CUNY Faculty Union Leads Rally Denouncing the ‘New McCarthyism’ Being Wielded Against U.S. Universities
Fears of antisemitism are being cynically used for political gain, speakers say.
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One Year After Encampment Raid, Columbia Asserts Tighter Control over Campus Community
The university’s administration is targeting everything from the university senate to the gates that student protesters recently locked themselves to.
Higher Ed Unions Rally in Foley Square, Vow to ‘Meet the Moment’
Speakers called for courage, not capitulation, in the face of Trump’s attacks on universities.
Interview: ‘What will protect public education is UFT members building power’
Middle school art teacher Olivia Swisher is leading a rank-and-file slate that seeks to topple the political machine that has dominated the New York City teachers union for more than six decades.
New Book for Teachers and Students Interested in Palestine
A collection of well-researched essays, memoirs, poems and detailed lesson plans geared toward middle and high schoolers.
‘People Are Speaking in Whispers’
Student suspensions, faculty purges and an all-encompassing surveillance state have become the norm as Columbia falls silent after last spring’s anti-genocide protests.
NYU Imposes One-Year Suspensions on 11 Students for Protesting Gaza Genocide
The student activists have been suspended for participating in non-violent collective action demanding the university disclose and divest from its ties to Israel.
Columbia & NYU Tax Break Targeted to Repair Disparities Between Private Universities and CUNY
A cross-campus alliance of students is pushing for the REPAIR Act, which would force Columbia and NYU to cough up $327 million in annual property taxes they are currently exempted from.
Book Review: The Far Right’s 70-Year Crusade to Extinguish Public Education
Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiveness and anti-white ideology are part of a long-running campaign that is gaining momentum.
West Harlem Pushes Back Against Columbia’s Latest Manhattanville Campus Expansion
Amid an affordable-housing crisis in the neighborhood, community members are fighting to stop the university’s ongoing construction of a satellite campus.