April 13, 2025
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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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On Mar. 6, 2025, the NCCFT asked New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to conduct a comprehensive audit of Nassau Community College (NCC), reviewing NCC budgeting, expenditure processes, capital projects, staffing, grants, and enrollment management processes over the past 15 years, from September 2009 through today. We have concerns over several troubling trends that point to inefficiencies and questionable financial practices, which undermine our college’s long-term viability and ability to serve its students and Nassau County. Key areas of our
Please join us and the CWA (Communications Workers of America union) to protest Donald Trump’s firing of Jennifer Abruzzo, a former CWA attorney, as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel. Trump also illegally fired NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox. This leaves only two NLRB board members in their posts, which prevents the Board from ruling on most cases. Please join us in supporting CWA’s action – we’re in this together! Send a message to President Trump demanding that he
Our Annual NCCFT WInter Luncheon on Tuesday Dec. 17 was a unifying experience. If you were unable to attend, please read Charles Shaw’s article, “Nassau Community College Students, Faculty Protest Course Cuts” in the Long Island Herald, Dec. 17, 2024. Let’s move into the New Year united in our determination to turn this college around and placed back on the path to being a student-centric institution dedicated to providing genuine opportunity to all who pass through its doors. https://www.liherald.com/stories/protesting-course-cuts,212001
Please send a letter now to save Nassau Community College. Ask elected leaders and SUNY administration to provide competent, stable college leadership that will build, not decimate, the college. Click here to be directed to the site of our letter campaign, where you can begin writing. Nassau Community College needs competent administration: NCC is suffering from poor administration. Policies like early class cancellation; skeleton scheduling; the elimination of 15 academic departments; failure to hire sufficient full-time faculty, including those working in
Details of the NCC Administration’s course of destruction this summer and fall were presented at the SUNY Board of Trustees’ Nov 13 public hearing by faculty, student, graduate, and retiree speakers. Speakers shared the difficulties of creating course schedules with reduced class offerings; the results of the administration’s early class cancellation policy; the impact of not replacing full-time faculty retirees and of firing recent, untenured faculty on staffing labs, help centers, and classes; the issues created for students when programs
NCCFT Local 3150
Room F-3293
1 Education Drive
Garden City, New York 11530
Our Office Manager, Danielle Sforza, can be reached at nccft@ncc.edu and by the phone below Mon-Thurs, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Questions about dues and benefits are generally best directed first to her.
516.572.7198
communications@nccft.org
