Last night the Colbert Report took on the for-profit college industry, and Colbert had a conversation with Andrew Hacker, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College, CUNY. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus recently published the book Higher Education?...
At the Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions’ (CGEU) annual conference on August 8th, which I mentioned a few weeks ago, the CGEU voted to endorse and mobilize for the October 7th national day of action to defend public education. The conference was attended by 30-40 enthusiastic...
“The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy.” According to Michelle Latiolais, a former student of John Williams at the University of Denver where he taught for many years, this was a recurring bit of advice that Williams gave to his creative writing students. Latiolais wrote about...
Earlier this summer, it was announced that CUNY has introduced a waiting list for undergraduate applicants, yet another departure from CUNY’s mission of serving the “whole people” of New York and another blow to CUNY’s open admissions policy, already significantly...
In my last post, I discussed the creation of a waiting list for entrance to CUNY schools, a development that promises to decrease access to the university for poor students and students of color. But not everyone is unhappy with this development. As quoted in CUNY Matters, the...
