Donate to the Forum!

The cost of the CUNY Social Forum is expected to exceed $10,000! We are requesting from individuals, community organizations, and academic departments and programs financial assistance and sponsorship in providing this opportunity to CUNY students, faculty, and the greater New York City community. Your sponsorship of any amount would be greatly appreciated. Please address checks to the "CUNY Student Union" and mail to:

CUNY Social Forum

P.O. Box 650

Lincolnton Station

New York, NY 10037

Donations are not tax deductible, sorry! If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact the chair of the Finance Committee, Maria Arettines at maria.arettines@gmail.com

Sponsorship for the Forum!

The CUNY Social Forum is currently being sponsored by the City College Black Studies Program, the Hispanic and Latina(o) Studies Department at John Jay College, the Women and Gender Studies Program at Hunter College, the Women’s Studies Department at Brooklyn College, the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Medgar Evers College, and the community groups We Got Issues! and Eradicating Racism.

If you are also interested in sponsoring the Forum, please email cunysocialforum@gmail.com

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.

Goals of the Social Forum

• Make more students aware of radical CUNY history

• Network between and within campuses

• Assess needs of CUNY as a whole, and individual colleges, in order to determine more goals and projects of our group

• Build a base for the broader CUNY movement

• Create an inclusive space that deepens our political analyses

• Create a space in which we come together as CUNY students, transcending electoral and other politics

• Seek to create a space for dialogue

• Maintain and sustain cross-campus relationships after the forum

• Think of next steps and common goals

• Bring together already organized folks with those who are not yet involved defend the mission of CUNY!