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Our Newsday Essay: Nassau Community College Needs a State Intervention to Survive

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

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June 19, 2024 7 Comments

June 10 Rally to Preserve, Renew, and Save NCC at the County Legislature!

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.

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May 20, 2024 2 Comments

NCCFT 16 Point Operations Plan to Fix College Deficit and Save NCC

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

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May 17, 2024 4 Comments

2024 NYSUT Endorsed School Board Candidates for Nassau and Suffolk Counties

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.

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May 15, 2024 1 Comment

Rally for Food Service on Campus Apr 22 #NCCFOODFIGHT

Hundreds of students and many faculty showed up on Monday, April 22, 2024, to call on the NCC administration to restore campus dining. The donation of pizza by Previti Pizza & Papazzio Dining in New Hyde Park to feed our students was heartily appreciated by all, and fueled the speakers. We do not, in fact, have a complete list of everyone who stepped up to the microphone and spoke! The need for a cafeteria on campus to feed 11,000 students,

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April 19, 2024 3 Comments

The NCC Administration’s Catastrophic Mismanagement and the NCCFT’s Cost-Saving Proposals to Grow Enrollment

April 18, 2024 — We have released a report detailing the financial mismanagement, inefficiencies, deception, and potentially self-inflicted budget deficit at the hands of administrators at Nassau Community College. Our report also outlines seven concrete proposals for course correction. Our report follows an independently-led analysis of NCC’s budget practices, and comes on the heels of another proposed consolidation of NCC faculty departments. These proposed mergers, consolidating about 28 academic departments into 6 mega-departments, will result in added costs totaling in

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April 18, 2024 10 Comments
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