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Murphy Institute Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to the Murphy Institute’s Spring 2015 Tuition Scholarship recipients! Together, the Labor Studies and Urban Studies MA programs awarded scholarships to 15 students. Get to know some of these students below. John Becker: “History has been a passion of mine since I was young. After 9/11, I felt compelled to read everything regarding the history of humanity. The…
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Immigration Counseling Services at Murphy
New York Central Labor Council (CLC) and Murphy Institute are partnering to provide free immigration consultations. For March and April, the service will be offered at the CLC every 1st and 3rd Wednesday and at the Murphy Institute every 2nd, 4th and 5th Wednesday. For more information, see flyer below.
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National Adjunct Walkout Day
By Steve Brier It is important for us to remember, as members of a university community, that this is also a workplace, a place where people labor in “traditional” jobs like building maintenance, skilled trades like engineering and carpentry, food service, and, of course, as intellectual workers who teach and do research. Most of the…
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New Report on Immigrant Financial Empowerment
On Wednesday, February 25th, the Northwest Queens Financial Education Network, including the Community Development Project, Chhaya CDC, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), and Queens Community House (QCH), held an event at the Murphy Institute to release a new report entitled Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers to Immigrant Financial Empowerment in Northwest Queens. Check it out!
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