January 15, 1999

Critics Use Public Hearing to Blast CUNY Board's Policies on Remedial Courses

New Yorkers hurled rhetorical iceballs at one another last week, during public hearings on the City University of New York's future.

Some CUNY faculty leaders alleged that the hearings, held by a seven-member panel appointed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, had been deliberately scheduled for early January -- during CUNY's winter break -- so there would be fewer students and professors on hand to tell the

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