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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 Center for Teaching and Learning hosted a hybrid Chat GPT brown bag on February 16, 2023, facilitated by Professor Milena Cuellar (MEC) and CTL…
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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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On May 19, 2022, excitement and anticipation reverberated through LaGuardia’s M401A; it’s not every day that Student Success Mentors (SSMs) are invited to sit down…
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Providing all our students with access to the materials they need to learn sounds like something we’re already doing, yet this is not always the…
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Overview (Greeting) | Resources | Faculty Reflections Dominique Zino, English, reflects on teaching the concept of hunger. In my food-themed Writing through Literature course, we…
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Seminar participants visit Smiling Hogshead Ranch. Photo: Michele Piso Manoukian As Spring I 2022 at LaGuardia wraps up, the CTL sends appreciation to all for contributions…