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Chapter Meeting Thurs 3/27 in Namm 1001

Please join us for the March chapter meeting! The Guest Speaker is Penny Lewis, Vice President of Senior Colleges at the PSC, and member of the Bargaining Team will answer questions about the New Contract. We’ll continue to organize around the working groups we introduced at our last meeting: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Immigrant Solidarity, Academic Freedom, Health and Safety.

If you’re interested in joining one of these groups, contact: charris@citytech.cuny.edu

Bring a friend, make a new contact, enjoy lunch with your colleagues. Virtual option available too!

Flyer for the 3/25 Chapter Meeting at City Tech

MARCH to STOP the CUTS Sat 3/15 Foley Square 11 am-3 pm

Join LABOR Unions Across NYC to demand: NO CUTS TO WORKING PEOPLE TO FUND TAX BREAKS FOR BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS!

More Info: https://psc-cuny.org/calendar/march-to-stop-the-cuts/

2 Academic Freedom Events at PSC Union Hall 3/13 and 3/25

Protect academic freedom, Title VI, and free speech! Come to the Panels at the PSC Union Hall at 25 Broadway, Lower Manhattan. Find out what you can do! Register here:
https://psc-cuny.org/calendar/academic-freedom-title-vi-and-free-speech-in-the-psc-cuny-context/

Thur 2/27 Know Your Rights Workshop & Screening of The Five Demands

“Know Your Rights” Workshop with Gabriella Collantes-Woods, SEEK Program
Feb. 27, 12:30-2 pm, A-209
This interactive Workshop is open to faculty, staff, and students.

Organizers: Benjamin Heim Shepard , PhD, LMSW (Human Service Department); Juan L. Rivera-Correa, Ph,D (Biology Department)and C-chair (HSI Steering Committee); & Gabriella Collantes-Woods. MSEd, LMHC, Doctoral candidate ABD (SEEK Counselor ) and CUNY Undocumented Liaison & DREAM US Scholarship Representative.

Screening of The Five Demands (with discussion), Feb. 27, 2:30-4:30, A-209

This documentary film tells the story of the CCNY students who in 1969 demanded an expanded curriculum that would include Black and Puerto Rican studies. We also learn the fascinating origin story of the SEEK program. The screening, which is sponsored by our PSC Chapter and the CUNY Rising Alliance, directly follows the “Know Your Rights” workshop–in the same room.

Pizza and light refreshments provided.

Chapter Meeting Thurs 2/20 in Namm 1001

Please join us for the first chapter meeting of the Spring Semester! Let’s meet to talk about the ratified contract, hear updates on Health & Safety issues on our campus, and find out how we can help each other through turbulent political times. Bring a friend, make a new contact, enjoy lunch with your colleagues. Virtual option available too!

Upcoming Adjunct Rights Virtual Q&A

Resources for Protecting Immigrant Students

City Tech students are covered under The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which means that whatever private information they share with you, or their peer mentors, cannot be shared with anyone else without obtaining written permission from them. However, because of the sensitive nature of immigration-related challenges, it is strongly suggested that whomever the student confides in, even with written permission, the teacher/mentor not share that information with ANYONE.

CUNY Central’s Office of Undocumented and Immigrant Student Programs has a list of resources, including names of three City Tech campus liaisons: https://www.cuny.edu/current-students/student-affairs/cuny-immigrant-student-success/

At City Tech Gabriella Collantes-Woods in the SEEK program is the immigration contact for undocumented students and Dreamers. Please refer students with questions/concerns regarding immigration to her. To best support our immigrant students, please read the information attached, generously provided by Lauri Aguirre (FYP), and have copies of the QR codes available to all students and peer mentors.

Please SHARE and DOWNLOAD the following documents:

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WORKSHOP 2024 ed Download

VOTE DEADLINE Extended To Monday 1/13 at 5 PM

If you are a member, the deadline to VOTE on the Tentative Contract has been extended to Monday January 13th at 5 pm. Check your emails and mail from the American Arbitration Association. VOTE on the Contract TODAY! Your Union, Your Decision.

From Colleen: Why I voted in favor of passing the proposed new Contract

As you know, we are voting within a context in which former President Donald Trump will once again ascend to the Presidency of the United States. At that moment, debates over implementing Project 2025 will begin. As you also know, the survival of the Department of Education is at stake. The impact that its loss could have on CUNY is unpredictable, but frightening. See page 323 in the document at the link below. It is within that context that I decided to vote in favor of our new contract. I would rather spend my energies fighting Project 2025 than wasting them blocking the gains we would gain that we have fought so hard to acquire. SEE: https://bit.ly/40cyXWd

Colleen Birchett, Ph.D.
Department of English
New York City College of Technology