I think I’m taking my college courses a lot easier than I expected I would but I’m still putting more effort into doing things than compared to my high school self. I’ve got to go out of my way to figure things out in City College and I’m not being held by my hand anymore. It still seems like it’s a little too easy for now which is concerning but I’ll just have to wait until it gets noticeably difficult for me.

What I like that’s in this course or more specifically this class, is the interactions we have as a
class. Everyone in the class is fun to talk to and even the professor is easy to talk to without worry.

The writing strategies that were put into Blackboard are also useful, there’s a list of words we
could use in exchange for other simpler words. I feel like the writing strategies is going to be
extremely useful in the near future of this class. I’m sure it can also be used for any other class
that I’ll have to write for, which is probably gonna be a lot of them.
I’m not too sure what exactly I want to see from this class because I don’t really know what to
expect from it. I would like more interactions with everyone cause it’s fun but work wise I’m not
sure what I’d look forward to. I’m sort of expecting more work about activism since that’s all we’ve been doing so far but it hasn’t been too long yet so I can’t say anything for sure.

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Retrenchment – Austerity – Tuition (1978-1992)
S – The article’s author is unknown, though the source of said article is CUNY Digital
History Archives.
P – The aforementioned article was written in order to share information about the past.
It goes further in-depth about what truly happened a few years after Open Admissions.
A – Just like the website, the article is available for those who wish to know more about
CUNY’s history.
C – A few years before the time this article is speaking about was the Open Admissions
finally allowing highschool graduates into CUNY colleges, though there have been
consequences for doing so & the article describes one of the issues after.
E – Despite promising many programs for financial aid for students in need, their
promises soon fell flat.
C – The article had used statistics & facts to show how dire things were.
A – Logos were consistently in use as they showed us the percentages of various
things.
T – Their tone was informative, not showing any favorable side to either one.

“Summary of “Retrenchment – Austerity – Tuition”
(1978-1992)

                          Michelle Tran


As Open Admissions finally began and allowed any and all highschool graduates to enroll into the CUNY colleges, they started imposing tuition on full-time CUNY students. That decision unfortunately led to a major decrease in the number of undergraduates enrolling in the following years. Open Admissions had tried to provide programs to assist the students in need but it simply wasn’t working. When the governor yet again increased the tuition by another $200, many students raised strikes at more than half of the CUNY campuses in response. CUNY students and faculty did also look at and undergo many projects and programs to help with things financially. Despite their efforts and protests against the ever-growing tuition, it continued on for roughly another 15 years.

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