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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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President Shenker, Dean Moed, Mayor Koch and Dr. Janet Lieberman seated together at an event
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President Shenker, Dean Moed, Mayor Koch and Dr. Janet Lieberman seated together at an event
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, Shenker, Joseph, Moed, Martin, Koch, Edward, Lieberman, Janet
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LaGuardia Community College
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Fiorello's Flute,1977 July
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Fiorello's Flute was the student newspaper of LaGuardia Community College, running from 1974 to 1996
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Student Council--Kwanguvu, Umoja, The Humanist, Blood Drive, Music Department, Art Department, Talent Show, Murray, Bill
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LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, N.Y.)
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John Hyland
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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.
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Hyland, John, Hyland, John, 25th Anniversary, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Oral History
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LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)
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