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Using OER to Promote Cultural Competency, Student Engagement – Community College Daily.
Please find the link to the article, “Using OER to promote cultural competency, student engagement,” co-authored by our Humanities Alliance fellow and PhD Candidate in English program, Janelle Poe.
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To Serve With Love: Hip Hop At CUNY
Authored by Janelle Poe What do we owe to the things we love? To the people who made us? 2023 gave me a lot to reflect on as it was not only the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, but also of my parents’ wedding, exactly a week apart. Now in their mid-70s, my parents have…
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Three Job Opportunities at the Graduate Center, CUNY with the Humanities Alliance
We are delighted to announce three job opportunities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. These positions are part of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Alliance, a new, Mellon-funded collaboration between the GC and LaGuardia Community College. Please share this announcement widely. With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Graduate Center and LaGuardia Community College of…
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The Importance of a Collaborative Approach to Learning
Most of my life as a student I had always approached learning very individualistically, even the ideas of study groups seemed foreign to me. If I didn’t understand something, I would go home, hit the books (or YouTube) and teach it to myself. Consequently, I felt very alienated in my coursework and my career aspirations…
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The Humanities in Times of Robot-Generated Everything: Reflections
Authored by Inma Naima Zanoguera What will remain of the essence of the human as the unfolding (the inevitably, exponentially, vertiginously unfolding) world of Artificial Intelligence (henceforth referred to as AI, in case you’d been living in a bubble, kind of like the bubble I wish still existed for me, and find yourself unfamiliar with…
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The Hum of Humanities is in the Air: Day 1
Author’s Note: Future blog posts elaborating on individual breakout sessions to follow with embedded hyperlinks. 6:15 am – I touched down at JFK airport from San Diego, California where the airline seemed to have lost 3 hours of my night. Lucky for me—sarcasm notwithstanding—as a college student and military veteran, I have extensive experience being…
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Teaching Philosophy
by Rosalía Reyes Simon When I am in front of my students in a course of Spanish, literature, oral or written communication, or Latin American civilization, I always keep in mind one of my main objectives as a professor: to make them feel that each one is contributing by bringing their own heritage to the…
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Supporting Our Students In Difficult Times
Classes have started again this month at LaGuardia Community College, and the Humanities Alliance’s Graduate Teaching Fellows are already in their third and fourth weeks of teaching this semester! Throughout the 2016-2017 year, the Fellows have been learning about and sharing strategies for student-centered pedagogy, alongside other critical pedagogical approaches, and have been discussing how…
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Student-Led Events in March & April 2017
In a recent post, I highlighted some resources for supporting our students at CUNY and across the country in the current political climate. It’s also important to note that CUNY students–whether doctoral students at The Graduate Center, or undergraduates at LaGuardia Community College–are also thinking through and responding to inequity and injustice. They’re doing so, in part,…
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Student-Centered Pedagogy: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Key Texts
The CUNY Humanities Alliance team is often asked to share our favorite resources on student-centered pedagogy. After discussing what we consider foundational texts—and crowdsourcing the question, too—we compiled the following selection. We plan to continue to develop this list, and hope readers will share their own favorites in the comments section below. Stay tuned to…
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Student Evaluations of Teaching Aren't Perfect, But Here's One Way to Use Them
How do you know whether things are going well in your class? And whether students are learning anything? Do they like your teaching style? Does your course meet their needs? These are questions that thoughtful college teachers and other educators often ask of ourselves. As we approach the end of the spring semester, I find…
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Specialized Language and Jargonism within Higher Education and Academia: Further Consequences on Bilingualism and Multilingualism
By Mehrnaz Moghaddam During my first year of PhD program (cultural anthropology), I hardly understood any of the discussions in depth. In my case, it was not because English is not my native language (only to some extent) but largely because I was a newcomer to the field of social sciences and humanities from a…
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