Facilitators

Setting up a blog…

According to Steven Pinker in his recent New Republic article about"The Trouble with Harvard," the most read article in the history of that magazine is a previous article also mostly about the trouble with Harvard, William Deresiewicz’s “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.”    Like all the things we most covet and scorn, Harvard is the ob

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My CLMOOC friend and colleague Kevin Hodgson (@dogtrax) recently wrote a blog post for the read more

The Futures Initiative:  A Workshop and Information Sessionread more

Building academic community for graduate students has been a goal of the Virginia Tech Graduate School since at least 2002.  Universities traditionally have fostered a sense of community for the undergraduate experience but often left the graduate student experience in … Continue reading →

On July 1, I left my friends, family, students, and neighbors at Duke University, where I had enjoyed as rich and fulfilling a career  for over two decades as any academic could aspire to, to take up a new position among the distinguished faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  To people who haven’t been paying attention, this choice may seem eccentric.  Why leave two (!) distinguished chairs at a  top, private university to join the nation’s largest public urban university at this historical moment, when so much public education is under dure

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I love it when my different social and professional worlds start to collide in productive ways. These past few weeks I've been delighted to see more and more bridges being built across the world of higher education where I sit as a faculty member, and ...

MUS654 is an online version of a course taught at the University of Chichester. It is about considering and creating a year’s curriculum for a music student having private lessons. –on any instrument, voice, any style of music and for any age person. It is an individually guided, open course designed to be useful for […]

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Nearly there! The plan is to post by tea time 31st of August….

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Here's the first public announcement of the first official program offered by the Futures Initiative (Graduate Center, CUNY):  #remixthediss.    read more

The Virginia Tech Graduate School is leading an initiative to join the conversation with Connected Courses this semester.  Our efforts will include graduate students and faculty in the conversation.  Pleased to participate.