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Everything You Wanted To Know About Teaching And Learning With Technology But Were Afraid To Ask: An Online Facilitators' Inquiry-Based Investigation Group, Sarah Brennan, Sandy Figueroa, Sherese Mitchell Apr 2011

Everything You Wanted To Know About Teaching And Learning With Technology But Were Afraid To Ask: An Online Facilitators' Inquiry-Based Investigation Group, Sarah Brennan, Sandy Figueroa, Sherese Mitchell

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Saturday In The Park With Franz And Joyce, Julie Trachman, William A. Casari, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Flor Henderson, Yoel Rodriguez, Jason Libfeld Apr 2011

Saturday In The Park With Franz And Joyce, Julie Trachman, William A. Casari, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Flor Henderson, Yoel Rodriguez, Jason Libfeld

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Facebook Avatars, Or Doppelgangers, For The Academician: Ementoring Turned Educational Campaign, Jennifer Tang, Sarah Brennan Apr 2011

Facebook Avatars, Or Doppelgangers, For The Academician: Ementoring Turned Educational Campaign, Jennifer Tang, Sarah Brennan

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Facebook, an innovative digital communication tool, boasts more than 500 million active users worldwide. Faculty nationwide can testify to the popularity of this social networking site. Ask a group of students in any classroom if they have used Facebook the night before, and teachers observe that most, if not all, hands would go up (Bugeja). Contrast this with the response of students if a professor inquired, “Who completed the reading or assignment I gave last night?” The results would most likely be different, regardless of the level of excellence the faculty member brings to the classroom.


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

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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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Carving A Path Of Sustainability In Hostos Community College, Flor Henderson, Julie Trachman, Olga Steinberg, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Yoel Rodriguez Apr 2010

Carving A Path Of Sustainability In Hostos Community College, Flor Henderson, Julie Trachman, Olga Steinberg, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez, Yoel Rodriguez

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Dramatophobia To Theatrophilia, Dennis Bates Apr 2010

Dramatophobia To Theatrophilia, Dennis Bates

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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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Talking Until We Are "Flu" In Our Faces (Taking Microbiology From Theory To Reality), Julie Trachman Apr 2010

Talking Until We Are "Flu" In Our Faces (Taking Microbiology From Theory To Reality), Julie Trachman

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A Business Approach To Teaching Quadratic Functions, Alexander Vaninsky Apr 2010

A Business Approach To Teaching Quadratic Functions, Alexander Vaninsky

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Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria Apr 2010

Introduction, Touchstone, Kim Sanabria

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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

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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.


Use Of A Triple-Entry Journal Assignment In A Writing Intensive Microbiology Course Section To Help Students To Read And Write More Effectively, Julie Trachman Apr 2009

Use Of A Triple-Entry Journal Assignment In A Writing Intensive Microbiology Course Section To Help Students To Read And Write More Effectively, Julie Trachman

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What Is Cheating About?, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez Apr 2009

What Is Cheating About?, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez

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My 20-Year Research Journey For A New Species Of Spiders, Or How To Come To A New Discovery, Vladimir Ovtcharenko Apr 2009

My 20-Year Research Journey For A New Species Of Spiders, Or How To Come To A New Discovery, Vladimir Ovtcharenko

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From time to time students ask me whether it is difficult to discover new species of organisms on our planet. To answer this question, I have decided to tell my story of how I discovered a new species of spider that I have dedicated to Eugenio María de Hostos.


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

Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community

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Socrates In The South Bronx, Gregory Marks Apr 2008

Socrates In The South Bronx, Gregory Marks

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Business Education, Internships And Students' Transition To Work-- Are Students Meeting Employers' Expectations?, Hector Lopez Apr 2008

Business Education, Internships And Students' Transition To Work-- Are Students Meeting Employers' Expectations?, Hector Lopez

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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

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Crossing Academic Domains: Creating A Learning Environment In Faculty Teamwork, Paula Korsko, Kate Lyons Apr 2008

Crossing Academic Domains: Creating A Learning Environment In Faculty Teamwork, Paula Korsko, Kate Lyons

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The following paper takes a look at the process that two college professors from different disciplines underwent to develop and carry out a project by creating a learning environment in which both faculty members attempted to acquire the language and culture of the other in order to accomplish the task at hand.


The Learning Profiles Of Hostos Community College Students, Christine Mangino Apr 2008

The Learning Profiles Of Hostos Community College Students, Christine Mangino

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One hundred sixty-six students took the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) and were included in the analyses of learning styles preferences. The following is a description of the Dunn and Dunn Model and our students’ learning styles.


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

Celebration Of The Committee On Beautiful Ideas, Judith Summerfield

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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.


Teaching Anatomy And Physiology Beyond The Boundaries Of The Classroom, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez Apr 2008

Teaching Anatomy And Physiology Beyond The Boundaries Of The Classroom, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez

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