Interview on THE MALADJUSTED, by CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellow Rojo Robles By Jenn Polish (This interview is also cross-posted on Rojo’s website and my own.) JP: First thing I need to know – because I have a copy of your beautiful book in front of me right now – is who created this gorgeous cover art? RR: My dear […]
Last term, as a pilot faculty member with the Designing for All project at LaGuardia Community College, I joined my colleagues in creating a low-stakes assignment for a course that I hoped would increase access to my classroom. I have publicly outlined the parameters of this “low-stakes” activity, but in brief, I was teaching HUT […]
This piece is cross-posted on the Designing for All (DfA) project page: this is a project I’m co-coordinating with the Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College. We are working with students, staff, and faculty from across disciplines to create a more accessible educational experience at LaGuardia, countering unequal power dynamics that often […]
At LaGuardia, English 102 — the second composition course — is called Writing through Literature. We need to teach three genres throughout the course of the term: poetry, drama, and a genre of our choice (no surprise that I’m doing comic books for Prof’s Choice — Ms. Marvel, specifically). Lately, we’ve been doing a lot […]
It would have been easy to title this post “On Being Recognized.” As I go through troves of my own and students’ writing, the passive voice haunts us all. The passive voice is what we tend to encourage in Standard Edited English (aka, white middle class academic English). And the passive voice can be tremendously […]
(cross-posted here) Kaysi Holman and Jennifer Polish December 2nd, 2016 CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice As the CUNY Humanities Alliance website gets built out, it’s important to point out — especially in the context of conversations about OERs — that it’s difficult to talk about a website being built out in […]
Last Wednesday morning brought waves of numbed shock, pure terror, and unspeakable grief crashing through our bodies; through our classrooms; through our relationships; through every component of our lives. For me, the day of the election, it was only retreating into a surprisingly authentic coming out storyline (that takes compulsory heterosexuality to the mat) on […]
It’s that time of year: when the clove-tanged scent of cinnamon slips into your mouth alongside the crispness of just-picked apples and braces you for the barrage of overlarge papier-mâché spiders and re-watch parties of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also, it’s that time of year when school starts/has started/how-oh-how-is-it-October-already/what-do-you-mean-November-is-just-around-the-corner. In other words, it’s that time […]
