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By his own admission, former LaGuardia undergraduate and current Mellon Humanities Alliance Fellow Francisco Medina enrolled in LaGuardia by accident. In the handful of years…
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Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, A Review, by Ali Abdallah, Coordinator, Student Technology Mentors Program The most recent undertaking by the CTL’s Coordinators’ Reading Collective, in…
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Travis Bartley is a third-year doctoral student at the Grad Center. At LaGuardia, under the direction of Pablo Avila, Travis assists in developing the computational…
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At LaGuardia since 2021, COIL Humanities Alliance Fellow Oriana Mejias Martinez is mentored by Olga Aksakalova, English professor and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program…
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The year-long CTL seminar, Food Inequity, Insecurity, and Justice, considers the topic of food justice within the context of history, social struggle, and economic systems….
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The CTL Coordinators’ Reading Group recently finished discussing bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994), in which she examines the…
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Research suggests a strong connection between a student’s sense of belonging to their campus and classes and higher academic achievement (for references, see below). In…
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In Spring 2021, twelve CTL staff initiated a year-long exploration of the experience of being human in these times of accelerated interaction with digital technologies….
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From June 2017–June 2018, the Designing for All (D4A) project brought together a team of students, staff, and faculty to support and educate LaGuardia faculty to use Universal Design concepts for making learning materials available for students with disabilities. Designed as a pedagogy and classroom practice project…
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Two weeks ago we launched the “Learning to Lead Through Opportunities” program for managers from across the college, a collaborative project the CTL is doing with…