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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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Cathy N. Davidson, “The Invention of Failure” Tuesday, January 20 at Duke
The Invention of Failure Tuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Open to the public. Light dinner provided. PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge John Hope Franklin Humanities […]
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Photograph by FI Fellow Kalle Westerling featured in the New York Times
Congratulations to Futures Initiative fellow, Kalle Westerling, whose photograph was recently featured in the New York Times. You can read the full article here.
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Mix it Up! How Equity Can Enhance Innovation–and How #FuturesEd Works Toward Those Goals
We’re all abuzz here with conversation, analysis, dismay, and all the rest about a recent article in the Atlantic that paints a grim picture of the way even the City […]
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Equity, Innovation, and Higher Ed as a Public Good
UPDATE: CUNY has responded to Hancock and Kolodner’s article, requesting its withdrawal based on many significant factual errors. Here are my thoughts on that development. As I described in an […]
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The dialectics of dreams and failure: racialized violence as higher education’s “crisis ordinariness”
Update 1/14: Although it doesn’t change the fact that standardized tests are a form of institutional racism that exacerbate unequal access to education, a recent letter to the editor of […]
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The Invention of Failure
What if we got rid of “flunk out courses” that were defined as “rigorous and demanding” and, instead, set our goal as ensuring the success of every student in equally […]