenker, Joseph, Minter, Jerolyn, Farrell, Catherine
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: Perspective, 1989 March
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: Ford Foundation, Vassar College Program, Grants, Construction, Whos Who, Cooperative Education, International High School, Budget, Alan J. Berman Scholarship, Road race, Theater, Vassar College, Taxi commissioner

Title: Perspective, 1972 November 13
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: Basketball-The Flyers, Freshman Profile, Continuing Education, Education-Prisons, Branch House Queens of Detention(Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: Dorrie Williams
Description: 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.
Subjects: , 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Williams, Dorrie, Cooperative Education
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)

Title: Music at LaGuardia 1977 August
Description
Subjects: , Music Studio, Piano and Guitar Lab, Music internships, Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, Music and Art Concert, Adult and Continuing Education
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: International Insights 2001 Spring
Subjects: Sino-American Conference--Farrell, Catherine, Education-Japan, Education-lreland, Education-Netherlands, Education-Egypt
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: The Progress Note 1980 Winter
Description: The Progressive Note
Subjects: Shenker, Joseph, Alumni, Moed, Martin, New York Education Council, NYSOTA (New York State Occupational Therapy Conference), Self Assessment Services, Faculty News, Goldman, Isidora

Title: It's On - Mark Healy
Description: Professor Hugo Fernandez interviews Mark Healy, Vice President of Division of Adult and Continuing Education (ACE)
Subjects: , Healy Mark, Adult and Continuing Education (ACE)
Publisher: WLGR Web Radio

Title: It's On - Dr. Kimora
Description: Professor Hugo Fernandez interviews Dr. Kimora, of John Jay College of Criminal Justice on the Higher Education in the Schools Committee.
Subjects: , Kimora, Higher Education in Prisons
Publisher: WLGR Web Radio

Title: It's On - Emily Tai
Description: Professor Hugo Fernandez interviews Professor Emily Tai (Queensborough Community College) on her role as Chair of the University Faculty Senate Committee on Higher Education in Prisons
Subjects: , Tai, Emily, Higher Education in Prisons
Publisher: WLGR Web Radio