Quality and Diversity Much has been written lately about the rise in quality of CUNY over the last two decades. Some have assumed that its rising quality means CUNY must […]
Archive | Reflections
Three Reasons Why Higher Education Should (and Can) Change
This week a journalist asked me to list three principles that underlie and motivate my interest in institutional transformation for higher education. It’s always an interesting exercise when someone asks […]
Virtual Mapping
This past October at our first public Futures Initiative event at the Graduate Center, Curtis Wong, the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, gave a talk entitled “Mapping the Universe and Other […]
The Single Best Method For Class (Or Any Kind of) Participation (Thx SciFi Genius Samuel Delany)
Whenever the great science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany teaches or gives a talk, he asks questions and has one requirement: everyone has to raise a hand. Everyone. Whether one […]
CUNY Soda Can
Finally, CUNY soda! This soda can was spotted on the SUNY Stony Brook campus! We at the Futures Initiative have been advocating for more CUNY swag 🙂 But more importantly, […]
Partnerships and Looking Forward
Demos Orphanides, Webmaster and Online Community Strategist at HASTAC@Duke, recently joined the HASTAC@CUNY and Futures Initiative team for a few days while we prepare for several exciting new things on […]
Mix it Up! How Equity Can Enhance Innovation–and How #FuturesEd Works Toward Those Goals
We’re all abuzz here with conversation, analysis, dismay, and all the rest about a recent article in the Atlantic that paints a grim picture of the way even the City […]
The dialectics of dreams and failure: racialized violence as higher education’s “crisis ordinariness”
Update 1/14: Although it doesn’t change the fact that standardized tests are a form of institutional racism that exacerbate unequal access to education, a recent letter to the editor of […]
The Invention of Failure
What if we got rid of “flunk out courses” that were defined as “rigorous and demanding” and, instead, set our goal as ensuring the success of every student in equally […]
Collaborative Learning for a Digital Age
This is an excerpt from Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011). It was published, in […]
