As a professor of philosophy at Bennett College, I applied to participate in Huston Smith’s multi-cultural NEH seminar on the Great Chain of Being held in the summer of 1988. I did so because I knew that within African Traditional…
To prepare students to learn throughout their lives and in settings far beyond classrooms, we must change what and how we teach to match what people need to know, how they learn, and where and when they learn, as well…
Thank you. There are a lot of thanks that I want to begin with, starting with the Faculty Resource Network for inviting me here and enabling me to make this presentation. Thanks also to Dr. Hogan for all that she…
I have spent the best years of my life in SNCC [“Snick”] and at Tougaloo. Tougaloo is the Civil Rights College. And we would want all of you to contribute to the endowed chair we’re trying to establish in Civil…
I was a college student turned civil rights activist during the turbulent 1960s and beyond—the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement—so I’m always happy to participate in discussions about that movement, which was a movement to expand democracy in this…
Introductory Remarks I’m Debra Szybinski and it’s a real delight to welcome you to the opening session of our national symposium this year on advancing social justice from classroom to community. As many of you know this is a topic…
Teaching students to understand and use geospatial methods and geographic information science (GISc) will enhance their opportunity to participate in research aligned mentorship activities. Mapping is no longer just for geography departments. By putting information in the context of location,…
Some universities have seen an influx of students from Saudi Arabia because of the King Abdullah scholarship. The following strategies and tips are offered for providing instruction and enhancing social interactions for these students. All strategies may not be feasible…
Introduction The generation of students that we teach depends on the use of technology for daily rituals; deeply immersed in the culture of social media, they have instant access to continuous communication from mobile devices. Some argue that the pervasive…
Strategies for Student Success through Living, Learning, and Knowing Self For years, the scholarly literature on teaching has been challenged with identifying individual and holistic ways to define, promote, and assess student success. This paper focuses on three strategies to…
Last year, like so many African-American communities across the country, the community of scholars at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, was trying to make sense of the increased reporting of police harassing, assaulting, and killing African-American men, women, and children.…
Farmingdale State College is honored to have received a highly competitive “First in the World” $2.9 million grant in 2015 from the U.S. Department of Education. With that award, we have created our Research Aligned Mentorship (RAM) program that welcomes 250…
As STEM faculty at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY), we teach a diverse student population (see ). Over half are students of color, and 40% are black or Hispanic. About a third are first generation college…
In 2013 the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) began an initiative to increase global awareness and learning in college classrooms. This was the topic of their fall national symposium. In October, several faculty and administrators from Farmingdale State…
Abstract Our classrooms are home to a diverse group of students, individuals with differing levels of academic background, income, and ability. Each student faces their own unique circumstances in meeting the challenges of the classroom, and in taking advantage of…
Abstract This presentation reported preliminary results of an NEH-funded interdisciplinary initiative, Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World, which seeks to infuse the curriculum with global competencies across the humanities. Launched in September 2014 at the Borough of Manhattan Community…
Introduction In an unsigned article in the Economist, entitled “Not What It Used to Be: American Universities Represent Declining Value for Money to Their Students” (2012), the author argues that rising tuition costs and fees, decreasing financial aid, and increasing student debt…
The learning environment in higher education has morphed from a lecture-driven paradigm to an amalgam of experiences that utilizes collaborative and interactive engagement pedagogies enhanced by technology. Such learning strategies are believed to result in deeper learning, with students taking…
Background A challenge for the country is that colleges are not contributing enough graduates in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – the STEM fields (Kuenzi, 2008). In particular, business firms demand graduates knowledgeable in STEM for increasing…
Introduction An institutional shift is underway in higher education. The pace of demographic, social, political, and economic change developing in the United States has hastened calls for a more diverse, inclusive, and representative democratic society. Academic institutions, irrespective of institutional…