Quality and Diversity
Much has been written lately about the rise in quality of CUNY over the last two decades. Some have assumed that means that CUNY has lost its honored populist commitments to New York’s diverse culture. That turns out not to be true, according to the careful demographic research published last week by our Futures Initiative Fellow and Graduate Center doctoral student, Michael Dorsch.
This morning I did something and I’m not sure if I am crazy or stupid, or maybe a bit of both. What I am sure of is that I believe in this. I booked the 5 airplane tickets for a project, that might actually be a way of life that is beginning to spill out […]
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I made the following remarks earlier today at the 30th Annual LAND Conference.
As I have previously argued, “While discussing vital educational issues, the voices of community college students are practically non-existent. This is a problem that we can easily change.” By encouraging public writing, our students can produce meaningful work that benefits them educationally and personally.
Two weeks ago, members of the Futures Initiative along with a handful of eminent CUNY administrators met with the current Chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities, William ‘Bro’ Adams. Chairman Adams was interested both in our perception of the NEH and the work that they do, and the current struggles we face as humanities practitioners—with an eye towards ways that NEH might help support our work.