The Mina Rees Library will host the 11th cohort of the Open Knowledge Fellowship in Winter 2025. This 6-session program includes a stipend of $2000, paid via Financial Aid in Spring 2025.

Almost 200 GC students have participated in the Fellowship over the past 5 years – we encourage you to check out this excellent opportunity! Apply by 12/2/24 at 12pm EST

Fully enrolled students are encouraged to apply: all Graduate Center students in PhD or MA programs who will be teaching at CUNY in either Spring or Fall 2025.

What is the Open Knowledge Fellowship? Read below for details, and see our series of short essay reflections from former Fellows. Past participants have completed ambitious, creative projects, including Annotated Open Resource Guides, openly licensed textbooks, extensive course sites, and more!

If you have any questions about how to apply or what the program entails, feel free to reach out: library@gc.cuny.edu

An Overview: Dates & Times

6 sessions: January 21, 23, 28, 30 | February 6, 13

In Person: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Eligibility Requirements: GC doctoral or MA students who will be teaching at CUNY in Spring or Fall 2025. Participants must be fully enrolled in Spring 2025 to receive the $2000 stipend, paid via Financial Aid. Full enrollment for doctoral students is 7 credits or weighed instruction units (WIUs); for MA students, 9 credits.

What will happen during the Open Knowledge Fellowship?

The Fellowship provides interactive training about how to find and implement openly licensed resources for the course you teach. Often referred to as Open Educational Resources (OER), these may include textbooks, lab manuals, ancillary materials, videos. We’ll talk about Open Access (OA) scholarship, how to locate high-quality journal articles that are freely available online, and how to more effectively navigate the scholarly landscape in your field.

By the end of the Fellowship, you will have:

– Adapted the syllabus for the course you will be teaching at CUNY in 2025, so that it consists entirely of cost-free materials. This results in huge savings for CUNY undergraduate students, estimated to be millions of saved dollars across the University through OER programming.

– Voiced and further developed a critical and informed perspective about economic/political issues in scholarly publishing that connects to your field of study.

–  Facility with identifying materials that are under copyright, and issued with Creative Commons licenses.

– Created a set of unique strategies for inviting students into the creation of open resources, centered around the goals for your course!

We’re excited to work with you –  Apply by 12/2/24 at 12pm EST!

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