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Media Coverage (July 2022)

Gotham Gazette: What’s Next for CUNY After Three Tumultuous Pandemic School Years
NY Daily News: CUNY at the crossroads

Media Coverage (June 2022)

Gotham Gazette: Key Investments New York City Needs to Make in CUNY This Budget
New York Post: CUNY faculty union suing school over ‘double standard’ COVID vaccine mandate
The Chief: CUNY union sues over vaccine mandate

Media Coverage (May 2022)

The Chief: Faculty union at CUNY backs pathway to full-time jobs for adjuncts
Amsterdam News: Endorsements galore for candidates and unions

Media Coverage (April 2022)

The Ticker: CUNY receives $1.2 billion increase for FY 2023
NYSUT News: Regents dump edTPA requirement for teacher certification
Gotham Gazette: State Budget Includes Big Boost for CUNY
Spectrum News NY1: Higher education advocates call budget a mixed result for SUNY, CUNY
NYSUT News: NYSUT applauds Regents for eliminating edTPA requirements
The Chief: ‘Fix our schools’: CUNY students, faculty plead for campus fixes
Spectrum News NY1: SUNY, CUNY unions tout economic impact of higher education

Media Coverage (March 2022)

The New Yorker: The Case for More CUNY Funding
City & State NY: Will CUNY move closer to offering free tuition?
NY Post: CUNY students, staff rally for funding to repair ‘crumbling’ schools
News 12: CUNY students, staff rally for more funding as state Legislature works on budget
NY State of Politics: NY Sen. Gounardes wants 'New Deal' for funding SUNY, CUNY
City & State NY: The 2022 Higher Education Power 100
Curbed: Hunter College Is Falling Down “We’re actually in crisis, and you can’t keep duct-taping things together forever.”
Amsterdam News: City Council passes resolution in support of CUNY’s ‘New Deal,” Congresspeople back ‘em up
The Ticker: Proper funding for CUNY must take place
Spectrum News NY1: CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez discusses push for more funding in state budget
The Ticker: PSC CUNY’s Brooklyn Bridge Budget March draws crowd of hundreds
Crain's NY Business: Success does not stem from only a Harvard degree—you can find it at a CUNY school too
AMNY: New York should bring back a tuition free CUNY
NY Daily News: CUNY needs more money, desperately
Spectrum News NY1: CUNY faculty and students push for more funding in state budget
NYCCLC News: New Yorkers Show United Front for Increased CUNY/SUNY Funding
The Knight News: Queens College NYPIRG Chapter Hosts In-Person Student Action Meeting
AMNY: NYC Committee on Higher Education passes resolution seeking ‘New Deal for CUNY’
AMNY: Hundreds of SUNY, CUNY students and supporters stop traffic on Brooklyn Bridge to demand more funding
The Knight News: Crumbling CUNY: The March to Save CUNY, From the Inside Out

Media Coverage (February 2022)

Media Coverage (January 2022)

AMNY: CUNY faculty and staff rally at Medgar Evers College, Bronx Community College to protect health, safety and jobs
NY Daily News: The path to a safe and healthy CUNY this spring
Riverdale Press: Lehman College staffers are ready for 'New Deal' rollout
Prensa Latina: US professors’ union asks Biden to lift blockade against Cuba
NY Daily News: CUNY is failing its students
The Chief: Hochul Budget Plan for Universities Start of Something Big, Union Says
AMNY: CUNY Union launches a new social media ad advocating for New Deal legislation
Spectrum News 1: Higher education union makes funding push
The American Prospect: Will the Nation’s Largest Urban University System Become Free?
QNS: Queens advocates and lawmakers push for increased CUNY funding

Media Coverage (December 2021)

Gotham Gazette: Max Politics Podcast: A New Deal for CUNY?
Amsterdam News: CUNY students/unions march for a new deal
Brooklyn Reporter: Brooklyn officials march with students for New Deal for CUNY schools
City Limits: Opinion: A Tuition-Free CUNY is an Investment in New York’s Recovery
Queens Eagle: CUNY marches in Queens for New Deal
Liberation News: Unions, NYC community back strikers at Columbia U
Gothamist: Advocates Demand State Legislature Return CUNY To Tuition-Free Roots
Left Voice: Dear Columbia: Denying Student Workers Healthcare and a Living Wage Is the Real Violence
Reveal News: Fancy Galleries, Fake Art
The Ticker: Hostos professor, founding member and scholar dies
The Knight News: OP-ED: CUNY Enrollment Number Plummets. What Happened?
Inside Higher Ed: The Full-Time Faculty Factor

Media Coverage (November 2021)

NYSUT: Unions to lawmakers: Do not shortchange higher ed
Times Union: State must commit to reinvest in CUNY, SUNY
Gotham Gazette: City Council Examines CUNY Employment of Adjunct Faculty Amid Pandemic Turmoil
Gotham Gazette: Finally, a CUNY Budget Request We Can Support
NY Daily News: A tale of two university systems: Stop targeting faculty cuts to CUNY and SUNY schools serving Black and Brown students
The Ticker: CUNY Rising Alliance and affiliates demand support for CUNY
Workers.org: Rally demands CUNY budget increases
NYSUT: Community College Conference: In solidarity, there is power to change
The Chief: CUNY Trustees Approve Budget That Would Hire 1,000 Faculty

Media Coverage (October 2021)

The Ticker: CUNY press conference calls for investment of stimulus funds into its schools
Times Union: Court decision means end of demand for union dues paybacks
The Ticker: Miscommunication among administration leads to last-minute modality changes, PSC says
Chronicle of Higher Education: A College President Says He Wants to Improve Governance. The Faculty Says He Wants to Destroy It.
Bronx Times: Consequences for unvaccinated CUNY students include academic withdrawal, loss of tuition
Queens Daily Eagle: CUNY students, staff call for say in use of fed funding
AMNY: Lawmakers, students and faculty call on CUNY admin to use stimulus funds to increasing staffing, improve COVID-19 safety
NY Daily News: Getting CUNY on solid footing

Media Coverage (September 2021)

Inside Higher Ed: At a College Wounded on 9/11, Memories Endure 20 Years Later
City & State: The 2021 New York City Labor Power 100
Inside Higher Ed: How Online Learning Fits in This Fall
The Chief: PSC Worried Virus-Safety Concerns At Medgar Evers Are Being Ignored
World Socialist: Chaotic CUNY reopening sparks opposition from faculty, students and staff
Manhattan Times: Up in the Air
Bronx Times: CUNY schools reopen with lack of COVID-19 plan in place
BkReader: Medgar Evers Faculty, Staff Protest Unresolved COVID-19 Safety Concerns

Media Coverage (August 2021)

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Semester of Magical Thinking
+972 Magazine: How Palestinian resistance inspired a new generation of labor activism
News 12: ‘I don’t feel safe’: Faculty and staff rally for safer conditions at Medgar Evers College
lnside Higher Ed: Punished for Staying Home
Gotham Gazette: Union Leaders Call for Better Covid Protocols, Transparency at CUNY Ahead of First Day of School
Fox 5 NY: CUNY faculty protest reopening amid delta variant surge
NY Times: New York is back. Now it has a second chance.
Queens Eagle: Faculty union worries as CUNY preps for fall semester
NY 1: 'New Deal for CUNY' would create a tuition-free college education for those who need it
Riverdale Press: Another look at that union vote

Media Coverage (July 2021)

AFT: Faculty, staff rise to meet a tough back-to-school season
Crains New York: Unions approve $22.5M deal to privatize retired city workers’ insurance
LaborPress: PSC Urges NYC Unions to Delay Further Privatization of Retiree Healthcare
The City: CUNY Insider Sounds Battle Call on Tight Public University Budget

Media Coverage (June 2021)

World Socialist: Retired New York City municipal workers speak out against unions’ deal to degrade health insurance
Jacobin: Unions Shouldn’t Be Helping the Health Industry
The Chief: PSC Calls for CUNY to Clear Air About Ventilation Before August
Newsweek: The New York City Unions Whose Backdoor Deal Sold Out Retirees, Helped Insurance Industry
AMNY: City pols rally against proposed CUNY budget cuts
PoliticsNY: Elected officials Rally Against Proposed CUNY Budget Cuts
NYSUT: Political action pays off in primaries
The Ticker: The New Deal for CUNY is a much-needed investment for students
Inside Higher Ed: The Money Not Everyone Wants
The Indypendent: Barbara Bowen Passes the Torch
The Campus: CUNY Alum is Running for NYC City Council
AMNY: NYC lawmakers look to boost mental health care for CUNY students
Labor Notes: New York City Retirees Fight to Defend Their Medicare Benefits
NY Daily News: The new deal that CUNY deserves

Media Coverage (May 2021)

China Daily: Washington urged to abandon Cold War mental
Chronicle of Higher Education: Transitions: Appointments, resignations, retirements, awards, deaths
Workers World: New York union protests racist austerity
Gotham Gazette: 'I Am You': Eric Adams Looks to Labor for Big Boost
Times Union: UAlbany faculty wants pension fund to divest from fossil fuels
SI Live: Know your candidates: Ranti Ogunleye, educator and activist, running for City Council
City Limits: How Ranked Choice Voting is Changing the Endorsement Game in NYC Elections
Bklyner.: Opinion: The City’s Engine of Economic Mobility Needs a Kickstart
Bklyner.: Brooklyn College Students and Faculty Demand Release of the COVID Stimulus Funds
The Chief PSC, Students Fight Proposed Cuts To CUNY's Community Colleges
Chronicle of Higher EducationComings and goings
City & State: Barbara Bowen still wants more for CUNY
Bowery Boogie: Chris Marte Barnstorms Forsyth Street Ahead of City Council Primary
Queens Eagle: Queens College professor steps down as CUNY staff union president
The Chief: Davis Elected Unopposed To Presidency of PSC
NYC Central Labor Council: Barbara Bowen, Outgoing President of Professional Staff Congress, Named NYSUT Higher Education Member of the Year
The Chief: After 21 Years, Bowen Bids Farewell To PSC
NYSUT: Bowen always happier with a megaphone in her hand
The Chief: Retirees Press CUNY For Pension-Pay Fix

Media Coverage (April 2021)

Spectrum News 1: Will Higher Ed be Short-Changed?
Politico: Higher Ed: The president of the PSC is stepping down after more than two decades in the post
Queens Chronicle: CUNY’s fall reopening: a work in progress
The Athenian: No New Deal for CUNY: Cuomo Cuts Rescinded, Faculty Union Demands Action
The Campus: For CUNY, New State Budget Is Not Austerity, But Not “Transformative” Either
City & State: The 2021 Higher Education Power 100
Truthout: Colleges Are Using COVID as an Excuse for Austerity. Unions Are Pushing Back
Politico: The Race for City Hall: SCOTT STRINGER picked up the endorsement of the Professional Staff Congress
AMNY: CUNY teacher union ranks Stringer as top choice for mayor followed by Morales
NY Post: CUNY yanks $3 million no-bid COVID contract amid criticism
NY Daily News: CUNY Board of Trustees tables vote on $3 million McKinsey proposal after criticism
NY Post: Critics rip CUNY over planned $3M contract with post-COVID consultants
Gotham Gazette: What the New State Budget Means for New York City
Spectrum News: Faculty and Staff Union Worried Higher Ed Funding Will Be Flat
Gotham Gazette: With Significant Federal Aid on the Way, CUNY Awaits Key State Budget Decisions
Amsterdam News: CUNY faculty go to the Bronx in search of a ‘New Deal’
Amsterdam News: UFT endorses Vanessa Gibson for Bronx borough president

Media Coverage (March 2021)

The Chief: PSC Gains Paid Family Leave for CUNY Staff
NYS AFL-CIO: Labor United in Support of Tax Reform Proposals Asking Wealthy to Pay Their Fair Share
Amsterdam News: PSC-CUNY backs Stringer’s report on university’s contributions
Gothamist: Before Determining This Year's State Budget, Albany Lawmakers Must First Decipher Last Year's
The Chief: CUNY Belatedly Negotiates To Rework Raise Payouts for PSC
The Ticker: PSC endorses Lander for NYC comptroller race
QNS: Group of former professors call on LaGuardia Community College to reinstate them after losing jobs and hours due to pandemic
The Knight News: CUNY Refuses to Implement Equity Raises

Media Coverage (February 2021)

The Chief: CUNY's Arrogance Risky
The Ticker: Chancellor reverses decision to not pay promised raises
The Brooklyn College Vanguard: PSC Members Protest CUNY Offices Over Contract
AMNY: CUNY faculty and staff union endorses CM Brad Lander for Comptroller
The Chief: PSC Protests CUNY Delay on Equity Raises For 2,500 Low-Paid Members
Amsterdam News: PSC-CUNY calls out chancellor for backing out of deal
The National Herald: 24 Groups Support Gianaris’ Effort to End State Incentive for Trump Opportunity Zones
AFT: Union protests equity violations as university breaches contract on staff pay
Tapinto.net: CUNY Union Leads Protest Over Contract Violation
Manhattan Times: Time is now
NY Carib News: Lawmakers pushing to make CUNY education FREE
The Ticker: CUNY Rising Alliance unveils details for its proposed New Deal for CUNY policy
The Brooklyn College Vanguard: PSC Calls for CUNY To Keep Classes Open and Filled Amid Pandemic Cuts
Tapinto.net: Legislators Envision A New Deal For CUNY
The Chief: PSC Taps Labor Veteran As Executive Director
Gotham Gazette: State Legislators, Advocacy Coalition Launch Push for ‘New Deal for CUNY’
Astoria Post: Cynthia Nixon Endorses Amit Bagga in 26th District Council Race
City & State: How COVID-19 is inspiring new visions for higher education
AMNY: Manhattan lawmakers on the move
Astoria Post: Western Queens Council Candidate Amit Bagga Earns Endorsement from Sen. Ramos in Crowded Race
Queens Daily Eagle: Ramos backs Bagga in crowded Western Queens council race
AMNY: State legislators and advocates push for CUNY New Deal
NY Daily News: New York lawmakers push to end tuition, improve adjunct pay and boost capital spending in ‘New Deal’ for CUNY
Queens Daily Eagle: Restore LaGuardia College’s crucial English Language Center
NY Daily News: Readers sound off on the education gap, the snow and indoor dining’s return
AMNY: CUNY faculty, adjunct and staff union endorses Jumaane Williams for Public Advocate

Media Coverage (January 2021)

Member-written pieces:

City Limits: Opinion: New York’s Billionaires Can Afford to Help Save CUNY
Daily News: A great teacher’s COVID retirement — and what it reveals about NYC’s school reopening failures
Teen Vogue: CUNY, Public Colleges Face Mass Budget Cuts Under the Shock of COVID-19
Gotham Gazette: Racialized Austerity: The Case of CUNY
The Chief: CUNY Layoffs Show Dark Side of Hiring Practices
Jacobin: Higher Education Privatization Opened Up International Students to Trump’s Attack
NY Times: The Problem With ‘Anti-Racist’ Movie Lists
Queens Daily Eagle: A Tale of two New York City budgets
Jacobin: Disaster Capitalists Want to “Reimagine” Public Education
NY Times: Why Did Cup Foods Call the Cops on George Floyd?
Gotham Gazette: What It's Like to Have a Child Arrested for Peacefully Protesting the NYPD
NY Daily News: How CUNY helps dismantle racism: Keep funded a vital lifeline for New Yorkers of color
Streetsblog NYC: Op-Ed: Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Mass-Transit Policing
NY Daily News: Tax the rich to save CUNY: An economic and social justice imperative
NY Daily News: After COVID-19, we must save CUNY
Queens Daily Eagle: Cutting us to the bone is no way to run a university system
NY Times: The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus
City Limits: Opinion: Spare CUNY, and Save the Education our Heroes Deserve
NY Daily News: Gov. Cuomo, let history be your guide: Previous governors have raised taxes in the midst of economic emergencies
New York Times: What We Lose When We Go From the Classroom to Zoom
The New Yorker: The Pandemic Is the Time to Resurrect the Public University
Gotham Gazette: Not a Novel Crisis at CUNY
NY Daily News: Cuomo’s crazy Gates-led ‘reimagining’ of public education
NY Daily News: What CUNY teaches us about the coronavirus, and vice versa
NY Daily News: Health isn’t just the absence of disease: An important coronavirus lesson
The Indypendent: The Uses and Abuses of Social Distancing Under Capitalism
City Limits: Opinion: The Role We Must Play in Countering Racist Scapegoating Around COVID-19
Crain's NY: Wealth tax is essential to economic recovery. Be bold, Albany.

Media Coverage (December 2020)

AMNY: Budget concerns prompt CUNY to put off 2% salary increase for faculty and staff
Queens County Politics: Queens Lawmakers on the Move Dec. 14, 2020
CWA: NEW YORK UNIONS TO NEW YORK STATE LEADERS: RAISE $7-9 BILLION IN TAXES ON THE RICH THIS YEAR
Queens County Politics: Queens Lawmakers on the Move Dec. 14, 2020
NY Daily News: ’Really devastating’: CUNY withholds promised pay raise amid fiscal crisis
The Wall Street Journal: New York City School Debates How Best to Test for Covid-19

Media Coverage (November 2020)

Reveal News: Fancy galleries, fake art
The Ticker: If Cuomo cared about CUNY, he’d be supporting it instead of slashing its budget
The Chief: Council Calls for Accountability On Adjunct Layoffs At CUNY
Gotham Gazette: CUNY Leaders Pressed on Thousands of Faculty Layoffs
NY Daily News: CUNY enrollment drops by 5.1% amid pandemic
Bloomberg Law: CUNY Gets Union’s CARES Act Suit Over Faculty Layoffs Thrown Out
The Chief: PSC Livid at One-Week Furlough of CUNY Execs
NBC New York: Homework Hotline Tutoring Program Continues to Help Families of Frontline Nurses
AM NY: Addressing the ‘two-tiered’ system for CUNY professors
The Ticker: Hunter College elementary school reports four COVID cases

Media Coverage (October 2020)

Our Town NY: A Troubled Reopening at the ‘Brick Prison’
NY Post: Medgar Evers College leaves adjunct professors dry with no checks
The College Post: CUNY Begins to Crumble Under Impact of NY Governor’s Budget Cuts
Gotham Gazette: CUNY and New York City Could Recover Together, or the Public University System Could Be Left Behind
The Ticker: CUNY adjuncts are laid off due to budget cuts
The Campus: A Look at CCNY’s Shrinking Course Variety -- How Are Students Affected?
Spectrum News NY1: Teachers, Faculty at Hunter College Campus Schools Demand Stricter COVID-19 Protocols
Gothamist: Teachers At Hunter College Campus Schools Threaten Strike After Four People Test Positive For COVID-19
Gotham Gazette: Pushed by City Council, CUNY Announces Additional Student Mental Health Services
TAPinto.net: Union May Re-Activate Strike Authorization at Hunter
Patch: 2 Hunter Teachers Test Positive, Raising Alarms Among Staff
NY Post: Teachers at Hunter College Campus Schools warn they may still strike over COVID-19
AM NY: Teachers won’t rule out strike after COVID-19 outbreak at Hunter College Campus Schools
Gothamist: CUNY Grapples With Devastating Budget Cuts: “People Are Freaking Out Or Getting Fired”
NY Times: This Elite School Is in a Brick Fortress. Can It Handle a Pandemic?
Tapinto.net: Hunter College Faculty Rally to Restore Jobs and Funding
AMNY: CUNY faculty call for transparency in how administration used CARES Act funds
The Knight News: How Will New York City’s Budget Cuts Affect CUNY And Our Community
The Knight News: OP-ED: Is a CUNY Tuition Hike Amidst the Pandemic Really Necessary?
The Ticker: Safety strike over building-related COVID-19 concerns avoided at Hunter College
NY County Politics: Safety Strike Over Building-Related COVID-19 Concerns Avoided at Hunter College

Media Coverage (September 2020)

Media Coverage (August 2020)

The Chief: PSC to CUNY: Negotiate Class Size After Layoffs
Manhattan Times: Stall the Start - CUNY staff demand delay of in-person classest
Queens Chronicle: Electeds step in to save CUNY jobs
Kings County Politics: CUNY Staff and Students Condemn CUNY Reopening Plans, Deemed Unsafe
The City: CUNY Charges ‘Activity Fee’ Despite Remote Learning for Most
SILive.com: Union, elected officials call for delay to all in-person CUNY classes
Patch: CUNY Faculty, Staff Call For Delayed Reopening Over Virus Fears
Yahoo News: CUNY Faculty, Staff Call For Delayed Reopening Over Virus Fears
NY Daily News: CUNY staff union calls to delay all in-person courses as fall semester nears
The Chief: Federal Judge Denies PSC's Bid For Reinstatement of Adjuncts
Law360: CUNY Needn't Use Virus Relief Funds To Rehire Profs: Judge
Bloomberg Law: CUNY Beats Injunction in CARES Act Suit Over Faculty Layoffs
The Knight News: OP-ED: Is QC becoming more like a private institution?
Inside Higher Ed: New AAUP statement urges institutions to treat their adjuncts as essential team members during the pandemic -- and after
The Guardian: Outrage as coronavirus prompts US universities and colleges to shed staff
Inside Higher Ed: Is Help Coming From Washington?
Law360: Rakoff Skeptical CUNY Must Pay Staff In CARES Act Case
The City: CUNY Fall Semester Enrollment Drops as Financial Outlook Takes Toll on Students and Staff
FLHS News: Save Lives. Save Jobs. Save CUNY.
The Chief: Revenue Gain Needed To Restore Adjuncts—CUNY

Media Coverage (July 2020)

The Banner: Faculty Union and Supporters Call On CSI to #SaveCUNY
The Chief: As CUNY Gears Up for On-Campus Classes, PSC Presses Safety Steps
Nonprofit Quarterly: Many Universities, Hit Hard by COVID, Make Broad and Deep Cuts
The Chief: There Oughtta Be a Law
Workers World: Teachers and staff organize in New York City during Covid-19
CNBC: Teachers and staff organize in New York City during Covid-19
The Chief: For Longtime Bronx CC Adjuncts, Layoffs Hit Close to Home
NY Daily News: Police unions are just doing their jobs
SI Live: CUNY union protests lay-offs, funding cuts, ‘unsafe conditions'
AFT: Higher ed layoffs and program cuts signal hard times ahead
NYS Attorney General Office: Colleges and Universities Across New York Support Attorney General James’ Lawsuit Against Trump Administration for Reversing Policy That Threatens to Deport International Students or Spread Coronavirus Across New York
NY Daily News: International students, left in the lurch: New Yorkers who desperately need help
NY Daily News: Attacking CUNY at the worst moment possible
Workers World: Labor union begins struggle against COVID-19 layoffs
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn College, other city colleges hit by adjunct layoffs
Education Dive: CUNY faculty union sues system, saying adjunct cuts violate CARES Act
The Chief: PSC Files Suit Against CUNY After 2,800 of Its Adjuncts are Laid Off
Inside Higher Ed: CUNY Layoffs Prompt Union Lawsuit
Gothamist: Faculty Union Sues CUNY, Demands Injunction To Rehire Laid-Off Adjuncts
Brooklyn Paper: Brooklyn College community calls for CUNY to reinstate laid off professors
NY Daily News: CUNY staff union sues university over adjunct layoffs
Newsmax: CUNY Axed 2,800 Profs After Taking PPP Loan, Union Claims
Law360: Union Says CUNY Axed 2,800 Profs After Taking Virus Relief
Kings County Politics: CUNY Lays Off Hundreds of Adjunct Professors
Forbes: June Brought More Faculty Layoffs And Growing Pushback
Bloomberg Law: CUNY Sued by Union Over Staff, Faculty Laid Off During Pandemic

Media Coverage (June 2020)

Inside Higher Ed: Mounting Faculty Concerns About the Fall Semester
Black Star News: CUNY Union Joins Growing Call to Defund NYPD
The Chief: Concerned About Layoffs and Safety, PSC Takes to the Streets
LaborPress: CUNY Union Forms Human Chain to Shield Adjuncts From Mass Layoffs
Inside Higher Ed: Wealthier colleges can offer more protection from COVID-19 than cash-strapped peers
AM News: Over 100 CUNY faculty gather outside and via Zoom to protest budget cuts
Inside Higher Ed: CUNY system suffers more coronavirus deaths than any other higher ed system in the U.S.
Yahoo News: CUNY Union Demands 'No Cuts, No Layoffs' Amid Budget Crunch
Kings County Politics: Elected Officials and CUNY Faculty Union: Protect CUNY
News 10: Online panel talks state education system with teacher’s unions on Wednesday
The Scientist: As the Pandemic Hits Campus Finances, Faculty Face Layoffs
The Chief: Major Unions Criticize 'Electeds' Over NYPD But Don't Say Whom
Kings County Politics: CUNY Union Rallies with Electeds to Protect Professors and Students
Univision: Despidos masivos y reducción de clases: lo que ocurriría tras los posibles recortes en el presupuesto de CUNY
Labor Press: Growing Backlash Against Massive Cuts To CUNY
Gotham Gazette: Challenges, Uncertainty Abound for CUNY System and Its Students, Faculty and Staff
The Chief: CUNY Agrees to Further Delay Adjunct Layoffs
The Riverdale Press: CUNY union fights adjunct job cuts
The National Herald: New York’s Frontline Doctors and Nurses Endorse Aravella Simotas for Re-Election
The Chronicle of Higher Education: 2,000 Instructors Tell Cuomo CUNY Must Be Protected From Budget Cuts (Paywall)

Media Coverage (May 2020)

Workers World: CUNY and the struggle against COVID-19 cuts
NYSUT: New York unions call on state leaders to raise taxes on the rich to address COVID-19 budget shortfall
Gotham Gazette: CUNY Faces Massive Potential Shakeup Due to City and State Budget Cuts
AM NY: Faculty union launches ad campaign opposing anticipated CUNY adjunct and part-time staff layoffs
NY Post: CUNY teachers face ax as $115M in coronavirus budget cuts loom
NY 1: Union Increases Pressure in Effort to Prevent CUNY Layoffs
The Chief: PSC Blasts 'Horrible' CUNY Plan To Lay Off 437 John Jay Adjuncts
The National Herald: New York Educators Endorse Aravella Simotas for Re-election
Amsterdam News: (Some) CUNY teachers to John Jay College: No jobs? No grades.
The Nation: If Cuomo Cuts Funding, CUNY Layoffs Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’
AFT: Protests amid quarantine: Unionists protect adjunct jobs, press for higher ed funding
WBAI: WBAI Evening News by The Indypendent // 18 May 2020
LaborPress: Union Representing CUNY Adjuncts Hits the Streets to Protest Mass layoffs, More Austerity Measures for Students and Staff
Riverdale Press: Amid budget cuts, CUNY students want to tax the rich
SI Live: College of Staten Island urged not to cut staff amid potential budget cuts
NY Daily News: Some CUNY colleges prepare to lay off adjuncts as budget cuts loom
SI Live: CUNY bracing for possible budget cuts, report says
Queens Chronicle: Colleges see possible uptick in enrollment
Politico: CUNY pressed to release more data on coronavirus-related deaths
Kings County Politics: Fund CUNY: Struggling students need assistance
Gothamist: CUNY Braces For Anticipated Budget Cuts Due To Coronavirus Pandemic
The Chief: PSC President Blasts Pre-Emptive Course Cuts at CUNY Colleges
The City: Looming CUNY Budget Cuts Have Faculty and Students Fearing for the Future

Media Coverage (April 2020)

City Limits: Opinion: The Role We Must Play in Countering Racist Scapegoating Around COVID-19

Media Coverage (March 2020)

The City: CUNY Online Learning Scramble Heightens Stress for Students and Faculty
Crain's NY: Wealth tax is essential to economic recovery. Be bold, Albany.
AFT: College students, faculty and staff reel from coronavirus shutdowns
The Chief: PSC: CUNY Canceling Campus Classes Doesn't Remedy All Virus Concerns
Dateline CUNY: PSC CUNY Endorses Sanders Amid Coronavirus
Caribbean Life: Union says CUNY bowed to pressure for employees to work remotely
The Envoy: Professional Staff Congress Calls on CUNY to Close Libraries
News 10: Activists hold Capital Region telephone town hall amid shutdowns
Black Star News: PSC UNION TO CUNY: MANDATE REMOTE WORK FOR ALL DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Politico: SUNY, CUNY halting in-person classes to mitigate coronavirus threat
Bklyner: ‘Save the CUNY Students’: Students Petition to Cancel In-Person Classes
NY Daily News: CUNY faces mounting calls for closure over coronavirus concerns
The Chief: Unions Not Sorry to See Bloomberg Exit Primary
WHCU Radio: Union members and activists call for new taxes on the ultra-wealthy

Media Coverage (February 2020)

News 10: Students gather to push for higher education funding
NY Daily News: Overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support taxing the ultra-rich
The Ticker: USG hosts large rally at Baruch opposing recent tuition hike

Media Coverage (January 2020)

The Chief: Despite Significant Raises for Adjuncts, PSC Says Members Still Feel Squeeze
Amsterdam News: Proposed bill bans NLRB from stripping grad workers’ right to unionize
Worker's World: Victory for over 21,000 education workers at 25 NYC colleges
Pandora’s Box: NY Public Advocate Came to York to Shine a Light on the Need for Investments

Media Coverage (December 2019)

Black Star News: NY Mayor de Blasio Praises Vote by CUNY Board to Approve PSC-CUNY Contract
City Limits: Opinion: Starving the CUNY System Erodes an Engine for Equality
Caribbean Life News: Williams tours York College, highlights funding crisis at CUNY
Queens Daily Eagle: Queens senator tackles CUNY infrastructure woes
Mayor de Blasio: Statement from Mayor de Blasio on CUNY Board Voting to Approve PSC-CUNY Contract
The Knight News: CUNY & PSC Fight the Good Fight
The Chief: PSC Members Ratify By Big Margin Pact With 71% Upgrade
Manhattan Times: Advance for the Adjuncts?
CUNY faculty and staff vote in favor of new contract
Queens Daily Eagle: CUNY staff union contract ratified after yearslong struggle

Media Coverage (November 2019)

Governor Cuomo: Statement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Ratification of Historic Five-Year Contract By PSC to Support CUNY Faculty
Campus News: CUNY chancellor applauds new contract; adjuncts to get 71% bump
Governor.ny.gov: Statement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Ratification of Historic Five-Year Contract By PSC to Support CUNY Faculty
Riverdale Press: CUNY contract debate reveals larger adjunct struggle
New Politics: In support of the Professional Staff Congress/City University of NY tentative agreement: Vote yes
City Limits: Opinion: Proposed CUNY Contract is a Good Deal for Students and Faculty
Riverdale Press: New union contract is great for CUNY future
Labor Notes: Viewpoint: Vote Yes on the PSC-CUNY Contract: A Step Forward in the Fight
NY Amsterdam News: PSC and CUNY agree to five-year contract
Politico: Stavisky pushes for more funding for CUNY, SUNY

Media Coverage (October 2019)

Governor Cuomo: Statement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on CUNY and PSC Tentative Contract Agreement That Supports CUNY Faculty So They Can Provide a World Class Education to New York's Students
Gotham Gazette: A Historic CUNY Labor Contract
The Chief: PSC's Breakthrough Deal
The Nation: These Students Want to Know: Where’s Their Tuition Money Going?
Campus News College Paper: CUNY adjuncts to get $5500 per course
Inside Higher Ed: CUNY Contract Deal Means Big Raise for Adjuncts
The Chief: Breakthrough PSC Deal Nearly Doubles Adjunct Per-Class Payments
NY Daily News: Fairness 101: CUNY’s new contract is better for professors who shoulder more and more of the teaching load, and for students
SI LIVE: Adjunct CUNY professors to see pay increase under tentative contract
NYSUT: NYSUT commends PSC on tentative contract agreement
NY Daily News: CUNY adjunct professors reach contract agreement, win major raise
Queens Daily Eagle: CUNY reaches contract agreement with 30K-member staff union
Wall Street Journal: CUNY Reaches Contract Deal With Faculty Union
CUNY: CUNY and PSC Reach Tentative Agreement On Five-Year Contract That Increases Salaries for Full-time Faculty, Adjuncts and Professional Staff and Supports Students’ Success
The Chief: PSC Spotlights Workplace Bullying, Calls for Law Protecting Its Victims
The Knight News: Call for More Funding for CUNY Schools in 2020
The Banner: CUNY Budget Cuts Felt By CSI Students and Faculty
The Chief: Polishook Had Character

Media Coverage (September 2019)

The Chief: Mourn Irwin Polishook, Longtime PSC Leader
The Knight News: PSC’s long haul fight for higher adjunct pay
The Knight News: CUNY: Tuition hikes affects students lives
Politico: FORMER CUNY UNION HEAD DIES
Queens Daily Eagle: Activists rally outside CNN’s climate crisis town hall

Media Coverage (July 2019)

NY Post: Hundreds of CUNY retirees shortchanged on pensions due to data glitch
The Chief: PSC to CUNY: Provide Dept. Chairs $10G Hike

Media Coverage (June 2019)

BronxNet: OPEN: June 12, 2019
City & State NY: The new CUNY chancellor’s first month on the job
The Chief: PSC's Graduation Message: Education At CUNY to Suffer Unless Pay Jumps
Amsterdam News: CUNY uses commencement to further message during contract negotiations

Media Coverage (May 2019)

Queens Daily Eagle: Staff union demands ‘wage justice’ during Queens College commencement
Qns.com: Students and professors to call for wage justice at Queens-based CUNY commencements
NY Daily News: For adjunct profs, the dream is a farce: How do I inspire my students when I’m barely hanging on?
BronxNet TV: PSC Protest
Pandoras Box: New York State Budget Allocates $7.6 Billion to Higher Education
Caribbean Life: 45th CD race heats up in final days
Gothamist: Socialists, Progressives, Unions Take To The Streets For May Day

Media Coverage (April 2019)

Queens Daily Eagle: Some cash-strapped CUNY adjuncts demand ‘$7K or Strike.’ Others aren’t so enthused
The Excelsior: Kickball or No Kickball, PSC Remains Determined to Support “7K” Movement
The Ticker: Students unite with PSC, demanding pay increase for adjuncts
The Chief: CUNY, SUNY Unions: State Shortchanges Us
NY Daily News: CUNY’s teachers get stiffed: An adjunct explains just how hard it is to make ends meet on what the city’s public university pays
NY Daily News: Fund CUNY’s faculty
Bronx Times: CUNY Supporters Urge Ending Funding Crisis
The Ticker: CUNY students and staff call for more funding in City Hall rally
NY Daily News: The true crime in higher education: how we’ve abandoned public universities like CUNY

Media Coverage (March 2019)

SI Live: CSI professors rally for higher wages, more funding
Jacobin: Taking the Fight to CUNY
News 12 Bronx: CUNY teachers hold rally for education and wage justice
The Chief: Unions Turn Out in Force to Add To PSC Pressure to Boost CUNY Funding
Laborpress: CUNY Professors Rally; Adjuncts Demand “$7K Or Strike!”
The Chief: Burst Pipes at Bronx Community College Engulf Building in Mold
Queens Chronicle: CUNY reps request more school funds
Gotham Gazette: Council Examines CUNY Budget, City Funding for Community Colleges
WXXI News: Students rally to fix 'TAP gap'
Times Union: New York professors' union is target of class action lawsuit
Bronx Times: Lehman Faculty Stage Union Work-In
Spectrum News: CUNY PSC Ad Campaign Pushes For Funding

Media Coverage (February 2019)

The Chief: PSC: CUNY Chancellor Must Demand Funding
Inside Higher Ed: Advice for the Community College Scholar
NY Daily News: A pass-or-fail test for CUNY's new chancellor, Félix Matos Rodríguez
Manhattan Times: Faculty Fight
Gotham Gazette: Public Higher Education for New Yorkers Is Under Serious Threat

Media Coverage (January 2019)

Media Coverage (December 2018)

The Chief: Members Hold Up Their End
Workers World: PSC at CUNY pushes for a new contract
The Chief: PSC President Bowen Among 17 Union Members Jailed for Protest
The Ticker: CUNY professors arrested in protest outside NVC
AFT: Faculty fight for funding
Politico: Police arrest roughly 17 members of CUNY's faculty union during contract rally
CUNY: CUNY Expands Its Promising ‘ACE’ Program to Lehman College in Partnership with Robin Hood Foundation
The Chief: PSC, UUP Call on State Assembly to Peg College Funding to Inflation Rate
WAMC: Blair Horner: Fixing State Support For Public Colleges
The Chief: CUNY Faculty Members Who Belong to TRS Demand Pension-Pay Update
The Campus: Special Report: The Adjunct Crisis

Media Coverage (November 2018)

The Chief: The Working Poor in CUNY
AMNY: CUNY rallies demand full funding for programs for low-income students
Washington Post: The problem with Michael Bloomberg’s massive donation to Johns Hopkins University

Media Coverage (October 2018)

The Chief: CUNY Faculty Prod Trustees to Call For Doubling Pay for 12,000 Adjuncts
Gothamist: Fixing NYC's Unfair Property Tax System: How Hard Could It Be?

Media Coverage (September 2018)

The Chief: PSC Goes to Wall Street to Make Its Case for Significant Pay Hikes
The Indypendent: Gov. Cuomo’s Free College Hustle
The Ticker: CUNY professors hit with major reduction in teaching hours
Workers World: A year after Hurricane Maria, people say DECOLONIZE PUERTO RICO!
The Campus: CUNY Professors March on Wall Street
City & State: Under attack, unions can’t let others tell their story for them

Media Coverage (August 2018)

Queens Tribune: Unions Say They Will Survive Janus Ruling
Times Ledger: Rozic presents Queens College with $750,000 for campus renovations

Articles with Photos from the June 27 Protest of the Janus Ruling

NY 1: Hundreds of people in Foley Square condemn SCOTUS labor union decision
NY Times: Fresh Proof That Strong Unions Help Reduce Income Inequality
NY Times: Trump Nominee Is Mastermind of Anti-Union Legal Campaign
NY Times: Why You Should Care About Unions
Albany Business Review: Curbs on unions likely to starve activist groups
Daily News: Janus Decision sparks outrage from New York's unions, demonstrators fill Foley Square to protest ruling
NY Times: Supreme Court Labor Decision Wasn’t Just a Loss for Unions
Time: The Supreme Court's Union Fees Decision Could Be a Huge Blow for Democrats
Delaware County Network: Supreme decision on unions gets mixed reaction in Pa.
DC 37: Our union, our power
The Village Voice: City Unions Race to Recruit Members After High Court Ruling
In These Times: Beware the Janus Fix That Relies Too Much on Bosses
Getty Images: Union Activists Protest Supreme Court Janus v. AFSCME Decision
The American Prospect: A Union Response to the Supreme Court’s Janus Decision
Jacobin: Unions Are Political
CBS News: Commentary: Why #Union should be just the beginning
Common Dreams: A Dagger in the Heart of Workers and Our Democracy: What's Behind the Janus Court Ruling
Kings County Politics: NYC unionists march in defiance of the Janus decision
The Guardian: America’s most insidious union-buster? Its own government

Media Coverage (July 2018)

The Chief: Following Loss of Agency-Fee Rights, Unions Insist Members Will Stand Up
Workers World: Protest the anti-worker Janus decision

Media Coverage (June 2018)

Kings County Politics: NYC unionists march in defiance of the Janus decision
NY1: Hundreds of people in Foley Square condemn SCOTUS labor union decision
NY Daily News: Janus Decision sparks outrage from New York's unions, demonstrators fill Foley Square to protest ruling

Media Coverage (May 2018)

Workers World: Supreme Court ‘justice’ is theft from workers
AFT Voices: I can’t keep teaching for poverty wages
Staten Island Advance: College of Staten Island adjuncts rally for higher wages
Bklyner: CUNY Students Speak Out Against Inadequate Funding As The Facilities Crumble

Media Coverage (April 2018)

Manhattan Times: Poverty pay no more: PSC
Kings County Politics: Electeds Lend Ears & Support To CUNY Students
Spectrum News: CUNY adjuncts seek a higher wage
Crains New York: Not just subways: CUNY, too, suffers from Albany's neglect of NYC
BMCC News: Faculty Awarded for Innovative Projects

Media Coverage (March 2018)

Crains New York: At chronically underfunded City College, the new president's challenges are far beyond academic
The Chief: Brooklyn College Students Press Cuomo for Aid to Address Decay
Manhattan Times: Joined against Janus
Amsterdam News: Janus v. AFSCME goes to Washington
Spectrum News: Groups Push For Stock Buybacks Tax
The Indypendent: Free Riders: In a case that could have dire consequences for public unions, the Supreme Court weighs giving dues dodgers a pass.
BuzzFlash: How New York City Won Divestment From Fossil Fuels

Media Coverage (February 2018)

NY Daily News: Union workers rally ahead of Supreme Court hearing on organized labor ‘agency fees’
Vox Media: What the latest union case before the Supreme Court could mean for workers of color
Spectrum News: Students and faculty rally for more SUNY and CUNY spending
Commercial-News: Divided Court spars over unions
Daily Democrat: California unions prepare to lose in the courthouse

Media Coverage (January 2018)

The Indypendent: How New Yorkers Won Fossil Fuel Divestment
Truthout: Graduate Student Unions Are Growing -- and Fighting for Social Justice
Bklyner: Math, Meritocracy and Race – Brooklyn College Professor Defends Her Work

Media Coverage (December 2017)

Associate Press Video of the #GOPTaxScam protest ran on outlets throughout the U.S.: USA Today, MSN, USA Today, Chron, Xfinity, New Jersey News 12, Hartford City News, World News Today, The News-Gazette

The Chief: GOP’s Reverse Robin Hood
The Chief: Union Protesters Call Passage of GOP Tax Plan a ‘War’ on Ordinary People (paywall)
NY Daily News: Protest targeting GOP tax bill at New York Stock Exchange leads to 15 arrests
The Indypendent: Trump’s Tax Heist for the Rich
NYC Patch: NYC Rally Against GOP Tax Bill Ends In Arrests
City & State NY: "Kill this bill": Protesters rally in vain against congressional tax plan
Fox 5: New York lawmaker takes part in 'die-in' over tax plan
Eyewitness News: Video coverage of tax-cut protest
Capital Tonight: Cuomo Vetoes MOE For SUNY And CUNY
SocialistWorker.org: Raising our voices against the tax-cut heist
The Chief: CUNY Shrinks Teaching Load for Full-Time Profs (paywall)
Amsterdam News: PSC-CUNY/CUNY deal restructures full-time faculty workload
Inside Higher Ed: CUNY Faculty Sees Teaching Load Reduction
Chronicle of Higher Education: What's a Fair Wage for Adjuncts?
Grist: New York City’s watchdog sets her sights on climate change
Kings County Politics: Evers’ Adjuncts Come to Aid of CUNY Faculty
Manhattan Times: New contract call at CUNY
NY Daily News: Rai$ing hell in CUNY protest
The Excelsior: Q&A with James Davis, PSC Chair, in Wake of CUNY Contract Negotiations
AFT Voices: Saving the rainforest with the power of (our) money
The Campus: CUNY Faculty Members Demand Higher Wages from Administration
Labor Press: After 6-Year Contract Fight, CUNY Faculty & Staff Are Battling Again
Spectrum Noticias NY 1: EXIGEN MEJORES SALARIOS PARA TRABAJADORES EN UNIVERSIDADES DE CUNY
NY 1: CUNY professors to march in Manhattan ahead of contract talks
NY Daily News: CUNY professors to march in Manhattan ahead of contract talks

Media Coverage (November 2017)

Amsterdam News: CUNY’s faculty union tells trustees ‘ensure student success’ by offering faculty a better contract
NYC Patch: NYC's Public Pensions Should Dump Fossil Fuels, Activists Say
Washington Square News: Community Gathers to Protest Closure of DNAinfo and Gothamist
Workers World: Climate activists denounce hurricane devastation>

Media Coverage (October 2017)

The Chief: PSC Brings Heat On CUNY Trustees to Get More Aid From State
The Advocate: Free the Media! Campaign to Rehire Marisa Holme
Labor Notes: Building Power before Janus–And After: Lessons from CUNY
Truthout: The Pros and Cons of a Constitutional Convention
Labor Notes: Building Power before Janus–And After: Lessons from CUNY

Media Coverage (September 2017)

The Indypendent: Is the ConCon a Con?
Crains NY: Labor looks strong in NY, but a dire threat looms: Supreme Court could eviscerate unions' funding
Workers World: March defends immigrant ‘Dreamers’
Bronx Times: In their own words: 13th CD Q&A
Workers World: Defend the dreamers!

Media Coverage (August 2017)

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Justin Brannan lands major endorsement…
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brannan picks up big endorsement from Abbate
The Villager: De Blasio racks up Manhattan pols’ support for re-election

Media Coverage (July 2017)

Campus News: SCCC faculty protest Trump’s visit to Brentwood Campus
Truthout: Building Resistance on Trump Island
Inside Higher Ed: Long-Term Contracts for 1,500 Adjuncts

Media Coverage (June 2017)

Amsterdam News: CUNY students to see increase in college tuition
Manhattan Times: The Mayor’s Mission
AFT Voices: Why we fight for funding
Capital Tonight: New Maintenance of Effort Bill Introduced

Media Coverage (May 2017)

The Chief: Adjuncts Picket CUNY’s Offices To Publicize Disparities in Compensation
Workers.org: AT&T hit by coast-to-coast strike
AFT: Women Workers Rising swells support for women's rights
Broadway World: IATSE Local One Endorses NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for Re-election
The Chief: Adjuncts Are Played Cheap
Amsterdam News: 32BJ supports fast food workers petition, announces candidate endorsements
The Indypendent: Free Higher Ed for a Few
Amsterdam News: De Blasio proposes $84 billion budget, Trump looms over it

Media Coverage (April 2017)

NYSUT: Late state budget makes progress on many issues
The Legislative Gazette: ‘Landmark’ free tuition program will take effect this fall at SUNY and CUNY schools

Media Coverage (March 2017)

Crains NY: Free tuition, great. But CUNY needs money to keep from falling apart
News 12: Students march to fight CUNY tuition hikes
Times Union: Letter: Higher education needs full-time faculty staff
Crains NY: CUNY professors warn Cuomo, legislators not to flunk economics
NYS Senate: Senate Democrats Rollout EducateNY Plan
Gotham Gazette: For Tuition Aid Boost to be Meaningful, CUNY Needs New Investment
The Legislative Gazette: Education leaders and lawmakers want expansion of millionaire’s tax to fund schools
The Indypendent: Learning from South Africa's Student Uprising
AFT: Women Workers Rising swells support for women's rights
The Advocate: Trump’s Immigration Policy Strikes CUNY

Media Coverage (February 2017)

The Banner: To Varying Degrees, CUNY Officials Condemn Trump’s Travel Ban
The Chief: UFT, Honoring Mayor’s Good Faith At Bargaining Table, Endorses Him
AFL-CIO: Working People and Their Unions Rally to Support Members Affected by Travel Ban
Democracy Now: Iranian Student Blocked from Entering U.S.: Trump Remarks on Muslim Ban Remind Me of the Nazis
Times Higher Education: Trump ban: students and staff travel again after legal block
TWC News: Free Tuition Program Raises Questions at CUNY
The Chief: PSC Backs de Blasio’s Re-Election, Citing His Progressive Stances
Times Ledger: CUNY union endorses de Blasio
Market Watch: Why making college free is so difficult

Media Coverage (January 2017)

Brooklyn Reporter: Brooklynites respond to President Trump’s travel ban with rally
DNA info: CUNY Vows to Fight for Brooklyn Student Stuck in Iran After Travel Ban
WNYC: Universities in New York Grapple with Trump's Immigration Order
Observer: Brooklyn Borough President Rallies CUNY Students Affected by Trump Muslim Ban
Gothamist: Rally Held For CUNY Grad Student In Iran Denied Re-Entry To U.S.
The Chief: Trump Education Nominee Grilled On Calling Public Schools ‘A Dead End’
Patch: Brooklyn CUNY Student Stuck In Iran Under Trump's Travel Ban
El Diario: Exigen que Trump tumbe la prohibición de entrada de estudiantes musulmanes
NY Daily News: Rally planned in support of CUNY Ph.D. student from Iran who was barred from flight due to Trump travel ban
NY1: University Communities Around the City Rally Behind Students Waylaid by Trump's Travel Ban
NBC: Dozens Rally for CUNY Doctoral Student Denied Reentry to U.S. Amid National Backlash to Trump Immigration Order
CBS: CUNY Doctoral Student Unable To Return To US After Trump Travel Ban
The Chief: PSC, Allies ‘Mall’ Trump, DeVos In Opening Salvo of ‘Reclaim Our Schools’
Wall Street Journal: Chancellor James Milliken Lays Out New Vision for CUNY
NY Times: Governor Cuomo’s Tuition Plan
Huffington Post: Candidate Cuomo’s Bogus Education Promises
Socialist Alternative: New York Governor proposes major plan to tackle college tuition
People's World: New York’s free tuition plan resonates around the country
Amsterdam News: Union leaders positive about Cuomo’s agenda on education and child care
AFT: Creating sanctuary on campus
The Chief: Applaud Governor’s Free-Tuition Plan For Students Attending CUNY, SUNY
Queens Chronicle: High grades for Gov. Cuomo’s tuition plan
AFT: New York could move toward free college tuition
Gothamist: Bernie Sanders Joins Governor Cuomo To Announce Tuition-Free College Proposal
Inside Higher Ed: Free Tuition Idea Revived
WBAI: Morning Show - Wed, Jan 4, 2017 6:00 AM (listen at 147:45 mark)

Media Coverage (December 2016)

Labor Press: Rallying at City Hall, CUNY Rising Alliance Releases White Paper (CUNY Rising Alliance)
WBAI: NY Is A College Town
Columbia Journalism School: CUNY Rising Alliance Calls on Cuomo, de Blasio to Fund CUNY – Video clip (CUNY Rising Alliance)
The Kingsman: CUNY Budget Leads to Disrepair and Unsanitary Restroom Conditions
Univison: Grupo pide educación libre de costo en la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (CUNY Rising Alliance)
Observer: Pols and Advocates Demand $2 Billion from Mayor and Governor for CUNY (CUNY Rising Alliance)

Media Coverage (November 2016)

NY Slant: START NEW YORK’S 2017 AGENDA WITH INVESTMENT IN CUNY
The Chief: CUNY Rising Alliance Pressing For Better Conditions for Faculty, Pupils (CUNY Rising Alliance)
The Record: NYPIRG teams up with Young Invincibles, supports students (CUNY Rising Alliance)
Manhattan Times: Student Union (CUNY Rising Alliance)
Inside Higher Ed: Attacking Austerity

Media Coverage (October 2016)

The Excelsior: Trustees Limit CUNY First Amendment Rights

Media Coverage (September 2016)

The Ticker: Dozens Testify For Back Pay In Front Of CUNY Board Of Trustees
Socialist Worker: What led to the LIU lockout?
In These Times: Anatomy of a Lockout
Workers World: Class struggle sharpens as LIU locks out its faculty
The Excelsior: CUNY and PSC Faculty Union Reach Contract Deal
UFT: Labor rallies for Jackson's state Senate bid

Media Coverage (August 2016)

AFT: CUNY faculty and staff ratify new contract
Associated Press (posted by dozens of news outlets, including NY1 and Newsday): New contract approved for CUNY faculty, professional staff
Chronicle of Higher Education (Posted behind a paywall): CUNY Union Ratifies Contract to Provide Pay Raises and Multiyear Contracts
Daily News: CUNY staffers vote to ratify first labor contract in 6 years
The Chief-Leader: PSC Overwhelmingly Approves Long-Due Pact With 10% Hikes
In These Times: How We Won a Contract Against Austerity at CUNY
In These Times: CUNY Workers Overwhelmingly Approve New Contract With 94% Voting Yes
JPUpdates: CUNY Staffers Agree to New Labor Union Contract
Manhattan Times: Done deal
Staten Island Advance: CUNY faculty approve new contract; raises on the way
PoliticoNY (Posted behind a paywall): CUNY faculty union ratifies seven-year contract

Media Coverage (July 2016)

Gotham Gazette: Could CUNY Be Tuition-Free Again?
Jacobin Magazine: CUNY’s Last Lifeline
PoliticoNY: CUNY board approves union contracts
Amsterdam News: PSC and CUNY finally reach a tentative deal
The Chief: Collegiality Prevails At CUNY As PSC Accepts Pact With 10.4% Hike
NY Times: Tentative Contract Deal at CUNY Ends Stalemate and Strike Threat
NY Daily News: CUNY staff, administration reach deal on contract, break six-year deadlock
Wall Street Journal: CUNY and Faculty Union Reach Contract Deal
Inside Higher Ed: CUNY Reaches Tentative Deal With Faculty Union
Staten Island Advance: Tenative contract agreement reached for CUNY faculty
Workers World: CUNY employees win contract
Black Star News: CUNY Reaches Deal with Union -- Milliken
The Chronicle of Higher Ed: CUNY and Faculty Union Reach Tentative Deal to End Long Labor Fight
Academe Blog: Professional Staff Congress Reaches Contract Deal With CUNY
NY.GOV: Cuomo on Contract Agreement Between CUNY and Professional Staff Congress
CUNY Newswire: Chancellor Milliken’s Statement on Tentative Contract with the Professional Staff Congress

Media Coverage (June 2016)

The Chief: DC 37 Breaks CUNY Logjam, Getting Deal Providing 10% Raise
The Ticker: CUNY funding crisis prompts rallies
The Chief: As Contract Wait Drags On, CUNY Staffers Stew and Step Up Rhetoric
City Limits: CUNY Strike Threat and Albany’s Failure to Fund
Newsday: LaValle seeks commitment to increase SUNY, CUNY funding
Times Union: Unions, student groups make last-minute push for SUNY, CUNY funding
Capitol Tonight: Lawmakers Push For CUNY And SUNY MOE
WNYC: From 'The Poor Man's Harvard' to 'Brokelyn College'
NY Daily News: Choking CUNY has consequences
The Chronicle of Higher Ed: The Travesty of Starving Our Best Public Universities
Jacobin Magazine: Degrees of Austerity: Inside the budget crisis affecting the largest urban university in the United States and the half million students it serves.
The Washington Post: Adjuncts are unionizing, but that won’t fix what’s wrong in higher education
The Brooklyn Rail: THE LAST CUT WAS THE DEEPEST:
Cuomo’s Gamble and CUNY’s Full-Throated Retort
DNA info: Protests Call For More CUNY Funding Before Michelle Obama Speech
NY Times: Michelle Obama Denounces Donald Trump in CUNY Commencement Speech
NY1: First Lady Takes Aim at Trump During Commencement Address at CCNY Graduation Ceremony
Capital Tonight: CUNY Rising Urges Contract, MOE

Media Coverage (May 2016)

NY Times: Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters
Truthout: CUNY Professors and Staff Consider Future Strike to Defend Public Education Funding
NY Daily News: Time for a CUNY contract: Professors must ditch their strike threat, and Gov. Cuomo must step up
Amsterdam News: PSC-CUNY votes to authorize strike
Labor Press: The Real Reason CUNY Hasn't Settled a Contract
Capital Tonight: CUNY Union Approves Possibility of a Strike
The Indypendent: CUNY Profs Approve Strike Vote
Times Ledger: CUNY faculty vote to authorize strike
NY Times: CUNY Union Votes to Allow Strike if Contract Deal Is Not Reached
NY Daily News: CUNY staffers vote to authorize strike if school can’t agree on contract
The Chronicle of Higher Ed: CUNY’s Faculty Union Votes to Authorize Strike
Staten Island Advance: CSI unions rally for a new contract; CUNY strike authorization passes
Academe Blog: CUNY FACULTY UNION VOTES TO AUTHORIZE STRIKE
NY Daily News: Rotting rungs on the ladder of opportunity: Albany's failure to fund raises for CUNY professors is hurting low-income New Yorkers
The Indypendent: CUNY Voices: I’m Standing with My Union Because It Always Stood Up for Me
In These Times: Why I Voted ‘Yes’ To Authorize My Union at CUNY To Call a Strike
WNYC: CUNY Faculty to Begin Voting on Possible Strike
PoliticoNY: CUNY union begins strike authorization referendum

Media Coverage (April 2016)

Amsterdam News: CUNY’s faculty and staff announce strike authorization vote
AM New York: For this Manhattan instructor, a lesson in pure devotion
The Nation: The Solution to Higher Ed’s Bad Pay Is Unions
Times Ledger: Cuomo nominates former mayoral candidates to CUNY board
NY Times: Don’t Dilute CUNY’s Urban Mission
Capitol Tonight: After CUNY Funding Deal, Unions Call For Stabilized Funding
PoliticoNY: CUNY union plans to hold Cuomo to contract payment promise
BALCONY WABC: Common Ground: Budget Wrap UP
Black Star News: CUNY Welcomes Restoration of $485 Million funding -- Contract and other Challenges remain
NY Times: Budget Deadline Keeps New York Legislators Up All Night
The Chief: State School Funding Rises but Budget Is Disappointing to PSC
Wall Street Journal: Winners and Losers in State Budget Deal

Media Coverage (March 2016)

NY Times: Cuomo Faces Loud Backlash Over Push to Cut State’s CUNY Funding
DNAInfo: New York City Collects Record $1.9 Billion in Fines and Fees
NBC: New York State to Fully Fund CUNY Next Year
Daily News: Gov. Cuomo says state will pony up $1.6B to fully fund CUNY next year, taking city off the hook for $485M payment
CBS: A Major Protest Over the Future of CUNY
NY Post: Two Council members among 41 arrested at CUNY protest
Pix 11 News: Dozens Arrested at CUNY Protest
CBS: Group Protests Outside Cuomo's Office Over CUNY Funding
Gotham Gazette: Confusion, Concern Remain as Cuomo Promises Full CUNY Funding
WNYC: CUNY Protesters Take Their Budget Fight to the Governor's Door
NY1: CUNY Faculty and Students Rallied Outside Governor Cuomo’s Midtown Office Yesterday Afternoon
New York 1: Faculty and Students Rally for Increased CUNY Funding
ABC: Hundreds of CUNY Students and Professors Demonstrating Outside of Governor Cuomo’s Office
DNAInfo: VIDEO: 41 People Arrested Protesting CUNY Cuts at Cuomo's Midtown Office
Democracy Now: Under Pressure, NY Gov. Cuomo Agrees to Fully Fund CUNY
Gothamist: Cuomo Says State Will Fully Fund CUNY Next Year, But Some Say It's Still Not Enough
Salon.com: Activists push back against attack on NY public education system — 41 arrested at protests over CUNY budget cuts
Staten Island Advance: CUNY will get full state funding of $1.6B in budget
PoliticoNY: CUNY union members arrested at Cuomo’s door
NY1 (Inside City Hall): CUNY Chancellor Talks University System's Future, Funding, and Labor Contract Dispute
ABC7 (Tiempo):CUNY Advocates talk about needed investment
WNYC (Leonard Lopate): How Austerity Measures, Budget Cuts Affect CUNY Students and Faculty
Inside Higher Ed: Cuomo Drops Plan for Deep Cut to CUNY
Crains NY (Milliken OpEd): As state tries to make CUNY whole, a massive gap remains
PoliticoNY: CUNY college foundation chairman cites ‘cheeky’ offer from SUNY head
Noticias NY1: Cuomo y CUNY: Estudiantes preocupados
Telemundo: Protesta Por Recortes En Universidades
The Chief: Amid Drama on Streets, Governor Restores Full State Aid for CUNY
The Riverdale Press: An open letter to state Sen. Jeff Klein
Capitol Tonight: CUNY Funding Questions Remain
Capitol Pressroom: Interview with Barbara Bowen
Amsterdam News: CUNY funding restored but everyone wants more
Socialist Worker: Fighting for CUNY's future
Socialist Alternative: CUNY on the Brink
World Socialist Website: Faculty and students protest budget cuts proposed for City University of New York
PoliticoNY: In Albany, de Blasio declares 'common cause' with CUNY
Daily News: CUNY union new ad blast Gov. Cuomo spending plan
Daily News: Gov. Cuomo’s budget has CUNY officials fearing funding cuts
Village Voice: Cuomo Denies He Has His Eye on Half a Billion Dollars of CUNY’s State Funding, but All Signs Point to the Contrary
New York 1: CUNY Supporters Urge Stable Budget in Full-Page Ad
Amsterdam News: CUNY Supporters Continue to Push Cuomo on Funding
Queens Tribune: Whose Bill to Foot? State Plans Cuts To CUNY, Sparking Another Battle With City
Queens Tribune: Playing Politics With CUNY
WNYC (Brian Lehrer): Who Pays for CUNY?
Waging Non Violence: How Will the Fight for $15 Reckon with Harmful Proposals from an Unlikely Ally?
Gotham Gazette: Proposed CUNY Cuts Threaten the University's Timeless Mission
PoliticoNY: Cuomo to Tap Management Expert to 'Restructure' CUNY
Daily News: Cuomo Administration Set to Appoint Management Organization Expert for CUNY
Gotham Gazette: CUNY Faculty's Lost Decade & The Risk Ahead
WNYC: My CUNY Students Need Cuomo to Deliver on Funding
Newsday (Letter): State Should Help SUNY, CUNY More
Wall Street Journal (Letter): Picking Up Cuomo’s Tab
Village Voice(Letters): Cuomo's Office Responds to Nick Pinto │Public Education Is a Public Service
Inside Higher Ed: Cutting CUNY
Wall Street Journal: Alliance Fights Proposed CUNY Cuts
Daily News Editorial: Econ 101 for Cuomo
New York 1: Cuomo Says Proposed Cuts to City University Won't Hurt Students, Administrator Says It Would Be 'Crushing' to the System
PoliticoNY: CUNY official: State cuts could require sharp tuition hike
The Indypendent: Put to the Test: CUNY Faculty Considers Strike Vote As Cuomo Toys With University’s Future
The Indypendent: CUNY Students Speak Out
The Chief: Unions, CUNY Exec Say Battle Over Funding Obscures Need for More Aid
Manhattan Times: Cutting CUNY
Village Voice: Cuomo Bares Fangs at CUNY, Puts Final Nail in the Coffin of His Own Progressivism
CUNY USS held a news conference at City Hall Wednesday calling for increased investment in CUNY, a tuition freeze and a fair contract for CUNY faculty and staff. City Council Higher Education Chair Inez Barron was there, along with Brooklyn Borough Chair Eric Adams. PSC Treasurer Sharon Persinger spoke for the PSC, alongside students from USS and NYPIRG. Here’s a video. The event helped frame NY1’s coverage of the City Council budget hearing, which included a quote from this BMCC student.

Media Coverage (February 2016)

More than 450 students, faculty and staff were in Albany yesterday calling on the Legislature to champion investment in public higher education. Together, they urged Albany to increase funding CUNY and SUNY, enact a true Maintenance of Effort, and keep tuition affordable. The joint platform and videos are posted here, and here is a slideshow of photos.
PoliticoNY: Milliken to push retroactive raises for CUNY union
Crains NY (Op-Ed): To reduce inequality, reinvest in CUNY
New York 1 (Inside City Hall): President Bowen & DC37 Executive Director Henry Garrido
Queens Chronicle: CUNY students weigh possible tuition hikes
Capitol Pressroom: President Bowen and NYS Senator Liz Krueger
PoliticoNY: CUNY feels the effects of a worsening relationship with Cuomo
NY Daily News: CUNY union ad campaign hits state over funding
The Legislative Gazette: Protecting SUNY’s future
Metro: What's Next for CUNY?
The Jewish Voice: CUNY Seeks Mediation to Reach Settlement on PSC Contract

Media Coverage (January 2016)

PoliticoNY: CUNY requests mediator in PSC Contract negotiations
Times Union: CUNY says contract talks at impasse
Kings County Politics: CUNY Teachers Ramp Up Rhetoric On Possible Strike
Manhattan Times: Cuomo v. CUNY
NY Times: Cuomo Lifts Minimum Wage for Workers at New York Universities
Gothamist: Cuomo Announces Minimum Wage Increase At SUNY, But Not CUNY
PoliticoNY: Union raps Cuomo for excluding CUNY workers from raise
NY Daily News: Andrew Cuomo backs off budget proposal that would have cost NYC an extra $800M after protest from Bill de Blasio
NY Daily News: Handing Bill the bill
DNAInfo.com: Cuomo Wants De Blasio to Pay Larger Share of CUNY and Medicaid Bill
Times Union: Bait. Switch. Repeat.
New York Times: Cuomo to Continue Shrinking State’s Share of CUNY’s Costs

Media Coverage (December 2015)

City & State: Opinion: If Cuomo is a progressive he should invest in CUNY’s future
Times Union: Public university ‘maintenance of effort’ bill sent to governor
Inside Higher Ed: New York Governor Vetoes Maintenance of Effort Bill
NY Times: Bernie Sanders Urges Cuomo to Raise CUNY Professors’ Pay
Gothamist: Bernie Sanders "Troubled" By Cuomo's Reluctance To Pay CUNY Faculty
PoliticoNY: Cuomo Vetoes bills for transparency, wine shipping and CUNY/SUNY funding.
Times Union: Bernie Sanders to Cuomo: Invest in CUNY, deliver union contract
Times Union: PSC-CUNY ad campaign to slam Cuomo veto
WGY: Bernie Sanders Urges Cuomo to Raise CUNY Professors’ Pay
Indypendent: Bernie Sanders to Governor Cuomo: Invest in CUNY Students, Faculty & Staff
Long Island City Journal: LGCC students, faculty rally for contracts, against tuition hikes
New York 1: Students, Teachers Protest Outside LaGuardia Community College
Queens Chronicle: School members rally over contract
Korea Times: LaGuardia Contract & No Tuition Hike Rally
World Journal: LaGuardia Contract & No Tuition Hike Rally

Media Coverage (November 2015)

PoliticoNY: CUNY union questions Cuomo’s progressive credentials
The Nation: CUNY Faculty Authorizes a Strike Vote
Gothamist: City College Faces Deep Budget Cuts: "Students Are Doomed"
Amsterdam News: CUNY faculty let their voices be heard loud and clear
Belabored Podcast: Alex Vitalie
Albany Times Union: PSC-CUNY plans non-violent ‘disruptive’ action that will ‘risk arrest’
Albany Times Union: Professors, including PSC-CUNY president, arrested in protest
PoliticoNY: CUNY union members arrested after contract protest
Daily News: Protesters arrested at demonstration over lapsed contract for CUNY faculty, staff
Daily News: Ruiz: College professors among those paid shamefully low wages, demand ‘educational justice’
Democracy Now: NYPD Arrests 50 at Rally for CUNY Professors
DNAInfo.com
Labor Press: PSC-CUNY Members Brave Mass Arrest!
New York Post: Dozens arrested at CUNY wage protest
New York Times: CUNY Faculty Members Arrested After Staging Protest
People’s World
RT: NYPD arrests 50 at protest over wages & raises at CUNY headquarters
Sinovision: CUNY faculty protest in 6 years without salary increase of more than 50 people were arrested
Riverdale Press: CUNY teachers fight for contracts
The Chief: Video
The Chief: 54 Arrested in Protest of CUNY’s Inadequate Pay Offer to Its Faculty
The Wall Street Journal: CUNY Faculty Demand Contract
The Wall Street Journal: Letter by Rita Tobin
ABC: At least 50 arrested during CUNY faculty and staff rally in Midtown Manhattan
CBS: Dozens Arrested At CUNY Faculty, Staff Protest
New York 1: CUNY Professors Arrested During Contract Rally in Midtown
Pix 11: Dozens of CUNY employees arrested during protest at school headquarters
WOR-AM
WCBS-NY
WABC-AM
WINS-AM
WBAI, Building Bridges: Building Bridges: CUNY Faculty Arrested in Contract Protest
World Socialist Website: City University of New York faculty protest for higher wages and defense of education

Media Coverage (October 2015)

PoliticoNY: CUNY union plans strike authorization vote
Times Union: PSC/CUNY to hold strike authorization vote
Staten Island Advance: Fed-up faculty, students rally at CSI over wages and tuition
New York 1: Students, Professors Rally at the College of Staten Island
Kings County Politics: CUNY Students Brace For Possible Teacher Strike, Tuition Increases
Amsterdam News: CUNY faculty fights for new contract
The Chief:CUNY Unions Give Wake-Up Call To Chancellor Over Long Delay on Pacts
NY Daily News: Gov. Cuomo, help CUNY now
Belabored Podcast: Class War in the Classroom
Labor Press: PSC To Deliver 'Wake Up Call' To Snoozing CUNY Chancellor
Labor Press: CUNY Unions to Chancellor: Wake Up, We Need a Contract!
DNAInfo.com: CUNY Professors Don Robes and Protest Outside of Boss' UES Apartment
Queens Free Press:Using Twitter to #WakeUpJB: Following PSC-CUNY’s Continued Fight For a Contract
PoliticoNY: CUNY union protests outside chancellor’s apartment
PoliticoNY: Milliken does not begrudge union protest outside his apartment
Times Union: PSC/CUNY plans ‘wake-up call’ for chancellor
WBAI Mimi Rosenberg: Wake Up Call
WBAI Jordan Journal: Wake Up Call
Workers World: CUNY union, supporters: No contract NO PEACE!

Media Coverage (September 2015)

PoliticoNY: CUNY faculty union to increase pressure in push for retroactive raises
City & State TV: Barbara Bowen on CUNY Contracts

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