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• Experts With Ph.D.’s Needed: Provost Joy Connolly in ‘The Independent’

  In a recent essay in The Independent, Graduate Center Provost and Senior Vice President Joy Connolly makes the case that expertise — the kind that doctoral programs cultivate — is what the world needs right now. Read more

• Voter Registration Rates, Not Turnout, Are Biggest Driver of Low Latino Voter Participation

  Analyzing voter data from the U.S. Census, researchers found that the number of Latinos who are eligible to vote tripled to more than 26.6 million between 1992 and 2016. Read more

• GC and the American University of Beirut Sign Memorandum of Understanding Establishing a Broad Educational Exchange Partnership

  The Graduate Center and the American University of Beirut partnership. Read more

• Tax Plan - Update

  Efforts to convince Congress that taxing graduate tuition waivers will do irreparable harm to higher education and research in the US are showing signs of progress (House Republicans May Be Backing Away From Taxing Grad-Student Tuition Waivers). Read more

• Tax Plan - Advice

  Concerned about the tax bill and its impact on higher education, especially Graduate students?  Read this advice from the Humanities Alliance.
  
  Also, Meghan Duffy at Dynamic Ecology has a useful, thoughtful blog post on the issue.
  
  Wishing you all a successful end to the semester, Read more

• New Student Emergency Fund

  With The Carroll and Milton Petrie Student Emergency Fund, the GC can assist students who are facing short-term financial emergencies. Read more

• New Study from GC Cultural Analytics Lab Is First to Analyze Global Growth of Image Sharing

  A new study, Visual Earth, from researchers at the Graduate Center Cultural Analytics Lab is shining a light on how people around the world. Read more

• President Robinson and Provost Connolly Share Their Opposition to the Federal Tax Plan with Senators Schumer and Gillibrand

  President Robinson and Provost Connolly voiced serious concerns about the federal tax plan and its impact on our graduate students in letters to New York's Senators. Read their letter to Minority Leader Schumer below. A similar letter was sent to Senator Gillibrand. Read more

• Tax Plan - CGS

  The proposed federal tax plan has serious implications for our student community. As proposed, there would be federal taxes on tuition waivers, which would create a financial burden on graduate students here at the GC and across the country.  The proposal also includes measures that would saddle college undergraduates with even heavier debt.   Read more

• Doctoral Student Research Grant Funds Studies in Tanzania, India, and Closer to Home

  Each year more than 220 Graduate Center Ph.D. students receive funding through the Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG) program. Read more