By Steve Brier
If you’ve at all been confused about or even impressed by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s widely touted Excelsior Scholarship program that was just voted into law by the New York State legislature, a good place to start to deal with your questions and concerns is Lauren Gurley’s article in the … Continue Reading ››
This post was originally featured at the Gotham Center. By Stephen Brier The issue of who should control NYC’s public schools, like the poor, apparently will always be with us. These days, or at least since Michael Bloomberg’s mayoral reign, that control centers on how many years the city’s mayor will be allowed … Continue Reading ››
The New York City Digital Humanities group brings together New York City scholars and members of the GLAM (galleries, libraries,
archives, museums) community to talk about, experiment with, collaborate on, teach and learn about, and just generally commune around the digital humanities. Recently, the NYCDH … Continue Reading ›› If you missed our forum last Friday on the history and impact of austerity and neoliberal policies on public higher education, you can still listen to an interview on WNYC with two of our panelists: Murphy Institute consortial faculty member Prof. Steve Brier and co-author Prof. Michael Fabricant of the CUNY Graduate … Continue Reading ››
What's the future of CUNY? To understand what might come, it helps to look at what's passed. How did CUNY become what it is today? What's at stake in preserving an autonomous CUNY? An editorial by the Editorial Board of the New York Times today starts to tell the story, and does so by citing Murphy Consortial … Continue Reading ››
