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Author Archives: Michael Dorsch

About Michael Dorsch

Michael is a doctoral student specializing in geography in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He teaches in the Department of Geography at Hunter College, CUNY and also conducts research with the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. His research interests include using tools from geographic information systems and techniques from analytic cartography to visualize social and environmental inequities related to negative environmental exposures from energy production and industrial/post-industrial sites. Michael blogs on issues related to society/environment interactions, and his full CV is available at http://www.earthoutlook.org.

2604, 2016

May 2 – Global Perspectives on Language and Education Policy Research Poster and Outreach Session

  • Michael Dorsch
  • April 26, 2016
  • Announcements
  • 609

Monday, May 2 | 4:30-5:30 PM Details WHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue Room: 9204 WHEN: Monday, May 2, 4:30 PM-5:30

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2303, 2016

How to Prepare the Most Effective Conference Presentations: A Futures Initiative Discussion

  • Michael Dorsch
  • March 23, 2016
  • Reflection
  • 496

We’ve all as graduate students and academic professionals struggled through the rituals and anxiety of preparing for conference presentations. While the traditional

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Diversity in Social Research Methods: Embracing More Representative Understandings of Equity and Social Justice
0302, 2016

Diversity in Social Research Methods: Embracing More Representative Understandings of Equity and Social Justice

  • Michael Dorsch
  • February 3, 2016
  • Reflection, Research
  • 994

Our research work at the Futures Initiative in our inaugural and second years has explored questions of access and diversity that are

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1910, 2015

2015-2016 Futures Initiative Research Projects Update

  • Michael Dorsch
  • October 19, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 512

Diversity and equity in higher education are foundational pillars of the Futures Initiative’s mission. Last year, we carried out research projects that

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0409, 2015

Public Higher Education as the Pathway to Resilience

  • Michael Dorsch
  • September 4, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 448

I have recently been looking back on my first year as a Futures Initiative fellow, on all of the amazing things we

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The CUNY Sociodemographic Map of NYC Part II: Race and Ethnicity Revisited
2002, 2015

The CUNY Sociodemographic Map of NYC Part II: Race and Ethnicity Revisited

  • Michael Dorsch
  • February 20, 2015
  • Mapping, Research
  • 660

Read Part 1 In the Fall of 2014, as the first research activity of the new Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center,

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1902, 2015

Video Posted from Mapping The Futures of Higher Education Session 2 – Feb. 10, 2015

  • Michael Dorsch
  • February 19, 2015
  • Class Recap
  • 355

On February 10, 2015 we opened the second session of Mapping the Futures of Higher Education with a discussion and Q&A session

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CUNY Sociodemographics Map of New York City: Part I – Race and Ethnicity
1002, 2015

CUNY Sociodemographics Map of New York City: Part I – Race and Ethnicity

  • Michael Dorsch
  • February 10, 2015
  • Mapping, Research
  • 2522

CUNY schools serve a student population as diverse as NYC itself—and sometimes more so By: Michael Dorsch, Futures Initiative Fellow and Doctoral Student,

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Visualizing the Growth of HASTAC and HASTAC Scholars
3001, 2015

Visualizing the Growth of HASTAC and HASTAC Scholars

  • Michael Dorsch
  • January 30, 2015
  • Research
  • 414

HASTAC has increased from a few hundred members in 2002 to a thriving online community that now includes more than 13,000 humanists,

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Reflections on Futures Initiative Open Session: Rethinking Evaluation and Assessment in Online and Blended Learning Environments
1912, 2014

Reflections on Futures Initiative Open Session: Rethinking Evaluation and Assessment in Online and Blended Learning Environments

  • Michael Dorsch
  • December 19, 2014
  • FI Events, Reflection
  • 358

On December 8th, Dr. Anthony Picciano, Professor and Executive Officer of the PhD program in Urban Education, joined us for a Futures

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