Union Leaders Blockade Doors Outside CUNY Trustees Meeting
Previous Pause Next Demanding A Fair Contract, Funding for Quality Education Elected leaders of the faculty and professional staff union at the City University of New York (CUNY) were arrested today while demanding a contract that will help ensure a quality education for the half-million CUNY students across…
PSC Calls for Full Funding of CUNY, Enactment of Maintenance of Effort Legislation
Albany—President Barbara Bowen urged the State to increase funding for CUNY in testimony delivered Wednesday, December 5 to the Assembly Higher Education Committee. She also called on the governor to sign legislation soon to be before him that would enhance the State’s Maintenance of Effort (MOE) for CUNY…
This Week in the PSC (05.08.18): Updates on teaching load reduction and $7K
PSC in the News Tom Watters, an adjunct faculty member in the English department at Brooklyn College, wrote an AFT Voices post that was recently shared throughout the country. It’s called “I can’t keep teaching for poverty wages.” Find Tom’s post, TV coverage of the recent $7K Advocacy Day and…
This Week in the PSC (04.06.18): State Budget Fails to Increase Senior College Operating Funds
State Budget Fails to Increase Senior College Operating Funds CUNY’s preliminary analysis of the newly enacted State budget shows a $97.8 million increase in funding for CUNY senior colleges. But most of the money comes from increased tuition and from funding that must cover existing fringe benefits. There are essentially…
This Week in the PSC (03.26.18): Last Chance to Urge Albany to Invest in CUNY
NYS Budget Update Both the State Senate and Assembly have passed one-house budget resolutions that increase investment in CUNY. The resolutions name the priorities of the two houses and set the table for this last week of budget negotiations. The Senate proposes a $40 million increase in operating support for…
PSC To CUNY Board Chair: We Need A Fair Contract
FACULTY & STAFF UNION MARCHES TO CUNY BOARD CHAIR’S WALL STREET BANK TO DEMAND FUNDING FOR QUALITY EDUCATION, RAISES FOR FACULTY AND STAFF Manhattan—Nearly a year after the expiration of their union contract, hundreds of CUNY faculty and staff marched through the Financial District today to demand public…
CUNY Rising Petition – Fund CUNY ASAP
CUNY was once free; it can be free again — and well-funded. Tens of thousands of poor and working-class New Yorkers, particularly people of color and immigrants, depend on CUNY as a gateway to good-paying jobs and mobility. But only 2 in 10 community college students graduate within…
