Defending Public Education: Organizing for the Fall and Beyond
by Doug Singsen
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 from where we need to be in […]
Horace Webster and the Mission of CUNY
by Doug Singsen
In discussions of CUNY, the school’s mission is often cited as being to serve “the children of the whole people.” These words were spoken by Horace Webster (1794 – 1871), the first director of the Free Academy, CUNY’s predecessor, at the academy’s opening ceremony in 1849. This phrase is used to demonstrate that CUNY’s mission since its […]
Martin Bresnick’s Presentation
by Naomi Perley
On the last day of the festival, Martin Bresnick presented on his own music, in the manner of the other principal composers. Some composers are quite shy to talk about their work, for obvious reasons: they don’t want to reveal their “tricks”, or they don’t want to share a private or personal inspiration behind a piece, and so on. Bresnick, […]
My 5 picks
by Naomi Perley
The second week of Music10 flew by. Sorry not to have posted as things were happening, but rest assured, now that it’s over, I will keep trying to digest everything I experienced in blog format over the next few days. Most of my time last week was consumed by rehearsing for, performing in, and listening to the three […]
PHEEIA: A Near Miss, But For How Long?
by Doug Singsen
If you’ve been following the torturous progression of this year’s state budget through the legislature, you probably already know about PHEEIA, the Orwellian-named Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act. (You can find the Advocate’s previous coverage of PHEEIA here and here.) In reality, the only “empowerment” PHEEIA offers is the power of CUNY and […]
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 […]
The Ph.D. Glut, the Adjunct Crisis and the Budget Deficit
by Doug Singsen
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 deficit. We’ve all heard the horror stories about how […]
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.
Intelligent Action: an Interview With Adolph Reed
by Douglas Medina
GC Advocate readers, particularly those steeped in cultural studies, literary theory, political science, and sociology literature are probably very familiar with “star” academics like Cornell West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and William Julius Wilson, all hailing from our most venerable of higher education institutions that purportedly form the core foundations of the Ivory Tower in […]
Comings Together/Comings Apart
by Sara Jane Stoner
Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present, at the Museum of Modern Art We’re just past the halfway point of the run of Marina Abramović’s retrospective at MOMA, “The Artist is Present,” and chances are good you’ve already seen it, or maybe seen one of the blogs that has materialized in response. Abramović, born in Yugoslavia in […]
