Frank Talk from the President’s Desk: Welcome to Spring 2018!
Welcome to the Spring 2018 semester, which promises many new and exciting initiatives, as well as some serious challenges. To those members that have been working during the Winterim break, […]
The Perception Gap When It Comes To Public School Quality
Why do Americans think so poorly of our country’s public schools? This is the question Jack Schneider asks in a recent piece in The Atlantic, in which he considers the […]
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 […]
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. […]
NCCFT President Frank Frisenda’s Statement at the Bylaws Ratification Meeting
Hi. My name is Frank Frisenda and I am the President of the NCCFT. If you feel confident that you understand this issue, then vote accordingly. It is unfortunate that […]
Report from Detroit: The AFT Higher Education Conference
The NCCFT Executive Committee is back from the AFT’s Higher Education Organizing Conference in Detroit, where we had a chance to listen to some meaningful and motivating talks on the state […]
Voting Yes on the GRTF’s Proposal Will Not End the Process
As we said in our previous post, the changes to the Senate bylaws being proposed by the Governance Review Task Force (GRTF) will significantly alter the way shared governance is […]
The NCCFT’s Statement on The Governance Review Task Force’s Proposed Revisions to the Senate Bylaws
In an email dated April 7th, the Academic Senate Executive Committee (ASEC) distributed to the entire campus the Governance Review Task Force’s (GRTF) draft revision of Articles I-III of the […]
The NCCFT’s Statement on “A Day Without Immigrants”
If President Trump’s immigration policies have done nothing else, they have highlighted once again the role immigrants play in the United States. In protest against those policies, activists have declared […]
Fall 2016 Recap
Fall 2016 was a productive semester. Here on campus, and at conferences and meetings throughout New York State, the NCCFT Executive Committee was busy representing our interests as a faculty […]