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The Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)
PSC Letters to CUNY Board of Trustees and Chancellor Call for Open Presidential Search The Graduate Center Chapter of the PSC and PSC President Davis have each sent letters to the CUNY Board of Trustees and CUNY Chancellor calling for an open and inclusive search process that welcomes the whole of the Graduate Center community to select our next […] “PSC Letters to CUNY Board of Trustees and Chancellor Call for Open Presidential Search”
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The Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)
Notes from GC Labor-Management Meeting January 2024Follow-up items from previous meetings: Science bridge funding: Interim President Brumberg is meeting later this month to pursue GTF class size issues: Brumberg will discuss with EOs Payment issues and CUNYBuy support Labor raised the changes that CUNYBuy has brought, increase in workload with new system. Brumberg is putting together groups to generate step by step instructions for working with CUNYBuy, particularly knows about issues paying honoraria. Acknowledged the issue as complex and requires re-registration at state level for anyone paid by CUNY. Future of WAC program Changes to WAC will not result in loss of financial support for students. This decision to change the system coming from CUNY Central, but the GC can generate a menu of options to fill in for the program. Brumberg will be speaking with EOs about alternative options, and changes will not be implemented until Fall 2025 [speak to your EO if you have suggestions!] Potential change in GC classification from R1 to R2 Change due to Carnegie classifications, American Council of Education. 2 metrics: # of phds the university graduates, and research spending from internal sources only. Classifications had not been updated since the 1980s. 5 million for #2 threshold. Graduate at least 70 phd on IPEDs, GC far exceeds that. #2 increased from 5 million to 50 million (!). Brumberg is trying to appeal for the GC to have its funding counted differently, across CUNY. Staff and community involvement in GC presidential search All presidential searches at CUNY have been closed for some time. This one will be closed as well. Search committee will be charged by BoT, chaired by a cuny college president–senior college in this case, 3 BoT, 3 faculty members elected, one alum (chosen by Brumberg), one GC foundation (chosen by Brumberg) and 2 student reps chosen by Matt Schoengood. Will be listening sessions for whole community with the search committee, but not candidates (those who meet with candidates will sign NDAs). Tuition reimbursement for work-related courses (and associated tax issues) Labor requests that application materials be changed to better outline tax implications for GC employees who are taking GC classes Postdoc employment status Discussion about confusion over whether these folks are tax levy funded or not (could be both, esp at ASRC), how they know about benefits and resources like library access, and funding postdocs not merely at national rates but to live in NYC. Update on food services: food services will launch on the 22nd of January. Before that on Thursday and Friday, 18th and 19th, before there will be free food. During the first and second semester there will be opportunities for feedback. Cafeteria open in the morning until 3pm. Grab and go will open later in the semester on the first floor. Portal and app for paying for food with 10% bonus for using the app. But restricted covenant that means that the dining spaces can’t use outside vendors–and this means potlucks can’t be held in these spaces (which are the rooms? 8th floor for sure, not sure which other rooms). They have a liquor license too. A bar will be opening in the found […] “Notes from GC Labor-Management Meeting January 2024”
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Beth Evans started the topic Hijacked Journals - Another version of predatory journalsIn case you missed this in the Library Link of the Day
New to me.
https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12481
The ‘hijacking’ of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Implications for the information systems community [Information Systems Journal]Beth
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Graduate Center Library Blog
Hathitrust Membership Cancellation As a result of cuts to the library’s budget, we are sorry to report that our membership to Hathitrust will expire on December 31, 2023. […]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Beth Evans replied to the topic 11/15 SCRT Meeting NotesThanks for these notes Jill. Sorry I missed the meeting.
The book does look amazing!
I think all of the chapters in the section Intersections look compelling for future discussions.
Thanks for an excellent suggestion.
Beth
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Beth Evans started the topic ICYMI: Upcoming Webinar on Author Rights Sponsored by Max Planck Digital LibraryNov 2, 2023 8:30 AM
** with apologies for cross-posting **
One of the key points coming out of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference was the crucial need to fully enable author choice and author rights when publishing their research open access:
We strongly support retention of copyright and all rights therein by authors. Open…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Beth Evans started the topic An invitation from IUB to OA Week Keynotes touching on AI and science publishingICYMI
Hi All,
Just a reminder that Indiana University Libraries invites you to remotely attend our Open Access Week keynotes on Friday, October 27th:- From 1 to 2 p.m., Lucy Lu Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington iSchool, will present, “Taking and Giving Back? Open Access, Generative AI, and the Transformation of…
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting NotesLooks good, Jill! Looking forward to the November meet-up.
Beth
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting NotesThanks, Jill. Sorry I had to miss the meeting.
And thanks, Monica, for the article.
On peer review, here are a couple of recent articles that caught my…[Read more]
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The Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)
September 2023 Notes from Chapter MeetingThe first GC PSC chapter meeting of the year was held on Friday, September 22. What follows are brief notes on what was presented and discussed, and results of a few votes: Collective discussion: What is the purpose of PSC union work, what the PSC does for CUNY. GC especially is a fighting unit in the PSC, and our chapter is primarily made up of GC students. There was some discussion of issues on the ground for different titles and schools within the chapter. Nod to the intense late payment issue still ongoing for new GC students. Credit hours in many departments are being cut by GC admin, resulting in fewer courses, larger classes, difficulties in scheduling courses to support specialties. GAs being assigned mega/huge classes during first time teaching. Introduction of Professional School Liaison position: Sofya Aptekar was voted to be Professional School Liaison (a new role) after making a brief candidate statement. We also had updates from bargaining sessions and breakout room discussions. The campus action plan for the GC for this semester was shared and discussed (email psc.cuny.gc(at)gmail.com with questions or to get further involved) Labor Against Cop City Resolution: This resolution was passed by those assembled for the meeting: […] “September 2023 Notes from Chapter Meeting”
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Beth Evans started the topic Who’s Afraid of Open Science?https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/04/call-open-debate-open-science-opinion
“… in July, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released language in a spending bill that, if passed into law, would effectively freeze the Nelson memo for a year by banning the use of funds to implement the…[Read more]
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