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Today is Commencement Day for the Graduate Center, which means it’s also time for the annual round-up of dissertations, theses, and capstone projects submitted to the library this academic year. For those keeping track, this marks the 10th year that I’ve had the privilege of sharing my observations about these works! While ten years of dissertation and thesis deposits is a personal milestone, this year the Graduate Center marks a much more significant moment: sixty years ago, the first two Ph.D....

Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2024-25 - Graduate Center Library Blog Today is Commencement Day for the Graduate Center, which means it’s also time for the annual round-up of dissertations, theses, and capstone projects submitted to the library this academic year. For those keeping track, this marks the 10th year that I’ve had the privilege of […]

This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate courses at CUNY. Marcela Joya is a researcher and writer specializing in Latin American and Afro-Antillean music, with eleven years of experience in archival research, ethnographic and audiovisual documentation....

Teaching and Learning Should be a Collective Mission for a Collective Purpose: That's the Challenge - Graduate Center Library Blog This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate [...

This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate courses at CUNY. John D. Frank is a PhD student in Political Science at CUNY’s Graduate Center....

Teaching Political Science with OER - Graduate Center Library Blog This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate [...