Category Archives: Minutes

Introductions: we had a diverse group this week!

Stonybrook
New School
CUNY Grad Center
All in the Red
Alternative Banking
Free Cooper Union

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Free University Meeting 3/9/2013

Last FreeU meeting report:
talked about the website (i.e. updates as opposed to the blog), came up with poll to propose a Free University structure (as multiple small Free Universities on May Day) which received positive response, discussed structure of call for Free University Continue reading →

Meeting minutes from the general meeting of the Free University of NYC at 60 Wall Street, March 2, 2013, 1-3pm:

Agenda: 

-vote on May Day proposal

-read through/edit the May Day “pitch”

-status of Free U “toolkit”?

-status of alternative budget project?

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Meeting minutes from the open meeting of the Free University of NYC at 60 Wall Street, February, 24, 2013, 1-3pm:

Plan for March 14? There doesn’t seem to be much happening locally in support of the call from Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]/Occupy Colleges for a National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. The event is scheduled for Thursday, March 14. We have discussed this event over the course of several meetings now, and have no position/plan of action for the day. See here for the national call: http://www.defendeducationday.org/) Continue reading →

The minutes below are from the Free University meeting on Sunday, February 10, and were transcribed by Margaret Galvan. There will be a working group session this Saturday, February 16, on the Free U toolkit and a visioning for May Day meeting on Sunday, February 24, from 1-3pm at 60 Wall St.[gview file=”http://opencuny.org/freeuniversity/files/2013/02/FreeUMinutes-021013.doc” save=”1″]

These meeting notes were put together and submitted by Matthew Bissen, who will be facilitating the next meeting (email him to be in contact with him regarding the next meeting).

Next Meeting
February 10th
1:00 – 3:00 pm
60 Wall Street
Facilitator: Matthew

From all of the below a few initiatives were put forth and have begun:
working groups
Outreach working group
Video/audio/image archive working group
Alt budget project working group
How to build a FreeU manual working group
Finding a space working group
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