“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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
