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• Provost Steve Everett Describes His Aims to Support Students, Advance Research, and Enhance Diversity, and Why His New Role Is Like Conducting an Opera

  

  Steve Everett (Credit: Alex Irklievski)

  Steve Everett describes his priorities and vision for the Graduate Center, his passion for music, and how conducting opera prepared him to be the chief academic officer. Read more

• Two Graduate Center Philosophy Professors Named Editors of Leading Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Journal

  

  Professors Jonathan Gilmore and Sandra Shapshay (Photo credit: Alex Irklievski)

  The selection of Professors Jonathan Gilmore and Sandra Shapshay as co-editors of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism reinforces the Graduate Center’s strength in the philosophy of art. Read more

• Students Monitor the Eruption of the Cumbre Vieja Volcano: ‘It’s Hot, and You Have Ash on You’

  

  Samantha Tramontano sets up a station for sampling ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, 10/02/2021

  Ph.D. students Samantha Tramontano, Franco Cortese, and their adviser Professor Marc-Antoine Longpré traveled to La Palma to study Cumbre Vieja’s eruption, which began over a month ago on September 19. Read more

• Exciting Transition for CUNY Digital History Archive

  

  York College students join PSC pickets in opposing the May 1973 contract impasse. Demonstrators raise issues around tenure quotas, budget cuts, open admissions, and the Professional Staff Congress union contract. (Photo/Dan Miller, courtesy Professional Staff Congress/CUNY)

  After a decade under the leadership of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) at the Graduate Center, the grassroots digital project will be jointly administered by the Mina Rees Library and ASHP/CML. Read more

• A Graduate Center Fellowship That Builds Digital Skills Also Yields Jobs for Alumni

  

  Top (L-R): Patrick Smyth, Jojo Karlin, Patrick Sweeney; Bottom (L-R): Natalie O’Shea, Keith Miyake, GCDI logo

  Graduates now working as professors and postdocs and one as a data visualization analyst attribute much of their career success to what they learned as Graduate Center Digital Fellows. Read more

• The Long Shadow of 9/11 Hangs Over Guantánamo Bay

  Political Science Ph.D. candidate Philip Luke Johnson discusses the military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay of five men accused of aiding the 9/11 attacks, and the prison’s extralegal history. Read more

• My Workplace Is My Real-Life Case Study’: Urban Ed Ph.D. Student and CUNY TV Correspondent Is Also a Full-Time Professor at FIT

  

  Elena Romero

  "During Hispanic Heritage Month, I want to draw attention to the need to recruit more Latinx students into Ph.D. programs and also the need for colleges and universities to recruit, hire, tenure, and support Latinx professors," Elena Romero says.  Read more

• Students, Make Your Voices Heard Through the 2021 Student Experience Survey

  

  (Photo credit: Da Ping Luo)

  Beginning October 19, 2021, students will have the opportunity to provide feedback about life at the Graduate Center through the Student Experience Survey. Read more

• 9 Ways the Graduate Center and its Scholars Are Influencing Hispanic Heritage

  During Hispanic Heritage Month, we are celebrating the scholarship and advocacy of our students, faculty, and alumni. Read more

• Faculty Book: Jessie Daniels

  Jessie Daniels
  Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It  
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