Category: Colleges & Universities
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Conclusion: Building a University Worth Fighting For
The conclusion and afterword of Dr. Katina Rogers’ Putting the Humanities To Work fundamentally challenges the pessimistic notion that the academy as we know it is unchangeable, or that those involved with universities by employment or education are unable to change them. The notion that “a university worth fighting for” is not an impossible dream…
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Chapter 1 – The Academic Workforce: Expectations and Realities
Book title: Putting the Humanities PhD to Work Toward the end of my first year as a PhD student, I unexpectedly had the opportunity to step in as the lecturer for a course partway into the semester. The week that my role switched from TA to instructor, several students stopped beginning their emails to me…
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Chapter 5 – Students: How to Put Your PhD to Work
Book Title: Putting the Humanities PhD to work In chapter five, Rogers examines the specific ways of putting the humanities PhD to work. She focuses this intervention on not only the students but also those in positions to make institutional decisions, such as faculty members and university administrators. Rogers, in this chapter, offers practical suggestions…
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When Experts Ask the Wrong Questions
I was boycotting the news for a couple of days. I am teaching virtually and on screen more than 40 hours a week. Watching the news was totally bringing me down. I need to stay upbeat. I need to be cheerful and engaging for my students. I need a break from the talking heads. Yet,…
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Should White Scholars Write about Indigenous Populations?
I wanted this paper to be on the exploration of neoliberal poverty management of Indigenous Hawaiians in Hawaii for a graduate class I was taking on post-colonial feminism. It was suggested to me that as a white person, perhaps it was not my place to write about the Indigenous Hawaiian experience. Initially defensive, I wanted…
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Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Book Launch Video and Q&A
Click to watch the full conversation I had the great pleasure of speaking with Dr. Teresa Mangum at the University of Iowa to celebrate the launch of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work. Following a generous introduction by Dr. Cathy Davidson, Teresa and I had an invigorating conversation about the nature of graduate education, the…
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Scholar Spotlight: Jesse Rice-Evans
Why did you apply to HASTAC? In composition/rhetoric and writing studies, digital pedagogy is a crucial element of developing effective and equitable pedagogy! Building community around digital equity is an important component of centering access in future intellectual projects 🙂 What has been your favorite course so far as an instructor or student? Why? My…
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A Year In Review: The Futures Initiative Undergraduate Leadership Program (2019-2020 Cohort)
By Lauren Melendez and Kashema Hutchinson (cross-posted on futuresinitiative.org) Leadership Fellows during our monthly meet-up, CUNY Graduate Center The Futures Initiative’s Undergraduate Leadership Program (ULP) supports CUNY undergraduate students who are learning to be leaders within their colleges and within their communities. The program, directed by Lauren Melendez, MSEd Director of the Undergraduate Leadership Program…
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The Pandemic and Children’s Mental Health
On the news again are the arguments for reopening schools. I heard some of the arguments from pediatricians regarding mental health and the need for students to be in school. I am not sure if many pediatricians realize that special education teachers set up mental health services for our students. For example, at the beginning of…
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Teachers & Profs Talk About It Meet Up?
Hi Fellow Teachers and Profs, With all that is going on are we really hearing from educators themselves? Today I was watching DeVos again. She said that she couldn’t give an opinion on something because she is not a doctor or medical professional, but has she ever been a teacher? I see that she has…