Q&A
Discussion on faculty training requirements and workload at CUNY
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz and Jen Gaboury discuss the lack of formal training requirements for CUNY faculty, particularly in relation to the transfer process and advising. Gaboury emphasizes the need for workload credit for faculty who take on additional responsibilities.
- There is no contractual requirement for faculty training on transfer processes or advising
- Community college faculty often do not receive workload credit for serving as department advisors
- Gaboury highlights the dedication of faculty who go above and beyond their job descriptions to support students
Eric Dinowitz
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Thank you.
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I have one question about meeting.
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We keep here we kept here from Missus Voorhees, we heard from CUNY about training faculty to, you know, understand and and engage in the transfer process Is there a requirement in in the in your agreement with CUNY?
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Is there a requirement for training?
1:51:49
Of this sort?
1:51:50
No.
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And does POC have a position on requiring certain trainings?
Jen Gaboury
1:51:55
The POC would to see workload currently given to faculty who do labor that is above and beyond what the course is the the heavy course load that we have.
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Among the different reasons that faculty and staff leave CUNY is because of our incredibly high workload, especially compared to our public, not our private peers, our public peers.
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So like when I tell you that, like, community college faculty are not given any workload credit, to be a department adviser, so they're they're teaching a heavy load, like more than their peers.
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And then they are just asked to be advisors.
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And they don't necessarily.
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They may receive training, but they don't necessarily receive training.
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And it is entirely a kind of ad hoc process.
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And I'm really glad to hear that, like, like, their release I mean, I think I'm a good adviser.
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I'm really glad to hear their advisers at leave a college.
Eric Dinowitz
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Which is very clearly, by the way, not in the job description to, you know, it's one of the incredible things about educators.
1:52:50
Right?
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It's not in the job description to care so deeply.
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And and to to push so hard and yet they do.
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And I think you're such a success story about how deeply our faculty and advisers care for for their for their, which is otherwise work, but it's the people they care for, which it's just incredible.
Jen Gaboury
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I keep Kleenex in my office.
1:53:12
And I keep Kleenex in my office that I don't get, like, rambres for.
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But that's a, you know, you
Eric Dinowitz
1:53:16
should approach it.
1:53:16
But you
Jen Gaboury
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know it's
Eric Dinowitz
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a bit of Kleenex,
Jen Gaboury
1:53:18
maybe I'm not sure that we
Eric Dinowitz
1:53:19
Costco brand.
Jen Gaboury
1:53:20
They all buy supply.
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Eyes.
1:53:21
Sorry.
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It's out of our pockets.
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And I keep clinics in my office because I am a department adviser and because almost every student who comes to my office for lots of different kinds of reasons, including just as simple as, like, I can't get an over tally to a course I need because the course is so full because we don't have enough faculty.
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That that in fact,
Onyekachi Okeke
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