The Graduate Center, where I sit, is in better physical shape than most of CUNY, although a far cry from Princeton. (I don't care) But even elite campuses like Hunter, which are fabulous engines of social mobility, are shockingly under-maintained - ThreadSky

pkrugman.bsky.social • 394 days ago

The Graduate Center, where I sit, is in better physical shape than most of CUNY, although a far cry from Princeton. (I don't care) But even elite campuses like Hunter, which are fabulous engines of social mobility, are shockingly under-maintained

Reposted from Henry Farrell

I was the external reviewer for CUNY Brooklyn's political science department a decade ago. The contrast between the incredible students, largely first generation, making a better world for themselves and peers, and the rotting facilities they were taught in by overworked professors was remarkable.

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astragalus.bsky.social•394 days ago

I teach at Hunter. My calc 3 class this semester meets in (what's supposed to be) the cafeteria. There is no board. The situation just gets worse and worse - the best we can hope for is that it gets worse as slowly as possible. The economy is as strong as it gets but our department budget got cut 3%

hypv.bsky.social•394 days ago

what the fuck????

astragalus.bsky.social•394 days ago

They have a projector and a screen hanging from the ceiling, so I'm teaching with my crappy little wacom pad and the results are terrible. Especially for calc 3 when you really want to move around and point to stuff, have pictures and formulas both visible at once, etc

profmsinha.bsky.social•394 days ago

Re budget cuts at UConn https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AcSJefmfLMnK9_UyV2lYrPsLeD2pwewHi9bDuA9d_0c/mobilebasic

nickel76.bsky.social•394 days ago

Underinvestment in our education system by the GOP is a full employment policy for Chip and Tre

ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social•394 days ago

Instead, the City is building a hugely expensive, oversized and underserved jail in Brooklyn.

differance.bsky.social•394 days ago

Hunter is a total disaster. luckily, there's $75M available for AI so CUNY won't need buildings much longer.

yossigol.bsky.social•394 days ago

I'd think of every $100K taken away from the facilities budget as an opportunity to provide a full scholarship. A life changed. A branch of a genealogical tree that escaped the fait of relative poverty.

Go CUNY and SUNY!

flowerstorm.tech•394 days ago

I went to CUNY SPS. There was a dramatic difference between even my program (Disability Studies) and the entire rest of the school when Covid-19 lockdowns started, because one dept had infrastructure for it - the rest had to figure out on the fly (and SPS is the "newest" one iirc)

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