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May
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May
NCCFT President Frank Frisenda’s Statement at the Bylaws Ratification Meeting
Posted by The NCCFT Executive Committee
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 some individuals and groups have made this personal and are leveling all sorts of reprehensible attacks on the NCCFT leadership and negotiating team, as they…
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May
BOT Watch: The Board Passes a Budget May 9, 2017
Posted by The NCCFT Executive Committee
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 2017-2018. At issue was the proposed tuition increase of $274/year for full-time students. Two trustees, Anthony Cornachio and Michael Hilt (the student trustee) said they would not vote in…
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May
Taking One Step Forward, Not Two Steps Back
Posted by The NCCFT Executive Committee
On May 5th, we sent an email to the NCCFT Executive Board informing them that contract negotiations have begun. Under normal circumstances, we would have allowed your department representatives to bring that news back to you without any intervening commentary from us. Moreover, in keeping with the principles of good faith bargaining, we would certainly…
03 th
May
Report from Detroit: The AFT Higher Education Conference
Posted by The NCCFT Executive Committee
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 of higher education today, as well as to participate in two workshops that had direct relevance to issues we are dealing with on our campus.…
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April
BOT Watch: The NCC Board of Trustees Meeting – April 18, 2017
Posted by The NCCFT Executive Committee
(This post has been edited to correct errors in the summary of the Speakers List.) At the beginning of the meeting, the Board approved promotions to Associate and Full Professor. They then noted the first reading of Policy 1800, which deals with the acceptance of gifts, and went through the second reading of the 7000 series…
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April
Voting Yes on the GRTF’s Proposal Will Not End the Process
Posted by The NCCFT Executive Committee
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 practiced at Nassau Community College. Especially for those of us who were here during our last accreditation review, when Middle States held us up as…