The Making Connections National Resource Center

The Making Connections National Resource Center at LaGuardia Community College supports systematic exchange across higher education, engaging creative educators on issues of inquiry, reflection, and integrative learning.  Working with educators from a wide range of colleges and universities, Making Connections offers workshops, seminars, conferences, consultations, campus visits, and sustained collaborations.  Building upon LaGuardia’s effective campus initiatives and best practices nationwide, Making Connections links theoretical insights to practical innovations such as ePortfolio pedagogy, learning communities, contextualization of basic skills mathematics, peer teaching, holistic assessment, inquiry learning, and faculty development. Sharing practice and generating knowledge, we advance teaching and learning at LaGuardia and colleges worldwide.

Ongoing Projects: 

Connect to Learning: ePortfolio, Engagement and Student Success is a 3-year FIPSE-funded project coordinated by LaGuardia's Making Connections National Resource Center in partnership with the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-based Learning (AAEEBL) - an emerging international professional association with 100 institutional members focused on ePortfolio practice.

Funded through a 5-year Title V grant, the Making Transfer Connections: ePortfolio and Student Success Across CUNY program works with two senior colleges (Queens and Lehman) and three community colleges (Queensborough, Bronx and LaGuardia) in a partnership designed to facilitate transfer and ensure student progress toward the Bachelor’s degree. Under LaGuardia’s leadership, the five CUNY colleges employ ePortfolio practice in strengthening three areas pivotal to transfer success: instruction, advisement, and assessment.

Read more about the projects here