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Open Letter to Chancellor Goldstein Regarding the Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act

by Advocate Staff

Chan­cel­lor Gold­stein, Although it comes as no sur­prise to those of us who are famil­iar with the machi­na­tions of the CUNY hier­ar­chy, your recent and very pub­lic sup­port for Gov­er­nor David Paterson’s pro­posed and cyn­i­cally titled Higher Edu­ca­tion Empow­er­ment and Inno­va­tion Act, does not serve the needs or ease the bur­dens of the stu­dents and […]

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Breaking News: Professional Staff Congress Rallies Members in Opposition to Paterson’s Higher Education Bill

by Advocate Staff

The Pro­fes­sional Staff Con­gress of the City Uni­ver­sity of New York is vig­or­ously cam­paign­ing against Gov­er­nor Paterson’s pro­posed Higher Edu­ca­tion Inno­va­tion and Empow­er­ment Act, which the Gov­er­nor has threat­ened to include as a rider in his upcom­ing bud­get pro­posal. The pro­posed leg­is­la­tion would allow the SUNY and CUNY uni­ver­sity sys­tems to annu­ally raise tuition as much […]

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Breaking News: Victory for UPR Student Strikers

by Advocate Staff

After more than forty gru­el­ing days of strikes and cam­pus occu­pa­tions, stu­dents at the Uni­ver­sity of Puerto Rico have finally reached a ten­ta­tive set­tle­ment with the Uni­ver­sity that meets all of their core demands.
On April 21, stu­dents took over all eleven cam­puses of the Uni­ver­sity of Puerto Rico sys­tem, effec­tively shut­ting down the uni­ver­sity for the past two months. The strikes and occu­pa­tions were called by stu­dents in protest against a series of pro­posed mea­sures by the Uni­ver­sity that would have raised tuition by fifty per­cent, mas­sively cut merit based schol­ar­ships, and fur­ther pri­va­tized the university.

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CUNY News In Brief (May, 2010)

by Advocate Staff

While we applaud John Jay’s com­mit­ment to end­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion, we are less impressed by its com­mit­ment to edu­ca­tion. A few weeks ago, adjunct fac­ulty mem­bers in the depart­ments of soci­ol­ogy and com­puter sci­ence were put on notice that let­ters of reap­point­ment would not be forth­com­ing from the col­lege for fall 2010 for any adjunct fac­ulty, and that indeed all adjuncts would be receiv­ing let­ters of non-reappointment, a crass vio­la­tion of the spirit ani­mat­ing CUNY’s con­tract with the PSC.

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A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES

by Advocate Staff

A Bill In Sup­port of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES Authored By: Emiliano Huet-Vaughn and Tom Pes­sah Spon­sored By: Sen­a­tors Gau­rano , Carl­ton, Kwon, Oat­field WHEREAS, the ASUC notes the com­plex­ity of inter­na­tional rela­tions in all cases, includ­ing the Mid­dle East, and rec­og­nizes the inabil­ity of a body such as the ASUC to adju­di­cate mat­ters of inter­na­tional law […]

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Breaking News: Court Says No to Furloughs for CUNY

by Advocate Staff

The many thou­sands of CUNY fac­ulty and staff who were recently threat­ened with a 20% decrease to their weekly salary, can rest easy, at least for now. Thanks to the efforts of sev­eral local unions, includ­ing the Pro­fes­sional Staff Con­gress of CUNY and the Civil Ser­vice Employ­ees Asso­ci­a­tion, the one day fur­loughs, pro­posed by Gov­er­nor David […]

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Seeking Revenue, Graduate Center Legalizes Marijuana (Satire)

by Advocate Staff

It’s the first thing CUNY admin­is­tra­tors think about in the morn­ing and the last thing they rec­ol­lect as they shut their eyes at night. It’s the metaphor­i­cal sugar in their cof­fee, the salt in their soup, the ganja in their splif. It’s called money, and there’s about to be a lot less of it next year. But […]

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CUNY News in Brief (March, 2010)

by Advocate Staff

On March 4, 2010, hun­dreds of thou­sands of teach­ers, stu­dents, and their sup­port­ers gath­ered across the coun­try in protest as part of a national day of action against cuts in edu­ca­tion. From New York to Cal­i­for­nia, demon­stra­tions in some forty states high­lighted the cur­rent cri­sis in Amer­i­can pub­lic edu­ca­tion made worse by recent waves of gov­ern­men­tal budget […]

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GC Creates New Department of Herstory (Satire)

by Advocate Staff

Her com­mit­tee said it couldn’t be done. There was no way his­tory grad­u­ate stu­dent Kram Ebei­hcs would be able to write her pro­posed the­sis, “The Penis Dia­logue: Per­sonal Reflec­tions on Phal­lic Imagery in Eve Ensler’s Vagina Mono­logues,” within the Grad­u­ate Center’s con­ser­v­a­tive His­tory Depart­ment, which is bet­ter known for its bio­graph­i­cal work on reac­tionary idols like […]

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CUNY News-In-Brief (February, 2010)

by Advocate Staff

Pater­son to CUNY: “Take a Hike…A Tuition Hike!”

The money used to fat­ten Mathew Goldstein’s wal­let isn’t going to grow on trees, peo­ple, so get ready to pony up some cash! As if David Pater­son hasn’t already caused the stu­dents at CUNY and SUNY enough grief with his statewide cuts to higher edu­ca­tion, Gov­er­nor Jus­tice is now look­ing to help the strug­gling uni­ver­sity sys­tems recoup some of those losses by propos­ing leg­is­la­tion that would allow the Boards of Trustees at SUNY and CUNY to increase and/or adjust tuition rates at will. Paterson’s new bill (euphemisti­cally titled the Higher Edu­ca­tion Empow­er­ment and Inno­va­tion Act) would nei­ther empower stu­dents nor pro­vide for any greater innovation

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