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Diversity Survey
The Center for Teaching and Learning collaborated with the Diversity Fellow Prof. Nelson Nuñez-Rodríguez to develop a faculty survey based on cultural competencies and organize a panel focused o

The Sabbatical Experience: A Fulbright Scholar in Slovakia A Transformative Experience
I embarked on my sabbatical leave during the fall of 2016 after earning my tenure in 2014. I had the privilege to receive a

Teaching Tips: Building Experimental Communities: A Holistic Approach in Education
This article is about my own personal experience as an educator. When I finished high school, I was hired as a fifth grade

Approach to Training: An Introduction to Theories of Learning
Over the past half century, American higher education has expanded from an elite audience to the mass market. Audience demographics have changed

Seen the Unseen
 

I have joined in the Natural Sciences Department in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. Like many of us at Hostos Community College, in addition to our significant teaching loads, service and s

Variations in an Emergency
Hostos English Department faculty member Anne Lovering Rounds had her first book, Variations in an Emergency, published at the end of 2016. Praised by literary critics and musicians

Looking for General Education in a New Global Space of Education
When I first sat down to write this piece, Talking Heads’ question involuntarily surfaced: “How did I get here?” And I felt the urge to pursu

Changing the Mindset for Enhanced Pedagogy
Linda Ridley
Lecturer
Business Academic Department

As a global consultant focusing on change management within organizations, over the past decade I have

Reflections Upon Teaching Our Students (and some tips!)
I have been fortunate enough to teach community-college students for the past seventeen years. As I complete my fifth year as an Assistant Professor at

Planning for End-of-Life is not a Death Sentence. The Influence of Culture on End-of-Life Decision.
THE POWER OF QUESTIONS
QUESTION: How do we introduce the End-of Life Conversation to Minority

Plickers Assessment Tool: For Any Educational Environment
Do you wish you had another means to receive formative feedback from students, increase student participation, and/or track student progress in your

Agnes Beaumont: A Seventeenth-Century Story of Self, Suffering, and Spirituality
Agnes Beaumont was a woman who lived in seventeenth-century England and who is worthy of an introduction to the modern reader. She

The Creation of the Second Mathematics Day at Hostos Community College:
An Invitation to Faculty, Staff, and Administrators to Participate in a Creative Collaboration Session for a High Impact Event.
 

Clara

Learning from Our Elders: Students, Senior Citizens, and Service-Learning
John Dewey and Paulo Freire wrote eloquently, nearly one hundred years apart, about experiential learning by describing the lifelong

How Are You?
I can recall teaching at an elementary school several years ago. The principal was deliberate in scanning children up and down with her eyes and asking, “How are you?” I thought that was very con

Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Center for Teaching

University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Center for Teaching and Learning

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University of California, Berkeley
Center for Teaching and Learning

Princeton University, New Jersey
The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

New York University, New York
Center for the Advancement of Teaching

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