Brooklyn College Faculty Council endorsed the following resolution on Nov. 17, 2020
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Friday, October 16, 2020
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Equality for College Lab Technicians Resolution Endorsed Unanimously at October Chapter Meeting
The following resolution was endorsed at the October 7 BC PSC chapter meeting. Vote: 32 Yes, 0 No, abstentions not counted.
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020
BC Chapter Contributes to PSC Round-the-Clock Day of Action Aug 26
The BC chapter and its many activists - and some students too - featured prominently in the PSC's round-the-clock day of action on the first day of the Fall 2020 semester. Partial video of the livestream is here: https://www.facebook.com/PSC.CUNY/videos/313609966628985/?__so__=channel_tab&__rv__=all_videos_card
The BC chapter segment begins around 2:39:00 into the video.
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Executive Committee Endorses BC Faculty and Staff Statement Against Anti-Blackness and For Systemic Change
The BC PSC Executive Committee endorses the June 15, 2020, "Statement Against Anti-Blackness and For Systemic Change" by the BC Black Faculty and Staff Organization, the Faculty of Color Group, and the Latino Faculty and Staff Organization.
Brooklyn College is situated in a neighborhood that is 34.1% Black but only has a 17% Black student population and a dismal 6.5% full-time Black faculty body (CUNY Quarterly Report Jan 2018). If Brooklyn College is opposed to anti-blackness it must first acknowledge that it is pervasive and is expressed ideologically and materially and the demands the appropriate action:
● the curriculum we teach: programs and departments that support culturally relevant pedagogy (Africana and Puerto Rican and Latino Studies among others) are systemically underfunded and indirectly targeted by budget cuts.
○ We demand: culturally relevant programs have specific protections to ensure the expansion of anti-racist pedagogy and an equitable distribution of funds and support across disciplines, programs and departments.
● the over-representation of Black people in underpaid, undervalued, and contingent jobs on campus;
○ We demand: all jobs at BC are paid a living wage, with clear pathways to promotion and viable means to job security; prioritize hiring and promotions internally (across roles: adjuncts, HEOs, CLTs);
○ We demand: a faculty and staff that is representative of the student body, specifically targeting Black hires with attention to acute lack of representation in certain disciplines, including mentors to support promotion to full professor.
● the lack of recognition (either in salary/pay or public acknowledgment) of the amount of invisible labor Black faculty and staff contribute to the college. Black faculty and staff routinely perform unrecognized labor beyond job description to confront anti- blackness in their institutional roles and to advocate for Black students who suffer regular indignities;
○ We demand: changing promotion and tenure policies to honestly reflect the hidden workload of Black faculty and staff
○ BFS’s suggestion for a Diversity Mentorship Coordinator and a Staff Ombudsperson could oversee this project; the under-hiring (including hiring below rank) and lack of retention of Black faculty and staff contributes to the revolving door of faculty and staff and diminishes morale.
● the presence of the NYPD on campus extends a continuum of policing of students, faculty and staff from majority Black neighborhoods to the feeling of surveillance and criminalization at their institution of higher education;
○ We demand: the immediate removal of NYPD from campus and a longer-term goal to reimagine campus security with increased social services that support the safety and well-being of all people on campus: this includes increased funding for: mental health services; dedicated funds for Black students in the form of scholarships, grants and post docs; mentorship programs; de- escalation, conflict resolution and restorative justice training for all faculty and staff.
This moment in our country is the culmination of systemic denial of dignity that typifies anti- blackness. This form of structural inequality cannot be addressed through empty statements of standing in solidarity and promoting “diversity”. We advocate a transformational solidarity that aligns departments, programs, and campus life with an ethos of social justice that is action oriented. Transformational solidarity means that the systemic racism, surveillance, and austerity that is a normal feature of society is aggressively struggled against on campus. Transformative solidarity understands that struggles against domination are shared and that anti-blackness and austerity must be fought hand in hand. This is a fight that involves Albany and state politics but it begins with us on campus. We require a shift in the current institutional logic of the administration urging faculty and staff to do more for our students with less.
This moment calls for a transformative solidarity and not token statements of support.
By embracing this moment of profound possibility in response to this crisis, is to imagine and create a life-affirming campus we do not have, but require.
As members of Black Faculty and Staff (BFS), Faculty of Color (FOC) Group, and Latino Faculty
and Staff (LFSO), we are greatly affected by the murders of Black people by police officers
and white vigilantes. Even before the mass uprisings across the country, we witnessed the
vulnerability of our students as COVID-19 exposed the structural fault lines where Black
suffering is distinct, often beyond comparison. Now that conscientious people across the
nation have joined in protests to condemn racism, corporations and institutions have seized
the moment to join the chorus of those who utter the name of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,
Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McCade. However, we at Brooklyn College are disturbed by the way
in which Black suffering is placated, ignored, and co-opted, not for social justice but in the
perpetuation of anti-black racism.
Anti-blackness names the specific kind of racism that describes the conditions that Black people face, dehumanization that has its origins in the historical project of Western modernity that serves as the foundation for global racial capitalism. Focusing on anti- blackness in discussions about racism pushes back against the idea that all ethnic minorities have the same lived experiences and can be understood within a singular logic, often signified by those who champion “diversity and inclusion”.
Attention to anti-blackness requires the recognition that racist violence is not limited to spectacular displays of state violence such as in the case of the murder of George Floyd. An awareness of anti-blackness recognizes the pervasive violence that is manifested by stereotypes that label Black students as less capable and intelligent and view the research of Black faculty as biased and less scholarly. In both instances, Brooklyn College becomes simultaneously a site of general hostility and social isolation. Institutional racism has been recognized for some time at Brooklyn College and the current administration has campaigned “We Stand Against Hate” since 2017, yet the most subtle and effective form of anti-blackness is the liberal rhetoric that advocates equality and boasts of progress while the lived experiences of Black people stand in contrast.
We are encouraged that some of the broader social and economic conditions that are highlighted by Black Lives Matter activists are getting recognition but we condemn the opportunism that seizes upon the spectacle of black deaths; when in reality anti-blackness is a regular feature on campus. Brooklyn College has been inert when it comes to addressing the daily abuses of Black staff, faculty, and students. Additionally, the faint response to the declining number of Black people across the college is normalized anti-blackness.
What would a Black life-affirming campus look like? We pose this question to college administrators and all in leadership positions, who sincerely value equity, to imagine a campus that is proactive and committed to social justice. When BFS met with President Michelle Anderson on February 19, 2020, they presented several low cost, modest recommendations that the college could put into action as a display of “good faith”. BFS discussed the development of a mentoring program for Black faculty and all junior faculty. They requested the development of the formal position of a Black staff ombudsperson, who would be drawn from the existing staff, in recognition of the work that is already being done informally. Lastly, they requested a fix to an account issue that would better allow them to allocate scholarships and awards to deserving students. BFS endeavored to create a better working relationship between faculty and staff and the upper administration to end the practice of being talked at and not talked with. The dwindling Black presence on campus cannot be described as less than a crisis and in the months that followed their concerns have been received with mostly silence.
Anti-blackness names the specific kind of racism that describes the conditions that Black people face, dehumanization that has its origins in the historical project of Western modernity that serves as the foundation for global racial capitalism. Focusing on anti- blackness in discussions about racism pushes back against the idea that all ethnic minorities have the same lived experiences and can be understood within a singular logic, often signified by those who champion “diversity and inclusion”.
Attention to anti-blackness requires the recognition that racist violence is not limited to spectacular displays of state violence such as in the case of the murder of George Floyd. An awareness of anti-blackness recognizes the pervasive violence that is manifested by stereotypes that label Black students as less capable and intelligent and view the research of Black faculty as biased and less scholarly. In both instances, Brooklyn College becomes simultaneously a site of general hostility and social isolation. Institutional racism has been recognized for some time at Brooklyn College and the current administration has campaigned “We Stand Against Hate” since 2017, yet the most subtle and effective form of anti-blackness is the liberal rhetoric that advocates equality and boasts of progress while the lived experiences of Black people stand in contrast.
We are encouraged that some of the broader social and economic conditions that are highlighted by Black Lives Matter activists are getting recognition but we condemn the opportunism that seizes upon the spectacle of black deaths; when in reality anti-blackness is a regular feature on campus. Brooklyn College has been inert when it comes to addressing the daily abuses of Black staff, faculty, and students. Additionally, the faint response to the declining number of Black people across the college is normalized anti-blackness.
What would a Black life-affirming campus look like? We pose this question to college administrators and all in leadership positions, who sincerely value equity, to imagine a campus that is proactive and committed to social justice. When BFS met with President Michelle Anderson on February 19, 2020, they presented several low cost, modest recommendations that the college could put into action as a display of “good faith”. BFS discussed the development of a mentoring program for Black faculty and all junior faculty. They requested the development of the formal position of a Black staff ombudsperson, who would be drawn from the existing staff, in recognition of the work that is already being done informally. Lastly, they requested a fix to an account issue that would better allow them to allocate scholarships and awards to deserving students. BFS endeavored to create a better working relationship between faculty and staff and the upper administration to end the practice of being talked at and not talked with. The dwindling Black presence on campus cannot be described as less than a crisis and in the months that followed their concerns have been received with mostly silence.
Brooklyn College is situated in a neighborhood that is 34.1% Black but only has a 17% Black student population and a dismal 6.5% full-time Black faculty body (CUNY Quarterly Report Jan 2018). If Brooklyn College is opposed to anti-blackness it must first acknowledge that it is pervasive and is expressed ideologically and materially and the demands the appropriate action:
● the curriculum we teach: programs and departments that support culturally relevant pedagogy (Africana and Puerto Rican and Latino Studies among others) are systemically underfunded and indirectly targeted by budget cuts.
○ We demand: culturally relevant programs have specific protections to ensure the expansion of anti-racist pedagogy and an equitable distribution of funds and support across disciplines, programs and departments.
● the over-representation of Black people in underpaid, undervalued, and contingent jobs on campus;
○ We demand: all jobs at BC are paid a living wage, with clear pathways to promotion and viable means to job security; prioritize hiring and promotions internally (across roles: adjuncts, HEOs, CLTs);
○ We demand: a faculty and staff that is representative of the student body, specifically targeting Black hires with attention to acute lack of representation in certain disciplines, including mentors to support promotion to full professor.
● the lack of recognition (either in salary/pay or public acknowledgment) of the amount of invisible labor Black faculty and staff contribute to the college. Black faculty and staff routinely perform unrecognized labor beyond job description to confront anti- blackness in their institutional roles and to advocate for Black students who suffer regular indignities;
○ We demand: changing promotion and tenure policies to honestly reflect the hidden workload of Black faculty and staff
○ BFS’s suggestion for a Diversity Mentorship Coordinator and a Staff Ombudsperson could oversee this project; the under-hiring (including hiring below rank) and lack of retention of Black faculty and staff contributes to the revolving door of faculty and staff and diminishes morale.
● the presence of the NYPD on campus extends a continuum of policing of students, faculty and staff from majority Black neighborhoods to the feeling of surveillance and criminalization at their institution of higher education;
○ We demand: the immediate removal of NYPD from campus and a longer-term goal to reimagine campus security with increased social services that support the safety and well-being of all people on campus: this includes increased funding for: mental health services; dedicated funds for Black students in the form of scholarships, grants and post docs; mentorship programs; de- escalation, conflict resolution and restorative justice training for all faculty and staff.
This moment in our country is the culmination of systemic denial of dignity that typifies anti- blackness. This form of structural inequality cannot be addressed through empty statements of standing in solidarity and promoting “diversity”. We advocate a transformational solidarity that aligns departments, programs, and campus life with an ethos of social justice that is action oriented. Transformational solidarity means that the systemic racism, surveillance, and austerity that is a normal feature of society is aggressively struggled against on campus. Transformative solidarity understands that struggles against domination are shared and that anti-blackness and austerity must be fought hand in hand. This is a fight that involves Albany and state politics but it begins with us on campus. We require a shift in the current institutional logic of the administration urging faculty and staff to do more for our students with less.
This moment calls for a transformative solidarity and not token statements of support.
By embracing this moment of profound possibility in response to this crisis, is to imagine and create a life-affirming campus we do not have, but require.
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Submit Your Spring 2020 Grades on May 28, Not Sooner
Dear Colleagues,
You’re likely aware that many Brooklyn College adjunct jobs are currently at risk, and for some the health insurance that comes with their CUNY employment. The PSC is engaged in a union-wide campaign to preserve those jobs and build for the larger struggle ahead. Here at Brooklyn, the PSC chapter is urging all faculty to submit Spring 2020 grades on the last permissible date, May 28. We are not asking you to violate university policy or state law, nor is your students’ degree progress in jeopardy. But in solidarity with one another as faculty, we must act in protest of the demand to cut 25 percent of Fall course offerings. Having everyone on the faculty do the same thing at the same time is one important way to show to the administration and ourselves that we are capable of acting in concert. In order to exert pressure on the decisionmakers and those who hold the purse-strings of the university, we will need to escalate coordinated actions beyond next week, into the Summer and Fall, and we will need the participation of our professional staff colleagues as well. Their concerns – and ours – about returning to a healthy and safe workplace may become the next site of collective action, even as the immediate task is to keep our faculty on payroll and insured.
The campaign to submit grades no sooner than May 28 builds upon the good work that has been launched by our BC chapter working-groups on Legislative outreach, Communications & Media, Strike Authorization, and Student & Alumni outreach. You have probably seen the #CutCovidNotCUNY social media campaign. You may have seen coverage of the struggle over Brooklyn College funding in The New Yorker, The Nation, and City Limits, among others. We are building the participatory local infrastructure that is needed to wage a successful struggle for a safe and fully funded university, even as campus and university leaders remain silent.
If, like those of us on the PSC chapter executive committee, you are concerned and outraged by the proposed layoffs, please wait to submit your grades until May 28, no sooner. If this seems to you like too tepid an action, unequal to the forces arrayed against us, do it anyway! Then come build capacity with us for bolder actions ahead. If this feels to you like too risky an action, rest assured that you can still provide your students with their grades as soon as you complete them, just send them by email. Here’s a way to convey to your students the urgent need for this collective action.
Please let me know if you have any feedback about this action, and if you’d like to join the dozens of colleagues engaged in outreach to others in their departments and across campus, email me (jcdavis@brooklyn.cuny.edu) and PSC organizer Janet Kwon (jkwon@pscmail.org).
In solidarity,
James Davis, English Department
BC PSC Chapter chair
Monday, May 18, 2020
Proposed resolution BC PSC Chapter Meeting, 5/21/20
The following passed as a statement of the members assembled at the May 21, 2020 special meeting of the Brooklyn College PSC chapter. Quorum not achieved: 22 yes, 3 no, 2 abstain.
WHEREAS the COVID-19 crisis has caused unprecedented physical, emotional, and economic hardship for the students, faculty, and staff of the university, many of whose families have been thrown into chaos due to layoffs, illness, or both, and
WHEREAS the governor has been granted the right to make executive cuts to the state budget, and this pressure is already being felt at Brooklyn College via demands by administration to slash Fall 2020 department budgets by as much as 25%, and
WHEREAS adjunct faculty, who are most vulnerable to these cuts, teach a majority of classes at CUNY, and have faced decades of unstable work, low wages and hyper-exploitation that have left many financially unprepared for this crisis, and
WHEREAS many adjunct faculty in particular rely upon a minimum number of courses per year to retain their health benefits, which they desperately need in the midst of this pandemic, and
WHEREAS the wellbeing of the faculty and staff are inextricably linked to the wellbeing and success of the students who attend the university and the quality and quantity of the research performed therein, and
WHEREAS a militant response from our union, up to and including a job action, is likely the only way such ruinous budget cuts can realistically be resisted, and
WHEREAS, in the last Delegate Assembly meeting the union membership was denied the opportunity to fully discuss delegate Marc Kagan's resolution, "The PSC Union will immediately ask all faculty to withhold submission of grades until such a time (if any) that best demonstrates the power of our union to disrupt the normal operations of the university. All faculty should be asked to notify their students that this action is in support of a fully-funded CUNY ”, and
WHEREAS President Bowen acknowledged there were irregularities in the voting process and attempted to hold a revote, by which time the Delegate Assembly no longer had the quorum necessary for a binding vote, and
WHEREAS, on May 13th, the City College PSC chapter passed and approved a similar resolution to this one, as did the John Jay PSC chapter on May 14th, be it
RESOLVED that we, as the Brooklyn College PSC chapter, join our fellow union members in urging the Delegate Assembly and Executive Committee of PSC to take the initiative and revote on the above resolution as soon as possible.
Monday, May 4, 2020
Donations in Time of Need
Please use the links below to donate to the families of our deceased colleagues and to colleagues who have lost loved ones.
Jay Jankelewicz family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/wh43nu-rest-in-peace-jay
Jamilah Simmons family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/
Jay Jankelewicz family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/wh43nu-rest-in-peace-jay
Jamilah Simmons family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/
Thursday, April 30, 2020
4/30/20 BC PSC Chapter Meeting Letter to CUNY Chancellor and BC President
Chancellor Matos RodrÃguez and President Anderson:
Faculty, staff and students of Brooklyn College, like all New Yorkers, have had our lives upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have seen the inequities of our society laid bare, as the rates of illness and death have risen disproportionately in the low-income communities of color and immigrant communities served by our university. We have witnessed unbearable loss of life in our City, including among our colleagues and our families.
To cause further trauma for the Brooklyn College community by cutting 25% of course offerings and eliminating the jobs of many of CUNY’s most precarious workers is outrageous. Furthermore, it undermines Brooklyn College’s core mission to “educate immigrants and first-generation college students from the diverse communities that make up our city and state.”
The fiscal challenges we face are real, but CUNY must address them with maximum transparency. For Brooklyn College, we demand a virtual town hall so that members of the campus community can pose questions and seek clarity before dramatic actions are taken to reduce Fall course offerings.
Announcing massive, preemptive cuts to our already underfunded college before every dollar of federal stimulus, every college reserve fund, and every cost savings from our campus shutdown has been publicly accounted for sends the message that Brooklyn College can withstand such cuts. It cannot. Cuts that will cause hundreds, if not thousands, of adjuncts across the CUNY system to lose their jobs and health insurance in the midst of a public health crisis are morally repugnant, especially when there has been no announcement about reductions in pay for employees on the Executive Compensation Plan.
The PSC’s Delegate Assembly has resolved that our union “stands by the principle during the pandemic of keeping everyone working, getting paid and maintaining health insurance and rejects any attempt to anticipate or resolve budget difficulties by dismissing or not reappointing employees, including contingent and part-time employees and student employees.”
New York cannot overcome the deepening recession with a hollowed out public university. Your job is to uplift and protect CUNY, not to manage its destruction. Do not accommodate to deeper austerity for our students, faculty and staff. Do not help Governor Cuomo place the burden of this economic crisis on the most vulnerable and marginalized. This is bad policy for our state and our country. Join us in demanding new taxes on billionaires and the ultra-rich and new investments in CUNY, instead of cuts to CUNY. Progressive taxation has been a response to economic crises from the Great Depression to the 2008 Recession. Brooklyn College was built during the Depression!
New York will be forever changed by COVID-19. The choices you make will help determine if Brooklyn College can be part of a just economic recovery. Do the right thing. Help keep our college and its workers strong and fully employed.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Letter from Department Chairs & Program Directors to BC Administration
April 27, 2020
We respectfully request that you hold a virtual Town Hall on the BC budget for the campus community before we resubmit our Fall 2020 schedules. We take the New York State budget crisis seriously and recognize its adverse impact on Brooklyn College. We are willing to continue working in a spirit of collaboration. Nevertheless, we and other members of the campus community have questions that deserve answers before dramatic actions are taken to reduce Fall course offerings. We ask that you make available the day before the meeting the budgetary data on which you have based the contingency planning.
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Prudence Cumberbatch
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Africana Studies
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Danielle Kellogg
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Classics
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Susan Longtin
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CASD
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Ellen Tremper
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English
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Gunja SenGupta
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History
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David Brodsky
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Judaic Studies
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Vanessa Pérez Rosario
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Modern Languages & Literatures
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Robert Lurz
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Philosophy
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Immanuel Ness
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Political Science
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Maria Perez y Gonzalez
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PRLS
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Naomi Braine
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Sociology
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Natural & Behavioral Sciences
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Jillian Cavanaugh
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Anthropology & Archaeology
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Peter Lipke
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Biology
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Maria Contel
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Chemistry
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Yedidyah Langsam
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Computer & Info Sciences
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Jennifer Cherrier
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Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Kathleen Axen
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Health & Nutrition
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Namulundah Florence
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Kinesiology
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Stephen Preston
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Mathematics
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Mim Lal Nakarmi
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Physics
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Glen Hass
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Psychology
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Visual, Media, and Performing Arts
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Mona Hadler
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Art
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Marianne Gythfeldt
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Conservatory of Music
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Annette Danto
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Film
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Katherine Fry
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TV, Radio, & Emerging Media
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Kip Marsh
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Theater
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Murray Koppelman School of Business
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Daniel Tinkelman
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Accounting
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James Lynch
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Business Management
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Yehuda L. Klein
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Economics
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Sunil K. Mohanty
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Finance
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School of Education
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Yoon-Joo Lee
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Childhood/Bilingual/Special Ed
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Jacqueline Shannon
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Early Childhood/Art Ed
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Eleanor Miele
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Secondary Ed
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Florence Rubinson
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School Psych/Counseling/Leadership
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Interdisciplinary Programs
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Joseph Entin
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American Studies
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Dale Byam
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Caribbean Studies
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Katherine Hejtmanek
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Children & Youth Studies
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Sharona Levy
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Communication
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Jonathan Nissenbaum
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Linguistics
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Lauren Mancia
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Religion
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Rebecca Boger
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Urban Sustainability
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David Grubbs
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PIMA
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Mobina Hashmi
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Women’s & Gender Studies
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Friday, April 3, 2020
Know Your Rights: Federal Coronavirus Relief act
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act may entitle you to federal benefits:
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/posters/FFCRA_Poster_WH1422_Non-Federal.pdf
Questions and applications should be directed to Brooklyn College Human Resources:
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/posters/FFCRA_Poster_WH1422_Non-Federal.pdf
Questions and applications should be directed to Brooklyn College Human Resources:
Spring 2020 Stated Meeting Remarks, BC PSC
The Brooklyn College Stated Meeting of the Faculty scheduled for March 24, 2020 was cancelled. The following remarks were submitted by BC PSC Chapter chair, James Davis.
Over the past several weeks, the coronavirus outbreak has transformed the way we work and interact. It’s been a stressful time for everyone, from anxieties about our health, the safety and care of our loved ones, and the broader public health crisis and economic uncertainty, to the big lift required to move our teaching online and to modify, or even suspend, our labs and research agendas. The PSC has sought to support CUNY faculty and staff as this crisis has unfolded, and more work lies ahead. Arriving in the middle of the NY State budget season, the coronavirus compelled the union to turn attention from Albany back to the campuses. The first move, to online instruction, affects some terms and conditions of our employment. They will be the subject of negotiations with CUNY management in the days ahead. The second move, an incremental reduction of employees on campus, posed a difficult, urgent challenge. Determinations about who was permitted to work remotely, compelled to report to campus, and designated essential or non-essential, varied from campus to campus and changed by the day, as elected officials and CUNY management reckoned with the rapidly expanding health crisis.
We are now at the unwelcome but stable point at which none but critical operations personnel at CUNY are moving around the city and the workplace. Students who need laptops or food can access them on campus; otherwise everyone should work and study remotely. As stressful as this transition has been, and as troubling as the weeks ahead appear, we are fortunate to have a labor union struggling for the health and safety of CUNY employees, fortunate to have local administrators who listen and engage with the concerns of faculty and staff, and above all fortunate to have each other. Many of you have contacted me or other members of the BC PSC Executive Committee during this crisis, and we are grateful for that. You have helped the union to coordinate its response to shifting, ambiguous policy pronouncements from CUNY Central. You have also challenged us to take in the needs of everyone the PSC represents, from the lab technicians who keep classes and research programs running, to the Library faculty on whom we all rely, to the staff who provide vital student services on campus, to the extraordinary adjunct and full-time teaching faculty.
Please continue to be in touch with your questions and concerns. We’ll do our best to rise to this challenge, as you are in your own work. Stay safe, stay productive, enjoy your virtual time with your students, and remember that your mental health is as important now as your physical health, so be kind to yourselves.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Rise and Resist Action to Defend Democracy
Rise and Resist is calling for an action to Defend Democracy if/when the senate acquits Donald Trump:
If the acquittal is announced before 2pm on a weekday, then we are calling for people to converge on Columbus Circle at 5pm. If the acquittal is announced after 2pm Mon - Thurs, then we are calling for people to converge on Columbus Circle the FOLLOWING day at 5pm. If it is announced after 5pm on a Friday, then we calling for the convergence at Columbus Circle for 2pm on Saturday.
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