Dispatches from the Front It was my first time teaching an evening class at a community college, and I was nervous. I’d heard about how tough these night students are: not your typical, fresh-out-of-high-school, no-extra-job, too-much-time-on-my-hands learners, but cynical, busy,...
Thanks to the software upgrades implemented over the summer, students now have access to three different bibliographic programs for their research. EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero are all part of the standard software package installed on public computers at the Graduate Center and...
Adjuncting In the mid-1990s something curious happened on college campuses across America. Students began to wonder where their sneakers came from. They wondered who had made their new t-shirts and under what conditions. When they purchased a baseball cap featuring their college logo,...
Grad Life Much to my surprise, the GC Advocate has become a chronicler of my brain. Last month I wrote about my take on teaching. In that article I mentioned the birth of my son. In this article I will muse a bit on the impact — the challenges and rewards as they say — of...
The Back Page Dear Harriet, Where are all the lesbians? – Gotta Catch ‘Em All “Where are all the lesbians.” Hmm. Let me think. You know, Gotta, I think it’s safe to say, after giving it a really good ponder, that the answer has got to be something along the...
