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...
Not one to shy away from controversy, the outspoken and acerbic political cartoonist Ted Rall (best known for his take down of 9/11 widows and football-playing war heroes) has recently published a new book, Anti-American Manifesto with Seven Stories Press, in which he urges the reader to...
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...
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...
