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Apologies for the back-to-back emails — I have updated Prof. Stein Dessauer’s email below:

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Sociology of the Gig Economy Students,

Welcome back! I hope you had a relaxing winter break!

I’ve included the link below for tonight’s class:

https://virginia.zoom.us/j/98965393892?pwd=bmhtL3NiWUJvVkU2MG13blV5b1lIZz09
Meeting ID: 989 6539 3892…[Read more]

Hello All,

Please join us on Wednesday, November 9th, at noon, for this month’s Hunter Sociology Days’ Lecture Series guest, Lehman College Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Brittany Fox-Williams, hosted by Hunter Sociology’s Professor CalvinJohn Smiley.

Dr. Fox-William’s research explores racial inequality among youth in the American ed…[Read more]

You may have received an email from me already but just letting you know that the curriculum revision has been approved by NY State – YAY! – and that I’m going to be archiving this group and migrating all of you over to a new group. Join everyone over there!

A number of you have emailed me about registration, and now is the time to REGISTER!  The Hunter College administration would like it if you’d all register by the end of this week so they have an idea about enrollments for the fall. Here are the classes for this fall:

• Monday, 5:35pm (MOI: in person):
  • “Thinking Critically in a Digital So…

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Slover Linett is a social research practice for the arts, culture and community sector. Founded in Chicago in 1999, the firm uses the tools of research, evaluation, and dialogue to help changemakers increase equity and access, deepen engagement, and collaborate with their communities. Our projects grapple with questions in all areas of culture,…[Read more]

In the summer internship class, we talked about program learning objectives (PLO’s), why they’re important, where they come from, a little about the history, context and research surrounding digital portfolios, and how to integrate the PLO’s into your digital portfolios. If you’re in the 718/719 course series for the summer, this is required…[Read more]

The Fortune Society, Inc. (Fortune) has been working for over 54 years in service to our mission: to support successful reentry from incarceration and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities. The organization has evolved into one of the nation’s preeminent reentry and justice-informed service o…[Read more]

CUNY has been selected to participate in TDF’s Broadway Passport Series, a limited-time opportunity that allows members of our community to purchase $20 and $40 tickets to nearly two dozen Broadway shows. CUNY students, faculty and staff are invited to join this free program. We’re very excited about this unique opportunity, which was extended onl…[Read more]

This lecture, “Public Interest Technology and Your Internships,” (from Wednesday, 7/13/22) is required for those in the 718/719 course this summer, and will be of interest to all those in the program.

The first part of the lecture is an introduction to the field of public interest technology (PIT), and it is important for people in this program…[Read more]

This is an exciting, and zero-cost-to-apply, opportunity from colleagues at University of Michigan. I hope some of you will consider applying or attending!

Algorithmic Reparation Workshop, University of Michigan, Sept.30-Oct.1

Background and Purpose

Machine learning has an inequality problem that is now widespread and well known. The field of…[Read more]

There is a possible administrative job in the sociology department office opening beginning in September, 2022.

If approved, the position would require some tech skills (website updates, help faculty with instructional tech) and a familiarity with (or willingness to learn) CUNY administrative software. This is a full-time (35 hours/week) with…[Read more]

This looks to be a very cool (and free) online event hosted by the British Sociological Association – Digital Sociology group.  This will be especially appealing to those with a deep interest in theorizing the digital.  Further information below (copy/pasted from an email, hence the British spellings.)

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Friday July 22nd 2022
Online – Z…[Read more]

Please save the dates October 28-29, 2022 (Friday-Saturday) for this important event.

There will be a Public Interest Technology-University Network (PIT-UN) Convening on this date and it will be hosted by CUNY.

The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), is a partnership that unites 48 colleges and universities, in order to build…[Read more]