Higher Education
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Faculty, Staff Arrests at PSC Protest
Yesterday’s PSC protest at the offices of CUNY central administration led to the arrest of several dozen CUNY faculty members. Hundreds of CUNY staff and faculty members participated in the protest, held on behalf of the approximately 25,000 faculty and professional staff members who have been working without a contract, and without raises, since 2010.…
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#CharlestonSyllabus Brings Context to Tragedy
How can institutions of higher education spread critical understanding of and context for significant current events? How can we use social media to become more conscious about race, about our history, and about how to be better activists, allies and participants in the civic sphere? #CharlestonSyllabus is the Twitter hashtag started by Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African and African-American studies at…
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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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Executive Director of PHENOM
PHENOM is a grassroots organization of public college and university students, staff, faculty, alumni, and parents fighting for an accessible, affordable, well-funded public higher education system that benefits every resident of Massachusetts. Our ultimate vision is of a public higher education system that is free to all. Through grassroots organizing, intensive coalition building, and targeted…
