We close by celebrating @cathyndavidson.bsky.social for her bold leadership and unwavering commitment to higher educationβand for 10 transformative years of the Futures Initiative. Hereβs to a legacy of innovation, justice, and public good.
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Another blind spot in higher ed: failing to grasp the deep value of diversity. We define excellence narrowly and ask diversity to prove its worthβwhile taking homogeneity as the norm. Itβs time to question who defines excellence and why.
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Higher education has as its mission to serve the public goodβbut rarely stops to ask how the public defines it.
One of our biggest blind spots is assuming our definition is shared. To rebuild trust, we have to listenβespecially across difference.
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@cathyndavidson.bsky.social speaks about college debt and that most have $40K in debt but for profit college debt is three times that plus higher dropout rates. It exacerbates the problem but we're seeing a push for privatization and that's precisely what we don't want.
@futuresed.bsky.social
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"If funding is going to be tied to politics, we need to be tied to each other. Transform competitive spaces into collaborative ones." - Nancy Cantor, President of CUNY's Hunter College.
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Challenging times can open space for imagination.
In moments of crisis, resistance, endurance, and imagination become essentialβnot just to survive, but to transform.
These moments can be the catalyst for long-overdue change in our institutions.
#FutureOfHigherEd #TransformHigherEd
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Hunter College President Nancy Cantor calls for creating shared spacesβnot controlled by universities or communities alone, but co-created together.
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To shape the future of higher ed, we must co-create with communities - not drop in grant by grant, but commit for the long haul. Itβs about shared spaces, visibility, and building together. That can be revolutionary!
08.05.2025 23:10 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, highlights our responsibility to communicate the value of our work:
"Higher ed is facing cuts, discrediting, and public distrustβbut the public doesnβt know whatβs being lost. Thatβs on us!"
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Hunter College President Nancy Cantor reminds us of the importance of doing research embedded with communities:
βWe need a two-way streetβa community of experts with and without formal credentialsβwho really co-produce solutions.β
#FutureOfHigherEd
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"Storytelling is as important as science". @shellyeversley.bsky.social about the importance of liberal arts and humanities in Higher Education.
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We start our event with a powerful question: What does it mean to defend higher education and cultural institutions for the public goodβnot just for today, but for generations to come? #FutureOfHigherEd
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We are LIVE: The Future of Higher Education!
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Hugging Face β The AI community building the future.
Weβre on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
In today's "AI and the Future of Higher Education," @cathyndavidson.bsky.social mentions former FI Fellow Chris McGuinness and what she has learned about Hugging Face, a "GitHub for AI": huggingface.co
@hf.co @futuresed.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social
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At today's Futures Initiative webinar on AI and the Future of Higher Education, @cathyndavidson.bsky.social quotes Andrew Chee: "Love yourself enough to write your own term papers," @alexanderchee.bsky.social. SO important that we emphasize love, and foster self-advocacy & self-trust in students!!
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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If OpenAI / chatGPT is supposed to do something for the public good, then it could have been rolled out differently to actually serve education and learning rather than overwhelming the education system in the whiplash. Great point by @alondra.bsky.social at today's @futuresed.bsky.social webinar!
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We just finished the amazing conversation with @alondra.bsky.social and @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, and @hastac.bsky.social area directors Dr. Jade E. Davis and Dr. Kevin Healey. We will be sharing the recap of the conversation on our website soon.
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@alondra.bsky.social reminds us that expertise is often weaponized to exclude. So, we must reject the notion that only technical experts should shape AI policy. When it comes to its usage in schools, educators, parents, students, and citizens must have a voice.
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As we explore AIβs possibilities, @cathyndavidson.bsky.social also worries about what weβre not learning when we outsource too much to ChatGPT. Like using our critical thinking, developing writing skills, and being aware of how we learn.
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βPart of what weβre going to learn is from the students.β β @alondranelson on the need to engage AI in education with humility, knowing weβre teaching future generations who will have grown up with it.
08.05.2025 15:42 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks @cathyndavidson.bsky.social for sharing some encouraging initiatives like @huggingface.bsky.social, an open-source community that helps open the AI blackbox. Initiatives like this put tools in the hands of policymakers like @alondra.bsky.social, to design better policies.
08.05.2025 15:37 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
βThe risks and possibilities of AI arenβt the same in Kβ12 and college classrooms. And we shouldnβt assume AI is an educational advanceβit must be proven, demonstrated, and researched.β @alondra.bsky.social in conversation with @cathyndavidson.bsky.social in our webinar.
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βMy assumption is itβs not new.β β @cathyndavidson.bsky.social on AI as just the latest chapter in a long history of technological evolution.
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We are starting now! Join us!
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Making Room for Latin American Studies and Scholars at CUNY
Historian Mila Burns joins βThe Thought Projectβ podcast to discuss her forthcoming book and her work to amplify Latino voices at CUNY.
My latest podcast, with the amazing Mila Burns, Associate Director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.A GC alumna who is also on faculty at Lehman College. She shares her most recent research in Cuba. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/making-...
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Futures Initiative Annual Report 2023β2024
READ OUR ANNUAL REPORT HERE We invite you to browse this report, compiled by Doctoral Student Fellows Burcu Γzdemir and Megan C. Henriquez, and guided by Dr. Christina Katopodis, Senior [...]
Hot off the press! Our 10-Year Anniversary Annual Report for 2023-2024 is now published! You can read the digital version here and pick up your hard copy at tomorrow's event in the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Elebash Recital Hall! futuresinitiative.org/2025/05/06/f...
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β¦ and stick around after 5 for pizza, drinks, music, and mingling!
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I'm prepping for "AI and Higher Ed" on Thurs 11 am EST, by listening to talks by @alondra.bsky.social. What clarifying, demystifying brilliance! You can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/alondra-ne... #Science @futuresed.bsky.social @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social
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Very excited for Thursday's big events! Join us! @futuresed.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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Professor of political science. Solidarity economies, local and global. Philly. Community gardens. Democratic accountability. Interested in discard studies.
Professor of Geography, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. Co-author of Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation. Love making maps of diverse and solidarity economies.
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Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
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Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
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