City University of New York System

Contingency Plan: Outsourcing Education

More than half of all college instructors are now part-time adjuncts, with low pay and no job security. Is the two-tier faculty system harming students, too?

System Failure: The Collapse of Public Education

From our high schools to CUNY, New York City's numbers are in—and they are terrifying.

OWS Free University Rocks Madison Square Park, Draws Bigger Crowd Than Shake Shack

Somewhat ironically, it's the Occupy Wall Street May Day event that is the least controversial that is most reminiscent of the best of Zuccotti Park's heyday. The Free University of New York -- largely sponsored by CUNY students and faculty who chose to take their classes into Madison Square Park to ... More >>

Council Members Ask Mayor To Include City College, Columbia in Engineering Plan

In December, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plans to partner with Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island. The new campus is part of Bloomberg's Applied Sciences NYC initiative ... More >>

Education Supplement: A CUNY Professor Proposes a Bailout for Starving Arts Students

Up-against-the-wall MFAS

Education Supplement: Bursting the Tuition Bubble

The soaring cost of college has multiple causes and no easy solution

To the Barricades, Variously

A new wave of student activism hits New York City

CUNY Students to Protest Today; Barricades Already Set Up, Classes Cancelled

The CUNY board of trustees will be voting on possible tuition hikes today, and students are planning a big action in protest this afternoon. In response, CUNY is planning something of a pre-emptive strike to prevent the kind of disorder that happened last time; the school has already set up barricad ... More >>

Conor Tomás Reed, CUNY Teacher and PhD Student, On Being Arrested for Protesting Tuition Hikes

City University of New York students will be protesting tuition hikes this afternoon, and all classes at Baruch's Newman Vertical Campus have been cancelled. It will be déjà vu for Conor Tomás Reed, a CUNY PhD student and a graduate teaching fellow at Baruch College. He was one of five people a ... More >>

CUNY Students and Unions Protest as Board of Trustees Passes Tuition Hike

CUNY students held a rally outside of Baruch College today as the board of trustees met to vote on proposed tuition hikes. The NYPD set up barricades and the school cancelled afternoon classes in anticipation of the protest, which attracted several hundred people including a large union contingent a ... More >>

Students Say "Fuck Ass-Kissing" and Other Highlights From The OWS Student Walkout

Gennady Kolker (The Nation Magazine)/Twitter​Hundreds, if not thousands of college students gathered at Union Square yesterday for a mass student walk in tandem with Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action and they had choice words for the establishment that keeps them drowning in debt and without ... More >>

Solar Power Could Energize Half of NYC

​Yesterday, the City University of New York's graduate center in Manhattan hosted a "Solar Summit" where researchers and programmers announced the launch of the NYC Solar Map. The CUNY website describes the solar map as "an interactive online tool that will allow users to estimate solar energy ... More >>

Tony Kushner Will Get CUNY Honorary Degree After All

​Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning playwright of Angels in America, will be receiving a honorary degree from the City University of New York next month after all, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice's graduation ceremony on June 3rd. Kushner was under the impression th ... More >>

Tony Kushner Finds Protesters at His New Play Opening Last Night

​It's been quite a week for Tony Kushner, starting with an invitation to receive an honorary degree from John Jay College being revoked, and ending with his new play opening last night at the Public Theater -- and Kushner meeting the protesters who were there on his behalf. John Jay had plann ... More >>

Students Breathe Easier as CUNY's Proficiency Exam Bites the Dust

A New CUNY Community College Is Opening in 2012

It will offer extra support to students—but with a catch

This Is How Fox News Reports on Ground Zero: By Faking It

Via barthel.tumblr.com.​As you can imagine, there are plenty of TV cameras and reporters in the vicinity of Ground Zero right now, reporting on the story that Al Qaeda is now allowed to open a Church of Satan/NYC-themed shake-a-snow shop on top of the exact spot the Muslims started a war with ... More >>

The Problems with CUNY's New Sexual Assault Policy

CUNY makes a system-wide change, but anonymous reporting gets left out

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​Get your taxes done for free If you have dependent kids and make less than $50,000, or if you make less than $18k, the Office of Financial Empowerment will help you do your taxes and find tax credits you're entitled to today at the CUNY Graduate Center (pdf).

Times: Even CUNY is Getting Too Competitive

​We've always said the wave of the future -- or such future as we have -- is not in white-collar jobs, but in trades and handicrafts. Here is another harbinger: the Times reveals that CUNY's six community or two-year colleges -- the sort of places where you'd go to school if you were too broke ... More >>

What the Doctor Ordered: Urban Sociologist Earned PhD in Bar Culture

.Mitch/flickr​ If you're a bartender or bar owner on the Lower East Side, you might have run into Dr. Richard Ocejo at some point or another, either bellied up to the bar by himself or skulking around some community board meeting, furiously scribbling down what is being said. The 28-year-old ... More >>

CUNY Hopes Computer Simulation Can Help Profs ID Students at Risk

FAST AND FURIOUS

CUNY runs a theater marathon

KANSAS ON THE RIGHT

We're not in Borat anymore

Mayoral School Control Deal Allegedly Happening; NYU Center Bloomberg Hates Gets Bumped

We suppose we should mention it since some people find it exciting, but the news that a "deal" is "in the works" for the state senate to renew mayoral control of the city's schools seems pretty weak tea. The parent training institute, arts advisory council, and safety committees sound more like gest ... More >>

City Says Fat Kids Lag in Learning; We Suggest the Prince Fielder Approach

Mike Bloomberg, whose Administration has made education a priority, has bragged on rising test scores, greater matriculation into CUNY schools, and especially the shrinking achievement gap between minority students and white students. But what about the achievement gap between physically fit and phy ... More >>

HOT! TOWN

Gay summer in the city

Obama Fires Government Watchdog Critical of CUNY's Teaching Fellows Program

President Obama may have a big political controversy in the firing of an inspector general overseeing the federal government's sprawling community service program -- and there's a New York angle. Federal watchdog Gerald Walpin [pictured] was fired last week, the White House said, for supposedly bei ... More >>

Will Success Spoil Early-College?

Rising Cuny enrollment means much-lauded campus high schools could get the boot

Bloomberg: More City Schoolkids Going to CUNY

The Mayor congratulates himself and the board of ed today that city high schools are sending more graduates to CUNY -- also, that black and Hispanic graduates are enrolling at CUNY schools at a faster pace. It's great to see more city kids going to college, of course. But given the lousy economy and ... More >>

Did Tourist Dollars Flow from Falls, or Just Hype and Death?

. . . AND ACTION!

Kevin Smith headlines Independent Film Week

CUNY's Community Colleges Give Stalled Students a Push

Aeschylus or Swahili?

The changing notions of what students need to know

Moonlighting 101

It's easier than ever to get a degree at night—but the homework is still your responsibility!

Free Speech and Funding Fears

CUNY Law Says No Thanks to Lynne Stewart

Pataki's SUNY Shock

Fed Up With Cuts and Hikes, Students Prep to March on Albany

Busking for Bucks

Pataki's CUNY Shocker

An Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay Trustee

Brothers to Another Planet

NASA Tries to Launch Space-Science Dreams

Closing the Schoolhouse Door

Undocumented Immigrants Reel After CUNY Hikes Tuitions

Hostos, Not Harvard

Confrontation With Cop Riles CUNY Students

Academic Outrage

Under Reform Guise, Giuliani Turns CUNY Into Patronage Mill

Post-Grad Blues

At CUNY, Doctoral Students Say the Livin' Ain't Easy

Core Values

CUNY’s Curriculum Debate

Misguided Multiculturalism

Our Historical Illiteracy

Faculty Showdown

Insurgents Seek Leadership of CUNY Union

Open City

University Heights

Big Guns on Campus

City University's Alarming Arms Purchases

Rudy's Milky Way

An Administration 'Of, For, and By White People' Has No Time or Room for Blacks