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Enough cuts and chaos: We need a real CUNY mayor

BY MARCELLA BENCIVENNI AND ZAINAB SHAKOOR
Posted 3/21/25

Marcella Bencivenni is professor of history at Hostos Community College, where she has been teaching since 2004. Zainab Shakoor is a philosophy and psychology major and a junior at City College of New York.

There’s been widespread coverage recently of Mayor Eric Adams’ betrayal of New York City’s values and people for his personal gain. But even before Adams sold out New York to avoid corruption charges, he sold out CUNY. Adams is a two-time CUNY graduate who has called himself the “CUNY Mayor.” Yet, he has failed to live up to that moniker, cutting tens of millions of dollars from the operating budget of CUNY’s community colleges and failing to fight for the university system at the state level. It’s time to elect a real CUNY Mayor.

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