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The Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center advances greater equity and innovation in higher education and promotes reinvestment in higher education as a public good. linktr.ee/futuresinitiative
HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Elisa Castro
Elisa is a post-graduate fellow with the Transborder Digital Humanities Consortium at UTSA, where her research focuses on migration, archival studies, and transborder digital humanities.
To read more about Elisa, follow this link: tinyurl.com/y36d9by7
FI Podcast Ep 1:5 — “Teaching to Transform.”
Christina Katopodis & Jason Hendrickson on student-centered teaching, rehumanizing education, and why humanities matter now more than ever.
Listen here:
futuresinitiative.org/2026/02/16/f...
#HigherEd #Teaching #CUNY #FuturesInitiative
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, four Graduate Center couples reflect on how they found and deepened their love through their Ph.D. journeys www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @saraskin.bsky.social
12.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2🎓📘 The Futures Initiative (FI) is excited to co-sponsor a special event with the Teaching and Learning Center at The Graduate Center to celebrate the launch of The Campus Crisis Toolkit on February 20 tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/01/20/f...
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Both events will be in person 2/20 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social.
The evening panel will be livestreamed.
Hosted by @gctlc.bsky.social, co-sponsored by @futuresed.bsky.social, supported by @mellon.org.
With the #SuperBowl approaching #thisSunday, this is a timely moment to reflect on our episode’s exploration of culture, identity, and community, check on our clip: youtube.com/clip/UgkxzTG4U_BvTVU5Gdhs1sSNMHJRIQSMglTR?si=W5RpFjz1O4WlXb5H
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🎉🎧 Episode 4 of the Futures Initiative Podcast is now available!
🎶📚 What can Puerto Rican Studies—and Bad Bunny’s music—teach us about the future of research?
▶️ Watch on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQw...
#PuertoRicanStudies #FuturesInitiative #Decolonization #HigherEd #BadBunny
📣✨ Call for Proposals! ✨📣
The Futures Initiative (FI) is now accepting proposals for team-taught graduate courses (AY 2026–2027) 🎓🤝
🗓️ Preliminary deadline: Feb 27, 2026 ⏰
🔗 Apply via link in bio!
#FuturesInitiative #CUNY #TeamTeaching #GraduateEducation #HigherEdEquity
📣✨ Call for Proposals! ✨📣
The Futures Initiative (FI) is now accepting proposals for team-taught graduate courses (AY 2026–2027) 🎓🤝
🗓️ Preliminary deadline: Feb 27, 2026⏰
🔗 Apply via link in bio!
#FuturesInitiative #CUNY #TeamTeaching #GraduateEducation #HigherEdEquity
🎙️🌈 FI Podcast — Episode 3 is here! 🌈🎙️
In Episode 1:3, our incredible guests Dr. Matt Brim and Dr. Kevin Nadal, Ph.D., with Dr.Shelly Eversley:
👉 Why is Queer Studies for everybody?
📅 Premiering December 16
▶️ Watch on our YouTube channel: lnkd.in/eDg5hEFi
🎧 Or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
📣✨ Call for Proposals! ✨📣
The Futures Initiative (FI) is now accepting proposals for team-taught graduate courses (AY 2025–2026) 🎓🤝
🗓️ Preliminary deadline: Feb 28, 2025 ⏰
🔗 Apply via link in bio!
#FuturesInitiative #CUNY #TeamTeaching #GraduateEducation #HigherEdEquity
🔥🔥🔥 Big news!
The FI HASTAC Scholars now has its own Instagram account: @hastac_official 📲✨
🤝🤝🤝 Meet the HASTAC Scholars Co-Directors
✨ @belizeanlinguist
✨ @tatibertolucci
Follow along for:
📚 highlights from HASTAC Scholars events
🎤 scholar spotlights & voices
#CUNY #HASTACScholars
🎉❤️ WE DID IT! THANK YOU! ❤️🎉
❤️We hit $12,000 in donations!❤️
💛 Although Giving Tuesday has officially ended, our donation link is still open until December 31st!
👉 Donation link: https://www.givegab.com/campaigns/futures-initiative-cuny-tuesday-campaign
#GivingTuesday #CUNY #PublicEducation
FINAL CALL: Scan the QR code or click the link in bio to apply for the 2026-2027 HASTAC Scholars Program by EOD today, December 5th!
#education #highereducation #stem #stemeducation #science #technology #humanities #fellowship #scholarship #academia #collaboration
@lizbethdsantana.bsky.social : “It's for everyone...to understand students need to be celebrated.” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lesly Ramirez Melchor: “Talking about immigration doesn't always have to be bad.” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@lizbethdsantana.bsky.social: “Learning how to navigate this ethically, but it's about putting [immigrants'] voices at the center.” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What does solidarity look like across immigrant and non-immigrant communities in academic spaces? #uwff
18.11.2025 22:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cynthia Carvajal, PhD: “It's important for U.S. citizens to know this information.” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sunisa Nuonsy: “It is a privilege to not talk about [immigration].” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lesly Ramirez Melchor: “You're gonna be surprised by how many students want to talk about current political news.” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How can universities build structural and relational forms of support that go beyond “inclusion”? #uwff
18.11.2025 22:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What changes in immigration or education policy most impact students today? #uwff
18.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sunisa Nuonsy: “It's crucial that K-12 educators know about immigration.” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cynthia Carvajal, PhD: “As statuses are being revoked, folks are really falling in and out of these benefits.” #uwff
18.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sunisa Nuonsy: “I became a reflection of my family when they arrived in the U.S.” #uwff
18.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our University Worth Fighting For event, Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education, is starting in one minute! Follow along using #uwff
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🚨⏰ Happening in 1 Hour! ⏰🚨
💪✨We’re getting ready for Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education 🎓🌍
☕ Light refreshments will be served!
🗓️ Time: 4:30 PM -6 PM
📍 Location: The Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY
🔗 Register below to catch the last seat!
🎙✨ Episode #2 is live!
What does academic freedom really mean, and why now?
Deep convo w/ Moustafa Bayoumi & Michelle Fine, hosted by Shelly Eversley 🔥💬
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba842N-OJCI&list=PLs4s4YzyzpmGp8pMRWPxR9H4rds1715Cm\
🎧 Please subscribe! 🔔
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #CUNY ✊🏽🗽
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Join a New Generation of Innovative Scholars – Apply for the 2026-2027 HASTAC Scholars Program! Scan the QR code or click the link in bio to apply!
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