Wednesday, February 3, 202111:00 am Zoom – RSVP to connect The CUNY Humanities Alliance is seeking applications for 12 new graduate fellowships in educational development roles at four partner institutions: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, and LaGuardia Community College. These positions are open to Graduate Center doctoral students entering years 3-5 […]
Deadline: Monday, February 15, 2021Fellowships begin Fall 2021 The CUNY Humanities Alliance is seeking applications for 12 new graduate fellowships in educational development roles at four partner institutions: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, and LaGuardia Community College. These positions are open to Graduate Center doctoral students entering years 3-5 […]
The CUNY Humanities Alliance is excited to announce 12 new graduate fellowships in educational development roles at four partner institutions: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, and LaGuardia Community College. These positions will be open to Graduate Center doctoral students entering years 3-5 of doctoral study in 2021-2022. They will […]
Graduate Student Application Application due: Monday, November 30, 2020 The CUNY Humanities Alliance is pleased to announce an opportunity for doctoral students at The Graduate Center (enrolled in Fall 2020) to receive $1,000 stipends for contributions to a Covid-19 impact project documenting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including related and interlocking impacts of economic, […]
Workshop participants taking a picture as a group performance. ** This essay was first posted at the Futures Initiative website: https://wp.me/pa8HxI-2RT.** Under the aggravated anti-immigration policies and politics of the Trump administration, we designed this workshop entitled Inclusive or Exclusive: Reimagining Classrooms as Transnational Spaces to work collaboratively on reimagining college and university classrooms as […]
The grant funds partnerships between The Graduate Center and four CUNY community colleges and supports 28 doctoral fellowships aimed at enhancing opportunities for students to engage with the humanities. The Graduate Center of The City University of New York has been awarded a second $3.15 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the CUNY Humanities Alliance, a program designed […]
** This essay is also posted at the Futures Initiative website (https://futuresinitiative.org/blog/2019/12/12/humanities-in-the-reimagination-of-higher-education-reflections-on-the-ashe-conference/) ** It was such an invaluable opportunity for me to participate in the 2019 Association of the Study of Higher Education conference from November 14 to 16 in Portland, Oregon. It was my first time to participate in the conference, and I enjoyed […]
Latinx Performance & Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Jadele McPherson ~ The Humanities Alliance March 14th, 2019 Teaching brings me great joy. Seeing young people’s minds tick, the spark in their ideas upon discovering a new point of view, or intervention, are among the daily joys of teaching. Yet as a graduate student I find myself drained […]
Several years ago, I came across a Humans of New York post in which a woman talked about her experience writing a journal as part of an English class in high school. At first, she wrote all the required entries the night before, but after a while, she became in love with writing and continued […]
Personal note: I’m posting this because a handful of graduate students separately insisted that I do so. This isn’t particularly well-researched or founded in anything other than my personal observations. The graduate students responsible for this were each frustrated that they couldn’t conform to their advisor’s expectations of their writing (to produce outlines, to have […]
