The Indypendent
Education
Encampment arrestees confront legal system with solidarity.
A member of the faculty at the City College of New York describes how the school became the Fenced University of New York (FUNY) in the weeks after the administration sent in the NYPD to dismantle its Gaza Solidarity Encampment and arrest scores of students.
Campus Revolt: The Perfect Storm
How a live-streamed genocide, clueless college administrators and heavy-handed policing ignited America’s college campuses.
Book Review: School Desegregation Setbacks and the Lessons Learned
Seventy years after the Supreme Court rejected school desegregation, exciting new ideas about how to overcome America’s racist legacy are percolating among educators, even as the promise of equality in public education remains unfulfilled.
Violence Against Pro-Palestine Student Protesters Affirms We Are on the Right Side of History
A student protester reflects on the police raid of the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment at City College on Tuesday night.
“It’s Going to Change Everything:” Bronx Med Students React to Free Tuition Announcement
Students at a Bronx-based medical school will no longer have to pay tuition after a donor gave $1 billion to the school.
CUNY Faculty Firings Spark Outrage
Blueprint for austerity? A mass firing at Queens College could be a sign of things to come at the City University of New York.
Columbia Not Supporting Pro-Palestine Students Attacked by Chemical Weapon on Campus
Although student protesters were attacked with an illegal chemical weapon on Jan. 19, the university has not followed up with them, and the NYPD hasn’t charged the perpetrators.
End NYU and Columbia’s Property Tax Exemption and Give CUNY the Funds It Needs to Thrive
Budget cuts threaten the basic functioning of CUNY’s 25 colleges.