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Memorandum from PSC-CUNY Legal Counsel on Teach-CUNY

Memo

To:        Barbara Bowen

From:    Arthur Z. Schwartz

Date:     February 20, 2001

The lesson for “Teach CUNY” is this: classes must not be cancelled. Nothing would prevent combining classes, but our concern must principally focus on a reduction in teaching hours. I would have faculty members focus their “Teach CUNY” talks on the course they are teaching, i.e., how attacks on CUNY Faculty have impacted the teaching of history, science, etc. I believe that if this is done, the issue moves into the realm of “academic freedom” and “free speech”, and keeps clear of a “concerted stoppage at work”.