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New Impromptu
By: Greg Hartmann My first year as a Humanities Alliance fellow was filled with a lot of new experiences. Rosalía, Sok, and I (the three fellows working at Guttman Community College) helped develop programs ranging from a “study hacks” presentation to bilingual poetry workshops to the creation of an annual common read on campus designed…
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Deep Listening: Contemporary Composers of the New York Scene
Tuesdays September 20, 2022 & October 25, 2022 @ 2:30-4:00 PM Room 303, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 212-340-0863 Register today at https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/09/20/clone-deep-listening-contemporary-composers-new-york-scene What’s that sound? Music possesses a unique ability to stir our emotions, call forth memories, or even transport us to another realm of being.…
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Call for Applications: CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellowship at LaGuardia Community College
Deadline: Monday August 8 at 10 AM. The CUNY Humanities Alliance seeks applications from Graduate Center doctoral students in any field for one 2022-2023 fellowship. This fellow will be placed at LaGuardia Community College, supporting their ePortfolio project. About the Humanities Alliance The CUNY Humanities Alliance, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, exposes…
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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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Panel: Teaching & Learning in Community College Contexts
April 25th @ 2 PM – 3:30 PM Community Colleges serve almost half of the undergraduate students in the United States. They provide many students’ first contact with higher education, especially for historically underserved populations. The work of community college faculty is complex, teaching a heavy load of classes, helping students navigate their disciplines and…
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CUNY Peer Leaders is now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 cohort!
Deadline: Monday, June 21, 2021 Thank you for your interest in becoming a CUNY Peer Leader for the Fall 2021 to Spring 2022 academic year! CUNY Peer Leaders is a community-based program that welcomes 30-40 undergraduate students each year from two- and four-year CUNY colleges and supports them with humanities and social justice scholarship and…
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Announcing Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung Kim, and the Third Cohort of Graduate Teaching Fellows!
The Humanities Alliance is thrilled to announce the addition of a new Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung Kim, as well as the start of the third cohort of nine Graduate Teaching Fellows at The Graduate Center, CUNY, who will have the opportunity to learn with master faculty and teach at LaGuardia Community College. Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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