2016 Sociology Doctoral Student Conference Friday, March 4, 2016 CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave Renewing an annual tradition where sociology students showcase their work and become aware of the research being done by their colleagues, the conference will feature papers representing diverse methodologies and…
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Every year the Sociology Students Association gets to set the agenda and chair two Executive Committee meetings. The Executive Committee of the Sociology Department usually meets once a month in closed meetings (with two SSA reps present), but the SSA-chaired meeting is open to all…
Open Executive Committee Meeting Minutes – 10.18.13 I. New Dissertation Committee Process -The SSA brought up the point that we needed clarification, formal documentation of the process and the criteria being used to assign fourth members. -When the SSA posed the request that the process be…
SSA Meeting Minutes – 10.24.13 1) Upcoming Meetings As there was interest in attending the next executive committee expressed on the GCSOC list serv, please be advised that the next EC Meeting is Friday Nov. 15th at 1pm. We generally meet in the thesis room.…
SSA Meeting Minutes – 9.27.13 1) Introductions 2) Scheduling SSA meetings going forward a) Original proposal was to meet on Fridays at 3pm; another suggestion – alternate between Thursdays at 6:30pm and Fridays at 3pm; going ahead with second suggestion b) Next meeting Thurs…
The following resolution was passed by the executive committee of the Hunter College PSC chapter today (October 19, 2011): The executive committee of the Hunter College chapter of the Professional Staff Congress condemns the widespread spying on Muslim students and campus clubs by the New…
Barbara Bowen in the New York Times: Tony Kushner gets it right, again. The most important thing to emerge from the controversy about his being honored by CUNY is the need, as Mr. Kushner elegantly says, for “vigorous and consequential debate” about the conduct of…
CUNY contingent workers in the Adjunct Project drafted this solidarity letter: To Our Fellow Graduate Students, Students, Professors, Teachers, Workers and Protestors in Wisconsin, Education workers and students of Wisconsin, you are not alone. The Adjunct Project, the organization that works on behalf of contingent…
From John Mollenkopf in the Center for Urban Research: Applications are solicited for ten Graduate Center students to participate in a two-week intensive seminar in Berlin, Germany, exploring urban change in Europe, with a focus on the role of neighborhoods in the processes of gentrification,…
