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From The Classroom To The Concourse: Studying The Grand Concourse To Discover One's Community, Elyse Zucker, William A. Casari Apr 2010

From The Classroom To The Concourse: Studying The Grand Concourse To Discover One's Community, Elyse Zucker, William A. Casari

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Walt Whitman’s poem, “I Hear America Singing” inspired the 13 murals painted on the walls of the Grand Concourse U.S. post office located across the street from Hostos Community College. Visited last fall by Professor Zucker’s Reading class (English 92) these looming murals helped students more fully appreciate how art enhances the Grand Concourse and, by extension, education illuminates everyday life. The 1860 poem itself celebrates America and its diversity, which 150 year later, still holds relevance for students.


Business Ethics Education: How Well Are We Preparing Students To Handle Ethical Issues At Work?, Hector Lopez Apr 2010

Business Ethics Education: How Well Are We Preparing Students To Handle Ethical Issues At Work?, Hector Lopez

Touchstone

Educators at large constantly struggle to overcome curriculum and resources constraints to prepare students for everything within their specific academic program. The logical question to ask is whether the content of an ethics course aligns with the content of the ethical challenges students will face. While a strong case can be made supporting the mastery of classical approaches to ethical analysis, the touchstone for deciding what to include in a business ethics course or curriculum should reflect practicality and applicability as well as critical thinking. To build student awareness of ethics in real-time situations, both a conceptual foundation and ample …


Collaboration In The Design Classroom, Rees E. E. Shad Apr 2010

Collaboration In The Design Classroom, Rees E. E. Shad

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Touchstone Volume 3.1 (Spring 2010), Hostos Community College Apr 2010

Touchstone Volume 3.1 (Spring 2010), Hostos Community College

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The Writing On The Wall: Celebrating National Day On Writing At Hostos Community College, Andrea Fabrizio, Linda Hirsch Apr 2010

The Writing On The Wall: Celebrating National Day On Writing At Hostos Community College, Andrea Fabrizio, Linda Hirsch

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Since its participation in the 1999 CUNY Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) Initiative, Hostos has sought to foster a campus-wide recognition of the value of writing and its place in the academic, professional and personal lives of both faculty and students. Today, with over 75 Writing Intensive (WI) sections, an appreciation of the connection between reading and writing, ongoing professional development, and WAC principles and practices incorporated into both Englishlanguage and Spanish-language courses across a wide range of disciplines, Hostos has made great strides in fulfilling the CUNY Board of Trustees mandate to provide students with frequent and meaningful opportunities to write. As …


Creating Venues For Student Interactions With The Community College, Flor Henderson Apr 2010

Creating Venues For Student Interactions With The Community College, Flor Henderson

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Preface To Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe Apr 2010

Preface To Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe

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Teaching Remedial Mathematics For Conceptual Understanding: Student Response, Alice Cunningham Apr 2010

Teaching Remedial Mathematics For Conceptual Understanding: Student Response, Alice Cunningham

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This paper describes student responses to a voluntary anonymous questionnaire administered at the end of the fall 2009 semester by the author to her students in Hostos’ Elementary Algebra course (Math 020).


Confessions Of A Wac (Writing Across The Curriculum) Groupie, Sandy Figueroa Apr 2010

Confessions Of A Wac (Writing Across The Curriculum) Groupie, Sandy Figueroa

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Questioning Cliches: Gender Analysis In History, Ernest Ialongo Apr 2010

Questioning Cliches: Gender Analysis In History, Ernest Ialongo

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