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- Re-igniting a CUNY-wide movement, as well as
student and youth movements
- Recognizing the leading role of the struggles
for self determination by the African-American, Puerto Rican and
immigrant communities in the struggle to transform CUNY into an
urban university that will empower its students and their communities.
- Address Institutional racism and sexism as evidenced
by the breakdown of/disinvestment in Ethnic Studies, Women and
Gender Studies Departments and Programs, in addition to the elimination
of remedial education and open admissions.
- Transparency in the political and economic structure
of CUNY - How is CUNY run? How is it (de)funded? Who has decision-making
power? How can students become decision makers in these
spheres, and how can we hold CUNY accountable to its students
and the broader community?
- Re-imagining CUNY in terms of what we want and
what CUNY's mission statement intends for the institution to be.
- Fair contracts for faculty and adjuncts
- Healthcare for adjuncts and students
- Affordable childcare for all faculty, staff and
students
- A tuition free CUNY with stipends and living
allowances
- The reinstitution of open admissions and remedial
education-CUNY as a symptom of/example of another gutted public
institution in New York as well as a symptom of the privatization
of public education
- The adjunctification and corporatization of CUNY
and the corporatization of our neighborhoods
- Building coalitions between students, adjuncts,
staff, faculty, and our communities to remake CUNY as a democratic
and self-managed institution of higher education
- The gentrification of CUNY and NYC
- Affordable housing
- Open access to excellent, free public education
for all of New York City students, from kindergarten
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- Make more students and community members aware
of CUNY's radical history
- Inform CUNY students of the ongoing social movements
within NYC
- Build a base for a broad and successful CUNY
movement
- Build networks between and within campuses
- Maintain and sustain cross-campus and community-campus
relationships after the forum
- Assess the needs of CUNY as a whole, and at
individual colleges, in order to determine common goals and projects
for the CUNY movement
- Create an inclusive space for dialogue that deepens
our political analyses
- Create a space in which we come together as CUNY
students and a supportive NYC community that transcends electoral
and other politics
- Strategize next steps and common goals
- Bring together already organized folks with those
who are not yet involved
- Defend and expand the mission of CUNY
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