November 6, 2018

FAQs about Teaching at an Independent or College Prep School (K-12)

New York Interschool is a consortium of 8 Manhattan independent schools. Representatives from NY Interschool's Faculty Diversity Search answered questions from GC students about getting a teaching position at an independent school.

September 27, 2017

Political Science at Port Authority (feat. Allison de Cerreno)

Allison de Cerreno has a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. She now works as Assistant Director for Policy and Business Programs in the Tunnels, Bridges, and Terminals Department at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

August 11, 2016

Interfolio

Applying to jobs in higher education or for further graduate study typically involves submitting a whole portfolio of documents. To expedite this process, you may want to sign up for a popular dossier service called Interfolio.

June 24, 2016

Academic Conferences: Presentation Basics

Attending conferences is a fantastic way to get feedback on your research and meet interesting colleagues—plus, it's absolutely essential if you're planning to pursue a career in academia.

March 29, 2016

Kick-Starting a Public Service Career: Fellowship and Internship Opportunities in State and Local Government

Government jobs offer graduates the opportunity to conduct interesting, challenging, and important research on public policy (not to mention perks like relative job stability, health care and retirement benefits, fixed pay scales, and time off).

March 9, 2016

Subtle Job Scams & How to Avoid Them

Sometimes, job scams are easy to spot. There are a few common warning signs to look for in any job ad. But job scams are now getting more sophisticated, and they're on the rise.

March 5, 2016

Fake Job Posts: Avoid These Time Wasters

There are plenty of good job opportunities to be found through job search engines. Unfortunately, job seekers do need to keep their guard up when looking online for jobs. Fake or fraudulent job posts are impossible to avoid, and they're sometimes subtle enough to fool even the typically savvy applicant.

September 24, 2015

Quick Classroom Assessment Activity: the Minute Paper

Like the muddiest point exercise, the “minute paper” is an easy classroom assessment technique (CAT) that instructors can use to quickly check how well students are grasping course material.

June 2, 2015

Alumni Profile: Taylor Cassidy, Analyst at the U.S. Army Research Lab (Linguistics PhD, 2014)

Deciding to pursue a career outside of a traditional academic setting doesn’t mean you have to abandon the type of research you’ve learned to do in grad school. Recent GC… Read the rest

May 19, 2015

Alumni Profile: Jonathan DeBusk, Senior Strategy Consultant at IBM (Sociology PhD, 2012)

Sometimes grad students become so immersed in the world of academia that they don’t realize how many opportunities there are to apply their knowledge and experience to careers in other… Read the rest

May 10, 2015

Managing “hot moments” during classroom discussion

[show_avatar email=4265 user_link=authorpage show_name=true show_email=true show_biography=true avatar_size=35]   Students often disagree over deeply held beliefs. Sometimes tension boils over during class discussion, resulting in a “hot moment.” Exploring the causes… Read the rest

April 27, 2015

Workshop: Streamline Your Teaching w/ CUNY Librarians

It can be exhausting when you’re trying to teach the course content that’s specific to your discipline, but you end up spending tons of class time with students just covering… Read the rest

November 17, 2014

Alum Interview: Salas Sanchez-Bennasar (Philosophy ’14), Software Developer at Genscape, Inc.

Growing up, GC alum Salas Sanchez-Bennasar said everyone around her had “a very strong conviction that what you studied in college determined your career, so that choice carried with it… Read the rest

November 11, 2014

Alumni Interview: Teaching and Learning Conference Veteran, Patricia Stapleton (Political Science, ’12)

Teaching and learning conferences can be a fantastic networking opportunity and resume builder, as yesterday’s blog post noted. In today’s post, GC alum Patricia Stapleton shares some of the lessons… Read the rest

November 10, 2014

Teaching and Learning Conference Basics

Many GC grads enter the academic job market already boasting some fairly impressive teaching experience.  If you’ve been teaching for a while, you’ve almost certainly identified a number of specific… Read the rest

October 30, 2014

Interview with Rachel Burstein (History ’14), Academic Director at Books@Work

“My advice to those who are considering alternatives to academia is this,” Rachel Burstein wrote two years ago in a professional development advice blog for the history department.  “Determine what… Read the rest

May 6, 2014

Creating a Digital Teaching Portfolio

The team over at OpenCUNY put together a useful workshop last month on creating a digital teaching portfolio, as part of a series of events this semester centered around how… Read the rest

May 2, 2014

Resources for Careers in Anthropology

In upcoming months, we’ll be sharing some discipline-specific resources useful for both academic and non-academic job searches.  We’ve started off by asking anthropology professors and students at the GC for… Read the rest

March 28, 2014

Building a Career at a Community College

Many GC alum have landed tenure-track jobs at community colleges in the NYC area and around the country. This post captures some of the biggest takeaways from our panel event Building a Career at a Community College.

February 3, 2014

Building rapport with your students

[show_avatar email=4265 user_link=authorpage show_name=true show_email=true show_biography=true show_postcount=true avatar_size=35]   Welcome back, and, if you’re teaching this semester, we hope you had a good first week! The beginning of the semester… Read the rest