A cadre of left-wing CUNY professors plans to throw out Monday’s lesson plans and spend the day bashing President Trump.
The leaders of CUNY’s education-workers union have declared a “May Day Moratorium” at the city’s taxpayer-funded university system in conjunction with the annual day of socialist protest.
A letter from the head of CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress urges fellow instructors to “teach resistance” by “integrating into our classes an examination of Trump’s policies as they are relevant to your subject, whether it be biology, finance, nursing or history.
“College faculty and staff are in a unique position to challenge a presidency that has defended ‘alternative facts’ and invoked Hitler as someone who did not use chemical warfare to attack his ‘own people,’ ” read the letter from PSC President Barbara Bowen.
During the school year that ended in June 2016, CUNY received $738.9 million — nearly 15 percent of its total revenues — in the form of federal grants and contracts, according to its most recent auditor’s report.
CUNY political-science professor and City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) expressed outrage at the plan, which he said “assumes all the students are liberal.”
Borelli said any faculty members who participate “should be disciplined, and adjuncts who aren’t tenured should not be asked to come back.”
The vice president of CUNY’s John Jay College Republicans, senior Paulo Coelho, 22, called the union move “pretty radical” but said criticism of Trump was “the norm that goes on at CUNY.”
“Since November everything in my classroom has something to do with Trump,” he said.
CUNY spokesman Frank Sobrino said: “We told the PSC that class time should be spent on relevant course material.”