What Mamdani’s Win Might Mean for Higher Ed in NYC
Inside Higher Ed: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has promised to bring sweeping changes to New York City after a campaign that claimed national attention and rallied youth voters. Now college and university leaders, scholars, and students are speculating about what his win might mean for the city’s more than 120 higher…
We rise up to save higher education
AFT.org: On Nov. 7, students, faculty and staff rose up at more than 100 universities and colleges across the country and said, “no more.” Through teach-ins, rallies, walkouts and marches, university communities rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to control academia and vowed to set a better course for the future of…
SOMOS: Service, solidarity and strategy
AFT.org: It was total immersion at this year’s SOMOS, the annual Puerto Rico power gathering of New York legislators and other elected officials, unionists, civic groups and political activists. From a professional development bootcamp with more than 200 college students to a book giveaway for children, the event combined community…
Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks
The Guardian: Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests that organizers hope will culminate in large-scale students’ and workers’ strikes next May Day…
The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump
Democracy Now! spoke with supporters celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night. Volunteers with the Democratic Socialists and other campaign organizers at the Brooklyn Paramount victory party described the night as “surreal” and vowed to fight back against President Trump’s agenda. Sumaya Awad, a…
Zohran Mamdani’s Next Big Battle is in Albany
Focus: Zohran Mamdani made history last night, romping to a decisive victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral election. In January, he will become New York’s first Muslim mayor, first immigrant mayor in 50 years, and youngest mayor in a century.
Zohran Mamdani: New York’s Working Class Elects a Movement Mayor
Labor Notes: Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whammy. “The working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power…
Opinion: Why Cuomo Would Be a Bad Deal for CUNY
City Limits: In January 2017, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood with Bernie Sanders at CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College to announce his plan for free tuition at New York’s public colleges, under banners that read “Excelsior Scholarship.” His budget director wrote that 900,000 families would qualify for the new program. As a CUNY student and campus…
Now Is the Time to Show Our Collective Power
Common Dreams: There is no question that the contemporary system of higher education in the United States was facing several crises (commodification of education, access and affordability, faculty precarity, violations of academic freedom, the “rationality crisis”, administrative bloat, etc.—what we generally refer to as the neoliberalization and corporatization of education)…
Standing beside you: Solidarity with immigrants in the courts
AFT.org: Since May, more than 200 members from every CUNY campus have taken “court support” training and made more than 430 visits to the federal immigration courthouses. They gather every Thursday and Friday morning for this work, which is intentionally nonviolent and nonconfrontational. Their focus is on supporting families facing…
