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The International Students’ Experience Survey
Are you an international graduate student interested in sharing your experiences with the International Student Advocacy Project? If so, here’s the link to the International Students’ Experience Survey. Further information from the survey: “International graduate students, compared to their domestic counterparts, experience multiple additional barriers to success that cut or significantly limit their access to vital resources […]
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A New Chapter
After seven wonderful years at the Futures Initiative and HASTAC, it is with both sadness and excitement that I announce that I will be leaving the Graduate Center in September. Working at CUNY since 2014, when the Futures Initiative was just taking shape, has been an incredible privilege. I have learned so much from each […]
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Terry Kendrick helps libraries achieve their marketing, communications and engagement goals with new book
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing: A practical guide for librarians and information professionals by Terry Kendrick. Now more than ever, libraries must find ways to engage with their communities in order to demonstrate the value they create and deliver. Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing is a comprehensive […]
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Bringing the territory into the discussion: how to work towards a situated university?
“We advance towards the struggle secure in the reality of our land (with our feet planted on the ground).” Amilcar Cabral Why do I think it is important to bring territory to the discussion around the role of the university and the debates around its transformation? I consider the effort to build a situated university […]
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Creating Space within Constraints: A Reflection on Conference Planning in a Pandemic
Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash. There is nothing like a pandemic to make one question what an academic conference is for. Especially if you are one of the conference organizers. When CUNY went remote a year ago, I was in the final stretch of planning Graduate Education at Work in the World, as part […]
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A guide for academics to become culture change agents for open research
“I believe that by focussing our attention on communites [sic], groups, clubs and the incentives that they work within we will make more progress, because at some level the incentives for the group are the culture” (Neylon 2015; Accessed June 25, 2019). Open science needs you to become a culture change agent. Almost everybody you […]
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Introduction: Putting the PhD to Work—for the Public Good
In the introduction to Putting the Humanities PhD to Work, Katina L. Rogers notes the broad remit of her book. Its intended audience includes not only PhD students, but also anyone who might consider getting a PhD, as well as, of course, those responsible for shaping the futures of graduate programs and graduate students. I’m […]
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Appendix: Ten Ways to Begin
In the afterword, Dr. Rogers lays out ten ways forward for academics looking to not only restructure academia, but also for students on how to use their graduate degrees to find meaningful employment. The afterword and its ten ways forward, offers clear and succinct steps on how graduate education can be restructured, such that graduate […]
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Chapter 3 – Expanding Definitions of Scholarly Success
In earlier chapters, particularly in Chapter 2, Rogers stresses the importance of admitting graduate students with diverse backgrounds and of valuing those backgrounds in the application process. Hand in hand with that idea is the point that forms the basis of Rogers’ argument in Chapter 3: once those students are admitted into PhD programs, we […]
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Chapter 3 – Expanding Definitions of Scholarly Success
Katina Rogers begins chapter three of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work by considering what it means to be “successful” in terms of research and career outcomes in humanities fields. Particularly in our current moment, where the values of the humanities are constantly being redefined and renegotiated, this chapter comes as a necessary remark […]