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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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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,…
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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…
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An Interview with Prof. Karen Miller
Karen Miller is Professor of History in the Social Science Department at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, Acting Deputy Executive Officer of the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies (MALS) at the Graduate Center, and a 2016-2017 CUNY Humanities Alliance Faculty Mentor. Prof. Miller spoke to me on two separate occasions about her path to teaching at…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: June edition
The Humanities Alliance held our final institute of the 2016-2017 academic year on June 2. (Read a recap of the workshop here; for more context, also see our past institute recaps from April and May.) This year’s fellows and faculty mentors met the incoming cohort of fellows and mentors, and shared their experiences over lunch. Events The LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars…
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An Interview with Prof. Ana María Hernández
“You can see that it is a joy for me to talk about this!” Ana María Hernández is Professor and Director of Latin American Studies and Spanish Translation at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, and a 2016-2017 CUNY Humanities Alliance Faculty Mentor. I sat down with Prof. Hernández on May 24, 2017, to talk about her path…
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Recap: Humanities Alliance Professional Development, May 5 workshop
On Friday, May 5, the Humanities Alliance’s staff, faculty mentors, and Graduate Teaching Fellows met for our monthly professional development workshop. This month’s workshop encouraged the program’s graduate fellows to reflect on and discuss their experiences with teaching at LaGuardia, with an eye toward preparing for the end of the semester. Our agenda for the…
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Recap: April 7, Humanities Alliance Professional Development workshop
On Friday, April 7, the Humanities Alliance’s staff, faculty mentors, and Graduate Teaching Fellows met for our monthly professional development workshop. The theme of this month’s workshop? Commenting on Student-Learners’ Writing. Our agenda, at a glance: 9:00 – Breakfast 9:30 – Welcome and Overview of the Agenda 9:35 – Teachers as Writers; Writers as Teachers 10:20 – Bean-Based Cross-disciplinary Strategies…
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