The leftovers are finished. The house has been cleaned. For the ambitious among you there might be a tree up already. If I keep going on this entry is going to turn into some kind of weird Bukowski-esque meditation on Thanksgiving so I’ll just leave it this: We’re almost there people, the semester is nearly […]
Dean – If the new fields you created are WP profile fields (the kind you fill out on your Dashboard profile) as opposed to BP xprofile fields (the kind you fill out from Edit Profile on the front end) then I’m afraid this plugin won’t help you much. If you are indeed using a BP […]
Thank you both for stopping by to comment! I thought the Petsko letter was a really eloquent response and I’m glad it’s making the rounds now. I feel like I’ve talked it into the ground but I really can’t believe that the best SUNY could think up to control cost was to just hack off […]
Thank you so much for stopping by and saying hello! That link is great, the Groom blog is a wealth of useful info. Please hang out and feel free to comment any time! See you at CUNY IT.
It’s Thanksgiving this week which means that The CUNY IT Conference is right around the corner. On December 3rd at John Jay and December 14th at the Graduate Center CUNY will be hosting discussions across the city about technology and education. On the 14th members of the Commons team will be hosting a round-table and I’d love to […]
Hi Michael, Thanks for reading and stopping by to post! I agree that a blind spot in the argument is largely about what we do as a university with that tuition. A lot of people’s jobs depend on it as you mentioned, and in my rush of enthusiasm for finding ways to merge education with […]
A few weeks ago I wrote here about the ways in which we could think of CUNY as an open-source project. That was a pretty good week for me. Matt Gold wrote to tell me that he’d long felt the same way and then Jim Groom popped up in the comments to give me the nod before […]
Today I released version 1.0.4 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This minor release consists of a single fix: the addition of a plugin to displayed featured content on our homepage. The plugin, CAC Featured Content , was developed especially for the Academic Commons by Michael McManus of Cast Iron Coding , and is available for download in the WP plugin repo. […]
Last week I had a lot to say about open source projects and their relationship to CUNY. I’ve been thinking about it ever since because I realized that not only is it true, but that the stakes might be higher than I understood. I know that’s a lead in fit for the Post but I’m serious, […]