Teaching staff at City College in Harlem are protesting plans to cut back instructors’ pay for a core English composition course that all students must take — a reduction that school officials say is necessary to grapple with a $10.3 million budget deficit. On Tuesday, 16 adjuncts and six full-time faculty members, all of whom teach composition, held a “grade-in,” sitting in the hallway in front of the dean’s office grading student papers. With the support of close to a dozen undergraduate students, the protest aimed to show that the writing classes require intensive time from instructors, much of it outside the classroom, that is already uncompensated and would become more so.
