Counting Jews: CUNY Diversity Report Includes “White/Jewish” Label
Jun 12, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood criticizes CUNY’s use of “White/Jewish” as a separate minority group for diversity planning.
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CUNY Adds Category “White/Jewish” to Diversity Action Plan
Jun 05, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
Our New York affiliate weighs in on a controversy of racial and religious labels at the City University of New York.
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CUNY History Professor Urges Trustees: Preserve the Traditional Core
Feb 29, 2012 by David Gordon |
David Gordon, history professor and president of the New York Association of Scholars, gave this address on February 21, 2012, to the CUNY Board of Trustees, asking them to maintain the integrity of a sound core curriculum at CUNY.
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CUNY’s Pathway to Whatever
Dec 27, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood critiques The City University of New York's new "common core" requirements.CUNY’s Pathway to Whatever
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How Central is the Core?
Dec 22, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood says students and faculty typically win when colleges build their curricula around a “common core,” but that the City University of New York’s common core is an exception.
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New York Association of Scholars Statement to the CUNY Board
Jun 09, 2011 by |
NAS’s New York affiliate believes a CUNY resolution intended to help community college students transfer to four-year schools has the unintended consequence of severely undermining academic standards.
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Totems in America
May 23, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood defends the CUNY trustee who opposed an honorary degree for playwright Tony Kushner.
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CUNY Trustees Stand Up Against Faculty’s Anti-Israel Sentiments - In Vain
May 11, 2011 by NYAS |
A statement of NAS's affiliate the New York Association of Scholars on the Kushner controversy.
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You’re Hired—You’re Fired
Feb 25, 2011 by Mitchell Langbert |
Sharad Karkhanis's Patriot Returns newsletter, which goes to 13,000 CUNY faculty and employees, emailed my responses to a number of letters to the editor concerning my article "Freedom and Standards at CUNY: The Case… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
CUNY Affiliate Urges Common Reading Transparency
Sep 20, 2010 by Dorothy Lang |
The CUNY Association of Scholars gives Brooklyn College three recommendations for improving its freshman book assignment.
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Tolerance and Terrorism at Queens College
Nov 23, 2009 by Mitchell Langbert |
Jeff Wiesenfeld, trustee of the City University of New York, has written a letter to the New York Post concerning an alleged terrorist's appearing as a speaker at Queens College (h/t Sharad Karkhanis). The Post… Continue Reading | 5 Comments >
Teaching Can Be Dangerous
Oct 30, 2009 by Ashley Thorne |
Cross-posted from NAS.org, "An Unsuccessful Education Can Ruin You": The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article, "Course Reminds Budding Ph.D.'s of the Damage They Can Do," about a seminar taught at the… Continue Reading | 5 Comments >
“An Unsuccessful Education Can Ruin You”
Oct 30, 2009 by Ashley Thorne |
A CUNY graduate professor teaches education ethics; his students discuss the meaning of academic freedom and the question of university neutrality. Now if only all faculty members and administrators took this course...
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The Scandalous Teach Public Policy Too
Oct 13, 2009 by Mitchell Langbert |
Last Sunday the New York Post reported that Martha Stark, who had resigned as New York City Finance Commissioner because she was accused of hiring relatives and dating subordinates, has been hired as a public policy professor at… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Forced Distribution Grading
Oct 06, 2009 by Mitchell Langbert |
A colleague who teaches at Baruch College (the City University of New York's business school) forwarded an e-mail from the Baruch administration reminding faculty who teach certain core courses such as Marketing Foundations… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
