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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty members and administrators at bothMedgar Evers and CUNY are less than pleased withCounter's handling of the affair. A smallcommunity college named for the slain civil rightsleader, Medgar Evers was founded in 1969 as anexperimental project in higher education...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Counter, Medgar Evers Spar Over Job | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...March of 1969, Medgar Evers came intoexistence as Staten Island Community College,President William M. Birenbaum's proposal for anew experimental college within CUNY. The schoolwas slated to take up several blocks of theBedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Counter, Medgar Evers Spar Over Job | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...March of 1976, the city's lack of fundingforced CUNY to slash its budget, and Medgar Everswas one of CUNY's 19 schools selected to be eitherdowngraded, merged or eliminated. Medgar Everssurvived the fiscal crisis, but was reduced to acommunity college...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Counter, Medgar Evers Spar Over Job | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

Professors are still smarting from the movethat has since put the school on a shoestringbudget. Medgar Evers enrolled more than 5000students last year, most of whom were Black women.The college now awards both two- and four-yeardegrees, but it is funded as a community college.Some veterans of the school blame the statuschange on New York politics...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Counter, Medgar Evers Spar Over Job | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...think it would be difficult for a president[at Medgar Evers] to function. The president atthe institution needs the support of the system inorder to be effective. I'm not so sure how muchsupport they get," Loney said...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Counter, Medgar Evers Spar Over Job | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

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