Thinking Strategically About Governance: What Might We Learn from “SUNY Voices”
Published by the national office of the AAUP, the journal Academe “explores a wide range of….critical issues facing higher education.” While full access to the journal requires an AAUP membership, […]
BOT Watch: The Board Fulfills Its Ultimatum & We Take Them To Binding Arbitration
Earlier this year, at it’s March 21st meeting, the Board of Trustees issued an ultimatum regarding what it perceived as the unacceptably slow pace of the Governance Review Task Force […]
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. […]
Governor Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship Program Is Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Earlier this month, the NCCFT Executive Committee attended NYSUT’s Community College (ED39) conference in Latham, New York, where we received a briefing on Governor Cuomo’s much lauded Excelsior Scholarship program. […]
The NCCFT Congratulates Christine Pellegrino!
In an upset victory that has to hearten those of us in organized labor, and specifically those of us in education unions, Christine Pellegrino—who has been an elementary school reading […]
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Contract Negotiations: The Next Challenge We Face
The weeks leading up to last Thursday’s vote to ratify, or not, the amended Academic Senate bylaws passed by the Senate at its meeting on April 27th have been fraught […]
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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 […]
BOT Watch: The Board Passes a Budget May 9, 2017
The Board of Trustees opened the meeting by approving the minutes from April 18 and then moved directly into what became a lengthy and somewhat complicated discussion of the budget for […]