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FAILING PAY GRADE
Adjunct teachers to Bklyn College: Pay us more or students’ education will suffer
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Call it a lesson in negotiation.
Brooklyn College students will suffer
if city and state offi cials do not raise
the salaries of its part-time adjunct
professors, dozens of faculty members
warned during a recent protest.
“I don’t get compensated for what
I do outside the classroom, and as a
result my students suffer,” said twoyear
adjunct English teacher Alyssa
Northrop, who said she also works as
a private tutor in order to make ends
meet.
Northrop — who joined some 40 fellow
teachers, staff, students, and union
leaders at a Dec. 11 protest on the Flatbush
campus — said she used to do a
lot more for her pupils, but began to
cut back on the time she invested in
them because the college refused to invest
more in her as an educator.
“I can’t give them all the comments
that I want to give them, and I have a
limit of how much time I lesson plan,”
she said. “I limit myself to an hour of
lesson planning for every class, which
sometimes isn’t enough.”
The group rallied outside the offi ce
of Brooklyn College President Michelle
Anderson, demanding adjunct professors’
pay be doubled from the current
median salary of roughly $3,500 per
three-credit course, to a minimum of
$7,000 per three-credit course.
Most of the protestors work as adjunct
faculty at the college, and those
teachers conducted a so-called “grade
in” as part of the demonstration, during
which they publicly corrected assignments
as a way to show how much
additional work they do without extra
pay, according to a union leader who
helped organize the rally.
“We’re asking adjunct faculty to
do their work out in public to show
the amount of labor they do without
being fairly compensated for it,” said
James Davis, the Brooklyn College
chapter chair of the Professional Staff
Congress, the City University of New
York’s faculty-and-staff union.
Davis, who is also a full-time English
professor at the college, is part of
the union’s bargaining team that is in
negotiations with CUNY management
Marine Parker
arrested for
threatening
U.S. senator
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The Feds arrested a Marine Park man
for threatening to kill a United States
Senator in a hostile message he left on
the answering machine of her districtoffi
ce phone.
Michael Brogan, 51, allegedly
threatened to “put a bullet in” the unidentifi
ed legislator — who does not
represent New York State, according
to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s
Offi ce for the Eastern District of New
York — the next time he was in Washington,
DC, after watching a video of
her criticizing President Trump on
Dec. 4, according to documents released
by the U.S. attorney’s offi ce.
Continued on page 12
FED UP: Protestors camped out outside the
offi ce of Brooklyn College’s president during
the demonstration. Photo by Kevin Duggan
Continued on page 12
Goodbye to Bravest
Hundreds of heroes with the New York City Fire Department gathered in Sunset Park on Dec. 13 to say goodbye to their fallen
colleague, Faizal Coto, at a funeral service held days after a Staten Island man allegedly killed the fi refi ghter amid an apparent fi t
of deadly road rage on the Belt Parkway on Dec. 9. For more, see page 3. Photo by Trey Pentecost
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