CUNY professors quit union in protest over anti-Israel screed (nypost.com)
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From: Sándor John <s_an@xxxxxxx>
To: CSEW-new <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Jul 27, 2021 12:56 pm
Subject: [cs_edworkers] Fw: CUNY must hire (and rehire) more personnel, now, to
face this Re: Student vaccination status & the threat of course cancellation
#yiv6510471852 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}See below FYI sent to PSC
Delegate Assembly listserv.
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 12:47 PM
To: psc-delegate-assembly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<psc-delegate-assembly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CUNY must hire (and rehire) more personnel, now, to face this Re:
Student vaccination status & the threat of course cancellation I'm glad that
Jack has raised the issues he mentioned in his post this morning.
Major problems with registration, course schedules, advising and financial aid
seem very likely to hit students with near-tsunami force as the Fall semester
approaches. Yet at our campus (Hunter) and, I'm sure, others too, the Financial
Aid office is grievously understaffed; advisors will be inundated, etc. One
foresees long lines and counters crowded with highly, rightly frustrated
students.(Meanwhile, of course, most of CUNY's layoffs have not been reversed.)
So, I think that:
1) We should highlight the demand that CUNY and the campus adminsbring on
additional personnel, now, to deal with these problems, both online and on the
spot as campuses' reopening approaches -- before all hell breaks loose.
(This goes together and overlaps with the demand to rehire our laid-off
colleagues.)
2) Our union should help play a leading role in fighting for students to be
effectively and fully informed about these issues right now. And the PSC should
centrally and via its chapters reach out directly to them about this. (I think
additional and new ways need to be found to reach students right now.)
In recent weeks I have been struck by statements from students telling me (in
summer class and elsewhere) how much they feel left in the dark by CUNY's
powers-that-be, and expressing worry that, after everything they and their
families have gone through, their hopes for the Fall might wind up being
dashed. Seeing the union in their corner fighting hard on these issues, and
helping just bring them vital information, is really important right now.
And for the PSC membership as a whole, the union fighting hard to make CUNY
hire/get/bring on/bring back people now, given how swamped staff and faculty
already are -- and how much more so we will be soon -- I believe this is very
important for building our collective power at this crucial moment.
In solidarity,
Sándor John
From: psc-delegate-assembly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<psc-delegate-assembly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Jack Kenigsberg
<jack.kenigsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:36 AM
To: PSC Delegate Assembly <PSC-Delegate-Assembly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Student vaccination status & the threat of course cancellation Perhaps
I have missed it, but I haven't seen any discussion on the list yet about the
impending threat of course cancellation if students cannot document that they
have been fully vaccinated by August 10.
If students cannot prove that they have been fully vaccinated by August 10,
will their registrations for in-person and hybrid classes be cancelled?
If enough registrations are cancelled, then it seems likely that at least some
classes will suddenly fall below the minimum thresholds necessary for them to
run. In that case, will those classes be cancelled?
If classes that are forcibly depopulated are suddenly cancelled, then what
happens to the faculty who were scheduled to teach those classes? Full time
faculty must be reassigned, and adjunct faculty with three-year appointments
must be reassigned. Will adjunct faculty without three-year appointments will
lose their employment?
And if students have their registrations cancelled, then our members in
advising and financial aid are going to be overwhelmed with emails from far too
many students who need to make sudden changes and find online classes. If there
are enough online classes being offered. At my campus, there may not be.
And even if students do get vaccinated in time, if they upload only the first
dose to CUNYfirst, then there is no way for them to upload documentation about
the second dose. The vaccination status area on CUNYfirst cannot be modified
once anything is submitted. We have to assume that at least some people who
will be vaccinated in time will, because of human error, not be able to prove
it. And so their registrations may be cancelled too.
I hope the union leadership can get CUNY Central to make the vaccination status
page on CF editable. That seems like a technical fix that can be implemented
without much difficulty (I hope).
I also hope we can put pressure on Central to pressure the campuses to not
cancel classes if CUNY policies force students out of classes.
Of course, if the registrations are NOT cancelled, that will create the
entirely different problem of having unvaccinated students in classrooms.
- Jack--
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