June 29, 2024
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1 Education Drive
Room F-3293 Garden City, New York 11530
Room F-3293 Garden City, New York 11530
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Garden City, NY, June 24, 2024 – The Nassau Community College Federation of Teachers (NCCFT) and several individual faculty members have filed a lawsuit against the Nassau Community College Board of Trustees and the County of Nassau. The lawsuit challenges the recent decision to eliminate 15 academic departments. In doing so, Nassau Community College disregards its commitments to students in its state-approved curriculum program. The proposed restructuring also contradicts the College’s strategic plan and the objectives of the SUNY Guided Pathways
By Faren Siminoff. Published June 19, 2024.GUEST ESSAYS Nassau Community College, once a beacon for affordable, quality education, is now mired in crisis and controversy. Plummeting enrollment, the elimination of 15 academic departments, draconian cuts to programming, and chronic deficits threaten the existence of what was once considered Nassau County’s reliable pathway to the middle class. Behind this chaos lies the college’s leadership — its administration and board of trustees — whose dereliction of duty over the past several years
INVEST in programs and student services to attract and retain students! Fix the deficit and grow the college! Seventeen years without an increase in funding operations is killing the college! NO MORE WASTE: Dedicate any increase to hiring full-time faculty to restore cut programs and grow high-demand ones! When and where: From 11:00 -11:25 a.m. on Monday, June 10, we gather on the steps of the Theodore Roosevelt Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building, 1550 Franklin Ave, Mineola, NY 11501.
On May 14, 2024, the NCCFT presented to the Board of Trustees 16 initiatives to preserve, renew, and save the college by investing in specific programs and student services. The college administration’s proposed budget, filled with program and service cuts, will disproportionately harm students of color as well as all students from under-resourced communities. The college’s budget has no plan to grow the college and remedy the forcasted deficit. The NCCFT’s proposed 16 initiative for the 2025 Operating Budget would
Please vote May 21 for district budgets and these school board candidates! NYSUT endorsed candidates who are NYSUT members are in blue. REVISED – 2024 NYSUT NRO/SRO School Board Candidate Endorsements Thank you for helping to keep our outstanding record of winning school board elections going! The quality of public education and the security and quality of NYSUT members’ jobs depend on it.
NCCFT Local 3150
Room F-3293
1 Education Drive
Garden City, New York 11530
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