The Chronicle of Higher Education is again making available a sortable and searchable database that shows the “sticker prices” — published tuition and required fees — at more than 3, […]
The Republican-controlled US Senate and House of Representatives yesterday released the final version of their revised tax proposal. The new bill features several changes from the […]
IT Aide Job Description
General Characteristics
Information Technology (IT) provides and maintains a wide variety of voice, video and data systems to serve the Graduate Center community of students, faculty, staff […]
It’s the time of the semester where deadlines are coming fast and furious. For Graduate Center student instructors, grading student work can be overwhelming, isolating, and—even in successful courses—a bit madde […]
Call for Papers: Minnesota 2018
Deadline Extended to 31 December 2017
Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
16-19 May 2018
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, USA
Keynotes: […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted yesterday to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules for Internet traffic — a major victory for telecommunications companies. T […]
Yesterday morning, the counter on Tony’s Thoughts reached five million visits. When I started this blog in November 2009, I never imagined that there would be such interest in what I ha […]
Doug Jones is the apparent winner in the special election for the US Senate for the state of Alabama. I use the word “apparent” because as of this writing, Jones had a 1.5 percent […]
You must register to attend the main conference on January 22nd. Additional events occurring on January 23rd will be announced soon, and these events do not require registration. Online registration will continue […]
Call for Contributions
Medieval Chronicles in the Early Modern period
We are inviting proposals for contributions to a collection examining the Nachleben, as well as instances of uninterrupted continuation, […]
CUNY Games Network member Anders Wallace has a great post up on the blog of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Office of Career Planning and Professional Development about the ways that game-based learning can be […]
Yesterday there was a terrorist attempt in New York that inflicted minor injuries on several people walking through a transit tunnel near Times Square. Rather than bringing the Big Apple […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that the University of Wisconsin at Madison plans to close 22 libraries and create six “hubs” designed to facilitate how students and sch […]
Pay packages for private college presidents have continued to rise, as the number earning more than $1 million increased in 2015 and average compensation rose 9 percent. In 2015, the y […]
If you are at all concerned about how our American democracy has gone awry in the past two years, I highly recommend reading A.C. Grayling’s Democracy and its Crisis. Grayling, the […]
It was announced yesterday that the City University of New York and the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) have reached an agreement to reduce the faculty teaching load by three hours to […]
The Early Modern Colloquium at the University of Michigan
invites abstracts for papers for their interdisciplinary graduate student conference,
“Exploring Resistance through Medieval and Early Modern Culture,”
at […]