Student Resources

• Find out more about their range of services, including individual career counseling and writing consultations.
• Among their services for Ph.D. students and recent alumni, check out resources for navigating academia and their career planning guide.

• The TLC has developed several guides to support graduate assistants who teach throughout CUNY.
• For new students, a great starting point would be the new teacher guide. In addition, use the navigating CUNY guides to find resources at the campuses where you work.
• For robust information on course design, assessments, learning activities, and evaluation, take some time to read through the Teach@CUNY Handbook, which is updated each year.

• The Future Initiative provides workshops, fellowships, and grant initiatives that support diversity and student-centered pedagogy in the humanities.
• Among their resources offered are online tutorials on how to build websites on WordPress and BuddyPress.

• Peruse this Provost's Office for links to graduate research fellowships, grants, and other opportunities.
• Are you interested deepening your reading knowledge in a language other than English? The Language Reading Program offers low-cost courses in French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish.

The Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council is the sole policy-making body representing students in doctoral and master’s programs at the Graduate Center.

The Doctoral and Graduate Students' Council is located in the Robert E. Gilleece Student Center on the fifth floor. The main office is Room 5495; telephone: 212.817.7888 or 212.817.7845; email: dsc@cunydsc.org.

The Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council and its officers are charged with representing student interests before the administration and external bodies.

In addition to informal and ongoing communications, the DGSC officers meet with members of Graduate Center administration to report activities and exchange information.

Students may have issues presented by their DGSC representatives or the DGSC Executive Committee before the Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council, or can personally address the Council by requesting to be put on the DGSC agenda for an upcoming meeting. This may, in turn, result in discussion or actions taken within the DGSC or between the DGSC and the administration.

The DGSC members also act as advocates for graduate student interests at the Board of Trustees, University Student Senate, University Faculty Senate, New York State Assembly, the Mayor’s Office, and with Graduate Center administration.

Program Student Associations, such as the Urban Education Student Association (UESA), are program student governments which the DGSC recognizes as the official voice of students in their programs. Officially recognized PSAs gain:

• recognition as the official policymaking body for students in their respective programs under the authority of the DGSC as the sole policymaking body representing students in doctoral and master’s programs at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
• resources and consultation regarding governance and Graduate Center administration
• financial services (deposits and control of funds) via program allocation lines
• web resources, including OpenCUNY
• use of VoteNet for student program elections (in March-May)

• Michelle Coleman
• Angela Dunne
• Lucien Baskin
• Dinorah Hudson
• (alt) Bibi Caldero 

Responsibilities: The students acting on the Executive Committee shall be responsible for making policy decisions recommendations of standing committees, recommending faculty appointments, promotions, and tenure, and advising the Executive Officer.

gc.urbaned.exec@gmail.com

• Brian Pew
• Jennifer Queenan
• Noelle Mapes

Responsibilities: The Admissions and Awards Committee recommends students to be admitted to the program each year and recommends students for fellowships. It shall advise the Executive Officer regarding the need and merit of individual students for available fellowship funds and financial aid.

• Dinorah Hudson
• Shreya Sunderram
• Gayle Maslow

Responsibilities: The Curriculum and Examinations Committee shall be responsible for making recommendations to the Executive Committee in all matters regarding the curriculum of the program and the content and format of the First and Second Examinations.

• Giovana Perciballi

• Lucien Baskin

Responsibilities: The Membership Committee shall be responsible for recommending to the Executive Committee the nomination of members of the CUNY faculty to the Urban Education doctoral faculty and for periodically reviewing the composition of the faculty and making appropriate recommendations, including for the removal of inactive members.

Responsibilities: The Elections Committee shall conduct and certify the results of all elections. The student chair will appoint two other students to assist them.

• Chloe V. Asselin; chloe.asselin@gmail.com
• Rachel Chapman: rchapman@gradcenter.cuny.edu