“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” — Rosa Parks “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats I am writing this editorial on...
Anyone who reads the GC Advocate is likely familiar with the plight of CUNY adjuncts. Like other universities and colleges across the country, CUNY adjuncts are paid a small fraction of the wages that their tenured and tenure-track colleagues receive for much of the same work; are...
Give me Taxes or Give m... “Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt Increasing taxes, even upon the extremely wealthy, is not (and has never been) a very popular position in postwar America. According to a 2009 Harris poll...
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last November, as many of you will no doubt remember, students and faculty at the University of California staged a series of protests and building takeovers in response to the UC...
