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Inquiry into discriminatory incidents on CUNY campuses
1:16:07
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Council Member Kalman Yeger questions CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez about discriminatory incidents on CUNY campuses. The discussion focuses on categorizing and quantifying these incidents across the CUNY system.
- Yeger asks about the most common category of discriminatory attacks on CUNY campuses
- Rodriguez admits he doesn't have the information readily available
- The exchange reveals a lack of immediate knowledge about the breakdown of discriminatory incidents
Kalman Yeger
1:16:07
Thank you, mister chairman.
1:16:09
Good morning, chancellor.
David Wapner
1:16:09
Good morning.
1:16:11
What is
Kalman Yeger
1:16:11
the single most category of discriminatory and hate attacks and hate conduct on CUNY campuses?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:16:21
What is the
Kalman Yeger
1:16:21
The single most category.
1:16:23
Does it fall into any particular category?
1:16:25
In other words, just anti gay, anti black, anti Latino, anti Semites?
1:16:31
Do you do you have them categorized by any percentages, by any breakdown?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:16:37
I don't understand the question.
1:16:38
You're asking me
Kalman Yeger
1:16:39
If there are a 100 incidents a year Of?
1:16:43
Of any kind of discriminatory behavior on any campus, you'd have 25 campuses, are you able to break down how those are categorized?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:16:55
I mean, in in in some cases, yes.
Kalman Yeger
1:16:57
Okay.
1:16:58
And do you know what the single most category is on your campuses of discriminatory conduct?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:17:04
It varies by campus.
1:17:05
We can get you that information.
Samuel “Peter” Panuccio
1:17:06
You have
Kalman Yeger
1:17:07
the system wide total?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:17:08
So we we submitted to the council every summer, the data on that, and we'll be happy to give you the most updated data.
1:17:14
But we've done that for the past 2 years.
Kalman Yeger
1:17:16
Do you know what the largest category of discriminatory behavior falls under?
Felix Matos Rodriguez
1:17:21
Off the top of my head?
1:17:22
No.