Faculty and activists from the Professional Staff Congress Jan. 9 objected to the City University of New York’s recent budget request for the upcoming fiscal year, which does not include plans to double adjunct pay, a demand the union has been aggressively pursuing.
The budget includes new initiatives to hire more-diverse faculty, as well as to address problems with student retention and on-time graduation rates. But several advocates at a Board of Trustees hearing at Borough of Manhattan Community College expressed outrage that adjuncts weren’t even mentioned in the document.
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