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It sounds like the beginning of bad joke, what does a Russian spy, sperm donator and radical cop hater have in common? They are all part of the faculty at CUNY, and helping to shape the young minds of America’s future.

According to The Post’s sources, this wonderful assortment of model humans are often hired on the limb right before a class begins as adjuncts, who are part-time teachers often with minimal qualifications.

One of them is even a fill-time professor of sociology at Hunter College, Jessi Daniels enraged people on social media last month when he tweeted about how the white nuclear family “is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy.” Her tweet continued to say, “White people: do you own your own home? When you die, where’s the wealth in that house going? If it’s to your children, you’re reproducing [inequality].”

Daniels is still working at the Manhattan campus of Hunter college, and according to her bio, she is an expert in “the Internet manifestations of racism.” Ironic isn’t it?

According to The Post, “In September, a tenured lecturer at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn was busted for allegedly teaching “unauthorized courses” on medical procedures, including CPR and sonography, and even selling fake certificates to those who didn’t complete the class. The brazen prof continued the scheme even after college officials told him to stop, authorities allege.

In August, the president of John Jay College said she was ‘shocked’ by the hate spewed by a member of her own faculty — adjunct economics professor Michael Isaacson, who tweeted, ‘Some of y’all might think it sucks being an anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College but I think it’s a privilege to teach future dead cops.’”

Citizens were infuriated that this could occur at the public funded, criminal justice specializing John Jay College. Mayor Bill de Blasio even tweeted on the issue, saying, “New York City won’t stand for the vile anti-police rhetoric of Michael Isaacson and neither should John Jay College.”

However, Isaacson wasn’t fired, and still remains on paid leave.

While it is extremely difficult to become a permanent tenured professor at CUNY, the process for hiring the temporary adjuncts is extremely lax.

The Post reports, “The CUNY system has for years relied on an army of lower-cost adjuncts — currently 12,500 out of an overall teaching staff of about 20,000 — who are paid far less than permanent faculty an don’t have the same benefits. The adjuncts get about $3,500 per four-month course. Adjunct lecturers need no more than a bachelor’s degree, but anyone with the title of adjunct professor is required to have a Ph.D. By comparison, a full professor is someone with a permanent, full-time appointment, a Ph.D. and an annual salary up to $129,000. The university system, which enrolls 272,000 students, has just 7,500 full-time faculty members…

Eric Linsker had adjunct gigs teaching English at two CUNY colleges, Queens and Baruch, when he was busted for ­allegedly attempting to throw a trash can at police during a ­December 2014 protest on the Brooklyn Bridge…

Baruch College adjunct Juan Lazaro slipped into the school as a political science professor from South America. But in 2010, he was revealed to be Mikhail Vasenkov, a Russian spy, who was sent home along with fellow spooks living undercover in the United States.”

By Charles Shapiro

 

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