This project is part of a series of online projects done in collaboration by faculty and staff of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and the School of Education at Hunter College. It is made possible with funding from NETs.Work, a program of the Institute for Schools of the Future.

Our project is designed to make available the vast archival resources of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies to students and faculty throughout the CUNY system, in particular, and to students, educators, and genealogists. We aim to educate these audiences about the general use, organizational structure and importance of archives to preserving and disseminating the history of Puerto Ricans and Latinos in NYC. A sample educational module also serves as a model of ways in which the collections can be used for high school and undergraduate students.

ABOUT NETs.Work     

NETs.Work is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers for Technology (PT3) program. NETs.Work's partners include 70 faculty from nine campuses of the City University of New York, Ohio State University, Kingsbridge Academy, Community School District #10, NYC Board of Education, and Jane Addams Vocational High School. Professionals from the Advanced Educational Systems at the New York University School of Medicine provide technical training, support, state-of-the-art facilities, and powerful models of learning and technology use.

Faculty are supported in the development of their projects with workshops, small-group training, telephone consultation, one-on-one mentoring, and collaborative peer support. Faculty meet for cross-campus training. project development, and peer feedback. Mini-grants are awarded to support faculty projects, scholarly writing and presentations, and for catalyst activities that will spread the projects and lessons learned.