CUNY Academic Commons Annual Report – 2017-2018

By Scott Voth on July 30, 2018 in Commons Team News, News

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Our annual report shows how the Commons continues to integrate into the life of the university by offering opportunities to every campus, faculty member, and student.

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In Common Spotlight: Interview with Michelle Zimmer, creator of The Bronx Was Brewing May 11, 2018
Welcome fellow Commoners, I’m happy to bring you all another spotlight on a #maker here at the Commons, Michelle Zimmer’s project The Bronx was Brewing. In the years before prohibition, over sixteen hundred breweries pumped out more than 2 billion gallons of beer a year. By the end of prohibition, only a handful remained. Many […]
Paul L. Hebert
In Common this week: Interview with Ned Benton of New York Slavery Records Index April 9, 2018
Dear fellow Commoners, I have another behind-the-scenes look for this week! Below, I interview with Ned Benton, Co-Director of the New York Slavery Records Index and Professor at John Jay College. The New York Slavery Records Index opened to the public on the CUNY Commons in January 2018 offering a searchable database of over 37,000 records related to […]
Paul L. Hebert
In Common this week: “Departed but not gone” March 11, 2018
Welcome fellow Commoners, This week I’m looking backwards at sites that have been left dormant on the Commons and offer a kind of “distant reading. The title of this post comes from the title of one of those sites, dormant for over five years. (BTW: If anyone out there is looking for a corpus to […]
Paul L. Hebert
Teaching on the Commons: An Experiment with Discussion across Three American Lit. Courses February 17, 2018
Welcome fellow Commoners, In this post I focus on a project Jason Nielsen and I have been working on this semester. Jason and I are both instructors at Queens College and between us, we’re teaching three sections of the same American Literature survey course at Queens College. Using a shared forum on a course page, […]
Paul L. Hebert
In Common this Week: Classes that produce Resources to Share February 9, 2018
Welcome fellow Commoners! This week I want to highlight two courses that are running on the Commons this semester whose expressed goal is sharing content beyond their classrooms. As the course site for Free Queer CUNY proudly declares “If it can’t be shared, it can’t be taught!” What is unique about these courses is that […]
Paul L. Hebert

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