CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

In this letter to the membership of the United Federation of College Teachers (UFCT), union president Israel Kugler stresses the UFCT’s support for both a more diverse student body at CUNY and the newly established Open Admissions program. Kugler ties this support to the UFCT’s need to protect full time lecturers, a group the union had represented since the collective bargaining elections of 1968. At the time of his writing, many full time lecturers were being reduced to an hourly pay basis. Kugler's document blends a union’s duty to represent its members along with a larger social vision.