Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
Against The Current vol. 142

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2370
Date Written:  2009-09-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2009
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13549

New York state is experiencing its worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s, with profound impacts on the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. CUNY has been under public scrutiny since its founding in 1847 as The Free Academy, an institution dedicated to the experiment of providing education to “the children of the whole people” at a school “controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few.”