Twelve of us went to the NYSUT Community College Conference at Bolton Landing, New York, on Nov. 8 to Nov 10.  Members Kim Ballerini, Ziaullah (“Zia”) Durrani, Leonardo Falcon, Valerie Lagakis, Adeline Mucci, David Pecan, Alex Sanchioli, and Caitlin Thurber along with NCCFT officers Suzanne Kaebnick, Virginia Sanchioli, Faren Siminoff, and David Stern attended.  David Stern was also one of three presenters in a session entitled “Relationship with Community College Trustees.”  Saturday’s special guest speaker was AFT President Randi Weingarten,

The NCCFT applauds SUNY Chancellor King’s quick defense of Puerto Rico, and his reminder of the innumerable contributions that its U.S. citizens — and the millions with ancestral ties to the island —- have given to our fabulous multicultural nation. Chancellor King’s leadership is among these gifts.   The attitude that any ethnic or religious group among us is disposable is the antithesis of the spirit of a multicultural democracy. We know that hateful rhetoric cannot be dismissed as unimportant —