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Title: LaGuardia Community College Institutional Archives
Description: 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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Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: COVID-19 Story Project
Description: 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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Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: 9-11 Rememberance
Description: 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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Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Course Catalog 1991
Description: 1991 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
Subjects: , Course catalog
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: 9/11 Community Poster - Top
Description: This is the top half of a hallway size poster set up for people at LaGuardia Community College to write down their own reflections on the events and immediate after math of 9/11. The poster was hung in a hallway from September to end of October 2001. Please zoom in to view the poster more clearly. You may need to wait for the picture to load details.
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
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: TELC Student Literary Magazine 2015 Spring
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Subjects: , Student newspapers and periodicals, The English Language Center (TELC)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: TELC Student Literary Magazine 2016 Summer - Fall
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Subjects: , Student newspapers and periodicals, The English Language Center (TELC)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Music at LaGuardia 1976 October 5
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Subjects: , Music at Noon, Awards Sponsor, LaGuardia School Song Competition, LaGuardia Wind Ensemble, Who's Who
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Marcela Cussolin 3
Description: Leslie Nilsson (owner) stocking a baked good counter inside the Sage General Store on Jackson Ave, Court Square, Long Island City, New York.
Subjects: , Restaurants, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Young Kyu Park 4
Description: Two artists in a studio posed with a painting on an easel in behind them
Subjects: , Long Island City (New York, N.Y.), Artists' studios, Portrait photography
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Registration
Description: Students at Registration
Subjects: , Students, Registration
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: The Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for The Hall of Flags
Description: (Left to right)Professor Jack Lynch, President Raymond Bowen (center) and Professor Harry Heinemann (2nd from the right) - Dean of Cooperative Education and International Programs at the Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Hall of Flags
Subjects: , Bowen, Raymond, Hall of Flags, Lynch, Jack, Heinemann, Harry
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: LaGuardia Community College Faculty and Staff - Quilt Makers
Description: LaGuardia Community College Faculty and Staff design AIDS Quilt for LaGuardians who passed away of the disease
Subjects: , Sanchez, Marlin, Parker, Christine, Lazarus, Carrie, Ribas, Maria, Basquez, Carol, Best, Edna, DeJesus, Ruth, Powell, Cheryl, Penino, Nina
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Elisa No Kim 5
Description: A man holding and looking at a framed photograph
Subjects: , Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Yosuke Terada 2
Description: A man sitting at a table outdoors
Subjects: , Candid photography, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Course Catalog 1982-1983
Description: LaGuardia Community College 1982-1983 Catalog
Subjects: , catalog
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: President Shenker and Mayor Edward Koch at the unveiling of Traveling Exhibit on LaGuardia - 1985
Description: President Shenker and Mayor Edward Koch at the unveiling of Traveling Exhibit on LaGuardia -1985
Subjects: , Shenker, Joseph, Koch, Edward
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Students in Montreal - 1993
Description: A group of student sit together in a restaurant to eat during a trip to Montreal
Subjects: , Students
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Banner Celebrating Fiorello LaGuardia's One Hundredth Birthday 1882-1982
Description: Banner displayed on outside of the Main Building of LaGuardia Community College Celebrating Fiorello LaGuardia's One Hundredth Birthday 1882-1982
Subjects: , Banner, LaGuardia, Fiorello
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

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