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Revitalizing Enrollment: Supporting Equity and Educational Justice in Community College
by Sujung Kim During the pandemic, community colleges have experienced a sizable decrease in student enrollment. Vulnerable student populations, including low-income, African American, Latinx, Asian Americans, and Indigenous students, as well as other groups of minority students, have been most seriously affected by the difficult conditions of living and entering or continuing their postsecondary education.…
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Impact of Covid-19 on California Community College Enrollment and Students’ Outcomes
by Dr. Sujung Kim **This essay is a reflection on the paper entitled, The Impact of Covid-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence From California Administrative Data authored by George Bulman and Rober W. Fairlie, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March, 2022.** Most recent reports and articles…
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Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and the Public Good: Transfer Pathways from Community Colleges to Independent Colleges
by Dr. Sujung Kim **This essay is a reflection on the “Playbook for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts: How to Design and Implement Statewide Pathways from Community Colleges to Independent Colleges” authored by Julia Karon, Daniel Rossman, Elanine Vilorio, and Rayane Alamuddin, which was published on March 17, 2022 by ITHAKA S-R .** …
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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…
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Past Graduate Teaching Fellows (2016-2020)
Part of a two-year fellowship program, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellows represented a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, and experiences. Working closely with faculty mentors, program staff, continuing Graduate Teaching Fellows, and students at LaGuardia Community College, Fellows learned pedagogical practices adapted for teaching in community…
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Past LaGuardia Faculty Mentors (2016-2020)
LaGuardia Faculty Mentors welcomed Graduate Fellows to observe one of their their courses in the Fall semester, and worked with the fellows during pedagogical seminars, workshops, and individual meetings to help fellows design their own versions of the course, which they taught the following Spring semester and the following year. Professor Jessica Boehman, Faculty Mentor…
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Past Courses Taught (2016-2020)
Courses All the courses below were taught at LaGuardia Community College during the first phase of the CUNY Humanities Alliance. The graduate fellows, most of whom were experienced teachers already, worked with LaGuardia faculty and their peers to develop their syllabi for the following Humanities courses. General course descriptions listed are from the LaGuardia course…
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LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars
The LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars program was active from 2016 to 2020, during the first phase of the CUNY Humanities Alliance, and included more than 75 LaGuardia Community College Students. The LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars program enriched LaGuardia students’ understanding of the Humanities, and helped them build academic and career pathways in the Humanities. Through biweekly meetings…
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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…
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Reflections: LaGuardia Community College Humanities Conference Liaisons
Reflections requested and collected by Michele Piso Manoukian, and compiled by Jesse Wolfe, both of the LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning, November 2018. “The Humanity conference was a whole new experience for me. It was the first time that I was part of something like this. I have a lot of fun meeting new…
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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…
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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.…
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