📢 @Columbia Sociology is HIRING
The Department of Sociology at Columbia invites applications for an OPEN RANK position to begin July 1, 2025.
Review of applications begins Sept 16.
Please spread the word and apply here ⬇️
apply.interfolio.com/150431
Next year, Marx 13/13 @ColumbiaCCCT: each session will triangulate a key Marx text w/ a formative historical interpretation, discussed by a brilliant critical philosopher. Opening on Marx's Theses on Feuerbach and Ernst Bloch's Commentary in debate w/ Étienne Balibar. Stay tuned!
SWC election results are in! In addition to electing officers and stewards, our members have voted to approve resolutions in support of BDS (78%) and cops off campus (87%).
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University just returned a vote of no confidence in President Shafik
Vote breakdown: Yes (in favor of resolution): 458 (65% of those voting)
No (not in favor of resolution): 206 (29% of those voting)
Abstain: 45 (6% of those voting)
Columbia A&S faculty just resolved to put a motion of no confidence in Presidential leadership to the vote. This is in addition to investigation. A weaker motion calling for an investigate-first strategy was defeated by more than 2:1. Voting in coming week.
This morning, students at Columbia University picketed outside the homes of three trustees.
At two of the three locations, random harassers suckerpunched student picketers. At one, a car drove into a student. NYPD arrested the student, who’s now with EMS.
BREAKING: Columbia Commencement ceremonies, initially scheduled for May 15, have been canceled, and Class Days will take place at the Baker Athletics Complex and other off-campus locations, according to a Monday announcement. columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/0…
Shafik and the Trustees can't get rid of us that easily! Join SWC on the picket line at 116th and Amsterdam at 1pm tomorrow, and every weekday, until NYPD is off our campus, our colleagues are given amnesty, and Columbia divests.
ACTION ALERT: We are working w/ @columbiabds to get anonymous testimonies of police incidents, financial, & social difficulties created by Columbia University admin that have impacted you, on or off campus.
Please use a non Columbia email.
forms.gle/jANWiy96x9v5R7…
A group of Columbia and Barnard alumni will boycott the University-sponsored alumni reunions and hold alternative events, sending ticket sales and donations to aid organizations in Palestine.
bwog.com/2024/05/columb…
In another blowout election, 3,700 workers at the University of Pennsylvania just voted to join the UAW!
After workers win their union at Mercedes in a couple of weeks, our union will have grown by 13,000+ members in a month!