STUDENTS ● Organizing for ASAP CUNY Rising is calling to expand a popular and successful CUNY program. larıon PAGE 9 CNEWSPAPER OF THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS / CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK DECEMBER 2018 Erik McGregor PSC TESTIFIES FUND OUR CONTRACT PSC members packed a CUNY Board of Trustees hearing in October to offer hours of personal testimony and urge the board to do its duty and request a budget that fully funds the next PSC-CUNY contract. Members unrolled a banner with more than 5,000 signatures of members demanding $7,000 per course for adjuncts, raises for all and full funding for the contract. PAGES 5-8

BARGAINING COMMUNITY CAMPUS POLITICS Contract talks Amazon is on Enrollment drop PSC pushes move ahead its way to CUNY at Kingsborough electoral wins In campaigning for a fair The CUNY administra- Student enrollment has Democrats won big in contract, the PSC pres- tion welcomes the retail declined at Kingsborough November at both the sures the administration giant’s Queens headquar- Community College. PSC state and national level, not to defer to an insuffi- ters, but PSC members members have pushed the with substantial cient state bargaining raise concerns about new administration to ad- contributions from pattern. PAGE 3 the plan. PAGE 4 dress the problem. PAGE 10 PSC members. PAGE 11

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even Jews can be anti-Semitic – views (“Silencing dissent,” letters, Clarion October/November 2018). She uses CUNY’s investigation of Why we defend the tenure system a PhD student’s email where they criticize Israel as an example and ● In the September 30, 2018, issue of ing out an exact count of adjunct a reflection of CUNY’s manipula- the Chronicle of Higher Education, scholars and convert their slave tion and complicity toward Israeli William Egginton of Johns Hopkins predicament into positions of more injustices. Just to put things in University published an essay en- fairly paid “regular” faculty. Short perspective, the student in question titled “The Left-Wing Case Against of this we will continue to see ex- responded to a CUNY Earth and Tenure.” Rather than the usual ar- pansion of hiring of non-scholar Environmental Sciences listserv gument against tenure of attacking faculty that will dictate and ensure advertising Fulbright grants to faculty who have tenure-track or ten- puny salaries continue forever, as a study in Israel with this comment: ured positions as lazy slugs living off matter and consequence of the sim- “This is some sick Zionist propa- the taxpayers or the hardworking do- ple principle of supply and demand. ganda.” Some Jewish students felt nors of private universities, Egginton Radoslav Dimitric threatened and believed his rheto- argues that tenure reinforces privi- College of Staten Island ric incited hate. They utilized Title lege. At the center of his case is the VI and IX to file a complaint and, claim that the tenure system is “par- in the end, CUNY investigated the ticularly vulnerable to unconscious Help for pensioners matter and sided with the student. bias,” especially against women, ● Ruth Wangerin’s letter in the last How is this showing complicity? people of color and young scholars issue of Clarion titled “Working for I also challenge Schulman’s accu- whose work does not “fit” the estab- members” commented that the PSC sations that Israel “murders large lished criteria of their discipline. interceded to achieve a victory in a numbers of unarmed civilians in There is no question that such single unemployment benefits dis- Gaza.” It has always been the Is- biases are at work in academia. It SandersDave pute. Terrific! raeli Defense Force’s policy to alert is also clear to anyone paying at- PSC members learned about the CUNY tenure process during an information How about holding the PSC account- civilians of forthcoming attacks by tention that white men who do “ac- session at Queens College. able to resolve the pension issues for dropping leaflets and going door to ceptable” mainstream research are the thousands of retired faculty and door to warn them of impending grossly overrepresented among the programs. Some CLIP and CUNY strikingly through the division into staff who have not received their cor- target areas. I know of no other tenure professoriate. However, Egg- Start instructors, like me, would like tenure-track faculty and a grossly un- rect pension benefit payments as per army that does such a thing. It is inton’s diagnosis is, in many ways, to earn a second masters or obtain a derpaid and undervalued adjunct ma- the 2016 contract settlement? not Israel’s fault that Hamas stra- worse than the disease. He advo- PhD. Others would simply like to take jority faculty. These extremes seem to Geraldine Burghart tegically and methodically chooses cates more “renewable contracts” a class or two for professional devel- have dictated our union’s approach to Bronx Community College heavily populated areas such as with “periodic and positive evalua- opment. But we are forced to pay full attending to the interests of the whole hospitals and schools to launch tions of teaching, research or both.” price or attend classes at a different faculty corpus, through adoption of Editor’s note: Over a two-year peri- their attacks. This past summer, Some positions would be evaluated school because of CUNY’s unwilling- the middle “salary first” way, which is od, CUNY payroll has failed to pro- Palestinians set masses of forest more on research, others more on ness to grant us tuition waivers. Even the crudest of all possible approaches. vide the NYC Teachers Retirement land on fire with balloons that deto- teaching. Put simply, Egginton’s so- adjuncts get tuition waivers, provided More sophisticated approaches System (TRS) with accurate retro- nated, some even landed on school lution would increase the precarity they teach a certain number of hours should be taken with catering to pay data to calculate increased grounds and playgrounds. of academic labor that has driven over several years. smaller subgroups of the faculty. Let monthly pension payments for There are thousands of Palestin- down salaries and increased work- CLIP and CUNY Start instruc- us start with the most discriminated significant numbers of recent retir- ians and Muslims living peacefully loads for both part-time and full- tors receive no tuition waivers, and most exploited faculty, namely ees. Those affected are retirees who in Israel being active members of time tenured and untenured faculty which prevents us from developing scholars who have high academic worked at CUNY during the years the economy and even government. in the United States. professionally and being promoted. degrees (doctorates), who not only covered by the 2010–17 PSC-CUNY Schulman admits in a 2013 interview, A real solution to the conscious I think the PSC should first focus do a full load of teaching, but are ac- contract and were owed back pay. “I avoided becoming a truly informed and unconscious biases of the tenure on getting all full-time employees tive in research and administration, TRS benefits are based on salary person about Israel/Palestine….” How process involves three big changes. tuition waivers for CUNY classes, while being paid less than graduate history, age, years of employment can one, especially an educator, make First, we need to win equity in pay and then, after that is taken care of, student salaries. This group of fac- and other factors. Before TRS can such outlandish claims while admit- and job security between full-time focus on waivers for their families. ulty has comparable, if not better calculate your monthly pension pay- ting they are uninformed? and part-time faculty. As part-time C. Anthony Prato scholarly records than the privileged ments, the CUNY Payroll Office must I have heard from so many Jew- work becomes more costly, universi- Queensborough Community College faculty do, except they have to live up provide that final “salary history” so ish students that college has become ties will be compelled to hire more to higher standards when it comes to that it includes any back pay owed a fearful and dreaded place where on full-time, tenure-track positions. Editor’s note: The push to include promotions (“higher” because given through the 4/20/17 salary increase, anti-Israel and Jewish sentiments Second, we need a commitment to af- CUNY Start and CLIP instructors in other equal conditions, they are es- if applicable. are spewed daily. When they try to firmative action in the hiring, tenure the contract language mandating tu- sentially unsupported in their re- To date, CUNY Payroll has not speak their truth, they are either and promotion process to make up for ition waivers is also a PSC demand search and other scholarly pursuits). provided usable and accurate barred from participating in pro- past racial and gender discrimina- in the current contract campaign. A typical example of this kind of “salary history” data to TRS. PSC Palestinian meetings, denied entry, tion. Finally, we need clear criteria, The union’s demands, including this faculty member is paid about $22,000, leadership has pushed CUNY man- quickly shut down and silenced or formal evaluations and guidance one, were ratified during a Delegate instead of what should be at least agement, but has not been informed labeled as racists. So I applaud CU- throughout the process, enforced Assembly in the Fall of 2017. $82,000 per year; such a scholar who that a data file acceptable to TRS NY, and I am proud to be a CUNY through a union contract. All of these has been a grossly underpaid and un- has been submitted. faculty member, where the First proposals will require a thorough dervalued faculty for 10 years is thus Amendment still stands tall in the unionization of university faculty. Underpaid, undervalued swindled out of a staggering $600,000 face of truth and justice for all. Charles Post ● CUNY faculty is a heterogeneous plus about $200,000 in pension and Response to Schulman Ita Yankovich Borough of Manhattan society that consists of overlapping other benefits. There is no group of ● As an educator, Jew, Israeli and Kingsborough Community College Community College parts that differ in many charac- faculty who is as brutally exploited American, I cannot remain silent teristics, levels and wants. This as this group of scholars. on Sarah Schulman’s distorted Editor’s note: Clarion reserves the Parity for CLIP, Start heterogeneity manifests itself most The union should start with find- and frankly anti-Semitic – yes, right to edit all letters for publication. ● In a September 18 email, “Bar- gaining Update #4,” PSC President Barbara Bowen stated, “The PSC has Clarion DECEMBER 2018 also called for important changes in Newspaper of the Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York, collective bargaining representative of the CUNY instructional staff. Vol. 47, No. 7. PSC/CUNY is affiliated with the American Association of University Professors, National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers (Local 2334), AFL-CIO, the New York City Central Labor Council and New York State United Teachers. Published by PSC/CUNY, 61 areas other than salary, including Broadway, 15th floor, New York, NY 10006. Telephone: (212) 354-1252. Website: www.psc-CUNY.org. Email: [email protected]. All opinions expressed in these pages are not necessarily those of the PSC. granting tuition waivers to the chil- PSC OFFICERS: Barbara Bowen, President; Andrea Vásquez, First Vice President; Nivedita Majumdar, Secretary; Sharon Persinger, Treasurer; Michael Fabricant, Steven London, George Emilio Sanchez, Luke dren of full-time employees.” Elliott-Negri, Alia Tyner-Mullings, University-Wide Officers; Penny Lewis, Vice President Senior Colleges; James Davis, Michael Batson, David Hatchett, Senior College Officers; Lorraine Cohen, Vice President Community Colleges; Michael Spear, Sharon Utakis, Howard Meltzer, Community College Officers; Iris Delutro, Vice President Cross Campus Units; Janet Winter, Jacqueline Elliott, Myrlene Dieudonne, Cross While I agree that the children Campus Officers; Joan Greenbaum, Steve Leberstein, Retiree Officers; Carly Smith, Vice President Part-Time Personnel; Susan DiRaimo, Blanca Vázquez, Meg Feeley, Part-Time Officers; Irwin H. Polishook, of full-time employees should get President Emeritus; Peter I. Hoberman, Vice President Emeritus, Cross-Campus Units. tuition waivers, over 100 CLIP and STAFF: Deborah Bell, Executive Director; Naomi Zauderer, Associate Executive Director; Faye H. Alladin, Coordinator, Financial Services; Renée Lasher, Director, Contract Administration; Deirdre Brill, Director, Organizing; Francis Clark, Coordinator, Communications; Barbara Gabriel, Coordinator, Office Services and Human Resources; Kate Pfordresher, Director, Research & Public Policy; Diana Rosato, Coordinator, CUNY Start instructors, all of whom Membership Department; Peter Zwiebach, Director of Legal Affairs. are full-time, still must pay full price Editor: Ari Paul / Associate Editor: Shomial Ahmad / Designer: Margarita Aguilar / Copy Editors: Teri Duerr, Matt Schlecht for all CUNY classes and education © 2018 Professional Staff Congress/CUNY Clarion | December 2018 NEWS 3

to lift CUNY adjunct wages. CUNY, unlike most state and city agencies, must also compete nationally for at- tracting full-time employees. Demanding an economic offer The union leadership said that the administration has acknowledged the By ARI PAUL are likely to insist on an offer for union’s demand for $7K for adjuncts, the PSC that aligns with the very which Bowen hailed as a “huge step As this newspaper went to press, Contract talks continue modest annual increases agreed to forward.” The union, over the course PSC members were engaging in demands, the university has yet to The United University Professions, by other unions. But the PSC has a of the last year, has presented data on actions to demand that the CUNY make an economic offer. the union representing SUNY faculty history of standing up for what our the need for addressing historical sal- Board of Trustees (BoT) put for- and staff, settled a six-year deal members need and making ary erosion that would require wage ward a budget request to the state PATTERN BARGAINING with the state, including 2-per- Raising gains against the odds, as increases beyond 2 percent each year and city that calls for a fully fund- Looming over the contract talks cent annual raises. The other CUNY we did in the last contract and the need for raises beyond across- ed contract with the PSC, includ- is an economic “pattern” that ap- major unions that bargain with with back pay.” the-board increases for college labo- ing raises for all and an increase pears to be firmly set for public the state have reached similar salaries to In this contract, the ratory technicians and lecturers. in adjunct pay to $7,000 a course. sector union bargaining with both agreements, all with annual competitive union is demanding salary At a recent contract bargaining More than 170 people signed up to New York City and New York State. raises of 2 percent. increases for all, additional session, the union presented its de- testify at the last BoT hearing to ad- District Council 37 (DC 37), which CUNY management rep- levels equity increases for the mands for workers in higher edu- dress the contract (see pages 5-8). represents 10,000 clerical and blue- resentatives have stated across the lowest-paid full-time titles, substan- cation officer titles. Iris DeLutro, a More union actions are planned collar workers at CUNY, recently table that CUNY’s economic offer tial noneconomic gains for all and an bargaining team member and vice for December as the BoT rolls out reached a yet-to-be-ratified agree- is likely to follow the economic pat- end to poverty pay for adjuncts. president of cross campus units, its request. A budget request that ment. That contract is similar to the tern set by other public sector union It isn’t certain, of course, that this is told Clarion that the union pushed includes full funding for a contract one established by the same union contracts, despite the PSC’s strong what the university will put forward, the need to stipulate that HEOs who and additional adjunct increases, for its more than 100,000 citywide presentation on the need for higher and the union continues to argue self-nominate themselves for a sal- and reflects PSC needs, would be a workers, with 2 percent yearly increases to raise CUNY salaries to that the state pattern shouldn’t be ary differential are given the same significant step toward a good con- raises over a little more than four competitive levels. imposed on CUNY faculty and staff – level of consideration as HEOs who tract deal, PSC leaders said. years. And the United Federation “When will the trustees finally those increases don’t address decades are recommended by a supervisor. The union and CUNY manage- of Teachers reached a deal with take a stand against austerity of salary erosion. The DC 37 deal and DeLutro also noted that the union ment have engaged in several bar- the city that offers yearly raises of patterns and for what CUNY ac- the other recently settled contracts demands that the contract grant job gaining sessions in the last several 2, 2.5 and 3 percent, with the final tually needs?” asked President Bar- don’t address a direly unpaid part- protection language for HEOs after months, and while the union has 3-percent raise covering 18 months, bara Bowen. Bowen added, however, time workforce, whereas the PSC is five years on the job rather than the made presentations on its economic rather than 12. “Both state and city governments in a unique position of attempting current eight years. Queens adjuncts push president on $7K

By ARI PAUL part-time instructors, some paid Other actions take place around CUNY as little as $3,100 per course, are Queens College President Félix V. paid significantly less than their Matos Rodríguez listened attentive- peers at institutions like Rutgers. ly in a packed conference room on “Mostly, what I heard were rea- the eighth floor of an administration sons he couldn’t do anything,” said building, as more than a dozen part- Ben Chitty, a higher education as- time instructors and other activists sociate at the college and a PSC told him why they were pushing for delegate who attended the meeting. $7,000 per course for adjuncts. And Anthony Malagon, an ad- Busking on the subway to make junct assistant professor of philoso- ends meet. Sharing one-bedroom phy, had similar thoughts about the apartments. Skipping meals. Con- president’s response. “He was try- templating quitting the profession ing to wash his hands of it. It didn’t altogether for higher-paid but less- seem reassuring,” he said. skilled jobs. These were just some of On the plus side, Malagon said the realities adjuncts wanted Matos he was inspired by the intensity of Rodríguez, rumored to have been a the local adjunct organizing for $7K finalist for the next CUNY chancel- at Queens College, where adjuncts lorship, to know about. rushed between classes to attend the meeting with the president to CAMPUS ORGANIZING offer their personal experiences and The meeting, which took place to make clear that they were open November 7 in a room hastily cov- to escalating tactics to realize their ered with $7K posters and banners, demand. was the result of local adjunct orga- Ari Paul “I am surprised we picked up nizing and a broader PSC campaign Adjunct activist Jane Guskin, left, led union activists in a meeting with Queens College President Félix Matos Rodríguez, right. so much momentum this quickly,” to deliver petitions to campus presi- Malagon said. “It’s encouraging.” dents about the necessity of $7K, about the $7K demand – Brooklyn could result in more full-time fac- to adjuncts. “Brooklyn College Presi- raises for all and full funding for College, Lehman College and John ulty lines being offered for current dent Michelle Anderson said that her ADJUNCT REPRESENTATIVES the contract. At Queens, the chapter Jay College had similar meetings adjuncts at the college. advocacy will be confined to discus- Many of the adjuncts said that they was one of a few around the univer- between PSC adjuncts and campus And Matos Rodríguez noted that sions within the council of presidents, believed the low pay for adjuncts was sity that went a step further and de- presidents. he could reach out to the college’s with the Board of Trustees and in her hurting Queens College students. manded a face-to-face meeting with donor base and highlight the need new role as a member of the Fiscal Af- Some talked about how little time their boss, and got one. PRESSING PRESIDENTS for funding for faculty pay. fairs Committee,” Brook- they were able to devote to student “I felt like it was powerful,” said For his part, Matos Rodríguez But, he noted, the real fight Some lyn College PSC Chapter needs, or how they felt forced to con- Jane Guskin, an adjunct instructor said that he would look at the signed was up to the union and administration Chair James Davis wrote sider other careers. Vadim Acosta, in urban studies who organized the petitions including the $7K demand what it could do in Albany in an email. an adjunct lecturer in environmen- meeting, remarking on the testi- and relay the message to the interim to increase funding and support but For the Queens tal science, recalled having to work mony PSC members delivered to the chancellor, Vita Rabinowitz. He told to push for a fair contract not enough chapter members in as a gardener between days on cam- president. “I think he heard us, but we the Queens College adjuncts that he with CUNY Central admin- attendance, Matos Ro- pus in order to sustain his career in didn’t expect that this was going to be cannot unilaterally up the pay for istration. In short, his message, dríguez offered encouragement, academia. “I had to find a real job in enough. It was more about making it adjuncts, saying that this was a part like that of other presidents, was but it was not enough to materi- order to do my hobby of teaching, but clear that we’re organized and ready of the ongoing bargaining between that the issue of pay was out of his ally change CUNY’s low pay for it’s not a hobby,” he told the president. to escalate,” Guskin told Clarion. the PSC and the CUNY adminis- control. adjuncts – the union has made it In response, Matos Rodríguez This was one of several meetings tration. He voiced hope that an in - This response was similar to re- clear to CUNY management in vowed to make clear to the interim adjuncts had with college presidents creased budget for Queens College sponses other college presidents gave recent contract talks that CUNY Continued on page 9 4 NEWS Clarion | December 2018 Members blast CUNY’s support for Amazon By ARI PAUL Michael Gianaris called for a boy- Betraying CUNY’s mission to the public cott against Amazon and other As community activists, tenant advo- Queens lawmakers, including cates and Queens lawmakers decried City Council Member Jimmy Van the billions of public subsidies given Bramer and Congresswoman-elect to Amazon to build a new headquar- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, blasted ters in Long Island City, CUNY man- the deal. Asserting that there has agement effectively told company never been a “statistical correla- CEO and world’s richest person Jeff tion between corporate welfare and Bezos, “CUNY is at your service.” jobs,” State Assemblyman Ron Kim “It’s exciting to see Amazon rec- and State Senator-elect Jessica Ra- ognize Long Island City, where our mos in a Daily News op-ed called for college serves as the educational more state legislative oversight of anchor, as the place to be in New the deal and vowed new legislation York,” LaGuardia Community Col- that “would charge companies like lege President Gail Mellow said in a Amazon extraction and automa- statement. “Having Amazon in our tion fees for taking their profits out backyard will be transformative for of state and replacing human labor our students – particularly the 3,500 with robots” and prevent Amazon in our tech programs each year. Many from monetizing its incentive pack- of our students are sure to be future age upfront to a third party for an Amazon employees. We’re ready to immediate cash-out.” develop partnerships with Amazon and look forward to getting to work.” HURTING THE PUBLIC LaGuardia, situated right off the For Sam Stein, a PhD student at 7 line in Long Island City, will be, the Graduate Center and an urban along with the CUNY School of Law, SandersDave studies instructor at Hunter College, the most directly impacted CUNY Laurie Gluck of LaGuardia Community College worries what Amazon will do to the campus neighborhood. whose book Capital City: Urban Plan- campus if and when the Amazon ners in the Real Estate State will be facility is completed. Interim Chan- Rebekah Johnson, an associate profes- so much written about how poorly engaged in the resistance to the plan. released by Verso next year, the tax cellor Vita Rabinowitz and Board of sor of education and language acquisi- Amazon workers are treated. That The deal has received criticism for giveaways to Amazon by two Demo- Trustees Chair Bill Thompson made tion (ELA) at LaGuardia. “Is Amazon is a real concern.” the enormous public subsidies pro- cratic elected officials is a finger in it clear in an op-ed in the New York going to provide affordable housing vided – the company will reportedly New Yorkers’ eye, as the city suffers Daily News that they will dedicate for employees and other local people?” ACTION AHEAD get up to $2.5 billion in tax breaks from record-high rates of homeless- assets for training students for jobs For Laurie Gluck, who has been As this newspaper went to press, and subsidies – as well as the lack ness, reports of public housing units for the online retail giant, a place con- teaching at LaGuardia for 32 years, the LaGuardia PSC chapter was of public oversight, as Mayor Bill de going without heat and the possibility stantly under fire from labor activists currently in the the ELA program, planning a teach-in about the effects Blasio announced that the city and of a subway and bus fare increase as for reports of poor working con- the news about Amazon is, as of the Amazon deal on the campus, state did not intend for the plan of the commuters deal with more delays and ditions and low pay. In separate Public Yogi Berra would say, déjà vu and some PSC members were plan- new headquarters to go through the overcrowding. statements, Rabinowitz said funds for all over again, as she recalls ning to denounce CUNY’s support normal public-approval process. “Our budget priorities are truly that the university “stands how concerned residents for the deal at the December 3 CU- The Retail, Wholesale and De- backward. CUNY? Underfunded. ready to work with Amazon… the online were when the Citigroup NY Board of Trustees hearing. Also partment Store Union, citing a long NYCHA? Underfunded. MTA? Un- to provide skilled graduates retail building in Long Island City at press time, CUNY advocates had and well-reported record of low pay derfunded,” he told Clarion. “The ready to compete for Amazon’s giant was completed in 1990. scheduled a demonstration outside and abysmal working conditions in world’s richest human wants to help 40,000 new jobs” and Thomp- “I don’t think they fulfilled Thompson’s Financial District office Amazon’s grueling warehouses, gentrify the world’s most diverse ur- son said CUNY will “commit our their promise to improve the neigh- demanding that he rescind his sup- also joined the chorus against the ban area? This is a sell-out of his- considerable college assets to ensure borhood,” she said, noting that area’s port of the Amazon project. Queens headquarters. toric proportions, calling to mind that Amazon has a strong pipeline for transformation from a gritty indus- In other words, many PSC mem- Opposition is mounting in the some of the worst episodes in New talent, ideas and innovation.” trial neighborhood to a landscape of bers are joining a growing movement political arena, too. State Senator York City urban planning.” bland luxury condos. “The prolifera- THEFT OF PUBLIC FUNDS tion of glassy high-rises is just soul- Many PSC members saw CUNY sucking. To think Amazon will make administration’s unified commit- that any better is outlandish.” ment to Amazon as a betrayal of the Gluck added, “I have serious Forcing Columbia to bargain with grads university’s mission by turning it doubts that this will benefit LaGuar- into a vocational school and a pipe- dia at all. CUNY’s off the radar of line to an unaccountable private private institutions.” business. PSC President Barbara Lara Beaty, an associate profes- Bowen said, “The key issue is the sor of psychology, noted that the giveaway of public resources to the addition of another corporate head- world’s richest company – one with quarters would exacerbate the a horrible labor record. Billions in ongoing deterioration of public in- state resources are being handed frastructure in the area. “All these over to Amazon while CUNY is be- buildings have gone up, and the city ing starved of funds.” hasn’t upgraded the infrastructure John Whitlow, an associate pro- – sewage, transportation, et cetera,” fessor at the CUNY School of Law, she said. “The traffic around here told Clarion, “If recent history is a is already pretty bad, and this will guide, the benefits of this plan will make it worse. Parking is impossi- inure overwhelmingly to the already ble, we don’t have enough parking well-off, and the rest of us will be left spaces. So that’s going to get worse.” living more precarious lives in an in- Even if Amazon promised to hire creasingly unequal city.” LaGuardia students and graduates, For PSC members working in Long it would still be troubling, Beaty Island City, fears about overstraining added. “My personal concern is already crumbling infrastructure, that we’ll suddenly be preparing rising housing costs and the cheap- students to go work at Amazon. ening of LaGuardia’s status to an We will become more about worker Amazon workforce pipeline abound. training rather than transitioning “I worry that it will push the al - students to a four-year college,” ready gentrifying neighborhood to she said. “The job that looks good SandersDave further gentrify and become a place when you’re 20 looks very different Columbia University graduate student workers are considering a management proposal that would move the bargaining of the haves and the have-nots,” said when you’re 40 or 60. There’s been process forward after months of stalling by the administration. Clarion | December 20182017 TESTIMONIES OPINION 5 PSC demands: fund our contract By CLARION STAFF Scores of members deliver hours of testimony More than 100 PSC members from various backgrounds, disciplines and campuses spoke for several hours at the October 22 CUNY Board of Trustees meeting, delivering passionate and often personal testimony as to why the trustees must live up to the board’s duty and make a budget request that fully funds the PSC’s contract demands, including $7K for adjuncts. Members touched on every aspect of the contract campaign – poverty wages for ad- juncts, management’s unfulfilled promise to reduce the teaching load and the need for across-the-board raises and to dedicate resources to protect CUNY’s mission of serving the public. Below are a few of the testimonies that were submitted at the meeting. Oth- ers are available on the union’s website.

Pick a side By BARBARA BOWEN

ask labor’s fundamental ques- tion: which side are you on? The 2020 budget request presents an Iopportunity to answer that question in the language that matters: funding. Will you continue to sit by while CUNY colleges evis- cerate their own inadequate budgets to make up for the state’s underfunding of the con- Erik McGregor tract? Continue to lament but not address the PSC members packed a recent Board of Trustees meeting, urging board members to fulfill their duty and advocate for an adequate budget for all of CUNY. fact that full-time faculty salaries at CUNY are 30 or 40,000 dollars below those at com- parable institutions? Continue to accept the when murderous racism and anti-immigrant Maybe that’s why this generation is so po- underfunding of an agreement made in your fervor have been newly mobilized, if you litically aware to sexism, racism and crony name last year to reduce the teaching load? were to take a stand for investment in the col- capitalism. Me Too, Black Lives Matter. A family issue Continue to allow CUNY to pay near-poverty lege education of CUNY students by insisting They call it being “woke.” It means it will wages to half of its teaching force? on a fully funded contract and a fair wage for fool no one if you are not doing your part. By SAMI DISU And will you continue to send the unfor- the adjuncts who teach most of their courses. It will be clear if you praise our adjuncts’ giveable message to CUNY students that Which side are you on? “hard work, dedication and commitment” he one issue that I need to bring their college education – their future, their and then cry over your own poverty when to your attention immediately is survival – is not worth adequate investment? Barbara Bowen is the president of the PSC. it’s time to talk $7K per course. It will be the plight of part-time professors. The budget request you submit this fall will clear if you have your picture taken signing TMy wife is also an adjunct lectur- reveal whether you take the position that off on the course reduction to give students er in my department. So let me assure you CUNY trustees are primarily answerable to more individual attention from their pro- that between the both of us we understand the governor or mayor who appointed you, or fessors and then turn around and cut the the reality of trying to raise a child on ad- whether you see yourselves as accountable Yeats’s lesson tutoring budget by 16 percent. junct incomes. to the people of New York. Don’t worry about history judging us; we Between the two of us, we are teaching Which side are you on? By SIGMUND SHEN should be so lucky. Our students are judging five courses this semester and we love Many CUNY trustees and administrators us right now and it will be plain as day if you teaching the next generation of police of- seem to view your job as managing scar- y students inspire me, but I’m self-censor your own budget request. At best ficers, emergency personnel and legal city. There is even a sense of pride in being also terrified for them. Life they will lose faith in us, and at worst they professionals who will go on to providing able to manage scarcity well. I submit that is objectively harder for this will emulate our example. We will know public safety for our beloved city. Our love that is not your job. Your job as trustees is Mgeneration of students than it your commitment to CUNY and to this city for teaching is the only reason we haven’t to challenge the premise that inadequate was for ours. Many of my students juggle by the message you choose to send upstate. moved on to better-paying professions. The funding is the best CUNY can hope for. their coursework with paid employment. Remember that every disgraceful concession situation of the economically unviable lives CUNY represents opportunity for working- With the cost of housing and healthcare, the governor asked of CUNY in the last three we live as adjuncts is worsened by the fact class and poor New Yorkers, for immigrants more of them are caring for their parents, years, he has withdrawn and disavowed in that the students we teach are historically and communities of color, in this cruel, their siblings and their own children. Fam- the face of solidarity and organizing. from an underfunded, and under-resourced, neoliberal, racist economy. As trustees you ily incomes, after inflation, are about the So we all are the ones who need to be full public-school system to begin with. have a choice between normalizing the neo- same as they were 30 years ago. And yet, of passionate intensity, and we can no lon- Any college professor – adjunct or full- liberal lie that there is not enough money CUNY’s tuition is 500 percent higher. ger afford to lack conviction. Your budget time – understands this fact when we grade to go around – or fundamentally challeng- Where generations past were defined by request can send a signal that you at least assignments. Yet, many adjuncts make the ing that lie and demanding the investment our hope, optimism, brash ambitions and are fighting as hard as you can for a better sacrifice to spend numerous unpaid hours CUNY needs. Stop normalizing poverty. dreams, our students are beset by uncer- university, one the working class, women, outside class helping students overcome The PSC is now the only public voice tainty, precarity, the gig economy, climate people of color and immigrant students of their limitations. And if you understand that making the case that it is not acceptable change and the resurgence of fascism, both this city need and deserve. I call on you most students who attend CUNY are from for CUNY to have to accommodate every globally and at home. When I was an under- as trustees to oppose austerity for CUNY. black and brown communities, then you will year to decreasing per-student funds. We grad at Queens College, I thought I under- Take a public stand for a contract that is understand that underpaid college professors have worked hard to develop that politi- stood the metaphor of Yeats’s “The Second fully funded, includes real raises for all and combined with austerity funding levels for cal power, but we should not be alone. The Coming”: “The best lack all conviction, while increases adjunct pay to $7K per course. the CUNY system amounts to racial injustice budget request you submit is your voice. Use the worst are full of passionate intensity.” – whether deliberately designed or not. You it to demand an alternative to austerity for I didn’t know shit about “The Second Sigmund Shen is the PSC chapter chair don’t need to be a professor of African Ameri- CUNY. The moment demands political cour- Coming.” For our students, there is no meta- and an associate professor of English at can history like me to understand this issue. age. Imagine the impact nationally, at a time phor. It’s literally happening in front of us. LaGuardia Community College. Continued on page 6 6 TESTIMONIESNEWS Clarion | December 20172018

by serial austerity budgets in a time of a Fund our contract booming economy. Our governor is ada- mant in his refusal to include any monies Continued from page 5 I call on you as trustees to oppose aus- to pay for new public-sector contracts in Let me be blunt in saying that my wife terity for CUNY. Take a public stand for a his budget. and I have applied for public welfare assis- contract that is fully funded, includes real The board compounds the problem by tance in order to raise our child. Since we raises for all and increases adjunct pay to deferring to the governor if it does not in- can’t pay for childcare on adjunct incomes, $7K per course. clude a strong request to fund the contract. we take turns looking after our daughter on Failure to do so cannibalizes CUNY. Fight- days one partner does not teach. So, even Hester Eisenstein is a professor of women’s ing over crumbs from an already small pie, though we could aim to teach more courses and gender studies and sociology at the such a failure pits faculty against students for a little more income we simply cannot Graduate Center. and the union against academic and student because paying for childcare is impossible services. on adjunct wages. It is zero-sum economics and politics at its worst. Decades of underfunding tell us Sami Disu teaches in the department of that such failure results in robbing Peter to African Studies at John Jay College. People’s CUNY pay Paul. A fully funded CUNY is a robust engine of social mobility and economic By BILL FRIEDHEIM equality. But meager public financing de- prives that engine of necessary fuel by con- or retirees, CUNY was and is a cause. tracting rather than expanding programs Falling short Why? Because we believe in the like ASAP; paying adjuncts, the majority of vision of democratic, urban public faculty, poverty wages; and shortchanging By HESTER EISENSTEIN Fhigher education, articulated in the “children of the whole people” and the 1849 by the first CUNY president, Dr. Hor- part-time teaching faculty. efore coming to CUNY in 1996, ace Webster, when he proclaimed that our I taught at Yale, Barnard and role is to educate “the children of the whole Bill Friedheim is the chair of the PSC retirees SUNY-Buffalo. people” of New York City. chapter and a former historian at Borough of B Of all these, CUNY is the institu- It’s a cause because members of our retir- Manhattan Community College. tion that is least faithful to its mission, be- ees’ chapter have logged over 90,000 cumu- cause of the regime of artificial austerity that lative years at the university as educators, has been imposed on the staff, faculty and stu- professionals, scholars and champions of dents by the budgets of the last few decades. public higher education. It’s a cause because Moving up CUNY administration and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (center, with microphone) listened to hours of member testimony. You know that CUNY is an economic engine in those 90,000 cumulative years we have for the city of New York, and that CUNY grad- witnessed how CUNY transforms and em- By DEBORAH GAMBS uates are the backbone of the city’s economy. powers the lives of its students, and in the Deborah Gambs is an associate professor If I were a CUNY trustee, I would do process transforms our city and state. hen our previous contract of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan everything in my power to make sure that It’s a cause because CUNY students are was ratified more than Community College. our students, who struggle with economic the face of 2018 New York City, representing a year ago, my personal deprivation, balancing paid work, family and multiple cultures, speaking over a hundred Wfinancial life improved in schoolwork, have the best of everything to languages, often juggling working, parent- ways that were very significant for me. ensure their success. This extends from chalk ing and education as first-generation college I no longer needed a roommate in my in the classroom to books in the library to ad- students and ready to give back to New York. studio apartment, and I was able to pay Pride, shame equate systems of heat and ventilation, not to But the vision Dr. Webster so eloquently off two debts that were weighing on me mention staff and faculty salaries. championed in 1849 has been undermined every month. As a member of the PSC, I By CURTIS IZEN fought hard for that contract and we do not intend to let this next contract go six am also a proud alumnus of the CUNY years. Because the last contract was so system. What I am not proud to say is meaningful for full-time faculty, we now the lack of financial advancements I have an ethical imperative to fight for Ihave received in the past 25 years of an equivalent improvement for adjunct teaching. faculty. The cost of living goes up every year, As it happens, one of my oldest college but not my salary. My responsibilities and friends is also now teaching at CUNY – professionalism increase each semester, but as an adjunct. When my pay improved not my salary. My class size increases as by nearly $20,000 over a period of a few well, but not my salary. years, hers improved by $59.41 per hour. Like many of my colleagues, I am a As far as an hourly wage increase goes, dedicated instructor who finds the current that’s nothing to sneer at in some indus- adjunct pay deeply unfair. The technology tries. But as far as the overall impact on supplementing our courses has changed the earnings of a college professor who but not the realization that adjuncts de- teaches the same course load I teach, it serve more financially. Let me explain is paltry. She struggles to schedule five what it’s like to be an adjunct for CUNY – a to six courses every semester, three to position that truly seems to go unrecog- four classes during summer, and travels nized. It is subject matter experts working between multiple schools. She is one of in the field being able to give cutting-edge the 70 percent of adjunct faculty teaching skills to our students. It is answering at colleges in the nation as the AAUP re- emails on weekends and evenings because cently reported. you know that if this is what someone else State government plays an incredibly would do for you. important role in funding higher educa- It is creating dynamic lessons and video tion. For the last few years we have seen a recordings to explain difficult scary pattern of defunding higher educa- concepts and incorporating new technolo- tion by governors and legislatures in states gies to engage your students. It is meeting with historic public universities. We are in students before or after class on your own a state with a self-proclaimed progressive time when they ask for help. It is finding governor, and CUNY is a progressive pub- open-resource course material to help al- lic university by many measures. However, leviate the high cost of textbooks that stu- when 60 percent of your faculty is under- dents endure each semester. It is spending paid and overworked, you fail to be able countless hours grading papers and exams to call yourself progressive. We must end while working around the clock to get this inequality and we can begin to do it in grades in so students can register for the this contract. upcoming term. I call on you as trustees to oppose aus- It is writing recommendation letters and terity for CUNY. Take a public stand for a helping students win scholarships. It’s tak- contract that is fully funded, includes real ing educational workshops and getting cer-

Erik McGregor raises for all and increases adjunct pay to tified on topics so your students will benefit PSC members listened to scores of testimony delivered by CUNY faculty and staff. $7K per course. from your knowledge. Clarion | December 20182017 TESTIMONIES OPINION 7

When I made the transition to teacher education, I was so proud to accept a full-time position at Queens College, one of the senior colleges in the renowned CUNY system. Queens County is also the single most diverse county in the United States. I firmly believe that public education is one of the stalwarts of what makes Amer- ica great. Empirical studies bear this out. For example, a 2017 op-ed in The New York Times reports that CUNY propels “almost six times as many low-income students in- to the middle class and beyond as all eight Ivy League campuses, plus Duke, MIT, Stanford and the [University of] Chicago, combined.” In other words, CUNY does more to en- able people to achieve our increasingly elu- sive American Dream than any institution out there. What could be a more productive use of taxpayers’ money? I maintain unwavering commitment to this purpose as a tenured, associate professor, co-director of Queens College’s graduate program in elementary educa- tion. However, I also live in a constant state of frustration under the weight of austerity that glares at me and my stu- dents as we proceed with our mission of producing the next generation of great

Erik McGregor New York City public school teachers. The CUNY administration and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (center, with microphone) listened to hours of member testimony. classroom where I teach this semester is decrepit and depressing. Three weeks ago, during class, a water bug dropped from Adjuncts teach thousands of courses each my kids to break the good news to them. the exposed ceiling onto one of my stu- semester at CUNY. To ask us to continue My younger son sighed and said, “Thank dents’ notebooks. without the proper financial support under- God. We have to pray for the people who K-12 to CUNY For years I worked without a raise, so mines the work we do inside and outside the gave you this job.” with inflation, I was earning less each classroom. So, for me and my children, my job at By TED KESLER year. Had I remained a public-school How can CUNY expect to recruit and Lehman College is like a dream come teacher – a job I loved – my salary would retain truly dedicated and passionate pro- true. I finally came across an employer uring 15 years of service, I became still pay me $25,000 or $27,000 more than fessionals when we are not compensated who saw the merit of my qualifications a celebrated New York city public my current salary. as such? I call on you as trustees to oppose and experience, to offer me a job. How- elementary school teacher. The Based on my personal story, I call on austerity for CUNY. Take a public stand ever, I come to realize that while this DNew York Times did a nine-part se- you, as trustees, to oppose austerity for for a contract that is fully funded, includes job gives me more income than all other ries about my third-grade class. I literally be- CUNY and to take a public stand for a real raises for all and guarantees $7K per jobs I’ve previously had in the US here came the most public public-school teacher contract that is fully funded, includes real course for adjuncts. (except one), my total earnings on the job in the world. In 1997 I earned the prestigious raises for all and increases adjunct pay to were still not able to adequately provide Bank Street College Early Childhood Teach- $7K per course. Curtis Izen is an adjunct instructor in in- us with our basic needs like shelter, food, er of the Year Award, and in 2001 I earned formation systems and statistics at Baruch clothing, educational and medical-insur- my National Board of Professional Teaching Ted Kesler is the interim PSC chapter chair College. ance-related expenses. Standards license. I was now ready to be- at Queens College, where he teaches elemen- As I speak to you, my sons and I con- come a teacher educator and researcher of tary education and children’s literature. tinue to live in a tight single room locat- strong pedagogical practices. Continued on page 8 ed in a degraded basement in Brooklyn. On September 23, I returned from doing Eviction notice our laundry and found that my landlord had thrown our things out and locked us By MARIAMA KHAN out of the room. I had to call the police because we had nowhere to go. When the s an adjunct, I have the right police came they got into the basement to academic qualifications that were speak to me. Surprised at the conditions earned in North America, Europe there, one of them asked me, “How did Aand Africa. I also have a rich and you come to live here? This is not a good a diverse professional experience from place to live.” these three continents. I’m a scholar with I explained that I was facing poverty. an excellent practitioner background. I love I’ve not been able to make enough in- the work I do at Lehman College. I bring come to get us a decent place. Later, I commitment, passion and all the energy in received an eviction notice from my land- me to my work. lord’s attorneys asking me to leave the My work at Lehman College means a lot room before or by the end of November. to me. I confess that before getting this job, Our bad living environment has come I’ve previously faced extended underem- along with constant insults and bad ployment and unemployment. Irrespective words from the landlord. For countless of my academic qualifications and profes- times, I have looked into the dejected fac- sional experience, I’ve done low-skilled es of my young sons and asked, “How can jobs just to survive. I’ve worked in a laun- I get a supplementary job to get us out dry facility, folding clothes. I’ve worked at of this cruel situation?” I’ve contacted Dunkin’ Donuts, selling coffee. And I’ve several brokers and apartment owners even tried working in a chocolate factory to get a house, but always. I’m told my as a factory hand. income is small. As a single parent with two sons, I faced As things stand today, I’m still not able to acute deprivation with my children. Fol- find us a decent place from the income I’m lowing months of lack of employment and making as an adjunct. an excruciating job search, it was a huge relief to get an adjunct lecturer position in Mariama Khan is an adjunct lecturer in the

the Africana Studies department at Lehm- department of Africana studies at Lehman Erik McGregor an College. I remember the day I rushed to College. Members stayed late into the night to ensure their voices were heard. 8 TESTIMONIESNEWS Clarion | December 20172018

try or homeless shelter. Lowell Hawthorne Fund our did his report and after doing the report and volunteer work he donated $16,000 to the soup kitchen to fix their kitchen. contract Lowell was an exceptional student. Last Continued from page 7 year, I was going to call him to ask him to set up a scholarship in his name at Lehman Col- lege, because he was so successful and con- tinued to be part of the Lehman community. A chair’s view But I was too late – he shot himself to death. If only I had called him the week By JOHANNA LESSINGER before his death, he may have lived. As an adjunct I was running from college to col- y own department, with at lege that week, too busy to call him. I was present eight full-time faculty, running from Lehman to City College to also hires some 40 adjuncts earn a decent wage. I wished I had called Meach semester to teach all the him. His obituary appeared in The New courses we are committed to offering. This York Times. He was the hardworking son is not unusual – all of CUNY depends heav- of a Jamaican baker who opened his own ily on an adjunct teaching force to fulfill bakery in New York. Many mourned and its educational mission. It is exploitative. we still do. It is not an ideal system. But it is what we I am not arrogant enough to think I could are stuck with for the moment. How do have saved him, but I know that I need to we make it viable? One answer is raising have more time with students and former adjunct pay, as has already been done in students. other parts of the country. Adjuncts need a living wage, $7K a My own job consists, along with teaching, course – we should not have to run from in hiring, mentoring and supervising our campus to campus. Call on the governor department’s large adjunct work force. It is to fully fund our contract. I call on you as in the interests of our department, and its Erik McGregor trustees to oppose austerity for CUNY. students, to keep this work force stable – to David Unger, a program coordinator, has seen CUNY austerity both as a student and a staff member. attract the best teachers, and to nurture Susan DiRaimo is an adjunct instructor at them so that they mature, learn to teach a Lehman and City Colleges. range of courses and become able to give Justice for 23 years and I’ve seen what the the Teaching Load Reduction Agreement. the best education possible to our students. university and college can do to ensure Colleges have not been provided with the Unfortunately, CUNY’s current in- our students succeed. To support student money to allow replacement of current ability or unwillingness to pay adjuncts success, professors, including library fac- courses by new full-time faculty. Conse- adequately has a shattering effect on our ulty, must be present. Our last contract quently, they feel compelled to cut existing ability to maintain that stability. Because increased the annual leave available to programs in order to pay for the Teaching Tell it to Albany of poverty, our adjunct work force, despite library faculty to pursue their research Load Reduction Agreement. our best efforts to retain our most talented agendas, as they are required to do, but did As bad as failing to achieve the agree- By DAVID UNGER teachers over the long term, is constantly not include funds to cover additional full- ment’s stated goals might be, this is churning. We lose people each year – not, time library faculty, so we have had to cut not the only problem with its current he majority of our courses are alas, to the full-time teaching jobs they library services on campus. This is a reduc- implementation. taught by adjunct instructors, deserve, but to other institutions that pay tion in services despite an increase in the Even more troubling, the retrenchment many of whom have been teaching better, or to nonacademic jobs in the pri- numbers of students using the library. actions on the part of the senior colleges Twith us for years. They continue to vate sector. Person after person has told may actually be creating a perverse dis- teach our students – to give of themselves me how much they enjoy teaching at John Ellen Sexton is an associate professor in the incentive for scholarly excellence. Why? and their time – though we pay them pov- Jay, how much they love their students, library at John Jay College. Some of the programs that colleges are erty wages. As an administrator, I have but that they simply can no longer afford phasing out in order to pay for the agree- been in the position of telling adjuncts that to teach at CUNY. ment are programs that incentivize and they do not have classes for the upcom- reward faculty publication. If this is done, ing term, of watching as they begged for Johanna Lessinger is the department chair the practical result will be that the only additional work so they could cover their of anthropology at John Jay College. On workload faculty who will receive an effective reduc- rent or pay for their healthcare expenses. tion in their workload as a result of the As a grad student, most of my courses By DAVID JONES agreement are those who are non-research have been taught by adjuncts – also re- active. Accordingly, faculty who are cur- markably dedicated, giving people – given n the statement announcing the agree- rently research-active will rightly perceive the poverty wages they are receiving. This Access denied ment, Executive Vice Chancellor for diminished incentive and appreciation for is not OK. Academic Affairs Vita Rabinowitz specif- scholarly productivity at CUNY. You have the ability and power to fight By ELLEN SEXTON Iically highlighted the intended benefits In summary, while the shared goals of with everything you have to ensure that of “the additional time faculty will now spend the Teaching Load Reduction Agreement contracts are fully funded by Albany. am aware of the good work that is meeting and advising students, as well as on are laudable, in practice its outcomes may You have the ability and responsibility being done throughout CUNY with their research and scholarship.” She stated be the opposite of what CUNY intended. to fight for a budget that includes money opening up scholarship and creating that this additional time was “critical…to CU- These perverse outcomes can only be avoid- for $7K per course for adjuncts and real Iopen educational resources. But open NY’s goals of increasing graduation rates and ed if the agreement is fully funded. raises for all. resources are not cost-free, and cannot be remaining a premier research university.” I call on you as trustees to oppose aus- There are, unacceptably, major problems used to excuse an austerity budget. They Unfortunately, since this statement, a ma- terity for CUNY. Take a public stand for a with equity – not only for adjuncts, but may be free to the reader, but their creation, jor threat has emerged to the achievement contract that is fully funded, includes real among full-time staff as well. There are curation, description, discovery and distri- of these goals. raises for all and increases adjunct pay. major issues of racial and gender-based bution require workers. Contrary to the stated intent of provid- discrimination in wages – issues that will Our students and faculty require access ing faculty with additional time, the senior David Jones is a professor of political sci- require a fully funded CUNY to solve. to scholarly literature that currently re- colleges are currently responding to the ence at Baruch College. The “greatest urban university in the sides behind paywalls, and tools to search agreement by taking away existing pro- world” should be an example of raising that literature. They need to read second- cesses for providing faculty with time out- standards and pushing boundaries to en- ary materials that describe, analyze and side the classroom. The result has meant sure equity and justice, not complicity in contextualize our world. They need to see that for a majority of faculty on these lowering them and keeping people in pov- films and documentaries. They need books. campuses, there will be zero net increase Deadly lesson erty and discriminated against. This content is not free, and costs increase in time outside the classroom. Hence, there In this past year, you signaled with the every year. Our vendors typically raise can be no reasonable expectation that the By SUSAN DIRAIMO creation of the CUNY School of Labor and their prices 5 percent each year. agreement will in fact increase gradu- Urban Studies that the dignity of work and If our materials budgets do not also in- ation rates or benefit CUNY’s scholarly few years ago I had the honor of the people of this city matter. Now is your crease at at least the same rate, our funds reputation. having Lowell Hawthorne, the opportunity to make sure those same ideals are effectively cut. That manifests as a What is the reason for this counter- founder and owner of the Golden are upheld in the budget and the contract. reduction each year experienced by our stu- productive cannibalization of existing AKrust Bakery, which opened in We will be watching. dents and faculty in the library resources processes? College administrators have in- 1989, as my student. I require my students available to them. formed us, quite explicitly, that the direct to do an investigative report and do vol- David Unger is a program coordinator at I’ve been at John Jay College of Criminal cause is the failure of CUNY to fully fund unteer work in a soup kitchen, food pan- the School of Labor and Urban Studies. Clarion | October/NovemberDecember 2018 2018 NEWS 9 Campaigning for CUNY ASAP

By SHOMIAL AHMAD Muslim Students’ Association, vice president of student government. In Anyone working in higher educa- Expanding a positive academic program addition he is also a delegate to the tion knows that there is no silver University Student Senate. bullet to improve academic success, “ASAP has given me the op - but there are programs with prov- portunity to do more than just at- en positive results. One of those is tend classes. I have the time and CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Asso- resources to do all these extra ciate Programs (ASAP), a national- things,” Abdul told Clarion. “So if ly recognized model that has more I didn’t have these ASAP benefits, than doubled community college I would not be doing any of these graduation rates at CUNY. Now the things. I would probably be at work CUNY Rising Alliance, a coalition right now.” of more than 30 labor, community The community groups who are and student organizations, is push- part of the alliance are clear that ing to build upon that success and these additional supports are not expand the program with its Fund just a matter of policy but of equity. CUNY ASAP campaign. “CUNY provided a path for me “No program that I know of bet- to become the first member of my ter exemplifies elements of what family to graduate college and gain this university needs in order for access to good-paying jobs. It does students to succeed,” PSC Legisla- so every single year for low-income tive Representative Mike Fabricant and predominantly immigrant said. “This is a program that under- families and families of color,” said stands that access and success is Renata Pumarol, deputy director of not just about free tuition. It’s also New York Communities for Change. about MetroCards. It’s about books “The CUNY ASAP campaign is and it is about intensive counsel- important for the communities ing, advising and mentoring from we serve because it provides them faculty.” with every tool they need in order to graduate. It’s not only a racial EXPANSION justice issue, it’s an economic jus- This semester, CUNY Rising tice issue.” began a petition campaign, urg- What is at the heart of this cam- ing Governor Andrew Cuomo and SandersDave paign is that according to those Mayor Bill de Blasio to make the PSC activists joined CUNY Rising during its ASAP campaign for a tabling event at Kingsborough Community College. Union who have gone through ASAP and program available to all CUNY members conducted similar events at other CUNY campuses. ACE these programs have been students. CUNY Rising is also largely positive parts of the college pushing for the expansion of ACE average community college gradu- undocumented students can re- departments took the petition to experience – in short, students say (Accelerate, Complete, Engage), an ation rate is 53.2 percent, while the ceive full tuition waivers. CUNY their colleagues. PSC members at the programs transform their lives. initiative for senior colleges mod- graduation rate for a comparison Rising is asking the city and the Kingsborough Community Col- For example, Rianna Figueroa, a eled after ASAP. Currently, ACE group of students was 24.1 percent, state to expand its support lege tapped into already first-generation college student at is a pilot program at John Jay Col- the CUNY study found. The cost for ASAP and ACE. With a CUNY organized structures John Jay, said in a prepared state- lege of Criminal Justice. The peti- of ASAP is relatively modest and $170 million state allocation, Rising to promote the petition ment for a recent CUNY Board of tion was rolled out on November 14. has significant fiscal benefits. The the program’s services could signing, created around Trustees meeting that once she en- So far, the campaign has collected CUNY report cited a cost-benefit be available to incoming outreached the sanctuary movement rolled in ACE with the support of a almost 6,000 signatures, and it study done at Teachers College at freshman at CUNY’s senior to to protect undocumented tuition waiver, winter and summer hopes to get many more across the Columbia University, which indi- colleges who are attending students. immigrants. scholarships, monthly MetroCards five boroughs. (To add your name cated that on average the cost of a school full-time. CUNY Rising “Because we already and textbook vouchers, she knew to the petition, go to tinyurl.com/ three-year ASAP graduate leads plans to advocate for the inclusion had a sanctuary committee with that she would not only attend col- fund-cuny-asap-petition.) to an average savings of $6,500 per of part-time students in the future. a mailing list in place of Kingsbor- lege but graduate. Hussein Abdul, an ASAP stu- graduate over those in the study’s The city, which is the major funder ough activist [faculty and staff], I “When I got home and told my dent at Bronx Community College, comparison group of students. of CUNY community colleges, was able to ask professors to take family that I had joined ACE, ev- said that getting people to sign the should support another 26,000 stu- this petition to their classrooms,” eryone in the room was moved to CUNY Rising petition has been A KNOWN PROGRAM dents. CUNY Rising recognizes said Meg Feeley, an adjunct lec- tears,” Figueroa said. easy. “There’s no reluctance,” Ab - These findings have resulted that these expansions should not be turer in the English department. Figueroa added, “It was at that dul said. They say, “‘Of course, why in ASAP’s being nationally rec- at the cost of cutting other financial “That conversation was already in moment when my family realized wouldn’t I support this?’” ognized for its significant accom- aid and opportunity programs. existence.” that I could graduate with a bach- Bronx Community College cur- plishments. The Obama White Presently, State Senator Luis elor’s degree.” rently offers ASAP to all eligible House singled out the program Sepúlveda has introduced Senate A PATH FORWARD students in most majors. for its “promising” results, and it Bill 08913 in the state legislature Feeley said ASAP’s structure has been used as a model at com- that would amend education law makes it hard for a student to slip MATERIAL SUPPORT munity colleges in Ohio. At CUNY, and phase in increased support for through the cracks. One of her QC meeting ASAP and ACE provide textbook ASAP has served 37,000 students both ASAP and ACE, appropriating current students is struggling vouchers, one-on-one advisement, and has been singled out by aca- $35.25 million for ASAP and ACE in her class. But because he is an Continued from page 3 free unlimited MetroCards and tu- demic observers nationally and beginning in fiscal year 2019-2020 ASAP student, Feeley said he felt chancellor about the pedagogical ition waivers for eligible students. the academic press as one of the with 25 percent annual increases “respect” even though he is not a concerns adjuncts had about low Students have to be enrolled full- most successful community college until both programs are fully fund- top performer. Feeley suggested pay at CUNY. time, must be eligible for tuition initiatives. ed by the state. that the student knew that people As for next steps, Guskin said at the resident rate and ASAP “[ASAP] has consistently doubled were looking out for him. He felt the chapter will develop at least students who qualify for partial fi- the three-year graduation rate of par- OUTREACH STRATEGY supported in relationship to his one, preferably two, adjunct repre- nancial aid receive tuition waivers. ticipating students since its inception PSC members, along with CUNY academic performance by Feeley sentatives in each department on With these supports in place for in 2007,” said Donna Linderman, asso- students, have been gathering pe- and his ASAP advisor. campus to help intensify adjunct students, the programs deliver re- ciate vice chancellor for academic af- tition signatures and testifying Other ASAP students said that organizing in the future. sults – and ultimately save money. fairs at CUNY. “Rigorous evaluations to the CUNY Board of Trustees support from the initiative made it Marisa Holmes, who teaches ASAP’s most notable accom- of ASAP show that the right mix of about the importance of expand- easier for them to have a full col- in the urban studies program, plishment is that it has more than financial resources, structured path- ing ASAP and ACE. At John Jay lege experience. Abdul said that added in regard to a department doubled graduation rates, accord- ways and integrated support systems College of Criminal Justice, PSC because of ASAP support, he has adjunct representative system, ing to a 2017 CUNY report, “Sig- enable students to succeed.” Chapter Chair Dan Pinello devel - been able to develop as a student “It makes us all stronger. [The nificant Increases in Associate CUNY Rising is also advocat- oped an outreach strategy where leader. He can now boast on his re- administration] can’t go after Degree Graduation Rates.” ASAP’s ing to expand the program so representatives from different sume that he was president of the one person.” 10 NEWSFEATURE & LETTERS Clarion | October/NovemberClarion | December 2018 Stopping enrollment decline at KCC

By ARI PAUL action, one would watch a Knicks Affecting the faculty and the budget game and a KCC commercial would One of the first jobs for Claudia come on, featuring former presi- Schrader, the newly appointed pres- dent Regina Peruggi, or walk into ident of Kingsborough Community a Brooklyn movie theater and see a College (KCC), will be to address KCC ad while waiting for the film. the student enrollment crisis at the KCC used to be on buses as well.” South Brooklyn campus. But Armstrong said advertising Since 2013, student enrollment wasn’t the only issue. has plummeted a whopping 19.3 per- “When the economy is strong, we cent, according to CUNY figures, a tend to lose enrollment, which might stark contrast to the 11.4 percent also tell part of the story,” he said. increase at Borough of Manhattan “The more alarming explanation Community College (BMCC), the 2.9 might relate to the gentrification percent increase at Hostos Commu- of the city. As poor and working- nity College, or even small dips at class families are displaced due to places like LaGuardia Community high housing prices and new con- College, which saw a 2 percent loss struction, wealthier people whose in enrollment over the same time children will not attend a CUNY period. Brooklyn’s flagship four- community college move in. Thus, year campus, Brooklyn College, has it is possible that our student demo- seen increased enrollment for that graphics do not exist in the numbers time period, and CUNY recently re- they had previously.” ported a 4 percent overall increase in freshman enrollment this Fall. ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM CUNY records show that the num- The good news for the PSC chap- ber of full-time undergraduate stu- ter at KCC is that the new adminis- dents CUNY-wide has gone up by 0.7 tration has listened to the concerns percent since 2013. SandersDave of faculty about the decline in en- Enrollment at Kingsborough Community College has plummeted by nearly 20 percent since 2013. One factor for the declin- rollment. Friebel confirmed that REMOTE CAMPUS ing enrollment is the college’s somewhat isolated campus. the administration planned to in- While it’s natural for campuses crease advertising and marketing and programs to see dips in enroll- 28 percent from 2014 to 2017, roughly cal sciences at KCC. “Even if you other issues contributing to the funding for the Fall. He noted that ment – for example, City College mirroring the downward trajectory live in Brooklyn, it could take 90 problem. According to the KCC the community college will also has seen a total annual head-count of enrollment. minutes to get here using public administration, the number of conduct more outreach through decline of about 200 students across PSC members and KCC officials transportation.” high school graduates from feeder programming with the Brooklyn both graduate and undergraduate agree that the decline can partially As observers have noted, places districts within a 5-10 mile radius Public Library as well as through numbers in the last several years – be blamed on the previous adminis- like BMCC have lots of advertising of KCC has declined. public and private high the nearly 20 percent fall since 2013 tration’s decision to curtail advertis- in the subway and elsewhere, and “KCC and BMCC have sub- Members schools. for Kingsborough, which is the only ing efforts for the school combined for North and Central Brooklyn stantial overlap in applica- cite a Despite the challenges, two-year campus in Brooklyn, is an with the campus’s location off the residents, it’s an easier commute to tions, meaning students list previous the chapter remains op- anomaly when it comes to CUNY beaten path – it’s tucked away in Lower Manhattan. both colleges on their CUNY timistic that the right ad- enrollment numbers. Manhattan Beach, accessible after application. Over this period, lack of vertising campaign and LACK OF ADVERTISING The implications of this trend a bus transfer from the Q, N, D and we know students state the outreach. other recruitment efforts on KCC’s budget are profound. Ac- F lines terminating in Coney Island. In response, KCC, under new main reason for choosing one will attract students. De- cording to documents obtained by “We are infamously difficult administration, is working to in- over the other is that transportation spite its physical isolation, KCC Clarion, the college’s spending on to get to,” said Mary Dawson, the crease visibility with new adver- is easier from most areas of Brook- is still the only two-year CUNY adjunct teaching pay has decreased chair of the department of biologi- tising for the school, but there are lyn to BMCC,” said Thomas Friebel, campus in Brooklyn, and it’s the a KCC spokesman. closest two-year campus to Staten KCC wasn’t always in the advertis- Island, which has one four-year ing dark, however. According to Rina CUNY campus. Yarmish, the PSC chapter chair at “From providing shuttle buses to Adjunct members recommit KCC, the college used to advertise the looking at academic master plans, campus throughout the borough, but the new administration has given former KCC President Farley Her- all indications that they’re firmly zek reduced the school’s advertising committed to addressing holisti- budget from more than half a million cally and looking at what this fall dollars a year to zero – and the KCC in enrollment is attributed to,” Daw- administration confirms this. son said. “He didn’t really do the advertis- ing that had been done before,” she EFFECTS ON TEACHING told Clarion. “There used to be a lot For the KCC union chapter, the on buses and in print media, and he decline in enrollment is a worry- did not fund that. I would definitely ing trend with real consequences say it’s my impression that this de- for faculty. Specialty and elective cline began under his stewardship… classes have been canceled and [The interim president had] been instructors have been known to very aware of this.” cancel sections due to a lack of Before Schrader’s appointment, enrollment. Fewer classes to go according to members, the KCC in- around means that full-time fac- terim administration had indicated ulty end up teaching more reme- to the faculty that it was interested dial classes than they might have in several initiatives to reverse the expected, and, of large concern, enrollment trend, including doing members said, fewer adjuncts get more advertising. hired or reappointed. “The biggest impact is on the DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS cutting of required sections,” And Rick Armstrong, an associ- said KCC English professor Eben Ellen Moynihan Ellen ate professor of English, said, “In Wood, “which doesn’t necessarily PSC activists at Hunter College reached out to adjuncts to sign PSC recommitment cards, part of a major campaign to the past the publicity budget was impact full-time faculty, but im- strengthen the union in the wake of an anti-labor ruling in the Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME. significantly reduced. Before that pacts adjuncts.” Clarion | December 20182017 POLITICS OPINION 11 PSC turns out for House, State Senate wins

By ARI PAUL Many observers thought that Canvassing efforts in Staten Island, Brooklyn Golden, an entrenched local leader, Lisa Rose, a social sciences profes- would be impossible to beat. But sor at Borough of Manhattan Com- for Reem Jaafar, a professor in munity College, was still feeling “so LaGuardia Community College’s surreal” during a celebration at the math, engineering and computer PSC’s office two days after the mid- science department who lives in term elections. For many in America Golden’s district and is active in lo- seeking a political change, the shift cal politics, it seemed even a year of the House of Representatives to ago there was enough ammunition Democratic control was welcome against Golden. news. For Rose, it was personal. Her son, Max Rose, was elected as a new ‘INSTITUTIONAL OPENING’ Democratic congressmember for the “He has taken no responsibility previously GOP-controlled district for the lack of reliable transporta- that covers Staten Island and South tion,” Jaafar said. “He voted against Brooklyn. marriage equality and made egre- Describing her son as someone gious claims against Muslims in his with a “strong moral compass” and community in an effort to defend who has long had political ambi- the Muslim ban, including a lie stat- tions, Rose noted that friends and ing that 9/11 hijackers came from colleagues thought his chances of Bay Ridge.” winning were slim. The PSC support, Jaafar said, “There’s a huge misconception was integral to Golden’s defeat. about what Staten Island is,” Rose “The union’s endorsement for told Clarion, describing her days Gounardes helped bring in more going door to door for her son’s volunteers; we knocked on thou- campaign, noting that she met sands of doors together,” she said. Asian, Latino and Haitian house- “One day, about 18 union members holds while canvassing. “It is more showed up for canvassing. We diverse than people think. There’s knocked on over 1,500 doors that this real sense of community that day alone. Some members kept Max tapped into.” coming back for volunteering up Dave SandersDave until election day.” UNION BACKING PSC First Vice President Andrea Vásquez was among many PSC members canvassing at the Staten Island Ferry terminal What does the shift in the State Max Rose’s campaign was one of for Max Rose’s ultimately successful congressional campaign. Legislature mean for PSC mem- several that the PSC focused on this bers? “The change comes at a cru- fall, and not just because of Rose’s and Antonio Delgado, who replaces “PSC members coming out in sup- Perhaps more momentous was cial time for the PSC,” said union union connection. More than 1,000 a Republican in the Hudson Valley, port was important for Max Rose. the New York State Senate’s flip to president Barbara Bowen. “When PSC members live in the district, where numerous PSC members were He had a lot of get-out-the-vote Democratic control by a significant we reach a contract settlement we and the union had the potential to get actively involved. volunteers, because people in New margin. The past Republican con- will need to work with the legis- out the vote. “Knowing that my union For the PSC, flipping the House is York City wanted to participate in trol of the State Legislature’s upper lature to demand that it be fully was behind him was so important,” a significant victory. PSC legislative a red-to-blue seat and it was impor- house – in part due to Democrats funded, and we will also need Rose said. representative Mike Fabricant sees tant that we were in that,” said John who caucused with Republicans, their support to end poverty pay Max Rose will join several other a Democratic lower house of Con- Jay College political scientist Susan many of whom were ousted in the for adjuncts.” new progressive Democrats in the gress as a “goalkeeper” in federal Kang, who is active in the union’s primaries – has frequently been a Of course, political change won’t state’s congressional delegation next government, thwarting potential political outreach work and was just roadblock preventing ambitious happen instantly – newly elected year, including Alexandria Ocasio- challenges to the Affordable Care named one of the top ten up-and- progressive legislation, such as state senators will take time to get Cortez, who won a huge upset prima- Act and other right-wing legisla- coming leaders from Manhattan by the DREAM Act, campaign their footing and create ry victory in the Bronx and Queens, tive actions. the City & State magazine. finance reform, teacher evalu- Significant relationships within the ation reform and a statewide chamber and the gov- single-payer healthcare plan. democratic ernor’s office. But with PSC members made thou- majority an entirely Democratic sands of get-out-the-vote calls in state legislature, organized to members. Some, like Bor- labor and public higher ough of Manhattan Communi- senate education advocates ty College counselor Justyna have new leverage when Jagielnicka and former PSC Sec- it comes to dealing with Governor retary Cecelia McCall made more Andrew Cuomo. “In the past, there than 1,000 calls. In addition, many have been institutional blocks to members canvassed door-to-door going forward – now there’s an in districts the PSC Legislation institutional opening,” Kang said. Committee prioritized. “Cuomo is still a pro-austerity and “Legislative work for me is pro-private corporation governor, highly personal – flipping the so he needs to be pushed on fully House, New York State Senate funding CUNY and the state’s pub- and a Staten Island seat was the lic schools. Now is the time to hold ultimate goal,” Jagielnicka said. Cuomo accountable.” “As an immigrant woman who has Kang noted that PSC members experienced firsthand racism, xe- and leaders must follow up on nophobia and lack of respect for hu- these election victories to advance man dignity, it is my duty to fight the union agenda in the new State for all brothers and sisters.” Senate. “It’s really important that the union leadership engage with DEFYING EXPECTATION elected officials,” Kang said. “But One PSC electoral priority that it is also really important for PSC resulted in a State Senate victory members to go to senators as con- was the election of Andrew Gou- stituents and communicate to nardes, a pro-labor Democrat and them directly what they think is Dave SandersDave Hunter College graduate who oust- important.” PSC members canvassed in south Brooklyn for Democrat Andrew Gounardes, who will be a state senator after defeating ed longtime Republican incumbent Fabricant added, “Our work is to incumbent Marty Golden. 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12 ELECTION NOTICE Clarion | December 2018

PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS-CUNY NOTICE OF NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS – SPRING 2019

Chapter Officers, Delegates and The declaration must specify the ty-five (25) members of the chapter ment and college of each petitioner, request of the candidate and at cost, Alternates to the PSC Delegate As- office(s) being sought, the candi- in good standing, or by no fewer and the signature for each candidate the PSC will provide Century Direct sembly and PSC-CUNY Welfare date’s name, college and depart- than twenty-five percent (25%) of running on the slate. The candi- with home-addressed electronic Fund Advisory Council ment and, if the candidate intends the members of the chapter in good date’s signature on the slate petition download of the membership, or will Term of Office: 3 Years to run as part of a slate or caucus, standing, whichever is less. For all shall constitute that candidate’s ac- provide candidates with college-ad- the name of the slate or caucus. candidates, petitions shall include: ceptance of the slate designation. dressed list, labels and/or electronic ELECTION SCHEDULE Slate or caucus declarations should (a) the printed name, signature, A sample slate form is available on download of the membership. Can- 1. Deadline for filling Declarations be submitted through the slate or department and college of each pe- the PSC website: http://www.psc- didates must notify the PSC five of Candidacy will be January 11, caucus designee. A sample declara- titioner; and (b) the printed name, cuny.org/sites/default/files/Slate%20 (5) business days in advance of the 2019. tion form is available on the PSC signature, department and college Form.pdf or from Barbara Gabriel at mailing to allow sufficient time for 2. Pre-printed nominating petitions website: psc-cuny.org/declara- of the nominee, as well as the office the PSC office. the ordering of downloads. Please will be available upon request from tionofcandidacy or from Barbara being sought by the nominee. For Balloting: All voting must be see Barbara Gabriel at the PSC for the PSC office on February 1, 2019. Gabriel at the PSC office. chapter elections, members may on the official PSC ballot. Write- further information, and to file the 3. Fully completed nominating peti- Eligibility for Holding Office: only sign nominating petitions of in votes are permitted. A write-in required forms. tions must be received at the PSC Members shall be permitted to hold the chapter to which they belong. vote shall be valid if the intent of Election Tally: Each candidate, office, 61 Broadway, Ste. 1500, New chapter-level office who have been A candidate’s signature on a Decla- the voter is clear; written, printed or a representative of the candidate, York, NY 10006, by 5 pm, March 4, members in good standing of the ration of Candidacy shall constitute and typed names are acceptable. is entitled to be present at the count- 2019. appropriate chapter for at least one that candidate’s acceptance of the A write-in candidate must meet ing of the ballots. 4. Ballots will be mailed to members’ (1) year prior to the close of nomina- slate designation. the same eligibility requirements home addresses on April 1, 2019. tions, March 4, 2019. as a regular candidate. In chapter PSC-CUNY WELFARE FUND ADVISORY 5. Ballots in uncontested elections Voting Eligibility: Members SLATE REGULATIONS elections, any nominated or write- COUNCIL must be received at the PSC office shall be permitted to participate in A slate of candidates will be rec- in candidate must receive at least At each of the colleges listed be- by 5 pm on April 30, 2019. the nomination process and to vote ognized if it consists of candidates ten (10) votes or ten percent (10%) low, voters will elect the designated Ballots in contested elections who have been members in good for twenty-five percent (25%) or of the votes cast for that office, number of members of the PSC-CU- must be received at the office of the standing of the appropriate chapter more of the officers to be elected, whichever is less, in order to be NY Welfare Fund Advisory Council, designated ballot-counting orga- for at least four (4) months prior to and if it submits, prior to the close of elected. Write-in candidates who in accordance with the above sched- nization by 5 pm on April 30, 2019. the mailing of the ballots on April nominations: (1) a listing of caucus are elected must submit written ac- ule and rules and the bylaws of the Ballots will be counted at 10 am 1, 2019 (i.e., they must have been a officers, all of whom must be mem- ceptance of office to the Elections PSC/CUNY Welfare Fund: (see be- on May 1, 2019. member as of December 3, 2018). bers in good standing, including Committee within ten (10) calen- low right). Nominating Procedures: Nomi- the person designated to authorize dar days of notification that their Voting Eligibility: All members OFFICERS TO BE ELECTED nations of an individual or of a slate nominees for that caucus’ slate; and election has been certified. in good standing of the PSC at the In each of the chapters listed be- must be by official nominating peti- (2) a nominating petition including Campaigning: Declared candi- above colleges, who have been mem- low, voters will elect the Chapter tion signed by no fewer than twen- the printed name, signature, depart- dates may mail literature at their bers in good standing for at least Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, own expense, either directly or four (4) months, including Higher Secretary, four Officers-at-Large, through the PSC mailing house Education Officers, Registrars and Delegates to the Delegate Assem- Petition (Century Direct, 30-00 47th Avenue, College Laboratory Technicians, as bly (in addition to the Chapter Signatures Long Island City, NY 11101). At the well as faculty, will elect the PSC- Chairperson, who shall automati- Chapter Members Delegates Alternates Required CUNY Welfare Fund Advisory cally be the initial delegate to the Bronx EOC 12 Chair 1 3 Council members running at their Delegate Assembly) and Alternates Brooklyn EOC 20 Chair 1 5 College WF Council Members respective colleges. to the Delegate Assembly accord- College of SI 813 Chair + 7 5 25 Bronx EOC 1 Eligibility for Holding Office: ing to the following listing: (see PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund Adviso- Hunter Campus Schools 109 Chair 1 25 Brooklyn EOC 1 below left). College of SI 2 ry Council members must be CUNY Relevant portions of the ELEC- HEOs 4404 Chair + 43 8 25 instructional staff members who Hunter Campus Schools 1 TION RULES are summarized Kingsborough 775 Chair + 7 5 25 have been members in good stand- below. The complete rules may be Lehman College 780 Chair + 7 5 25 Kingsborough 2 ing of the PSC for two (2) years obtained from Barbara Gabriel at Manhattan CC 1361 Chair + 13 6 25 Lehman College 2 prior to the close of nominations, the PSC office, or viewed on the PSC Manhattan EOC 43 Chair 1 11 Manhattan CC 2 March 3, 2019. website at https://www.psc-cuny. Medgar Evers 411 Chair + 3 3 25 Manhattan EOC 1 Nominations: Advisory Coun- org/sites/default/files/Rules%20 cil members shall be nominated by NYC Tech 1114 Chair + 10 6 25 Medgar Evers 2 Governing%20Elections%206-15.pdf. written petition signed by no fewer Queens EOC 17 Chair 1 4 NYC Tech 2 than twenty-five (25) or twenty-five Queens EOC 1 DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY Queensborough CC 907 Chair + 8 5 25 percent (25%) whichever is less of Queensborough 2 Candidates must submit a Registrars 1 Chair 1 1 the CUNY instructional staff mem- signed Declaration of Candidacy Research Foundation 94 Chair 1 24 Research Foundation 1 bers at each unit who are also PSC no later than January 11, 2017, to RF Field Units 231 Chair +1 2 25 RF Field Units 1 members. Slate nominations will Barbara Gabriel at the PSC office. Retirees 2694 Chair + 6 5 25 Retirees 1 be permitted.