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An active union membership is fundamental to our mission in education, and that means staying informed! Our public communications shared here will include news, calls to action, open letters, announcements, and other important union information. Please check back here regularly to stay in the loop!

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LI Herald Covers Students, Faculty Speaking at Winter Luncheon

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

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Stop Cutting NCC Programs Letter Campaign

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

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Faculty, Students, Graduates and Retiree Testify on NCC Chaos at SUNY Trustees’ Nov. 13 Public Hearing

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

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NYSUT Community College Conference, Nov. 8-10, 2024

Twelve of us went to the NYSUT Community College Conference at Bolton Landing, New York, on Nov. 8 to Nov 10.  Members Kim Ballerini, Ziaullah (“Zia”) Durrani, Leonardo Falcon, Valerie Lagakis, Adeline Mucci, David Pecan, Alex Sanchioli, and Caitlin Thurber along with NCCFT officers Suzanne Kaebnick, Virginia Sanchioli, Faren Siminoff, and David Stern attended.  David Stern was also one of three presenters in a session entitled “Relationship with Community College Trustees.”  Saturday’s special guest speaker was AFT President Randi Weingarten,

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Regarding Recent Comments on Puerto Rico

The NCCFT applauds SUNY Chancellor King’s quick defense of Puerto Rico, and his reminder of the innumerable contributions that its U.S. citizens — and the millions with ancestral ties to the island —- have given to our fabulous multicultural nation. Chancellor King’s leadership is among these gifts.   The attitude that any ethnic or religious group among us is disposable is the antithesis of the spirit of a multicultural democracy. We know that hateful rhetoric cannot be dismissed as unimportant —

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