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Title: Sebastian Loasya 6
Description: Metalworker using a cutting machine
Subjects: , Metalwork, Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Marcela Cussolin 2
Description: Leslie Nilsson (owner) standing behind the counter in the Sage General Store on Jackson Avenue, Court Square, Long Island City, New York.
Subjects: , Restaurants, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Elias Williams 1
Description: A man who works in a shoe repair business
Subjects: , Shoemakers, Portrait photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Elisa No Kim 9
Description: Three kitchen workers in a restaurant kitchen
Subjects: , Restaurants--Employees, Black-and-white photography, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Colin Pearce 1
Description: Employees at a jewelry store in Long Island City, New York
Subjects: , Jewelry stores, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: Vicky Matthews 2
Description: A beached fishing boat sitting on a landscape near mountains
Subjects: , Landscape photography-Chile, Motorboats, Chile
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

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: 2011 Innovative Leadership Award - President Mellow, Ed Koch, John Vest and Monica Morales
Description: 2011 Innovative Leadership Award - President Mellow, Ed Koch, John Vest and Monica Morales
Subjects: , Mellow, Gail, Koch, Edward, Vest, John, Morales Monica, Innovative Leadership Award
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: Course Catalog 1991
Description: 1991 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
Subjects: , Course catalog
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: Course Catalog 1988
Description: 1988 LaGuardia Community College course catalog.
Subjects: , Course catalog
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: The Bridge, 2016 December
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: , PSC CUNY, Anderson, Scott, Underground Railroad, Solomnon, Ben, Luskin, Fern
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY)

Title: 1986 Commencement Program
Description: Commencement program for the 1986 Commencement. Location - Queens College
Subjects: , Wagner, Robert, Jr., Gouletas-Carey, Evangeline, Shulman, Clare
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College

Title: 2001 Commencement Program
Description: Commencement program for the 2001 Commencement. Location- Madison Square Garden
Subjects: , President Mellow
Publisher: LaGuardia Community College