Issues We Care About

• Re-igniting a CUNY-wide movement, as well as student and youth movements

• Address Institutional racism and sexism as evidenced by the breakdown of/disinvestment in Asian American Studies, Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Women and Gender Studies Departments and Programs

• Transparency in the political and economic structure of CUNY- How is CUNY run? What about funding? Who has decision-making power? How can students become decision makers in these spheres, and how can we hold CUNY accountable to its students?

• Re-imagining CUNY in terms of what we want and what CUNY's mission statement intends for the institution to be.

• Fair contracts for students and adjuncts

• Healthcare for adjuncts and students

• CUNY as a symptom of/example of another gutted public institution adjunctification and corporatization of CUNY

• Create coalitions between students, adjuncts, staff, and faculty

• Gentrification of CUNY and our surrounding communities

We are currently in the process of determining a time and place for the event, and creating a system in which interested folks or groups can submit proposals and be involved. If you are interested in either helping with the nuts and bolts of the Forum, or in taking part in the Forum in the Fall, please contact us at cunysocialforum@gmail.com. This is a valuable and unprecedented event for CUNY, and we need as much support as we can get.