Faculty and Staff Union Worried Higher Ed Funding Will Be Flat

Public college spending in New York could be in for either a flat or modest increase in spending in a finalized state budget — worrying the union that represents faculty and staff at the City University of New York. 

A source familiar with the talks on Friday said funding for the State University of New York and City University of New York is not in store for a major increase in spending. A tuition freeze would be in place for students, but the revenue an increase would have generated will not be added. 

“We had been led to believe that this year, finally, the needs of public higher ed would be addressed after years of budgets that left CUNY and SUNY behind," said PSC-CUNY President Barbara Bowen. "If this budget rejects the tuition increase but fails to add the money the tuition hike would have produced, it will be a betrayal of Black and brown students. The result would be reduced courses and support; freezing tuition without adding the necessary funds would sabotage students’ chance of success while appearing to support them.” 

The concerns over the budget for public colleges and universities in New York is especially acute this year following the financial strain put on higher education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

State lawmakers and Governor Andrew Cuomo are yet to sign off on a finalized budget agreement. 
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The Biden administration removed sanctions that President Donald Trump had imposed on International Criminal Court officials while continuing to decry the ICC’s work targeting U.S. and Israeli personnel.

“These decisions reflect our assessment that the measures adopted were inappropriate and ineffective,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday in a statement.

“We continue to disagree strongly with the ICC’s actions relating to the Afghanistan and Palestinian situations,” Blinken said, referring to separate investigations into alleged war crimes by U.S. and Israeli personnel.

“We maintain our longstanding objection to the Court’s efforts to assert jurisdiction over personnel of non-States Parties such as the United States and Israel,” he said, referring to the fact that neither Israel or the United States have accepted ICC jurisdiction. “We believe, however, that our concerns about these cases would be better addressed through engagement with all stakeholders in the ICC process rather than through the imposition of sanctions.”

Trump last year imposed economic sanctions and travel restrictions against ICC workers directly involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials for possible war crimes in Afghanistan. In the same executive order, Trump said he may extend the sanctions against investigations into U.S. allies, naming Israel.

Israel backed Trump’s sanctions and reportedly asked Biden not to remove them.

The Palestinian Authority in February cleared a major hurdle to getting the ICC to prosecute Israelis when an ICC panel decided the court has jurisdiction to investigate Israelis and Palestinian terrorists, including from Hamas, for alleged crimes during the 2014 Gaza War.

Sen. Tim Scott: Biden Should Respond to Deadly Capitol Incident With Unity

Sen. Tim Scott, shortly after the Capitol was shut down after a driver rammed a car into a security barricade near the Senate Friday afternoon, said President Joe Biden’s first response should be to reassure the country and to work to heal the nation’s divisions. 

“(What) I would love to hear from the president is how to continue to work together,” said the South Carolina Republican on Fox News’ “America Reports,” shortly after he confirmed on Twitter that his staff employees, many of whom were at their Senate office, were okay. 

“We should be responsible for ratcheting down hyperbolic language that we use when discussing the issues,” said Scott. “People don’t agree with you aren’t your enemies. Sometimes they are just your opponents on a specific issue.”

He also said he wants Biden to work on his “responsibility to lead on lowering the volume” and to bring the country together, but “not by policies that polarize the nation, but a conversation where he goes to the Republican and conservative red areas and has a conversation with us about his vision forward, not just talk to the echo chamber but talk to the nation.”

He added that the nation should “take a step back” on Good Friday and be thankful that there are Americans like the Capitol Police “who are willing to put themselves in harm’s way to defend others.”

Capitol Acting Chief of Police Yogananda Pittman confirmed that one of the police officers involved in the incident has died from his or her injuries and that the driver of the car that hit the officers before jumping out of the car with a knife was shot and killed.

The names of the officer who died, or the driver, have not yet been made public. 

Scott said that he would like to thank God for the law enforcement around the country and specifically on Capitol Hill, who “may have saved many lives” while putting themselves in jeopardy. 

He added that he’s spoken to his staff, but not to anyone who saw what happened, but he did speak to people who were at the Capitol who said the security there “seems to have gone well, thankfully.”

“The good news: members (of the Senate) were out of town because of Easter,” said Scott. “We had limited staff on the hill. That is excellent news. Every life is (as) valuable as the other life. Having a few of my staff in the office, I’m thankful for that.”

He pointed out that just 10 days ago, fences were being removed that were put up around the Capitol after the Jan. 6 violence, and he is sure there will be a “new conversation” about what the security there will look like going forward. 

“I’m happy we have very capable law enforcement officers who are able to secure the Capitol,” said Scott, adding that he is also thankful for the presence of the National Guard 

“We have an existential threat on the outside that we need to keep an eye on,” said Scott. “We have an inward focus on each other, and there are threats outside the border to get through the border … I think that we benefit from a longer, deeper conversation about putting America first from a global perspective, and national perspective, and a Capitol perspective. There are very capable law enforcement officers doing their job.”

He said he does think the Capitol has the “finest officers” and that fewer National Guard troops need to be there, but he imagines he’s in the minority with that opinion. 

“We have capable people protecting the Capitol,” he said. “We need to make sure that we follow the information. Follow the facts. Follow the threat warnings that we receive, and coordinate that is something to serve our Capitol well. If we take that — begin with the end in mind perspective and work your way to where we are — from a law enforcement, security perspective and the national issues we face, we will be a healthier and safer country.”

Representatives of the E3+2 group (China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom) and Iran meet in Vienna, Austria, July 28, 2019. (Alex Halada / AFP / Getty Images)

(JTA) — Iran and the United States will join talks in Vienna next week that aim to return all parties to the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

There will not be direct contact between Iran and the United States at the in-person meeting, according to a European Union statement issued after a virtual meeting Thursday of the countries left in the deal — China, Russia, Iran, Britain, Germany and France.

Instead, a coordinator will make “separate contacts” with “all JCPOA participants and the United States.”

The Trump administration pulled the United States out of the deal in 2018.

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