PSC members and allies will gather in City Hall Park, north of the fountain Monday, July 14 at 12:30 PM for a Hands Off Universities! Hands Off CUNY! press event to resist the MAGA crusade to dismantle universities and repress speech rights. Sign up here to let us know you’ll be there and please tell us if you’re an alum of the University of California or Georgetown.
The press event will come a day before CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez will appear before Congress next Tuesday alongside the leaders of U.C. Berkeley and Georgetown in a hearing of the House Committee on Education and Workforce entitled “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology.” This hearing and other actions of the Trump Administration have been about limiting political speech and only nominally about protecting Jewish students and academics. It’s part of a broad, systematic attack on higher education that seeks to discipline and defund universities, reverse years of social progress, and suppress research and teaching that doesn’t comport with the MAGA agenda.
Published: July 10, 2025 | Last Modified: July 13, 2025
