Concerned Faculty at NCC have an article published this fall in Academe, a publication of the New York State Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), covering multiple issues that faculty are facing at Nassau Community College, SUNY. The article can be read at https://nyscaaup.org/. See page 2 of the latest newsletter.
After presenting multiple issues, Concerned Faculty ask, is NCC trying to deliberately dismantle a crucial public resource; i.e., Nassau Community College as an affordable and high quality resource for Nassau residents seeking to pursue higher education? Specific ongoing concerns in the article include:
- Violations of shared governance, including credit requirements of the AA degree, without Academic Senate approval
- Denial of ‘reassigned time” to faculty to coordinate crucial programs for NCC students, “including the Honors program, thereby rendering these programs defunct.”
- Contract violations, resulting in more than 30 grievances filed by the NCCFT, the full-time faculty union.
- Cultivating a toxic work environment where faculty fear they will be targeted if they speak out, coupled with an increase in live and digital surveillance — the College has warned faculty these may be used if the college deems faculty to have committed “time theft,” spending “college time” on any work the college deems not relevant to their campus role. Newly imposed daily logs on classroom faculty with ADA accommodations and on non-classroom faculty working in the area of IT have also been imposed.
- Erratic fall scheduling perhaps designed more to demoralize full-time faculty than anything else: requirements were announced in late July that all faculty teaching online courses complete additional training, at the same time, asynchronous classes were converted to late start and full-time faculty were barred from teaching them, even if they completed the new training requirements in time and had years of successful teaching online.
- “Rejecting past precedent and refusing to bring approved sabbatical, tenure and promotion applications to the BOT for approval” before a finalized contract.
- Using college funds to sue SUNY in order to retain the current Chief Administrative Officer. Senior leadership at the college received a Vote of No Confidence by 96% of the faculty in Spring 2026.
The full article is linked here, but can be read online at https://nyscaaup.org/