Anti-Racism Committee

The Anti-Racism Committee is a committee of the Executive Council dedicated to promoting racial equity at CUNY.

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PSC Project on CUNY and Race

The CUNY and Race Project is examining racial disparities in the academic workplace by investigating the career trajectories of CUNY faculty and professional staff over a 10-year span from 2000-2009. The project documents existing practices at CUNY as they relate to recruitment, hiring, retention, mentorship and promotion of faculty and professional staff. It also studies best practices and barriers faced by departments and work units as they make efforts to deepen diversity and inclusiveness.

Recent Committee Posts

  • Forum on CUNY and Racial Justice

    The PSC Union Hall was filled to capacity for an April 3 forum on “Racial Justice and CUNY,” discussing access of students and faculty of color to education and employment in public higher education.

  • CCNY President's Council on Inclusion and Excellence

    What were the key findings and recommendations of the recent Report of the President's Council on Inclusion and Excellence?

  • Testimony Before the Joint Hearing of the Higher Education and Civil Rights Committees

    Even as enrollments have climbed, austerity conditions have hampered the university’s efforts to increase diversity and progress has been disappointingly slow.

    For this reason, the PSC has undertaken its own study (to be released next spring) which will include extensive quantitative data on trends in hiring, retention, promotion and tenure throughout CUNY from 2000 to 2009 and will document best practices at the college department level in each of these areas. We believe the union’s research will extend and deepen the university’s diversity efforts.

  • CUNY & Race Forum, December 9, 2011

    On Friday, December 9 more than 100 PSC members attended a forum examining the preliminary findings of PSC’s study on how race, gender and ethnicity affect hiring, promotion, tenure and reclassification at CUNY. The study’s research team and members of the union’s anti-racism committee hosted the event and lead a discussion on the project and its early findings.

  • CUNY and Race Forum: Diversity in a Time of Austerity Policies

    Friday, December 9
    6:00-9:00pm
    NYC College of Technology

    Featured Speakers:

    Carol Wright, PSC Researcher, CUNY and Race Project
    Frank Deale, CUNY School of Law

    Welcome by President Russell Hotzler

    Join us for a discussion of the preliminary findings of a study by the Professional Staff Congress on how race, gender and ethnicity affect hiring, promotion, tenure and reclassification at CUNY.

  • CUNY, Race and the PSC: A Progress Report On PSC’s Study on CUNY and Race


    Thursday, May 26, 5:30-6:30 PM
    PSC Union Hall, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor

    Join us for an hour-long forum to discuss the CUNY and Race project before PSC’s May 26 Delegate Assembly meeting. The event will feature a short presentation by Dr. Carol Wright, head researcher for the PSC CUNY & Race Project. Dr. Wright's talk will be followed by a moderated discussion with members of the Anti-Racism Committee and the CUNY and Race Advisory Council.

  • Viewpoint: Making CUNY an ‘Engine of Equality’

    How can we shape public policy to increase Hispanic access to college and success in completing a college degree?

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