This Week in the PSC (03.22.17): Contact Your State Legislators Today Tell Them Investments in Affordability Must Include Investments in Quality
PSC President Barbara Bowen, First Vice President Mike Fabricant and Secretary Nivedita Majumdar are in Albany this week meeting with lawmakers about state support for CUNY and the PSC’s budget demands. The Hispanic Federation and other CUNY Rising Alliance members are also at the Capitol this week advocating for our…
This Week in the PSC (03.13.17): The PSC office will be closed tomorrow due to the weather. Please be safe.
PSC Radio Ad Urges New State Investment in CUNY President Barbara Bowen and Chika Onyejiukwa, a student at Hunter College and President of the CUNY University Student Senate, are both featured in this radio ad, which aired in Albany last week. The ad urges lawmakers to ensure that any plan…
This Week in the PSC (03.06.17): PSC Members Testify About Why CUNY Faculty Need More Time with Students and for Scholarship
Last Friday, President Bowen and 20 PSC members testified before the City Council in support of CUNY’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget request for $35 million to fund the Faculty Partnership for Student Success Initiative. The Initiative would allow a restructuring of the full-time faculty workload to enable more time with…
This Week in the PSC (02.22.17): Testify on the Need to Reduce Teaching Loads at CUNY
This Friday, March 3, is the City Council hearing on CUNY's proposed funding from the City. If achieving a reduced teaching load matters to you, you can be there to testify about why it is essential that funding for the reduction be included in the New York City budget. Send…
This Week in the PSC (02.06.17): Betsy DeVos is Confirmed as Secretary of Education
The Senate, with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence, approved the nomination of Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education today. PSC members placed many of the 5 million calls Congress received opposing DeVos for her total lack of experience and anti-public school ideology. Two Republican Senators voted “no”…
This Week in the PSC (02.01.17): Back Pay Update
Adjuncts working at senior colleges who did not receive their back pay on January 19 (or received an unexpectedly tiny amount), are scheduled to receive their back pay on the next pay date, Thursday, February 2. Full-time employees who worked overloads as adjuncts or as non-teaching adjuncts during the period…
This Week in the PSC (01.05.17): Governor Cuomo Proposes Excelsior Scholarship
Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a proposal to provide free tuition at CUNY and SUNY schools for students with annual family incomes below $125,000. He made the announcement January 3 alongside Senator Bernie Sanders at LaGuardia Community College. Here is the PoliticoNY coverage and here is the news release and…
This Week in the PSC (12.06.16): PSC Calls on Chancellor Milliken to Declare Sanctuary
President Bowen presented this letter calling on CUNY to become a "sanctuary university," as defined by the AAUP, to Chancellor Milliken last Friday morning and sent it to Chairperson Thompson that afternoon. The PSC officers strongly urged the Chancellor to make a public declaration of sanctuary and to do so…
This Week in the PSC (11.16.16): Update on Retroactive Pay and Raises
The PSC continues to push CUNY to issue clear information about when members can expect to be paid at the new salary rates and when to expect their back pay. CUNY officials still say they expect to pay contractual salary increases and back pay in one check in January, but…
This Week in the PSC (11.08.16): Go Vote!
Hilary Clinton is the AFT-endorsed candidate for president, supported also by NYSUT and PSC. Click here for the NYSUT Voter Guide. Clinton and many of the NYSUT candidates are also endorsed by the Working Families Party. Polls are open from 6 AM – 9 PM. Click here to find your…
