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Civic Engagement and Leadership Development – Spring 2019
The Civic Engagement and Leadership Development program (CELD), CUNY’s popular civic leadership program is now open for registration, with Saturday morning sessions starting on February 2, 2019. The program is sponsored and hosted by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and its Murphy Institute, which has educated tens of thousands of New Yorkers about the challenges
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Dec. 19th, 2018
The New Labor Forum has a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. In this holiday season, if you’ve resisted online shopping through Amazon, you’re in the diminishing minority. More than half of all
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Spring 2019 MA Scholarship Application Now Open (Deadline: 12/18)
The Murphy Institute is offering a small number of tuition-only scholarships for Spring 2019 to both newly-admitted and continuing MA students in Urban Studies and Labor Studies. Students must re-apply each semester to be considered for a scholarship for the next term. (Scholarships and amounts may vary from semester to semester depending on the availability
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Video: The Next Generation: Young Workers Building Movements
On December 6th, members of SLU community gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by young adults in building the labor movement. Despite the recent weakness of the U.S. labor movement, young workers are invigorating unions and other working-class organizations throughout the country, showing the promise of a new broad-based progressive movement. Social media-driven
