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Response: Questions about Undercover Officers on CUNY Campuses

An open letter to Chancellor Milliken, dated 4 November 2015, authored by Todd Fine and signed by over five hundred students and faculty was published in the Advocate’s last issue and website. The...

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An Honest Commitment to Diversity

Paul L. Hebert The Graduate Center’s informational brochure, distributed by Admissions representatives at college fairs, colorfully highlights notable faculty and students. Nobel Laureate and...

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Editorial – President Chase Robinson, We Demand Action, Not Attitude!

Dadland Maye By now, it should be clear that I am infuriated by consistent patterns of underrepresentation, particularly in terms of gender and race. Not that other facets of diversity representation...

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Open Letter to President Robinson about the Replacement of Dr. Bakalian

29 February 2016 Dear President Robinson, We, the undersigned, Ph.D. students at the Graduate Center, CUNY, affiliated with the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC), are writing to...

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When Outsiders are not Outsiders: Enforcing Standards of Education in Hasidic...

Esther Bernstein This is a story about school standards and what it means to enforce them. It’s not the story of local politicians dictating what belongs in a Texas public school textbook. It’s the...

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Locked in Battle: The PSC, CUNY, and the Governor

Andrew Caringi Negotiations between the City University of New York and its faculty union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), came to an abrupt halt on 26 January after university management filed...

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PSC Refuses to Bargain on Behalf of Adjuncts

By Concerned members of the PSC Rank and File Last fall, some folks affiliated with CUNY Struggle penned a response to the Nation’s uncritical coverage of the ongoing PSC contract dispute. As the...

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CUNY’s Largest Crisis in Forty Years

Conor Tomás Reed In 1976, tuition was imposed at CUNY amidst a financial crisis in which New York City could no longer market its debt, and a federal bailout came with the stipulation that students...

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History at the altar of Nationalism: The Stakes of the Student Resistance in...

Bhargav Rani   What characterized the revolutionary classes at their moment of action is the awareness that they are going to make the continuum of history explode. Walter Benjamin How do we identify a...

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The Signs they Should be Changing: Bringing All-gender Bathrooms to the...

Bringing all-gender bathrooms to the Graduate Center has been a long process. It began with a promise from the GC’s president in 2012 and last semester resulted in the unveiling of an all-gender...

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