Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) is a vibrant, pluralistic learning community committed to the intellectual and personal growth of students. Working closely with organizations across New York City and beyond, we prepare students from around the globe for degree completion, successful transfer, career achievement, lifelong learning, and civic participation. Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) was founded in 1963 and opened in 1964 as a small, primarily business-oriented, community college offering programs aimed at the midtown business community. During the next two decades, the mission of the College changed in response to the advent of the City University’s open admissions policy in 1970 and in response to the emergence of new technologies and changes in business and industry. Open admissions significantly extended higher educational opportunities to thousands of students, many of them non-traditional. After BMCC relocated in 1983 to its new building at 199 Chambers Street, the programs of the College became more diversified and reflected many of the emerging new technologies.
Humanities Alliance Faculty Coordinator
Judith Anderson (she/her). 2021-2025. Associate Professor, Ethnic and Race Studies; HA Campus and Project Coordinator
Liaises between BMCC and GC HA teams; Works closely with all graduate fellows assigned to BMCC; and Coordinates fellows and faculty/staff mentors, and all campus projects
Other staff and faculty
Gina Cherry – CETLS Director
David Barnet – Interim Dean of Academic Affairs
Jim Berg – Associate Dean of Faculty
HA Projects
In the Spring 2022 semester, the fellows and Judith Anderson began supporting the faculty, staff, and students participants of the Black Studies Across the Americas program (funded through a grant from the McKenzie Scott Foundation through President’s Fund for Innovation and Excellence). In the program, faculty, students, and international collaborators work together to create new open access curricula that insert Black Studies into courses where it traditionally is not the focus. Two fellows worked within the smaller groups in the cohort while the third fellow provided support for OpenLab where we shared the educational products produced from the program. The three fellows worked together to design and facilitate the Mentoring Undergraduate Research workshop for faculty in the program.
One fellow focused on developing asynchronous support materials, including OER templates and direct-to-researchers help documentation, using the BMCC OpenLab and rich text templates. The second fellow developed an ongoing project related to podcasts and pedagogy, discussing and developing the project with various stakeholders at the college in preparation for a future workshop on this topic and on the incorporation of asset-based assignments for faculty through the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship (CETLS). The third fellow developed a project on experiential learning, designing and leading offsite activities and developing OpenLab materials for self-guided activities.
HA Fellows
Sasha Isaac
Cary Fitzgerald.
Sukie Kim.
Luis Enrique Escamilla-Frias.
Janelle Poe.
Inma Zanoguera Garcias.
Ariel Leutheusser.
Meagan Hammerbacher.
Jesse Rice-Evans.
