Dianne Morales. Image: Morales For NYC.
Dianne Morales is not your traditional candidate for New York City mayor, but that’s exactly why she thinks she’s the best candidate. Born and raised in Brooklyn by Puerto Rican parents, Morales has spent her career working for NYC communities at the ground level.
During her career, Morales has co-founded a national early childhood literacy program, created an after-school education program that is now used citywide, and created a career training program in healthcare in the Bronx. Now, Morales wants to scale up her plans to help everyone.
The Stony Brook and Columbia alum told
Readers, we are now in the midst of Water Cooler’s annual fundraiser. Our goal is 325 donors, and right now 90 of you have contributed. Thank you! Remember, this is not like the NC fundraiser, which funds a year in advance. You are donating for work I have already done
, which I hope you found informative and fun and useful, and which I hope to be able to continue to do. One donor commented:
You have done well during still another year of baroque confusion, obfuscation, and panic.
If you agree, dig deep! And now to the bird songs–
Bird Song of the Day
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City University of New York Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez has followed through on increasing faculty diversity. Nine new college presidents – including two Asian Americans, three African Americans and three women – were appointed in the past year. Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, CUNY established the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund with $1 million each from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation. This grew to more than $8 million by the fall and allowed CUNY to distribute emergency grants to more than 10,000 students.
2. Jim Malatras
SUNY Empire State College
Colleges Are Using COVID as an Excuse for Austerity. Unions Are Pushing Back.
Union workers protest layoffs at Harvard University on January 14, 2021, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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As COVID-19 swept across the U.S. last winter and spring, colleges and universities adapted swiftly to the situation. Though it was swift, it was not without pain: Just as quickly as professors learned to teach through a screen on Zoom, administrations slashed budgets. In the early days of the pandemic, little was certain about the future if students would defer fall enrollment, how states might cut education funding or if the federal government would step in to offset the financial impact of the crises. Nevertheless, public and private higher education institutions across the country put in place austerity measures ahead of what they foresaw as a fiscal emergency.
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