At around 6:30pm, after voting nearly lock-step 15-to-1 in favor of a 33% across the board tuition hike per student (instituted gradually bringing it up to $6,300 per semester by 2015), CUNY’s Board of Trustees began individually filing out through back door of Baruch College into waiting town cars and at least one security truck. Read more »
Fifteen people were arrested during a protest against tuition hikes that spilled into the lobby of a Baruch College building where CUNY trustees were meeting to discuss the increase. Students were warned to leave the area and many of them sat down instead. Read more »
Well, at least half of the city can be powered by solar power according to people that know these things. A study was done by CUNY in partnership with the City and the U.S. Department of Energy, the results of which were plotted on this cool interactive map. Does this mean we can start having a serious discussion about pulling the plug on the nuclear reactors at Indian Point? (That was a rhetorical question btw, the answer is no, never!)
Going beyond the oppressive anti-smoking measures being implemented by the city, CUNY will ban smoking on all its campuses, including outdoor areas reports the Daily News. That shouldn’t be too hard to enforce, right? Especially at Hunter College’s very public location on 68th Street and Lexington.
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Today at approximately 2:00 pm, the sidewalks around 68th Street and Lexington Avenue are likely get very crowded as Hunter College students plan a walk out. According to a communique sent by email late last night, they’re protesting a “proposed tuition hike, budget cuts, and faculty and staff layoffs at CUNY.” Additionally, students at BMCC are planning a rally at 3:00 pm. This will be followed by a demonstration around 4:00 pm at City Hall by One New York Coalition, which represents the “United Federation of Teachers and 75 other unions.”
With the financial crisis showing no signs of letting up anytime soon, even schools like New York University are trying to formulate strategies to deal with the “troubled economic times,” but not everyone approves of their tactics. An incensed reader attending the expensive school sent in this flyer (legible version HERE) being distributed at the student center, encouraging a CUNY education as the cheaper alternative for those that can’t afford NYU. “I think it’s pretty fucked up that NYU can’t give its students decent financial aid even though John Sexton flies to Abu Dhabi every other week and we keep buying new buildings all over the city,” wrote the academic. The flyer detailing their “new In and Of the City financial aid plan” shows a map of the CUNY system, offers a handy chart detailing how much money students can save ($43,183 a year!), and provides this spirited quote from Sexton: (UPDATE: it’s a fake.)
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