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

Touchstone Volume 3.1 (Spring 2010), Hostos Community College

Touchstone

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Preface To Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe Apr 2010

Preface To Touchstone, Lucinda Zoe

Touchstone

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Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria Apr 2010

Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria

Touchstone

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General Education Inquiry Groups: The Story Of A Pedagogical Conversation, Gina Cicco Apr 2009

General Education Inquiry Groups: The Story Of A Pedagogical Conversation, Gina Cicco

Touchstone

In September of 2007, I was asked to serve as leader of the Education Department’s Inquiry Group at Hostos Community College. At the time, the General Education initiative to form inquiry groups across all academic departments was fairly new. The first goal for our department was to define “inquiry group” and to establish a precise purpose for our group.


Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community Apr 2008

Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community

Touchstone

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Education For Sexual Harassment Prevention: Which Training Technique Works Best?, Amy Ramson Apr 2008

Education For Sexual Harassment Prevention: Which Training Technique Works Best?, Amy Ramson

Touchstone

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Celebration Of The Committee On Beautiful Ideas, Judith Summerfield Apr 2008

Celebration Of The Committee On Beautiful Ideas, Judith Summerfield

Touchstone

I take this project seriously, this COBI. It is, for me, the most unconventional, sound, and forceful project at CUNY. The project is unconventional: it flies in the face of prevailing winds that make us to attend to depersonalized gerunds and reified nouns: teaching, learning assessment; to outcomes, summations, totals that signal failures, deficiencies; to inabilities that signal impossibilities. Failure rates, killer courses, remediation, that can level the faint at heart.