Comments on: I Bleed CUNY Blood

By: Jim G

Jim G — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:45:35 +0000

Those of us in SUNY have always known how important CUNY was. This post says it all. To all my friends in CUNY keep up the great work.

By: Keepin’ it CUNY « Gardner Writes

Keepin’ it CUNY « Gardner Writes — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:49:51 +0000

[...] of loss and uncanny redemption, the song resonates with me as I think about this experience. Jim’s post on CUNY clarifies this resonance even more for me, and underscores my sense that no small part of this [...]

By: Academic Commons News » Blog Archive » A Midsummer Night’s Commons Update - building CUNY Communities since 2009

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:25:31 +0000

[...] of the wonderful posts written about the conference. Many of those posts, especially those by Jim Groom, Luke Waltzer, Mikhail Gershovich, and Joe Ugoretz, remarked upon the ways in which the Academic [...]

By: Mountebank » What is that these tools do do?

Mountebank » What is that these tools do do? — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:00:30 +0000

[...] great about keeping up the CUNY WordCampEd blog itself with other posts and responses. Of course Jim Groom is always looking beyond. And George Otte has taken the thinking in other, connected directions, [...]

By: Prestidigitation » What is that these tools do do?

Prestidigitation » What is that these tools do do? — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:56:45 +0000

By: Reverend

Reverend — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:36:48 +0000

@Rose,
I feel your pain, and all I can say is sometimes the tortured questions are the most important to struggle with in grad school. But more than anything, I see that Ph.D. programs often choke as much life out of folks as they do infuse people with an intense amount of focused expertise. And that line is a weird one to walk, and I guess refusing the beat down while getting the degree has it’s real value, though the beat down was too much for me after a while.

@Kate,
I agree with that, CUNY is unique in so many regards—most of which are good. And I have to see it was great to see you again after more than four or five years, and let’s face it—we are tech fellow alum, and you are as much a part of this explosion as anyone. The year of the 2004 ITFs will go down in history

By: Kate Moss

Kate Moss — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:15:05 +0000

Hey Jim!

I’m convinced there’s nothing out there like CUNY. Anywhere.

Thanks for your contribution on Friday (and to Matt, Mikhail, Joe and everyone else who made CUNY WordCampEd happen!)

By: cunywordcamped » CUNY WordCampEd 2009

cunywordcamped » CUNY WordCampEd 2009 — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:45:54 +0000

[...] Groom, “I Bleed CUNY Blood”, BavaTuesdays What happens at CUNY is not a luxury of wealth made possible by bountiful endowments, [...]

By: Rose White/yarnivore

Rose White/yarnivore — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:00:36 +0000

This was an amazing post for me to read right now, while I feel deeply in love with my students (I’m reading the finals for my Intro to Sociology class at Baruch, and they rocked so hard), and deeply ambivalent about my whole PhD project. I’m going to be spending the summer thinking through a lot of things related to what you wrote here, and I know I’ll come back to this post to help me think about them.

I’m really sorry I missed this event on Friday; open source + tech + CUNY covers a lot of my brainspace, plus I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in the ITP program with lots of the fine folks you already know or had a chance to meet on Friday.

Thanks again for writing this and for everything else edupunkly.

By: Antonio Vantaggiato

Antonio Vantaggiato — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:47:50 +0000

Jim, great last chapter for Crime and Punishment! Or is it Crimes and Misdemeanors? Well, I like this tough decision-making, and I respect it very much. It reminds me of a close friend who left an embarrassingly-almost-finished PhD in English-something because he understood his future was in the law. So he became a lawyer.
And we dream about opening a restaurant one of these days!