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LaGuardia Community College Institutional Archives
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LaGuardia Community College Institutional Archives is the repository of the college, preserving institutional memory and the social and cultural contributions of faculty, staff and students. In the spirit of the college’s motto “Dare to do More” we are an actively collecting archive, aiming to represent as best as possible what it means to be a LaGuardia Community College member, and always on the lookout for new materials.
The digital collections on this website are just a selection of our complete collections. If you are interested in visiting us, please get in touch by phone (718-482-5434) or email Thomas Cleary at tcleary@lagcc.cuny.edu.
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LaGuardia Community College
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COVID-19 Story Project
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The COVID-19 Story Project is a collection of images, written works, and audiovisual works that document the experience of LaGuardia Community College members throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic.
As the pandemic continues we are still collecting materials. If you would like to contribute something that represents your experience during this difficulty time, please visit our submission form here: https://shortlib.org/s/covidstories
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LaGuardia Community College
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9-11 Rememberance
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A collection of materials that represent LaGuardia Community College's response, reflections and reactions to 9/11 and events following.
Materials in this collection are highlighted in the "9/11 through the eyes of LaGuardia students" project created by Professor Cheri Carr and hosted at the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives here: http://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu/EdPrograms/9-11_StudentsPapers.aspx
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LaGuardia Community College
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The Bridge, 2016 December
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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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, PSC CUNY, Anderson, Scott, Underground Railroad, Solomnon, Ben, Luskin, Fern
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)
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Umoja Kwaguvu
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Umoja Kwaguvu was the Coordinator of Student Activities, a long time staff member and a Family Institute Adjunct. He was involved in organizing many events in the early college years.
Timestamp summary of interview [Follows Gil Muller interview on VHS tape]:
(41:37) Professor Umoja Kwaguvu began to work in LaGCC in 1972, starting in the Veterans Program teaching English, and then moving to Student Services in 1974.
(43:40) Covers organizing theatre shows, student parties and flyering the college buildings for events
(45:03) “The Main building was like a factory and there was a little room there they called Student Activities.”
(46:00) Talks about all night movie festivals that were organized, the mix of students and faculty at the events
(49:33) “We could do almost anything we wanted to do. Bureaucracy had not set in yet.”
(51:12) Describes African American Reading Marathon – President Shenker said we were to do something for the 1976 Bicentennial. The event had people continuously reading from February 1st-8th for 200 hours straight.
[Archivist Note: Institutional Archives has photographs of the African American Reading Marathon in the photograph collection]
(58:38) Became fulltime Coordinator in Student Activities in 1976.
(58:53) Describes organizing trips to: Stratford, Connecticut; Montreal, Canada; Jamaica; Brazil; Europe (London, Paris, Rome). Trips were focused on opening students up to the world, many who never left New York City before
(01:02:53) Student Services had a performing arts Marathon in the late 1980s/early 90’s. LaGuardia was a regional representative at the Bob Hope Talent Show in 1977/78
[Archivist Note: Institutional Archives also has photographs of the Bob Hope Talent Show in their photograph collection]
(01:05:30) Talks about having prominent figures visiting the college including: the comedian Dick Gregory, Judge Bruce Wright, Yolanda King (Dr. King’s daughter), and Attallah Shabazz (Malcolm X’s daughter).
(01:13:29) Direction and guidance for events and programs came from the Director of Student Activities – Leo Newball
(01:16:20) Talks about the change of events that happened when Student Activities became Student Life
(01:80:00) Describes his experience working with students and the changes in the student body, and political in.
(01:21:31) Covers the 1989 student takeover and other protests, where students occupied parts of the campus in protest over rising tuition. Describes the students as militant but non-violent during these events.
(01:23:40) He discussed what he thought made LaGCC different – "Students get training fit for work – see them professionally doing their work – anywhere you go you find LaGuardia people"
(01:25:10) End
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Kwaguvu, Umoja, Kwaguvu, Umoja, 25th Anniversary, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Oral History
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LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
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