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End of the English Major? Hardly!
Graduate Center scholars say "The New Yorker" story is a clarion call, but the humanities remain relevant.
NEH Grant Promotes Equity in the Digital Humanities
The Graduate Center will create a new, open-access resource for digital humanities training.
Developing CUNY Students’ Digital Skills for the Tech Workforce
A new Graduate Center workforce development program funded by The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation will equip CUNY undergraduates with digital skills for tech sector jobs.
How to Reach Your Goals During the Spring Semester
As we face another semester in a pandemic, the challenges may be daunting, but your research and scholarship are more important to our community and the world than ever. The Graduate Center has resources to help you meet your academic...
A GRADUATE CENTER FELLOWSHIP THAT BUILDS DIGITAL SKILLS ALSO YIELDS JOBS FOR ALUMNI
By Lida Tunesi Until he learned to code in Python as a Graduate Center Digital Fellow, Patrick Smyth (Ph.D. ’21, English), who is blind and has only a little residual vision, felt frustrated by inaccessible graphical interfaces, such as the...
NEH GRANT OF NEARLY $500K SUPPORTS GRADUATE CENTER DIGITAL INITIATIVES AT A CRUCIAL TIME
A grant of $499,998 from the National Endowment for the Humanities will strengthen Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, or GCDI, a collection of programs and projects designed to integrate digital methods into the research, teaching, and service missions of the Graduate...
Scholars Gain Technical Skills and Pass Them on to Hundreds More, Thanks to the Digital Humanities Research Institute
Many participants in the 2021 institute, offered virtually, come from schools that serve large numbers of minority and underrepresented students; curriculum materials will be freely available online.
A $300,000 Carnegie Corporation Grant Supports Online Teaching at The Graduate Center
Graduate Center doctoral student fellows will provide one-on-one consultation, workshops, and support to help faculty expand and refine their approaches to teaching online.
COVID and Cages: Graduate Center Researchers Map How Prisons Responded to the Pandemic
Ph.D. student Olivia Ildefonso and alumna Celeste Wilson talk about their project, which visualizes data about prison releases related to the pandemic.
Graduate Center Awarded $250K NEH Grant for Digital Humanities Research Institutes
The funding supports an expanded version of the Digital Humanities Research Institute, a 10-day residential workshop, first held in June 2018.