CUNY Pathways Showdown Looms as Another College Governance Body Declares Opposition
Pathways, the CUNY administration’s controversial system-wide general education plan, is supposed to be in place by this fall, but that goal will only be met by ignoring the stated views — and governance prerogatives — of a growing number of faculty and student governance bodies in the CUNY system.
Yesterday the College Senate at LaGuardia Community College in Queens — a joint student-faculty governance body — voted 23 to 7 to declare a moratorium on Pathways implementation, making LaGuardia the latest in a string of colleges to either decline to approve Pathways courses or actively declare their refusal to do so.
Last fall an administrator at Queensborough Community College was forced to back down from and apologize for a threat to dismantle the QCC English Department — canceling job searches, firing adjuncts, and eliminating full-time positions — in response to the department’s refusal to accept a Pathways plan to cut contact hours
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Yesterday the College Senate at LaGuardia Community College in Queens — a joint student-faculty governance body — voted 23 to 7 to declare a moratorium on Pathways implementation, making LaGuardia the latest in a string of colleges to either decline to approve Pathways courses or actively declare their refusal to do so.
Last fall an administrator at Queensborough Community College was forced to back down from and apologize for a threat to dismantle the QCC English Department — canceling job searches, firing adjuncts, and eliminating full-time positions — in response to the department’s refusal to accept a Pathways plan to cut contact hours
Tuesday Roundup
This occasional roundup of student movement stories is put together by Isabelle Nastasia, a CUNY undergrad, New York Students Rising organizer, and friend of this site.
A California College Hopes to Model Best Sexual Assault Policies - Ms. Magazine
Information on the student groups responsible for this organizing can be found here: Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition
A Tumblr that students and other community members are using to speak out: Dear Oxy
A good friend doing similar organizing at Cornell University responded to this news from Oxy by saying:
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Sexual Assault Reported Near Occidental College – NBC Los AngelesA California College Hopes to Model Best Sexual Assault Policies - Ms. Magazine
Information on the student groups responsible for this organizing can be found here: Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition
A Tumblr that students and other community members are using to speak out: Dear Oxy
A good friend doing similar organizing at Cornell University responded to this news from Oxy by saying:
“This is tricky issue, because sometimes these alerts can endanger the survivor and the survivor might prefer not to have the police report released. we have these “crime alerts” sent to all the Cornell student