SUNY Together: Building Bridges among SUNY Retirees, Campuses and Communities
If you are interested in information about this conference, which will take place at Farmingdale State College on Friday, October 13, from 9:00 to 4:00, you can find it here: […]
BOT Watch: Nassau Community College Board of Trustees Meeting, September 12, 2017
Technical difficulties made it impossible for us to video this meeting, which is unfortunate, since the meeting was notable not only for the actions the Board of Trustees took, but […]
Contract Ratification FAQs
At a special meeting held on September 5, 2017, The NCCFT Executive Board unanimously approved for contract ratification by the membership a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the college. A […]
Moving Forward from Here: The NCCFT’s Statement Regarding The Recent Arbitration
In a post earlier this month, we laid out for you the strategy behind our decision to take the Board of Trustees to binding arbitration over their June 27th resolution, […]
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 Working on This Summer: Binding Arbitration, the Senate Bylaws, and Contract Negotiations
On June 28th, we posted to this blog about the resolution passed by the Board of Trustees at their June 27th meeting in response to the failed ratification vote regarding […]
As Educators, We Must Address This as The Crisis It Has Become: The NCCFT’s Statement on The Recent Events in Charlottesville
This past Friday night, when several hundred white supremacist men and women marched on the main quadrangle at the University of Virginia, they carried torches that recalled—and that were no […]
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 […]
How Do You Measure a Community College’s Success?
Some of us have been around long enough to remember, maybe twenty or so years ago, when a SUNY-generated “community college report card” was making the rounds. Nassau Community College […]
Here’s Some of What Betsy DeVos Has Said About Higher Education
Adam Harris of The Chronicle of Higher Education has compiled a chronological list of the major statements about higher education made by Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos since October 2016. […]