"CUNY Administration Lays Off Hundreds of Faculty" (Left Voice)

Left Voice article written in May 2020 by a Graduate Center PhD candidate and City College faculty member. This document addresses CUNY adjunct layoffs, starting with the 400 adjunct employees laid off at John Jay (what was estimated to be 40% of their total faculty at the time). It also points to many administrative and buerucatic aspects of these lay offsfrom the way health care, unemployment, and other benefits will be terminated for contingent members of the CUNY community during a public health crisis, to specific logistics of PSC union and Rank and File action meetings in fighting against widespread firing of contingent labor. This item is part of the CUNY Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Matthew K. Golds Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The goal of the project is to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNYs 25 campuses. Further, we want to document the moment of crisis response from a critical approach to educational technology.

Wood, Olivia

Hoff, James Dennis

May 16, 2020

English

Left Voice

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CUNY Distance Learning Archive

https://www.leftvoice.org/cuny-administration-lays-off-hundreds-of-faculty