1. After 1973, the federal government ushered in a comprehensive privatization policy, claiming that only by allowing unelected emergency financial control boards to cut public services, such as free college education, could New York City be saved from bankruptcy. But along with the cuts to public services, they are also reducing the number of teachers. They did this not only because the workers refused to pay, but also because they wanted the government to put pressure on the workers to pay, but also to warn them of the consequences of non-payment through the unemployment of teachers in the schools.Reed believes that as long as it’s about national interest, economic issues, the government will be the first to take public universities to make up for it
3. The LSA wrote in a very respectful format about adding diversity to the English program. The LSA represents a student body that believes that English classes should not be knowledge of one traditional way of teaching English to students. They even use Lehman College as the first institution to bring forth cultural studies in CUNY as an example to make the school agree to add more diversities to English courses. Whenever we talk about English, we will always think about the English from Britain because of the history. We are learning Shakspeare’s artworks, the most classic one is called Romeo and Juliet. People will just think that the real good English is from Britain or by White people. LSA thinks that English literature is not just from Britain, but also from the minorities. LSA wants students to see the diversity of English, to let them know the history of minories behind English literature. Each minority has their own English literature.
4. It should not be reduced to merely taking on the task of setting the direction of the movement or quietly following orders, but rather building active, strategic collaboration across differences, seizing this rare moment to achieve multi-issue change that was unimaginable even a year ago. Such as labor movement or protest, if those anti-racist and anti-austerity groups do not start fighting for themselves, they will be forgotten, no one will really go solving the problems for them.
My dream CUNY:
I agree with you with your dream CUNY, especially with the access to free MetroCards. CUNY tends to be a transit school for many of the student body and with MTA prices adding up by the number of months of school, it would be a good idea to help students.
I also included free metro cards in my dream CUNY, so hopefully one day we’ll see that come true before we graduate. I agree with your response to the last question. Those groups needs to work together to fight for themselves in order to create a stronger impact.
I agree with you and the picture of dream CUNY. I think free metro cards can help students reduce some of the cost of transportation expenses. Since most students need to take the subway when they come to school, the metro card is a necessity.