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A Blast From the Past

Saturday, May 12th, 2018

promoting healthy workplaces
Vita Rabinowitz [Vita.Rabinowitz@cuny.edu]
You forwarded this message on 11/14/2016 5:03 PM.
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 7:39 AM
To: Greggory w Morris
Cc: Vita Rabinowitz [Vita.Rabinowitz@cuny.edu]; Annemarie Nicols-Grinenko [Annemarie.Nicols-Grinenko@cuny.edu]

Dear Gregg, if I may,

We have known each other for quite some time, and I was delighted in my new position to be reminded of your enduring commitments—to students, to great journalism, and to causes that matter in the workplace. I see that you had written the Chancellery about your Moveon.org petition to support the New York State Healthy Workplace Bill, and that you are calling for CUNY to be a “leader in promoting healthy workplaces.” From my new position in the Central Office, I am very pleased to assure that CUNY is already a strong advocate for safe workplaces and has put policies, procedures (e.g., requiring annual workplace violence training for all CUNY employees, Workplace Violence Prevention Training Administrators at all CUNY campuses and the central office) and resources, (eg and) in place to ensure that CUNY is a safe environment for its students and employees.

Gregg, please know that we take the matter of safe workplaces very seriously, in practice and spirit as well as in policy, as I know you do. I wish you every success always.

Sincerely,

Vita

Vita C. Rabinowitz

Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost

The City University of New York

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

Wednesday, April 25th, 2018

I Need an Exorcist!

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018

Hey Maureen Dowd,

You can’t possibly remember us having lunch together a long, long time ago when we were both at Time. No big deal. I’m dealing with these issues at Hunter College, so … (more…)

Minding the Workplace: When Meetings Are Used to Reinforce Pre-Existing Hierarchies and Exclusionary Patterns

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Professor David Yamada writes that, after 27 years in academe, he has “come to understand that the most morale-killing misuse of meetings is to reinforce pre-existing hierarchies and exclusionary patterns.” This sounds very familiar to this writer-blogger. Very familiar. Click here for full Minding the Workplace column.

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Monday, April 2nd, 2018


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Thursday, March 29th, 2018

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

The Practice of the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, To use the CUNY Violence in the Workplace Policy and Student Complaint Procedures Against Faculty to Attack Colleagues and Staff Wouldn’t Happen If Department Leadership Was Truly Diverse

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

D:F/M is using CUNY policies as weapons to attack Colleagues.

The Anderson Polsky Gambit Soon to Be a DSM-5 Footnote? Or Just Another Gestapo Tactic?*

Friday, March 2nd, 2018

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