Great opportunity for Graduate Center students, next week! #TeachCUNY

What can studying these histories of repression teach us about today’s campus crackdowns?

What role does collecting and preserving our stories play in times of political upheaval, and what archival strategies might we use to navigate the present crisis?

This event is also celebrating the release of a new online resource: The Red Scare at CUNY is a comprehensive guide to archives documenting anti-communist political repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, primarily from the 1930s-1960s.

We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...

✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨

We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center!

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We will explore:
- Strategies for using the CUNY Digital History Archive to craft and explore a research question
- How artifacts can prompt autobiographical reflection and personal writing
- Close and intertextual reading practices through engaging with primary sources

Join us!

Images of historical fliers above workshop details: As you prepare for the spring semester, join the CDHA's Education & Outreach Committee for an interactive workshop on how to engage the CUNY Digital History Archive in your classrooms, libraries, or in your own research. We will explore: - Strategies for using the archive to craft and explore a research question - How artifacts can prompt autobiographical reflection and personal writing - Close and intertextual reading practices through engaging primary sources Friday, January 16, 2026 1-3pm City Tech LIbrary, 300 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY RSVP required. For more info: cdha@gc.cuny.edu

Are you interested in teaching #CUNY history in your spring classes? Join our educators group for a winter workshop this Friday, January 16 from 1-3pm at City Tech Library in downtown Brooklyn.

Space is limited, RSVP here: tinyurl.com/5n7euzme

Donate to Fundraiser for People's Lawyer Ron McGuire, organized by Ronald McGuire Linda Clarke, Sandra Barros and Orlando Green are co-organizers of this fund… Ronald McGuire needs your support for Fundraiser for People's Lawyer Ron McGuire

I know these are really tough times for many, but if you have any cash to spare for Ron McGuire, lifelong social justice advocate, veteran of the CUNY student movement in the 60s, pro bono attorney for generations of student activists, it would be so appreciated.
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Please donate to help Ron McGuire, “the people’s lawyer,” who fought for so many #CUNY students and needs our help now

New week new opportunities!

$2.5k for students to help design, develop, and draft an introduction to CUNY history OER to be published on the CUNY Manifold platform!

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During the 1970s, the Save Hostos Movement became one of the most prolonged and successful mass movements in New York City.

Read more about the Save Hostos! movement and explore documents collected by Gerald Meyer (RIP) at the CUNY Digital History Archive

Black and white photo from the 1970s, with activists climbing a chain-link fence to hang a banner in front of the "500 Building." The banner has text in Spanish and English that reads, "Este edificio pertenece al colegio eugenio maria de hostos. This building bleongs to Hostos Community College"

From 1973-1979, Hostos students, staff, faculty, and community members mobilized three massive campaigns in the South Bronx, each of which accomplished its goal.

There is a reason we use this image on our homepage.

"Students and Faculty Take Over the 500 Building" cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/6...

Front page of the bilingual student newspaper at Hostos (De Hostos Echo) dated November/December 1975. Headline says "Thousands march to save Hostos" with a black and white image of a march outside Chase Manhattan Bank on 149th Street and 3rd Avenue in the South Bronx. Visible signs say: "Education is your right - fight" and "Don't let Hostos die, no more cutbacks"

Hostos was created as part of Open Admissions at CUNY to meet the needs of the Latino community in the South Bronx. First offering classes in 1970, it became the sole bilingual college in the New York City tri-state area.

But Hostos was soon threatened with closure during the 1975 fiscal crisis.

Education Department names "Postsecondary Success" honorees The U.S. Department of Education has named the six inaugural winners of its Postsecondary Success Recognition Program, which were selected out of a pool of 200 institutions invited to apply, according...

Congrats to Eugenio María de Hostos Community College for being one of the six inaugural winners of the Education Department's Postsecondary Success Recognition Program, h/t @insidehighered.com

Hostos has long pioneered in instituting educational initiatives responsive to its students’ needs.

Today is a great day to think about how you might contribute to assembling the people’s history of the people’s university, because CUNY is contingent on us.

Apply to join our project team!

Today is a great day to think about how you might contribute to assembling the people’s history of the people’s university, because CUNY is contingent on us.

Apply to join our project team!

Are you passionate about collecting, sharing, and mobilizing CUNY movement histories? We're recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project advisory board, research & editorial board, education & outreach committee, and collection curators: cdha.cuny.edu/participate

Black and white protest flier. Headline says: Black Students Union and Black organizations demonstration against genocide and racism in the city's university, at the United Nations Building, 1 UN Plaza, April 9, 1976, 12pm. Paul Robeson Birthday. Line drawing of the UN building and student protestors beneath, birds and flags visible overhead. One student wears a Hostos sweatshirt and another wears Hunter College, and signs for John Jay, Medgar Evers, Staten Island, and Bronx Community College are visible. Another sign says: We want to see black people live again.

Hello, Bluesky! We are excited to share our grassroots #CUNY histories with all of you.

Here's one of our favorite items that speaks across generations, from a 1976 demonstration at the United Nations organized by the Black Students Union to protest campus closures

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