Scholarship for the Public Good: Expanding Definitions of Academic Success

Time: March 11, 2021, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location: Virtual

Katina Rogers (CUNY Graduate Center)

Doctoral education opens doors to engaging and often unexpected pathways, with opportunities for significant public impact—an essential element of reinvesting in higher education as a public good. In this talk, Rogers covers how building a university that is truly worth fighting for means thinking more expansively about what constitutes scholarly success—not only to support individual career pathways, but also to work toward greater equity and inclusion in the academy. Rogers will talk about her pathway as well as her work at CUNY, including how the Futures Initiative aims to design new structures for higher education.

Rogers will also draw from her new book, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom, which explores the evolving rhetoric and practices regarding career preparation and how those changes intersect with admissions practices, scholarly reward structures, and academic labor practices—especially the increasing reliance on contingent labor.

Participants are invited to explore these ideas further in a virtual cofee hour the following afternoon. Both activities are hosted by The CNY Humanities Corridor working group, "Humanities Beyond the Academy."

Register here.

EXTRA: Listen to a podcast conversation between Dan Olson-Bang and Katina Rogers.

Christopher Flanagan, Graduate School