UWFF: Art. Justice. Research.
🗓️ May 7th, 5 pm - 7 pm
Join us for the next University Worth Fighting For event exploring how creative practice connects with community, research, and social change.
Refreshments will be provided 🍌🍇🥑🍓
#UWFF #ArtAndJustice #CreativeCommunity #PublicScholarship
Headshot of Rachael Mulvihill
HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Rachael Mulvihill (@rachaelvm454.bsky.social)
Rachael V. Mulvihill is a PhD Candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University.
To read more about Rachael, follow this link: tinyurl.com/2ne96cey
The Second Language Acquisition Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center is recruiting Turkish speakers in the U.S. or Germany for an online study on Turkish and bilingualism.
Not eligible? Please share, word of mouth really helps!
slalab.gc.cuny.edu/post/new-stu...
#linguistics @verbingnouns.bsky.social
This is the official account of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory). HASTAC was an early participant in a National Science Foundation initiative to create “collaboratories,” online research clusters without walls, spanning many institutions and disciplines.
HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Grace Dignazio
Grace Dignazio is an interdisciplinary scholar and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The New School in New York City.
To read more about Grace, follow this link: tinyurl.com/mrr8w4zu
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
📣✨ 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 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
HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Ame Min-Venditti
Ame Min-Venditti (they/them/elle) is a scholar motivated by water stories, sharing and learning from ancestral wisdom to create just and peaceful futures.
To read more about Ame, follow this link: teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/02/08/h...
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
🎙✨ Episode #2 is live!
What does academic freedom really mean, and why now?
Deep convo w/ Moustafa Bayoumi & Michelle Fine, hosted by Shelly Eversley 🔥💬
👉 www.youtube.com/watch
🎧 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!
#education #highereducation #stem #stemeducation #science #technology #humanities #fellowship #scholarship #academia #collaboration
👏 👏 👏FI is proud to share once again that Dr. @Cathy N. Davidson’s #McGraw Prize in Education was celebrated with a full-page ad in #TheNewYorkTimes.
👏👏👏 A well-deserved recognition of her incredible impact on higher education.
#HigherEducation #EducationLeadership #innovation #equity #cuny
🚨 Event Reminder — Next Tuesday! 🚨
Join us for Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education, part of The University Worth Fighting For series by the Futures Initiative 💪🎓
☕ Light refreshments will be served!
#FutureInitiative #CUNY #LearningWithoutBorders
💪✨We’re thrilled to announce our incredible speakers for Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
🤩 Join us for an inspiring conversation about courage and the impact of immigrant scholars who are reshaping higher education.
❤️RSVP below to secure your seats!❤️
Join a New Generation of Innovative Scholars – Apply for the 2026-2027 HASTAC Scholars Program!
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Since #JOY is an act of #resistance I thought I’d share some while I remind you that the @futuresed podcast launches next Tuesday, October 21! I’ll be talking with FI’s Founder @cathyndavidson You’ll find it everywhere and in YouTube💥
🎉 Welcome our new Futures Initiative Fellow: Vallerie Matos! 🎉
👏👏👏 Vallerie is an English PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching Sound Studies, Glossolalia, and Afro-diasporic literature. We’re excited to have her in our community!
#Welcome #FuturesInitiative #CUNY
🎉 🎉 🎉 Welcome our new Futures Initiative Fellow: Oliver Silverman! 🎉🎉 🎉
👏 👏 👏Oliver is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, researching the history of utopia and the connections between classical political ideas and revolutionary thought.
#FuturesInitiative
📢 Call for Applicants: CUNY Peer Leaders Program
💡 Are you a motivated and collaborative undergraduate at one of CUNY’s 2- or 4-year campuses? The CUNY Peer Leaders program is now accepting applications!
📅 Apply by Tuesday, September 30, 2025: futuresinitiative.org/2025/09/12/t...
👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to Cathy N. Davidson, founding director of the Futures Initiative and senior advisor on transformation to the CUNY chancellor, who has been awarded the 2025 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education!
mcgrawprize.com/news-events/...
#HigherEducation #Equity #CUNY #McGrawPrize
We close by celebrating @cathyndavidson.bsky.social for her bold leadership and unwavering commitment to higher education—and for 10 transformative years of the Futures Initiative. Here’s to a legacy of innovation, justice, and public good.
Another blind spot in higher ed: failing to grasp the deep value of diversity. We define excellence narrowly and ask diversity to prove its worth—while taking homogeneity as the norm. It’s time to question who defines excellence and why.
@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
Higher education has as its mission to serve the public good—but 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 listen—especially across difference.
"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.
Challenging times can open space for imagination.
In moments of crisis, resistance, endurance, and imagination become essential—not just to survive, but to transform.
These moments can be the catalyst for long-overdue change in our institutions.
#FutureOfHigherEd #TransformHigherEd
Hunter College President Nancy Cantor calls for creating shared spaces—not controlled by universities or communities alone, but co-created together.
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. It’s about shared spaces, visibility, and building together. That can be revolutionary!
