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(This Resource Page is a Work-in-Progress)

DISCLAIMER -- Except for official PSC documents, these materials do not necessarily represent the views of the PSC or its leadership. Some even represent contrary positions. Many of the items included have been contributed by members of the PSC who think they are relevant to the discussion of CUNY issues.

Tools for the Teach-In

• Memo from PSC Legal Counsel on Right to Teach-CUNY

• Should We Teach CUNY in Our Classroom, Prepared By Tony O’Brien, Queens College

• Flyers to Promote and Publicize Your Teach-In (See Bottom of this Box)

• PowerPoint Presentation on Budget to Rebuild CUNY 
  Downloadable PowerPoint  Presentation Developed by Queens College Professors Bowen, Buchsbaum and O'Brien
  

Short Takes: Fact Sheets, Chronologies, etc. (especially for students)

• Talking & Writing Points on Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY

• Students Have a Stake in the PSC Contract (Tony O'Brien, Queens College)

• Flyer: Budget Priorities 2000-2001 -- 12% For CUNY

• Chronology of Attacks on and Underfunding of CUNY

• CUNY's Governance System

A Budget to Rebuild CUNY

• PSC's Proposed Budget to Rebuild CUNY as a Great Public University

• PSC Testimony on CUNY  Before NYS Joint Legislative Hearing

• PowerPoint Presentation on Budget to Rebuild CUNY (Developed by Queens Professors Bowen, Buchsbaum & O'Brien)

• Supporting charts and statistics for PSC's Proposed Budget to Rebuild CUNY

  • Decrease in state and city funding for CUNY

  • Change in CUNY Share of Total State and City Tax-Levy Funds FY 1990-2000

  • NY City & State Have Been Penny-Wise & Pound Foolish 

  • Why NYS Receives a D- For the Affordability Its Higher Education

  • Reduced Library Funding

  • Percentage of CUNY Full and Part-Time Faculty, 1994-1999

  • Ratio of FTE Students to Full-Time Faculty

  • NYS higher education rankings (nationally compared to other states)

  • Decline in CUNY full-time faculty

  • Senior and community college part-time ratios

  • FTE ratios

A Contract to Rebuild CUNY

• Current Contract Demands

• Statement of Principles  -- Preamble to PSC Contract Demands

• 1996-2000 Contract (Web Document)

• 1996-2000 Contract (Word Document)  

• Chapter Contract Liaisons

Articles About CUNY and Public Higher Education Funding

• The CUNY Struggle:  Class and Race in Higher Education, by Nancy Romer, Brooklyn College A detailed account of the array of forces and their strategies and tactics in the campaign to undermine CUNY and the resistance to these attacks.

• If it is So Important, Why Won't They Pay for It? --  Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Century, by Marilyn Neimark, Baruch College (Download as Word Document)  A study of the causes and strategies involved in corporate agendas for restructuring higher education, especially as seen in the RAND Institutes 1997 "Breaking the Social Contract"  (See below under Schmidt report)

• If it is So Important, Why Won't They For It? -- a Web Version of Marilyn Neimark's Article (Workplace)

• The Crisis at CUNY: Privatization and Downsizing, by Gerald Meyer, Hostos Community College  An analysis of the assault on CUNY in the context of the broader national attack on the public sector and cutbacks in social services

• Enemies of Public Education by Alisa Solomon with Deirdre Hussey (Village Voice)  An examination of the right wing forces and organizations, such as the Manhattan Institute, involved in the attack on CUNY

• Justice Policy Institute: New York State of Mind?: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998 An analysis of the connections between the de-funding of public higher education and increased funding for prisons in New York State

• Corporate Welfare Costly Flop for NYC by Jim Dwyer (link to Daily News Article)  While NYC de-funds CUNY, it has "dished out billions of dollars in sweetheart tax deals" to companies that have laid-off thousands of New Yorkers.

The Critics: The Debate Over CUNY's Mission and Future -- The Schmidt Report

• The Schmidt Report: The Mayor's Task Force on CUNY

• The University Faculty Senate Response to the Schmidt Report

• Breaking the Social Contract: A Rand Corporation report on "The Fiscal Crisis in Higher Education" (used by the Schmidt Task Force; also see Neimark article above)

The Critics: The Debate Over CUNY's Mission and Future -- Other Articles and Position Statements

• CUNY Could Be Great Again by Heather MacDonald (City Journal/ Winter 1998)

• Recommendations for Remediation in the CUNY Associate Degree Programs, 1/5/99 -- Policy Position of CUNYAS (CUNY Association of Scholars)

Documents on Open Admissions

• PSC Resolution on Open Admissions

• New Admissions Policy & Changing Access to CUNY’s Senior and Community Colleges: What are the Stakes?, David E. Lavin & Elliot Weininger, Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Graduate School and University Center (UFS Website) 

• David Lavin,  Memo for Friends of CUNY Executive Committee:  Impact of 1999 Resolution on Remediation and Admissions (4/25/00)

• Myths and Facts About Remediation (CUNY Community College Conference)

The Effect of the Budget and Contract Proposals on:

• Community College -- Briefing by Prof. Anne Friedman, VP for Community Colleges, at PSC Sponsored Candidates' Breakfast for City Council Elections

• Community Colleges -- City Council Testimony by Prof. Susan O'Malley

• Adjuncts -- Testimony Before NYS Assembly

• Adjuncts -- What Is An Adjunct

• Students Have a Stake in the PSC Contract (Tony O'Brien, Queens College)

Curriculum -- lessons

Math

• Introductory Probability and Statistics

Social Sciences

• Lesson for Political Science

• Suggested Miscellaneous Lesson Possibilities for Social Sciences

Language Arts (Writing, Speech, Literature, etc.)

• Lesson for a Composition or Speech Class

What We Can Do

• How We Can Build a Political and Legislative Campaign to Get the Budget We Need For CUNY -- Lobby Your State Legislator!

• Sample Letter to a State  Legislator