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The City College campus occupies thirty-five acres along tree-lined Convent Avenue from 131st Street to 141st Street in the Borough of Manhattan. Many buildings in the area, known as St. Nicholas Heights, are landmarked, including CCNY’s North Campus Quadrangle buildings and the former home of Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury. The larger campus for CCNY’s students, of course, is the City of New York with a wealth of cultural and entertainment attractions found in few other cities of the world.

The City College is easily accessible by subway and bus; express trains from mid-Manhattan reach the campus in about fifteen minutes.

All students, faculty and staff are issued an identification card that must be worn at all times in College buildings.

Original Campus Buildings

Built in 1904, the original college buildings were designed by the architect George Post in a Collegiate Gothic style. Four halls—Shepard, Baskerville, Townsend Harris and Wingate—were grouped around a green quadrangle and, with Compton and Goethals Halls (added later), now constitute the "North Campus." These buildings and the college gates are listed in the State and National Register of Historic Places.

Steinman Hall-Engineering (ST)

Just outside the north campus gate is the modern Steinman Hall-Engineering Building. Steinman, a six-story building equipped with approximately ninety eight research and teaching laboratories, also houses the CUNY Energy Institute. More information about specific facilities in Steinman Hall can be found in the sections of this Bulletin describing the engineering programs.

North Academic Center (NA)

Dedicated in 1984, the North Academic Center covers three full city blocks and has around 1,200 classrooms, labs, lecture halls and a media center. This building also contains the Cohen Library, the Finley Student Center, student government offices, meeting rooms, a print shop, a small theater, a ballroom and the campus dining areas. It is the largest academic building on the campus and contains the School of Education, the Division of Humanities and the Arts, The Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership (formerly Social Science) and the newly expanded Information Technology Center as well as many computer laboratories.

The Robert E. Marshak Science Building (MR)

The Marshak Science Building, a modern and fully equipped thirteen-story building, houses the science programs. The facilities include a number of computer laboratories, a networked system of SUN and SGI computers, laser labs, electron microscopes, nuclear magnetic and electron spin resonance systems, a mass spectrometer facility, an NMR facility, biomedical research laboratories, the Science and Engineering Library, a planetarium, a weather station, and 184 teaching and research laboratories. Also found in the Marshak Building are the Nat Holman Gymnasium and the Jeremiah Mahoney Pool. The Holman Gym seats approximately 1,800 spectators and is a large, modern, multi-purpose facility, home to many of the College’s varsity athletic teams. The Mahoney Pool is used for competitions and recreational programs.

City College Center for Discovery and Innovation

The City College Center for Discovery and Innovation opened in Fall 2014 and features approximately 200,000 square feet of space for advanced research in key interdisciplinary fields. The facility is a magnet for regional, national and international researchers and an academic hub of learning for students and faculty. The new research center and pedestrian plaza serve as a gateway to the south campus of City College, which also features the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center.

The Center for Discovery and Innovation is a futuristic architectural vision that reflects the research inside its laboratories. The interiors have been designed for optimal research functionality and to facilitate collaboration between all who work there.

Expanding upon the college’s vision of strengthening academics through interdisciplinary study and research, five major innovative fields are featured in the facility: Nanotechnology, Photonics, Structural Biology, Neuroscience and Environmental Sciences. The scientific and technological achievements at the City College Center for Discovery and Innovation improve environments, extend lives, and transform societies in New York City and around the world.

Designed by the architectural firm of Kohn, Pedersen and Fox, the City College Center for Discovery and Innovation builds upon our already stellar reputation as a major research campus and nexus for leading scientists.

CUNY Advanced Science Research Center

The Advanced Science Research Center has brought CUNY to a landmark moment in its multi-billion-dollar commitment to becoming a national leader in visionary scientific research of vital, real-world consequence.

Located on the south end of the City College campus in Upper Manhattan, the striking, 200,000-square-foot ASRC building embodies a bold vision of 21st Century discovery. At the center’s core is a world-class facility designed to inspire an innovative approach to the scientific method itself, one that links a new wave of talented scientists with hundreds of top researchers from CUNY campuses across the city.

The ASRC focuses CUNY initiatives in five of the most energized areas of global research: Nanoscience. Photonics. Structural Biology. Neuroscience. Environmental Sciences.

These are diverse and seemingly distinct fields, but they intersect in many of the most significant research quests of our time. It was the opportunity for myriad collaborations—particularly between labs in areas that are already in CUNY’s spheres of strength—that guided the center’s planners. Led by Vice Chancellor for Research Gillian Small, what they have conceived is the DNA of a distinctive research culture—creative, collaborative, convergent—to take on scientific challenges ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to the future of the global water supply.

City College Center for the Arts

Hosts an ambitious, year-round calendar of student and professional performances.  The mission of the City College Center for the Arts is to provide a creative arts center and focal point for the City College of New York, building a sense of community within the College, elevating the profile of Aaron Davis Hall in the greater New York area, and connecting the College to the surrounding community through the arts.

Aaron Davis Hall (AD)

Home to CCCA, features a two-theatre performing arts complex with an extensive history in Harlem and throughout this city.  Aaron Davis Hall has hosted many of the world’s greatest performers, brilliant minds and crea-tors like Nelson Mandela, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Celia Cruz, Twyla Tharp , and so many more.  Aaron Davis Hall is the only cultural facility of its kind north of Lincoln Center used by groups like Dance Theatre of Har-lem, Alvin Ailey II, Harlem School of the Arts, Carnegie Hall and Ballet Hispanico

The Architecture Building (AR)

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is housed in a 124,000 square foot facility, designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, which is designed to accommodate approximately 400 students. The building contains studios, classrooms, an exhibit area, administrative offices, the library, and computer labs. The studios each provide close to 1,000 square feet of space. The building also houses the City College Architecture Center (CCAC), which provides consulting services to community-based organizations.

The Towers Residence Hall (TD)

The Towers at CCNY is the first residence hall to be built on the CCNY campus in its 167-year history. The Towers, located on the corner of West 130th Street and St. Nicholas Terrace on the South Campus, opened its doors in August 2006. Currently, The Towers provides accommodation for 600 resident students.

The Towers consists of 164 fully-furnished, air-conditioned suites in four configurations housing one to four students each as well as a limited number of studio and one-bedroom suites available for faculty housing. All suites have a fully-functional kitchenette. The Towers offers wireless internet service throughout the entire building (including resident rooms and lounges), a multi-purpose seminar room, a fitness center, a central laundry facility, a convenience store and a community kitchen. All residents are required to have an access card for entry at the 24-hour security desk; there are closed-circuit security cameras located throughout the building. CCNY operates a shuttle/escort van service to provide residents with easy access to the North Campus and local subway stations. The Residence Life Staff, which consists of Resident Assistants and professional staff, provides supervision of the building in accordance with CUNY/CCNY policies and procedures. Residence Life also strives to create community through educational and social programming and serves as a resource to all residents.

Information regarding the application process, scheduling a tour, and costs can be found on The Towers website at www.ccnytowers.com . The cost for living in The Towers varies by suite type and length of contract, however, all utilities (i.e., electric, heat, A/C, local phone service, access to internet service, access to free laundry room, and basic cable TV service) are included. Prospective residents may contact The Towers office by phone at (917) 507-0070 or via email at [email protected]

Zahn Innovation Center

The Zahn Innovation Center is an incubator that nurtures entrepreneurial initiatives at the City College of New York, providing students, faculty and staff with the tools they need to transform their ideas into sustainable ventures. We offer support for both technology-enabled start-ups and social impact ventures.

The Center provides co-working spaces for its technology start-ups and social ventures and an ongoing, campus-wide speaker series. We host four entrepreneurship competitions per year, with $140,000 in prize money on the table. We also offer mentorship, practical workshops, and expert pro-bono services for legal, Intellectual Property, incorporation, and accounting support. For technology and hardware based start-ups we also offer a wide range of prototyping capabilities including 3D printing, laser cutting, and machining, as well as access to an experienced design engineer.

AN INCUBATOR

We are a startup incubator located at the City College of New York offering co-working space and an array of resources including: annual competitions, a startup bootcamp, mentorship and pro-bono services, networking opportunities, and rapid prototyping facilities.

AN APPLIED EDUCATION

We inspire CCNY students to approach their education as changemakers, transforming classroom learning into real-world application. Each semester we partner with various academic departments to create curricula to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset. We also pair students with startups and other companies in the NYC area through our robust internship program.

A COMMUNITY OF CHANGEMAKERS

We invite all entrepreneurial thinkers to join our diverse community by attending our public events. We host prominent entrepreneurs, investors and other innovators to City College’s campus, we host hackathons, work-shops and other programs throughout the year. We also encourage stu-dents to join one of our startup teams or become a part of the Center through the Entrepreneurship Student Club.

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At the beginning of your college search, a virtual tour can be a beneficial tool to explore the campus before your visit. When you do visit the campus, be sure to talk to current students about their experiences. A student perspective is a helpful way to gauge your future experience when attending The City College of New York. Already took an on-campus tour? It's inevitable. All of your college tours will blend, and you might forget the appearance of CCNY's library, dorms, or cafeteria. Use the virtual tour to jog your memory! With the interactive mapping tool below you can even explore the area surrounding the campus.

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Welcome to the CCNY Planetarium.

It's time! Take a break and join us for some live tours of the universe this spring. Get tickets here: Live Space Shows →

As usual, you can still join the fun at these pages too:

• Short Vertical Videos: CCNY Planetarium on Instagram
• NYC related astronomy and space news: Our Twitter and BlueSky
• Longer Videos on YouTube

Or check out some of our posts below where we dig deeper into our visualizations and other sci-viz related issues.

25 Apr 2024

Space rovers - a cosmic book launch.

Join us and Stewart L. Sinclair (CCNY MFA Creative Writing, '20) to celebrate his new book: Space Rover.

15 Apr 2024

2024 eclipse - photos and more.

Here's what we saw on April 8th

31 Mar 2024

2024 eclipse.

Join the CCNY Physics club to watch the eclipse on April 8th

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26 Jan 2024

The holmdel horn.

Our visit to the legendary Holmdel Horn Antenna where the Cosmic Microwave Background was first detected.

25 Jan 2024

Live space shows - spring 2024.

Join us for some live space shows this spring.

06 Jul 2022

The jwst - first science release.

Come join us in the dome to watch the release of the first Science Images from the JWST

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THE TOWERS is an apartment-style residence hall on campus that will help you make the most of your college experience in an environment which encourages residents to explore opportunities academically, socially and culturally.

The community offers free wireless internet service throughout the entire building (including resident rooms and lounges), a multi-purpose seminar room, a fitness center, a central laundry facility, a community kitchen and lounge area with a billiards table and large TV with comfortable seating. All residents are issued an access card for entry at the 24-Hour Security Desk and there are closed-circuit security cameras located throughout the building.

The Residence Life Staff strives to create a sense of community through educational and social programming and serves as a resource to all residents.

2024-2025 Academic Year Cost Per Person  (by year, by semester)

1 Bedroom (Double)

Cost Per Person, Per Year: $17,072 Cost Per Person, Per Semester: $8,536

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Cost Per Person, Per Year: $15,508 Cost Per Person, Per Semester: $7,254

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Cost Per Person, Per Year: $21,104 Cost Per Person, Per Semester: $10,552

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Cost Per Person, Per Year: $20,744 Cost Per Person, Per Semester: $10,372

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• Referral payments will be credited only if the prospective resident signs a housing contract and does not cancel their Agreement within sixty (60) days of taking occupancy.

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Our engaging and insightful Group Tours provide prospective BMCC students and their visitors an inside look at what makes BMCC one of the top community colleges in the country! Discover the college experience, explore our facilities, and learn about student life while passing through Manhattan’s iconic skyscrapers, local eateries and cobblestone streets with our talented Recruitment Specialists.

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New Communications B.A. Debuts Fall 2024 at CCNY

April 23, 2024

Emmy-award-winning journalist Barbara Nevins Taylor is the Journalism Program director and helped spearhead the new B.A. in Communications.

Students will have the opportunity to enroll in new concentrations of  Journalism  or  Advertising and Public Relations  towards a B.A. in Communications in the Fall 2024 semester at  The City College of New York . The new B.A. is housed in the  Media and Communications Arts Department , in the  Division of Humanities and the Arts , which also offers a  BFA in Film and Video , an  MFA in Film , and an  MPS in Branding + Integrated Communications  (BIC). Both majors consist of 42 credits and begin with the Introduction to Media Studies course.

For journalism, the major begins with MCA 2300 Introduction to Journalism and culminates with a capstone class where students work in teams to cover a big story or a series of stories. It is an immersive journalism experience that gives students the chance to use their communities and New York City as their laboratory. Stories will be published regularly on “ Harlem View ,” the journalism website. An 18-credit minor in journalism will still be available.

According to Emmy-award winning journalist and Journalism Program Director  Barbara Nevins Taylor , the new B.A. reflects increased student demand and interest. In these complicated times, a new generation of students wants to tackle the big questions of the day: economic inequality, immigration, racial injustice, gender equality, climate change, the environment, as well as the joy that sports, culture, and entertainment bring, while recognizing the need to tell truthful stories that lead to greater understanding.

New courses available in the Fall include Creative Thinking for Communication Arts and Journalism & Society: Covering Power. Electives include Sports Journalism, Spanish Journalism, Digital Information Graphics, Latinx Media Studies, and Race & Media. Students will be encouraged to take classes in history, philosophy, the arts, political science, economics, and computer science to provide a foundation for understanding communities and the world at large.

A new course, Media Planning, will be available for Ad/PR students in Fall 2024. Associate Professor  Edward Keller  is the Program Director.

Faculty, lecturers, and workshop leaders continue to include working journalists from “The New York Times,” “The Wall Street Journal,” “The Daily News,” National Public Radio, ABC News, CBS News, NBCU, WPIX, CNN, and other major news organizations. Students are encouraged to take at least one internship before graduation. Internships play a critical role at CCNY to help students transition from academic to professional life.

Journalism at The City College of New York has a storied history that goes back more than 100 years. CCNY graduates have won top journalism awards and honors, including Pulitzer Prizes, Emmy Awards, Webby Awards, and more.

“Many in our diverse student community want to learn how to cover and report stories that often go untold. The knowledge and skills they gain in the program will prepare them to bring their unique insight into newsrooms and other institutions that prize journalistic analysis and craft,” said Nevins Taylor, who has won 22 Emmy Awards, over 50 journalism awards and honors, and was recently featured in an ABC News documentary and a Netflix docuseries. She practices journalism on  ConsumerMojo .com.

About The City College of New York Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks  CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment . In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Emsi (now  Lightcast ) puts at  $1.9 billion CCNY’s annual economic impact on the regional economy  (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the “for dollar” return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 15,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. This year, CCNY launched its most expansive fundraising campaign, ever. The campaign, titled “ Doing Remarkable Things Together ” seeks to bring the College’s Foundation to more than $1 billion in total assets in support of the College mission. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself.  View CCNY Media Kit .

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CUNY SPS invites you to join us on our Village Pride Walking Tour! On this tour around Greenwich Village, we will visit historic sites where revolutions began, riots were sparked, and history was made.

We will see common threads within the LGBTQIA+ generations who have lived life in New York City, sharing their stories throughout the tour. You’ll also learn more about individual stories of Queer activists and the major political and social movements that have shaped the LGBTQIA+ community over time. Sites include the historic Stonewall Inn, the Gay Liberation Monument, the NYC AIDS Memorial, the LGBT Community Center, and more.

The meeting location will be emailed closer to the day of the event.

Limited tickets are available so this is a first-come, first-served ticketed event.

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Police officers and university administrators have clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters on a growing number of college campuses across the country in recent days, arresting students, removing encampments and threatening academic consequences.

The fresh wave of student activism against the war in Gaza was sparked by the arrest of at least 108 protesters at Columbia University on April 18, after administrators appeared before Congress and promised a crackdown. Since then, police interventions on several campuses, including in some of America’s largest cities, have led to more than 500 arrests.

Campus Protests Since Wednesday, April 17

Protests where arrests have taken place

Other protests

Note: Data as of 4:30 p.m. Eastern time on April 26

By Bora Erden, Lazaro Gamio, Helmuth Rosales, Julie Walton Shaver and Anjali Singhvi

Here is where arrests have been reported as the authorities attempt to break up protests or encampments:

Columbia University : The New York City Police Department arrested 108 demonstrators while clearing an encampment at the Manhattan campus on April 18.

Yale University in New Haven, Conn.: The police arrested 48 people on Monday, including 44 Yale students, after they refused to leave an encampment on campus.

New York University in Manhattan: Officers made dozens of arrests late Monday after students occupied a plaza on campus.

University of Minnesota in Minneapolis: Nine people were taken into custody after they erected an encampment on Tuesday. All of those affiliated with the university were allowed back on campus and civil trespass warnings were “set aside.”

University of South Carolina in Columbia: Two students were arrested after a protest on Tuesday, according to a police report.

University of Southern California in Los Angeles: The police arrested 93 people at a demonstration on Wednesday afternoon.

University of Texas at Austin : The police arrested 57 protesters on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the county attorney’s office said charges against many had been dropped after the office found legal “deficiencies” in their arrests.

Emerson College in Boston: The police arrested 118 people as an encampment was cleared on Wednesday night, the authorities said.

Ohio State University in Columbus: A university official said that 36 people, including 16 students, were arrested on Thursday. Earlier in the week, two students were arrested during an on-campus demonstration, university officials said.

Emory University in Atlanta: At least 28 people were arrested on Thursday morning, an Emory official said; 20 had ties to the school.

Indiana University in Bloomington: The university police department said 33 people were removed from an encampment on Thursday and taken to jail.

Princeton University in New Jersey: Two graduate students were arrested after pitching tents on Thursday.

University of Connecticut in Storrs: Campus police officers removed at least one tent from a rally on Thursday and took at least one person into custody, a university official said.

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt : Protesters have occupied two buildings on the campus in Arcata, Calif., university officials said. Three people were arrested there this week.

Auraria Campus in Denver: About 40 people were arrested on Friday at a campus that houses facilities for the University of Colorado Denver, the Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Community College of Denver, the campus police said.

Arizona State University in Tempe: A university official said three people were arrested on Friday after protesters set up an encampment.

University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign : Social media posts on Friday showed police officers detaining at least one person and taking down an encampment.

Halina Bennet, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs , Robert Chiarito , Jill Cowan , Matthew Eadie , Colbi Edmonds , Jacey Fortin , J. David Goodman , Johnna Margalotti, Erin Nolan , Jenna Russell , Edgar Sandoval and Jonathan Wolfe contributed reporting.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated when students at Princeton started to pitch tents. They erected tents on Thursday, not Wednesday.

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Poet Pamela Laskin will be the featured guest poet for the 52nd annual City College Poetry Festival held at the Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall. Upwards of 150 students from as many as 50 schools are expected to recite their poems at this year’s festival. The event commences with readings by elementary school students, followed by poets from junior high schools. Beginning around noon, the winners of the festival’s citywide high school poetry contest will recite their poems.

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Do Not Allow the NYPD on CCNY Campus, Says CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment

Students from City College, part of the City University of New York, set up an encampment on their campus on Thursday, April 25, joining fellow students from Columbia University, New York University, and other college campuses across the nation to ask their administration to divest from Israel and protest the Israel-Hamas war.

The CUNY Solidarity Encampment , a student group, issued the following statement:

URGENT Message from the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment

We, the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment, demand that CUNY Central protect students at the CCNY encampment for Gaza from police intervention . We do not want the NYPD to be deployed against our fellow students, who are protesting CUNY’s investments in weapons manufacturers which arm the Israeli military in its genocidal assault on Gaza.

Per a  Memorandum of Understanding  between CUNY and the NYPD, the NYPD cannot enter CUNY campuses without permission from CUNY officials in non-emergency situations. We call upon CUNY campus administrators to strictly adhere to  Board of Trustees Policy 7.071 , and make all possible efforts to consult with the student body president(s) and the chair of the faculty governance body, before deciding whether to involve law enforcement. The present student protest does not constitute an emergency situation. It is a peaceful exercise of the students’ right to political expression, during a moment that calls on all people of conscience to do the same. As such,  we demand that CUNY officials do not allow the NYPD onto campus .

We have seen how decisions by the Columbia and NYU administrations led to police brutality against innocent student protestors. CUNY is now faced with a crucial choice. It can join the ranks of deplorable university administrators who jeopardize the safety and wellbeing of its students, or it can stand on the right side of history. CUNY stood on the right side of history in 1984, when it voted to divest from South African apartheid, and it must do so again.

CUNY is the largest working class, Black and brown, public urban university system in the country. Our students’ solidarity with Palestine is a natural reflection of our commitment to freedom and justice for all oppressed peoples. Educating students as brave as those joining the encampment is an honor, and CUNY must treat it as such by protecting students from state-sponsored brutality.

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True story is first-rate drama, by seamus scanlon, april 18, 2024.

Author: Seamus Scanlon | CCNY CWE 's Librarian  Date: April 17, 2024 Published By: The Irish Echo Link to Original Article:  https://www.irishecho.com/2024/4/true-story-is-first-rate-drama-864e1f5a-421b-45bb-8ca3-623121ee2d12  

If you have never heard of the Post Office scandal in the UK where 900 innocent UK Post Office employees were pursued and  prosecuted (from 1999 to 2015) for theft and other crimes the new mini-series “Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office” in PBS Masterpiece is for you. 

The original ITV series screened in January in the UK, ignited the mainstream media, the general public and politicians into action. It led to a petition with a million signatures within a few weeks calling for the Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells to be stripped of her CBE for “bringing the honors system into disrepute.” 

The drama, starring Toby Jones as Alan Bates, shows how the Post Office management ignored common sense and used underhand methods to prosecute hundreds of their own (often long standing) employees because of discrepancies between branch post office accounts and the error prone and not fit-for-purpose accounting system, Horizon, used by the Post Office. Many of the innocent were given jail terms, suffered financial and health ruin including suicide. 

Thirty employees in Northern Ireland were also affected and faced financial and personal ruin like their counterparts in England, Scotland and Wales. Their accounts are harrowing and documented by the Post Office Horizon Public Enquiry which is ongoing until September 2024.

It is hard to watch this series or read the book “The Great Post Office Scandal” by Nick Wallis without dismay for all the nefarious maneuvers employed by the Post Office, their investigators and lawyers, to hound innocent and blameless men and women that had taken pride in working in their communities.

As well as the four episodes, there is an hour-long documentary about the scandal available on PBS as well – the series began on April 7 with all episodes available by April 28. 

The impact of the “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office” series demonstrates how drama can tell a story so effectively. Alan Bates is the hero of the series and of the long running scandal. From the very beginning he insisted that the IT system was faulty but to no avail. In 2019 he and his team won a significant court case victory against the PO and he is still a guiding light in trying to win adequate compensation for all those whose lives were ruined. 

Seamus Scanlon is the Librarian, The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, at  The Center for Worker Education  

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