Open letter on spring semester to Provost Li and President Mason, 24 January 2021.

Colleagues —    Below find a copy of a letter we sent earlier this afternoon to President Karol Mason and Provost Yi Li concerning the pandemic, its effects on our community, and the urgency of assuring course availability for our students this Spring semester. In light of the serious harm that can result from maintaining the minimum enrollment requirements, especially for online classes, we call for easing these restrictions at this critical moment for our college and our students. Please take a minute to read through the letter. 
 
If you agree with the thrust of the letter and what we are asking of the John Jay administration, please take a minute to forward it —or cut & paste— with any comments you think appropriate to President Mason (KMason@jjay.cuny.edu) and Provost Li (YiLi@jjay.cuny.edu).  If you do so, please copy us at jjaypsc@gmail.com.  Thank you for participating in this effort.
Open Letter on Spring Semester

From the Chairs: Join us Thursday 3rd December for an Anti-racism Panel discussion

Join us for a panel discussion on anti-Black racism, and the struggle against racism at CUNY, in New York City, and beyond.  Thursday, December 3, 2020. Register at https://jjay.cuny.edu/AntiRacismPanel    Panelists include C. Jama Adams, John Pittman, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Ronesha Singleton.   Moderator = Gerald Markowitz.  Co-sponsored by the PSC, Black Student Union, and African Studies Department.

 

From the Chairs: Moment of truth

Dear Colleagues,
 
If you haven’t voted already, please make sure you vote for the Biden/ Harris ticket on the Working Families Party (WFP) line (row D in NYS).  The WFP is a grass-roots, ‘fusion’ party that aims to run progressive candidates for local office AND push the Democratic Party to the left by mobilizing support for a progressive, pro-labor electoral agenda while helping to defeat the most reactionary political forces. The WFP — because of recent attempts in Albany to kill it — must mobilize a significant showing in tomorrow’s general election to retain its ballot status.  Your vote for Biden/Harris on the WFP line will count as a vote to ‘dump Trump’ while also strengthening the prospects for independent progressive politics in New York State.  

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Chapter updates 9/29/2020

Dear Colleagues,

These times provide many issues for updates.  We want you to glimpse all we have here, with fuller details below.

  1.  Join in the training tomorrow (9/30) about our contract  and grievance procedure.
  2.  We’re confronting safety needs on our campus – the John Jay Health and Safety Committee meeting on Friday, 10/2, 12:30-1:30.
  3. J. Paul Narkunas, long-time member of our chapter Executive Committee, presents a compelling and enraging analysis of our academic labor situation, on “trickle down managerialism,” in the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom.
  4. Looming Oct. 9 Voter Registration Deadline compels sharing voting information with your students, including a Spanish-language version.
  5.  The strike authorization vote at Hunter College High School secured filters and independently verified working conditions by today’s deadline.

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