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8 Apr 2021
Goodbye to @sum_research: After 678 stories, 323,000 page views, 5,300 tweets, 3 million Twitter impressions, 1,000 Facebook posts, 12 podcasts, 33 newsletters, & 12 videos, SUM is going on hiatus. Final newsletter: mailchi.mp/gc/april8-2021-su…
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16 Apr 2021
Huge congratulations to @Baruch_Weissman
Professor @JFernandez693 for winning @The_OAH's highly prestigious Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for her brilliant @UNC_Press book "The Young Lords: A Radical History." @BaruchCollege @CUNY @HistoryBaruch
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9 Apr 2021
Special thanks to Beth Harpaz (@literarydj), Char Adams (@CiCiAdams_), Amanda Wicks (@wickswrites), and Lida Tunesi – the writers and editors of @sum_research for the last three years
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9 Apr 2021
We are sad to share that @sum_research is going on hiatus. Please join us in paying tribute to SUM’s impact on @CUNY and on hundreds of thousands of readers and followers who found new ideas and inspiration in the scholarship that SUM shared bit.ly/3t2vVC9
ALT The masthead of the SUM website: SUM Research, Innovation, and Creativity at CUNY; a collage of photos of Char Adams, Beth Harpaz, Amanda Wicks and Lida Tunesi
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8 Apr 2021
A book on part-time international students working remotely toward doctorates seemed like a niche topic. But the pandemic's normalization of virtual learning means many of its takeaways are now mainstream. Book co-edited by @msavva2015 (@LaGuardiaCC)
sum.cuny.edu/reflections-on-…
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8 Apr 2021
Even when played and taught on Zoom, improv games can improve skills like communication, leadership, and team-building. @BaruchCollege Professor @DonWaisanen explains in a new @sunypress book, "Improv for Democracy" sum.cuny.edu/how-learning-im…
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8 Apr 2021
When the pandemic peaked in NYC a year ago, the city’s “soundtrack was dominated by two remarkable strains of music: birdsong and sirens," writes @CityCollegeNY Professor @emilyraboteau in an @Orion_Magazine essay about the bird murals of Upper Manhattan sum.cuny.edu/endangered-bird…
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7 Apr 2021
In her new book, "Shades of Black," @GC_CUNY Professor Nathalie Etoke confronts the paradoxes of race and identity faced by every Black person. She says that identity "is a living experience and an ever-evolving process." ow.ly/IetC50EhBUy
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8 Apr 2021
missed today's lecture by Araceli Tinajero on her recently translated book, "A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan"? Video now available online. Prof. Tinajero speaks with Koichi Hagimoto, and conversation moderated by Zelideth Maria Rivas. aaari.info/21-04-07tinajero/
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7 Apr 2021
We are very excited to announce that The 8th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, hosted by the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (@CUNYILETC) will take place virtually at @GC_CUNY May 13-15. Details: bit.ly/3wAjzDE
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7 Apr 2021
(1/3) An @Orion_Magazine essay by @CityCollegeNY Prof @emilyraboteau starts out as a tribute to the bird murals of Harlem & Washington Heights but ends up as a meditation on racism, gentrification, the pandemic, & environmental threats to wildlife & humans sum.cuny.edu/endangered-bird…
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7 Apr 2021
(2/3) You can hear author @emilyraboteau, Friday, April 9, at 7 PM in this event eventbrite.com/e/goodbye-to-…
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7 Apr 2021
(3/3) Raboteau, an award-winning writer & climate activist, teaches in the @CityCollegeNY MFA creative writing program. She is the 2020-21 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in Humanities & the Arts and author of “The Professor’s Daughter” & “Searching for Zion" ccny.cuny.edu/news/writer-an…
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7 Apr 2021
Prof. Andrea Ortuño from @BCCcuny discusses different workhouses for women across the city during the 19th & 20th c. in her latest story. Check it out!
urbanarchive.org/stories/VsJ…
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7 Apr 2021
A new book co-edited by @LaGuardiaCC Prof. @msavva2015 looks at an unconventional group of students: professionals in a part-time international Ed.D. program at @UCL. Savva also wrote a chapter about her own path and experiences sum.cuny.edu/reflections-on-…
7 Apr 2021
Improv techniques can boost communication, leadership, and team-building. Learning improv can even improve democracy. A new book by Professor @DonWaisanen (@BaruchMarxe, @BaruchCollege) offers step-by-step guidance on improv exercises and their takeaways sum.cuny.edu/how-learning-im…
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Why study history? What can you do with a history degree? Find out the answers to these questions and more with the AHA's "Careers for History Majors" booklet. #twitterstorians global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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7 Apr 2021
Ramadan begins next week. For many Muslim students and educators, this will be the second consecutive Ramadan restricted by social distancing. Here are ways educators can signal support and center inclusivity and connection during the month of Ramadan.
learningforjustice.org/magaz…
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What is Peace, Inc.? It’s a top-down approach to #peacebuilding that assumes outsiders “know better... have the right theories, skills and expertise, and... bring the ideal solutions.” @SeverineAR explains to @JohnCTorpey @GC_CUNY on Intl Horizons: bit.ly/3ulMGsk
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Tomorrow!! There's still time to register!
Join us for an evening with Emily Wilbourne on "Barbara Strozzi's Mother: Class, Race, and Female Performance in 17th-Century Italy".
Register here: bit.ly/2ObOBAi
@GC_CUNY
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