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Presidential search committee named at New Jersey City University

January 18, 2012

By The Jersey Journal

Jersey Journal file photoPresident Carlos Hernandez, Ph.D., speaks during the NJCU Commencement at the Izod Center on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. The college has announced the formation of a search committee to find a replacement for Hernandez, who is retiring on July 1.

A presidential search committee has been appointed at New Jersey City University to find a replacement for President Carlos Hernandez, who is retiring at the end of the school year, the school announced this afternoon.

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NJCU Fight Back against cancelled classes, slashed budgets and tuition increases

December 06, 2011

New Jersey City University protesters adopt Occupy Wall Street lingo in protesting rising tuition, cuts to education

November 15, 2011

By Travis Fedschun/The Jersey Journal

Wearing buttons that read “99%,” roughly 50 faculty teachers, staff members and students of New Jersey City University rallied Monday outside Hepburn Hall, decrying state cuts to higher education and the high cost of student loans.

Adopting the slogan of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, Monday’s demonstrators called for reinstatement of the “millionaires tax,” a move that Gov. Chris Christie’s administration says would drive higher-income earners out of the state.

Raising taxes on the wealthiest 4 percent of state residents would generate $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion a year for state coffers, they said.

Students said state cuts to the Jersey City college have resulted in reduced maintenance, expanding class sizes and rising tuition.

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Photos: NJCU campus rally

November 14, 2011

AFT Local 1839 member Ellen Gruber Garvey holding a home-made sign at informational picketing

NJCU picket

I make a difference at NJCU

AFT, CWA and IFTPE at New Jersey City University held a lunchtime rally for public higher education. today. Awesome turnout included students and members from the AFT Local at the University Academy Charter School, according to AFTNJ COPE member Sarah-Ann Harnick.