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Citation Needed
I’ve been working with CUNY’s Academic Commons teams over the last five or six months to help highlight the work happening there. Promoting good work in and around communities is something I’ve done for years with UMW Blogs and UMW Domains, so it … Continue reading
Graphic Activism: Lesbian Herstory Archives
This is cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons News blog as part of the Citation Needed series I am writing there. As I was cruising around the CUNY Academic Commons sites earlier today to see what’s good, I was immediately taken … Continue reading
Verso Tweets Break Windows
This is cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons News blog as part of the Citation Needed series I am writing there. Thanks to a retweet from Tressie McMillan Cottom (one of the best academic wranglers of the blue bird), I got … Continue reading
Diss is Open Access
This is cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons News blog as part of the Citation Needed series I am writing there. I was trawling through the posts on the CUNY Academic Commons last week and I came across this post … Continue reading
A DH Start-Up Grant Dynasty
This is cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons News blog as part of the Citation Needed series I am writing there. My time at the CUNY Grad Center during the late 1990s is pretty closely associated with the New York Yankees … Continue reading
How CUNY Grad Center Fellowships Changed the Course of Edtech History
This is cross-posted on the CUNY Academic Commons News blog as part of the Citation Needed series I am writing there. Now for a little history you never wanted. I had many fellowships while I was a Ph.D. student at … Continue reading
Navigating CUNY
This post is part of my Citation Needed series I am writing for the CUNY Academic Commons News blog, and hence is cross-posted here. Back in the summer of 1997 I was a strapping 26 year old with nary a … Continue reading
The Underwater World of Networks
Cross-posted at the CUNY Academic Commons News site. While exploring CUNY’s Academic Commons, I came across an announcement on the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative blog about an upcoming talk at the Grad Center: At the Edge of the Network: A Talk with … Continue reading
In service to CUNY’s mission as a public university
This post is part of a new series I will be writing here on the bava that will be cross-posted to the CUNY Academic Commons News blog. That’s right, I have finally made it as a professional blogger. You think … Continue reading