John Rice (he/Them) wrote a new post on the site MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
The Queens Review Launch Party – 5/18
Our very own Queens Review is having a launch party to celebrate its inaugural issue on Saturday, May 18th at 7PM in Kew & Willow Books. The launch will feature surprise guest readings by contributors and copies of the beautiful print edition (published simultaneously with the web edition) will be for sale, care of Kew & Willow Books. Queens Review is a renewal of our program’s literary journal; it replaces our long-standing journal Armstrong Literary with a new vision to engage the multiplicity of culture and language, which is the essence of Queens, and connect those stories with the larger literary world. This issue is already yielding big results, with contributions by Cynthia Cruz, Diane Seuss, Stevie Edwards, and Rajiv Mohabir. The Queens Review is a journal based in Queens: a borough with a multiplicity of cultures, languages, and experiences. Rather than present a single unified voice, we aim to express the varied landscapes around us as well as our own internal terrain. Founded by students and faculty of the Queens College MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, The Queens Review is interested in work that pushes boundaries –– on an emotional level as well as a linguistic one –– poems, stories, translations, and fragments that scatter, ground, croon, and devastate. Submissions for Issue 2 should open in the fall, but you can read the first issue […] “The Queens Review Launch Party – 5/18”
Sofya Aptekar wrote a new post on the site The Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) 2 hours, 35 minutes ago
Letter to President BrumbergMay 7, 2024 Dear Interim President Brumberg, As you know, on April 25th, CUNY students, workers and community members established the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment at City College, in order to call for Five Demands: • Divest! Immediately divest from ALL companies complicit in the imperialist-zionist genocide, including weapons, tech and surveillance, and construction companies. Commit to full financial transparency regarding CUNY’s institutional investments. • Boycott! Ban all academic trips to the Zionist state, encompassing birthright, Fulbright, and perspective trips. Cancel all forms of cooperation with Israeli academic institutions, including events, activities, agreements, and research collaborations. • Solidarity! Release a statement affirming the right of the Palestinian people to national liberation and the right of return. Protect CUNY students and workers who are attacked for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Reinstate professors who have been fired for showing solidarity with Palestine. • Demilitarize! Demilitarize CUNY, Demilitarize Harlem! Get IOF and NYPD officers off all CUNY campuses, and end all collaboration, trainings and recruitment by imperialist institutions, including the CIA, Homeland Security and ROTC. Remove all symbols of US imperialism from our campuses: Rename the Colin Powell School of Global and Civic Leadership at CCNY and reinstate The Guillermo Morales and Assata Shakur Community and Student Center! • A People’s CUNY! We demand a fully-funded, free CUNY that is not beholden to zionist and imperialist private donors! Restore CUNY’s tuition-free status, protect the union, and adopt a fair contract for staff and faculty. On April 30th, CCNY management called the NYPD onto campus in response to the peaceful Encampment. The result was a militarized crackdown that terrorized and brutalized CGSE protesters, supporters and onlookers, and included the use of pepper spray and batons on students, workers and community members. The NYPD—including the Strategic Response Group, which the ACLU has declared one of the NYPD’s “most dangerous” units—wrought fear and violence on campus. At their hands, people exercising their First Amendment rights inside and outside the Encampment suffered broken bones, chemical burns, and other injuries. Close to 200 people were arrested; some, in violation of the law, were held without charges for over 36 hours. Now several CUNY community members are facing felony charges, whose gravity cannot be understated. It is essential that, as Interim President of the Graduate Center, you demonstrate support for any GC and CUNY community member who has suffered police brutality or legal repression. The PSC-GC Executive Committee asks you to: • Commit to academic amnesty for any GC-based organizer of the Encampment or protester arrested; no GC student should be penalized academically in their degree work at the GC. • Work to ensure that no GC students arrested or involved in organizing the Encampment will be retaliated against in their Graduate Assistant, Adjunct or other work duties across CUNY. • Identify financial resources at the GC that can be made available to those from the CGSE in need of legal support or compensation for belongings that were lost during the police raid. • Call on CUNY administration to refuse to participate in the prosecution of those arrested on April 30th. The night of April 30th saw an unprecedented assault on CUNY and on City College’s wider Harlem community. PSC leadership has already condemned the use of police force at the university and urged for the dropping of charges. It is essential that CUNY leadership on local campuses join this call and demonstrate concrete support for our students and workers, especially as they are being demonized by distorted “outside agitator” narratives. As CUNY students—both graduate and undergraduate—risk retaliation to mobilize around their Five Demands, and to call for CUNY to end its financial and academic ties to Israel and the industrial military complex, this is a moment where decisiveness from CUNY leadership is greatly needed. Signed, PSC-GC Executive Committee co-signed by PSC- […] “Letter to President Brumberg”
Sarah Hildebrand (She/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Career Planning and Professional Development 5 hours, 3 minutes ago
Completing Internships for Academic Credit
By Sarah Hildebrand Photo by Jason Goodman on Unsplash There are many be[…]
Sarah Hildebrand (She/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Career Planning and Professional Development 5 hours, 3 minutes ago
10 Reasons to Complete an Internship
By Sarah Hildebrand Photo by Proxyclick Visitor Management System on Unsplash There are many reasons why both[…]
Marjorine Henriquez-Castillo (She/her) wrote a new post on the site Psy 217: Child Psychology 5 hours, 32 minutes ago
Cancel class again sorryHi everyone. The bad luck train hasn’t left my station yet again. Have to cancel again. Was in the ER last […]
Andrea Rosso Efthymiou (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Writing Together 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
5/7: Drafting the AutoethnographyAccess the Autoethnographic Essay Rubric for use during today’s class. Using the rubric as our guide, we’ll look together at an excerpt of […]
Ryan Seslow wrote a new post on the site CT101 Digital Storytelling 9 hours, 41 minutes ago
CT101 Final Blog Post & Course Completion Information
CT101 Final Blog Post & Course Completion Information Here is the class recording from 5/7: Please Watch, especially if you were late or […]
Anthony Picciano wrote a new post on the site Tony's Thoughts 10 hours, 59 minutes ago
Protesters Close Hunter College and March to Met Gala!
Police arrest a pro-Palestinian protester during the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Credit – Andres […]
Anthony Picciano wrote a new post on the site Tony's Thoughts 11 hours, 25 minutes ago
Maggie Haberman: Trump Shook Head During ‘Extraordinary Moment’ Judge Threatened Jail — But No Defiant Comeback!
Maggie Haberman at Trump Hush Money Trial. AP Photo. Dear Commons Community, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman gave gripping up […]
Susan Carpenter wrote a new post on the site CUNY Unlimited / Melissa Riggio Program 15 hours, 23 minutes ago
CUNY Unlimited/ Melissa Riggio Higher Education Program FIG 3 Spring 2024
Here enclosed the link to a wonderful presentation we had from Donatella Camedda at our hybrid FIG meeting 3 on May 2nd in the KCTL […]
Kevin Moore talks with Swiss journalist and documentary filmmaker Jean-Cosme Delaloye about bearing witness to vulnerable lives, exercises in empathy, and political decisions that make a difference. Artist Sarah Braman considers the lessons of community and family, of believing you can do what you put your...
