Who’s Really Teaching at CUNY?
by Advocate Staff
Most of the classes at City University now taught by underpaid and overworked adjuncts
In a concerted effort to raise awareness about the situation of part time, adjunct, and contingent faculty labor at the City University of New York, adjunct lecturers and graduate students at all of the university’s 17 college campuses are taking their struggle into […]
CUNY Adjuncts Celebrate Campus Equity Week
by Advocate Staff
An Oct. 30 rally at which adjuncts and other part-time faculty demanded equity and fair treatment as part of National Campus Equity Week.
In a concerted effort to raise awareness about the situation of part time, adjunct, and contingent faculty labor at the City University of New York, adjunct lecturers and graduate students at the university’s 17 […]
Graduate Center to Change Student Email Host
by Advocate Staff
Switch to Windows Live Will Give Students ‘Hotmail’-like Accounts
The Graduate Center is seeking to switch the hosting of its student email from an on-site system to one hosted by Microsoft, known as Windows Live. According to Assistant Vice President of Information Technology Bob Campbell, “CUNY recently signed a contract with Microsoft,” for this service, “that includes […]
DSC Opposes ‘Unfortunate’ Email Move
by Advocate Staff
From the DSC: “The Doctoral Students’ Council strongly objects to the imminent outsourcing of all student email to Microsoft’s Windows Live service (a.k.a. Hotmail). We are particularly concerned by the failure of CUNY Central Office to seek student input prior to this decision to move student email to an off-campus Microsoft controlled system. Because Windows […]
Health Services Still Without a Nurse
by Advocate Staff
VP Offers ‘Stop-Gap’ Measures
In the absence of a new nurse practitioner for the student Health Services Center, the Office of Student affairs has announced that they will soon be implementing “stop-gap” measures to guarantee that uninsured or underinsured students at the Graduate Center will have access to the kinds of primary health care services that were […]
Fighting for a Better University
by Advocate Staff
“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.” – John Dewey
From the Editor’s Desk
It is not often that one gets to say this about CUNY, but recent events have been inspiring. The Adjunct Project’s actions during Campus Equity Week last month, combined with the PSC rally at […]
Letters
by Advocate Staff
Letters
Embracing Chavez
To the Editor:
In their article “Should the U.S. Left Embrace Chavez?” [October 2007], Martin Burke and Elham Seyedsayamdost raise some important issues concerning the direction of Venezuelan politics under the leadership of Hugo Chavez. Nevertheless, their analysis rests on a number of debatable assumptions and misinterpretations that deserve further discussion.
Martin and Elham frame their critique […]
Navigating the Bronx
by EThomas
Grad Life
It’s nine on a sunny morning, I’m sitting down to breakfast, and the whole room starts to tilt. The sound of automatic weapons fire cracks nearby, and I instinctively reach for my coffee cup, my bowl of cereal, and do a quick scan of the room to make sure nothing is about to topple over. I’m not […]
Notes from Beyond: Teaching Outside the CUNYverse
by AEfthymiou
Dispatches from the Front
It is likely that each of us, at one time or another, has engaged in a scathing rant regarding the exploits that the CUNY system inflicts upon those that are so crucial to its existence: namely, its students and adjuncts. Whether or not this implies that you secretly believe those private school kids down […]
What Do We Want?! When Do We Want It?!
by Carl Lindskoog
A Response to Barbara Bowen on the New PSC Strategy
Adjuncting
On the evening of Oct. 30 I joined approximately one thousand fellow union members at Cooper Union for a mass meeting of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC). The centerpiece of the event was a speech in which PSC President Barbara Bowen delivered the union’s new contract strategy (for the […]
