CUNY Academic Commons

Hi all,

A reminder of the End of Semester Data Visualization Showcase–TONIGHT, 7 PM–for students in the Data Analysis and Visualization MS Program. See below for registration link on Eventbrite.

From Professor Aucher Serr:
“Throughout this semester, students in the Advanced Interactive Data Visualization Studio course have worked…[Read more]

Hello! My name is Lisa Rhody, and this semester I’m teaching Methods of Text Analysis, which is part of the MA in Digital Humanities program. On Tuesday, December 8th at 4:15 PM, we are going to open our class up to members of the GC community who wish to join us for 3 roundtable discussions. More information can be found below. I hope you will…[Read more]

Seeking Research Project Visualization Manager

Apply by November 15, 2020

The GC Wealth Project, a central project of the Graduate Center’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, is a multi-year effort aimed at expanding access to current research and information on wealth inequality, especially high-end inequality. We are seeking a n…[Read more]

Join CUNY students, faculty, and staff and share your digital humanities project, research, or questions.

What: 6th Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks.

When: Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Where: Virtual Zoom Meeting

Present your digital humanities work at CUNY DHI during a 3-minute /…[Read more]

Ithaka S+R Is Hiring

Are you passionate about higher education and the arts? Our work helps these organizations and their support providers—including libraries, publishers, scholarly societies, and museums— enhance scholarship, instruction, community engagement, and student success. Ithaka S+R is hiring for two new…[Read more]

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
General Issue
with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Issue Editors:
Nicole Zeftel (SUNY Buffalo)
Alexis Larsson (CUNY Graduate Center)
Teresa Ober (University of Notre Dame)

Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/

The Jou…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

I’d like to encourage GC students who are interested in connecting with other student instructors to reflect upon their teaching this fall to consider registering for Teaching Strategies (PDEV 79401), description below. The course will meet virtually on Fridays from 11:45am-1:45pm. The workload will be minimal, and targeted…[Read more]

Dear all,

As of this week, CUNY Manifold has been upgraded to Manifold  version 5.0! The new version boasts a number of accessibility and usability enhancements as well as key features on our way to even greater flexibility for Open Educational Resources! The centerpiece of this release, a new Access Controls feature, allows users to limit…[Read more]

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
General Issue with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy

Issue Editors:
Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University)
Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library)

Editorial Assistant:
Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate Center)

Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-sub…[Read more]

We are excited to announce the release of a new resource for those working in Open Education: The OER Starter Kit Workbook!

The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of The OER Starter Kit released last year. The new edition includes worksheets attached to each chapter to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, us…[Read more]

To our CUNY friends and colleagues,

No one will deny that the coronavirus pandemic has left all of us with a deep sense of displacement. Not only have our 25 campuses splintered into thousands of individual bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens, but much of the family and community that we count on for support during the school year now…[Read more]

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
General Issue
with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy

Issue Editors:
Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University)
Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library)

Editorial Assistant:
Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate Center)

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)…[Read more]

Note: The following email was sent to all EOs and APOs at the Graduate Center on Monday, March 16. 

Dear Colleagues,

As the university transitions to remote instruction, research, and work, GC Digital Initiatives staff is available for consultations on a wide range of topics related to technology. We invite GC faculty, students, and staff…[Read more]

Hello all,

We are pleased to announce the Spring calendar for the Python Users’ Group (PUG for short).

The Python Users’ Group (PUG for short) is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming language, where we learn, work, chat, snack and have the occasional beer. It is an…[Read more]

Learn how to publish with Manifold!

Join Jojo Karlin and Krysia Michael Thursday, February 6, at 6pm in room 5307 

to learn how to publish openly-licensed course materials (public domain texts, things you own, new collaborations you wish to share) in beautiful, annotatable digital books.

Register at NYCDH Week 2020.

In this free…[Read more]

There’s a GA position at my work (Barnard College library), $30/hour. You don’t actually have to be in grad school, so if you have non-student friends who might be interested, please send the announcement along.

The Graduate Assistant – Instructional Technologist at Barnard’s Digital Humanities Center, will assist Digital Humanities Center sta…[Read more]

You are cordially invited to join the students in Methods of Text Analysis for their final class, which will include an open convening of 2 roundtable discussions, each addressing the course’s centralizing question: “Can there be a feminist text analysis?”

When? 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Where? Room 5307 at The Graduate Center

Each roundtable will…[Read more]

Hi friends,

I wanted to invite CUNY DHers and pythonistas to an event coming up at Columbia on Tuesday: Implementing Historical Algorithms. We have a Python User Group up here that I was inspired to start based on this community at CUNY and it would be great to close the loop and have you visit. The presentation will be by Jeff Binder, a former…[Read more]

“The Incommensurable: Explainability and the Autonomy of Computational Automation”

Tuesday, November 12th, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Room 5307

Reception to follow

This talk addresses some of the philosophical implications of a computer program being no longer constrained by the limits of human knowledge. I will understand this freedom from human k…[Read more]

Hi folks interested in digitalization and global infrastructure!

This seems like a cool fellowship (accepting applications through Nov. 10).

Application requires

• a CV,
• a reference letter,
• and Links to two (2) samples of published material, in English, in at least one of the CyberBRICS project areas (i.e. cybersecurity, Internet a…

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