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Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series - The Value of Political Pluralism in Academia

Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series

“It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo”: The Value of Political Pluralism in Academia

Professor Philip Swan of Hunter College will be joined by Laura Beltz, Director of Policy Reform and Ryne Weiss, Director of Research, at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) as well as Manhattan Institute Fellows John Ketcham and Renu Mukherjee in a discussion exploring ways academia can represent the diverse political views of our larger society while also honoring the academic freedom of faculty and students. The speakers from FIRE will provide information on recent free speech challenges, will discuss where Hunter ranks on the issue of free speech, and will suggest policies that can help us navigate this volatile environment with our principles of fairness intact. The speakers from the Manhattan Institute and City Journal will share insights from the new City Journal College Rankings, a project that provides students and families with information on how different universities value free speech, ideological diversity, classroom experience, and other factors often excluded from traditional college ranking systems, such as U.S. News & World Report.

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Feb 18 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

: Roosevelt House
: 47-49 East 65th St.
New York, NY 10065 United States
: Entrance on 65th Street between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue

Posted Wednesday, February 4, 2026 - 1:46pm under .

Claim your FREE online newspaper subscriptions! Now with the Financial Times!

Did you know that, as a CUNY student, you can claim your FREE online account to The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, AND the Financial Times? Here's how to do it:

Claim your FREE New York Times Academic Pass with your Hunter email address today. It's good for a full year and allows you FREE online access to the New York Times.

Visit this link to claim your pass: NYTimes.com/passes

All CUNY students also have access to the Wall Street Journal online. Visit https://partner.wsj.com/partner/cuny for access, and sign up with your Hunter email address.

Financial Times (FT) is an international daily newspaper. It covers many topics including management, finance, the legal industry, politics, climate change and more. Newsletters and apps are included.

Users can sign up for their complimentary membership by visiting https://ft.com/hunter- Click on “Get Started” and create an account using your Hunter email address and follow the prompts.

Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 9:54am under news, newspapers, free, The New York Times, wall street journal, Financial Times.

Winning Design! Hunter College Libraries Sticker Design Contest 2025

Congratulations and thank you to winning sticker designer Ezra Goren! We are so excited to announce that Hunter College undergraduate student Ezra Goren's sticker design will be printed and available in 2026. We are so appreciative of all of the incredible designs submitted. Thank you to all who designed and voted!

Sticker design of hawk in nest of books that reads "Hunter College Libraries"

Posted Monday, December 15, 2025 - 3:17pm under Sticker Design Contest.

VOTE for a Libraries Sticker Design!

We were overwhelmed by the response to the 2025 HCL Sticker Design Contest! Student designers submitted a variety of fun, informative, and original designs to represent Hunter College Libraries. Three finalists have been selected, and now it's up to the Hunter College community to vote for the winning design.

Click here to vote for your favorite sticker design! Voting will close at 11:45pm on Sunday, December 14th, and the winning design will be announced on Monday, December 15th!

Voting is only open to the Hunter College Community (students, staff, faculty), and limited to one vote per person.

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2025 - 2:28pm under .

Come Explore the Cooperman Library's Children's Book Collection!

Hunter College's Leon and Toby Cooperman Library’s children's book collection on the 1st floor is available to the whole Hunter community to enjoy, now with improved organization and signage. This collection includes picture books, fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels.

Hunter College Librarians and Staff recently improved the collection’s “shelf appeal” by adding directional signage, re-organizing the collection by grade level range, and adding new books. All books can be checked-out for use in your classroom — or just for fun!

Check out what’s available in the collection here
Stop by to enjoy these great new titles that were recently added to the children's book collection
Read more about the Library’s children’s book collection in this Research Guide prepared by Education librarians Gina Levitan and Stephanie Margolin

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 1:51pm under Cooperman Library, New Books, Children's Literature, Education.

Library Professional Organizations Tour "CRAASH in Focus" Exhibition

Tour participants from CALA NE, APALA NE, NYPL AANHPI Resource Group and Hunter College Librarians. Photograph by Kaleena Kam. Tour participants and Hunter College Librarians. Photo: Kaleena Kam.

On Wednesday, October 1, Cooperman Library welcomed library professionals from seven institutions for a guided viewing of CRAASH in Focus: Revitalizing Asian American Studies. Organized by the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Northeast Chapter, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Northeast Chapter, the New York Public Library Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NYPL AANHPI) Resource Group, and the Hunter College Libraries, the tour highlighted Asian American experiences at Hunter drawing out their reflections in the Libraries’ collection.

The event also included a visit to the Archives & Special Collections with Archivist Philip Swan. While in the reading room, participants had the opportunity to engage hands-on with student publications, institutional records, and other materials selected by the librarians documenting the vibrance of Asian American student organizing at the College. The event was led by the exhibition’s curators Mee-Len Hom, Allison Ransom, and Lily Susman with Research Services Librarian Dorian Onifer. Photographs by Kaleena Kam.

Clockwise from upper left: participants on a guided tour of the display cases, three participants view archival spread on table, tour of the archives reading room, and librarian introducing the program. Tour participants viewed the exhibition mounted in the Cooperman Library display cases and visited the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Photo: Kaleena Kam.

Posted Friday, October 31, 2025 - 2:17pm under archives, exhibitions, tours, Cooperman Library.

Design the NEW Hunter College Libraries Sticker!

Can you represent Hunter College Libraries with a sticker design?! All Hunter students are encouraged to submit a sticker design by November 23rd. Finalists will be voted on, and the winning sticker will be announced on December 15th, and professionally printed! Check out our guide to learn more and to submit your design for the chance to have your design printed for the Hunter College Community!

Not only will the winning designer have their work professionally printed, but they will also be awarded a prize! So lean into your creative side, submit your design, and possibly win a $50 gift card to thecunystore.com!

While the winning design will become the property of Hunter College Libraries, designers are encouraged to include a personal signature within their design, and to include their design in their portfolio if they choose. The stickers will not be sold, but will instead be freely available to the Hunter community as they are used to promote the libraries at various events- including but not limited to Library Classes, Orientation, and more!

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - 1:30pm under stickers, design, art.

Social Work & Urban Public Health Collection Moves to Cooperman Library

"Where are the books?" That is the question of the semester at the Social Work & Urban Public Health Library

The ever-evolving landscape of our urban university system necessitated that about 90% of this collection move from its East Harlem home in the Silberman Building to a new refurbished space on the B1 level of the Cooperman Library. The 10% remaining at Silberman now resides in the new Silberman First Floor Reading Room. In both locations, the books are available in open stacks where all students may retrieve specific titles independently and browse the collection at their leisure. In addition, all items remain discoverable in the OneSearch catalog and will be transferred on request between Cooperman and Silberman - or any of the other 24 CUNY libraries.

It was difficult to decide what items to move out from this historic collection of 36,000 volumes. We settled on recent use and recent acquisition as our guiding metrics and so the Reading Room contains all our material circulated or purchased since 2019. By no means are we representing this as the best or most important items, but they do represent the things our communities have been taking off the shelves in recent years and the most recent publications in social work, public health, and nutrition. So this is a place to start, it is all a work in progress.

Moving forward we will make use of circulation data, judgement, experience, and consultation with our communities to shape the contents held in both locations. We hope to hear from you soon and often about what you want to see on the shelves in East Harlem and 68th Street.

Click or scan the UR codes below for more information about the discovery, selection, and access of Silberman Good Reads!

Posted Friday, October 24, 2025 - 4:05pm under social work; public health; nutrition.

States of Incarceration Exhibit @ Hunter

Exhibit on histories of mass incarceration and immigrant detention comes to Hunter College Library
Created by students and justice-impacted people from communities across the country

States of Incarceration, a nationally traveling exhibit exploring the roots of mass incarceration in communities across the country, is on view at the Cooperman Library, 6th Floor, East Building of the main Hunter College Campus, until December 15th. A project of the Humanities Action Lab, an initiative newly arrived at Hunter, States of Incarceration is a collaboration of over 800 students and others deeply affected by incarceration in over 25 cities, and counting. They grew up in a United States that incarcerates more of its people, including immigrants, than any country in the world – and at any point in its history. In 2015, when the project began, they witnessed a new bipartisan consensus that the criminal justice system was broken, and an intense conflict over how to fix it.

Students and formerly incarcerated people came together to ask: How did this happen? What new questions does the past challenge us to ask about what is happening now? To find answers, they examined their own communities’ histories. Through courses at universities, local teams share stories, search archives, and visit correctional facilities. Each team created one piece of the exhibit -- and more teams have been adding their stories all along the way.

The exhibit includes portraits and oral histories from the Rikers Public Memory Project, which collects and makes visible the stories of people most impacted by Rikers Island, to mobilize action toward repairing its generational harms and interrupting the dehumanizing narratives about people harmed by Rikers.

To learn more about how to get involved in States of Incarceration and the Rikers Public Memory Project, the Hunter Community is invited to "Co-Creation Cafes." Over food and drink, faculty and students can learn about funding and other support available for them to contribute their stories and work to this national conversation. Events will be in the Cooperman Library, E617. Please go to Co-Creation Cafes for information about event dates.

Posted Friday, August 29, 2025 - 9:21am under exhibit.

New items on display at the Zabar Art Library

We have a new display at the Zabar Art Library (1608 Hunter North): Well-known artists in Zabar Special Collections.

To start off the new semester, we are showcasing some of the items from our special collections that include the work of well-known artists you may be learning about in your Art and Art History classes, such as Joan Miro, Cy Twombly, Claes Oldenburg, and more. Visit the Zabar Art Library to see these items in person. For a closer look, you can ask at the front desk to use these, or any of our Zabar Art Library Special Collections materials, in person at the library.

To get to the Zabar Art Library, take the North Building A5 elevator to the 16th floor.

cover of Claes Oldenburg book, white background with blue and white drawing multicolored lithographed cover of book on artist Joan Miro blue and gold painting on the cover of the book for Cy Twombly, The Ceiling

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 2:17pm under displays, art, art history, artists.

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