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My name is Cav Scott, I am a journalist with a degree in Environmental Studies from The New School. Have a look at my published works linked below!
New School Free Press
An article documenting and analyzing the fraught relationship between The New School and its on-campus unionized labor. Throughout recent years, students and university workers have turned their activism against the school, and the conflict surrounding wage proposals and university budget continues amid claims of a deficit.
SENS signs tentative agreement with The New School on issues vital to the union -- March 10, 2024
This piece after the UAW strike ended details the final contract which was agreed upon by both parties.
This short breaking piece came out minutes after the university and union reached a tentative agreement, ending the academic student workers' strike in March.
A short piece documenting the AAUP's statement of support for SENS-UAW as they picketed The New School.
A look at the union and university offers as they stand -- March 6, 2024
An explainer piece for The New School's wider community to understand the disconnect between the contract proposals of the university and SENS-UAW Local 7902 during their March strike.
SENS-UAW strike: union members cease work; begin picketing The New School -- March 6, 2024
When the academic student workers of the New School struck in March, the Free Press broke the story with this piece, released just after picketing began.
This piece detailed the solidarity requests issued by SENS-UAW before officially calling for a strike against The New School.
This piece followed up on and added detail to the story of academic student workers planning to hold a strike at The New school.
A breaking piece is about the SENS-UAW union, which represents New School academic student workers, voting to authorize a strike.
An update on the SENS-UAW strike authorization vote, during which academic student workers voted in favor by a wide margain.
SENS-UAW files third unfair labor practice claim against The New School -- February 21, 2024
SENS-UAW filed three Unfair Labor Practices against the New School with the NLRB. The most recent claim is for bad faith bargaining. This story examines all three claims by the academic student workers union.
After slow contract negotiations between The New School and the ACT-UAW Local 7902 bargaining unit SENS, which represents New School Academic Student Workers, the union began an internal vote to authorize holding a strike.
Students left in limbo amid academic advising department reorganization -- September 21, 2023
After New School Administration altered the advising path for students, feelings of confusion and detachment are common among students as they struggle to meet with advisors and have beneficial relationships with them.
A December demonstration by the New School's Students for Justice in Palestine group led to heated interactions among students and disciplinary action from the university. This story provides an in depth account of the day's events from reporters who were present.
Levittown Now
Bucks County Community College Faculty Union Votes No Confidence In President -- July 19, 2023
The Teacher's Union of Pennsylvania's Bucks County Community College held a vote of no confidence in their president. However, some union members argue that the vote does not represent the whole union.
Academia.edu
My undergraduate thesis from The New School. Abstract -- The U.S. is seeing a wave of unionization as workers unite and levy collective power in labor disputes from universities to auto-plants. In light of this widely documented wave, this research attempts to evaluate labor unions on their effectiveness as a form of resistance to racial capitalism. The epistemological framework of this thesis is rooted in the work of Cedric Robinson, who among other scholars of Marxism, capitalism, and the Black Radical Tradition, have put words to an understanding of our world grounded by its historical path of capitalist expansion, spatialized domination and racialization, and extraction and exploitation in all forms.
This essay, written for the class "Renewable Energy Systems" examines the potential of transitioning non-powered dams into hydroelectric dams for power generation. Using data analyses, original data-based maps, and peer-reviewed sources, the piece proposes this transition to hydroelectric dams and assesses the environmental harms of various types of dams.
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