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Mike Fabricant

Professor and Community Advocate

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Mike Fabricant

Mike Fabricant is a Professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work, and served 13 years, from 1998-2011, as Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare. He has published on the political economy of the welfare state, homelessness, settlement houses, community organizing, the fiscal crisis of non-profit agencies and public education … About Mike about Mike Fabricant

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The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism: Hope at Dusk

By Michael Fabricant

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Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

By Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier

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The Changing Politics of Education: Privatization and the Dispossessed Lives Left Behind

By Michael Fabricant and Michelle Fine

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Organizing for Educational Justice

By Michael Fabricant

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Areas of Study / Articles

Mike Fabricant is a Professor of Social Welfare at Hunter College and was Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center. Fabricant is widely published on issues related to housing and homelessness, the political economy of the welfare state, nonprofit finances and public education. Mike has a Ph.D. in Social Welfare Research and Policy from Brandeis University. Academic Articles Press Coverage … Published Articles about Areas of Study / Articles

Recent Articles

  • Racialized Austerity: The Case of CUNY – Gotham Gazette August 20, 2020
  • Op-ed: Like the subways, CUNY, too, suffers from Albany’s neglect of NYC – Crain’s New York April 18, 2018
  • Chancellor James Milliken Lays Out New Vision for CUNY – The Wall Street Journal January 24, 2017
  • Nationwide, state budget cuts disproportionately hit low-income, minority college students – PBS News Hour January 3, 2017
  • When College Was a Public Good – The Chronicle of Higher Education November 27, 2016

Activism

Mike has also been a community leader and advocate who consistently joins teaching and writing with political activism. His organizing in New Jersey beginning in the early 1980’s helped found half a dozen organizations advocating to end homelessness and the housing crisis. The organizations he helped found include, but are not limited to the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless, New Jersey Right to Housing and Brand New Day, a housing development agency. Mike has continued to serve on a number of agency boards to help lead them through the politics of austerity and neglect. In addition, Mike has been the treasurer, first vice … Read More about Activism

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Mike Fabricant

Professor
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
2180 Third Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY, 10035

mfabrica@hunter.cuny.edu
212-396-7615

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