Norman library hunter college4/17/2023 ![]() In this crisis, the CUNY administration should defend the city’s public university, not capitulate to budget cuts before they are even announced by State and City governments or accept cuts when announcements are made. It shows a failure of imagination, as well as of moral courage. The fiscal challenges we face are real, but calling for mass layoffs of adjunct faculty and reductions in course offerings is the cruelest way to address them. We have witnessed unbearable loss of life in our city, including among our colleagues and our families. We have seen the inequities of our society laid bare, as the rates of illness and death have risen disproportionately in the low-income communities of color and immigrant communities served by our university. ![]() Like all New Yorkers, CUNY department chairs have had our lives upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuts that will cause hundreds, if not thousands, of adjuncts across the CUNY system to lose employment in the midst of a public health crisis are morally repugnant. I was not elected to impose preemptive budget cuts that will mean faculty colleagues lose jobs and health insurance during a pandemic, students lose access to college courses during an economic catastrophe. I was elected to this position by my colleagues to provide academic leadership and serve the students we teach.
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