A white paper by Graduate Center doctoral student Kimberly Libman, targeting the high cost of college textbooks, is the basis of a legislative package just introduced in the New York State Assembly. The paper, Transforming Textbooks, shows how electronic textbooks can reduce costs and expand academic resources for cash-strapped public college students, who spend more than $1,000 annually on required texts, and for public universities, which are facing budget cuts. But, the report also warns, the publishing industry’s current business practices stand in the way.
Read moreThe City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of March at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For further information about the Graduate Center and its public programs, visit http://www.gc.cuny.edu.
Read moreTwo hundred aspiring scholars from undergraduate CUNY campuses will present their research at the 13th Annual CUNY Pipeline Conference on Friday, February 19. The Pipeline program is aimed at encouraging City University of New York students from underserved minorities to enter doctoral programs and, eventually, the academy as professors.
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Read moreThe Great Issues Forum, a series of high-profile public conversations that explore critical issues of our time through a single thematic lens, will focus on Islam in the spring of 2010.
Read moreMannequins dressed in 1960s European fashions combine with legendary foreign films of the period to evoke a vital creative era, in the James Gallery’s latest exhibition, FASHION + FILM, the 1960s Revisited, on view from Friday, March 12, through Saturday, May 1.
Read moreThe City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of March at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For further information about the Graduate Center and its public programs, visit http://www.gc.cuny.edu.
Read moreDennis Sullivan, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the Graduate Center, has won the prestigious Wolf Prize for his innovative work in algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.
Read moreThe City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of May at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For further information about the Graduate Center and its public programs, visit www.gc.cuny.edu.
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