In order to struggle for a liberated CUNY you need to know what you are up against and the history of the struggle that has preceded this moment.
CUNYTIME ZINE (October 2008) - Includes critique of budget cuts, power map of CUNY, history of the neoliberalization of CUNY.
Here is a list of on-line accessible resources:
The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42. Textual and Visual analysis.
Demands of the BPRSC of Harlem University (April-May 1969) What started the push for open-admissions.
The Struggle for CUNY – Chritopher Gunderson’s narrative and analysis of student struggle at CUNY from 1969 and 1999. He also presents lessons to be learned from these struggles. 69 pages of fun.
CUNYTIME ZINE (October 2008) - Includes critique of budget cuts, power map of CUNY, history of the neoliberalization of CUNY.
Here is a list of on-line accessible resources:
The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42. Textual and Visual analysis.
Demands of the BPRSC of Harlem University (April-May 1969) What started the push for open-admissions.
The Struggle for CUNY – Chritopher Gunderson’s narrative and analysis of student struggle at CUNY from 1969 and 1999. He also presents lessons to be learned from these struggles. 69 pages of fun.
The History of the City College of New York: 1969-1999 - A webpage on the history of student struggle at City College.
Hostos Community College: Battle of the Seventies. A personal historical account by the Coordinator of the Coalition to Save Hostos Community College, Ramon J. Jimenez, during the 1975–76 New York City financial crisis. pdf or html
Save Hostos: Politics and Community Mobilization to Save a College in the Bronx, 1973-1978. (A Personal Account by Gerald Meyer of the struggle to save Hostos College)
The Struggle at CUNY: Open Admissions and Civil Rights 1992, written by Ron McGuire who knows his CUNY history, having been kicked out during the open admissions strike @ CCNY in 69.
Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (1997) [good short articles on CUNY]
Students Fight Educational Apartheid
Hunter Students SEEK Justice
United Front Builds then Shuts Down Bridges
Hostos Students Under Attack in NYC
The Politics of Race and Class at CUNY
An Open Admissions Program For a Democratic City University. This 10 point program was put out by Hostos Students for Open Admissions and the Hostos Student Government in Spring 1998
The CUNY Struggle: Class & Race In Public Higher Education. 1999 article by Nancy Romer, taken from the New Politics.
Smash Racist Purge of CUNY– Fight for Open Admissions, Free Tuition! Article on the 1999 Student Protests.
CLOSING CUNY’S DOORS. En espanol. Estan Cerrando Las Puertas de CUNY. On the end of open admissions and what it means for people of color and the working class.
Some Thoughts on the History of CUNY SLAM.
The Free Academy No More: Restoring CUNY’s Promise. Article arguing to reinstitute free tuition at CUNY.
The Crisis at CUNY: Privatization and Downsizing (2001)
Another University is Possible: Academic Labor, the Ideology of Scarcity, and the Fight for Workplace Democracy. Discusses the PSC struggle to win a new contract during 2005-6 while also situating it within the history of CUNY.
Turning back the right-wing attack on education: NYC ruling class targets Black, Latino City University students [Short history of struggle against educational apartheid at CUNY, written in 2006]
CUNY Rising: College Activists Mobilize Campus-Wide 3-Day Social Forum (Good Stats on CUNY throughout the page.)
Recent Articles on the CUNY Budget Cuts:
CUNY students, teachers resist budget cuts
Resisting the Cuts at CUNY
CUNY Tuition Hikes Hurt Hard
Resource Sites:
PSC Clarion. Great for stats and information on CUNY, both present and historically. [Paper of the CUNY PSC Union]
GC Advocate. Helpful for stats and back information on CUNY. [Student Paper of the CUNY Graduate Center]
New York Times. Use the search feature. You'll find articles dealing with the strikes, tuition increases, chancellor salary increases, etc. Not always in-depth, but stats come in helpful.
The neoliberalization of CUNY - from the point of view of management
The City University of New York: An Institution Adrift (THE MASTER PLAN to restructure, that is, neoliberalize CUNY, 1999)
Issue of Tuition and Funding at the City University of New York (Discusses the history of Tuition at CUNY and the role of tuition at CUNY in the context of the overall funding of CUNY, numbers galore, 2003)
CUNY Compact (Chancellor Goldstein's public-private partnership and financing plan to deal with 'too little investment and too little revenue.' In other words, how Goldstein and the trustees are going to neoliberalize CUNY. This is the promotional flyer.)
CUNY Master Plan 2008-12 [Where will CUNY be going and will you be coming along with it? Or will you be denied access because of test scores?]
The Chancellor's Vision of Higher Education [New CUNY motto: Tracking for Life!]
Articles by the Manhattan Institute - a conservative free-market think thank calling for the restructuring of CUNY back into an 'elite' institution and away from a 'remedial backwater.'
CUNY could be good again
Merit Pay for Prof's
Room for Excellence
Setting a Higher Standard
Downward Mobility
Article's covering Manhattan Institute's rise to power in NYC
Resisting the Cuts at CUNY
CUNY Tuition Hikes Hurt Hard
Resource Sites:
PSC Clarion. Great for stats and information on CUNY, both present and historically. [Paper of the CUNY PSC Union]
GC Advocate. Helpful for stats and back information on CUNY. [Student Paper of the CUNY Graduate Center]
New York Times. Use the search feature. You'll find articles dealing with the strikes, tuition increases, chancellor salary increases, etc. Not always in-depth, but stats come in helpful.
The neoliberalization of CUNY - from the point of view of management
The City University of New York: An Institution Adrift (THE MASTER PLAN to restructure, that is, neoliberalize CUNY, 1999)
Issue of Tuition and Funding at the City University of New York (Discusses the history of Tuition at CUNY and the role of tuition at CUNY in the context of the overall funding of CUNY, numbers galore, 2003)
CUNY Compact (Chancellor Goldstein's public-private partnership and financing plan to deal with 'too little investment and too little revenue.' In other words, how Goldstein and the trustees are going to neoliberalize CUNY. This is the promotional flyer.)
CUNY Master Plan 2008-12 [Where will CUNY be going and will you be coming along with it? Or will you be denied access because of test scores?]
The Chancellor's Vision of Higher Education [New CUNY motto: Tracking for Life!]
Articles by the Manhattan Institute - a conservative free-market think thank calling for the restructuring of CUNY back into an 'elite' institution and away from a 'remedial backwater.'
CUNY could be good again
Merit Pay for Prof's
Room for Excellence
Setting a Higher Standard
Downward Mobility
Article's covering Manhattan Institute's rise to power in NYC
Conservatives plant a seed in NYC: Think tank helps Giuliani set his agenda
The Manhattan Institute Nudges New York Rightward
The Manhattan Institute Nudges New York Rightward
