Some of What We’ve Been Working on This Summer: Binding Arbitration, the Senate Bylaws, and Contract Negotiations
On June 28th, we posted to this blog about the resolution passed by the Board of Trustees at their June 27th meeting in response to the failed ratification vote regarding […]
As Educators, We Must Address This as The Crisis It Has Become: The NCCFT’s Statement on The Recent Events in Charlottesville
This past Friday night, when several hundred white supremacist men and women marched on the main quadrangle at the University of Virginia, they carried torches that recalled—and that were no […]
Some of What We’ve Been Reading This Month – July 2017
This is the first of what will become a monthly round-up of education-related news that we’ve been reading. Please feel free to discuss any of these articles in the comments […]
How Do You Measure a Community College’s Success?
Some of us have been around long enough to remember, maybe twenty or so years ago, when a SUNY-generated “community college report card” was making the rounds. Nassau Community College […]
Here’s Some of What Betsy DeVos Has Said About Higher Education
Adam Harris of The Chronicle of Higher Education has compiled a chronological list of the major statements about higher education made by Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos since October 2016. […]
Thinking Strategically About Governance: What Might We Learn from “SUNY Voices”
Published by the national office of the AAUP, the journal Academe “explores a wide range of….critical issues facing higher education.” While full access to the journal requires an AAUP membership, […]
BOT Watch: The Board Fulfills Its Ultimatum & We Take Them To Binding Arbitration
Earlier this year, at it’s March 21st meeting, the Board of Trustees issued an ultimatum regarding what it perceived as the unacceptably slow pace of the Governance Review Task Force […]
The NCCFT Mourns Jeff Frankel
The NCCFT Executive Committee, along with the rest of the campus, mourns the passing of Professor Jeff Frankel, who devoted nearly forty years of his life to Nassau Community College. […]
Governor Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship Program Is Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Earlier this month, the NCCFT Executive Committee attended NYSUT’s Community College (ED39) conference in Latham, New York, where we received a briefing on Governor Cuomo’s much lauded Excelsior Scholarship program. […]
The NCCFT Congratulates Christine Pellegrino!
In an upset victory that has to hearten those of us in organized labor, and specifically those of us in education unions, Christine Pellegrino—who has been an elementary school reading […]