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Title: Connecting Threads Online Showcase
Description: Due to COVID-19, the opening showcase for Connecting Threads: Fashion Identity in a Global World was held via zoom. Conecting Threads is a collaboratory exhibit between LaGuardia Community College Fine Arts Program and Bard Graduate Center. The online exhibit can be found here: http://bgcxlaguardia.bgcdml.net
Subjects: Fine Arts, Bard Graduate Center

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: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 7
Description: This week we look at LaGuardia's students of theater, music, and dance. Media Studies major Eric Palanza interviews Performing Arts Program Director, Lisa DeSpain, and delivers a montage of recent performances, a guest from Broadway, and a peek into the places where students learn to play music and create it. Host Shante Boyd, camera by Eric Palanza and editing by Eric Palanza, Ken Powell with Station Manager Tom Seymour.
Subjects: Boyd, Shante, DeSpain, Lisa, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center(LPAC), Music Department, Rafter, Michael

Title: Kana Gurug interview
Description: Professor Kyoko Toyama interview her student Kana Gurung about how she has made masks for Elmherst Hospital in response tomask shortages due to COVID-19
Subjects: COVID-19 Experience

Title: The Door by Rene Sing Brooks
Description: An experimental film created by René Sing Brooks. This piece was the final project in (Lecturer) Thomas Seymour's Video Production class this Spring II semester. The artist statement is below. Growing up under the back then kerosene lamp nights of Bluefields, a small city on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, had a strong influence on my film and writing sensibilities. My Caribbean childhood and early adolescence have nurtured a lifelong concern with time, memory and personal/communal story, which is reflected in most of my work to date. I have been a digital filmmaker for nearly nine years, mostly as a short form documentarian covering issues of justice system involved individuals and of other community protagonists—mainly fellow artists—dedicated to social-justice struggles. Although my artistic sensibility is significantly shaped by socio-political concerns, this does not preclude the aesthetic exploration of filmmaking’s form and structure for implications beyond—or beneath—the “message”, which in my case draws from dream textures and narrative flows derived from Nicaragua’s African, aboriginal and mestizo magical imaginings. Along the road, I have gathered influences from Béla Tarr, Andrei Tarkovsky and Chris Marker, among others. These creators deftly explore the relationship of form, structure, tempo and meaning, an exploration that is at the heart of my creative concerns and that guides my efforts to develop a personal voice that isn’t alienated from the visual and narrative syntax of my evolving communal experiencing.
Subjects: The Door, Brooks, Rene Sing

Title: World Trade Center Vigil
Description: A recording of the World Trade Center Vigil held at LaGuardia Community College with college members and local leaders speaking on the 9-11 attacks
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 1
Description: This week we take a look at the LaGuardia College student elections as well as the Performing Arts program.
Subjects: Celentano, Holly, Hitt, Steven, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC), Vending machines, B Building, Student Government, Baston, Michael, Sosa, Irene, Batts, Jeffrey, HIV (Viruses)--Testing, Classes

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 2
Description: This week the our news team takes a look back at the history of LaGuardia Community College.
Subjects: Celentano, Holly, 40th Anniversary of LaGuardia Community College, Katopes, Peter, Mellow, Gail, Shenker, Joseph, LaGuardia, Fiorello, Enrollment

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 4
Description: In celebration of the upcoming 10th year anniversary of the Thomson Avenue Film Festival on May 31st at 6pm in M122, our news team takes a look back at the previous years of this very important event.
Subjects: Celentano, Holly, Thomson Avenue Film Festival, Baston, Michael, Parker, Terry, Rhueban, Joyce

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 3
Description: This week our news team explores the world famous 5 Pointz Aerosol Art Center in Long Island City. Go to 5PTZ.com for more information.
Subjects: Celentano,Holly, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.), 5 Pointz, Cohen, Johnathan Meres, Students

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 6
Description: LaGuardia Media Studies News anchors Shante Boyd and Mario De Leon introduce you to the world of Hip hop featuring artist Lindsay Soto aka MC Susmatic.
Subjects: Boyd, Shante, DeLeon, Mario, Hip-Hop, 5 Pointz

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 8
Description: This week we explore the Communication Studies, Media Studies and New Media Technology programs here at LaGuardia. Host Shante Boyd, Camera by Eric Palanza, editing by Eric Palanza and Ken Powell.
Subjects: Boyd, Shante, Communications Department, Lucca, Louis, Rheuban, Joyce, Richardson, James, Hume, Joshua, Media Studies

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 5
Description: LaGuardia Media Studies News anchor Shante Boyd Introduces you to this year's student government. Edited by Ammani Mselle, Ken Powell.
Subjects: Boyd, Shante, Student Government, Goldstein, Brian, Sosa, Irene, Baston, Michael

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 9
Description: UPDATE: Come to the 11th Annual Thomson Avenue Film Festival Thursday May 30th, 2013 at 5pm. Free admission and refreshments for the whole family! Shante Boyd and Jus Riley of the LaGuardia Media Studies News team recap the very popular 10th annual Thomson Avenue Film Festival. Edited by Ammani Mselle, Ken Powell.
Subjects: Boyd, Shante, Thomson Avenue Film Festival, Baston, Michael, Riley, Jus, Seymour, Tom, Rodriguez, Michael, Rheuban, Joyce, Celentano, Holly

Title: LaGuardia Community College Media Studies News: Episode 10
Description: Watch the new WebTV documentary about Professor Fern Luskin's quest to protect one of Manhattan's only Underground Railroad landmarks edited by WebTV Station manager Tom Seymour and shot and produced by students Leslie Lopez and Hasan Razzak! Support WebTV and tell your students!
Subjects: Luskin, Fern, Underground Railroad--New York

Title: Harlem Renaissance: Rise and Fall
Description: A documentary on the history of Harlem by Video Production student Seth Wesley
Subjects: Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street), Wesley, Seth

Title: Media Studies News Episode 30: The Film and Media Club present an Inside look at the Red Hawks!
Description: Our courtside reporters, Niara Johnson, Danita Jenkins, and Malik Walker give us an inside look at the LaGuardia Red Hawks basketball team! Special thanks to Brian Goldstein. Produced by the Film & Media Club and Professor David Stott Shot by Oswald Barrios and Lydia Kan Edited Jordan Yagiello
Subjects: LaGuardia Red Hawks, Chobhaphand, Ben, Alfaro, Anthony, Basketball

Title: 16th Annual Thomson Avenue Film Festival
Description: This years festival was hosted by the student Danita Jenkins! Terry Parker and Dr. Joyce Rheuban started the Thomson Avenue Film Festival 16 years ago to showcase the best of our student filmmakers. Professor David Stott bring us this story. Shot and edited by Oswald Barrios and Pedro Urena with student volunteer Brady Vasquez. Produced by Thomas Seymour WebTV Station Manager.
Subjects: Stott, David, Fernandez, Hugo, Rodriguez, Michael, Tapper, Gordon, Thomson Avenue Film Festival, Why I Love LaGuardia

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: 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)

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