The CUNY Pipeline Program

June 14th, 2011 by Arlene Torres

The CUNY Pipeline Program is designed to provide educational and financial support to underrepresented CUNY undergraduates interested in pursuing the Ph.D. in preparation for college-level teaching and advanced research in any discipline except law and medicine. The CUNY Pipeline Program seeks to recruit students from groups currently underrepresented in our nation’s universities.

Pipeline Program Outcomes Class 2010-2011

This year has been a year of transition for the Pipeline Program. The principle guiding these changes has been to integrate all the activities of the OEODP office to support each other. As a result, the Black Male Initiative was used to assist in the Pipeline recruitment process, and the Graduate Center Presidential Magnet Fellows (the top graduate students from underrepresented groups) were for the first time deployed in a structured mentoring program to assist the Pipeline students based on their own experience in successfully applying for graduate school. This is a very important principle which was difficult to implement but which has yielded unprecedented success. See attached brief.

 

 

 

Pipeline 2011 Brief

Center for Puerto Rican Studies Research Proposal Fellowships for Fall 2011

June 8th, 2011 by Arlene Torres

REQUEST FOR FELLOWSHIP PROPOSALS
Application deadline for Fall 2011 Awards: June 30, 2011 Announcement of Decision: August 1, 2011 Start of Appointment: September 6, 2011
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro) seeks research proposals for fellowships in Puerto Rican studies. Centro will provide limited funding on competitive bases for the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
Centro is a research center dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Centro is the world’s only repository of archival and library materials dedicated exclusively to the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Centro is committed to facilitating research projects useful to those in community organizations, public policy, and academia.

Refer to attached pdf link for additional information

http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/events_2011/Fellowships_call_for_proposals_4-11-2011.pdf

CUNY Pipeline Recognition Ceremony

May 27th, 2011 by Arlene Torres

Last night I had the privilege of attending the 20th Annual Recognition Ceremony for the Graduating Seniors of the CUNY Pipeline Program for Careers in College Teaching and Research. Twenty-one students completed the program. They will continue to distinguish themselves as they pursue graduate education in schools all over the country. These are truly high achievers and engaged scholars. Congratulations! Twenty-seven young scholars will be participating in the Program in 2011-2012.

For additional information see http://web.gc.cuny.edu/oeodp/

 

Dr. Frank Bonilla Memorial

May 27th, 2011 by Arlene Torres

Economies of Affect Working Group

May 25th, 2011 by Arlene Torres

Call for Abstracts :    ECONOMIES OF AFFECT WORKING GROUP

A long-held assumption in the social sciences  has been that economic projects conflict with intimate, affective relationships in ways that render public and private spheres opposite to one another. Viewed as “individual” or “private,” emotions –sometimes used interchangeably with terms like feelings or sentiments– were seen as associated merely with the realm of an inner world, constructed as the opposite of reason, and thus inaccessible to social scientific inquiry. More recently, as the concept of affect has gained increased attention in several of the social sciences and humanities, scholars have used this concept to articulate new ways for thinking about power, inequality, and social relations more broadly.

Open to faculty and advanced graduate students in the NY-NJ Consortium (Columbia, CUNY, New School, NYU, Princeton, and Rutgers), the “Economies of Affect” working group will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.   The organizing concept “economies of affect” intends to highlight relations of power and inequality, aspects of state formation and imperial and colonial relations, distinct class, racial, and gender locations, and concerns with sexuality and racialization practices.  We are particularly interested in approaches that are empirically grounded and concerned with issues of social justice, inequality, and power.

The working group will run as a combination of workshop, reading group and guest lecture series.  Presenters will circulate their work in advance and receive comments from the rest of the group.  We envision this working group as a first step in the development of a multi-year collaborative project that may include a conference, public lectures, publications, and research grant proposals.

We welcome abstracts in any of the following areas:

The place of affect in colonial contexts, nation-building projects, markets, and transnational and global movements.

The role of affect in the production of racialized  and sexualized subjects

Affect and the production of personhood in cases where personhood becomes uncertain, questionable, or under siege within unevenly distributed fields of power.

Examinations of how affect may shape and/or be shaped by neoliberal economic practices.

Sentiments as criteria for knowledge production, conceptions of civility, production and sustenance of social hierarchies, and access to personal aspiration and citizenship.

Possible legal, social, and political consequences of the manifestation, articulation, and disciplining of emotions.

The working group will meet on selected Fridays from 12-2 pm, five times a semester during the AY 2011-2012. The location of the meetings will alternate between the campuses of CUNY-Baruch College and Rutgers-New Brunswick.  A more detailed schedule of meetings will be circulated later in the summer.

Those interested in participating in the Economies of Affect working group should submit an abstract of the project that they will be presenting (500 words) and a current CV by June  15, 2011.  The abstract and CV should be emailed to the working group coordinators Prof. Ulla Berg ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ) and Prof. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ).

This working group is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University and the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College.


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