Rally to Stop NYC Budget Cuts to CUNY
Mayor de Blasio’s Executive Budget would cut City funding to CUNY by $67 million. His plan would eliminate funding needed to fill empty staff lines when students are in desperate need of more mental health counseling and academic advising. It would cut funding for remediation & child care, for tutoring and service corps, and for food insecurity programs. Click here to learn more about the proposed cuts and the union’s City Budget Campaign.
PSC members are mobilizing to join CUNY Rising Alliance groups this Thursday, June 24 at 2 PM at a demonstration at City Hall to oppose the Mayor’s cuts.
- Sign up here to let us know you will be at City Hall this Thursday at 2 PM.
- Send a letter demanding full funding of CUNY to your NYC Council member.
- Click here to send this tweet: Tell your @NYCCouncil member to reject @NYCMayor’s plan to cut @CUNY community colleges by $67 million! The time to rebuild a better, more equitable city is now. The People’s University must be fully funded to make it happen. #NewDeal4CUNY #NYC4CUNY #NoCutsToCUNY
NYC Council Oversight Hearing: Returning to CUNY Campuses in the Wake of COVID-19
The New York City Council Higher Education Committee is holding an online hearing on what it will take to ensure a safe reopening for CUNY today, Wed 6/23, starting at 10 AM. President James Davis and First Vice President Andrea Vásquez will testify on behalf of the PSC along with health and safety watchdog Jean Grassman and Delegate Assembly members Roxanne Shirazi (Grad Center) and Diane Price Banks (Bronx Communtiy College). CUNY will also testify. You can watch the online hearing here in virtual hearing room #2. The PSC will share the hearing link on social media and will post a link to the archived recording on the union website.
In the Latest Issue of Clarion
June 2021
This month’s Clarion features articles on the PSC’s Safe Reopening Campaign, its contract enforcement team and the grievance process, examinations on what it has been like to teach during COVID, profiles of the new principal officers, and more.
