Welcome to the Academic Freedom at CUNY blog. We’ve been covering the recent situation of political purging at Brooklyn College and any related news since Friday, January 28. Most recent updates will appear at the top with a EST stamp. Day...
Embattled CUNY students, already laboring under the stresses of a broken economy, are being forced to absorb another blow to their pocketbooks. On November 22, the CUNY Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition by 5 percent for the coming spring semester, and then another 2 percent for...
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...
The committee that organized the March 4th protests against budget cuts and tuition hikes has put together a planning and strategy meeting on Sunday, August 1 to kick off the fall organizing against cuts and hikes. March 4th was a success in New York and nationally, but we are still far...
I want to kick off the first post of this blog by talking about an issue that every graduate student is probably concerned about, the dearth of job openings for tenure-track faculty, and how it’s connected to CUNY’s widespread use of adjuncts and the state’s budget...
