Brooklyn College PSC-CUNY

The PSC has been organizing contingent and tenure-track faculty and professional staff around a contractual demand for $7,000 minimum per 3-credit course.  You can participate by using the resources below. "Press the Presidents" petition to Michelle Anderson Share your story / tell us why you support this demand PSC Fact Sheet on 7K CUNY Changes Lives Some important stats: * In 1975, CUNY had 250,000 students and 11,500 full-time faculty. Now it has 274,000 students but only 7,500 full-time faculty. * NYS funding per student at CUNY senior colleges has been cut by 18 percent since 2008. * There are now over 12,000 adjunct faculty in the CUNY system, up from 7,000 in the year 2000. That’s a 71% increase. * Adjunct faculty now teach 53% of CUNY courses, and as much as 65% at campuses like Hunter and John Jay. * The average annual salary for a CUNY adjunct lecturer teaching 8 courses is just $28,000 per year - far below an adequate standard of living in ...

Brooklyn College Faculty & Staff Testimony CUNY Board of Trustees hearing Baruch College, October 22, 2018 Coverage, including a photo of BC faculty holding a banner with thousands of signatures, is here . Heidi Diehl, Adjunct Lecturer, English Dept My name is Heidi Diehl, and I am an adjunct lecturer at Brooklyn College, where I have taught in the English Department since 2010. Thank you for your time today.   I speak on behalf of the 900 adjuncts at Brooklyn College and the 12,000 adjuncts who teach across CUNY. Indeed, adjuncts teach the majority of classes at CUNY. And although a CUNY education is advertised on the subway as a ladder to the middle class, the bitter irony is that we adjuncts, the bulk of CUNY’s teaching staff, are not part of the middle class because of CUNY’s poverty wages. I urge you, the Board of Trustees, to use your power to end this crisis of austerity. Request additional funding in your budget to increase adjunct pay to...