Superstorm Preparedness
Experts from the City University of New York, public and nonprofit sectors, and city government discuss lessons learned from the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy. Are we ready?
Call For Proposals
The first annual CUNY Games Festival on January 17, 2014 will promote and discuss game-based learning in higher education, and bring together faculty, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, game designers, and domain experts from various disciplines. Call For Proposals deadline is October 1, 2013.
Zeteo, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing
We're pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2013 issue of the Master of Liberal Studies e-journal at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Your Group on the Commons
Make groups work for you! Find out what collaboration tools are available, learn how groups can be configured, and explore their many uses.
Designing a Site on the Commons?
Discover WordPress tips and tricks at the Commons Wiki page Tweaking Your Site and share your own ideas about how to make a good site great.
Got a Message?
Connect with Michael Smith to find out more about the Commons' live-stream channel: cuny.is/live.
High-Impact Hybrid
The CUNY Hybrid Initiative open access blog includes tools and materials from a host of CUNY Colleges and beyond to help faculty, instructional designers, and administrators teach and support the development of hybrid courses at CUNY.
WordPress 3.5 is Live
The Commons has upgraded to WordPress 3.5. Learn about some of the new features of 3.5 and check out the new default blog theme.
Help Build The Commons
Whether it's creating a blog, forming groups, or contributing to our wiki - everything you share with the Commons makes our community stronger.
Wonder Who You’re Reaching?
Check out “Statistics for your Site” on the Commons Codex to discover the various ways to gather readership data for your WordPress site.
Tweet
There's so much happening in the CUNY community. Be sure to follow the Commons on Twitter to keep up. We follow back! @cunycommons
Come Together
The Commons welcomes JustPublics@365: A project bringing together scholars, community leaders, policy advocates and activists to inspire public debate on issues of inequality and social justice.
Commons In A Box Released!
The CUNY Academic Commons team is very proud to release Commons In A Box, a free, stand-alone version of our project that can be downloaded, customized, and used by other institutions and groups. Please visit us online to join the community and follow us on twitter.
Create Posts From Your Inbox
Our new reply-by-email feature has been a hit with the community. Did you know that you can also create new forum posts from your inbox? Check out Sarah Morgano's post in the Group for Group Admins.
Why Should Faculty Blog?
Professor Anthony Picciano explains the relevance of blogging in his teaching and scholarship as an online faculty member at the Sloan ALN Conference. Explore the Commons Codex for more information about using the Commons as a blogging platform.
Omeka For Rare Books
The Queens College Department of Special Collections is using Omeka to expose its previously hidden archive of Don Quixote editions. Check out the Omeka group blog on the Commons and discover how QC faculty and graduate students created a fantastic finding aid and interactive platform for the 14 volume collection.
Commons Wins Sloan-C Award for Effective Practice
The Sloan Consortium has announced that the CUNY Academic Commons will receive an award for effective practices in online and blended education at their 5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online Learning, July 25-27, in Las Vegas.
Congratulations! You’ve Been Accepted. Now what?
The New Students: Welcome to the Grad Center site on the Commons is a terrific orientation tool that offers a wide range of resources, including registration timetables, library availability, places to find cheap eats and theater tickets, roommate matching, and information on becoming a NY State resident.
Getting Started
The CUNY Academic Commons is an academic social network created by and for CUNY – Take A Tour.
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Germán Pérez
El pintor dominicano Germán Pérez vive en Nueva York y es considerado como una de las figuras más destacadas en la vanguardia artística de la República Dominicana, donde nació y se crio. […] -
Anthony Picciano wrote a new post, Chicago School Closings: Mayor Rahm Emanuel v. the Chicago Teachers Union!, on the site Tony's Thoughts 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
Dear Commons Community,
Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), is taking on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his political allies over the closing of fifty public schools in Chicago. A […]
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Scott Voth wrote a new post, Queens College Library – Collection Development and Acquisitions Internship – Fall 2013, on the site Help Wanted! 11 hours, 38 minutes ago
The Queens College Library invites applications for academic library internship during the Fall 2013 semester. This is an unpaid internship position, aimed at providing current LIS students with a practical field […] -
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Under the guidance of the principal investigators, the Data Visualization Assistant creates temporal and spatial representations of visual data collected in the PSC-CUNY Research Award-funded Undergraduate Study […] -
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Packing for the metal studies conference in Bowling Green, Ohio, the first to be held on U.S. soil, I paused, a button-down shirt in one hand, a Meshuggah shirt in the other, looking back and forth between […] -
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On Global Women Wikipedia Write-In Day, I was extremely impressed with user Dsp13′s lists of red links — lists of notable women that hadn’t yet been written about on Wikipedia. I used that page as a springboard to […] -
Anthony Picciano wrote a new post, CUNY Graduate Center’s 49th Commencement at Avery Fisher Hall Last Night!, on the site Tony's Thoughts 1 day, 2 hours ago
Dear Commons Community,
It was a grand evening last night at the Graduate Center’s Commencement at Avery Fisher Hall. President Bill Kelly and Provost Chase Robinson presided over the ceremonies for our […]
