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…
Elected Officials Join CUNY Staff & Students Demanding Increased City & State Funding, Restoration of Lost Jobs
Dozens of City of University of New York (CUNY) staff and student activists joined elected officials from across New York City outside the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) calling for increased funding for the university and demanding restoration of cut jobs and student services. The call comes just days…
Statement on Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams’s Preliminary Executive Budgets
Today the City University of New York (CUNY) students and staff are receiving mixed budget news from the Governor and Mayor. We welcome Governor Hochul’s commitment to public colleges and universities. We applaud her new investments in fringe benefits and CUNY operations and her return to the practice of funding…
Opposing New Budget Cuts at 9 CUNY Colleges
Dear Colleagues: As you may know, your campus was recently identified as one of nine "colleges of concern" by the CUNY administration. This means your college has been tasked with making additional cuts to its Fiscal Year 2024 budget, above and beyond those already demanded, in order to help save…
PSC Files Amicus Brief Supporting Retirees’ Right to Medicare
The PSC has filed a motion to submit a friend of the court brief in support of an injunction against an effort by the City of New York to force City retirees out of traditional Medicare into a privatized “Medicare Advantage” plan. Read the PSC’s amicus brief. …
Legislators Launch State Bills to End $321 Million Yearly Property Tax Exemptions for Columbia and NYU
At Columbia University on Tuesday, December 12, the PSC joined state lawmakers to unveil legislation which would end property tax exemptions for private universities who had over $100 million written off their tax bill in the last fiscal year. The bill would impact Columbia University, which is the largest private…
