Murphy News
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EVENT: Reworking Labor: The Case of Uber and the Gig Economy (4/6)
A Student-Organized Forum RSVP Here This forum will examine the transformation of work at Uber, a leader in the burgeoning “gig economy.” Advocates of this new model argue that the “gig economy” offers flexibility and allows for much greater worker autonomy. And, in the case of Uber, they contend that the company has provided…
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Gov. Cuomo Announces State Will Fully Fund CUNY Next Year
In a reversal from his recent vow to defund the CUNY system by shifting $485 million in costs onto New York City, Gov. Cuomo’s office announced yesterday that New York State would pay the full $1.6 billion CUNY budget next year, after all. This funding is contingent on the hiring of a management efficiency expert, who will…
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Put to the Test: CUNY Faculty Considers Strike Vote As Cuomo Toys With University’s Future
This article was originally featured at the Indypendent. By Peter Rugh Hundreds of people swamped 42nd Street one day last November, forcing police to shut down a section of the busy thoroughfare. These weren’t tourists or Broadway ticketholders gone mad, but professors from the City University of New York (CUNY) and their supporters, 53 of…
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New York Academy of History Awards Prize to Dr. Michael Fortner
The New York Academy of History has chosen Murphy Professor Michael Fortner’s book, Black Silent Majority, the Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, to receive the 2016 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History. Dr. Fortner is an Assistant Professor at the Murphy Institute and the Academic Director for…
