Luke Waltzer
@lukewaltzer.bsky.social
Director, Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center, CUNY. Faculty in Digital Humanities and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Posts about higher ed, pedagogy, ed tech, history, sports, and funky music.
In 1917, thousands marched silently down Fifth Avenue to protest lynching and racial violence, passing what is now the CUNY Graduate Center. Historian David Blight explores this powerful moment in the annual Leon Levy Center for Biography lecture. Watch the full talk on YouTube youtu.be/Ni9-YKTKVM8
Attended this fantastic, challenging, humbling, and moving lecture @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social by David Blight last week about history, biography, and authoritarianism. I cannot recommend highly enough. youtu.be/Ni9-YKTKVM8?...
David Blight: Biography and History in Authoritarian Times
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AI is upending education — from how students learn to how schools prepare them. On Oct. 14, Cornell’s Steven Jackson, CUNY’s Aankit Patel, and The New York Times’ Natasha Singer tackle what comes next, moderated by the Graduate Center’s Luke Waltzer. Register www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
Please join us on October 14 at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for a panel discussion on “AI and the Future of Education” co-sponsored by the CUNY AI Lab and moderated by CAIL co-founder @lukewaltzer.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
AI and the Future of Education
Elebash Recital Hall
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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...
CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
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Cowardly retreat by my alma mater… “the leaders and the best.” U. of Michigan Halts New Grading Plan After Backlash From Critics www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
University of Michigan Halts New Grading Plan After Backlash From Critics
The program was intended to address what the university called a “mental health crisis.” But the plan was met with criticism that it was coddling students.
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What we're working on this year at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social TLC: research <-> teaching, feminist pedagogies, accessible practices, open education, positionality and play, teaching amidst polycrisis, & developing disciplinary teaching knowledge. tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/09/24/t...
TLC Programming, Fall 2026 – Teaching and Learning Center
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Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 4w agoI’m now reading @walshbr.bsky.social’s EMBEDDED PEDAGOGIES and will liveskeet the experience. Read with me books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.... I might be a slowpoke because work is a lot but I’m ready to be inspired.
Halle-fucking-lujah. It's temporary but it's a start.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: Judge Dennis Saylor (GWBush/MA) temporarily blocks Trump admin drive to impose a 4-year limit on student visas now issued for length of study. Calls the rationale for the new rule "exceptionally weak." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Attending “The Afterlives of the 9/11 Digital Archive” @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social I had the privilege to work on this project as a graduate student for a summer. Here’s my own email to loved ones from the archive, sent 9/12/2001. 911digitalarchive.org/items/show/3...
email193.xml · September 11 Digital Archive
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Even my die hard M fan fam are admitting this one’s unjust…
New season of free public programs at CUNY Graduate Center! In person/online - reserve: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... Feat journalist Carol Jenkins, historian Heather C Richardson, Luke Waltzer of Teaching & Learning Ctr, historian David Blight, NYT’s Salamishah Tillet, filmmaker Natalie Musteata
It’s great. But it also proposes a massive restructuring and coordination of academic labor that very few institutions have the resources, capacity, or will to pursue.
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 2mo agoMIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just about given up hope institutions could say: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
Social media would be so much improved if it remained 85% Dolly clips. Can we keep that going?
Dolly and Chet Atkins, “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?” This perfect song stops me in my tracks whenever I hear it, and I’ve heard it ten thousand times. youtube.com/watch?v=aOoT...
Dolly Parton and Chet Atkins - "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?" 1976 STEREO
YouTube video by Jason1920
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I appreciate and welcome this move (and am bummed my nephew who’s about to start at UM will miss it)— but I’m curious if there will be additional instructional resources provided to faculty to help facilitate feedback? The structure proposed sounds like hiding grades from students…
100% on Tuchel, as it should be, and the recriminations are going to be enjoyable
A real Dunkirk situation emerging over here at Azteca.
