Tag Archives: cuny
SLU Newsflash: All SLU Public Events Currently On Hold
Due to public safety measures related to the Coronavirus, all in-person events at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU) have been suspended through at least April 19, 2020.
Planning is underway to hold some upcoming programs - including Organizing 2.0 - as live-streamed web conferences, with all speakers and attendees participating … Continue Reading ››
Building Power before Janus – And After: Lessons from CUNY
This article was originally featured at Labor Notes. Want to learn more about public sector unionism? Join us for a one day conference on November 17th, "Janus and Beyond: The Future of Public Sector Unions." By Luke Elliott-Negri As recently as 2014, just 22 percent of my co-workers were members of our … Continue Reading ››
A Warm Welcome to the Fall 2017 Union Semester Class!
Michael Devan
Michael is a recent graduate of Queens College, where he double-majored in Political Science and Philosophy. As an undergraduate, Michael organized with student-led groups such as the Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives and the Students’ Empowerment Party, which sought to build concrete institutions for the implementation … Continue Reading ›› 
Excelsior: Free Tuition for Whom?
By Steve Brier
If you’ve at all been confused about or even impressed by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s widely touted Excelsior Scholarship program that was just voted into law by the New York State legislature, a good place to start to deal with your questions and concerns is Lauren Gurley’s article in the … Continue Reading ››
Murphy Prof. Steve Brier in NYTimes Editorial on CUNY
What's the future of CUNY? To understand what might come, it helps to look at what's passed. How did CUNY become what it is today? What's at stake in preserving an autonomous CUNY? An editorial by the Editorial Board of the New York Times today starts to tell the story, and does so by citing Murphy Consortial … Continue Reading ››
