Brooklyn College PSC-CUNY

Chancellor Matos Rodríguez 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 ...

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 Prudence Cumberbatch Africana Studies Danielle Kellogg Classics Susan Longtin CASD Ellen Tremper English Gunja SenGupta History David Brodsky Judaic Studies Vanessa Pérez Rosario Modern Languages & Literatures Robert Lurz Philosophy Immanuel Ness Political Science Maria Perez y Gonzalez...

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: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/about/offices/hr.php

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 i...