Hey guys. So I know we’ve been super occupied (haha, pun intended) with other things recently, but there’s going to be this workshop on how to successfully navigate NYSHIP (your health insurance if you’re a doctoral student at the GC) next Thursday 12/8 @ 2pm. I know this sounds boring, but we’re trying to make it useful and exciting–kind of like a “skill share”! It will be a place for people to share the names of providers who have been good for them and who take our insurance, things to ask/say when you make/go to an appointment, situations that you have been able to actually get taken care of with NYSHIP (like, financial things that have been resolved), but also the particular areas that still need improvement. No administrators will be there giving boring presentations; instead students who have a lot of experience with using the insurance will share their . . . → Read More: NYSHIP Navigation Workshop
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#occupyCUNY/Graduate Center General Assembly invites you to… Faculty Speak-out: Supporting the N17 Student Strike!!! Wednesday, November 16th 6:30 PM @ Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center Scheduled speakers: Anne McClintock (UW-Madison Professor of English and Gender Studies) Neil Smith (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, Graduate Center) Stanley Aronowitz (Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education, Graduate Center) Susan Buck-Morss (Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate Center) Ira Shor (Professor of English, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center) Katie Cumiskey (Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Staten Island) Ashley Dawson (Associate Professor of English, Graduate Center, College of Staten Island) Ammiel Alcalay (Professor of English, Graduate Center and Queens College) Anthony Alessandrini (Associate Professor of English, Kingsborough Community College) Jackie DiSalvo (Associate Professor of English, Baruch and the Graduate Center) Patricia Clough (Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Queens College and the Graduate Center) Check this out for the list . . . → Read More: ALL OUT: Wed N16 Faculty Speak-out in Support of OWS/Student Strike + Thurs N17 City-wide Student Strike!!! #occupyCUNY Radical Teach-In! Where: Washington Square Park When: Friday, October 21st, 6-9pm, or however late people want to stay! What: Teach and learn about the intersections between Occupy Wall Street and the labor and education conditions of CUNY faculty, staff, and students. Strategize next steps and actions going forward!!! Wednesday, October 5th!!! National Student Walk-out against tuition hikes & budget cuts, and in solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284445828240409 + COMMUNITY/LABOR MARCH TO WALL STREET!!! at 4:30pm at Foley Square, Duane St and Centre St (outside 26 Federal Plaza) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282473051782707 If you’re at Hunter College that day, a speak-out will occur at 1pm outside the Hunter West bldg at 68th and Lexington then… Grad Center folks will meet in the lobby at 3:45pm for a caravan to leave at 4pm sharp (another group will also leave at 4:15pm if ou can’t make the first caravan) for a mass student/labor/community rally at *Foley Square* that will march to Liberty Plaza, the site of Occupy Wall Street. More info about the rally: Union workers and community members impacted by the economic crisis have been demanding that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorker’s pay their fair share of taxes. Let’s march down . . . → Read More: Walk-out and Community/Labor March to Wall Street! WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5TH! Hi, everyone, This is a lil’ reminder about the Adjunct Project’s next working mtg: Friday, September 23, 2-4pm Graduate Center room 5414 Free food and drinks, so bring a friend or five. The weather’s changing, so get a rad scarf too. $5 each, or $10 solidarity rate. Here are some proposed topics to discuss: *report-backs about the PSC trainings last week *Plan our involvement in the Sept. 26 CUNY BoT protest *discuss our involvement in the Oct. 7 Defending Public Higher Ed Conference at the GC *Fall’11/Spring’12 workshop schedule proposal based on your survey responses *Create AP working groups (health care, contract campaign/GC chapter, workshops, media/publicity, etc.) that can hold “break-out” activity sessions for part of each AP mtg, then report back to the group *Establish a semi-regular GC/CUNY outreach tabling schedule *AP website and office need love! Solicit volunteers to help out… *What else do YOU think . . . → Read More: **next Adjunct Project working mtg this Friday** We welcome YOU to our first meeting of Fall 2011 on Tuesday, September 6th, at 4pm in CUNY Graduate Center room 5409; i.e. JOIN US!! ad·junct [aj-uhngkt] noun 1. person associated with lesser value, wages, importance; i.e. second-class. 2. person working at a college or university without full or permanent job status or protection; i.e. precarious. 3. majority of educators at the City University of New York who teach the majority of its courses; i.e. exploited. Ad·junct Proj·ect [aj-uhngkt proj-ekt] noun 1. organization of CUNY teachers and students who collaborate to transform our university through workshops, reading circles, conferences, PSC-CUNY union involvement, and creatively robust forms of social justice; i.e. activated. 2. committed to anti-racism, anti-sexism, immigrants’ rights, LGBTQI equality, diverse abilities; i.e. principled. Hi all! Please join us for the last Adjunct Project general meeting of Spring 2011. We will have food and drinks, and we will have merriment. Bring fellow students, fellow teachers, fellow buddies in the struggle for a free(r) CUNY! *Details: AP mtg & social Tuesday, May 17th, 6pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave, room 5414* We’ve had a truly exciting and active semester, of which we’ll both dramatically recount the best bits and soberly assess the group’s work overall. Here are some proposed ideas to discuss moving forward, including (but not limited to): 1. short-/mid-/long-term AP goals and plans 2. creating a contract campaign that we *contingent workers* demand and deserve 3. working step by step to bring underrepresented CUNY folks into our activism, and having our members’ collaboration/conduct reflect that goal 4. continuing/improving the workshop series 5. coordinating tablings & materials for next semester to keep the . . . → Read More: LAST AP MEETING OF THE YEAR = PARTYTIME! A NYSHIP informational program will be presented on Wednesday, April 27th from 3-5pm in the Proshanky Auditorium. The program will highlight changes to the plan in 2011, address the most pertinent issues raised in the recently conducted DSC student health insurance surveys, and take audience questions. The panel will consist of staff from the University Benefits Office (CUNY management), representatives from the DSC and Adjunct Project, and Scott Voorhees from the Student Affairs Office. I am on the panel along with Kim Libman from the DSC, and we will have a set of formal questions that we will take into the forum to ask the administrators from 80th Street. Please email the Adjunct Project (theadjunctproject@gmail.com) if you have specific issues you would like to see us address. If you’ve ever had a question about your NYSHIP health insurance, this is the time to get some answers!!! It’s also a good . . . → Read More: The NYSHIP Forum is finally happening! Join us on Wednesday, March 23, for a direct action with the PSC in Albany! Buses will leave at 8am on Wed from 5 different locations: * Bronx Community College, 2155 University Ave., Bronx, NY 10453 * Hunter College, 695 Park Ave. (68th St. & Park Ave.), New York , NY 10021 * Queens College, 150th St. and Melbourne Ave., Flushing, NY 11367 * PSC, 61 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 * NYC College of Technology, 300 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 timeline: 11:30am in Albany: Lunch and preparing for the day’s events. 1:00pm Walk to the Capitol 1:30pm Rally inside the Capitol 3:30pm Those returning to NYC at the end of the day, return to their busses, arrive in the city between 6:30 and 7:00pm The PSC asks that everyone participating in the direct action should attend a training session at one of these two times: Sunday, March . . . → Read More: Direct Action in Albany on March 23!!! |
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