ROVING G REPORTER Summer reading What books do you take Clarıon to the beach – or the lab? NEWSPAPER OF THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS / CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SUMMER 2007 PAGE 8 s r e d n a S e v a D CCONTRAONTRACCTT PPETITIONETITION PSCPSC PROPOSALSPROPOSALS WIN SUPPSUPPORTORT Union and management negotiators have met regularly throughout the summer So far more than 2,400 members have signed a petition to support the direction in contract talks. There is a world of difference between the two sides’ demands, proposed by the PSC (see pp. 6-7 for signatures.) Above, Nick Irons signs a posing a stark choice about what kind of university CUNY will be in the future. petition held by Anselma Rodriguez at Brooklyn College. PAGES 6,7

RETIREMENT ORGANIZING PENSION EQUITY HISTORY New savings PSC wins labor NYS lawmakers The fight against plan offered board decision OK reform bill the slave trade All CUNY employees, both The NLRB ruled that grad PSC members urge Gov. CUNY students and NYC full- and part-time, now have students who work for the Spitzer to sign legislation union members joined a new retirement savings op- Research Foundation do that would give TIAA-CREF British unionists’ commemo- tion. The 457 Plan, sponsored have union rights – and their participants the same treat- ration of the ban on the slave by New York State, is flexible May 2005 ballots must be ment as their co-workers trade, and discussed its and tax-deferred. PAGE 9 counted. PAGE 5 in TRS. PAGES 3, 12 meaning for today. PAGE 10

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS G AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS G NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION G NYC CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL G NYS AFL-CIO G NEW YORK STATE UNITED TEACHERS 2 NEWS & LETTERS Clarion | Summer 2007 Call for submissions Outrage continues Our CUNYvs.Their CUNY By CLARION STAFF Can you imagine? The PSC is in the midst of negotia- tions with CUNY management for a Committee. “But many of our mem- sentation at an event at the union new contract, and both sides have bers – artists, musicians, poets, fic- hall on 61 Broadway. The event is presented their demands. If you tion writers and performers – can planned for September 19, 2007, the look at each side’s list, say present the possible future day the current contract expires. union activists – and you can Two very under these demands more “Send us your dystopian, utopian, or find both on the web at different vividly, whether that presen- simply humorous version of CUNY’s www.psc-cuny.org/NewCon tation is tragic or comic.” future were these demands to go in- tractRound.htm, you’ll see visions As part of an educational to effect,” the committee requested w o

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future P “It’s one thing to describe inviting union members “to Submissions should be sent to the potential impact of these de- contribute a piece of creative work Dorothee Benz at dbenz@pscmail. Adjunct activists brought their “Campaign of Outrage” to open houses held at mands, if they make their way into that illustrates what life would real- org. They will be considered and Bronx, Queensborough and Kingsborough Community Colleges in July. The col- the contract, in the prosaic language ly be like at CUNY under manage- accepted on a rolling basis; all leges are among five at CUNY that pay adjunct faculty less during exam peri- of newsletters and speeches,” said a ment’s demands, or under the PSC’s submissions must be received by ods, even though they are often the busiest times of the semester. Protesters’ statement from the PSC Organizing demands,” to be considered for pre- September 5, 2007. message to management for the Fall: “We’ll be back!”

| WRITE TO: CLARION/PSC, 61 BROADWAY, 15TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10006. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR E-MAIL: [email protected]. FAX: (212) 302-7815. LABOR IN BRIEF Bill to restore union rights of professionals In March, federal lawmakers intro- Equal problems,unequal resources duced bills to turn over the Nation- al Labor Relations Board’s Kentucky River decision. That rul- G At the end of last semester, a stu- our students, whose needs are sure- does not fit under the heading of Brave, bold and ing redefined and radically ex- dent informed me that her father ly no less than those of the Honors the article and should be acknowl- panded the board’s definition of had entered the hospital and she College’s “University Scholars.” edged separately. undocumented “supervisor” – which removed would like to re-schedule the final. I Jonathan Buchsbaum As a newly elected delegate who G Americans do not respect the law. thousands of workers from the told her not to worry and to contact Queens College ran on the QCC Unified Slate, I Our highways are full of evidence of protection of federal law if they me when his condition improved. would like to extend congratula- this. seek to form a union. Shortly afterward, I received a note tions to all the successful incumbent Our heroes are not martyrs to the Three Democrats in the Senate from an administrator asking me to Against Hillary Clinton and newly elected candidates in the law, such as Sir Patrick Spens, Sir and two in the House introduced arrange an alternative time for G I see that Hillary Clinton may get April 2007 PSC local elections. Thomas More or Uncle Tom. Our he- the Re-Empowerment of Skilled and “this Honors College student” to the nod from the AFT. I strongly op- Mona Fabricant roes are outlaws, such as Huck Finn, Professional Employees and Con- take the final. pose this, for many reasons: she Queensborough Community College Han Solo, Ferris Beuller and Captain struction Tradeworkers (RE- This was the first time I had ever does not represent our members, Jack Sparrow – to say nothing of our SPECT) Act. The bill would amend received such a request. As we our students, our CUNY or our city. Editor Peter Hogness responds: Founding Fathers. We admire those the National Labor Relations Act by know, Honors College students are Consider her failure to act positive- While Clarion is happy to publish who get over on the system, who de- redefining “supervisor” as a worker given more than particular semi- ly towards labor issues while on the this letter, we think our headline fy the law, who know no boundaries. who spends the majority of her or nars or classes – they get free tu- board of Wal-Mart; and her awful was accurate and our coverage did An essential quality of the American his day supervising others. ition and a portable computer. record on the Iraq war. not exclude anyone. is to color outside the lines, to chal- Evidently, they also receive coun- Even if the AFT board does vote Clarion’s headline on the 2007 lenge authority. Faculty strike votes seling support that extends to the to endorse Clinton, that need not be chapter elections had two parts, So what to make of all this sanc- intervention of administrators with a unanimous recommendation – a which read as follows: timony regarding illegal immi- lead to contract gains teachers. principled abstention, or even a Incumbents win chapter races grants? Forget all of our ancestors In early July, the Association of CUNY’s website states that the “no” vote, would send a strong sig- Most elections uncontested who came to this country by any Pennsylvania State College and Honors College aims to develop stu- nal. I remember our union’s mistak- The first part of our headline re- means necessary, including lies University Faculties reached an dents’ “awareness of the resources en endorsement of McCall for New ferred to the contested chapter elec- on immigration forms and false agreement with the state universi- available to them as members of the York governor over our own Stan- tions (“races”), all of which were claims of professions, wealth, ty system, after the academic Honors College.” ley Aronowitz, which might have won by incumbents. As every dictio- health and family relations. Hav- union voted to authorize a strike. Yet one of the first things the oth- truly had a positive outcome – en- nary we’ve consulted agrees, if there ing the cleverness and guts to Members won a cash payment er hundreds of thousands of CUNY hancement of alternate/third party is no competition, there is no race. defy unjust and unwieldy immi- plus annual raises of 3% to 4% in students become aware of is politics in our 1.5 party state. The second part of the headline re- gration laws in order to escape each of four years. CUNY’s lack of resources, including We are protesting in front of her ferred to the majority of chapter poverty and oppression should “Our mantra has been no con- counselors. office – we don’t intend to support elections, like QCC, where there was absolutely qualify an immigrant tract, no work,” union President As the Honors College is heavily her in the proverbial smoky rooms, no competition. to be an American. This is the kind Patricia Heilman told the Chronicle supported by private funds, the Uni- do we? As described in the May-June of person we want here – the kind of Higher Education. In previous versity risks reproducing a two-tier Paul Sheridan Clarion, the names of all those elect- of person who staged the years, she said, unionized faculty private/public system within CUNY Brooklyn College [retired] ed to chapter office are being pub- Boston Tea Party, not the Tories of had worked past the contract expi- itself. lished in this Summer issue (see lesser motivation, creativity and ration date. “Each time we did that, If access is to remain the mission page 5). As in the past, we print the courage who will stand on line for it ended in a bad result. So we de- of CUNY, we should seek access to Chapter election coverage name of each person and the office eight or ten years, who lack the cided we will try something else.” the best support practices for all of G In the May-June Clarion the to which they were elected; as in the sharpness wrought of desperate And in California, faculty in the headline on page 8 reads, “Incum- past, the names of those new to their circumstances. state college system won salary in- bents win chapter races.” At QCC a position appear in italics. To the illegal immigrant we creases of 21% to 25% over four Write to Clarion fusion ticket of CUNY Alliance and Certainly there were many non- should say, “You’ve proven you’ve years, after 94% of members autho- New Caucus supporters called the incumbents elected to chapter office got what it takes to be one of us. rized a walkout – the first strike Letters should be no more than 150 to QCC Unified Slate was elected with in 2007, and not only at QCC. In fact, Welcome to America!” vote in the union’s history. A medi- 200 words in length, and may be sub- a new chapter chair, Dr. Paul about 60% of those elected this K.J. Walters ator’s report was the basis for the ject to editing. Weiss. The QCC chapter therefore Spring are new to their posts. Lehman College settlement, reached in April. Clarion | Summer 2007 NEWS 3 Legislature OKs pension equity bill By PETER HOGNESS Fairness for those in TIAA-CREF On June 21, the New York Legisla- ture passed a pension equity bill union’s grassroots lobbying push to ditional contribution in each year. y that has been one of the PSC’s top win legislative approval. “This is a “When we came into office in e n t i priorities for the last seven years. benefit that people in TRS have had 2000, we found that a deal had been h W

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The bill now awaits Gov. Spitzer’s for several years, and people in cut on pensions as part of that v e t signature. TIAA-CREF should not get different year’s round of collective bargain- S “We need one last push from treatment.” ing, which gave this benefit to TRS Assemblyman Peter Abbate (center), pension committee chair, with (from left) members to get this bill signed,” Pedro Irigoyen, Chief College Lab participants,” London told Clarion. PSC members Peter Jonas, Carol Stanger, Bob Cermele and Vera Weekes. said Steve London, PSC first vice Technician in the chemistry depart- “But the ORP was left out. We im- president and legislative represen- ment at Queensborough mediately went to work to build support for it over time,” Lon- bill, and their backing helped secure tative. “NYSUT has made this bill Community College, called PSC get the ORP plans includ- don said. “Then last year, with a lot approval by the Senate’s Republican its top priority and CUNY and his representative, State members ed, but it was too late – the of member support, we got the pen- majority. TIAA-CREF have issued statements Senator Serf Maltese to urge deal was already sealed.” sion equity bill passed in Albany by McCall noted that the CUNY ad- of support. We have put together a support for the bill. Irigoyen ask governor PSC leaders then moved both houses – only to have it vetoed ministration also threw its support broad coalition of support and now has worked at CUNY for 25 to sign to build support within the by Gov. Pataki.” behind the legislation. “They told the governor needs to hear that this years. “It’s a matter of fair- union’s state affiliate, New “This year we again did a full-court legislators that this is a tool for re- is something the members want.” ness,” he told Clarion. reform York State United Teach- press,” said London. “It became NY- cruitment,” she explained. (See page 9) “What’s done for others legislation. ers (NYSUT), for the neces- SUT’s number-one priority, and we As Clarion went to press, union should be done for all.” He sary reform. After had an outpouring of support from members were again being asked to CONTRIBUTIONS said he would use the savings to put discussions with leaders of United our members calling their legislators. make their voices heard – this time The legislation provides that aside more for his retirement: “I’m University Professions (SUNY’s And so, seven years after we began to contact the governor. CUNY and SUNY employees in the about 10 years away from retiring, statewide union of faculty and staff) this effort, we got it passed by the leg- The bill will be officially delivered Optional Retirement Plan (ORP), and this would help quite a bit.” and with leaders of the separate lo- islature a second time.” to Gov. Spitzer in early August, and which includes TIAA-CREF and At one time most PSC members cals at the SUNY community col- he will have 10 days in which to take similar plans, who have 10 or more were in TRS, which is a traditional leges, NYSUT took up the issue as a GRATIFIED action. years of service would have the defined-benefit pension system. To- legislative priority. “I felt gratified that almost every Peter Jonas, chair of the PSC Pen- State or City pick up the contribu- day, most choose to join CUNY’s “In the spring of 2001 we had sup- member we called already knew sion Committee, urged union mem- tion members are currently making ORP, a defined-contribution system. port in principle from the legislature about this issue,” said McCall. bers to take action. “Last year we to their pension plan. For most par- “When the ORP was created, the Leg- and the governor,” London said. But “They knew we had been trying to achieved a legislative victory, but ticipants, this will mean a savings of islature was explicit about its intent agreement on a budget was delayed get it for a while and they were saw the bill torpedoed by then-Gov- 3% of their annual pay. to ensure equitable treatment of all – and then 9/11 happened. grateful that we called. So the word ernor Pataki,” Jonas told Clarion. When Albany approved a similar public retirement systems,” said Lon- The tentative agreement was is out there, and members appreci- “This year, we – PSC members – change for TRS members in 2000, don. “This reform puts that intent in- knocked off the table, in what was ated having a chance to affect the must let Governor Spitzer know employees in TIAA-CREF and other to practice.” the first of several contentious State outcome.” that he needs to step up and sign plans were left out. “It’s an equity is- If signed into law, the bill would be budget years. Members’ phone calls made the this legislation.” sue,” said former PSC Secretary Ce- phased in over a three-year period, “We brought the bill forward difference: all four State Senators (See page 12 for information on celia McCall, who coordinated the with the employer picking up a 1% ad- every year and worked hard to targeted by the PSC supported the how you can take action.)

turning Vietnam combat veterans,” said Samuel Farrell, who directs the veterans’ programs at La- Guardia. “Thirty-five years later, City increases funding for CUNY we find ourselves in the same posi- tion. CUNY is still a place for re- By DANIA RAJENDRA program. The City allocated $6.5 turning soldiers to develop the Council reverses mayor’s cuts million to the Accelerated Study in skills they need to compete in the City Council Speaker Christine Quinn Associate Programs, known as AS- job market.” Farrell said the La- and Mayor Michael Bloomberg an- tivism paid off,” said First Vice Pres- solved. From CUNY’s shortage of psy- AP. The program seeks to provide Guardia-based program will serve nounced an agreement on a $59 bil- ident Steve London. “The Council chological counseling to an excessive extra student support – additional fi- as a CUNY-wide model as the pro- lion budget for New York City on heard us and we are very pleased at reliance on part-time faculty. “We nancial aid, more convenient sched- gramming is developed. June 15. Newspapers celebrated the the advances made in this year’s look forward to making real progress uling for working students, tutors, In addition to those two programs, early achievement on the spending budget.” Overall, London noted, in the years to come,” he said. and a summer program for prepara- the City Council restored $600,000 for plan for fiscal 2008 – the budget often City support for senior and commu- Much of the budget restorations tory or remedial work. ASAP stu- the CUNY Citizenship and Immigra- doesn’t get done until hours before nity college programs was up by a and enhancements will cov- dents will be grouped in tion Project, and $1.6 million for the the June 30 deadline. total of 13.3% over last year. PSC er increases to costs such as “We have cohorts of 25 or fewer stu- Dominican Studies Institute, the The early agreement also brought members helped produce that result energy, the University’s dents to provide peer sup- Center for Puerto Rican Studies and some good news for CUNY funding. by signing some 13,000 postcards on salaries and benefits. A large made up port as well. the Immigration Center. The City Council reversed $42 mil- the budget, holding CUNY Week portion goes to City Council- much of the “The mayor and chan- lion of the mayor’s cuts and added events with legislators on campus- sponsored student aid pro- cellor focusing attention on MENTAL HEALTH $31.1 million to CUNY’s funding, for es, and turning out for a May 9 lob- grams, such as the Vallone lost ground” the community colleges is The Council did not fund a PSC a total budget of $264.7 million. The by day at City Hall. Scholarships and the need- of the 1990s. good,” said PSC Vice Pres- proposal for hiring additional faculty budget provides for two new pro- based Safety Net program. ident for Community Col- counselors to address a long-stand- grams – the ASAP Initiative, which MEMBERS CUNY’s Black Male Empowerment leges Anne Friedman. “But more ing shortfall in mental health ser- aims to support community college “When adjusted for inflation, at Initiative received restorations and counseling, smaller classes and vices available to CUNY students. students in gaining their associate’s the City level we have almost recov- a $1 million enhancement to expand more financial help should be a reg- The recent tragedy at Virginia Tech degrees, and a new veterans’ center ered from the devastating de-fund- its work. ular part of CUNY’s community col- highlights the importance of action based at LaGuardia. The Council al- ing of the 1990s,” London said. While Bloomberg had sought lege budget, not only a special on this problem, PSC President Bar- so increased the allocations for “While we are still 12% behind 1991 $25.8 million in cuts to CUNY’s com- program.” bara Bowen told Clarion, and the CUNY’s capital budget, so that in real dollars in City support for munity colleges in his executive The City also allocated $1 million union is committed to pursuing the CUNY can receive all matching CUNY, we have made up much of budget, he nevertheless proposed a for a new Veterans Resource Cen- issue in next year’s budget. “We are funds available from the State. the lost ground.” new program to increase student re- ter at LaGuardia. “Our vets’ pro- going to continue to alert State and The PSC had pushed hard for the But London noted that many press- cruitment, retention and graduation gram was created in January 1972 City lawmakers to this pressing restorations. “Our members’ ac- ing problems at CUNY remain to be in April as part of his anti-poverty to provide education services to re- need,” she said. 4 NEWS Clarion | Summer 2007 Spitzer names higher ed commission By PETER HOGNESS Spitzer’s executive order envi- reporters, Rawlings stressed his Initial report due Dec. 1 sions “increasing direct State sup- past experience in public higher ed- Gov. Eliot Spitzer has appointed a port” for SUNY and CUNY, but also ucation, including leading public Commission on Higher Education, is akin to the UCLA program, it is At the press conference, Spitzer “greater flexibility in tuition prac- universities in Iowa and Colorado. and has asked it to develop a plan akin to what they have at Wisconsin, spoke at length about the poten- tices.” His executive budget said the The other members of the com- “to enable our public universities to Carolina [or] Texas.” tial role of public universities in commission should develop “a ratio- mission include: CUNY Chancellor go from being good to being great.” PSC President Barbara Bowen told economic growth. His executive nal tuition policy” that would pro- Matthew Goldstein; CUNY Trustee Its preliminary report is due by De- Clarion that the union welcomed for- order says that the commission vide “predictability in future tuition Marc Shaw; President Marcia Keizs cember 1 of this year. mation of the commission, and that will recommend ways for “in- charges.” CUNY central administra- of York College; President Eduardo Spitzer first proposed the com- increased attention for public higher creasing the alignment of SUNY tion has used similar language with Martí of Queensborough Communi- mission in his State of the State ad- education in New York was and CUNY research cen- respect to tuition increases, which ty College; Robert Paaswell, distin- dress in January. He said then that long overdue. “There is a ba- To take the ters and degree pro- the PSC has long opposed. guished professor of civil engineering it should recommend strategies for sic issue that underlies grams with the economic at CCNY; Queens College student “achieving academic excellence, en- everything in public higher state “from development objectives ACCESS Lauren Talerman; interim SUNY suring access, and contributing to education in New York, and good to great” of the State and the re- The governor also said that in- Chancellor John Clark and the pres- the State’s workforce and economic that’s the historic decline in gion of the State where creasing access to higher education idents of three SUNY campuses; Bill development efforts,” and these are funding,” she said. “Both CUNY and each campus is situated.” (It adds in New York State would be a key Scheuerman, head of SUNY’s union also the main themes of his May 29 SUNY have seen a huge withdrawal that “the ability of students and goal. His executive order says that of faculty and professional staff; the executive order. of State support. I hope the commis- faculty to pursue research unteth- “improving the affordability of high- presidents of NYU, Columbia and sion begins with a recognition of this ered to any predetermined eco- er education” should be one of the Syracuse and the dean of Harvard PRESTIGE? fundamental fact, and I look forward nomic objectives” should also be panel’s top priorities, and that this Law; Assemblywoman Deborah At a press conference held May 29, to the results of its work.” maintained.) would require “directing more of Glick and Sen. Kenneth LaValle, who Spitzer praised New York’s public During the 1990s, Bowen noted, The governor’s remarks also fo- the available aid to students with chair the higher education commit- universities but lamented that they State support for CUNY dropped by cused heavily on SUNY. Noting that greatest demonstrated need.” The tees of the New York Assembly and do not generally have the same level about one-third in real dollars, and the SUNY system has “so many commission is also charged with State Senate; Rochester Teachers of prestige as those in a number of it is still 18% below its 1990 level. masters,” he said the commission making recommendations on New Association President Adam Urban- other states. The commission’s re- “Everything that a commission would examine its governance York’s community colleges – in par- ski; Bruce Raynor, president of port, he said, will chart a path that might study – the drop in full-time structure. But while he spoke about ticular how they can increase grad- UNITE-HERE; John Dyson, a former can “make NY’s higher educational faculty, access to a college educa- CUNY less often, the governor uation rates. deputy mayor under Rudolph Giu- system a world-class institution… so tion, the need to bolster research – made clear that the commission The chair of the commission is liani; and Abe Lackman, head of New that we can look at the CUNY sys- they’re all connected to the lack of would also look at the City Univer- Hunter Rawlings, former president York’s main association of private tem and the SUNY system and say it funds,” she said. sity system. of Cornell University. Speaking to colleges and universities. Deborah Glick, CUNY alumna, is new Assembly higher ed chair By DANIA RAJENDRA TAP reform a priority “I began my college career when CUNY had a policy of free tuition – member of his new Commission on years later, studying for her MBA at so I did not face the prospect of com- Higher Education (see above). Fordham. “I was more assertive, I ing out of my undergraduate years Glick began at Queens College in was older, and I demanded a clearer

with a lot of debt,” recalled Assem- 1967. She majored in theater and explanation for things I didn’t under- k c i l G blywoman Deborah Glick, a Queens then in English and “had wonderful stand. But there was also more of a h a r

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better education. “There was more experience was very rich,” she said. u o time to study, more time to be She also learned a lot RETURNED C involved politically,” she told Says CUNY outside of class. “I was After working full-time for a few Deborah Glick, first from left, middle row, with students at Queens College. Clarion this spring. Glick’s very involved in political years, Glick returned to undergrad- own political involvement be- needs more activism,” she explained. uate study at Queens – and came gram. “We have to rethink and mas- PSC team led by Barbara Bowen has gan as an undergraduate, and full-time “It was during the tumul- back to a different CUNY: “When I sage the TAP program so that it is had a dramatic impact in a fairly it put her on a path that led to lines. tuous Vietnam War days returned at night to finish, policies more reflective of the way students short time,” Glick said. the New York Legislature. [and] it was very exciting.” had changed, and there was tuition. go through school now. It’s of great New York State still lags behind “Today, the exploration of ideas It was also prior to Roe v Wade, and As a working person, I felt the concern and interest to me.” Under many other states in support for its and finding your way through a vari- she become involved in the struggle stresses of working and going to TAP’s current rules, students who public universities, said Glick – but ety of interests has been short-cir- to change the law on abortion. school, and this probably was more are financially self-supporting are at the situation is at least beginning to cuited by the cost of school and the Becoming an active feminist was in line with the majority of experi- a disadvantage. improve. Chairing the Committee demand to move forward” to a spe- also sparked, in part, by her own ex- ences that students have today.” More broadly, Glick is concerned on Higher Education gives her “an cific job. “So critical thinking and perience with discrimination in And Glick bears those experiences that rising costs have made higher opportunity to take stock of the knowledge for knowledge’s sake class. “As a woman, I was actively in mind when politicians talk about education much less accessible: state’s commitment and try to im- have suffered throughout higher ed- discouraged from science” – a com- the time to graduation at public uni- “Bottom line, we’ve seen dramatic pact that.” ucation.” mon experience in the 1960s, she versities. “People who have the per- increases in the cost of public high- State support for CUNY’s capital said. “I was interested in chemistry severance to go to school, and still er ed, and we haven’t seen the same spending plans is one hopeful sign, COMMISSION and calculus, and I was having some juggle family and work, are neces- dramatic increase in working peo- said Glick, but it will take many Glick has represented the 66th trouble with the math. I definitely sarily going to take more years,” she ple’s incomes.” years to repair the damage done by Assembly District in Greenwich Vil- didn’t get the kind of support in said. “And they should be given ku- decades of neglect. “And rebuilding lage since 1990, when she became math and science that would have dos for their perseverance. They’re TERRIFIC AD CUNY does not just mean capital the first openly lesbian or gay mem- led me to pursue [chemistry as] a hardly laggards.” Glick praised the PSC’s efforts to construction,” she told Clarion. To ber of the New York State Assem- career.” Glick pursued a theater ma- Given that students often need change the funding equation. She rebuild “the fiber of the university” bly. Now chair of the higher jor until she “took a hiatus.” more than two or four years to fin- said the union’s TV ad on this year’s will require many other kinds of education committee, Glick was re- She contrasted her math experi- ish their degrees, Glick said it is budget battle was “terrific,” and its support, including an increase in cently named by Gov. Spitzer as a ence at Queens with her experience time to re-examine the TAP pro- lobbying efforts get noticed. “The full-time faculty lines. Clarion | Summer 2007 NEWS 5 NLRB rules for RF workers By DANIA RAJENDRA RF stalls, but ballots to be counted On June 29, the National Labor Re- lations Board (NLRB) told CUNY’s The board said they were not em- Rob Sauté, a doctoral student in Research Foundation (RF) that the ployees but rather students receiv- sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY graduate students are, in ing a stipend to support their agreed. “The RF doesn’t grant de- fact, workers – who do have the education, and it ruled that private- grees! Although they probably right to unionize. sector graduate assistants therefore would be highly qualified to confer The ruling cleared the way for had no federally-protected right to degrees in union-busting, delaying counting ballots that Research Foun- organize. and dragging,” he joked. dation employees cast in a Graduate Sauté faults the RF for the repeat- Center union election in May 2005. ARGUMENT REJECTED ed holdups. “Clearly the RF has But on July 18, almost as soon as When RF employees at the CUNY every advantage in delaying,” he that count began, it ground Graduate Center sought to said. “It means the union has to keep to a halt due to objections Union rights unionize with the PSC, the starting over.” Since many RF em- from RF management. PSC of CUNY RF tried to adopt the same ployees work on specific research representatives sought a argument. Although the projects, he explained, turnover is

grad students s compromise that would let RF claims that it is a com- high. “Many work on projects that e n o ñ the count continue, but pletely separate employer last one or two years. Mine was i

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were unsuccessful. Now from CUNY – and private- four.” But his project is over now – so a s i the count is on hold again, pending a sector where CUNY is public – it con- Sauté, who was active in the union L decision from the regional NLRB on tended that most of its Graduate drive, is no longer an RF employee. On July 17, an NLRB agent opened some ballots cast in May 2005. challenged ballots. Center employees had no right to or- ganize because they were also CUNY VOICE counted, in full, without further de- of why card-check recognition and GRAD ASSISTANT graduate students. Sauté predicted that the RF’s lat- lay. “We will work hard to move congressional passage of the Em- The original dispute revolved The NLRB rejected that argu- est objections would not prevent a the vote through the board’s proce- ployee Free Choice Act is so impor- around an NLRB decision that found ment: “Unlike Brown, the employer union victory. “It’s a last-ditch ef- dure as quickly as possible,” said tant. Current procedures are too that graduate assistants at Brown [the Research Foundation] is not an fort to deny people a voice,” he said. PSC Executive Director Deborah vulnerable to stalling tactics by University were not really workers. educational institution.” The PSC wants the ballots to be Bell. “But this is one more example management.”

Marta Effinger, Michael Gomez, Bar- ry Keating, Brian Keener; PSC-CUNY Welfare Advisory Council, Jackie El- Chapter election results liot, Helen Frank. Queensborough Community College: (QCC Unified Slate) Chairperson, By PETER HOGNESS Borough of Manhattan Community Paul Weiss; Vice Chairperson, Many new local leaders College: (New Caucus Slate) Chair- Wilma Fletcher; Secretary, Sheila Results of the PSC’s 2007 chapter person, Jane Young; Vice Chairper- Beck; Officers-At-Large, Jacob Ap- elections were certified by the cus Slate) Chairperson, Vasilios Pe- David Towber; Vice Chairperson, son, Joyce Moorman; Secretary, pleman, Kitty Bateman, Charles union’s Elections Committee on tratos; Vice Chairperson, Roslyn Lee Weinberg; Secretary, Sylvia Cynthia Wiseman; Officers-At- Neuman, Alexandra Tarasko; May 4, and the committee’s report Bologh; Secretary, Shah Jayman; Schaindlin; Officers-At-Large, Alvin Large, Wambui Mbugua, Brenda Delegates to the DA, Paul Weiss, was accepted at the May 31 meeting Officers-At-Large, Sarah Benesch, Shields, Barbara Ghnassia, Michael Wyatt, Ruth Herz, Mildred Whiten- Judith Barbanel, Mona Fabricant, of the Delegate Assembly. Satyapraka Das, Allen Natowitz, Stratechuk, Cristina Moore, Dele- er; Delegates to the DA, Jane Philip Pecorino, JoAnn Wein, A complete list of those elected Stephen Stearns; Delegates to the gate to the DA, David Towber. Young, Joyce Moorman, Ingrid Reuvain Zahavy; Alternate Dele- follows below, with those who are DA, Vasilios Petratos, Michael Bat- Hughes, Mike Vozick, Kenneth gates to the DA, David Lieberman, new to their position listed in italics. son, Rima Blair, Harry Cason, Richard Kingsborough Community College: Levinson, Rafael Corbalan, Rebecca Jane Poulsen, Tom Smith, Lana PSC elections occur on a stag- Flanagan; Alternate Delegates to (Your Faculty Slate) Chairperson, Hill, Charles Post; Alternates to the Zinger; PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund gered three-year cycle: half the the DA, Emile Chi, John Davenport, Rina Yarmish; Vice Chairperson, DA, Lisa Rose, Shirley Rausher, Phil Advisory Council, Tom Gerson, union’s chapters had elections in David Kritt, Alexei Matveev; PSC- Theodore Markus; Secretary, Eggers, Dolores DeLuise, Angela David Klarberg. 2007, while the other half will vote CUNY Welfare Advisory Council, Michael Sokolow; Officers-At- Romeo-Molloy; PSC-CUNY Welfare for local leadership next year. Carol Demartinis, Cheryl Wu. Large, Gregory Aizin, William Advisory Council, Marcia Newfield, Research Foundation: (RF/CUNY Union-wide elections will next be Winter, Barbara Walters, Denis Margie White. Slate) Chairperson, Anthony held in 2009. Both chapter and Higher Education Officers: (New Cau- Sivack; Delegates to the DA, Rina Dixon; Vice Chairperson, Fisner union-wide positions have a three- cus Slate, except where noted) Yarmish, Susan Aranoff, William Medgar Evers: (Medgar Evers College Antoine; Delegate to the DA, An- year term of office. Chairperson, Jean Weisman; Vice Rooney, Cliff Hesse, Donald Donin, Alliance Slate) Chairperson, Edward thony Dixon. Clarion reported on this year’s Chairperson, Iris DeLutro; Secre- Silvea Thomas, Michael Barnhart; Catapane; Vice Chairperson, Darius elections on page 8 of our May 2007 tary, Ann Batiuk; Officers-At- Alternates to the DA, Joseph Movasseghi; Secretary, Steven Nardi; Retirees Chapter: (Retiree Caucus issue. For a more detailed descrip- Large, Sheriann Grant-Fordham, Consolo, Ronald Forman, Alfonso Officers-At-Large, Stanley Bajue, Slate) Chairperson, Jacob Judd; tion of the PSC’s structure, see page Janet Leslie-Pierre, David Nadvor- Garcia Osuna, Donald Hume, Gor- Dereck Skeete, Iola Thompson; Dele- Vice Chairperson, James Perlstein; 2 of the November 2004 edition. Both ney, Robert Nelson; Delegates to don Bassen; PSC-CUNY Welfare gates to the DA, Edward Catapane, Secretary, Mary Bryce-Jennings; are available at www.psc-cuny.org/ the DA, Anthony Andrews, Stephen Advisory Council, Rina Yarmish, Waldaba Stewart; Alternate Dele- Officers-At-Large, Francine Brewer, communications.htm. Barrera, Ann Batiuk, Daniella Richard Staum. gates to the DA, Patricia E.D. Judith Bronfman, Martin Kaplan, Francisco, Ralph Giordano, Mau- Belcon, Jewel James; PSC-CUNY Eileen Moran; Delegates to the DA, reen Pierce-Anyon, Wayne Hare- Lehman College: (Academic Slate) Welfare Advisory Council, Darius Jacob Judd, Joel Berger, David Bronx EOC: (BXEOC Slate) Chairper- wood, Nicholas Irons, Ed Lobley Chairperson, Helene Silverman; Movasseghi, Ventura Simmons. Kotelchuck, Ezra Seltzer; Alternate son, Santiago Villafañe; Delegate to (HEOs Now Slate), George Muchi- Vice Chairperson, John Mineka; Delegates to the DA, Miriam Bal- the DA, Santiago Villafañe. ta, Michael Neal, Warren Orange, Secretary, Duane Tananbaum; New York City College of Technology: muth, Theodore Gottesman, Steven Anselma Rodriguez, Alisa Sher Officers-At-Large, Bruce Byland, (New Caucus Slate) Chairperson, Leberstein, Robert Wurman; PSC- Brooklyn EOC: (A. Nicholas/T. Javaid (HEOs Now Slate), Steven Selwyn, Catherine Alicia Georges, Liesl Robert Cermele; Vice Chairperson, CUNY Welfare Advisory Council, Slate, except where noted) Chairper- Alvin Tramble, Jean Weisman, Jones, Kevin Sailor; Delegates to the Mary Alice Browne; Secretary, Irwin Yellowitz. son, Amy Nicholas; Vice Chairper- Paula Wiest (HEOs Now Slate), DA, Helene Silverman, Eric Calyo, Tess Tobin; Officers-At-Large, Kyle son, Tanweer Javaid; Officer at Janet Winter; Alternate Delegates M. Marsham Castro, Wayne Halli- Cuordileone, Joel Greenstein, Ana Manhattan EOC: [Special election to Large, Joan H. Grant-Boyd; Delegate to the DA, Carole Taylor, Michael day, John Mineka; Alternate Dele- Marcano, Sharon Swacker; Delegates be held Fall 2007.] to the DA, Amy Nicholas; Alternate Simmonds, Andrea Vasquez, gates to the DA, Christy Folsom, to the DA, Robert Cermele, Stephen Delegate to the DA, Brenth Daniel Robert Bandelt, Marc Ward. Jonathan Halabi, Manfred Philipp, James, Gary Morgan, Costas Panay- Queens EOC: [None.] (C. Murdock/A. Browne Slate). Mark Zuss; PSC-CUNY Welfare Ad- otakis, Patricia Rudden, Wendy Scrib- Hunter Campus Schools: (Campus visory Council, Alice Akan, Keville ner, Gerald Van Loon; Alternate Registrars: [Special election to be College of Staten Island: (New Cau- Schools Caucus Slate) Chairperson, Frederickson. Delegates to the DA, Malcolm Ebanks, held Fall 2007.] 6 NEGOTIATIONS Clarion | Summer 2007

JOB SECURITY AFTER 7 YEARS Union proposes CCE for adjuncts

By BARBARA BOWEN hired. Though formally committed in a part-time position. The CCE partments would have adequate protection of academic freedom, PSC President to the goal of 70% full-time faculty would be modeled on the CCE opportunity to assess whether an and decent salaries and benefits – and 30% adjuncts, CUNY continues available to lecturers and would be adjunct is right for long-term em- is essential for a serious universi- mong the union’s in- to rely on thousands of underpaid provided retroactively to long- ployment. Stable employment for ty. The union has led the cam- novative proposals in part-timers to balance the budget serving adjuncts who met the eligi- the subset of adjuncts who met the paign for more full-time faculty this round of as enrollment climbs. bility threshold. eligibility threshold would bring positions for CUNY; we were the bargaining is a Cer- Yet CUNY management is offi- The proposal is still under dis- much-needed stability for stu- first to break the official silence tificate of Continuous cially in denial about the way it has cussion with CUNY and the union dents, who are mystified when on the issue, and we have had EmploymentA for adjuncts. restructured its workforce. The is open to negotiation about the they learn that their professor is some success, working with man- Once upon a time, adjuncts in smiling faculty faces you see on details, so I won’t discuss them no longer with the college after agement, in achieving funding in- higher education were truly an ad- subway ads are never of adjuncts, here. The essential point made by the course is finished. It would creases to address it. junct to the rest of the faculty – even though adjuncts are the ma- the union’s proposal is that CUNY bring increased predictability to they offered specialized courses jority of “who’s teaching at CUNY.” must reciprocate the commitment the hiring process for department RESTRUCTURED not available from other faculty, or Particularly in its approach to ad- to the University and its students chairs while still allowing the flex- But whether we like it or not, they taught for a semester or two junct job security, the University shown by the thousands of ad- ibility to cover many courses with CUNY has restructured its work- in areas otherwise not addressed continues to act as if it’s 1965. juncts who return every semester non-certificated adjuncts. (The force. There are still more than by the college. That has not been CUNY wants to have its cake and teach many of CUNY’s core proposal includes protection for 8,000 adjuncts at the University. true for many years, especially at and eat it too: courses. The University cannot graduate employees, in recogni- CUNY management may be en- CUNY. For reasons that are both Management’s position is that go on relying on the long-time ex- tion of the University’s commit- gaged in denial about adjuncts’ financial and political, the higher it’s fine for adjuncts to teach half perience of a cadre of adjuncts ment to providing them with role in the University, but we – education workforce has been dra- the courses and offer years or even and then treating them like teaching opportunities.) whether full-time faculty, ad- matically restructured, with CUNY decades of service to the same de- throw-away people. Not least important, an ad- juncts or professional staff – as one of the worst offenders. partment, but that when it comes junct CCE would enlarge acade- should recognize that it is in no Nationally, the percentage of part- to job security, each new semester EVERYONE mic freedom at CUNY, now one’s interest but management’s timers among college faculty mem- is a clean slate. CUNY has stated A CCE for CUNY’s most tested seriously endangered by the fact to deny the most experienced ad- bers increased 41% between 1990 clearly that in its view, an adjunct’s adjuncts is good for everyone: full- that thousands of courses are juncts a measure of job security. and 2003. At CUNY, the increase employment can be ended “for any time faculty, students, professional taught by people unprotected It is certainly not in the interests in the same period was 71%. reason, or no reason at all” – no staff, adjuncts themselves, and from arbitrary or politically-mo- of our students to be taught by matter how many years the ad- above all, students. Job security for tivated termination. people who don’t know from one CORE FACULTY junct has taught at CUNY, and no all of us is undermined when man- An adjunct CCE at CUNY is long semester to the next whether they In 2007, we are long past the matter how well. agement has the option of termi- overdue. Colleges across the coun- will have a job. point when it is possible to de- The union is seeking to address nating any faculty member at will, try, and several right here in New An adjunct CCE would go a long scribe CUNY adjuncts as anything this issue in the current round of and students’ education is compro- York, have offered it successfully, way towards making the most of but part of the core faculty. Half of negotiations. We have proposed a mised when half of their instruc- and CUNY should follow their lead. the talented part-time faculty we the University’s courses are taught series of one-year and multi-year tors receive virtually no The PSC remains adamant that are lucky enough to have in New by adjuncts, and the ratio of part- appointments leading to a Certifi- institutional security. a predominantly full-time faculty York City, and would make a gen- time to full-time faculty is on the cate of Continuous Employment, The PSC is proposing a seven- in tenured or tenure-track posi- uine contribution to the education rise, even as more full-timers are which would provide job security year period before the CCE, so de- tions – with time for research, of our students.

James Freeman Patricia Genova Shellye D. Belton Cynthia Toronto Ananya Mukherjea John Ribeiro Yvette Luyando Hillary Hartman Jewel Thompson Livia Katz James Wulach Berton R. Eisenstadt Donna H. Lee William Seraile K.A. Cuordileone Charles Porter Andrea Efthymiou Judith Nysenholc Aranzazu Borrachero Sidney Sovisky Valerie K. Anderson Eric Fuchs Anthony Gidari Amy Berkov Mark Turner Allen Natowitz Joan Richardson Patricia Mabry Donna Haverty-Stacke Vidette Todaro- Allison Kavey Kathryn Wylie Dana Ellis-Ramirez Stephen Loffredo Helene Silverman Ann Delilkan James Quinn Mara Einstein Jennifer Oates Ruth Botwinik Helene R. Spierman Anthony Andrews Marjorie Garrido Hollis Glaser Susan Besse Roberta S. Turner Kristi Nielson Rosa Rivera Luzviminda Malihan Marlene Hennessy Franceschi Paul M. Kelly Gary Zaragovitch Helmut Eppich Shirley Lung Addy Soto Maria deNicolo-Tucker Katrina Reaves Martin Eisenberg Patrick O’Connell Barbara Brauer Nichole Stanford William Ashton Jordi Getman-Eraso John P. Gonzalez Maxime Blanchard Sydney Van Nort John Olsen Nicholas W. Robbins Daniel Maysonet Brian Herbert Joan Tronto Professor Kimora Richard E. Zeikowitz Joseph Evering Ruthann Robson Thomas C. Spear Peter Deraney Angela M. Redman Hester Eisenstein Andrew Pau Bobbi Brauer Julian Stark Nicole Awai Paula Gilbert Anthony Gronowicz Ira Blumenreich Paul Wachtel John R. Oppenheimer Anna Rodriguez Olga Murphy Julio Hernandez-Delgado Devon R. Turner Jeffrey Kroessler Toby Feinberg Joseph Rosenberg Chris Alen Sul Joycelyn Dillojn Robert L. Reid David H. End Ekaterina Pechenkina Trikartikaningsih Byas Sylvia Suitak Aegina Barnes Allan Gilman Louise G. Gross Belkys Bodre Diana Wall David Poignant Barbara Katz Rothman Patricia Oldham Maria Hernandez-Ojeda Chris Unruh Nilsa Lam Kingsborough Xiwu Feng Nathan Treadwell Ann Tabachnikov Ray DiMartini Timothy W. Reinig Hugh English Jnaice Peritz Lucille A. Cardinale Elizabeth Suter Stephen A. Barrera Ted Gottesman Brian C. Haller Carmen Boullosa Marcos Wasem Peter Prisco Nancy C. Saieh Norma Pena de Llorenz Benjamin Hett Alan Vardy Ralph W. Larkin Community College Mary Fjeldstad Deborah Zalesne Duane Tananbaum Sheldon Dinter Estela Rojas Edmund L. Epstein Sharon C. Peyser Arminda Ching Emily S. Tai Richard Baslaw Rony Gouraige Joyce Harte Patricia Bramwell Jean Weisman Linda Revenson Ilan Sandberg Felipe Pimentel James Dennis Hoff Rodney Varley Anru Lee Stephen R. Armstrong John Frank Shauna-Gay Taylor Marie Sue Donsky Diane Romeo Duncan Faherty Victoria Pitts-Taylor Georgina Colalillo John Talbird Dhanraj Bhagwandin Jacqueline Gutwirth Ron Hayduk Lance Jay Brown Paula Wiest Michaela Richter Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Iber Poma C. Huffman Blanca Vazquez Eileen A. Lee Jack Arnow Richard Furlong Lehman College Xavier Totti Walter Dufresne Randi Ross Harry Feiner Naomi Podber Jeffrey Connors Alexandra Tarasko Donald Boney Our vision for a new contract Marie-Carine Hercule Richard Hendrix John P. Calagione Joshua Wilner Maria J. Rivera Angela Sidman Juan Preciado Rebecca Farmer Huselid Lisa Vergara Leona Lee Babette Audant Lila M. Gardner Jennifer Alessi Susan Tree Malcolm Ebanks Patricia S. Rudden Sujatha Fernandes Kerry Pustam Andre Coombs Donald Tricarico Mitchell Brodsky Mildred Hermina Joel Hernandez Maria Laura Castiglioni- Zhenrong Xu Helen Mele Robinson Neil Smith Luz Rivera Ilir Hysa Florence Vigilante Johanna Lessinger Eleanor J. Bader Patricia D. Garrett Pamela Ansaldi Steve Trimboli Marta Effinger-Crichlow Rita Rudsky Eva Fernandez Terrence Quinn Joseph Culkin Monica Trujillo Beverly A. Brown Ray Hubener Ruth Herz Spalten Mohamed Zahran Bethany L. Rogers Patricia Stapleton Eva Rodriguez Mohamed B. Ibrahim John R. Wallach Gavin Lewis Craig Banwer Juan Genao Addie Armstrong Bernardo Viano Jacqueline Elliot Jill Russell Lisa Flanzaich Boojala Reddy Dina Dahbany-Miraglia Florence Tse Dwainette Bryan Femi Jones Rebecca Hill C. Chase Feng Zhou Keith Rowan Zeeshan Suhail Raymond Rodriguez Ehiedu Iweriebor Francis Walsh Maat E. Lewis-Coles Anthony Borgese Lori Gigante Arto Artinian Karl W. Watson Jewel Escobar Cathy Santore Nancy S. Foldi Karen Regen Vilma Daley Ann S. Tullio Nina Buxenbaum Toni Kasper Ann Hjelle Jin Rui Chen Jifang Zhu James Saccardo Jane Tartaro Peter Roman William J. Jones Mark Watters Patricia Licklider Leticia Thomas Brereton Sylvia M. Gonzalez Nathalie Bailey Suzanne Yates Kate Falvey Elizabeth Schaible Daniela Francisco Alex Reichl Jean Darcy Joseph P. Vallone Marie Carrese Jeanine Kelley-Williams Susan Horowitz Xinghao Chen Zhigang Zhu Angela Sammarco Charles Tien Remy Roussetzki Ou Joong-Hwou Barbara J. Webb Marva Lilly Victor Broder Gregory Green Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Andrea Zakin Monique Ferrel Hans Schoutens Joshua B. Freeman David Richter Darnel Degand Charles M. ViVona Emmanuel Chang The PSC campaign for a new contract is part of the union’s agenda to make CUNY what it could Donna Kessler Helen Huff Jeffrey Clapp George Emilio Sanchez Steven Tomas Jacqueline Ruiz Irving Kagan Aaron Weeks Thomas R. Litwack Rosemary Bufano Joan Greenbaum Banoum Su Zen Eileen Fischer Paul Schwartz Neil K. Friedman Carl Riskin Arthurine F. DeSola Edward Volchok Jacqueline Clark Estelle Kissel Ingrid Hughes Marlene Clark Central Office Barbara Scundakis Andrea Vasquez Carlos Sanabria Jaafar Kassem Ali Jan Weinrich Jo Alejandra Lugo Johannes Burgers Stafford Gregoire Dominick V. Basile Mark Zuss Helen Frank Wendy Scribner Thomas R. Frosch Lourdes M. Rivera Helene Dunkelblau Maureen Wallace Janice Cline Roman Kossak Robin G. Isserles Larry N. Cooley Yolando Batey Miranda Sherwin Suzanne Wasserman Maya Sharma Mary Keane Stewart Weiss Nivedita Majumdar Tony Ceselka Maureen Griffiths Darina Bejtja Leonard Friedman Sandra M. Scriven John Furnari Ray Rivera Megan Elias Victoria Wallace Akosua Cobb be – and our professional lives here what they should be. Maida Landau Nelson Izquierdo James L. deJongh MaryAnn Bellomo Ira Shor Jerry G. Watts Allen Solomon Marthe Keller Dominic Wetzel Jacob Marini Patrick Compton Ed Grube Christopher Bonastia Medgar Evers College Gilberto Gerena Albert Sherman Galina Galmer Cicely Rodway Sharon S. Ellerton Patrick Wallach R. Cohen Laroi Lawton Mark Jagai Michel DeMatteis Michelle Bent Jason Simon Diane Williams Michael R. Stimola Elizabeth Kelvin Lloyd Williams Gerald Markowitz NaReida M. Crandall Joan Heitner Ralph William Boone Kathleen Barker Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar Jeffrey Lane Siegel Anthony Genosa Marcy Rosen Pericles Emanuel Jilani Warsi Charles F. Coleman Kathleen LeCadre Donald Jenner David Diaz Marsha Clark Peter Simpson Joseph Wittreich Lourdes Torres Erica King-Toler David F. Winn Keith A. Markus Anthony DiLernia Peter B. Heltzel Bruce E. Byland Freddie C. Battle Michael Ginty Gerald Singh Julie A. George Gerald Roskes Jonas Falik Judy Wein Stephanie Cooper Jose Lopez-Marron Angela Jervis Susan DiRaimo Gregory Dunkel Oleg Soloviev Patrick Yu Mary Williams Frank M. Kirkland Chong J. Wojtkowski Marisol Marrero Gennaro J. Fardella Betsy Hill David Cain Raquel Bennett Michael Glass Harold Siristina David Gerwin Ronald I. Rothenberg Florence S. Farrat Paul S. Weiss La F Cope Malikah Lumumba Chitra Karunakaran Hong Du Anna Finn Sasha Spence Ran Zwigenberg Glenn Kissack Anne Woodstock-Wallace Nancy Marshal Susan A. Farrell Stephen Hosmer Eleanor Campbell Joshua Berenbom Georgianna Glose Howard Sisco Francesca Girod Caroline Rupprecht Elyn Feldman Eileen White Louis D’Alotto Uma Lyer Victor Kaufold Beverly Falk Megan FitzGerald Nan M. Sussman Hunter College Susan Klitzman Sanford Wurmfeld Bridget A. Matore Lourdes D. Follins Venice Hughes Rich Campbell Terrence Richard Black- Tanya Goetz Shelley E. Smith Robert Goldberg Joseph J. Saccente Victor Fichera Constance Williams Anamika Dasgupta A great university provides the conditions faculty and staff need to work. Why not CUNY? Josephine Martinelli Leonid Khazanov Scarlett Farray Elizabeth Ford Miriam Tausner Hunter Campus Schools Elan Abrell Gary Krasilovsky Antonio M. Young Robert McCrie Vivian Georgi Linda Iannuzzo Robert Carling man Faithe Gomez Stephanie Smolinsky Stephanie Goldson Samantha Clement Debbie Fitzgerald Royce Richard Yuster JoAnn Demsen Robert A. Maryks David Knight Alan Feigenberg Ross Fried Artemida Tesho Evanthia Basias Sonia Acevedo Eckhard Kuhn-Osius Matthew J. McGee Thomas M. Greene Rosann T Ippolito Orazio Caroleo Margaret A. Carroll Nien-Tzu Gonzalez Olufemi Sodeinde Teresa Gonzalez Richard Sang Maria Mercedes Franco Lana Zinger John A. Drobnicki Janice Mauras Stephen Koss Randall Forsberg Deborah Hairsta Stephane Tonnelat Rachel Basker Tracy Adler Stefan Kuss John Jay College Rachel McTursh Rena Hagver Heidi Johnsen Mary Carroll Chris Castillo Camille Goodison Peter Spellane Marci Goodman James M. Saslow Ben Freier Marjorie Dunbar Claudio Mazzatenta David Krauss Kevin R. Foster Midori Hills Craig Topple Luke Batson Akosua Albritton John W. Lango Theresa Acosta Mickey C. Melendez Robert Ingenito Marisa A. Klages Stuart F. Chen-Hayes Edward Catapane Esther L. Goodman Anna Spiro Harvey Gram Dean Savage Daqing Gao Retirees Chapter Lucia Fahey Nichole McDaniel Jennifer Kyle Laurel Franklin Herbert Ho Eleni Tournaki Micheline Beaudry Philip Alcobes Joon S. Lee Laurie Adams Jeff Mellow Keisha Johnson Soloman Kone Robert Cohen Ching Chang Calvin Grace Carol Stanger William Green Talia Schaffer Stanley Garfunkel Mavis Aldridge Jean Francois Cecily McKeown Jonathan Lang Lindsey Freer Jeanne Toretto Kuklin Roberta B. Vogel Shawn Crouch Meena Alexander Irwin Leopando Barbara Ajmone-Marsan Cynthia Calkins Mercado Kwatei Jones-Quartey Donald Kroll Risa Cromer Colin Channer John Graham S. Steinerman Lindsay Green-Barber David Schober Anthony Gatto Edward Alterman Shirley Frank The PSC contract demands express the union’s CUNY management’s demands express a very Francisco Morel Michael Langenstein Bingmei Fu Myriam Laryo Simone Wegge Martha Curtis Cristina Alfar Mary Lifkavits Valerie Allen Victoria B. Mesa Anna Karpathakis Soloman Kune Cecelia Cutle Clinton Crawford Joan Grassano Ely Stern Helene Guidice Richard Schotter Carol Gerrity Electa Arenal R.D. Gandy Suzan Moss Robert Lapides Adriana Garcia Marta Lourdes-Santos Andrzej Wieraszko Lori D’Amica Rebecca Ali Regina Linder William C. Altham Bettina Muenster Carol Kravetz William Kurzyna Maria del Carmen Saen Charles desBordes Maryanne Greene Kim Strickler Alem Habtu Lynn Schwartz Thomas Gerson Robert E. Ayers Joel Gomez Thomas Mujica Regine Legrand Ronny Garcia Grace Lu James Williams Tamara Fish Cisco Alvarez Edwin Luna Kristina Beckman Margaret Murphy Michael Kugler M. Lesser de Casas Chukwumeziri Nathaniel Joel Greenstein Kisha Swaby Kimiko Hahn Nancy Schwartz Belle Gironda Alvin H Bachman Marlene Graham vision for CUNY: different agenda: Erma Nieves Ken Levinson Joyce Gelb Gene Mangi Cheryl Wu T. Foley Kelly Anderson Harriet Luria Ellen Belcher Marco Fernando Navarro Patrick Lloyd Robert Levine Margo DelliCarpini Ezuma Adrian Griffith Sharon Swacker Murphy Halliburton John Seley Vivien Goldbaum Marilyn Bensman Sherrian Grant-Fordham Mark Padnos Sharona A. Levy Barbara Gleason Angel Martinez Jeanne Zieff Richard Fulco Lisa Anderson Michelle MacRoy-Higgins Fred Bilenkis Bonnie Nelson Jay D. Mancini Steven A. Levine Sandrea DeMinco Shoshana Friedman Stephen Grod Sandra Swiney Jeffrey Halperin Kelly Seufert Ken Golden Joel Berger Linda M. Grasso Katherine Parsons Penny Lewis Orsini Gonzalez Larry McCue Alan Zimmerman Sheila Garcia Elizabeth Ann Danto Annette M. Mahoney Michael Blitz Alan L. Niss Theodore Markus Evelyn Lowmark Craig Demmer Louise Giddings George Guida Wayne Tang Harvey Halpern Simon Shamoun Susan Gorbaty Joanne E. Bernstein Marcia Green • restoration of competitive salaries • weakening tenure Kathleen Pavletich Naomi Machado Reiko Matsuda Goodwin Rudy Morales Bob Gavdenz Marisa Russo Aragonez Shafer Mahoney Susan R. Blumenson Henrietta Nunno Theresa Mastrianni Louis Lucca Mario DiGangi Carol Grazette Frances Guidone Dale Tarnowieski Jillian Harris Carrie Shanafelt Jeff Hest Thelma Borodkin Dominic F. Gullo Sharon Persinger Gail Mansouki Michael E. Green Lawrence Reinatlu Educational Opportunity Rebecca Holland Iris Aroyewun Ivone Margulies Janice Bockmeyer Irene O’Donnell Ayanna Miller Fern Luskin Yves Dossous David Hatchett Raffael Guidone Teresa Tobin Elizabeth Hennessey Rebekah Sheldon Robert J. Holt Renate Bridenthal Britu Haile Jorge Pineiro Nicholas R. Marino Daniel Greenberger Chezline Riley Centers Satinder Jawanda Samuel Aymer Valentin Marinov Philip Bonifacio Michael O’Dowd Vernon Mogensen Katherine Lyle Brian Leahy Doyle Wm. Richard Hickerson Ezra Halleck Gerry Van Loon Ariela Herman Daphne Silas Karen Hom Arline L. Bronzaft Sharon Hawkins • strong tenure protections • weakening academic freedom Marianne Pita Hyacinth Martin Leon Guilhamet Felix A. Rivera Joseph Bonelli Daviv Joffe Naitram Baboolall Esperanza Martell Avram Bornstein Rosa Olivo Susan Murray Daniel Lynch Nancy Dubetz Anthony E. Isenalumhe Carole K. Harris Luis M. Vasquez William H. Hersh Andrew D. Silver David Humphries Norah Chase Jun He Martin Pollack Wambui W. Mbugua Ethan Ham Roland Samieske Adele Browne Rebecca Kreinen James Barry Donna Masini Judith Bronfman Daniel O’Neal Vona Raymond Neinstein Cheryl C McKenzie Martin Epstein Carolyn Jones Madeline Harrow Shauna Vey Amy Herzog Barbara Simerka Jill Humphries Carmen deZulueta Shirley Ostholm Hinnau Trisha Powell Holly Messitt Maria Hamilton Lucy Scalici Catherine Clark-Nelson Eliza Kuberska Gordon Bastian Nondita Mason David Brotherton Alicia O’Neill Maximillian Oliver Sally Mettler Cecilia M. Espinosa Kiho Kim Eric Hegdahl Deborah Waksbaum Steven V. Hicks Suzanna Simor Bernard Hunter Gertrude Ezorsky Claudia Hortua • support for academic freedom • removing department chairs from the union Gladys Queliz Harry Miller Hope Hartman Joseph Scandaglia Mary Lutz Pamela A. Lewis Jonathan Bates Bill Mayer Inez Brown Ketteline Paul Susan O’Malley Janet Michello Dana Fenton Lorraine Kuziw Charles Hirsch Judith M. Walter Carrie Hintz Jacqueline Skiles Susan Jacobowitz Abe Fenster Che-Tsao Huang Maribel Quinones Angela Romeo Molloy Miriam Helfgott Sheryl Soskel Joan Macafity Eugene Lim John Battaglia Camille McIntyre Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Luisa Paulino Thomas Onorato Karen Miller Licia Fiol-Matta Nancy Lester Kenneth M. Hodess Diane Wilson Robin Hizme Edward Smaldone Martin Jacobs Philip I. Freedman Wenying Huang Solte Donald R. Read Joyce Moorman Bill Henning Joshua Tankel Samuel Paul Larry Ling David Bean Lewis Meyers Cynthia Calkins Mercado Allison Pease Bob Putz Howard Motoike Judith M. Fitzgerald Evelyn Maggio Morris Hounion Anyse Winston Sin-ying Ho Harold W. Sobel Anna May Jagoda Bill Friedheim Samuel Hux • reasonable workloads • weakening job security for HEOs Thomas Riker Marie Morgan Ghislaine Hermanuz Bernadette Thomas Jose Pierre Bill Mackenty Barbara Berney Franklin E. Mirer Bettina Carbonell Sreca Perunovic Madeline Read Belkis Necos David C. Fletcher Andree-Nicola McLaughlin Rebecca Ibanez James M. Wise Christine Howard Phyllis Solomon Tunde Kashimawo Francine Gail Kelly Josephs Lourdes Rosario Cynthia Namaro Judy Hilkey Ronald Wooten Mabel Ramharack D. Martin Margaret Beveridge Terry Mizrahi Janice Carrington James J. Petzke Edward Rohrlich Paula Nesoff Christy Folsom Edna Moshette Stephen James Thomas Woods Shana Hyvat Stephen Steinberg Allan Kashkin Frances Geteles Hamid Kherief Tamar Rothenberg Melissa A. Nashat Russell Hinchliffe Carolyn Watford Audrey Maurer Manu Bhagavan Joseph Moore Gerrie Casey Howard Pflanzer Julius Rosenthal Eric Newman Althea Forde Darius Movasseghi L. Johnson Neil Wotherspoon Gerald Itzkowitz Karen Steuerwalt David P. Klarberg Helen Ginsburg Njoki Kinyatti • excellent benefits • increasing exploitation of contingent labor Jason C. Sanchez Micheal Neal Willam Lance Hunt College of Staten Island Melanie Pflaun John D. Boy Greg Morvis Tim Cavale Victoria Pitcavage Frances Ruoff Jaime Nieman Ka Chuen Gee Nancy Oley Julia Jordan Victoria Ying James A. John Phyllis Cohen Stevens Aaron Krac Phyllis Gold Gluck Carolyn Kirkpatrick Lee Spencer Marcia Newfield Elisabeth Iler Bruce Abrams Graduate Center Lois Refkin James Bradley Liege Motta Enrique Chávez-Arvizo John P. Pittman Sonia Saladuchin Laksmi Nor Maryann Gerbacia Henry Olsa Simeon Joseph Chi Jau Yuan Ralph Johnson Sara Stinson Jeffrey Kurnit Michael F. Greley Andrea Krauss Faye Swanston-Dilworth Peter Nyguyen Stephen Jablonsky Ping Ao Ab Abraham Julie Reifer Sema Brainin Lina Newton Holly Clarke Dara Querimit Hector L. 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Reis Judy Lorell Wayne Harding Mary Tepper Andreas Karras Janet Winter Mary Beth Early Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier Steven Selwyn Bruce Cotler Ronald Platzer Timothy Eaton Clarion | Summer 2007 NEGOTIATIONS 7 Contract talks continue By PETER HOGNESS No financial offer yet Contract negotiations between the PSC and CUNY management con- simply not big enough to address Union proposals being discussed tinued into the summer. But on fi- the cumulative erosion of faculty at the table include a new approach nancial issues, CUNY has still made and staff salaries, or to address the to the long-standing problem of ad- no initial offer. structural problems in our working junct job security: an adjunct CCE, “With no financial offer yet from conditions such as the lack of paid or Certificate of Continuous Em- management, it is increasingly diffi- family leave or the terrible adjunct ployment. “Greater security for ad- cult to think of reaching an agree- labor system.” junct faculty is sorely needed and ment before the current contract Union negotiators know that long overdue at CUNY,” said bar- expires on September 19,” said PSC State worker settlements have yet gaining team member Diane Menna. President Barbara Bowen. to be concluded, Bowen said. “We “The CCE is not new to the Univer- Management has pointed to the understand the history of the sity – full-time lecturers lack of progress in bargaining be- bargaining process,” she told CUNY receive a CCE after five tween New York State and its em- Clarion. “It’s because of that proposes years.” Under the union’s ployees as a key reason for the lack history that we are calling for proposal, she said, “an ad- s of a financial proposal. CUNY must CUNY to make an offer that an end to junct who is continuously r e d n

get approval for its labor contracts includes enough money to fix reappointed would re- a S annual e

from both New York State and City, these long-standing problems ceive a CCE after seven v a and in the past it has waited for re- of the University.” increments. years of service.” (See al- D sults from City and State labor talks In May and June, the two so page 6.) HEO Assistant Vincent Pizzuti signs a petition offered by HEO Assistant Lisa before it made an offer to the PSC. sides held bargaining sessions Despite making no financial offer, Lincoln at Brooklyn College this July. every other week on non-economic management has proposed a radical DEAD END issues. July saw smaller, informal change in the salary structure – and “Management’s proposal would tion, to distribute to those on the top The PSC, however, argues that side meetings on particular issues union members don’t like it. CUNY mean taking money out of the sys- steps. The union’s proposal, by con- this “pattern bargaining” approach and on calculating contract costs. At negotiators want to eliminate the tem we have now, which guarantees trast, is to increase the top steps with is a dead end for CUNY, and that a Clarion press time, a full session current system of annual step in- a movement of 3.5% to 4.5% per year new money instead of taking from new tack is needed. “Collective bar- was scheduled for August 2 and 28. creases for full-time faculty and while you’re on the steps,” said those now receiving increments. gaining patterns set by the State Both sides have now presented HEOs and instead turn that money Bowen. “This is not about new mon- and City have generally been at or their lists of demands, and negotia- over to college presidents to hand ey – they want to take away money DISHONEST below the level of inflation,” Bowen tors have returned to certain issues out as they see fit. that is already there, and put it into “Management likes to call this ‘mer- said. “Settlements of that size are where there seemed some possibili- “It’s an effort to keep people in a highly discretionary system in it pay,’” said Costas Panayotakis of ty of progress. Many PSC members line,” said Phil Eggers, chair of the which college presidents have ulti- City Tech. “But we have to challenge have attended as observers; if you English Department at BMCC. At mate authority. It would mean the that term – it’s not honest. If they were Sign the petition would like to be a member-observer the June 21 Delegate Assembly end of annual increments.” really concerned about merit, they at a future negotiating session, con- meeting, he warned that such a In the last round of bargaining the would be offering us much more gen- It’s not too late to sign on in support of tact Amanda DeJesus Magalhaes at change would give college manage- State valued the increments at 1.4% erous raises!” Despite the hard work the PSC vision for a better CUNY. Go to [email protected] or (212) 354- ment a powerful club with which to per year. CUNY proposes using some of CUNY’s faculty and staff, he said, its www.psc-cuny.org. 1252 x221. intimidate faculty and staff. of this money, at presidents’ discre- salaries are far from competitive.

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At Lehman College, Clarion’s Roving Reporter asks What are you reading this summer? l l l l e e e e p p p p p p p p A A A A

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IMMACULEE HIRUSHIMANA TERRENCE CHENG JOSEPH RACHLIN HAIPING CHENG KHEMA CHAN Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Professor and Chair Associate Professor Program Assistant of Middle and High School Education of English of Biological Sciences of Microbiology for College Now

This summer my personal reading So far this summer I’ve read A whole bunch of books on multi- For science, I keep up with our re- Right now I’m reading a book is this book by Nelson Mandela, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt variant analysis – I’m catching up search area through journals such called US Guys: The True and Long Walk to Freedom. It’s his au- Vonnegut, Jarhead by Anthony on that before the semester begins as Science, Nature and Cell. I am Twisted Mind of the American tobiography. It’s a page-turner, and Swofford and All Quiet on the West- because of the research I’m doing. studying signal exchange between Man, by Charlie LeDuff. It’s really I can relate to it – not to his politi- ern Front by Erich Maria I’m an aquatic ecologist, and we’ve a bacterium, sinorhizobium amazing – it’s a travelogue through cal struggles, but to his youth and Remarque. I’m preparing to teach been involved in research on the meliloti, which allows alfalfa to places like Tulsa, Oakland and his schooling. I think anyone can a senior seminar focusing on the Bronx River as part of a restoration grow without costly fertilizer. Detroit. The author took a year to find it enjoyable, not just African- literature of war in the fall, and I’d project. We’re restocking the For fun – well, actually I don't travel across the US and found that born people. never read Slaughterhouse Five or Bronx River with alewife, a river read, I listen. I have a 40-minute men in all different places had the I’m reading a lot about writing All Quiet on the Western Front. So I herring that has not been in the commute, and I found I can add same worries and uncertainties – and literacy and the politics of liter- am slowly whittling down my list river since the early 1600s. some color to the trip by listening about things like race, sexuality, acy in the public schools. The book of books I’ve never read that I feel For fun, I read anything I can get to tapes on different subjects. Last God, ambition, isolation and misun- I’m currently reading is by Patrick guilty about. And the books have my hands on, any good novel. I just year I went through [Tolstoy’s] derstandings. Finn, called Literacy With an not disappointed. Catch-22 is next. finished reading the 21 volumes of War and Peace, and that took a few What I love about this book is Attitude. It’s about educating work- I’m also a judge this year for the Patrick O’Brian’s series about months of commuting to complete that LeDuff did not just go out to ing-class students in their own Asian American Writers Work- [British Navy] Captain Jack Aubrey – it was 45 tapes. seek interviews, he did something self-interest. It draws a contrast shop Literary Awards, so I have and his partner John Maturin dur- The last set of tapes I listened to better; he immersed himself their between the forms and content of 15 novels that I need to whittle ing the Napoleonic War period. was 24 lectures on Greek mytholo- lives. For example, he rode in a gay instruction given to students based down to three finalists by Labor Next I want to read The Under- gy. Growing up in China, I had rodeo in Oklahoma City and he on how wealthy they are, so I know Day. The first I’ve read from that cover Economist by Tim Harford – heard some of these dramatic sto- participated in a biker’s brawl in I have to prepare my teaching can- group is American Born Chinese it’s kind of a fun book on macroeco- ries, and I have always been fasci- Oakland California. didates to really avoid prejudice by Gene Yang, which is a graphic nomics. He got famous in England nated by them. But I had read them My next reading will be Robert and preconceived notions if they’re novel and a great book for young answering economic questions in Chinese, so I couldn't name the Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcy- teaching in the city. adults. accurately but sort of tongue-in- gods and the heroes in English. I cle Maintenance. cheek, making economics accessi- like the story of Theseus the best – ble to the public. I remembered it the most from childhood.

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mented Deale, a professor at CUNY School of Law. “If it could not find an infraction, there wasn’t Department of Labor rules that one to be found.” There is of course a cost to defending elec- toral challenges, Deale added, “but those costs are outweighed by the need for transparency and open, the PSC’s 2006 election was fair vigorous debate amongst different viewpoints.”

By PETER HOGNESS tion,” noted Bell, “and concluded TRANSPARENCY Challenge to vote is rejected that the election was valid. This Bell told delegates that the union The US Department of Labor has complaint has now been rejected had been completely cooperative finished its investigation of a chal- New Caucus versus the CUNY Al- American Federation of Teachers, at every level, and the election was with DOL investigators and lenge to the 2006 PSC election, de- liance. When ballots were counted as is their right,” said Bell. After ex- found to be fair several times thanked PSC staff for their hard ciding to take no action on the on April 25, 2006, the New Caucus amining the complaint, she over.” work in responding to federal re- complaint. was again the winner, and a week said, the AFT concluded The Bush Frank Deale, current quests. “The DOL has spent nearly The federal agency informed the later the CUNY Alliance filed an that none of the charges chair of the PSC Elec- a year investigating in enormous PSC on June 6, Executive Director challenge to the election. After a were serious enough to re- administration tions Committee, said detail,” she said. “This consumed Deborah Bell told the June 21 PSC hearing on the complaint, the PSC quire detailed investiga- concludes that with the challenge many days of staff time, during Delegate Assembly. “They are Elections Committee concluded tion and dismissed the there were no resolved, it was time for which the regular business of the closing the books,” Bell said, “and that the challenge was without appeal. The CUNY Alliance the union to move for- union still had to continue.” will issue a detailed report within merit, and in late May 2006, the then took its challenge to infractions. ward. “The Bush admin- The Elections Committee report, a year.” union’s Delegate Assembly voted the Bush administration’s istration is no friend of which examines the charges in de- The 2006 union-wide election saw to accept the committee’s report. Department of Labor (DOL). the labor movement and could be tail, is available at www.psc-cuny. two slates of candidates face off “The protesting parties then ap- “The Department of Labor con- counted on to scrutinize the chal- org/PDF/PSC06ElectionChal against each other, the incumbent pealed to our parent body, the ducted an exhaustive investiga- lenge with a fine tooth comb,” com- lengeDecision.pdf. Clarion | Summer 2007 BENEFITS 9

WORLD IN BRIEF New savings option Israel boycott opposed In May, convention delegates of By CLARISSA GILBERT WEISS Britain’s University and College PSC Director of Pension & Welfare Benefits Retirement plan is tax-deferred Union (UCU) asked its members to consider a call from Palestinian As of September 1, 2007, CUNY will unions to boycott Israeli academic offer its employees a new form of ductions to begin in the Fall. How- ployed at CUNY, you do not have to up to $50,000 or 50% of assets institutions, condemning “the com- tax-deferred savings, the New York ever, enrollment can occur at any begin withdrawals from the plan (whichever is less) that must be plicity of Israeli academia in the State Deferred Compensation Plan. time during the year, and employ- until you retire. paid back within five years. occupation.” Known as a “457 Plan,” the pro- ees can increase, decrease or stop Withdrawals can be made only af- Employees in the NYC Teachers’ Academic unions in the US, in- 1 gram allows employees to set aside their contributions at any time. ter age 59 ⁄2 and must begin no later Retirement System who are paying cluding the AFT and AAUP, urged 1 as little as 1% of their salary or as than age 70 ⁄2 if you are no longer em- back for prior service may use their UCU members to reject the boy- much as $15,500 per year in pre-tax START AT ANY TIME ployed either full-time or own 457 plan assets to buy cott proposal. contributions to various plan-spon- Those employed by multiple col- part-time at CUNY. Money The 457 that time back. (Employees PSC representatives to the AFT sored investment vehicles. This leges will have to file separate en- contributed and the interest who participate in CUNY’s and AAUP have voted to oppose amount is in addition to any money rollment applications with the earned are both exempt Plan is SRA or TDA plans can the boycott, and the PSC approved that employees invest in CUNY’s human resources office at each col- from federal, state and local open to presently use those ac- its own anti-boycott resolution at existing tax-deferred options. lege if they wish to have payroll de- taxes until withdrawn. How- counts to do the same thing, its June Delegate Assembly. Not- ductions made from each job. ever, taxes must be paid on all CUNY and the 457 Plan functions ing that “among PSC members THREE EXECUTIVES Although the 457 Plan is offered all withdrawals. employees. similarly.) there is a spectrum of deeply-held The 457 Plan will have three ac- through the State, it is open to both There are hardship provi- Money that CUNY em- and sometimes conflicting posi- count executives assigned to senior and community college em- sions that allow individuals who ployees have in a 403B or 401K tions on the issue of Israel’s expan- CUNY’s campuses to provide infor- ployees. All CUNY employees who qualify to withdraw money before plan or an IRA may be rolled into sion into the post-1967 territories,” 1 mation to employees. There will be receive either a New York City or age 59 ⁄2. While the hardship rules the 457 Plan at any time. it emphasizes that “the PSC vigor- a telephone hotline, a managed State paycheck are eligible to par- are strict, they do not include any When an employee leaves ously supports academic freedom website, reports and a quarterly ticipate. The 457 Plan is open to penalties for early withdrawals. CUNY service, money in his or her and defends the free and open ex- newsletter. Account executives both full-time and part-time em- 457 Plan may remain in the plan or change of ideas among scholars – have already begun to visit CUNY ployees, as well as to CUNY re- 31 CHOICES be rolled over into a 403B or 401K the lifeblood of academic work” campuses to explain the plan and tirees who work as adjuncts. If you The NYS 457 Plan has 31 different plan, into an IRA, or into another and urges UCU members to reject 1 assist employees who wish their de- reach age 70 ⁄2 and are still em- investment vehicles, including mon- 457 plan. Beneficiaries may remain the boycott call. (Full text is at ey market funds, bond funds, bal- in the 457 Plan upon the death of www.psc-cuny.org/Delegate anced funds, stock funds and the CUNY employee or retiree. AssemblyResolutions.htm – scroll international funds. There is one so- down to June 21, 2007.) cial choice fund, PAX World, and a GET INFORMED UCU General Secretary Sally Wireless phone service – Lifecycle Fund. The annual adminis- If you are interested in this type of Hunt said she thinks the boycott trative fee for the plan, which is run investment, speak to the account ex- proposal does not have the sup- on a for-profit basis, is $14.00. For ecutives when they come to your port of most UCU members. unionized & at a discount each of the mutual funds, fund oper- campus. As with all financial invest- ating expenses range from 0.10% to ments, the PSC encourages members 0.35% of assets, a charge that is de- to start by educating themselves Iraqi oil workers strike By CLARION STAFF The 10% discount off the regular ducted directly from participants’ about their options and opportunities. On June 4, members of the Iraqi monthly rate is available for any accounts. Some funds may impose a If you have questions, contact your Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) AT&T (formerly Cingular) is the AT&T individual or family plan, short-term trade fee or be subject to campus human resources office or went on strike at some oil pipelines only wireless company that is along with a $50 savings on new a trade restriction policy. e-mail Clarissa Gilbert Weiss at the to keep oil revenues public and pres- virtually 100% union: 40,000 of its phones, and is valid through Octo- Individuals may take out loans of PSC at [email protected]. sure the government to live up to its employees are members of the ber 31. (The union member dis- promises of wage increases, vaca- Communications Workers of count was previously 5%.) Current tion time and permanent jobs for America (CWA), and the company AT&T/Cingular customers will temporary workers. After the Iraqi has agreed not to oppose union or- need to renew their contracts for government ordered the arrest of ganizing efforts. two years to be eligible for the new union leaders and the army sur- The company is now offering a discount. HEOs question QC prez rounded the strikers, the union 10% discount to members of all called off the strike. The AFL-CIO is- AFL-CIO-affiliated unions. (This in- NEW CONTRACTS sued a joint statement with the cludes all PSC members, since the The offer is only available at UK’s Trade Union Congress sup- PSC belongs to the American Fed- AT&T-owned retail stories, not by porting the Iraqi union, which rep- eration of Teachers, which is part phone or online. When signing up or resents 26,000 workers. The of the AFL-CIO.) renewing service, give the store government must “pull back its se- “For union families, the choice in clerk the following AT&T Union curity and military forces and cease wireless is clear,” said CWA Presi- Discount FAN number: 00113662. its menacing threats to arrest and dent Larry Cohen, who called AT&T For information on AT&T store lo- attack these workers immediately,” “a company that respects workers’ cations, go to www.wireless.att.com the two federations declared. rights to organize.” /find-a-store. French plan sparks debate New French President Nicholas Sarkozy wasted no time publish- Social Security & Travia leave ing his plans to give the nation’s universities more autonomy – but Full-time faculty and professional The human resources office at then postponed its official intro- staff who will be on Travia leave your college will prepare a record duction in the face of serious oppo- and who are eligible because of age for you to take with you to Social sition. Students and faculty critics for Social Security benefits should Security that explains that you are warn his plan lays the groundwork be aware that, according to federal on Travia leave (and/or qualified law, Social Security does not count annual leave) and therefore enti- to privatize, and defund, French sick and vacation pay as part of tled to collect Social Security at the universities. your earnings for the year. Since same time. Further information on “They say it is important to pay for Travia leave is one-half of this benefit, called “Special Pay- open up the possibility for private w

o companies to put money into high- your sick leave bank, if you are ments After Retirement,” can be n r A over 62 years of age and receiving obtained online at www.socialsecu- t er education, and this is because a Travia leave you are absolutely rity.gov/pubs/10063.html – or you P they want to put in less,” Alain entitled to collect Social Security can request a printed copy by call- Maureen Pierce-Anyan puts a question to Queens College President James Trautmann, an immunologist at as well. The same rule can also ap- ing (800) 772-1213. Muyskens at a May 30 meeting on concerns of QC employees in Higher Education the Cochin Institute, told the ply to qualified annual leave. – CGW Officer-series titles, organized by the PSC’s HEO Chapter. Chronicle of Higher Education. 10 OPINION Clarion | Summer 2007

CONTESTED HISTORY selves. In reality, slaves rose against the trade from its inception. This broke it.” The culmination of the trip was a com- memorative conference held at KC Stadium, Hull’s soccer venue, organized by Britain’s la- bor movement. Hundreds of delegates at- Legacies of the slave trade tended along with MPs and ministers. Cliff Williams, regional secretary of Unison By STEPHEN LEBERSTEIN (Britain’s major public sector union), remarked that a mass social movement of or- arch 1807 was a momentous dinary working people made it possible for month for abolitionists: that Wilberforce to get the abolition bill through month saw the passage of Parliament after a generation’s efforts. bills, first in the US Congress The Rt. Honorable Hillary Benn, minister and then on March 25 in the for international economic development, MUK Parliament, outlawing the African slave praised the ordinary workers who made up trade. The bicentennial of these actions the abolition movement, including Sheffield comes at a time of rancorous dispute about metalworkers and Lancashire textile work- the legacy of slavery today. ers, both of whose products were traded in At the beginning of the 18th century, all Africa. With other industrial workers, they the developed nations of Western Europe ac- signed abolition petitions in overwhelming cepted chattel slavery and the African slave numbers, risking their livelihood if the trade trade that supported it as a necessary evil, ended. “Without politics, nothing changes. and often justified it as a mission to Chris- Thanks to politics, and labor politics, things tianize and civilize “heathens.” But by 1888 can, and do, change,” he said. “Today 12 mil- slavery as a legal institution had ended lion are trafficked, in bondage.” If Wilber- everywhere in the New World. force were here today, he would be For Britain, ending the African slave trade disappointed, he concluded, pledging that a d was not easily achieved because of its impor- i the UK would sign the European Union’s u G

s tance to British commerce, maritime trade i Convention on Human Trafficking. u o and imperial hegemony. As Eric Williams L The Rt. Honorable Alan Johnson, minister demonstrated in his epic Capitalism and Union representatives and CUNY students stand in front of the town hall in Kingston-on-Hull, sister city for education, pledged to include the aboli- Slavery (1944), the slave trade and the West to Brooklyn, where public events commemorated the ban on the African slave trade. tion movement, the African slave trade and Indian plantation economy supplied much of slavery itself in the UK’s national curriculum the capital for the industrial revolution, by the potter Josiah Wedgwood featuring tute for the study of Slavery & Emancipation, and teacher training. Any attempt to eradi- which transformed English society in the slaves with the logos, “Am I Not a Woman the Wilberforce House Museum, Hull’s Guild cate slavery today, he said, will fail without a early 19th century. The threat of slave and a Sister,” “Am I Not a Man and a Broth- Hall for a formal reception and dinner, and for campaign to eradicate global poverty, and he revolts, especially the 1791 uprising in St. er,” to put the slave trade in the public eye. a major conference on the group’s last day. promised to work in partnership with the Domingue (Haiti), and a mounting popular Abolition societies were organized in many During the tour of the Wilberforce House Trades Union Congress to do so. abolition movement at home, led the British of the cities and towns in the North of Eng- Museum, site of a major exhibition on the Benn and Johnson’s remarks underscored elites who profited from slavery, however re- land, with pamphlets and Wedgwood badges African slave trade and the fight to end it, the TUC’s emphasis on commemorating the luctantly, to agree to end the African slave distributed to participants. Okenfe Aigbe Lebarty, a Nigerian-born Brook- abolition of the African slave trade as so sig- trade. Some believed that outlawing the lyn College graduate student, found a pair of nificant to today’s labor movement: for them, trade would help preserve the West Indian ONE MILLION SIGNATURES metal-worked figures in a display case of arti- as for the TUC, marking this bicentennial is plantation economy, given the propensity of At a time when many of the workers in facts showing African life in the colonial peri- a reminder that slavery’s legacy of racism African-born slaves to rise in revolt, while the new industrial towns of the North had od. Okenfe led me to the case, and said, still weighs heavily on our societies. abolitionists saw it a step toward the aboli- no representation in Parliament, a common “Those are from my people, the Edo in Benin, As Joseph Harker wrote in the Guardian, tion of slavery itself. way to speak to power was through peti- but we know the incident when they were tak- slavery’s “legacy, and its emotional scars, re- The British movement to abolish the slave tions. By 1807, the movement collected en not as a ‘A Punitive Expedition’ but as ‘the main with us to this day….The lingering ef- trade may well have been the first mass social nearly a million signatures on the petition Massacre.’” Recalling the discovery later, fects of this shameful period can be seen in movement of modern times. Parliamentary that Wilberforce unrolled down the aisle in Okenfe said, “I was not only flabbergasted but statistics on inequality, school achievement, victory is identified with William Wilberforce, the House of Commons. The petition includ- perplexed when I saw some of the loot that poverty, discrimination, crime and criminal a wealthy merchant and the member of Parlia- ed the names of fully one half the adult men was taken during the British Massacre of 1897 justice. This can’t be allowed to continue.” ment (MP) for Hull on the Channel coast in and many women in the city of Manchester at the Wilberforce House Museum. As a boy, I Yorkshire, and the main character in the re- – an incredible feat at a time before the ad- only heard the stories relating to the expedi- TODAY cently released feature film Amazing Grace. vent of telephones and e-mail. tion. I never in my young life thought that I Addressing that legacy, and working to But the chief organizer of the movement was Celebrating the bicentennial was high on would come across some of the loot that was ameliorate the global poverty and oppres- Thomas Clarkson, a Cambridge classmate the agenda of the British labor movement. To taken from the Oba’s [the King’s] Palace.” sion that make human trafficking possible who developed the techniques of the modern help mark the event, the British Trades The presence of these objects at the today, are urgent contemporary analogs to mass social movement among the mine and Union Congress (TUC) invited the Brooklyn Wilberforce House museum testified to the the earlier abolition movement. mill workers of the North. College Graduate Center for Worker Educa- long history of horror that Britain inflicted on An unexpected high point of the conference tion to organize and lead a trade union and Africa and Africans. This remains a contest- came when Bill Adams, the TUC regional sec- INHUMAN BRUTALITY student delegation to the UK for the bicen- ed history. Critics like Ken Livingstone, may- retary, announced the start of an Internation- At considerable risk to his own safety and tennial event in March. The delegation was or of London, have attacked the Blair al Project, building on the work begun with even his life, Clarkson frequented the main led by the author and included 14 graduate government for its refusal “even to recognize New York trade unionists through CUNY slaving ports of England – Bristol, Liverpool students in a special course, “The Politics of the slave trade as a crime against humanity.” some years ago. A major objective of the labor and London – to uncover the shameful reality the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” and seven Livingstone and others also questioned movement in the UK, he said, is to extend la- of the trade and to put it on public display. trade unionists from SEIU 1199, DC 37 Local British self-congratulation for ending the bor rights to all workers. By protecting immi- While the trade’s apologists claimed that it 2507, RWDSU 338, SEIU CIR and CWA 1180, slave trade, thereby ignoring the indispens- grant rights in the workplace, “we will also helped train sailors for service in the Royal in addition to another PSC delegate, Profes- able role of slaves in their own emancipation. protect the rights of our people,” Adams said. Navy, Clarkson discovered that a single slav- sor Joseph Wilson. Then, he, Benn and Johnson singled out the ing voyage might cost the lives of a third of As Americans, the group found the wel- RISING UP New York delegation for recognition. the sailors, and often a much larger share of come it received beyond the realm of its As the British newspaper the Guardian re- For the delegates from New York, the trip their “cargo” of enslaved Africans. He found usual experience. The delegation, hosted by ported on the day of the bicentennial confer- abroad was rich in lessons. As one student sea captains wracked by guilt for their role in the Hon. Diana Johnson, MP for Hull, ence, groups in Jamaica questioned why the remarked on returning, “I realized from this the trade – none more famous than John Wilberforce’s own constituency, toured the British should take so much of the credit for experience that it is possible to change the Newton, author of the hymn “Amazing House of Commons, attended a luncheon and abolition, which indemnified the planters for world.” Others were ready to redouble their Grace” – now willing to testify, provide dia- later met other MPs and senior government the emancipation of their slaves when slav- activism in the labor movement. Everyone grams of the holds of their ships and describe ministers. ery in the British West Indies was finally wondered sorrowfully at the stunning si- the inhuman brutality used to control the Most of the delegation’s time was in York- abolished in 1838. As Livingstone wrote in the lence about the slave trade and its abolition hundreds of men, women and children being shire in the industrial North of England: in Guardian a few days earlier, “Material being in the US, in contrast with its high-profile transported to Caribbean slave markets. Leeds, headquarters of the TUC for Yorkshire, produced today to mark the anniversary of recognition in the UK. Based in part in the churches of “Dissent- and in Hull to meet with British trade union- the abolition of the slave trade makes it ap- ing Sects,” Friends, Methodists and other ists at the Trade Union Studies Center at East pear that white people liberated black – the Stephen Leberstein, adjunct professor of polit- evangelical Christians, the movement used Riding College, to visit the Wilberforce Insti- assumption being they could not do it them- ical science at Brooklyn College, developed emerging means of communication such as and taught “The Politics of the Abolition of the newspapers, broadsides with graphic images Slave Trade,” and led the New York delegation of slave ships, pamphlets and badges created Mass organizing & revolts combined to end it. hosted by the British TUC. Clarion | Summer 2007 OPINION 11

LABOR & CLIMATE CHANGE long as Bush is president. Meanwhile within the US, serious measures such as the Wax- man-Jeffords greenhouse initiative (which promises to cut emissions by 80% by 2050) have little chance of passage in the Democ- rat-controlled Congress. The news is not all bad, though: in the ab- ‘Après nous, le deluge’ sence of national leadership, regional efforts at climate mitigation have been popping up ever more frequently. Yet if the kinds of By ASHLEY DAWSON changes necessary to mitigate climate College of Staten Island change are to take place, a genuine green so- cial movement that brings together labor ublic opinion in the US seems to with environmental groups and other pro- have finally reached a tipping point gressives will have to exert sustained pres- on the issue of global warming. The sure on these purblind leaders. Cornell Global Labor Institute’s Cli- mate Crisis Conference, held in EDUCATE PNYC in May and attended by a significant PSC How can the PSC contribute to this strug- contingent, constitutes an important acknowl- gle? As a union focused on education, we edgement of this crisis by the North American have a vital role to play in making young labor movement and a serious attempt to people aware of the basic issues surrounding forge policies that respond to it. climate change and our collective future. An As those who’ve followed the science know, Inconvenient Truth, with its computer-ani- pre-industrial concentrations of greenhouse mated sequence showing downtown Man- gases like carbon dioxide stood at 270 parts hattan submerged by rising sea levels, per million (ppm); today, they have risen to underlined how climate change is a local is- 390 ppm. If we are to avoid unleashing warm- sue for all New Yorkers. Environmental lit- ing greater than 2 degrees Celsius, we need to eracy could be included as a fundamental

keep concentrations below 450 ppm. This s part of the CUNY core curriculum. e n threshold is important because once we warm o In addition to taking these issues into the J

k r the planet more than 2 degrees, scientists the- a classroom, we can also help change the insti- l orize that positive feedback mechanisms will C tutions where we work. While residents of kick in that are likely to unleash unstoppable Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT) spoke to union activists at the Cornell conference on climate change. New York consume far less resources per warming. A recent study from NASA’s God- capita than the average American, as a result dard Institute for Space studies, co-authored new “green” economy also continue these grams, greening the city’s roofs and public of the city’s dense housing patterns and abun- by dozens of leading environmental scientists, trends? As venture capital seeks out its spaces, building thousands of new energy-effi- dant public transportation, we still produce argues that human-made greenhouse gases newest fix in renewable energy startups, how cient buildings and retrofitting old ones, and 1% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions – have already brought the Earth’s climate can we ensure that the new environmental- investing in renewable energy sources. This an amount equal to Portugal or Ireland. close to critical tipping points. ism will also be socially sustainable? plan is exciting not simply for its attention to There’s no reason our hometown should- One of the most important venues for issues of sustainability and environmental n’t be setting a global example for sustain- TIPPING POINT tackling such questions in the US has been racism, but also for the hundreds of thousands ability, rather than following in the wake of One example of such a tipping point is the the Apollo Alliance. Formed as a national or- of “green collar” jobs that it would help create. cities like Portland, London and Singapore, melting of the Arctic icecap: as the ice melts, ganization in 2003, the Apollo Alliance has and Mayor Bloomberg’s plaNYC goes some more ocean is exposed, leading to greater ab- sought to unite the labor and environmental OBSTACLES way towards addressing this need. The may- sorption of solar radiation and, in turn, further movements with social justice advocates. It Yet the way ahead is littered with obsta- or’s congestion pricing proposal has drawn melting of the ice. Less well known but per- has pointed to the opportunities for domestic cles. While at the Cornell Climate Crisis most of the media attention, but plaNYC also haps more deadly are the thawing of the job creation in the transition to sustainable conference, for example, I attended a round- calls for other measures such as promoting Siberian tundra, which threatens to free mil- energy production. The Apollo Alliance is table on how labor could shape the next solar power for City buildings and greening lions of tons of the potent warming gas not simply defensive, as has too often been global agreement on reduction of green- the city’s yellow cab fleet. methane, or the drying out and potential com- the case for labor: rather, it is advancing for- house gas emissions. Discussion highlight- CUNY can play a prominent role in a tran- bustion of the world’s rain forests. According ward-thinking plans to build a more sustain- ed the role of undemocratic institutions sition to sustainability. CUNY is, after all, to top scientists such as NASA’s James able economy in a way that shares both the such as the World Bank in bankrolling un- responsible for 10% of greenhouse gas Hansen, we have less than a decade to make environmental and economic benefits with sustainable, fossil fuel-based development emissions caused by City buildings. As the changes needed to stave off such runaway New York’s working-class majority. policies over the last several decades. De- professionals working within an institution climate change. spite this negative history, the World Bank that has such a large environmental foot- Given the history of enmity between labor GREEN FOR THE RICH was tapped by the G8 at the Gleneagles print, we can have a significant impact sim- and environmentalists, it was heartening to Without such policies, the danger is that summit of 2005 to plan a global transition to ply by encouraging CUNY to lead by see significant solidarity at the Cornell con- new green buildings in the city will be exclu- sustainable energy. The resulting policy example. To this end, the PSC needs to de- ference between these two groups. Labor sively for the rich: Battery Park City’s ritzy document could allow greenhouse gas emis- velop a forward-thinking position on a just leaders such as Dave Foster of the United Solaire building, with its solar panels, fil- sions so high that they would unleash cata- green transition. In doing so, we can learn Steelworkers joined environmental leaders tered air, locally sourced building materials, strophic climate change. much from other groups such as the student- like the Sierra Club’s Cathy Duvall and and whopping multi-million dollar apart- As the world’s most powerful countries led organization Campus Climate Challenge. prominent scientists such as Princeton’s ment price tags, is a prominent example of met again in Germany in early June, the US Robert Socolow to articulate their concern such environmentalism-for-stockbrokers. sought to derail international negotiations CUNY CAN CONTRIBUTE over our collective future. Central to their In New York City, the local branch of the for a new post-Kyoto agreement for green- CUNY’s participation in a recent agree- message was an emphasis on social justice. Apollo Alliance has developed an ambitious house gas reductions. It proposed to lead a ment among local institutions of higher edu- Global warming is going to adversely affect ten-point plan for a socially just urban green new track independent of the existing, Unit- cation to cut greenhouse gas emissions by everyone on the planet, but it will damage the transition. It includes promoting a “zero- ed Nations framework – essentially a stalling 30% is an important start, as is its recent Sus- most vulnerable people, animals and plants waste” policy through sweeping recycling pro- tactic, designed to avoid further action as tainable Construction Initiative. But more most gravely. It will exacerbate trends to- needs to be done: for example, CUNY has yet ward greater economic inequality, both glob- to step up and endorse the American College ally and within individual countries. Would a Unions for sustainability& social justice and University Presidents’ Climate Commit- ment, which commits signers to a target of ze- ro emissions. The PSC should urge CUNY to adopt the following specific policy measures: Clarion SUMMER 2007 1) purchasing clean power from renewable Newspaper of the Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York, collective bargaining representative of the CUNY instructional staff. Vol. 36, No. 5. PSC/CUNY is affiliated with the American Association resources; 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 2) implementing green purchasing policies by PSC/CUNY, 61 Broadway, 15th floor, New York, NY 10006. Telephone: (212) 354-1252. Website: www.psc-cuny.org. E-mail: [email protected]. All opinions expressed in these pages are not necessarily for products that use less energy and are those of the PSC. PSC OFFICERS: Barbara Bowen, President; Steven London, First Vice President; Arthurine DeSola, Secretary; Michael Fabricant, Treasurer; Stanley Aronowitz, Jonathan Buchsbaum, Lorraine Cohen, John better for people and the environment; Pittman, Nancy Romer, University-wide Officers; Robert Cermele, Vice President, Senior Colleges; Kathleen Barker, Marilyn Neimark, Alex Vitale, Senior College Officers; Anne Friedman, Vice President, 3) upgrading efficiency through the re- Community Colleges; Jacob Appleman, Lizette Colón, Susan O’Malley, Community College Officers; Iris DeLutro, Vice President, Cross Campus Units; Donna Veronica Gill, Steven Trimboli, Vera Weekes, placement of inefficient appliances and the Cross Campus Officers; Marcia Newfield, Vice President, Part-Time Personnel; Susan DiRaimo, David Hatchett, Diane Menna, Part-Time College Officers; Peter Jonas, James Perlstein, Retiree Officers; Irwin H. Polishook, President Emeritus; Israel Kugler, Deputy President Emeritus; Peter I Hoberman, Vice President Emeritus, Cross Campus Units. retrofitting of polluting buildings; STAFF: Deborah Bell, Executive Director; Faye H. Alladin, Coordinator, Financial Services; Dorothee Benz, Coordinator, Communications; Debra L. Bergen, Director, Contract Administration & University-wide 4) constructing high-performance buildings; Grievance Officer; Barbara Gabriel, Coordinator, Office Services and Human Resources; Kate Pfordresher, Coordinator, Research & Public Policy; Diana Rosato, Coordinator, Membership Department; Clarissa and Gilbert Weiss, Director, Pension and Welfare Benefits. creating a culture of energy conservation Editor: Peter Hogness / Associate Editor: Dania Rajendra / Designer: Margarita Aguilar / Proofreader: Nicole Lisa 5) © 2007 Professional Staff Congress/CUNY on our campuses. 12 NEWS ANALYSIS Clarion | Summer 2007 Ideologue named to higher ed panel

By BARBARA McKENNA founder and asked ACTA to remove Chronicle of Higher Education. He and PETER HOGNESS Accreditation & the Bush agenda all such references from its website described it as “a hodgepodge of and published documents. half-baked ideas and anecdotes.” The appointment this spring of Anne When Spellings appointed Neal to Several members of Congress Neal, president of the American the NACIQI, it sparked charges that have become concerned that, Council of Trustees and Alumni (AC- she was putting the fox into the through NACIQI and a negotiated TA), to a federal panel on college accreditation henhouse. Among federal rule process, Secretary and university accreditation fueled those raising concerns was Free Ex- Spellings is trying to impose stan- concerns that the department is change On Campus, a coalition that dards and regulations that are nor- becoming ever more politicized un- includes the PSC’s national affiliate, mally defined by Congress through der Education Secretary Margaret the American Federation of Teach- the Higher Education Act. Congress Spellings. ers (more information at www.free is currently working on a reautho- Despite its official-sounding name, exchangeoncampus.org). Free Ex- rization of the act, which is now sev- ACTA is a highly political organiza- change questioned whether Neal eral years overdue. As that work tion that has been a sometimes shrill would be effective in administering moves forward, members of both advocate for a conservative agenda a system she wants to abolish, or the US Senate and House of Repre- within higher education. For exam- whether she would instead simply sentatives have moved to clip Secre- ple, after the 9/11 attacks ACTA re- use her position to advance ACTA’s tary Spellings’ wings. leased a report titled, “Defending political agenda. Civilization: How Our Universities Neal dismissed such concerns. In FUNDAMENTAL Are Failing America and What Can an interview with Inside Higher Ed, On May 25, Sen. Lamar Alexander Be Done About It.” Neal was one of she said, “Separate and apart from (R-Tenn.), a former secretary of ed- r e v two authors of that report, which r the commentary we have made ucation under the first President a T

charged that “college and university n about the system as it has operated Bush, made a speech on the floor of o faculty have been the weak link in R in the past, that system is the Senate in which he America’s response to the attack.” Anne Neal of ACTA at a legislative hearing in Pennsylvania. still in place, and NACIQI is ACTA wants warned Spellings not to Secretary Spellings named Neal responsible for ensuring as try an end run around the as one of 15 members of the Nation- dismantling the accreditation sys- versities and advocate for external- much quality as possible universities legislative process by al Advisory Committee on Institu- tem in a 2002 report and repeated ly imposed restrictions on faculty and accrediting the accredi- to report changing accreditation tional Quality and Integrity that advice in a 2007 follow-up. Cur- and institutions as a solution. AC- tors. Obviously those who on politics procedures. (NACIQI), which advises the Edu- rently, students at non-accredited TA calls for laws that would re- serve are bound by the reg- “For that reason, if nec- cation Secretary on recognition of institutions such as the University quire colleges to report to state ulations that apply.” of faculty. essary, I will offer an accrediting agencies and related of Esoterica or Patriot Bible Univer- legislatures on what measures they Neal’s assurance that she amendment to the Higher policy matters. The topic is draw- sity are not eligible for federal finan- are taking to guarantee “intellectu- could keep her NACIQI hat separate Education Act to prohibit the de- ing new attention in Washington: cial aid. ACTA wants to eliminate al diversity” – thus putting govern- from ACTA’s political agenda rang partment from issuing any final reg- with Congress in the hands of the that restriction and end what it calls ment in the position of passing somewhat hollow, particularly when ulations on these issues until Democrats, the Bush administra- “the accreditor monopoly.” It envi- judgment on faculty members’ po- ACTA rushed out a new publication, Congress acts. Congress needs to tion has decided that accreditation sions a future where accreditation litical views. Why Accreditation Doesn’t Work, this legislate first.” policy is its best bet for implement- associations would act “in a manner July. In addition to repeating ACTA’s And in June, members of the ing the recommendations of Secre- more akin to business consultants,” CONSERVATIVES call for abolishing accreditation, the House added a provision to an edu- tary Spellings’ Commission on the supported only by “voluntary pay- ACTA was founded in 1995 as the new report puts ACTA’s broader po- cation spending bill that would pro- Future of Higher Education, which ments” and thus forced “to pass the National Alumni Forum with seed litical agenda front and center: it be- hibit the Education Department completed its work last year. test of the market.” money from the politically conserv- gins with four “stories from the front from using funds to promulgate new In her foreword to ACTA’s 2002 ative Lynde and Harry Bradley and lines,” three of which complain that accreditation regulations. The vote BRAZEN report, Neal wrote: “Putting the John M. Olin Foundations; it higher education institutions should came after Rep. George Miller, For example, NACIQI has been matter in a nutshell, we conclude changed its name to ACTA in 1998. not promote race and gender diversi- Chair of the House Committee on discussing “ways to prod accredi- that accreditation has not served to Among its co-founders were Lynne ty as a policy goal. Neal wrote the re- Education, blasted Spellings for at- tors to force colleges to measure ensure quality, has not protected Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick port’s forward. tempting “to circumvent Congress.” and report more quantitative data the curriculum from serious degra- Cheney and former chair of the Na- As the clock runs out on the Bush about their success in educating stu- dation and gives students, parents, tional Endowment for the Humani- SKEPTICAL administration, you can expect that dents,” Inside Higher Ed reported in and public decision-makers almost ties. As part of its claim to “If the Department of Education the topic of accreditation will contin- June. Spellings’ commission put a no useful information about institu- bipartisanship, the group has listed wonders why colleges and universi- ue to heat up. And you can expect major emphasis on such reporting. tions of higher education.” Sen. Joseph Lieberman as a co- ties are skeptical about their mo- Anne Neal to be in the thick of it. Neal’s appointment to NACIQI is Neal is among those critics, such founder – but when Lieberman de- tives with respect to accreditation, seen as particularly brazen because as David Horowitz, who complain nounced ACTA’s post-9/11 report as they need look no further than this Barbara McKenna is editor of AFT she is an outspoken opponent of ac- that there are too many liberals antithetical to academic freedom, he report,” Terry Hartle of the Ameri- On Campus. Peter Hogness is editor creditation itself. ACTA called for and leftists in US colleges and uni- wrote that he had never been a co- can Council on Education told the of Clarion.

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