In the News

CUNY SPS ePortfolio Assistant Karen Gonzalez is featured in the latest episode of the Digication podcast, where she discusses her work and shares her insights into ePortfolio pedagogy and practice. The ePortfolio of Rokshana Ali, a student in the MS in Disability Services in Higher Education program and the assistant director of Communications & Media and Liberal Studies at CUNY SPS, is highlighted in this podcast as well.

CUNY SPS MA in Applied Theatre alum and faculty member Piper Anderson (’11) has been invited by the arts organization Laundromat Project to be their inaugural Radical Imagination Fellow, a year-long post supported by The David Rockefeller Fund. In this fellowship role, Anderson will deepen organizational understandings around timely issues of abolition, healing justice, public memory, and the Black radical imagination.

Dr. Elizabeth Alsop, academic director of communication and media and liberal studies at CUNY SPS, has published the video essay "The Television Will Not Be Summarized" in the latest issue of [in]Transition, a peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. Her video explores "excessive" style in contemporary TV, in shows including Twin Peaks: The Return, The Leftovers, The Knick, Hannibal, and Enlightened.

An article about inclusion in the workplace, written by CUNY SPS alum Ebonye Gussine Wilkins (MA in Business Management & Leadership ’11), has been featured in a list of top 5 intriguing Cutter Business Technology Journal articles for 2020.

Four CUNY SPS MA in Applied Theatre students have co-authored articles published in the December 2020 double issue of NYU’s ArtsPraxis Educational Theatre journal. Alexis Jemal (’21), Brennan O’Rourke (’21), Jenny Hipscher (’21), and Tabatha Lopez (’21) wrote “Pandemic Lessons" (Volume 7 Issue 2a) and “Theatre for Liberating Social Work Education" (Volume 7 Issue 2b). Both articles draw on work these students undertook in MAAT courses.