The CUNY Budget Saga Continues: State Increasing Funding While City Funding and Enrollment Decreases
In early February, CUNY issued a memo to the Presidents and Department Heads of all its 25 colleges, ordering each college to issue a hiring freeze and develop a ‘Savings Plan’ that includes a 5-6% cut for programs and activities. Since then, the state has passed its new budget plan…
CUNY Law School Graduates Turn Their Backs to Mayor Adams
If Mayor Eric Adams needed a sign that his commencement speech to law students on Friday was not going to go well, the moment came even before he spoke. As the dean of the City University of New York School of Law, Sudha Setty, introduced the mayor at a Queens…
Dozens rally at CSI, highlighting budget needs and pushing for a New Deal for CUNY
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - “Hey hey, ho ho, austerity has got to go,” chanted dozens students, faculty and staff across a mile route along the College of Staten Island’s Willowbrook campus earlier this week. The march, hosted by the Professional Staff Congress Union, was a call to demand a New…
Elected Leaders Join Hundreds of PSC-CUNY Members & Students Rallying for Investment in CUNY
Hundreds of faculty and staff represented by the Professional Staff Congress, students and CUNY allies joined forces with City Comptroller Brad Lander, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Assembly Member Karines Reyes and members of the New York City Council and New York State Assembly yesterday on the steps of the…
NYC Labor Turns Out for WGA East Members on Strike
Striking Writers Guild of America East members and supporters this week made their voices heard at pickets at Steiner Studios, Silvercup Studios, Broadway Stages, the HBO/Amazon offices in Hudson Yards, and in shutting down on-location shoots around the metro area. The writers are standing strong and the NYC labor movement…
March for a New Deal for CUNY at the College of Staten Island
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Fresh off a state budget victory that the faculty/staff union called “a step closer to a New Deal for CUNY,” students, faculty and staff from the College of Staten Island rallIed and marched to demand that the CUNY administration reverse its plan to cut CUNY colleges…
Elected Leaders Join Hundreds of PSC CUNY Members & Students Rallying for Investment in CUNY
(New York, NY) Hundreds of faculty and staff represented by the Professional Staff Congress, students and CUNY allies joined forces with City Comptroller Brad Lander, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Assembly Member Karines Reyes and members of the New York City Council and New York State Assembly today on…
CUNY, elected officials rally against budget cuts
Dozens of students, professors and staff, and elected officials rallied Thursday over budget cuts to the the City University of New York system that they say will make it harder for many students to earn college diplomas.
March for a New Deal for CUNY
Students, faculty and staff march for a New Deal for CUNY at the College of Staten Island on Tuesday, May 9.
“No Cuts to CUNY”: Rallying in Defense of CSI
“Higher education is a right,” the people chanted throughout campus this afternoon. “That’s why we have to fight, fight, fight!” On May 9, students, faculty and staff joined forces at the fountain in front of CSI’s Building 1P to begin their march. Their cause is clear in the force of…
