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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: 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

Title: Johnny Tsang 1
Description: Mr. John Vogt, Regional Director of Operations for White Castle holding his LaGuardia Community College ID card from the early years of the college
Subjects: , Fast food restaurants--United States, Long Island City (New York, N.Y), Vogt, John, Alumni
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Johnny Tsang 3
Description: Mr. John Vogt, Regional Director of Operations for White Castle standing behind the counter in White Castle speaking to a customer
Subjects: , Fast food restaurants--United States, Vogt, John, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.), Alumni
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

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: 1995 Commencement Program
Description: Commencement program for the 1995 Commencement. Location- Madison Square Garden
Subjects: , Flake, Floyd H., Adeniji, Ajoke A.
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

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: Perspective, 1984 Winter
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: E-Building, LaGuardia, Marie, Cooperative Education, Continuing Education, Program for Deaf Adults, Literary Magazine, Gym, LaGuardia, Fiorello, International student exchange program, Middle College High School, Williams, Dorrie, Shenker, Joseph, Groman, George, Fassier, Doris

Title: Perspective, 1981 Spring
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: Enrollment, Speakers Bureau, Community History Program, Williams, John, Construction, Food Service Management, Animal Technology, Renovation, University Faculty Senate, Professional Staff Congress, Gallingane, Gloria

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, 1982 Winter
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: Schneider, Estelle, Students with Disabilities, LaGuardia, Marie, Cooperative Education, 10K Race, 10th Anniversary, M-Building, English as a Second Language program, Koch, Edward, Irwin, Feifer, Boris, Edna, Berman, Alan, Feifer, Irwin, Sterling, Carolyn, Siegel, Annette

Title: Fiorello's Flute, 1978 February
Description: Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1981. It succeeded The Bridge.
Subjects: Sony Cafeteria--Williams, John, Financial Aid, Day Care Center, Student Activities, Traffic, Cafeteria Prices, Blood Drive, Transfer Services, CUNY Audit, NYPIRG, Art Gallery, Michael Sullivan Dance Company, LaGuardia, Fiorello
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)

Title: The Bridge, 2017 Spring
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: , 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
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: Perspective, 1972 June 1
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: Groman, George, Parking, Career Advisory Center, Williams, Dorrie, Hamada, George, Boris, Edna, Williams, Dorrie

Title: Perspective,1972 December 8
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., Extended day, Moed, Martin, Cooperative Education, Continuing Education courses, Shenker, Joseph, Groman, George

Title: Perspective, 1976 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: Board of Higher Education, Giardino,Alfred A., Art exhibit, Day Care Center, Occupational Therapy, Tenure, Groman, George

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