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The Bridge, 1990 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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Student Protests, Bowen, Raymond, Student Activities, Student Visas, Job Placement Center, College Association, Budget Cuts, Cohen, Ann, Gazzola, Judith
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LaGuardia Community College
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Perspective, 1989 January
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Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about current activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
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E-Building, Tradition Dinner, LaGuardia Lecture Series, Business Computer Major, Enrollment, Groundbreaking, Construction, Hurricane Gilbert Relief Drive, External Affairs, Center for Business Careers and Values, LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, Horn, Dan, Shenker, Joseph, Moed, Martin
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The Bridge, 1990 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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, Bowen, Raymond, Library, Program for Deaf Adults, Bowen, Peter, Recycling Program, Spain, Louise, Parker, Terry, Art Department, Student Government
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
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Newsletter of the Third World Faculty and Staff Association of LaGuardia Community College, 1990 Winter
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, Third World Faculty and Staff Association, Paton, Alan, Mandela, Nelson story, Bowen, Raymond C., The Phillis Wheatley Book Program for Africans, Perez, Jorge, Drugs and Community, Wu, Clara, PSC CUNY, Driving Miss Daisy (Motion picture), Panama--History--American Invasion, 1989
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LaGuardia Community College
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Newsletter of the Third World Faculty and Staff Association of LaGuardia Community College, 1991 Winter, Spring
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, Third World Faculty and Staff Association, Bowen, Raymond C., Under God (Book), Chinese New Year, ;Comprehensive Regional Center for Minorities (CRCM), Watson, Sandy, Education, Welfare recipients, Cross-Cultural Black Women's Studies Summer Institute
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LaGuardia Community College
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Pluralism News, 1994 Spring
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, LaGuardia Task Force on Pluralism, Task Force on Pluralism Lecture Series, Grants, Language Resource Directory, Bias, Racism, New York City Technical College, Diversity, International Studies, LGBT
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LaGuardia Community College
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LaGuardia Community College Newsletter, May 1971
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LaGuardia Community College Newsletter
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Orientation, Students, Middle College High School, Cooperative Education, Grants, Heinemann, Harry, Faculty, Barber, Sarah
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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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