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  • Partnerships Expand Education for Worker Cooperatives!

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     The semester has taken off with some strong partnership with the Community and Worker Ownership Project. In early September we presented at the US Federation of Worker Coops at an in-person conference in Philadelphia where we partnered with many to explore the ways and reasons to pursue unionized cooperatives. Speakers included Richard Wolff from Democracy…

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  • California DREAMer: Pedro Freire Heads West with an M.A. from SLU (and a lot of ideas!)

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    For Pedro Freire (Class of 2022, MALS) the journey has been long from South America to Connecticut to CUNY to California—and often arduous. But now he can see how all his experiences, good and bad, have brought him here, to the University of California Riverside Ph.D. program in ethnic studies. “I came to the US…

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  • Changing Workers’ Lives through Education

    (This article originally appeared on Queens College website https://www.qc.cuny.edu/communications/changing-workers-lives-through-education/) Changing Workers’ Lives through Education Gregory Mantsios’s appointment in January 2018 as founding dean of the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU), following his 34 years of service to CUNY that began at Queens College, signifies the better part of a lifetime dedicated to…

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  • 2022 Commencement

    VALEDICTORIAN INDEEVARI KUMARASINGHE Indeevari Kumarasinghe, B.A. Urban & Community Studies, is a Principal Administrative Associate II at New York City HRA, Office of Quality Assurance & Fiscal Integrity. During her 12 year career with the City of New York, she has also served as an Eligibility Specialist at Medical Insurance and Community Service Administration. She…

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