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• In Memoriam: Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stanley Aronowitz, Influential Labor Advocate and Scholar

  

  Stanley Aronowitz (Credit: David Shankbone, Creative Commons)

  The Graduate Center community is deeply saddened by the passing of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stanley Aronowitz, a scholar of labor and social movements and a civil and labor rights activist. Read more

• A New Program Will Prep Humanities Doctoral Students for Careers in Nonprofit Organizations and Government

  

  The program, which includes a new writing course and career networking opportunities, is supported by a grant from the Council of Graduate Schools. Read more

• How Was School During COVID? Urban Education Researchers Asked New York City Parents

  

  Members of the Urban Education Research Collective. Top row (left to right): José Luis Jiménez, Wendy Luttrell, Mieasia Edwards, and William Salomon Orellana. Bottom row (left to right): Nga Than, David Rosas, Kelly Brady, and Whitney Hollins.

  Their report, COVID-19 & Racial Justice in Urban Education: NYC Parents Speak Out, illuminates parents’ insights, critiques, and recommendations. Read more

• 7 Grad Center Alumni Share Their Tips to Get on the Tenure Track

  

  (L-R) Michèle Duguay, José R. Chávarry, Noel Torres-Rivera, and Morgan C. Williams, Jr.

  These alumni share their tips with fellow scholars who want to land a tenure-track job.  Read more

• Students and Faculty Honored With 2021 Teaching and Mentoring Awards Stood Out for Excellence and Dedication During the Pandemic

  

  (Top from Left) Professors Ryan Murelli, Alyson Cole, and Jean Graham-Jones; (Bottom from Left) Ph.D. students Melenia Giakoumis, Olivia Wood, and Karen Zaino

  Congratulations to Professors Ryan Murelli, Alyson Cole, and Jean Graham-Jones and Ph.D. students Melenia Giakoumis, Olivia Wood, and Karen Zaino. Read more

• 16 Great Summer Reads From Grad Center Scholars

  From their latest books about historical figures both well-known and overlooked, to the hidden histories of New York City’s buildings and neighborhoods, to race and the Black experience, these Graduate Center authors have your summer reads covered. Read more

• With Ph.D.s and Master’s in Hand, These 11 Grads Are Going Places

  

  Top (L-R) Katherine Entigar, Andrew Levine, Siqi Tu, Conner Martinez, Bottom (L-R): Sandra Castro, Roxana Piotrowska, Raj Korpan, Allison Guess

  The Class of 2021 graduates have overcome incredible odds to complete their dissertations and push scholarship in their fields forward. Read more

• Seeing Universities as ‘Radical Agents in Very Hard Times’: Katherine Entigar, Class of 2021, Lands a Tenure-Track Faculty Role at the University of Toronto

  

  Entigar will continue researching issues such as immigrant justice and multilingualism and multiculturalism in adult education, but from a new vantage point. Read more

• COVID-19 and Racial Justice in Urban Education: NYC Parents Speak Out

  

  Report on COVID-19 and racial justice

  NYC Parents speak about COVID-19 and racial justice in a report prepared by the Urban Education Research Collective Read more

• Urban Education Student and Women of Color Archive Founder Awarded AAUW Fellowship for ‘Searching for Mami & Abuelita’

  

  Wendy Barrales (Photo courtsey of Barrales)

  Wendy Barrales is also the founder of Women of Color Archive (WOCArchive) a “storytelling project that seeks to preserve the stories of our matriarchs, femmes, and non-binary folks of color.” Read more