On Saturday, November 4, 2017, leaders of the CUNY Humanities Alliance and the Futures Initiative’s CUNY Leadership Fellows Program presented at the HASTAC 2017 conference at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, FL. “Reimagining the Digital Humanities with ‘New Majority’ Students for Public Higher Education” was designed to consider the following questions: When we […]
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 […]
Mike Rifino, a Futures Initiative Graduate Fellow, put together a Storify of #fight4edu tweets from our April 24th event, “Teaching the Humanities at Community Colleges: Perspectives and Practices.” The event was co-sponsored with the Teaching and Learning Center and the Futures Initiative. Check out the slideshow or scroll down for the full story. [View the story “Teaching the Humanities at Community […]
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 […]
