Professor Matt Gold and PublicsLab Fellow Rob Yates discuss how the grant supported transformations to the English program’s coursework, examinations, mentorship, and professionalization efforts.
Tag: curriculum
Mentorship, Mutuality, and Ethics: A Conversation with PublicsLab Interim Faculty Lead, Professor Kandice Chuh
Interim Faculty Lead Kandice Chuh discusses the ethics of public scholarship, and how her understanding of public knowledge has developed through the lenses of ethnic studies and feminisms.
A Public Praxis: A Conversation with PublicsLab Mentor, Professor Alexis Jemal
Professor Alexis Jemal gives insights into the impact that the field of Social Work has had on public scholarship, as well as embodied theories of critical consciousness and transformative potential.
Introducing Iota School
Patrick Smyth, the new postdoc in Humanities Entrepreneurship, introduces Iota School, a business providing accessible technical training to humanists.
Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grants (DCEGs) 2021-2022
Deadline: 12 November 2021 In 2018, The Graduate Center, CUNY received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation focused […]
5 Tips to Foster Curriculum Change in Your Graduate Program
Mellon Humanities Public Fellow Daniel Valtueña offers tips on how to foster curriculum change in your program based on his experience with the PublicsLab’s Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grant (DCEG).
(CLOSED) Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grants (DCEGs) 2020-2021
Deadline: 13 November 2020 In 2018, The Graduate Center, CUNY received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation focused […]
Why is Curriculum Change So @%&$# Hard in Graduate Education? Or, 3 Observations from the PublicsLab Curriculum Workshop
PublicsLab director Stacy Hartman offers three observations from the PublicsLab curriculum workshop in September and attempts to answer the question: “Why is curriculum reform so @%&$# hard in graduate education?”
Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grants (DCEG) for departments and programs
In the 2019–2020 academic year, four $8000 DCEGs will be given to support the development and implementation of new curricular methods and strategies that approach the following question: How can our program support graduate students in doing public scholarship and preparing for careers both inside and outside the academy?
Reimagining Doctoral Curriculum for the Public Good (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
A workshop for faculty members and graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at The Graduate Center, CUNY. […]



