Will Democrats Go Along With Social Security Cuts?
by Geoff Johnson
If President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform proposes cuts to Social Security, will the Democrats go along with it?
Stephen Colbert University?
by Lavelle Porter
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? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do […]
CGEU Endorses October 7th
by Doug Singsen
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 officials, members and staffers of graduate employee unions from the US […]
Academic Novel: Stoner by John Williams
by Lavelle Porter
“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 this in her introduction to another of Williams’s fine novels, Butcher’s Crossing. Both […]
Wait-Listed at CUNY, Part I: Open Admissions Dies Again
by Doug Singsen
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 weakened by policy changes in 1976 and 1999. Open admissions was created as a result of the historic […]
Wait-Listed at CUNY, Part II: The Road to Privatization
by Doug Singsen
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 administration’s official publication, CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein practically crowed that […]
A Modest Proposal
by Michael Busch
Despite all the recent hullabaloo, the world didn’t need Wikileaks to learn that the warisn’t going well in Afghanistan . The 90,000-plus pages of leaked documents — which track the progress of US military operations in Central Asia between 2004-2009 — offer mountains of evidence confirming what has been all too clear for some time: namely, that Pakistan is a duplicitous […]
My Thoughts on Af-Pak, Such As They Are
by Michael Busch
A student at City College asked me the other day what I thought about Af-Pak and all I could think of was this. Maybe President Obama just needs some better marketing for his war in Central Asia. Share on FacebookPrint Friendly
2010 Coalition of Graduate Employees Conference at SUNY Stony Brook
by Doug Singsen
This doesn’t seem to have gotten much publicity, but the Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions (CGEU) is sponsoring a three-day conference at SUNY Stony Brook this weekend. CGEU is a national coalition of around 25 grad student unions. Stony Brook is an hour and forty-five minutes from NYC by train (schedules here) but the program for the […]
10 More Academic Films
by Lavelle Porter
10 More Academic Films In a previous GC Advocate article I presented my list of Top 10 academic films. I received some insightful feedback from various people who read the list. (And I heard from a couple of friends who chastised me for including John Singleton’s Higher Learning.) To recap: I am interested in the academic film as an extension of the “academic novel.” Several of […]
