 |
Barbara Bowen
The following (below) is taken from Barbara Bowen's New
Caucus campaign bio in the April 2006 PSC Election |
Barbara Bowen,
elected president of the PSC in 2000 and overwhelmingly re-elected
in 2003, has brought tangible improvements to members’ professional
lives. The first contract negotiated under her leadership won PSC
members their best salary increases in more than a decade and new
benefits that testify to Bowen’s vision for CUNY: junior faculty
research time, adjuncts’ paid office hours, and professional
development grants for staff. A serious scholar who earned her Ph.D.
in English at Yale, a member of CUNY’s doctoral faculty, and a
prize-winning teacher, she has a prodigious appetite for work, a
history in the labor movement, and a strong belief in grass-roots
organizing as the key to a union’s power. She has earned a
national reputation as a thoughtful and principled advocate for
public education and organized labor. The PSC is strengthened by her
election to leadership posts in the statewide teachers’ union, New
York City’s two major labor boards and to a vice-presidency in the
American Federation of Teachers.
OCT. 20TH EVENT
