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…
Adjuncts fight for job stability
Youngmin Seo was barely making ends meet on his adjunct faculty salary at the City University of New York. He and his then-wife both worked full time as they raised two children, and he took an extra job at the Korea Times to fill the gaps. For 20 years he…
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…
CUNY leaders must fight harder against budget cuts
Earlier in April, the Professional Staff Congress provided scripts for students to call for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other legislators to secure more education funding from this year’s late state budget. CUNY students, the majority of whom are working-class, juggle jobs or caretaking alongside their studies and who…
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…
Coalition of retirees demand stop to privatization of Medicare
A coalition of city retirees has drafted a letter to President Joe Biden calling for the federal government to put a halt to the privatization of Medicare and instead expand the public health program. A dozen of the retirees gathered Friday in front of a Federal Plaza building on Broadway…
“The Five Demands” Screening Spotlights SEEK and CUNY Activists
On March 20th in the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library auditorium, QC SEEK screened “The Five Demands” — a documentary about the 1969 student protests at the City College of New York (CCNY) for greater Afro-American and Puerto Rican representation in the student population — and discussed the possibility of the…
Columbia and City College hold second environmental justice summit
Columbia and the City College of New York held their second joint Harlem Environmental Justice Summit, drawing students, local nonprofits, and a representative from the New York City Mayor’s administration. The summit included two panels that took place in City College’s North Academic Center and Columbia’s Buell Hall. In between…
Statement on Comptroller Brad Lander’s Report
Statement on Comptroller Brad Lander’s Report ‘Spotlight: CUNY and the New York City Economy’ as it Relates to the State and City Budgets James Davis, President, Professional Staff Congress/CUNY The NYC Comptroller’s latest Spotlight report released today, “CUNY and the New York City Economy,” details CUNY’s impressive return on investment…
Baruch faculty and students protest budget cuts, bigger classes
Professors, faculty and students gathered in the William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus lobby, and then marched to the William and Anita Newman Library on April 4 for a rally in protest of budget cuts and an increase to the course caps in Weissman School of Arts and Sciences classes.
