Category: Higher Education
-
Introducing New HASTAC Scholars Co-Director!
Greetings to the HASTAC community! My name is Hilary Wilson and I recently joined the HASTAC admin team as the new HASTAC Scholars Co-Director (serving alongside brilliant Co-Director Shaun Lin). I will also be serving as a Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center Futures Initiative. You can read more about my background and my PhD research here at the Futures Initiative […]
-
Welcoming New HASTAC Scholars!
The New HASTAC Scholars Welcome Event is just one week away and I couldn’t be more excited! For those of you who don’t know me, I recently joined the Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center as the new HASTAC Scholars Co-Director and will be serving alongside Shaun Lin (the other outstanding HASTAC Scholars Co-Director.) […]
-
5 Habits for Intending Students to Succeed in 2022
After graduation from high school, I had no idea what I would do in college. Sure enough, I chose subjects, went to lectures, and got ready for exams. But I didn’t understand how to organize the process to grow my academic productivity while my stress would decrease. It took me two years to make changes and succeed […]
-
Process as Digital Pedagogy
In the fall of 2021, our HASTAC cohort merged with another Emory digital scholarship initiative, the digital dissertation fellowship. Though our missions differ slightly (HASTAC is more concerned with public-facing scholarship while digital dissertation fellows are building a digital component to their dissertation) our goals are the same: integrating digital methods and tools into humanities […]
-
“I really don’t care, do u:” Performances of Care and Conjuring American Exceptionalism
On June 21st, 2018, Melania Trump boarded a plane to visit an immigration detention center in Texas holding immigrant children who were separated from their families. Melania Trump’s supposed reason for the visit was to see the facilities for herself after she had lobbied her husband, then President Donald Trump, to change his policy on […]
-
New guide for educators in optimising independence in sixth form learning
For immediate release 1 November 2021 New guide for educators in optimising independence in sixth form learning Facet Publishing announce the publication of Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning by Andrew K. Shenton For young people who have opted to continue their education post-sixteen, it is difficult to overstate the importance of the independent learning […]
-
How Does Your Grad Dept Prepare Students to Teach? An Open, Crowdsourced @HASTAC Project
You’re invited to contribute! In 2019, we crowdsourced a document and collected twenty-nine pages of information on “Graduate Programs Requiring Instruction In Teaching (inc For-Credit Courses)” . The document includes user-supplied information on graduate programs across the US and Canada, in many fields (at a glance, I see English, Psychology, Public Health, Spanish, Neuroscience, etc) […]
-
101 Student-centered Syllabus for Intentional & Accessible Learning
Instructor: Nik Valdez, they/them/theirs Class Meeting: Monday 3:30-4:15 Office Hours: Monday 3-3:30 or by appointment Email: Land Acknowledgements: The City College of New York remains settled on the sacred land of the Munsee Lenape & Wappinger Peoples. The Graduate Center remains settled on the sacred land of the Munsee Lenape Peoples. Languages: huluníixsuwaakan (Munsee), […]
-
Announcing Upddated Edition of The New Education (Coming Spring 2022)
I’m so pleased to announce that Basic Books is publishing a new, updated version of “The New Education” (2017), in paper, with a new Introduction. The new version–with its bold new cover–also includes an appendix that supplements the “how to do college” for students and “how to improve teaching” for professors with a “how to […]
-
New Paperback Edition! Promoting Student Transformation at the Community College by Steve Berg
We are very pleased to announce that Promoting Student Transformation at the Community College by Professor Steven L. Berg of Schoolcraft College (Livonia, MI) is now available in print. Two different paperback versions are offered at production cost: a full color edition ($14.56), which includes fifty photomontages by the author, and a black-and-white edition ($5.80). These editions follow the 2020 HASTAC open-source publication of the work […]