CUNY Humanities Alliance

Bridging Teaching and Learning through the Humanities

Author: Jesse Rice-Evans

Jesse Rice-Evans (she/they)

  • Empowering Students & Creating Social Change through the Humanities

    by Sujung Kim The Result of the Humanities Alliance Postconference Survey The Fall 2018 Humanities Alliance conference offered a unique opportunity to assess nationwide opinions about community college teaching and humanities education. The conference,  “Community Colleges and the Future of Humanities,” was held by the LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate Center of City University…

  • Save the Date (Feb 3): CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellowship Information Session

    The CUNY Humanities Alliance is excited to announce 12 new graduate fellowships in educational development roles at four partner institutions: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, and LaGuardia Community College. These positions will be open to Graduate Center doctoral students entering years 3-5 of doctoral study in 2021-2022. They will…

  • Call for Participation: Humanities Alliance Collaborative Book (proposals due March 15)

    The Humanities Alliance team at the Graduate Center, CUNY are so excited to share our plan for a collaborative book project. We hope you will be a part of it! As one of the final projects of the Humanities Alliance grant funded by Andrew Mellon Foundation, we’re planning to share insights from the CUNY Humanities…

  • Humanities Alliance Conference Recap

    The Humanities Alliance Conference was such an amazing event that I was able to be apart of. I was able to sit with professors from different parts of the states and have meaningful conversations on their strategies in pedagogy. I was able to attend the Faculty to Faculty: Building Pathways and Partnerships between the Community…

  • Humanities Alliance Conference Day 1

    It was such a pleasure to attend day 1 of the Humanities Alliance Conference. The day started with a very informative statistical study. Then with a panel of few fellows who teach at Community Colleges in NYC. It was an interesting feel when professors as fellows described their experiences specifically after the November 2016 elections.…

  • 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…

  • Conference Reflection – Hierarchy of Language

    Language and multilingualism is something I think of often in part because it shapes up such a large part of my life, so I was really excited to attend the Multilingualism in Higher Education panel. In the panel, Sujung Kim, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Graduate Center, particularly spoke of her research of immigrant…

  • 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…

  • Approaching Difficult Texts as Students and Educators

    On the first day of the conference, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend the “Difficult Texts” panel with Anthony Alessandrini and Libby Garland, professors at Kingsborough Community College, Karen Miller, coming from LaGuardia Community College, and Andrea Morell, who teaches at the Urban Studies program at Guttmann Community College. From one aspect, I learned…

  • Learning from fellow attendees at the 2018 CUNY Humanities Alliance Conference

    I had the distinct pleasure of learning from fellow attendees at the 2018 CUNY Humanities Alliance Conference, and I was struck by the thoughtful educators, graduate students, undergraduates, staff, and administrators who convened over two days to discuss the promise and possibilities of the humanities in community colleges.  In a session on transformative development within…

  • Classrooms as a Sphere of Possibility: Workshopping Pedagogy and Social Justice

    On September 13, The Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosted a public event entitled, Classroom and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy. As an exit ticket, we asked the audience to briefly write about why they were interested in this topic. We received critical and impressive responses…

  • 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…