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Our team at the Teaching and Learning Center has been running our Teach@CUNY Summer Institute this week, supporting 70 first year doctoral students who are preparing to teach at CUNY starting in the fall. There is much interest in and concern about AI. At a panel of undergraduate students yesterday, two out of the three panelists…[Read more]

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Our semester is winding down, but the AI hot takes machine continues to churn, unabated. Many of the pieces I’ve shared in these roundups have been focused on what our responsibilities are as educators towards our institutions, our disciplines, our communities, and, most of all, our students. This will continue to be a key…[Read more]

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From: Lise Jaillant <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Subject: [DHSI] AI & Society Special Issue – “When Data Turns into Archives”
To:

Dear all,

🎉 I am delighted to share that our Special Issue, “When Data Turns into
Archives: Making Digital Records More Accessible with AI,…[Read more]

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Sharing a few pieces this week that span genAI’s impact on our work in universities, highlight some smart responses and intentional uses, and reveal much about how the federal government is perceiving the space.

Kashmir Hill writes in the New York Times about college professors who use genAI, and students who are calling them on…[Read more]

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From: Nugent McLean, Colleen <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, May 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Announcement: Relaunching DHNow!
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>

Dear all,

We are delighted to announce the reboot of *Digital Humanities N…[Read more]