Dear John Jay Colleagues,

This is our Summer of Struggle, as you have seen from Barbara Bowen’s messages.  The attached copy of Wednesday’s Daily News opinion piece co-written by our own Prof. Susan Kang spel […]

Dear Commons Community,

The US Supreme Court gave a resounding victory for LGBTQ rights by ruling this morning that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from […]

One of the best parts of working my craft in NYC is that I get to share airspace with the Research Libraries of NY Public Library.  One of the outstanding offerings of this week is

As I commit myself to this […]

What’s really important is that we keep at it. We need to stay uncomfortable with black men and women being shot by police.

What I can do is start planning to share resources and insights regularly. Going to […]

This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant, late Friday, June 1 […]

Dear Commons Community,

Yesterday, during his daily briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned that he could roll back reopening measures in some areas after the state received 25,000 complaints of […]

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Dear Commons Community,

Joe Biden’s advisers have conducted several rounds of interviews with a select group of vice-presidential candidates and are beginning to gather private […]

Dear Commons Community,

The U.S. has reported more than 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to data compiled by  NPR.

The grim milestone comes as states continue to reopen, despite r […]

Dear Commons Community,

The New York Times has a featured article this morning looking at how dentists are faring now that many states have opened up partially at least after stay-at-home orders due […]

Dear Commons Community,

New York’s Comptroller gave his weekly update on the state’s economy yesterday and it isn’t pretty.  He commented that:

“The current public health and economic crisis we are facing […]

Dear Commons Community,

Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, in interview with CNN and USA Today, predicted that “”sometime in September, we’re going to cross 200,000 deaths, a […]

Dear Commons Community,

General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a video keynote address to the National Defense University Class of 2020 Graduates, said it was mistake for him to have […]

Dear Commons Community,

Rebecca Kolins Givan, associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, and  vice president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, had an op-ed last week, commenting on how our c […]

Dear Commons Community,

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article describing that furloughs, layoffs and other cost-cutting job actions have begun to take place at colleges and universities due to […]

I finally got a working prototype of my journal recommender project up and running; I just shared it with a few co-workers yesterday. However, it has been a bit of a journey to get here: I was only able to get the […]

Dear Commons Community,

New York Times columnists, Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, do a question and answer with each other about Joe Biden’s options for a vice presidential running mate.  They consider po […]

Dear Commons Community,

Faculty around the country are beginning to debate whether they teach online or face-to-face in the fall in those states  where officials are allowing the colleges the option. The […]

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