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Team Taught Course (Fall 2024): Race and Caste
Co-Taught by Ajantha Subramanian (CUNY Graduate Center) and Shreya Subramani (John Jay College of Criminal Justice). ANTH 81300 IDS 81640 Description: Race and caste are two of the most enduring forms of […]
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Team Taught Course (Fall 2024): Coalition Formation in Urban Politics
Co-Taught by John Mollenkopf (GC/Political Science) and Keena Lipsitz (Queens/Political Science). In-person at the GC in Fall 2024. PSC 82509 SOC 82800 IDS 81630 Description: In many large cities, including New York, Chicago, […]
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Three Reasons Why Higher Education Should (and Can) Change
This week a journalist asked me to list three principles that underlie and motivate my interest in institutional transformation for higher education. It’s always an interesting exercise when someone asks […]
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Members of the Futures Initiative Meet with NEH Chairman, William ‘Bro’ Adams
Two weeks ago, members of the Futures Initiative along with a handful of eminent CUNY administrators met with the current Chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities, William ‘Bro’ […]
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New analysis: “CUNY schools serve a student population as diverse as NYC —sometimes more so”
CUNY Sociodemographics Map of New York City: Part I – Race and Ethnicity CUNY schools serve a student population as diverse as NYC itself—and sometimes more so. New analysis by […]
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Cathy Davidson, Futures Initiative Director, Quoted in Politico Article
Cathy Davidson, Futures Initiative Director and Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, is featured in a Politico article out today. “No profit left behind” by Stephanie Simon investigates the British […]
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CUNY Sociodemographics Map of New York City: Part I – Race and Ethnicity
CUNY schools serve a student population as diverse as NYC itself—and sometimes more so By: Michael Dorsch, Futures Initiative Fellow and Doctoral Student, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University […]
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Virtual Mapping
This past October at our first public Futures Initiative event at the Graduate Center, Curtis Wong, the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, gave a talk entitled “Mapping the Universe and Other […]