Post-election resources for CUNY faculty

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CURRENT CUNY ACTION GROUPS/RESOURCES:        2

CUNY-WIDE        2

AT SPECIFIC CAMPUSES:        2

BASIC TIPS FOR STUDENTS:        3

CUNY/ NYC-specific tips:        3

FOR UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS:        3

OTHER NYC RESOURCES:        4

POLITICAL ACTION:        5

OTHER TIPS/ RESOURCES (NOT NYC-SPECIFIC):        5

POLITICAL ACTION (NOT NYC-SPECIFIC):        5

STAYING SAFE (NOT NYC-SPECIFIC):        6

TEACHING RESOURCES:        7

PEDAGOGY IDEAS:        7

FAKE NEWS:        7

STATEMENTS TO DISTRIBUTE:        8

SYLLABI:        8

ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM:        9

SUPPORT:        9

CURRENT CUNY ACTION GROUPS/RESOURCES:

CUNY-WIDE

  • Immigrants Matter@CUNY Facebook Live Sessions

AT SPECIFIC CAMPUSES:

  • Brooklyn College:
  • Most events/ efforts gathered at bc-at.net 
  • There is a series of teach-ins, beginning 11/17 and running during Thursdays 12:30-1:30 into the spring, at 2127 Ingersoll Hall.
  • The film department will show documentaries during Tuesday club hours.
  • GC:

NEEDS UPDATING IN GRAY:

  • LaGuardia Community College:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DLnSg4YpDPaafvUvyDCgTqHnOajxBIZ4ToRwR1nQrxw/edit

  • John Jay:
  • We came up with four action areas that we have committees moving forward on:
  • Faculty teach-in
  • Student teach-in; Scheduled: 11/22, 1:40 - 3 pm, Kroll Atrium, with more to come
  • Concrete resources for students (such as legal resources, etc.)
  • Pushing Administration to make explicit policy on hate speech, reaffirm commitment to diversity, sanctuary site stuff as above, etc.
  • Kingsborough Community College:
  • Queensborough Community College:
  • open community meeting for all faculty and students in social sciences in room M-126, Wednesday Nov. 16 from 12-2pm to discuss the election and steps to take at campus
  • Hunter College:
  • Teach in: Tuesday, November 22nd from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Main Cafeteria, 3rd Floor; open to the community. Discussion of a range of issues, information, and services for students and the larger CUNY Community with special focus on the sanctuary movement at CUNY. Other workshops on immigration, white supremacy, the media, and other topics to follow soon!

BASIC TIPS FOR STUDENTS:

Links that were suggested repeatedly (by 5 or more people, then consolidated) are in red.

CUNY/ NYC-specific tips:

  • FOR UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS:

  • United We Dream: http://unitedwedream.org/help/
  • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): http://www.thenyic.org/DACA
  • SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: You may know that undocumented students cannot apply for federal financial aid. However, there are scholarships and tuition help available from different initiatives.

  • OTHER NYC RESOURCES:

  • COMMUTING SAFETY:
  • Wellness
  • Health/ Medical care
  • By NYC Law, residents have the right to:
  • Food
  • Housing

  • POLITICAL ACTION:

  • Guide to getting involved in NYC politics:

http://takingactionny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ (new academic commons site)

OTHER TIPS/ RESOURCES (NOT NYC-SPECIFIC):

  • POLITICAL ACTION (NOT NYC-SPECIFIC):

  • In categories like time-sensitive, political, media, personal, local
  • I can help you with that: Volunteer/ “task rabbit” database for social movement organizations

        http://www.icanhelpyouwiththat.org/ 

  • Good for the basic list of national organizations at the top
  • NY-specific list is currently paltry, but there are so many other lists of NYC organizations out there.
  • Still, the lists of local places to support in other states (like the Islamic Council of Oklahoma) may be helpful.

  • STAYING SAFE (NOT NYC-SPECIFIC):

  • Note: I keep seeing this and similar articles on my feed, being posted by friends on Facebook, etc. But I’m told by friends who work on surveillance that we must stop using all Google products (including Gmail, this page, and all social media), make sure no log-ins or passwords are connected to one another, etc. before embarking on this, or we will endanger the lives of existing activists, journalists, & whistleblowers by using some of the communication channels suggested in these articles.
  • Phone security tips:

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/02/security-tips-every-signal-user-should-know/

TEACHING RESOURCES:

PEDAGOGY IDEAS:

  • Includes syllabi, activities, strategies
  • Additional post-election recommendations for school admins and educators on how to support undocumented students:
  • From Brooklyn pedagogy meeting (1/25):
  • Make sensitive writing assignments credit/ no credit, rather than graded.
  • Example: a fictitious “coming out” story -- as queer, as undocumented-- allows faculty to glimpse at some of the main forces in the students’ lives-- religion, family, etc.
  • Allow 2 minutes for student event announcements from anyone; facilitates organizing without the faculty member promoting specific events

FAKE NEWS:

  • With sources on visualizations, fake news, statistical traps, causality, publication bias…
  • With tools and case studies -- really well put together, tackles social media, memes, translation of academic to popular discourse

STATEMENTS TO DISTRIBUTE:

  • Verbal/ written statement that students are evaluated on the presentation of evidence and quality of arguments, not position on a political spectrum.
  • This comes from the CUNY Graduate Center's Resist Trump group, via Hamad Sindhi, to potentially include in syllabi:
  • “As an educator, I fully support the rights of undocumented students to an education and to live free from the fear of deportation. If you have any concerns in that regard, feel free to discuss them with me, and I will respect your wishes concerning confidentiality.
  • [And final sentence options:]
  • A) Furthermore, I am committed to resisting any and all attacks on immigrants, including threats of deportation, and will urge CUNY to serve as a sanctuary.
  • B) Furthermore, I am committed to making CUNY a sanctuary campus for undocumented immigrants, not just in word but in deed - through the campus community refusing to allow ICE to enter our campus and refusing to cooperate with and struggling to prevent any government attempts to ascertain the immigration status of members of our community or to detain or deport undocumented immigrants.”

SYLLABI:

  • “The readings... introduce observers to the past and present conditions that allowed Trump to seize electoral control of a major American political party. By extension, this syllabus acknowledges the intersectional nature of power and politics…. The weekly readings are organized by themes captured by Trump’s own statements on the campaign trail during the 2016 presidential election.”

ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM:

SUPPORT: