CUNY Humanities Alliance

Bridging Teaching and Learning through the Humanities

Author: Jesse Rice-Evans

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  • Event Recap: Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance

    Notes | Photos | Video (forthcoming) | #fight4edu On Thursday, May 3, 2018, the Futures Initiative hosted a roundtable discussion on Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance, the final event of this year’s Thursday Dialogues series. The event brought together colleagues from departments and programs across the GC, including the…

  • May 3 Thursday Dialogue: The CUNY Humanities Alliance on Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students

    Fellows of the CUNY Humanities Alliance will hold a roundtable discussion at the Futures Initiative‘s Thursday Dialogues series. Join us to talk about student-centered pedagogy, teaching the humanities in community colleges, doctoral education and professional development, and more! Title: Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance Date: May…

  • Reflections on the "Research Paper" Assignment

    Author’s note: This post is the third in a three-part series. You can read the first two parts of the series here and here. Now that I’ve discussed how I designed and taught the research paper course, it’s time to reflect on what I would change. As I mentioned at the end of my last…

  • On Teaching a Research-Based Writing Course: What Worked and What Didn’t

    Author’s Note: This is the second part of a three-part series. You can find the first part, On Designing a Research-Based Writing Course, here. I’ve already discussed my approach to scaffolding a research-based writing course to encourage students to focus on the processes of research and writing over the final product, and to engage in metacognition…

  • CFP (closed)

    “Community College and the Future of the Humanities” #humsCC Convened by LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York October 18 and 19, 2018 Community colleges are redefining the importance and centrality of the humanities to the lives of the “new majority” of students, both during their academic careers and after…

  • On Designing a Research-Based Writing Course

    Author’s Note: This is the first part in a three-part series on designing a research-based writing course that culminates in a research paper assignment. In a recent post for this blog, I began to reflect on my experience of teaching “Writing the Research Paper,” a general education humanities course open to students who have taken at…

  • A Semester of Firsts: On Teaching “Writing the Research Paper” at LaGuardia Community College

    Last fall, I had the opportunity to teach “Writing the Research Paper” at LaGuardia Community College. The course is the third part of a composition sequence in LaGuardia’s English department (following ENG 101 and ENG 102, two courses in which students learn to write through the study of literature), and a general education course that…

  • Humanities Alliance Roundup: February Edition

    The CUNY Humanities Alliance began this semester at LaGuardia Community College on Friday, February 2, 2018 with the first part of a two part Winter Institute, where fellows workshopped their syllabuses with each other and their faculty mentors, and obtained practical advice for new faculty at LaGuardia. The next institute will take place on Friday,…

  • Call for Papers: Community College and the Future of the Humanities

    “Community College and the Future of the Humanities” #humsCC Convened by LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York October 18 and 19, 2018 Community colleges are redefining the importance and centrality of the humanities to the lives of the “new majority” of students, both during their academic careers and after…

  • Coming soon! Job opportunity for Postdoctoral Fellow

    UPDATE: Here is the full job posting. Do you have a PhD in the humanities or interpretive social sciences? Are you interested in designing research and public projects related to equity, access, and the future of the humanities in community colleges and throughout higher education? If so, watch this site for a great two-year opportunity…

  • Event Recap: Reimagining the Digital Humanities with 'New Majority' Students for Public Higher Education

    On Saturday, November 4, 2017, leaders of the CUNY Humanities Alliance and the Futures Initiative’s CUNY Leadership Fellows Program presented at the HASTAC 2017 conference at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, FL. “Reimagining the Digital Humanities with ‘New Majority’ Students for Public Higher Education” was designed to consider the following questions: When we…

  • Humanities Alliance Roundup: November Edition

    We’re a little more than halfway through the Fall 2017 semester! The Humanities Alliance’s Graduate Teaching Fellows continue to reflect on their experiences of teaching and learning at LaGuardia: Emily Brooks discusses what inspired her to move away from teaching with a textbook and how she guides students through scholarly reading in her post on…