CUNY Academic Commons, The Graduate Center

Established in 2009 and now nationally renowned as an example of a successful academic social network, the CUNY Academic Commons (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu) is designed to provide a flexible online space for discovery, connection, collaboration, and sharing between faculty members, graduate students, administrators, and staff of the City University of New York.

As a group of committed open-source technologists and community advocates, the CUNY Academic Commons staff is committed to the values of openness and access that animate CUNY’s public mission. We work together to support the Commons and to dream up new features for it in response to member feedback, and we share the code we develop for the Commons with the larger public (http://profiles.wordpress.org/cuny-academic-commons/).