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- Title
- Cooperative Times, no date
- Description
- Cooperative Times was the newsletter of the Cooperative Education division at LaGuardia Community College.
- Subjects
- Cooperative Education, Employment and Career Services Center, Student Survey, Williams, Dorrie
- Title
- Cooperative Times, Spring 1983
- Description
- Cooperative Times was the newsletter of the Cooperative Education division at LaGuardia Community College.
- Subjects
- Exhange students, Bronx Zoo, Helping women, IBM, Williams, Dorrie, Feifer, Irwin,, Perry, Helen
- Title
- Cooperative Times, Summer 1986
- Description
- Cooperative Times was the newsletter of the Cooperative Education division at LaGuardia Community College.
- Subjects
- Equitable Bag Co., E-Building, Office Technology department, International High School, Vassar Summer Institute, Sunnyside Home Care Project, Traditional Dinner, Cooperative Education, Williams, Dorrie, Shenker, Joseph
- Title
- Cooperative Times, Winter 1987
- Description
- Cooperative Times was the newsletter of the Cooperative Education division at LaGuardia Community College.
- Subjects
- Cooperative Education, Degree programs, Queens Business Exhibition, Feifer, Irwin, Williams, Dorrie
- Title
- Cooperative Times, Winter 1988
- Description
- Cooperative Times was the newsletter of the Cooperative Education division at LaGuardia Community College.
- Subjects
- Cooperative Education, Transfer Program, LaGuardia Sexual Harassment Task Force, Court Reporting, Williams, Dorrie, Cyril, Janet
- Title
- Cooperative Times, Summer 1987
- Description
- Cooperative Times was the newsletter of the Cooperative Education division at LaGuardia Community College.
- Subjects
- Tradtional Dinner, Interships, Cooperative Education, Feifer, Irwin, Farrell, Catherine, Williams, Dorrie
- Title
- President Shenker and Father John Paulas
- Description
- President Shenker and Father Paulas at an event
- Subjects
- , Shenker, Joseph, Father Paulas, John
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Professor John Bihn with student in Science Lab
- Description
- Professor John Bihn with student in Science Lab
- Subjects
- , Bihn, John, Science Lab
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- 2011 Innovative Leadership Award - President Mellow, Ed Koch, John Vest and Monica Morales
- Description
- 2011 Innovative Leadership Award - President Mellow, Ed Koch, John Vest and Monica Morales
- Subjects
- , Mellow, Gail, Koch, Edward, Vest, John, Morales Monica, Innovative Leadership Award
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Dorrie Williams - Division of Cooperative Education and Sheila Gordon at the LaGuardia Reunion
- Description
- Dorrie Williams - Division of Cooperative Education and Sheila Gordon at the LaGuardia Reunion
- Subjects
- , Williams, Dorrie, Gordon, Sheila
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- John Williams - Professor and Coordinator of Performing Arts
- Description
- Professor John Williams - Professor and Coordinator of Performing Arts - Humanities department and The 1858 Steinway - Piano story
- Subjects
- , Williams, John
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Terry Parker with Student Affairs members and John Williams
- Description
- Terry Parker (second from left) with Student Affairs members and John Williams(right) at an event
- Subjects
- , Parker, Terry, Hollins Ed, Watson, Sandra, Cousin, Vincent, Scribner, Allen, Williams, John
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Eileen Murray, Donald Davidson, Dorrie Williams, Avis Anderson, Roy McLeod at an event
- Description
- Eileen Murray, Donald Davidson, Dorrie Williams, Avis Anderson, Roy McLeod at an event
- Subjects
- , Murray, Eileen, Davidson, Donald, Williams, Dorrie, Anderson, Avis, McLeod, Roy
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Newsletter of the Third World Faculty and Staff Association of LaGuardia Community College, 1989 Fall
- Description
- Subjects
- , Third World Faculty and Staff Association, Urquhart Yvette C., African American Women, Bathsheba (Poem), A Dry White Season (Motion picture), Miles (Book), Bowen, Raymond C, Opening Sessions, Change and Renewal
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Newsletter of the Third World Faculty and Staff Association of LaGuardia Community College, 1989 Winter
- Description
- Subjects
- , Third World Faculty and Staff Association, Kahn, Fern, Simpson, Gwyned, James, Patrick, Zimbabwe, Education, Bilingual, Chinese New Year, A Man Called Hawk (Television program)
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College
- Title
- Perspective, 1973 April
- 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
- Williams, John A., Hamilton, William, Photography exhibits, Hamilton, William
- 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
- 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
- Jason Owen 1
- Description
- A portrait of Mr. John Vogt, Regional Director of Operations for White Castle with a work member from White Castle are standing in front of the White Castle on Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, New York
- Subjects
- , Fast food restaurants--United States, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.), Black-and-white photography, Portrait, Vogt, John, Alumni
- Publisher
- LaGuardia Community College