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LAST AP MEETING OF THE YEAR = PARTYTIME!

May 16, 2011 / / 0 Comments

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 AP
visible and the GC lobby rowdy
6. putting together a super stellar summer strike study circle
7. other specific projects? (rumblings around the GC are calling for a fall
’11 campaign to oust Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, for example…)

Please holler back before Tuesday to theadjunctproj…@gmail.com, or post on
ap-disc@googlegroups.com, about any other topics you’d like us all to
discuss, or you can just pitch them in at the beginning of the mtg. All
people and ideas are welcome!

AS USUAL, PIZZA, SNACKS, AND LOTS OF BEVERAGES WILL BE SERVED!!!

The NYSHIP Forum is finally happening!

April 17, 2011 / / 2 Comments

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 time to raise concerns (i.e. Why did I get that huge bill for my labwork? Why wasn’t that procedure covered? Why don’t any providers ever know who to bill when they see my insurance card?) in a public setting.

HERE IS A FLYER FOR THE EVENT!

Alyson

Direct Action in Albany on March 23!!!

March 20, 2011 / / 2 Comments

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 20th at 5pm and Monday, March 21st at 7pm. Both trainings will take place in the PSC office (61 Broadway, between Rector and Exchange, 15th floor), and there will be dinner for attendees.

A contingent of GC people will be leaving with the bus from the PSC offices — so please join us! If you plan on participating, contact Rob Murray at the PSC (rmurray[at]pscmail.org) to let him know you’ll be going, which bus you’ll be on, which training session you plan to attend, and if you will be risking arrest or participating in a supporting role.

Please see Barbara Bowen’s letter to all PSC members with more details about the purpose and scope of the action below.

If you have more questions, please contact Carl Lindskoog at cskoog79[at]yahoo.com or 646-413-1347.

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March 15, 2011

Dear Members,
At a special meeting on Friday night, the PSC executive council voted to take direct action against the proposed State budget, which imposes fierce economic austerity on CUNY and other public services while protecting the wealthiest New Yorkers and the corporations from paying their fair share.
On Wednesday, March 23, the PSC will lead a peaceful, non-violent protest in Albany , during which some of us are prepared to risk arrest to stop an austerity budget from passing.  I am writing to ask you to join us.  All who want to participate in peaceful protest are welcome.  There will be important support roles for those who choose not to risk arrest.  Contact Rob Murray, Organizing Director, at rmurray@pscmail.org or (212) 354-1252 to sign up.
This is a defining moment in national and New York economic policy; everyone who cares about economic justice should try to be there.
Throughout the spring, the PSC has vigorously advocated for a fair budget.  Last week we exceeded our goal of ten percent of PSC members sending messages to Albany .  And those messages have made a difference, most visibly in the State Assembly’s budget.  During the past two months PSC members have testified, lobbied, and rallied; today we marched through the legislative building in Albany with hundreds of chanting students, faculty and staff from both CUNY and SUNY.  All of these activities have been essential, and have made it possible for us to take an even more forceful stand now.
We are taking a stand because of what’s at stake. The governor’s budget slashes funds for schools, colleges, CUNY, healthcare and many other public services, yet includes a tax break for the highest earners. The State Assembly’s budget restores some funds to CUNY, but leaves in place a ten percent cut to the CUNY senior colleges, while only partially revoking the tax break for the top earners.
Without a fundamental shift in direction, the budget passed in Albany will force economic austerity on working people in order to concentrate even more wealth among the rich. Income inequality has not been this extreme in the U.S. since the eve of the Great Depression, and the state with the greatest inequality is New York.  Economic austerity for ordinary New Yorkers will not lead to economic recovery; it will lead only to increased poverty, blocked opportunity, and a greater concentration of wealth and power.
That’s why we are taking a stand on March 23 in Albany —and inviting all New Yorkers who care about economic justice to join us.  The PSC will provide transportation and training.  Please sign up to come, and invite your colleagues and students.  As always, you must provide for coverage of your own work responsibilities at CUNY.  Once you have signed up, we’ll send you more information about the event and the plans for the day.  Several community groups and SUNY colleagues have already signed on to join us; I hope you can be there too.  Click here to sign up.
Risking arrest is a serious action, and we do not take it lightly.  But this is a moment at which we cannot stand by.  In the last few months, we have seen how peaceful collective action can change the course of history.  As we approach the April 4th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, we might invoke his analysis of the union campaign he was supporting that day in Memphis: “a moral struggle for economic justice.”  That’s the struggle we plan to bring to Albany on Wednesday, March 23; I hope you can be with us.
In solidarity,
Barbara Bowen
President

Upcoming PSC chapter meetings on the contract campaign in Spring 2011

March 19, 2011 / / 0 Comments

The following lists the dates for upcoming chapter meetings scheduled by the PSC to specifically focus on the union’s contract campaign. Please plan to attend the meeting on your local campus — and bring your friends and colleagues — to make sure adjunct demands are heard in your chapter!!!

The upcoming AP workshop “I’m Stickin’ to the Union: The Nuts and Bolts of the PSC and the Contract Campaign” on Wednesday March 30th at 6.30pm in Room 5414 at the CUNY Graduate Center will be an opportunity to get information on the union’s contract demands, the PSC’s bargaining strategy, the AP’s contract campaign, and how adjunct issues fit into the fight against budget cuts, as well as mobilizing for the special DA meeting the next day!!!

(chapter meetings already passed: HEO chapter, City Tech, CLT, QCC, York, Lehman, BMCC)

BCC — March 24, 12-1.50pm, Meister Hall, room 228

Hostos — March 29

Queens College — March 30

Brooklyn College — March 31, 12.30-2pm, Alumni Lounge of the Student Center

SPECIAL DA MEETING — Thursday March 31, 6.30-8.30pm, PSC Headquarters, 61 Broadway

Retiree chapter — April 4, 1-3pm, PSC office

John Jay — April 5, 3.30pm

Hunter College — April 6

Hunter Campus Schools — April 7

City College — April 12, 12.15pm

Graduate Center — April 13, 12pm

Manhattan Educational — April 14

LaGuardia — April 26, 3.30-5pm, room E500

Medgar Evers — April 27, 11.30am, room 2008B in the 1650 Bedford Ave building

COSI — April 28

PSC RALLY — May 5

Academic Freedom and the New McCarthyism: AP WORKSHOP on Mon 3/14!!!

March 11, 2011 / / 0 Comments

The Adjunct Project’s new Workshop Series presents…

ACADEMIC FREEDOM and the NEW McCARTHYISM

Monday, March 14 @ 6:30pm

CUNY Graduate Center, Concourse Room 201 (basement level)

365 Fifth Avenue
B/D/F/M/N/Q/R to 34th St–Herald Square

Panel and discussion featuring:

Frances Fox Piven
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
Ashley Dawson
Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center, co-editor of Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus
Carol Smith
Retired faculty, The City College of New York, curator of the online exhibit “The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42”
Kristofer Petersen-Overton
Adjunct Lecturer of Political Science, Brooklyn College.

RSVP/share: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197803470243515

Our university is once again under attack. Two opponents of academic freedom, Glenn Beck and NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind, have recently targeted CUNY faculty members Frances Fox Piven and Kristofer Petersen-Overton, respectively, in the worst academic witch-hunts seen in years. Moreover, David Horowitz–author of the neo-McCarthyite work The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America and coordinator of the virulently anti-Muslim “Islamofascism Week” at U.S. colleges in 2007–has been welcomed to speak at Brooklyn College’s Library this Thursday at 6pm, where many people from around CUNY plan to protest his lecture.

Many education advocates have begun to ask what political strategies are needed to challenge the right-wing assaults on academic expression that Beck, Hikind, and Horowitz encourage, especially given the hidden origins of McCarthyism in the CUNY system itself. Indeed, intellectual silencing may further grow in the absence of a principled defense of freedom both in and outside the classroom.

Join us for this first gathering in our new Adjunct Project Workshop Series at the Graduate Center, which will bring together these speakers for a discussion on the struggle for academic freedom.

For more info on this event and the Adjunct Project’s new workshop series, contact conortomasreed@gmail.com.

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Save the date! The next workshop will be “‘I’m Stickin’ to the Union!’: Nuts and Bolts of the PSC and the Contract Campaign,” March 30th, 6:30pm, GC rm5414

*Brought to you by the Adjunct Project*
site: www.cunyadjunctproject.org
email: theadjunctproject@gmail.com
office: CUNY Graduate Center, room 5494

Kristofer Petersen-Overton Reappointed!! Celebration Rally at Brooklyn College this Thurs, 12pm

February 2, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Attention CUNY Community,
As of today, Kristofer Petersen-Overton has been unconditionally reappointed to teach his Middle East course for this Spring 2011 semester. Brooklyn College finally responded to the swiftly galvanized public pressure from CUNY folks, the community, and supporters (literally) worldwide who had heard about his case and spoke out. See BC President Karen Gould’s letter reprinted below.

We will hold a Celebration Rally at Brooklyn College this Thursday, on schedule at 12pm, and call on all supporters of university justice and academic freedom to join us. We all who fought this fight collectively won alongside Kristofer, we tremendously benefit from this victory, and so we all deserve to celebrate! See you there. (And take a look at the joyous new flyer!)

We Stopped the Attacks on Academic Freedom! Kristofer Petersen-Overton is back!

Just a week before the start of spring semester classes, Kristofer Petersen-Overton was fired from his position as an adjunct lecturer of political science at Brooklyn College. A scholar highly regarded by many distinguished faculty at CUNY, Petersen-Overton was scheduled to teach a Middle East Politics course. His firing by Provost William Tramontano came hours after college President Karen Lee Gould was contacted by a New York State assemblyman who complained about the instructor’s academic writings on Israel and the Palestinians. It is clear that Petersen-Overton’s dismissal was the product of political pressure.

The college’s actions were a clear violation of academic freedom, including the university’s own official policy. We demanded that Petersen-Overton be fully reinstated in his position, and that his course on Middle East Politics be allowed to proceed as originally designed. The university ultimately respected this academic freedom, and we urge it to do so with all its employees and students. This is especially crucial with contingent faculty like Petersen-Overton, who receive none of the protections of tenure despite the fact that they teach the majority of courses at the City University of New York.

Stopping attacks on academic freedom is crucial to the rights of all of us who work and study at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York! We made this happen!

CELEBRATION RALLY details:

When: Thursday, February 3, 12-2pm

Where: Brooklyn College

Outside Boylan Hall in the campus Quad, near Bedford Ave.

Trains: Q Local to the Avenue H station, at Avenue H & East 16th Street. Walk 4 blocks east to the Ocean Avenue entrance. #2 (7th Avenue Local) or #5 (Lexington Avenue Express) to the Flatbush Avenue/Nostrand Avenue station.

Featured speaker: Kristofer Petersen-Overton

Sponsored by: CUNY Adjunct Project, CUNY Contingents Unite, Doctoral Students’ Council, Brooklyn College Student Union, Brooklyn College Palestine Club, Al Awda-NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, New York City Labor Against the War, American Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC), Jews Say No!, too many more to now count!!!

For more info, or to co-sponsor, contact: Conor Tomás Reed at cocoreed@gmail.com, 979.204.9253

UPDATES: The GC Advocate is keeping a live blog on the case and they have compiled many of the letters that prominent intellectuals have sent to Brooklyn College on behalf of academic freedom (including, among others, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky, Rosalind Petchesky, Susan Buck-Morss, Marshall Berman, Katha Pollitt, Anne Norton, John Wallach, Moustafa Bayoumi, Greg Grandin, and President of the AAUP Cary Nelson). See the following links:

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What to do about late pay

January 31, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Good afternoon fellow adjuncts! With the spring 2011 semester upon us, it is sad but true that some of us might receive our first paycheck (Feb 10) late. As something that is the norm rather than the exception, many adjuncts and others do not receive their checks on time. Below is a short guideline that one should follow if they do not receive a check on time:

1. Make sure your department has submitted your paperwork to the Human Resources at the school you are teaching.

2. If paperwork has been submitted to H.R. follow-up with them to make sure all of your paperwork has been processed and submitted on time.

3. If your paper work has been submitted and processed through H.R. check with Payroll to make sure they received all the necessary paperwork.

If all three of these things are completed and you have still not received a pay check, you should contact your PSC chapter representative: http://psc-cuny.org/chapters

You can also contact the Adjunct Project: theadjunctproject@gmail.com

Good luck everyone with a new semester!

Brooklyn College rally this Thurs, 12-2pm, to defend Kristofer Petersen-Overton and Academic Freedom!

January 31, 2011 / / 3 Comments

Stop Attacks on Academic Freedom! Reinstate Kristofer Petersen-Overton!

Just a week before the start of spring semester classes, Kristofer Petersen-Overton was fired from his position as an adjunct lecturer of political science at Brooklyn College. A scholar highly regarded by many distinguished faculty at CUNY, Petersen-Overton was scheduled to teach a Middle East Politics course. His firing by Provost William Tramontano came hours after college President Karen Lee Gould was contacted by a New York State assemblyman who complained about the instructor’s academic writings on Israel and the Palestinians. It is clear that Petersen-Overton’s dismissal was the product of political pressure.

The college’s actions are a clear violation of academic freedom, including the university’s own official policy. We demand that Petersen-Overton be fully reinstated in his position, and that his course on Middle East Politics be allowed to proceed as originally designed. The university must respect the academic freedom of all its employees and students. This is especially crucial with contingent faculty like Petersen-Overton, who receive none of the protections of tenure despite the fact that they teach the majority of courses at the City University of New York.

Stopping attacks on academic freedom is crucial to the rights of all of us who work and study at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York!

RALLY details

When: Thursday, February 3, 12-2pm

Where: Brooklyn College
Outside Boylan Hall in the campus Quad, near Bedford Ave.
Trains: Q Local to the Avenue H station, at Avenue H & East 16th Street. Walk 4 blocks east to the Ocean Avenue entrance. #2 (7th Avenue Local) or #5 (Lexington Avenue Express) to the Flatbush Avenue/Nostrand Avenue station.

Featured speaker: Kristofer Petersen-Overton (list in formation)

Sponsored by: CUNY Adjunct Project, CUNY Contingents Unite, Doctoral Students’ Council, Brooklyn College Student Union, Brooklyn College Palestine Club (list in formation)

For more info, or to co-sponsor, contact: Conor Tomás Reed at cocoreed@gmail.com, 979.204.9253

UPDATES: The GC Advocate is keeping a live blog on the case and they have compiled many of the letters that prominent intellectuals have sent to Brooklyn College on behalf of academic freedom (including, among others, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky, Rosalind Petchesky, Susan Buck-Morss, Marshall Berman, Katha Pollitt, Anne Norton, John Wallach, Moustafa Bayoumi, Greg Grandin, and President of the AAUP Cary Nelson). See the following links:

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