Futures Initiative
@futuresed.bsky.social
The Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center advances greater equity and innovation in higher education and promotes reinvestment in higher education as a public good.
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💪✨We’re thrilled to announce our incredible speakers for Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
🤩 Join us for an inspiring conversation about courage and the impact of immigrant scholars who are reshaping higher education.
❤️RSVP below to secure your seats!❤️
🤩 Join us for an inspiring conversation about courage and the impact of immigrant scholars who are reshaping higher education.
❤️RSVP below to secure your seats!❤️
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
💪✨We’re thrilled to announce our incredible speakers for Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
🤩 Join us for an inspiring conversation about courage and the impact of immigrant scholars who are reshaping higher education.
❤️RSVP below to secure your seats!❤️
🤩 Join us for an inspiring conversation about courage and the impact of immigrant scholars who are reshaping higher education.
❤️RSVP below to secure your seats!❤️
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT! 🚨
The Future Initiative is back with another event in The University Worth Fighting For series 💪
🎓 Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
💥 Stay tuned for our speaker reveal and content drops!
#FutureInitiative #LearningWithoutBorders
The Future Initiative is back with another event in The University Worth Fighting For series 💪
🎓 Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
💥 Stay tuned for our speaker reveal and content drops!
#FutureInitiative #LearningWithoutBorders
October 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT! 🚨
The Future Initiative is back with another event in The University Worth Fighting For series 💪
🎓 Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
💥 Stay tuned for our speaker reveal and content drops!
#FutureInitiative #LearningWithoutBorders
The Future Initiative is back with another event in The University Worth Fighting For series 💪
🎓 Learning Without Borders: Immigrants Transforming Higher Education
💥 Stay tuned for our speaker reveal and content drops!
#FutureInitiative #LearningWithoutBorders
🚀 Exciting news! FI’s very first podcast, “Why Innovation Needs Equity,” is now live!
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🚀 Exciting news! FI’s very first podcast, “Why Innovation Needs Equity,” is now live!
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
🎉 Welcome our new Futures Initiative Fellow: Vallerie Matos! 🎉
👏👏👏 Vallerie is an English PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching Sound Studies, Glossolalia, and Afro-diasporic literature. We’re excited to have her in our community!
#Welcome #FuturesInitiative #CUNY
👏👏👏 Vallerie is an English PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching Sound Studies, Glossolalia, and Afro-diasporic literature. We’re excited to have her in our community!
#Welcome #FuturesInitiative #CUNY
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🎉 Welcome our new Futures Initiative Fellow: Vallerie Matos! 🎉
👏👏👏 Vallerie is an English PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching Sound Studies, Glossolalia, and Afro-diasporic literature. We’re excited to have her in our community!
#Welcome #FuturesInitiative #CUNY
👏👏👏 Vallerie is an English PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching Sound Studies, Glossolalia, and Afro-diasporic literature. We’re excited to have her in our community!
#Welcome #FuturesInitiative #CUNY
🎉 🎉 🎉 Welcome our new Futures Initiative Fellow: Oliver Silverman! 🎉🎉 🎉
👏 👏 👏Oliver is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, researching the history of utopia and the connections between classical political ideas and revolutionary thought.
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👏 👏 👏Oliver is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, researching the history of utopia and the connections between classical political ideas and revolutionary thought.
#FuturesInitiative
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🎉 🎉 🎉 Welcome our new Futures Initiative Fellow: Oliver Silverman! 🎉🎉 🎉
👏 👏 👏Oliver is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, researching the history of utopia and the connections between classical political ideas and revolutionary thought.
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👏 👏 👏Oliver is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, researching the history of utopia and the connections between classical political ideas and revolutionary thought.
#FuturesInitiative
📢 Call for Applicants: CUNY Peer Leaders Program
💡 Are you a motivated and collaborative undergraduate at one of CUNY’s 2- or 4-year campuses? The CUNY Peer Leaders program is now accepting applications!
📅 Apply by Tuesday, September 30, 2025: futuresinitiative.org/2025/09/12/t...
💡 Are you a motivated and collaborative undergraduate at one of CUNY’s 2- or 4-year campuses? The CUNY Peer Leaders program is now accepting applications!
📅 Apply by Tuesday, September 30, 2025: futuresinitiative.org/2025/09/12/t...
The CUNY Peer Leaders Program Spring ’26 | Applications Open
Apply now! Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Are you, or do you know, a motivated, collaborative undergraduate scholar at any of CUNY's 2 or 4 year campuses? Then consider applying for [...]
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September 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
📢 Call for Applicants: CUNY Peer Leaders Program
💡 Are you a motivated and collaborative undergraduate at one of CUNY’s 2- or 4-year campuses? The CUNY Peer Leaders program is now accepting applications!
📅 Apply by Tuesday, September 30, 2025: futuresinitiative.org/2025/09/12/t...
💡 Are you a motivated and collaborative undergraduate at one of CUNY’s 2- or 4-year campuses? The CUNY Peer Leaders program is now accepting applications!
📅 Apply by Tuesday, September 30, 2025: futuresinitiative.org/2025/09/12/t...
👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to Cathy N. Davidson, founding director of the Futures Initiative and senior advisor on transformation to the CUNY chancellor, who has been awarded the 2025 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education!
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#HigherEducation #Equity #CUNY #McGrawPrize
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#HigherEducation #Equity #CUNY #McGrawPrize
Four education innovators honored with the 2025 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education | McGraw Prize in Education
Media contact:Maggie Lindenberg, RW Jones Agencymaggie@rwjonesagency.comKat Stein, Executive Director of Communications, Penn GSE215-898-9642, katstein@upenn.edu
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September 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to Cathy N. Davidson, founding director of the Futures Initiative and senior advisor on transformation to the CUNY chancellor, who has been awarded the 2025 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education!
mcgrawprize.com/news-events/...
#HigherEducation #Equity #CUNY #McGrawPrize
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#HigherEducation #Equity #CUNY #McGrawPrize
We close by celebrating @cathyndavidson.bsky.social for her bold leadership and unwavering commitment to higher education—and for 10 transformative years of the Futures Initiative. Here’s to a legacy of innovation, justice, and public good.
May 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We close by celebrating @cathyndavidson.bsky.social for her bold leadership and unwavering commitment to higher education—and for 10 transformative years of the Futures Initiative. Here’s to a legacy of innovation, justice, and public good.
Another blind spot in higher ed: failing to grasp the deep value of diversity. We define excellence narrowly and ask diversity to prove its worth—while taking homogeneity as the norm. It’s time to question who defines excellence and why.
May 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Another blind spot in higher ed: failing to grasp the deep value of diversity. We define excellence narrowly and ask diversity to prove its worth—while taking homogeneity as the norm. It’s time to question who defines excellence and why.
Higher education has as its mission to serve the public good—but rarely stops to ask how the public defines it.
One of our biggest blind spots is assuming our definition is shared. To rebuild trust, we have to listen—especially across difference.
One of our biggest blind spots is assuming our definition is shared. To rebuild trust, we have to listen—especially across difference.
May 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Higher education has as its mission to serve the public good—but rarely stops to ask how the public defines it.
One of our biggest blind spots is assuming our definition is shared. To rebuild trust, we have to listen—especially across difference.
One of our biggest blind spots is assuming our definition is shared. To rebuild trust, we have to listen—especially across difference.
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@cathyndavidson.bsky.social speaks about college debt and that most have $40K in debt but for profit college debt is three times that plus higher dropout rates. It exacerbates the problem but we're seeing a push for privatization and that's precisely what we don't want.
@futuresed.bsky.social
@futuresed.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social speaks about college debt and that most have $40K in debt but for profit college debt is three times that plus higher dropout rates. It exacerbates the problem but we're seeing a push for privatization and that's precisely what we don't want.
@futuresed.bsky.social
@futuresed.bsky.social
"If funding is going to be tied to politics, we need to be tied to each other. Transform competitive spaces into collaborative ones." - Nancy Cantor, President of CUNY's Hunter College.
May 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"If funding is going to be tied to politics, we need to be tied to each other. Transform competitive spaces into collaborative ones." - Nancy Cantor, President of CUNY's Hunter College.
Challenging times can open space for imagination.
In moments of crisis, resistance, endurance, and imagination become essential—not just to survive, but to transform.
These moments can be the catalyst for long-overdue change in our institutions.
#FutureOfHigherEd #TransformHigherEd
In moments of crisis, resistance, endurance, and imagination become essential—not just to survive, but to transform.
These moments can be the catalyst for long-overdue change in our institutions.
#FutureOfHigherEd #TransformHigherEd
May 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Challenging times can open space for imagination.
In moments of crisis, resistance, endurance, and imagination become essential—not just to survive, but to transform.
These moments can be the catalyst for long-overdue change in our institutions.
#FutureOfHigherEd #TransformHigherEd
In moments of crisis, resistance, endurance, and imagination become essential—not just to survive, but to transform.
These moments can be the catalyst for long-overdue change in our institutions.
#FutureOfHigherEd #TransformHigherEd
Hunter College President Nancy Cantor calls for creating shared spaces—not controlled by universities or communities alone, but co-created together.
May 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Hunter College President Nancy Cantor calls for creating shared spaces—not controlled by universities or communities alone, but co-created together.
To shape the future of higher ed, we must co-create with communities - not drop in grant by grant, but commit for the long haul. It’s about shared spaces, visibility, and building together. That can be revolutionary!
May 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
To shape the future of higher ed, we must co-create with communities - not drop in grant by grant, but commit for the long haul. It’s about shared spaces, visibility, and building together. That can be revolutionary!
Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, highlights our responsibility to communicate the value of our work:
"Higher ed is facing cuts, discrediting, and public distrust—but the public doesn’t know what’s being lost. That’s on us!"
"Higher ed is facing cuts, discrediting, and public distrust—but the public doesn’t know what’s being lost. That’s on us!"
May 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, highlights our responsibility to communicate the value of our work:
"Higher ed is facing cuts, discrediting, and public distrust—but the public doesn’t know what’s being lost. That’s on us!"
"Higher ed is facing cuts, discrediting, and public distrust—but the public doesn’t know what’s being lost. That’s on us!"
Hunter College President Nancy Cantor reminds us of the importance of doing research embedded with communities:
“We need a two-way street—a community of experts with and without formal credentials—who really co-produce solutions.”
#FutureOfHigherEd
“We need a two-way street—a community of experts with and without formal credentials—who really co-produce solutions.”
#FutureOfHigherEd
May 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Hunter College President Nancy Cantor reminds us of the importance of doing research embedded with communities:
“We need a two-way street—a community of experts with and without formal credentials—who really co-produce solutions.”
#FutureOfHigherEd
“We need a two-way street—a community of experts with and without formal credentials—who really co-produce solutions.”
#FutureOfHigherEd
"Storytelling is as important as science". @shellyeversley.bsky.social about the importance of liberal arts and humanities in Higher Education.
May 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Storytelling is as important as science". @shellyeversley.bsky.social about the importance of liberal arts and humanities in Higher Education.
We start our event with a powerful question: What does it mean to defend higher education and cultural institutions for the public good—not just for today, but for generations to come? #FutureOfHigherEd
May 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We start our event with a powerful question: What does it mean to defend higher education and cultural institutions for the public good—not just for today, but for generations to come? #FutureOfHigherEd
We are LIVE: The Future of Higher Education!
May 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We are LIVE: The Future of Higher Education!
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In today's "AI and the Future of Higher Education," @cathyndavidson.bsky.social mentions former FI Fellow Chris McGuinness and what she has learned about Hugging Face, a "GitHub for AI": huggingface.co
@hf.co @futuresed.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social
@hf.co @futuresed.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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May 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In today's "AI and the Future of Higher Education," @cathyndavidson.bsky.social mentions former FI Fellow Chris McGuinness and what she has learned about Hugging Face, a "GitHub for AI": huggingface.co
@hf.co @futuresed.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social
@hf.co @futuresed.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social
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At today's Futures Initiative webinar on AI and the Future of Higher Education, @cathyndavidson.bsky.social quotes Andrew Chee: "Love yourself enough to write your own term papers," @alexanderchee.bsky.social. SO important that we emphasize love, and foster self-advocacy & self-trust in students!!
May 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
At today's Futures Initiative webinar on AI and the Future of Higher Education, @cathyndavidson.bsky.social quotes Andrew Chee: "Love yourself enough to write your own term papers," @alexanderchee.bsky.social. SO important that we emphasize love, and foster self-advocacy & self-trust in students!!
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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If OpenAI / chatGPT is supposed to do something for the public good, then it could have been rolled out differently to actually serve education and learning rather than overwhelming the education system in the whiplash. Great point by @alondra.bsky.social at today's @futuresed.bsky.social webinar!
May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If OpenAI / chatGPT is supposed to do something for the public good, then it could have been rolled out differently to actually serve education and learning rather than overwhelming the education system in the whiplash. Great point by @alondra.bsky.social at today's @futuresed.bsky.social webinar!
We just finished the amazing conversation with @alondra.bsky.social and @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, and @hastac.bsky.social area directors Dr. Jade E. Davis and Dr. Kevin Healey. We will be sharing the recap of the conversation on our website soon.
May 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We just finished the amazing conversation with @alondra.bsky.social and @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, and @hastac.bsky.social area directors Dr. Jade E. Davis and Dr. Kevin Healey. We will be sharing the recap of the conversation on our website soon.