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Digital project consultations for GC faculty

Free admission to Whitney Museum (students, staff and faculty with CUNY IDs)

Host your events at “OpenCUNY”

Jobs:

NTA position in Central Office for International Education Specialist

Part-time job opportunity: Outreach coordinator for DH Box

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Financial Aid and Other Opportunities:

2016 Morgan Library and Museum-CUNY Graduate Center Archival Fellowship Deadline: March 15, 2016

ACLS Public Fellows ProgramDeadline, March 24, 2016

Vera Institute Research Fellowships-CUNY Graduate CenterDeadline: March 29, 2016

Macaulay Honors College Instructional Technology FellowshipsDeadline: March 29, 2016

Events:

GC Digital Fellows Workshop (3/1): Introduction to Programming with PythonMarch 1, 2016 from 6:30-8:00pm

“Measuring What Counts: Credentials or Learning?" with the Futures InitiativeMarch 2, 2016 from 1-2pm, Room C197, the Graduate Center

2016 Sociology Doctoral Student Conference: Shifting Boundaries, EnactingChangeMarch 4, 2016 from 9:30am-8:00pm, the Graduate Center

At the Edge of the Network: Undersea Cables and Deep InfrastructureMarch 8, 2016 at 8pm, the Skylight Room, the Graduate Center

NYPL/SSRC Lecture: Edge Tools in a Digital Age - March 8March 8, 2016 from 5pm to 7pm, NYPL’s Trustee’s Room, Bryant Park, 42nd Street and Fifth

Avenue

Getting The Writing DoneMarch 17, 2016 from 3-4:30pm, Graduate Center, Room 9206

Others:

Looking for a shared apartment in Brooklyn?

Looking for a room to sublet?

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Digital project consultations for GC faculty Dear Graduate Center Faculty, As part of our efforts to cultivate digital scholarship across the GC, the GC Digital Fellows program ( http://digitalfellows.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ ), the New Media Lab ( http://newmedialab.cuny.edu/ ), and the Mina Rees Library invite faculty members to work one-on-one with our faculty liaison, Patrick Sweeney, in the New Media Lab. If you’ve been thinking about incorporating digital technology into your research and teaching, or looking to use the web to expand the public profile of your work, Patrick can assist in a consulting capacity, offering conceptual direction and technical advice as he guides you towards people both inside and outside of the GC community who can help. Any faculty member interested in setting up an initial consultation may fill out the form here - http://newmedialab.cuny.edu/get-involved/faculty-application/ - which asks for a brief description of the proposed project, the conceptual or technical goals of the project, and whether or not any funding is available. Whether your project is already fully conceptualized or in its formative stages, please reach out to Patrick with any questions you might have. You are also invited to attend the next general New Media Lab meeting on Wednesday, March 9th, 12:30-2pm in the Lab, 7388.01. At that meeting you can see the Lab and hear about what digital projects students and other faculty members are working on. Faculty are also welcome to contact Stephen Zweibel, the Data & Digital Projects Librarian (szweibel@gc.cuny.edu) with questions concerning the use and preservation of data in their work. Stephen is also available to discuss and consult on the architecture of digital projects in general. We look forward to working with you! Sincerely, Patrick, Andrea, Lisa, Stephen, and Matt -- Patrick Sweeney GC Digital Fellow, New Media Lab Faculty Liaison PhD Candidate, Psychology, Graduate Center CUNY psweeney@gradcenter.cuny.edu Andrea Ades Vasquez Associate Director, American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning New Media Lab Managing Director / Multimedia Producer AVasquez1@gc.cuny.edu

Lisa Rhody, Ph.D. Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives The Graduate Center, CUNY https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ Stephen Zweibel Data & Digital Projects Librarian The Graduate Center Library, CUNY szweibel@gc.cuny.edu Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Executive Officer, M.A. Program in Liberal Studies Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives mgold@gc.cuny.edu

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Free Admission to Whitney Museum

As part of the new CUNY Cultural Initiative to give students access to cultural institutions across the city, the Whitney Museum of American Art is offering free admission to all students, staff and faculty with CUNY IDs. Enjoy a free tour of the museum's collection and view the first solo exhibition by artist, filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras. More »

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Host an OpenCUNY-sponsored workshop OpenCUNY is piloting an initiative where programs or student organizations can host events geared towards website development on OpenCUNY. If you'd like to host an event focused on setting up a new site or building out an existing site on OpenCUNY, OpenCUNY may provide a small budget for food, drinks, or supplies for such an event. Apply using the form in the post below.

• Link to the post: http://opencuny.org/host-opencuny-sponsored-workshop/[opencuny.org] • Link to : http://opencuny.org[opencuny.org]

Powered by Email Users[wordpress.org].

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NTA position in Central Office for International Education Specialist

From: Kimberly Holland Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 1:18 PM To: 'coil@listserv.cuny.edu' <coil@listserv.cuny.edu> Subject: NTA position in Central Office for

Hello All,

Central Office is hiring an International Education Specialist with a special skill set ranging from database management and SPSS to event management. If we can get COIL off the ground at CUNY, this person would certainly also be engaged in that project. If you know of anyone who may be a good fit, I’d appreciate it if you’d share the position link (http://bit.ly/1mijuP6). We’re hoping to start interviewing in late February/early March.

Many thanks,

Kim

Kim Holland, Ph.D. / International Education Manager

646-664-8037

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Part-time job opportunity: Outreach Coordinator for DH Box Description DH Box, an NEH-funded project that aims to make Digital Humanities tools more accessible to students and researchers, is looking for an outreach coordinator. This part-time position would ideally be filled by a graduate student with a research interest in the digital humanities, library science, or related social science discipline. Duties Responsibilities will include engagement with social media, writing blog posts and releases, and attending related events and meetings in the New York City area. The candidate will also engage users of the DH Box platform through live demonstrations and hands-on training. These duties will total approximately five to six hours per week and will be compensated at $37 per hour. Qualifications The candidate should have a demonstrated ability to communicate in writing, over social media, and in person. Past experience in digital humanities pedagogy or other technical training background is preferred, and familiarity with GitHub is a plus. Knowledge of the digital humanities as a discipline and as a community is strongly desired. About DH Box DH Box is a Digital Humanities laboratory in the cloud. The platform provides an accessible means of accessing cutting-edge DH tools without a lengthy and technically challenging process of installation and configuration. DH Box is in active development—try our live demo at dhbox.org or visit us on GitHub at github.com/DH-Box/dhbox. Applications To apply, send your CV with a statement of interest to szweibel@gc.cuny.edu. Please also feel free to provide links to past work or other relevant information.

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Morgan Library Fellowship

CUNY Graduate Center, 2016

2016 Morgan Library and Museum-CUNY Graduate Center Archival Fellowship

The Early Research Initiative invites applications for two Morgan Library & Museum Graduate

Archival Fellowships. These $4,000 fellowships will be offered to Graduate Center Ph.D.

students from any program with primary research interests related to the collections at the

Morgan Library & Museum. The primary responsibilities of the award winners will be to

collaborate with curators and librarians from the Morgan in order to process uncatalogued

collections, improve public access to documents and related materials, and to gain experience in

creating and organizing collections.

While the rich and diverse collections of the Morgan Library & Museum span the medieval

period to the contemporary moment and embrace the global as well as the local, it is offering

CUNY Fellows projects in select areas ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the photography

of Peter Hujar. Please see the attached list of potential projects below; applications are welcomed

for specific projects.

Fellowship recipients will be required to be in residence for 120 hours over the summer of 2016

at the Morgan working for scheduled times from 9:30 to 4pm on Monday through Friday. In

addition, recipients will be required to do a brief public presentation on their work and write a

blog post about their experiences before the end of the Fall 2016 semester. Additional

opportunities for social media contributions to the Morgan’s accounts are also possible.

To apply please send a letter of interest describing your research interests and related experience

with specific reference to one of the projects described below, a c.v., a current Graduate Center

transcript (students may submit the unofficial student copy that can be printed from banner), and

a letter of support from your primary advisor.

Instructions for submitting your application:

1) Please combine the above materials (except for the letter of recommendation) into a

SINGLE file (either as a pdf document or a word document).

Use the following format when naming your document: Last Name, First Name, Program

2) Email your file directly to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu

Please use your graduate center email address when sending the file.

Instructions for Faculty Recommenders

1) Prepare your reference letter as a regular word or pdf document.

2) Please use the following format when naming your document:

Student Last Name, First Name

3) Email your file directly to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu

Application Deadline: March 15, 2016

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Morgan Library Fellowship

CUNY Graduate Center, 2016

CUNY Graduate Center / Morgan Library & Museum Graduate Center PhD Student

Fellowships

Available projects, Summer 2016

Doc Humes Papers (Literary & Historical Manuscripts)

Harold L. "Doc" Humes was a pivotal figure in the budding counterculture of the 1950s.

A novelist, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Humes founded The Paris Review in 1953

together with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton. The ca. 14-cubic-foot collection of

Humes's papers consists of manuscripts, documents relating to various projects and

patents, correspondence regarding The Paris Review, personal correspondence and family

papers, clippings, photographs, and audio visual material. It has been inventoried and

partially rehoused. This archival processing project would address the next stage of

processing: physically reorganizing the collection; creating a finding aid; and

inventorying photographs and media.

Paris Review Archive (Literary & Historical Manuscripts)

The 150+-cubic-foot collection consists of correspondence, typescripts, and galley proofs

of several hundred writers; editorial, production, and business correspondence; and other

records of the international literary journal from just before its founding in 1953 through

2003. The collection has been described at the box level, but only a portion of it has been

fully processed. This archival processing project would continue the processing of the

minimally-described parts of the collection.

Carter Burden Collection of American Literature (Literary & Historical Manuscripts)

In 2013, the Morgan received from the family of Carter Burden more than 400

manuscripts, typescripts, screenplays, and correspondence to add to that collection of

twentieth century American literature. The collection includes authors such as Elizabeth

Bishop, Ben Hecht, Sylvia Plath, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, and others. This

project would focus on researching and individually cataloging the works in this

collection.

George Washington (Literary & Historical Manuscripts)

The Morgan has strong holdings in the letters of American presidents. This project would

survey the holdings in a targeted section of the collection and ensure that the location of

each item is correctly represented in the online catalog.

Artist letters from the Rosenberg Collection (Literary & Historical Manuscripts)

In 2013, the Morgan received approximately 300 artist letters as an accretion to the

Rosenberg collection. The letters, in French, are from the personal papers and

professional correspondence of Paul and Alexandre P. Rosenberg, leading art dealers of

the late 19th and 20th centuries. The collection includes letters of Salvador Dali, Edgar

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Morgan Library Fellowship

CUNY Graduate Center, 2016

Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,

Gertrude Stein, and others. This project would focus on researching and individually

cataloging the works in this collection, using a pre-existing finding aid as a guide.

Italian Renaissance letters from the White Collection (Literary & Historical Manuscripts)

The Morgan has strong holdings in letters of the Italian Renaissance. This project would

individually catalog letters from the White Collection, which spans the 15th to the 17th

centuries, and includes letters of Francesco Filelfo, the Barzi family, the Borghese family,

and others. Approximately fifty letters are addressed to Ludovico Maria Sforza

(commonly called Ludovico il Moro, 1452-1508), the great patron of Leonardo da Vinci.

The ideal candidate for this fellowship will have some previous experience or training in

Italian paleography and with manuscripts of the period.

Peter Hujar (Photography)

Hujar was a leading figure in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers at

the forefront of the cultural scene in downtown New York in the 1970s and early 1980s.

This project would focus on enhancing the existing finding aid for the Peter Hujar Papers

(Acc. #: 2013.108), with special attention to identifying correspondents, photographic

subjects, and improving the description of the 5,700 contact sheets contained in the

collection, which spans Hujar’s career from the 1950s until his death from AIDS in 1987.

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ACLS Public Fellows Program, Deadline, March 24

Dear Colleagues,

The ACLS Public Fellows Program is a terrific opportunity for students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. In 2013, Lindsay Green-Barber, an alumna from political science, became a Public Fellow and joined the Center for Investigative Reporting as a media impact analyst; two other GC students were finalists that year. In July 2015, she became the director of strategic research there. We interviewed her a couple of years ago about her experience: http://careerplan.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/07/08/interview-gc-alumna-lindsay-green-barber-acls-public-fellow/

I was speaking to a colleague at the ACLS, and she let me know that not many GC students or alumni have applied since 2013. The ACLS would like to see more Graduate Center applications. To be eligible to apply, current students must deposit their dissertation by March 24, 2016. Alumni must have finished within the past three years or so. My office is happy to help with applications, which look very different from your typical fellowship application. Information and link below. Please forward this to interested students and recent alumni.

Best,

Jenny

ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs

http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/

Fellowship Details

Stipend: $65,000 per year, with health insurance coverage for the fellow, and up to $3,000 in professional development funds over the course of the fellowship

Tenure: Two years; start date on August 1 or September 1, 2016, depending on the position

Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org). The system will open on January 14, 2016. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly.

Application deadline: March 24, 2016, 8 pm EDT

Notification of application status will occur by email starting late-May 2016.

ACLS invites applications for the sixth competition of the Public Fellows program. This year, the program will place up to 21 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Fellows receive a stipend of $65,000 per year, with individual health insurance and up to $3,000 to be used toward professional development activities over the course of the fellowship term.

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This initiative, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to expand the role of doctoral education in the United States by demonstrating that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy. The ACLS Public Fellows program allows PhDs to gain valuable, career-building experience in fields such as public policy, development, conservation, arts and culture, and digital media.

ACLS seeks applications from recent PhDs who aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences.

Applicants must:

possess US citizenship or permanent resident status;

have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences (see note on eligible fields below) conferred between January 1, 2013 and June 12, 2016;

have defended and deposited their dissertations no later than the application deadline of March 24, 2016; and

not have applied to any other ACLS fellowship programs in the 2015-16 competition year (excluding the ACLS Digital Extension Grant program).

Prospective applicants should read through all the positions listed below and choose the one position that best fits their career goals. (Applicants may apply to only one position.)

The deadline for submitted applications is Thursday, March 24, 2016, 8 pm EDT.

Applications must include:

completed application form,

1-2-page cover letter tailored to a specific position,

1-2-page resume,

1-page candidate statement, and

2 reference letters

Please note that finalists may be asked to provide institutional documentation of PhD conferral (or, if the degree has not yet been conferred, an institutional statement from the registrar attesting that the dissertation defense and deposit have been completed and confirming the degree conferral date).

Only complete applications, submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system by the deadline, will be considered.

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Selection Criteria

Applications will undergo ACLS’s standard rigorous peer-review process, which may include interviews by ACLS and by the hosting organization. Reviewers will look for:

applicant’s academic accomplishment and success,

demonstrated relationship between past experience and specified position, and

commitment to pursuing a career in the public and/or nonprofit sector.

Notification of application status will occur by email in late-May 2016.

Participating Agencies and Positions:

American Friends Service Committee – Communications Analyst

American Public Media Group – Senior Research Analyst, Engagement & Inclusion

Center for Genetics and Society – Project Director on Race, Genetics, and Society

Center for Investigative Reporting – Membership Engagement Manager

City of Atlanta, City Auditor’s Office – Senior Performance Auditor

Chicago Humanities Festival – Digital Programming Strategist

Grand St. Settlement – Community Engagement & Policy Advocate

International Rescue Committee – Impact Evaluation Advisor

Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Digital Content Specialist

Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Executive Communications Specialist

National Park Service – Cultural Resources Public Outreach Coordinator

National Partnership for Women & Families – Workplace Programs Federal Policy Analyst

Philanthropy Northwest – Communities of Practice Manager

Ploughshares Fund – Political Engagement Strategist

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting – Education Specialist

Rare – Global Philanthropy Specialist

Reinvestment Fund – Policy Analyst

Smithsonian Enterprises – Business Development Associate

Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative – Program Manager, Scholarly and Public Engagement

Southern Poverty Law Center – Research and Investigations Specialist

The Texas Tribune – Research Analyst

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Vera Institute Research Fellowships – CUNY Graduate Center

The Early Research Initiative invites applications for two Vera Institute Research Fellowships. These $4,000 fellowships will be offered to Graduate Center Ph.D. students from any program with primary research interests in criminal or immigration justice and the work of the Vera Institute. The primary responsibilities of the award winners will be to collaborate with researchers in one of Vera’s 5 centers or programs on research relating to a specific project, including but not limited to data collection, analysis, fieldwork, report writing, stakeholder engagement, and dissemination. While Vera’s centers, programs, and demonstration projects span the criminal justice system, it is offering CUNY Fellows projects in select areas. Please see the attached list of potential projects below, and indicate in your application which project or projects are most relevant to your experience and interest. Fellowship recipients will be required to be in residence for 120 hours over the summer of 2016 at the Vera Institute working for scheduled times from 9:30 to 4pm on Monday through Friday. In addition, recipients will be required to do a brief public presentation on their work and write a blog post about their experiences before the end of the Fall 2016 semester. To apply please send a letter of interest describing your research interests and related experience with specific reference to one of the projects described below, a c.v., a current Graduate Center transcript (Students may submit the unofficial student copy that can be printed from banner), and a letter of support from your primary advisor.

Instructions for submitting your application:

1) Please combine the above materials (except for the letter of recommendation) into a SINGLE file (saved as either as a pdf document or a word document).

Use the following format when naming your document: Last Name, First Name, Program

2) Email your file directly to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu

Please use your graduate center email address when sending the file.

Instructions for Faculty Recommenders

1) Prepare your reference letter as a regular word or pdf document.

2) Please use the following format when naming your document:

Student Last Name, First Name

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3) Email your file directly to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu

Application Deadline: March 29th, 2016

CUNY Graduate Center / Vera Institute of Justice PhD Student Fellowships

Available projects, Summer 2016

Aging and Infirm Prisoners in New York Center on Sentencing and Corrections and Substance Use and Mental Health Program

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) currently holds approximately 53,000 incarcerated individuals. Within this population, 17% are over the age of 50, and many have severe mobility impairments and/or have been diagnosed with one or more serious illness. Medical parole is one option for releasing the most medically costly prisoners. This project, in partnership with DOCCS, will assess practices and policies for medical parole and identify opportunities for improvement, develop community based placement opportunities, and enhance DOCCS capacity to use medical parole and provide implementation assistance. In addition, Vera will track released individuals’ quality of live post-release. Incarceration Trends Center on Sentencing and Corrections

The Incarceration Trends Project (ITP) seeks to advance research on the prevalence and impact of incarceration at the local-level. Vera’s ITP dataset merges 45 years of county-level inmate population data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Census of Jails and Annual Survey of Jails and resident population demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Currently, the dataset includes jail data for every one of the approximately 3,000 counties in the country and combined jail and prison data for all counties in New York and California. In 2016, Vera will incorporate data for the number of people in, and admissions to, prison by commitment county for all 50 states. For more information, see the ITP data tool at trends.vera.org and complete details on the ITP dataset in Incarceration Trends: Data and Methods for Historical Jail Populations in U.S. Counties, 1970-2014 (Kang-Brown, 2015). Vera is seeking opportunities to use this tool to answer important questions about the use of incarceration, and the Summer Fellow will have the chance to take part in discussions and help shape the future direction of the project and analyses. New York Immigrant Family Unity Project Center on Immigration and Justice

The Vera-administered New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) is the first public defender program in the country for immigrants facing deportation. NYIFUP provides detained indigent immigrants facing deportation at New York’s Varick Street Immigration Court with free, high-quality legal representation. The project, which seeks to keep immigrants with

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their families and in their communities, will also serve detained New York City residents whose deportation cases are being heard in nearby New Jersey locations.

The project seeks to increase court effectiveness and decrease detention times for those it represents, thereby saving taxpayer dollars, while maximizing due process. By keeping families together, the project lowers the social and economic costs that would otherwise be incurred by the City and State of New York and New York employers. NYIFUP provides a replicable model for other jurisdictions around the country. NYIFUP is a collaborative of Vera, the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, The Center for Popular Democracy, Make the Road New York, and the Immigration Justice Clinic of Cardozo Law School.

Quantitative skills are important for this work, but this project also provides an opportunity to gain qualitative research experience, particularly data cleaning and analysis for the report to the City Council. There will be a rich, primary data set of over 1200 cases currently being compiled by three legal service providers in New York that will be available for analysis starting in June or July 2016. There also may be an opportunity to help conduct qualitative interviews with clients of the program. Some knowledge of immigration law and Spanish language ability preferred. Justice AmeriCorps Center on Immigration and Justice

The number of children crossing the border without a parent or legal guardian has increased ten-fold in recent years, starting from an annual average of 6,000-7,000 children. The purpose of the justice AmeriCorps Program is to use the AmeriCorps service model to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of immigration court proceedings involving unaccompanied children. Immigration judges are able to conduct hearings more effectively when unaccompanied children are assisted by competent legal representatives. Vera’s Center on Immigration and Justice is conducting this study to provide performance measurement and evaluation services that will contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the jAC Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children Program. The Summer Fellow will be able to learn about the project and take part in the evaluation.

Rachel Sponzo

Staff Assistant for Academic Affairs

Office of the Associate Provost

Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Avenue, room 8113.14

New York, NY 10016

212-817-7282

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CUNY Graduate Center - Vera Institute Research Fellowships The Early Research Initiative invites applications for two Vera Institute Research Fellowships. These $4,000 fellowships will be offered to Graduate Center Ph.D. students from any program with primary research interests in criminal or immigration justice and the work of the Vera Institute. The primary responsibilities of the award winners will be to collaborate with researchers in one of Vera’s 5 centers or programs on research relating to a specific project, including but not limited to data collection, analysis, fieldwork, report writing, stakeholder engagement, and dissemination. While Vera’s centers, programs, and demonstration projects span the criminal justice system, it is offering CUNY Fellows projects in select areas. Please see the attached list of potential projects below, and indicate in your application which project or projects are most relevant to your experience and interest. Fellowship recipients will be required to be in residence for 120 hours over the summer of 2016 at the Vera Institute working for scheduled times from 9:30 to 4pm on Monday through Friday. In addition, recipients will be required to do a brief public presentation on their work and write a blog post about their experiences before the end of the Fall 2016 semester. To apply please send a letter of interest describing your research interests and related experience with specific reference to one of the projects described below, a c.v., a current Graduate Center transcript (Students may submit the unofficial student copy that can be printed from banner), and a letter of support from your primary advisor.

Instructions for submitting your application:

1) Please combine the above materials (except for the letter of recommendation) into a SINGLE file (saved as either as a pdf document or a word document).

Use the following format when naming your document: Last Name, First Name, Program

2) Email your file directly to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu

Please use your graduate center email address when sending the file.

Instructions for Faculty Recommenders

1) Prepare your reference letter as a regular word or pdf document.

2) Please use the following format when naming your document:

Student Last Name, First Name

3) Email your file directly to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu

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Application Deadline: March 29th, 2016

CUNY Graduate Center / Vera Institute of Justice PhD Student Fellowships

Available projects, Summer 2016

Aging and Infirm Prisoners in New York Center on Sentencing and Corrections and Substance Use and Mental Health Program

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) currently holds approximately 53,000 incarcerated individuals. Within this population, 17% are over the age of 50, and many have severe mobility impairments and/or have been diagnosed with one or more serious illness. Medical parole is one option for releasing the most medically costly prisoners. This project, in partnership with DOCCS, will assess practices and policies for medical parole and identify opportunities for improvement, develop community based placement opportunities, and enhance DOCCS capacity to use medical parole and provide implementation assistance. In addition, Vera will track released individuals’ quality of live post-release. Incarceration Trends Center on Sentencing and Corrections

The Incarceration Trends Project (ITP) seeks to advance research on the prevalence and impact of incarceration at the local-level. Vera’s ITP dataset merges 45 years of county-level inmate population data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Census of Jails and Annual Survey of Jails and resident population demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Currently, the dataset includes jail data for every one of the approximately 3,000 counties in the country and combined jail and prison data for all counties in New York and California. In 2016, Vera will incorporate data for the number of people in, and admissions to, prison by commitment county for all 50 states. For more information, see the ITP data tool at trends.vera.org and complete details on the ITP dataset in Incarceration Trends: Data and Methods for Historical Jail Populations in U.S. Counties, 1970-2014 (Kang-Brown, 2015). Vera is seeking opportunities to use this tool to answer important questions about the use of incarceration, and the Summer Fellow will have the chance to take part in discussions and help shape the future direction of the project and analyses. New York Immigrant Family Unity Project Center on Immigration and Justice

The Vera-administered New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) is the first public defender program in the country for immigrants facing deportation. NYIFUP provides detained indigent immigrants facing deportation at New York’s Varick Street Immigration Court with free, high-quality legal representation. The project, which seeks to keep immigrants with their families and in their communities, will also serve detained New York City residents whose deportation cases are being heard in nearby New Jersey locations.

The project seeks to increase court effectiveness and decrease detention times for those it represents, thereby saving taxpayer dollars, while maximizing due process. By keeping families together, the project lowers the social and economic costs that would otherwise be incurred by the City and State of New York and New York employers. NYIFUP provides a replicable model for other jurisdictions around the country. NYIFUP is a collaborative of Vera, the Northern

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Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, The Center for Popular Democracy, Make the Road New York, and the Immigration Justice Clinic of Cardozo Law School.

Quantitative skills are important for this work, but this project also provides an opportunity to gain qualitative research experience, particularly data cleaning and analysis for the report to the City Council. There will be a rich, primary data set of over 1200 cases currently being compiled by three legal service providers in New York that will be available for analysis starting in June or July 2016. There also may be an opportunity to help conduct qualitative interviews with clients of the program. Some knowledge of immigration law and Spanish language ability preferred. Justice AmeriCorps Center on Immigration and Justice

The number of children crossing the border without a parent or legal guardian has increased ten-fold in recent years, starting from an annual average of 6,000-7,000 children. The purpose of the justice AmeriCorps Program is to use the AmeriCorps service model to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of immigration court proceedings involving unaccompanied children. Immigration judges are able to conduct hearings more effectively when unaccompanied children are assisted by competent legal representatives. Vera’s Center on Immigration and Justice is conducting this study to provide performance measurement and evaluation services that will contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the jAC Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children Program. The Summer Fellow will be able to learn about the project and take part in the evaluation.

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Macaulay Honors College Instructional Technology Fellowships Dear Executive Officers and Academic Program Officers, I am writing to call your attention to the Macaulay Honors College Instructional Technology Fellowships, an excellent fellowship opportunity for your doctoral students. Full information about the program and an online application can be found at http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/itfprogram (all applicants must use the online application at that address). Now in its 15th year, the ITF program has been extremely successful, its success matching that of Macaulay Honors College itself. All CUNY doctoral students accepted for this outstanding opportunity will: • receive a Grad A fellowship • participate in a prestigious and innovative program that includes a technology-across-the-curriculum initiative • get extensive technological training in a highly marketable skill set • participate in interdisciplinary teaching and learning groups • work closely with some of CUNY’s best faculty and brightest undergraduates Thank you for your efforts to publicize this fellowship. The application deadline for 2016-2017 ITFs is March 29, 2016 at 10 PM EST (GMT -5). Sincerely, Joe Ugoretz =================================== -- Joseph Ugoretz, PhD Associate Dean Teaching, Learning and Technology Macaulay Honors College City University of New York macaulay.cuny.edu

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Intro to Programming with Python

Hi!

I'm writing to let you know about our upcoming Introduction to Programming with Python Workshop. This is a very popular workshop and is sure to fill up quick, so register early. The GC Digital Fellows host workshops throughout the semester a variety of topics and tools, check out the schedule here.

Be sure to reach out with any questions at gc.digitalfellows@gmail.com

Intro to Programming with Python Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 – 6:30-8:00pm

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of programming using Python, a language popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditionals, installing and importing libraries, and creating simple scripts. No previous programming experience is necessary.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops.

This workshop will be hosted by Patrick Smyth and Mary Catherine Kinniburgh.

Register HERE[eventbrite.com]

Hope to see you there!

Best,

The GC Digital Fellows

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"Measuring What Counts: Credentials or Learning?" with the Futures Initiative

Dear Colleagues, Please join us next Wednesday, March 2 from 1-2pm for "Measuring What Counts: Credentials or Learning?" This livestreamed discussion will focus on the social and political implications of the ways we test, grade, measure, rank, and assess. We will look at the ways our metrics can preserve inequality (race, gender, and class) and we will look at new, alternative methods of assessment that offer more fluid, equitable, and holistic ways of evaluating and supporting learning at every level. We are delighted to welcome three renowned national figures on the topic of assessment: Anya Kamanetz, author of widely-acclaimed The Test and lead digital education reporter for NPR; Leah Gilliam, VP of Strategy and Innovation for Girls Who Code and former director of Mozilla’s Hive NYC Learning Network; and Bret Eynon, VP for Academic Affairs at LaGuardia Community College and a leader in the ePortfolio movement. More details are available below, and you can RSVP here. Please share this invitation with faculty, students, and staff in your programs. We hope you can join us!

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2016 Sociology Doctoral Student Conference: Shifting Boundaries, Enacting Change

Please join us on March 4th for the 2016 Sociology Doctoral Student Conference: Shifting Boundaries, Enacting Change. The conference features a keynote on Sociology and Activism; a special plenary on methodology offering tips, tricks, and advice from those currently in the field; and paper presentations on a wide range of Sociological topics such as labor, family, citizenship, and social movements. Check-out the full conference schedule and speakers here[opencuny.org], and be sure to register so we c an plan for any services needed and order enough food. This is a free conference and will include breakfast, lunch, and a wine and cheese reception. Date: Friday, March 4, 2016 Time: 9:30am - 8:00pm Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York Register now!

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At the Edge of the Network: Undersea Cables and Deep Infrastructure

Please join us for this exciting talk, sponsored by CUNY DHI and GC Digital Initiatives. Nicole Starosielski will discuss her recent book The Undersea Network and digital project Surfacing, and address topics including the materiality of the internet, digital mapping, and network infrastructure. We hope you'll join us! “At the Edge of the Network: Undersea Cables and Deep Infrastructure” with Nicole Starosielski Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Steinhardt March 8th, 6:30pm The Skylight Room, The Graduate Center Free and open to the public Over 99% of transoceanic data traffic is carried across the oceans by undersea cables—these technologies comprise the backbone of the global internet. This presentation will focus on Surfacing, a digital map that enables users to traverse the social worlds of the cable system and the unseen cultural formations that sustain everyday internet connections. Surfacing is both a project of infrastructural visibility, revealing the geographies of internet systems, and a critical experiment in digital cartography that challenges existing modes of vertical and lateral movement. For more information, please see our event posting on CUNY DHI.

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NYPL/SSRC Lecture: Edge Tools in a Digital Age - March 8 The Social Science Research Council, in partnership with the New York Public Library, is launching a three-part series of events titled, “Edge Tools in a Digital World” featuring John Seely Brown, Yochai Benkler, and David Krakauer, among other notables in the digital and media worlds. Focusing on complexity and design, the conversations seek to illuminate creative approaches that can advance understanding and guide action in our increasingly stressed planet. These events are closely aligned with the SSRC's program on Digital Culture, which is exploring how digital transformations are reshaping scholarly knowledge.

The first event on March 8 is from 5pm to 7pm in the NYPL’s Trustee’s Room, Bryant Park, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

Please RSVP to at Kate Grantz at grantz@ssrc.org.

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Kate Grantz

Office of the President

Social Science Research Council

One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor

Brooklyn, NY 11201

(P) 212-377-2700 x3613

(F) 212-377-2727

grantz@ssrc.org

http://www.ssrc.org[ssrc.org]

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Getting The Writing Done March 17, 2016 (Thursday)

3:00pm-4:30pm Room 9206

Facilitated by Karen Starr, Psy.D.

Do you need to start writing but don’t know where to begin? Feeling paralyzed by imagined judgmental readers? Having trouble making time to fit writing into your life? This workshop will offer practical strategies for moving forward. Karen Starr, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who conducts writing and dissertation consultations. Please note that no food or beverage will be allowed during this workshop. **You must be a currently registered GC student to attend this workshop** To register stop by the Wellness Center Student Counseling Services in Room 6422 to fill out a workshop application. The application has also been attached for your convenience, email and fax is acceptable. For more information, please call (212) 817-8731.

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The Wellness Center  Student Counseling Services Room 6422 212.817.7020 212.817.1602 (fax) wellness@gc.cuny.edu http://cuny.is/wellnesscenter 

WORKSHOP APPLICATION

Today’s Date: _____________________

Name: _______________________________________________ Date of Birth: _______________________ Banner I.D. Number ___________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone: ______________________________ Email: __________________________________________ Department: ____________________________ Level: ____________ Years in Program: ___________ Which workshop(s) are you signing up for? _____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ How did you hear about the workshop(s) you are signing up for? Email: _____ Flyer: _____ Digital Sign: _____ Word of Mouth: _____ Social Media: _____ Other: _____ (please specify______________________________) Have you attended a workshop through Student Counseling Services previously? Yes: _____ No: _____ If yes, which one(s)? ____________________________________________________ When? _____________ Have you sought other services through Student Counseling Services? Yes: ______ No: ______ If yes, describe: ________________________________________________________ When? _____________ Our office will contact you prior to the workshop date(s) to confirm your registration. If you have questions, please call us at 212-817-8731 and leave a message. Your call will be returned promptly. Please return this form to Student Counseling Services at the Wellness Center, Room 6422 (email/fax is also acceptable). You must have your student I.D. with current validation sticker available to present.

These programs are offered as educational workshops, and are in no way to be construed as psychological services or psychotherapy.

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Opportunity to Share a Brooklyn apartment

From: Pejman Ghaemi Mohammadi [mailto:pghaemimohammadi@gradcenter.cuny.edu] Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 10:12 PM To: Stolarski, Kathleen <kstolarski@gc.cuny.edu> Subject: Inquiry

Dear Kathleen Could you please kindly forward the following inquiry to the department?

My Friend who is a PhD student at Graduate Center is looking for a female roommate (Who is responsible and clean) starting first of March. It is the smaller room in a 3 Bedroom 2 bathroom duplex apt. the person moving in will be sharing the bathroom, kitchen and living room with one more person. It is located in sunset park, 5 minutes to R train (45 street stop), and 10 minutes to D and N train (36th street in Brooklyn). The rent + utilities will be about 750-800 per month. The other roommate is also a PhD student at NYU polytech. Pictures are available if needed. Thank you very much for this Regards Pejman

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Looking to sublet? Hi, I have a furnished room in a three bedroom apartment to be rented at least until the end of May (if both of us agree, we can extend the timing). Please find the features and don't hesitate to text me, call me (917-873-6649) or email me by demetarpacik@gmail.com. You can see the features of the room below, but you can also see the ad on Craigslist from the link: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/roo/5437479624.html[newyork.craigslist.org]

Apartment: 3 bedroom apartment in a 4 floor building, the apartment has elevator and laundry in the building. Very spacious, has a separate dining are and a separate big living room. The apartment has all basic furniture (the living room is not furnished yet tough). There is 1.5 bathrooms and lots of closet area. Each room has built-in closet. The Room: furnished,includes twin size bed, study table, a bookcase and chair. There is also a built-in closet. Rent: 800$ (+/- 50$ for all utilities, heat and water included) Transportation: It is one block from the B and Q stop, about 27 minutes to GC (for those who don't know, B express train is one of the best trains in NY). There are many bus options as well, which i don't use often. Neighborhood: It is steps to Church, a few blocks to Ocean and close to Flatbush Ave where you can find everything you need from food to clothing to bank and. It is very vibrant, you have fresh food available for very affordable prices all the time. International food options, lots of markets and gourmets. To move in: Last week of February, one month and security (equals to a month's rent). Move in date: February 20 My roommate: She is PhD student at NYU in cinema. Very clean, nice, understanding. We get along very well. The person we are lookign for: clean, responsible (gender does not matter) Note: Since the trains are one block away, you hear the trains passing, but it is not disturbing at all.

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