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Upcoming PSC chapter meetings on the contract campaign in Spring 2011

March 19, 2011 / adjunctproject / 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 / Alyson S. / 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.

AND CHECK OUT THIS AWESOME FLYER!!!

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

LAST AP MEETING OF SEMESTER!!!

December 2, 2010 / Calvin S. / 0 Comments

Please join us tomorrow for the last AP meeting of the semester!

WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 2nd at 6:30 pm
WHERE: Room 5414 (GC)

•Find out about the PSC’s proposed bargaining agenda and how we can mobilize for the upcoming contract campaign
•Share ideas about increasing AP membership and involvement
•Learn about changes in the Adjunct Project
•Hear about an upcoming NYSHIP forum

We will also discuss the situation at Baruch (adjunct layoffs and jumbo class creation), organizing against that, and also around the budget cuts and recently-approved tuition hike.

Come to celebrate all your hard work this semester (there will be pizza, snacks, and beverages)!

Thanks–hope to see you there!

Welcome to the Adjunct Project!

September 12, 2010 / adjunctproject / 1 Comment

Welcome to the new CUNY Adjunct Project website! Here you’ll find information about teaching at CUNY, including (but not limited to) being a first-time adjunct; how to navigate your health insurance plan; what your rights and responsibilities are; what our contract looks like; and other issues affecting graduate student workers and adjuncts.

If you are teaching at CUNY, you should be a member of the Adjunct Project! On a broad scale, we work to empower you in the classroom. We try to

raise consciousness about academic labor issues inside and outside CUNY,
educate GC adjuncts about ways to address these issues,
and activate GC student-workers to improve their collective position as workers at CUNY.

Furthermore, the Adjunct Project seeks to organize its resources for graduate students around two areas: 1) labor issues and concerns, and 2) teaching resources and pedagogy. Both of these elements are key dimensions of empowerment in the workplace for graduate student workers.

Teaching is an honor, and adjuncts work tirelessly for their students. Yet academia can be an unfriendly– or downright exploitative- place for adjuncts. We believe that by working together to improve our collective position as “contingent workers”, we promote a culture that replaces the academic culture of competitive individualism with equity and fair working conditions.

In solidarity,

Alison Powell

Co-coordinator, Organization and Planning

P.S. Don’t forget to sign up for important updates about contract negotiations, upcoming meetings, labor actions / protests, and the like!