All Spring 2022 Futures Initiative Events:
The Futures Initiative is pleased to partner with HASTAC to offer events, webinars, and Twitter chats designed to tie student-centered, engaged pedagogical practices to institutional change and social justice. We will pay special attention to race, gender, diversity, equity, and inequality—and to rethinking the higher education we so urgently need now. These events connect to a collection of team-taught courses offered at the Graduate Center each year.
Upcoming Futures Initiative Events:
Is Graduate School For Me?
In continuation of The Futures Initiative series that launched during the spring semester, we invite you to join us and learn insightful tips about the graduate school application process from current CUNY graduate students, faculty, and administrators. This event is designed primarily for students who are actively applying or preparing to apply to graduate school. You’ll hear personal experiences about everything to do with the application process, including writing the perfect personal statement, using resources that are publicly available, networking, organizing deadlines, and much more! The application stage does not have to be a solitary process. Join us on December 5th to learn more.
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Past Futures Initiative Event Recaps:
UWFF Series recap. Why can’t we breathe? Fighting environmental racism in the Bronx. - On May 3rd, Futures Initiative had the pleasure to host an event organized by Ángeles Donoso Macaya and Ashley Dawson. The two
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Event Recap: Is Graduate School For Me? Part 2 - The FI team, led by Graduate Fellows Dasharah Green and Rod Hurley, hosted “Is Graduate School For Me? Part 2” to provide
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CUNY Peer Leaders 2022 Kick Off! - The CUNY Peer Leaders (CPL) 2022-2023 cohort held their first kick-off community-building meeting on Thursday, August 11, 2022. We began the meeting
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FI 2021-2022 University Worth Fighting For Events - THE UNIVERSITY WORTH FIGHTING FOR is a series of events sponsored by the Futures Initiative in which we advocate for a transformation
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Event: The New College Classroom (September 7th, 2022) - “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.” —Audre Lorde About this Event Join the Futures Initiative
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University Worth Fighting For Event: Is Graduate School For Me? – Recap - On Friday, March 25th, FI hosted a University Worth Fighting For Event titled “Is Graduate School For Me?” The event consisted of
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Enriching STEM: Creating Equity in and Beyond the Lab, Event Recap - In the sciences, because we are working to better understand the world and systems within it, a diversity of opinions and viewpoints
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What if graduate education serves ALL students and the public good? - Last fall, we issued a call for proposals to scholars across the U.S. to think together with us on these questions: How
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Enriching STEM: Creating Equity in and Beyond the Lab – POSTPONED - UPDATE: As of March 10, 2020, this event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We will update this page when
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Inclusive or Exclusive: Reimagining Classrooms as Transnational Spaces - Workshop participants taking a picture as a group performance. Under the aggravated anti-immigration policies and politics of the Trump administration, we designed
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Citizen, Immigrant, Visitor:(Un)certainties of the Non-Resident PhD Student - Join the Futures Initiative on Thursday, October 17, from 1pm to 2pm at The Graduate Center (Room 3317), for a event where
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Teaching Tour of Sunset Park led by Tarry Hum - Futures Initiative Faculty Fellows Prithi Kanakamedala and Tarry Hum, who this Fall semester co-teach the “Voices of the City” class, will be holding
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Event Recap: Co-Teaching and Co-Writing - On September 19, 2019, participants gathered together for a workshop on “Co-Teaching and Co-Writing: Strategies for Collegial Collaboration.” The first half of
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Call for Proposals: Graduate Education at Work in the World - CFP: Graduate Education at Work in the World Proposal Deadline: October 22, 2019 Conference Date: April 30 (public keynote) – May 1,
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Sep 19 Event: “Co-Teaching and Co-Writing: Effective Strategies for Collegial Collaboration” - Thurs, Sep 19 @ 1-2 PM in Room 3317 What does it take to structure collaboration so that each contribution is made
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FI Course THE FUTURE OF WORK Speaker Series - SPEAKER SERIES In association with the Futures Initiative seminar: MIND THE GAP: TECHNOLOGIES, TRENDS, AND POLICIES SHAPING THE FUTURE OF WORK Is
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Event Recap: Understanding the IRB, Part II - For a many of us, the IRB process is one of those things that seems to be looming over our studies. For
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Event Recap: MLA Presidential Plenary #StatesOfInsecurity - The Modern Language Association conference this year has already proven to be more politically engaged, at least in my experience, than the
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From Dissertation to First Book with Ken Wissoker and Kalle Westerling - In the Thursday Dialogue, “From Dissertation to First Book,” Ken Wissoker (Editorial Director of Duke University Press and Director of Intellectual Publics
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HASTAC2016 New Institutional Configurations: Community Colleges and Doctoral Training in the Humanities - [View the story “HASTAC2016 New Institutional Configurations” on Storify]
Storify of Futures Initiative and CUNY HASTAC 2016 Panels, 5/13/16 - [View the story “Futures Initiative Panels #HASTAC16 5/12/16” on Storify]

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Recap: Measuring What Counts - On Wednesday, March 2nd, the Futures Initiative hosted “Measuring What Counts: Credentials or Learning” at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It is part
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Recap and Photo Essay: Towards a Pedagogy of Equality - On Friday, August 28, the Futures Initiative kicked off its first workshop event in the University Worth Fighting For series that will
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Futures Initiative Mentoring Workshop Day 2: Photo Essay - Everybody raise your hand! #futuresed pic.twitter.com/yhID1PEemy — Futures Initiative (@FuturesED) August 19, 2015 The Futures Initiative Mentoring Workshop continued on August 19,
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Storify from “Rethinking Evaluation” with Dr. Anthony Picciano - Wasn’t able to attend Monday’s open session on “Rethinking Evaluation and Assessment in Online and Blended Learning Environments”? Check out the Storify
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Storify from our “What Is a Dissertation?” Event #remixthediss - [View the story “What Is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media #remixthediss” on Storify]
Publish your dissertation digitally or not? - Wondering if you want to publish your dissertation as open-access or embargo it, in a private depository for a year, two, or
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Storify “Mapping the Universe and Other Small Things” with Curtis Wong - Weren’t able to attend Curtis Wong’s talk? Attended the talk but didn’t have time to scribble down the name of that awesome
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