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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 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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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…
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Happy 2022! January’s Notes offers readers a look into the CTL’s Staff Reading Collective (SRC), a bi-monthly seminar for reading and discussing meaningful texts, most…
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Welcome to the 2021–2022 academic year! Over the summer, the CTL team worked with colleagues across the College to prepare for the return to campus….
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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….