SUNY Seamless: NYSUT Gets Into the Act
On October 19th, the Faculty Council of Community Colleges (FCCC) passed unanimously the “Resolution in Opposition to a De Facto Core Curriculum.” This resolution calls on SUNY to “suspend the […]
Complacency Is Not an Option
SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher’s idea of “systemness,” especially as she defined it in her 2012 State of the University address, sounds good in theory. “Systemness,” she said, “is the coordination […]
NYSUT/NCCFT Endorsement Letter
NCCFT Endorsements
Don't Miss The Forest for the Trees: Seamless Transfer is Part of a Larger Picture We Can't Ignore
In our last post, we started to place SUNY’s “Seamless Transfer” (SST) initiative in the larger context of what SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher calls “systemness,” a concept she defined in […]
When Opportunity Knocks
This guest post was written by Jason Gorman. On Saturday, October 12, Porter Kirkwood, Chris Schwertman and I went out canvassing for NCCFT-endorsed candidates. We met in the morning at […]
Falling Apart at the Seams: SUNY Seamless is Not What it Seems 2
In Part One of this series, we introduced some of the issues raised by implementation of SUNY’s “Seamless Transfer” (SST) plan, the stated goal of which is to increase student […]
Seamless Transfer Is Not What It Seems
Central to the principle of shared governance is the idea that curricular and other academic concerns should fall under the purview of the faculty. The logic is not hard to […]
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