Graphic of now available book "Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging" edited by Benjamin Gillespie and Cindy Rosenthal, with Elinor Fuchs
"Late Stage" from Benjamin Gillespie, Cindy Rosenthal, and Elinor Fuchs is now available! This edited collection examines age as an embodied and socially constructed identity, both on and off the stage. Grab your copy here: press.umich.edu/Books/L/Late...
Queens College is starting a fully online MA program in English. Classes are all synchronous. Out-of-state students pay a near in-state tuition. Application deadline for the fall is April 1.
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Building benchmarks is only one way scholars can help steer AI development. We can also measure the effects of AI on students, build better datasets, or tune new open models. Openness itself could be our most important contribution. Universities have huge libraries, and the legal doctrine of fair use should protect models trained on those collections for a nonprofit educational purpose. At the moment, we are not pressing this advantage. Higher education has been so cautious about fair use that the private sector can now train more freely on our libraries (via Google Books) than is possible for academic AI researchers. We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers, who sell our own research back to us at a steep markup.
We're in a strange situation rn where Google can train freely on books from university libraries—but researchers *at* universities have limited access. I'm optimistic this can be fixed, but if you're in admin or working at a foundation, please know: univs are failing here & resources are needed.
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
What a convenient way to avoid bankruptcy plus cancel contracts, with unions, service providers and artists.
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
Humming a mournful "Midnight at the Oasis" to myself.
Looking for a redirect for that helplessness and fury? If you have the means, support an org protecting Minnesota’s most vulnerable— in memory of Alex Pretti.
I am not on the ground but @aktange.bsky.social is, and she recommended a local grocery store that is providing food boxes and has links on its site to other local orgs. I donated to Neighborhood House and the Hummingbird Initiative.
Flyer for 2/20 Event: Celebrating the release of... THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us Edited by Lisa M. Di Bartolomeo and Kevin Gannon February 20th, 2026 | CUNY Graduate Center About The Campus Crisis Toolkit New from SUNY Press, this is the first book to address campus crises that's by and for faculty, staff, and students—the true heart of higher ed and the people who make it work. The volume brings together more than forty contributors from colleges and universities across the United States and beyond. Essays address a range of aspects of the current polycrisis, including declarations of financial exigency, program closures and faculty layoffs, campus closures, political interference, and outbreaks of violence. Authors draw on their own experiences—and those of their colleagues and students—to share what worked, what didn't, and what they learned along the way. If crisis hasn't come to your campus yet, don't worry, it will. When it does, this book will help. Available March 1, 2026. Lunch and Learn Feb 20 | 12-3PM | Room 9207 Hear from contributing authors and the volume editors, connect with other faculty, staff, and students , and discuss strategies that you've used to help navigate your campus through crisis over the past several years. Register for Lunch and Learn: https://cuny.is/cctk-lunch Evening Panel: "The University & the Polycrisis" 5:30-7pm | Segal Theatre / Livestreamed Reception to follow. Welcoming comments from Joshua Brumberg and Cathy Davidson. Panel Discussion on "The Univeristy & the Polycrisis" featuring Joel Christensen, Lisa Di Bartolomeo, , Kevin Gannon, Robin Isserles, Luke Waltzer and Amy Wan. Register for "The University & the Polycrisis": https://cuny.is/cctk-polycrisis
On February 20 we'll host two events @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social to celebrate the upcoming release of _The Campus Crisis Toolkit_ (SUNY Press).
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolomeo will be joining us for a day of reflection, connection, and solidarity.
Three women with anti-Trump posters
Marchers with an immigrant solidarity banner
A protest sign honoring Renee Good
marching down Fifth Avenue with the @psc-cuny.org contingent, white hot rage keeping me toasty warm #iceoutofnyc
Join the PSC contingent for this Sunday’s mass demonstration. We will meet at 12:45 PM at the Northeast corner of 58th Street and 5th Avenue, near the Apple Store.
For more details & to let us know you'll be there, click here: psc-cuny.org/calendar/no-...
you can fax your rep & senators for free at faxzero.com :)
I’m not playing so will be doing this for the first time.
In the grand scheme of awfulness this is a tiny loss, but in a way also seismic, for the gap it leaves behind. I never participated but observed the many Cal State Northridge theater students who benefitted—& in some cases were profoundly changed—by the experience of this festival.
One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Agreed— Szadkowski’s performance in “are the Bennett girls ok?” was so satisfying— unhinged but controlled, so detailed, funny, heartbreaking. Between that & Seagulls at La Mama, she gets my Crushing the Stage 2025 prize! 🏆 🙌
bodes well. a plea to the NYTimes: start covering theater w/ the energy you bring to restaurants; the theater landscape is as varied! no need for fluff &/or celeb profiles & gimmick chasing, the human interest is built in. assume audiences have wide flavor palates.
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.”
If I didn’t see life as fundamentally absurd this would definitely tip me over the edge
This is freaking incredible
Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
For #WorldAIDSDay here’s my essay about the 72 Hours episode of The Golden Girls that I wrote for @nursingclio.bsky.social Still one of the most important sitcom episodes ever (not to mention one of my favorite things I’ve written).
nursingclio.org/2018/12/04/d...
Arise: The 2025 Fall Dance Concert
12/4-7, 7PM
Goldstein Theatre
Tix $15/$10 (QC ID and Seniors): www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/dtd/
Arise is a celebration of the resiliency and joy of dancing. Join us as QC students perform original choreography by Marshall Davis Jr.
#CADHE Concerns over Title VI Training: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression
#CUNY #MADC @aaup.org @standhighered.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social
CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.
Night of the laureates: reading and talk by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, who'll also be in conversation with NY State Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn.
