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Futures Initiative
The Futures Initiative aims to advance greater equity and innovation in higher education. Housed at the Graduate Center and reaching throughout the CUNY community, the Futures Initiative empowers the next generation of intellectual leaders with bold, public, and engaged teaching and learning. The Futures Initiative fosters greater understanding of the complexities of the higher education landscape by spearheading qualitative and quantitative research in areas such as academic labor practices and reward systems, open-access multimedia publishing, data visualization and interpretation, and institutional change. Through HASTAC@CUNY (a hub of the online network Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), the Futures Initiative extends its collaborative peer-to-peer practices across institutions, disciplines, national boundaries, and economic and social disparities, promoting reinvestment in higher education as a public good.
Recent group activity
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gcdigitalfellows started the topic GC Digital Showcase 2021 – Call for Proposals in the forum
Futures Initiative 3 weeks, 2 days agoGC Digital Showcase
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Location: Zoom (link to follow)The GC Digital Showcase is an annual event featuring interdisciplinary digital scholarship produced by graduate students, digital fellows, working groups, classes, and programs across The Graduate Center, CUNY. We invite you to share y…[Read more]
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Luke Waltzer started the topic Carnegie Ed Tech Workshop: Top 5 Tips & Tricks to Improve Your Class Videos in the forum
Futures Initiative 1 month, 1 week agoTop 5 Tips & Tricks to Improve Your Class Videos
GOAL: This workshop will focus on quick and practical tips to improve the quality of your recorded video content. Additionally, these techniques will be applicable in tools such as Zoom, Skype, and Collaborate.
DESCRIPTION: Creating a video lecture is a complicated task, but the video…[Read more]
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Luke Waltzer started the topic Announcing Carnegie Educational Technology Fellows Workshops, Spring 2021 in the forum
Futures Initiative 1 month, 2 weeks agoWe’re pleased to announce the workshops below from the Carnegie Educational Technology Fellows.
To learn more about support for online teaching at the Graduate Center, visit GC Online at http://cuny.is/gconline.
Best,
Luke and Matt—
Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.
Director, The Teaching and Learning Center
The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Blog: CUNY Peer Leaders Resources on Mass Incarceration from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 1 month, 4 weeks agoThe CUNY Peer Leaders program kicked off the 2021 Spring semester with a core component and staple within the program that is… Continue Reading CUNY Peer Leaders […]
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Blog: Graduate education reform—in a pandemic from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 2 months agoNearly a full year ago, my colleague Cihan Tekay wrote a post titled “What if graduate education serves ALL students and the… Continue Reading Graduate education […]
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Blog: Reflections on Black History Month 2021 from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 2 months, 1 week ago2020 has been a seminal year for Black history, present and future in the US, as well as globally. Black Lives Matter… Continue Reading Reflections on Black […]
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Blog: Returning to the Classroom from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 2 months, 1 week agoThis spring, I’ll be co-teaching a course that I’m really excited about, along with my colleague Matt Brim: Equity, Elitism, and Public… Continue Reading Returning […]
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Alaina Claire Feldman (she/her/hers) joined the group
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Katina Rogers started the topic Register now for CUNY Games Network’s 2021 free conference! Jan 22-23 in the forum
Futures Initiative 2 months, 4 weeks agoRegistration is now open for the CUNY Games Network’s 2021 free conference!
CUNY Games Conference 7.0
Friday, Jan. 22, 9:30 AM-6 PM EST via Zoom
with a separate gameplay day on Saturday, Jan. 23
The conference will consist of idea exchange sessions held in breakout rooms and organizer-led workshops. The sessions will discuss interactive l…[Read more]
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Carolyn Stallard joined the group
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Blog: Futures Initiative Map from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 3 months, 1 week agoI am proud to officially announce that an interactive Futures Initiative map illustrating our impact across the CUNY system is now available… Continue Reading […]
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Jillian Baez (she/her/hers) joined the group
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Blog: Living, Learning, and Working during COVID-19: Profiles of the FI Team from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months agoFor me, one of the strangest effects of the drastic changes to home and work life during the COVID-19 has been the… Continue Reading Living, Learning, and Working […]
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Blog: Call for Proposals: Spring 2022 Team-Taught Courses, Faculty Fellowship from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months agoApply by January 22, 2021 (extended from Jan 15) to teach a team-taught course at the Graduate Center and serve as a… Continue Reading Call for Proposals: Spring […]
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Blog: Congratulations, Dr. Katopodis; and Welcome, Tatiana Ades! from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 1 week agoThe Futures Initiative is pleased to share some good news! We offer our warmest congratulations to Dr. Christina Katopodis, who successfully defended… Continue […]
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Luke Waltzer started the topic Opposition to CUNY’s Contract Renewal with Turnitin in the forum
Futures Initiative 4 months, 1 week agoDear Colleagues,
We recently learned that at the December 14th meeting, the Board of Trustees will be voting to approve a $2m contract with Turnitin.
Lisa Rhody, Roxanne Shirazi, and I have prepared testimony opposition this contract, which must be submitted to the BOT by December 7.
You can read the statement here:…[Read more]
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Blog: Greetings! from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 3 weeks agoI’m Tati (short for Tatiana) Ades and am so excited to join the Futures Initiative fellows for the remainder of the 2020-2021… Continue Reading Greetings!
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Blog: This is also a Futures Initiative team meeting from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 3 weeks agoA few days ago, our weekly team meeting was conducted by Lauren Melendez, who is the Peer Leaders Program Director. I am… Continue Reading This is also a Futures […]
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Blog: The FI Team Structures Equity into Collaboration, A Model for In-Class Group Work from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 3 weeks agoIn the photo above, former FI fellow Dr. Siqi Tu smiles as we sing her “Happy Birthday” before she blows out candles… Continue Reading The FI Team Structures […]
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Blog: Leadership Through A Hip Hop Lens from The Futures Initiative in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 4 weeks agoWhat does the CUNY Peer Leaders Program have in common with Hip Hop culture? A few things, actually. As co-directors, Kaysi Holman,… Continue Reading Leadership […]
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