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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 Our Scholars Played Heroic Roles in the Pandemic
Graduate Center scholars have been at the forefront of research to understand the virus and the larger pandemic.
The Ways COVID Changed Teaching at CUNY for the Better
From confronting the “archaic way we test our students” to using digital archives, Graduate Center students and faculty share how the pandemic spurred new ways of teaching.
How to Be an Antiracist Teacher
Professor Cathy N. Davidson and Graduate Center scholars spur equitable teaching at CUNY through the grant-funded Transformative Learning in the Humanities initiative.
NEH FUNDS TO BOOST STUDENTS’ DIGITAL SKILLS HAVE WIDESPREAD BENEFITS AT CUNY AND BEYOND
The Graduate Center, CUNY · NEH Funds to Boost Students’ Digital Skills Have Widespread Benefits at CUNY and Beyond When CUNY Graduate Center Professor Matthew K. Gold tweeted last month that he and his colleague Lisa Rhody received a nearly...
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...
8 NEW STUDENTS SHARE THEIR INSPIRING STORIES
This fall, nearly 600 master’s and doctoral students join the Graduate Center. Meet eight whose stories offer a glimpse into the fascinating backgrounds and perspectives this year’s incoming students bring to the GC. Benjamin Krusling comes to the Graduate Center...
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.
Talking to Strangers: A Digital Humanities Student Coordinates a New York City Oral History Project
"This project sounded very in line with what I love doing, which is to help bring people into the archive and the archive out to the people," Abou Mrad says.