PSC members visited dozens of legislators and rallied with NYSUT and UUP in the NYS Capitol on March 26th.
PSC members and CUNY students joined the union, CUNY Rising Alliance, and other groups for the statewide Higher Education Action Day on February 28th
PSC President James Davis and First Vice President Andrea Vásquez met with State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins Tuesday, April 16 as the final details of the budget were being decided.
State Budget Results
Thanks to your last minute phone calls, activism, and support, we’ve closed the state budget fight in a stronger position than expected only a week ago. As it became clear that the Governor would prevail in her refusal to raise taxes on large corporations and ultra-wealthy New Yorkers, the outlook…
Statement on Mayor Adams’s Executive Budget
Mayor Eric Adams released his Executive Budget for FY2025 on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. PSC President James Davis released the following statement: "Mayor Adams’s Executive Budget does nothing to restore the $94 million in cuts that CUNY’s community colleges have endured since the start of his tenure. Enrollment continues to…
Statement on the Arrest of Students Demonstrating at Columbia University
The Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the union representing 30,000 City University of New York employees, joins fellow unionists and academics in condemning the recent actions of Columbia University administration to suppress student protest on April 18. The Columbia University AAUP chapter has rightly objected to their administration’s conduct before Congress and…
State and National Labor Leaders Urge CUNY to Expand Job Security for Adjuncts
Four prominent New York State and national labor leaders have joined the PSC in urging CUNY management to expand job security for adjunct faculty. Presidents Mario Cilento of the New York State AFL-CIO, Melinda Person of the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), Irene Mulvey of the American Association of…
City Budget Testimony
PSC President James Davis spoke Monday, March 18 at the City Council’s preliminary budget hearing on higher education. In his testimony, Davis argued that CUNY enrollment has rebounded, but that we have a crisis of understaffing and student retention that is being exacerbated by the Mayor’s repeated budget cuts and…
CUNY Students Lead March to Demand Full Funding for CUNY and Free MetroCards
New York, NY– With lawmakers entering the final weeks of state budget negotiations and the City Council days away from a hearing on City University of New York funding, dozens of CUNY students, faculty, and staff rallied and marched across the Brooklyn Bridge Friday, March 15th, to demand full funding…
Adjunct Faculty: The Growing Crisis in Higher Ed
PSC President James Davis was interviewed on City Works TV by journalist Laura Flanders, along with SEIU organizer Anne Balay, about the growing adjunctification of higher education and organizing efforts - watch here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzH81cp3nO8
Status of multi-year appointments for Teaching Adjuncts
Dear Teaching Adjunct, I am writing to update you on the status of the multi-year appointment provision, a pilot provision that currently benefits more than 2,000 teaching adjuncts. When I last contacted you near the end of fall semester, it was to provide an FAQ about this issue. There are…
