The Futures Initiative is pleased to announce our 2015-2016 event series. We hope you will join us!

In tandem with a collection of team-taught courses offered at the Graduate Center, the Futures Initiative will partner with HASTAC to offer workshops, webinars, and online reading groups designed to tie student-centered, engaged pedagogical practices to institutional change and social justice. We will pay special attention to race, gender, diversity, equity, and inequality—and to rethinking the higher education we so urgently need now.

All are welcome to contribute to this conversation. Each month, we’ll tackle a different theme. Graduate and undergraduate students from CUNY, Duke, the community of HASTAC Scholars, and other partner institutions will post readings, host online discussion groups, and encourage debate and actions on these timely topics. We will share details on the Futures Initiative and HASTAC websites about how to participate in each event and conversation that we host.

Are you organizing an event that relates to any of the themes we’ll cover this year? Or something that addresses the spirit of the series as a whole? Tell us about it so that we can help publicize it and make it a part of the University Worth Fighting For. Higher Education is under attack on many fronts—and yet it also needs massive transformation. This series looks in both directions at once, renewing support for education a civic good while also advocating educational reform.

We believe in higher education. Join us as we engage with and amplify these key issues in the classroom and beyond.

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Livestreamed at bit.ly/futuresed-live
Details will be announced on the Futures Initiative and HASTAC websites

Fall 2015

• Friday, August 28: Towards a Pedagogy of Equality (1-2pm, 9204)
• Thursday, Sept 24: Peer Mentoring and Student-Centered Learning (1-2pm, C198)
• Thursday, October 22: Teaching the Humanities as a Survival Skill (1-2pm, 9205)
• Wednesday, November 18: On and Off the Tenure Track: Careers Paths and Hiring Practices (1-2pm, Skylight Room)

 
Spring 2016

• Friday, February 5: Ideas in Circulation: Libraries, Presses, Platforms (1-2pm, C198)
• Wednesday, March 2: Credentials or Learning? Measuring What Counts (1-2pm, C197)
• Thursday, April 14: Teaching as Social Justice: Equity, Diversity, Race (1-2pm, C197)
• Thursday, May 19: The University Worth Fighting For (1-2pm, C198)

 
Additional events sponsored by the Futures Initiative: 

• Tuesday and Wednesday, August 18-19: Peer Mentoring Workshop for select graduate and undergraduate students from across CUNY (application process now closed)
• Friday, October 2: “Queering the Map” with Jen Jack Gieseking (2-4pm, 9204/livestreamed)
• Wednesday, November 11: MLA Connected Academics Proseminar – Site Visit (by invitation)
• May 11-15: HASTAC 2016 Conference, Arizona State University

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The Futures Initiative is pleased to announce our 2015-2016 event series. We hope you will join us!

In tandem with a collection of team-taught courses offered at the Graduate Center, the Futures Initiative will partner with HASTAC to offer workshops, webinars, and online reading groups designed to tie student-centered, engaged pedagogical practices to institutional change and social justice. We will pay special attention to race, gender, diversity, equity, and inequality—and to rethinking the higher education we so urgently need now.

All are welcome to contribute to this conversation. Each month, we’ll tackle a different theme. Graduate and undergraduate students from CUNY, Duke, the community of HASTAC Scholars, and other partner institutions will post readings, host online discussion groups, and encourage debate and actions on these timely topics. We will share details on the Futures Initiative and HASTAC websites about how to participate in each event and conversation that we host.

Are you organizing an event that relates to any of the themes we’ll cover this year? Or something that addresses the spirit of the series as a whole? Tell us about it so that we can help publicize it and make it a part of the University Worth Fighting For. Higher Education is under attack on many fronts—and yet it also needs massive transformation. This series looks in both directions at once, renewing support for education a civic good while also advocating educational reform.

We believe in higher education. Join us as we engage with and amplify these key issues in the classroom and beyond.

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Livestreamed at bit.ly/futuresed-live
Details will be announced on the Futures Initiative and HASTAC websites

Fall 2015

• Friday, August 28: Towards a Pedagogy of Equality (1-2pm, 9204)
• Thursday, Sept 24: Peer Mentoring and Student-Centered Learning (1-2pm, C198)
• Thursday, October 22: Teaching the Humanities as a Survival Skill (1-2pm, 9205)
• Wednesday, November 18: On and Off the Tenure Track: Careers Paths and Hiring Practices (1-2pm, Skylight Room)

 
Spring 2016

• Friday, February 5: Ideas in Circulation: Libraries, Presses, Platforms (1-2pm, C198)
• Wednesday, March 2: Credentials or Learning? Measuring What Counts (1-2pm, C197)
• Thursday, April 14: Teaching as Social Justice: Equity, Diversity, Race (1-2pm, C197)
• Thursday, May 19: The University Worth Fighting For (1-2pm, C198)

 
Additional events sponsored by the Futures Initiative: 

• Tuesday and Wednesday, August 18-19: Peer Mentoring Workshop for select graduate and undergraduate students from across CUNY (application process now closed)
• Friday, October 2: “Queering the Map” with Jen Jack Gieseking (2-4pm, 9204/livestreamed)
• Wednesday, November 11: MLA Connected Academics Proseminar – Site Visit (by invitation)
• May 11-15: HASTAC 2016 Conference, Arizona State University

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