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The Perspective Of An Alumnus, Rifah Tasnim
Editor’S Note, Amanda Landi
Contributors
Early College Folio
Contributors, Early College Folio, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2024).
Table Of Contents
Early College Folio
(2023) "Table of Contents," Early College Folio: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/earlycollegefolio/vol3/iss1/1
Review: Teaching Stem To First Generation College Students: A Guidebook For Faculty And Future Faculty By Gail Horowitz, Jessica S. Robbins
Review: Teaching Stem To First Generation College Students: A Guidebook For Faculty And Future Faculty By Gail Horowitz, Jessica S. Robbins
Early College Folio
Book Review: Gail Horowitz’s Teaching STEM to First Generation College Students: A Guidebook for Faculty and Future Faculty (Information Age Publishing, 2019). Horowitz taught chemistry at Bard High School Early College Newark.
Artist Into An Educator—Educator Inside An Artist, Raheela Qabool Abro Ms
Artist Into An Educator—Educator Inside An Artist, Raheela Qabool Abro Ms
Early College Folio
This study is a self-investigation of the author's identity by exploring her two professions: an artist as well as an art educator. Her insights as an educator provided a background for her as an artist through the production of this series of miniature artworks created with cell phone SIM cards. A SIM card, which stands for “Subscriber Identification Module,” contains information tied to the identity of the individual using it. For this reason, the author chose it as a medium for creating an art series to represent identity. In the dialogue of artist and educator, Abro confronts changes to the …
Teaching Food Studies In Early College: Experiments In Collaboration, Cynthia Brown, Maryann Tebben
Teaching Food Studies In Early College: Experiments In Collaboration, Cynthia Brown, Maryann Tebben
Early College Folio
This article outlines the process of designing and teaching a collaborative course on sustainable food and agriculture on multiple campuses at once, including two early college institutions. The authors offer insights on the specific elements of the course they designed as well as methods for designing the course, what worked in practice, and what they would change. This article will be useful for faculty who would like to work with other early college colleagues to plan a collaborative course in general or a specific course on sustainable food and farms.
Commitment To Access: A Conversation About The Unconventional And College-In-Prison, Elías Beltrán, Megan Callaghan
Commitment To Access: A Conversation About The Unconventional And College-In-Prison, Elías Beltrán, Megan Callaghan
Early College Folio
The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) currently operates full-tuition scholarship Bard College degree programs across seven New York State prisons, three Microcollege campuses created in partnership with community-based institutions, and on the Annandale campus of Bard College, where adult students are completing degrees through the BardBac. Since 2005 when the first degrees were granted to BPI students, the program has issued over 5,000 credits and more than 700 degrees.
This conversation between BPI alumnus Elías Beltrán, who earned his Bard College bachelor’s degree in 2017 while incarcerated, and Megan Callaghan, the program’s Dean, touches upon Elías’s upcoming transition to BPI faculty, …
Rolling A Boulder Up A Mountain: The Path To Higher Education In Displacement Concepts, Rebecca Granato
Rolling A Boulder Up A Mountain: The Path To Higher Education In Displacement Concepts, Rebecca Granato
Early College Folio
Students in contexts affected by displacement and forced migration are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing and successfully completing higher education, as well as translating their learning into post-graduation opportunities. Universities with clear social missions and networks of institutions have the power and the obligation to support the creation of “opportunities pipelines” for these populations.
Solving Higher Education In Burma, The Global South, And Beyond, Myat Su San
Solving Higher Education In Burma, The Global South, And Beyond, Myat Su San
Early College Folio
By introducing readers to a migrant student from Burma, the author unpacks the longstanding and increasingly complicated barriers to higher education, which many students face across the Global South. Readers are then introduced to one institution seeking to dismantle those barriers through innovation and expansive access, Parami University.
Move, May Honey Maung
Move, May Honey Maung
Early College Folio
“Move” is a call to action that urges leaders to work together to create a world where education is accessible and inclusive to everyone regardless of their socioeconomic status or background. Drawing inspiration from the author’s own educational experiences as both a student and employee of Phaung Daw Oo, this poem is a reminder that education is not a privilege but a fundamental human right; we all have a responsibility to ensure that it is available to all learners. The author—whose country is currently facing violence and economic and educational instability due to a February 2021 coup d’état—relays the hopeful …
Case Study: Phaung Daw Oo International University, Yee Wai Than Ma
Case Study: Phaung Daw Oo International University, Yee Wai Than Ma
Early College Folio
The case study discusses an unconventional path to education in Myanmar, one that serves as an alternative to government-controlled institutions. The article highlights the challenges faced by students and educators in the country and presents Phaung Daw Oo Monastic School (PDO) and its mission to contribute to society through excellence in education and lifelong learning. The school provides necessary schooling for children who did not receive adequate education at the traditional age, students who are up to five years off from what is considered aligned with the expectations of state-sponsored education. The article also discusses the establishment of Phaung Daw …
Editor's Note, Kyaw Moe Tun
Editor's Note, Kyaw Moe Tun
Early College Folio
Editor's Note, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2023).
Contributors
Early College Folio
Contributors, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2023).
Table Of Contents
Early College Folio
Table of Contents, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2023).
The Future Of Early College: An Interview With Dr. Leon Botstein, Dumaine Williams
The Future Of Early College: An Interview With Dr. Leon Botstein, Dumaine Williams
Early College Folio
The first public, tuition-free Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) opened in Brooklyn in 2001. Today, an entire network of Bard Early Colleges operates in partnership with public school systems to offer students affordable access to higher education in a cohesive, engaging environment. Simultaneously, alternative takes on early college (Early College High Schools, dual enrollment, early entrance) have proliferated across the United States, providing even more opportunities for younger students to earn college credit.
In December 2022, the author, Dean of Bard Early College, sat down with Bard College President Leon Botstein to examine how the pandemic made new demands …
Celebrating Twenty Years Of Early College In Nyc By Bard And Suny Eci, John B. Weinstein, Andrea Soonachan, Stephen Tremaine
Celebrating Twenty Years Of Early College In Nyc By Bard And Suny Eci, John B. Weinstein, Andrea Soonachan, Stephen Tremaine
Early College Folio
The slideshow published here, originally presented by early college leaders Stephen Tremaine and Andrea Soonachan, reflects on the accomplishments of 22 early college programs operating in New York City over the last 20 years. The introduction by Early College Folio editor-in-chief John B. Weinstein grounds the presentation in Weinstein's own experiences as a witness to the historic milestones and future-facing initiatives of the early college movement.
Table Of Contents
Early College Folio
Table of Contents, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 1 (December 2022).
Bard Early College: Milestones, Looking Back, Ray Peterson
Bard Early College: Milestones, Looking Back, Ray Peterson
Early College Folio
The author, whose professional experience includes serving as the founding principal of the first Bard High School Early College, maps the milestones of that experience and others through decades of early college leadership. Focusing on anecdotes and personal stories, this essay gives voice and texture to discourse about early college then and now as well as students, teachers, and the future of Bard's High School Early College program.
The House Of Seminar Needs Overhaul: The General Education Seminar In Theory And Practice, Matthew J. Park
The House Of Seminar Needs Overhaul: The General Education Seminar In Theory And Practice, Matthew J. Park
Early College Folio
Matthew Park's intellectual and institutional history of the General Education Seminars at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. This historical analysis, which the author revolves around a discussion of the genealogy and philosophy of Seminar more broadly, serves as a multidisciplinary lens through which teachers and students of Seminar across the Bard Early Colleges may center current and future discussions of the course(s).
Contributors
Early College Folio
Contributors, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 1 (December 2022).
The Early College Research Tradition And The People Who Made It: A History Of Interventions That Shaped The Field, Russ Olwell
The Early College Research Tradition And The People Who Made It: A History Of Interventions That Shaped The Field, Russ Olwell
Early College Folio
Early college as an educational reform has had a unique trajectory over the past two decades. School reform in the United States (with a few exceptions) has been a top-down movement, and the majority of attention has centered on grades three through eight, the grade levels the No Child Left Behind Act focused on. Early college, by contrast, has been a grassroots movement in many areas and has focused on high school students and their aspirations for college. This article describes the story of early college through the lens of individuals whose research helped to reorient the field and broaden …
Editor's Note, K. Yawa Agbemabiese
Editor's Note, K. Yawa Agbemabiese
Early College Folio
Editor's Note, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 1 (December 2022).
Review: Last Call On Decatur Street By Iris Martin Cohen, Nemesio Gil
Review: Last Call On Decatur Street By Iris Martin Cohen, Nemesio Gil
Early College Folio
Book Review: Iris Martin Cohen’s Last Call on Decatur Street (Park Row, 2020), a novel set in pre-Katrina New Orleans. Cohen, who grew up in the French Quarter, is a Simon’s Rock alumna.
“Digital By Necessity”: An Interview With Dr. Jane Wanninger, Julia Carey Arendell, Jane Wanninger
“Digital By Necessity”: An Interview With Dr. Jane Wanninger, Julia Carey Arendell, Jane Wanninger
Early College Folio
In the summer of 2020, Dr. Jane Wanninger participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute hosted by Agnes Scott College to learn about implementing digital storytelling in the classroom, which ironically, had to be completed digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her experience was the inspiration for this issue of Early College Folio as she pitched her ideas using the phrase “digital by necessity.” Issue Editor Julia Carey Arendell interviewed Jane, captured here, on all that she learned to think more deeply about using the virtual tool of digital storytelling as a teacher, a student, and …
Table Of Contents
Early College Folio
Table of Contents, Early College Folio, Volume 1, Issue 2 (May 2022).
Contributors
Early College Folio
Contributors, Early College Folio, Volume 1, Issue 2 (May 2022)
Table Of Contents
Early College Folio
Table of Contents | Issue 1 | Early College Folio
The Need For Early College In The 21st Century, Donald E. Heller
The Need For Early College In The 21st Century, Donald E. Heller
Early College Folio
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” details the evolution of the early college movement within the American educational system. The author then makes a case for the continued importance and success of early college models in the 50 years since Hall’s initial call for reform.