Writing Under Surveillance: The Problem with AI Detection by Zach Muhlbauer During a summer composition course, a LaGuardia student learns their workRead More

Navigating Politics in the Classroom: Considerations for Defending Academic Freedom and Resisting Anticipatory Compliance by Jenna Queenan Education has long been a site of political contestation. While the job of an educator, first and foremost, is to design and shape the experiences ofRead More

From My Window…and Other Places by Fernanda Blanco Vidal March 11 of 2026 marks the sixth anniversary of the WHO declaration ofRead More

When the Dream Stalls: Exhaustion, Anger, and the Academic Job Market by Varnica Arora By October 2024, I had submitted my 30th job application. Since July, my mornings began not with tea or meditation but with a compulsive scan of jobRead More

Lessons from Students on AI and Writing by Angela LaScala-Gruenewald Author’s note: This blog post would not have been possible without the anonymous input of students. All credit goes to the students in my IRead More

Do Not Ask Me To Remain The Same by Jeff VossBelow is the introduction to Do Not Ask Me To Remain The Same, a series of interviews conducted in 2024-2025 with ten CUNY scholars. Read the Full Version here

Pedagogical Lessons from Social Movements by Jenna Queenan How do we make our classroom content and pedagogies relevant to our students’ lives and the world we live in? A vRead More

Loss and Grief in the Classroom – Dealing with a Student's Death —Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Virgil’s The Aeneid) And perhaps it will be a joy to remember tRead More

Heritage Students’ Visits to Galleries and Museums by Oriana Mejías Martínez Learning experiences can come from different kinds of practices that nRead More

Equity-Oriented Teaching at CUNY by Manju Adikesavan CUNY strives to facilitate the upward mobility of underprivileged, first-generation, and low-income students. MoreRead More

Episode 3: Returning to Relationships by Kristine Riley This is part three of a four-part series on abolitionist pedagogy, Star Wars’ Andor, and aspirations for teaching anRead More

Resocializing Reading by Jeff Voss Last year, during my WAC Fellowship at Kingsborough Community College led by the inimitable Cheryl Hogue Smith and Elizabeth Dill, Hogue Smith would repeat aRead More

Episode 2: Awakening Abolitionist Forces by Kristine Riley This is part two of a four-part series on abolitionist pedagogy, StarRead More

Voices from the Archive by Oriana Mejías Martínez In the last four years, I have been digging out archival materials for my research. From my perspective, it would not have been possible to hone tRead More

Caring for Teaching, Teaching with Care: A Positive and Supporting Salute to Student-Parents by Pedro Cabello del Moral HavingRead More

Episode One: An Old Struggle with New Hope by Kristine Riley This is part one of a four-part series on abolitionist pedagogy, StarRead More

Teaching Amidst Turmoil by Luke Waltzer Many faculty, staff, and students at CUNY have been traumatized by the ongoing violence inRead More

Fostering Community for Open Education at the GC  By Laurie Hurson In Spring 2023, the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) launchedRead More

The Case for Critical Media Literacies by Pedro Cabello del Moral I am sure that anybody reading this post has at some pointRead More

What do we love when we say we love teaching? by Ana Flavia Badue When I was in college, every semester I had a crush on a different professor. I loved how they thought, how theyRead More