Queens College (New York, N.Y.)

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The interview, which took place on May 14th, 2020, is about Meghan Moore-Wilk, who is the Queens College Chief of Staff, and her hand in managing and stratigizing next steps for the college when in-person classes were shut down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Scope and Contents In this interview, alumni Mike Wenger, Stan Shaw, and Mark Levy discuss their impressions of life at Queens College in the early 1960s. The three discuss the culture of campus, the impact of the Virginia Student Help Project in 1963, and subsequent student activist movements on campus and in society at large. Wenger, Shaw, and Levy recall student-driven civil rights activities such as the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, Freedom Week, and Freedom Fast initiatives. Also in the conversation,...

Content Description From the Collection:

This collection consists of 86 bound volumes containing the student publications of Queens College. The titles represented include: Phoenix, Knightbeat, The Crown, Rampart, The Globe, HA-OR, The Beacon, The Last Word, Kastle, Our World, The Spectrum, Third World News, Update, QC Quad, Skyline, Newsbeat, Queens WOrld, and The Knight News. There are some volumes that are duplicates.

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Digitized copies (PDFs) of Queens College Academic Senate Minutes.

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Commemorative publications; printed and 3d ephemera; and research and administrative files associated with various anniversaries of Queens College.

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Bulletins published yearly by Queens College that provide information on courses, curriculum, administration, faculty, and admissions requirements.

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This collection contains photos and related papers documenting the creation and installation of the five bells in the Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Clock Tower of Queens College’s Rosenthal Library.

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Audio recordings of hearings held by the "Commission on the Organization of the College" between Monday, January 31 and Wednesday, February 16, 1972. Accompanying the audio cassettes is a "Calendar of Meetings" listing the dates, topics, and locations of the meetings, as well as the 18 members of the commission; and a letter from Chief Librarian Robert H. Muller noting that these recordings "will some day be viewed as a crucial milestone in the development of the college."

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Queens College Creative Services employs and/or contracts photographers to document academics, student life, and events on campus to create publicity and marketing material about the college. This collection includes photograph prints, photograph albums, and some negatives from the founding of the college in 1937 through about 2007, used by the Creative Services department in its work.

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Queens College Fact Books, compiled yearly by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, are documents that detail the profiles of students, faculty, and degree programs at the college.