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Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 2000
Subjects: CUNY Audit, Student Activities, Bellany, Carol, Middle College High School, Blood Drive, Student Emergency Health Team, Student Clubs, Daycare Center, Commencement, Construction, S-Building, Family Day for LaGuardia Community College at Mohansic State Park, Schott, Penelope Scambly, Cafeteria, Extended Day
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: The Bridge, 1988 Fall
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today.
Subjects: Tuition, Campus Safety, Cooperative Education, Accounting Resources Center, Vassar College program, Mathematics Department, Health Center, Williams, John
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: The Bridge, 1982 November
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today
Subjects: , Tuition, Campus Safety, Cooperative Education, Accounting Resources Center, Vassar College program, Mathematics Department, Health Center
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1982 June
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It was succeeded by The Bridge.
Subjects: International Dance Festival, Student Council, CUNY Budget Cuts, CUNY Tuition, Body Building Contest, LaGuardia, Fiorello, Astoria Center, Who's Who, Poetry, Ridgewood - Bushwick campus, Campus issues- Ventilation, Health Services, Blood Drive, Program for Deaf Adults, Board of Higher Education, Medgar Evers College, Nuclear disarmament, Extended Day
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: The Bridge, 1984 June
Description: The Bridge is the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College. Following Fiorello's Flute, it started in 1982 and continues to run today
Subjects: , Mondale, Walter, Traffic, Cooperative Education, Disabilities services, Taxi Institute, Student Clubs, Middle College High School, Faculty Council, Student Government, Persian Gulf, Greenbaum, Joan, Health Fair, Green, Bill, Shenker, Joseph, Deans List, Dance Festival, 10k race, Student Clubs, Soccer
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: In Transit, v.7, Fall 2016
Description: In Transit The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning, Fall 2016, v. 7.
Subjects: , First Year Seminar, Digital humanities, Natural Sciences, Pedagogy
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: Campus Activities Office Schedule January 17, 1972
Description: The Campus Activities Office Schedule of events and newsletter.
Subjects: Student Activities, Exhibition, Women's Group, Information Resource Center, Health Services, Extended Day program, Games and recreation equipment, Davidson, Winston

Title: In Transit, v.5, Spring 2011
Description: In Transit The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning, Spring 2011, v.5
Subjects: Sociology, Animal health technology, Community colleges, Culture jamming, Web Radio, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Talmadge, Rosemary
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

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: Perspective, 1990 January
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: LaGuardia, Marie, Lieberman, Janet, Transfer Program, 10k Race, LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, Community School Discrict 30, Natural Sciences Department, Natural and Applied Science department, Kahn, Arlene, Greenberg, Naomi, Grants, Collaborative Curriculum, The Arnhold and Berri Scholarship

Title: Perspective, 1981 Fall
Description: Perspective was a newsletter published every two weeks to keep the campus informed about surrent activities. It ran from 1972 to the 1990's.
Subjects: 10th Anniversary, Macchiarola, Frank, Williams, John, Construction, Speakers Bureau, Animal Health Technician, Commencement, Pan, William, Executone building, Library mezzanine, Mathematic department, Grant program, Cooperative Education, Kibbee, Robert J.

Title: Perspective, 1977 January 10
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: CUNY Mobilization, Social Sciences, Smoking, American Chicle Company factory explosion, African American History, Basketball game broadcasting, Bulletin

Title: The Progress Note 1978 Spring
Description: The Progressive Note
Subjects: World Federation of OT Conference, Grants, Natural Sciences, Writers Workshop, AOTA National conference, Alumni, Occupational Therapy Week, Hamada, George

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: It's On - Ann Feibel
Description: Professor Hugo Fernandez interviews Ann Feibel, Dean for the Division of Academic Affairs and Associate Provost, for her "Exit Interview"
Subjects: , Feibel, Ann, Natural and Applied Sciences
Publisher: WLGR Web Radio