The NCCFT Executive Committee’s Response to the September 2020 Issue of The Vanguard
Dear Colleagues, We read with interest and solidarity the most recent issue of The Vanguard, the Adjunct Faculty Association’s newsletter. In his column, “From The President’s Desk,” AFA President Stefan […]
36 Reasons Why You Should Thank a Union – Happy Labor Day 2020!
Frank Talk from The President’s Desk – May 2019
On July 1, Dr. Jermaine Williams will start his tenure as president of Nassau Community College, inaugurating what I have come to think of, without irony, as our post-Keen era. […]
Frank Talk from The President’s Desk – January 2019
Enrollment & Class Offerings As I write this post, Nassau Community College is facing another 6% decrease in student enrollment, compared to last year at this time. Although full-time faculty schedules […]
Frank Talk – December 2018
As we come to the close of the Fall 2018 semester, we should be proud of what we have accomplished. We are now in complete compliance with Middle States; we’ve […]
Frank Talk from the President’s Desk – November 2018 Edition
While we are disappointed to have lost the Janus case, the Supreme Court’s decision to define as political every single thing we do as a union has had the perhaps […]
From the Vice President’s Desk – Dawn Smith
The NCCFT Political Action Committee Those of you who have read the NCCFT blog posts on Janus or listened to Secretary Richard Newman’s presentation at the NCCFT Spring 2018 union […]
Frank Talk from The President’s Desk – Summer 2018
The NCCFT has been negotiating a Special Retirement Incentive since April, when Dr. Keen announced at the Board of Trustees meeting that the College would consider such a measure in […]
A Frank Update from the President’s Desk
As I wrote in my previous “Frank Talk”column, the college administration has been preparing several critical searches, about which the elected faculty leadership—the Academic Senate Executive Committee, the Academic Department […]
Frank Talk From the President’s Desk – April 2018
Hurricane Sandy struck Long Island during the Fall 2012 semester and created a nightmare. We had displaced members of the community living in the PhysEd complex; FEMA established offices on […]