CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS I
Morning Session - 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
An Interactive Timeline of LaGuardia Community College: 1971 – 2021
LaGuardia Past & Present:
Pre-work for this interactive workshop will begin during the morning breakfast. All Opening Sessions faculty and staff will be invited to bring their coffee into Room E-242 and contribute to a “mural” of the key events at the College and in the world/nation/city during the first four decades of the College’s history. Later, when the workshop begins, workshop participants will break into groups to review and reflect on the timeline by decade. Short reports from each group will focus on these questions:
- What three things most stand out about this decade at LaGuardia?
- To what extent were events at the College shaped by what was happening in the city/nation/world?
LaGuardia Future:
After the reports, participants will be asked to visualize the decade ahead, using these two prompts:
- Given what we know or can imagine now, what are the external factors that may impact our work in the decade ahead?
- What could be the key highlights of our work in the next decade?
Participants will post their ideas on a 2011-2021 timeline and the workshop will end with discussion of responses.
| Presenters: |
Rosemary Talmadge (President’s Office) and Jane Schulman (ACE) |
| Room: |
E242 |
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Learning Communities at LaGuardia: Past, Present, Future
Learning Communities began at LaGuardia shortly after the college opened its doors. In the last 40 years these paired and clustered courses have evolved and courses and faculty from almost every department of the college have been part of the experience. LaGuardia was one of the national leaders of the learning community movement that began in the 1970’s and has remained an innovator in learning community design from the Liberal Arts and Sciences clusters to the New Student House Program to ESL Pairs and Clusters to First Year Academies and Project Quantum Leap to Community 2.0, our newest hybrid online learning community experience.
We invite faculty and staff to join us for a review of LaGuardia’s learning communities by offering a brief history and examples from current learning community offerings and a look at future directions for integrated learning at the college. The workshop will consist of an interactive look at our work including a brief film of student work in a theatre and English cluster, a presentation of integrated work in ESL and art, and examples of peer mentoring student activities in the hybrid online environment, Community 2.0. There will be an opportunity to briefly “try out” learning community design and reflect on its purpose and relevance to different disciplines and other areas of the college such as advisement.
| Presenters: |
Phyllis van Slyck (English), C. Jason Smith (English), Ximena Gallardo (English), Ari Richter (Humanities), Hugo Fernandez (Humanities), Rebekah Johnson (ELA), Naomi Stubbs (English), and Thomas Meacham (English) |
| Room: |
E261 |
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The LaGuardia College Senate at 40: Past, Present & Future
This session will consist of a panel of Senate veterans – present and past officers and senators – who will discuss the role the Senate has played and how its procedures and practices have changed as the 2009 Plan of Governance replaced the 1978 Plan. The panelists will provide some anecdotes about memorable moments in the history of the Senate, some insights into what it means to serve on the Senate, some commentary on the potential for tension between the wishes of the administration and the views of Senate members, and some speculation about what role the College Senate will play in the future.
| Presenters: |
Bob Khan (Grants Office & President of the College Senate ) and Jerry Ianni (Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering) |
| Room: |
E250 |
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Faculty Council Panel: Updating the College Community about Issues of Workplace Violence
This session is organized and moderated by Faculty Council in order to keep the faculty and staff informed about new initiatives that may impact their work at the college. Our student population is confronting new challenges and experiencing new problems that the campus is attempting to address. This workshop will describe CUNY’s definition of workplace violence and examine how it may impact the college community. Campus Safety and Student Affairs representatives will discuss how college initiatives will be implemented. Questions to be discussed include: “What is the role of faculty, campus security and Student Affairs in cases of disruptive students? What are the procedures in place to deal with students with disruptive behaviors and what are the initiatives being put into place that will identify and reach out to students in distress? What is being done to educate the faculty regarding the college’s new initiatives? How will the college maintain a balance between campus safety and individual liberties?
| Presenters: |
Patricia Sokolski (Humanities), Sarah Durand (Natural Science), James Grantham (Campus Safety & Security) and Luis Merchant (Student Affairs) |
| Room: |
E260 |
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LaGuardia’s 21st Century Digital Library
The world of research and library resources has changed enormously in the last 40 years. Through various real word scenarios, this hands-on workshop will provide LaGuardia faculty and staff with the latest updates and advances in how to access, save and share proprietary or subscription materials (articles and ebooks) with their students and colleagues. Presenters will address how to use the library’s e-reserve system, managing resources through Blackboard or other social media sites, off-campus access, copyright issues in relation to digital sources (although not experts, we will attempt point you in the right direction) and address any questions relating to the use and incorporation of online proprietary material into your courses. This workshop is especially recommended for new faculty or those unfamiliar with the library’s online resources.
| Presenters: |
Catherine Stern (Library), Elizabeth Namei (Library), Steven Ovadia (Library) and Alexandra Rojas (Library) |
| Room: |
E101B (Library Lab) |
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Connecting Past and Present Accounting and Business Practices
The Business and Technology Department – Steinway Research Project is a joint initiative between faculty members from the Business and Technology Department and the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives to integrate primary sources from the Archive’s Steinway & Sons Collection into Accounting, Business, Management, Marketing, Law and Information Systems courses. Faculty members from the Business and Technology Department have developed a number of assignments in various disciplines using primary sources housed within the Archives. This project is an example of one of the measures taken by faculty to help students develop and connect the College’s core competencies (i.e. Critical Literacy, Quantitative Reasoning, Oral Communication, Research and Information Literacy and Technological Literacy). At this workshop we will share the work accomplished between the Archives and the Business and Technology Department and also how ePortfolio has and will continue to help us document, make visible, and share our efforts within this initiative.
| Presenters: |
Rajendra Bhika (Business and Technology), Andrea Francis (Business and Technology), Rosalia Barnett (Business and Technology), Hector Fernandez (Business and Technology), Nicole Lytle (Business and Technology), Nicole Maguire (Business and Technology) and Angela Wu (Business and Technology) |
| Room: |
E262 |
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Urban Studies at LaGuardia: 40 Years of Experiential Education Across the Disciplines
Upon its founding, LaGuardia created a college-wide, interdisciplinary requirement unlike any in the United States: every student is required to take an Urban Studies course in order to graduate. Urban Studies courses have always incorporated experiential education grounded in the pedagogical philosophy of John Dewey. The course has changed from its initial structure as an intensive urban studies course meeting one week for six hours a day focusing primarily on community participation, field trips, and the encouragement of an interdisciplinary approach to learning. Currently, the requirement is fulfilled through course offerings in several departments throughout LaGuardia, where faculty provide students opportunities to learn outside the classroom. In some courses students interview citizens, shop owners, politicians, activists, attend Community Board meetings, or generate trend charts and write letters to politicians about the prevalence of certain problems. In others, they do field studies of museums, galleries, parks, libraries, etc. As the program has grown, we have realized that the cornerstone of Urban Studies is social engagement: our relationships and how spaces, bodies, and politics both shape and are shaped by these relationships.
This panel will present assignments engaging these ideas in an array of Urban Studies courses. Seven courses from five disciplines will be represented: Health Sciences, Business, English Literature, Social Science, and Fine Art. After an introduction to Urban Studies at LaGuardia, presenters will discuss how their courses take learning outside the classroom and encourage civic engagement.
| Presenters: |
Kristen Gallagher (English), Karen Miller (Social Science), Chris Alexander (English), Laura Tanenbaum (English), David Bimbi (Health Science), Kris Jefferson (Humanities), Tara Jean Hickman (Social Science / LaGuardia & Wagner Archives), and Nicole Maguire (Business and Technology) |
| Room: |
E265 |
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40 Years of Work: Preparing Students for Present and Future Job Markets
This is a timely workshop that reflects the drastic changes in the local and national job markets from 1971 to 2011. Since LaGuardia Community College opened its doors 40 years ago the local economy has changed from one dominated by manufacturing to one with growing professional opportunities. These changes have drastically affected how immigrants and unskilled workers find jobs to access those opportunities.
In present times, universal access to professional opportunities requires more than a certain degree of training and education. Even entry level positions demand a complicated set of skills that include a functional knowledge of computers and the ability to work in a diverse setting. As the global economy continues to affect how companies find workers, the job market is projected to become even more competitive as skilled workers are sought out from a larger worldwide pool. It seems that the future sounds bleak. On the contrary, there are and will be a great number of professional jobs available for those who are prepared and able to deal with the bumps ahead.
In this session, you will learn what students will need to succeed in the current and future job markets, how to find and use market data, and integrate online tools and resources in your work to help students flourish.
| Presenters: |
Judith Gazzola (Career Development Center/ACE) and Leslie Camacho (Career Development Center/ACE) |
| Room: |
E251 |
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LaGuardia and the Radical Idea: 1971 and 2011
This session will consider 40 years of innovation at LaGuardia Community College. While we will present some of the facts on “then and now,” we invite the audience to contribute to a discussion of whether LaGuardia can still produce “Radical Ideas.” To begin the discussion we will examine how LaGuardia has changed and yet remained the same. We will review the changes to the community of Queens, as well as the transformation of LaGuardia’s community. We will reference past and present Chancellor’s reports, LaGuardia Fact Books as well as demographic studies to inform our discussion. The facts that we will present will shed some light on these questions:
- How has the evolving face and economic status of Western Queens changed our student profile?
- What has become of immigrant neighborhoods?
- Why do we have an “unusual” academic calendar? How does the accelerated semester hurt or help our students?
- What’s “an intensive”?
- Has the faculty profile of today changed in the same way as our student profile has changed?
- What do changes in the demographics from the “baby boomer” first graduation class (1974) to the current “millennial” 2011 class mean for the college and its “radical ideas”?
Join us as we reflect on our rich history and as we continue to define LaGuardia’s destiny.
| Presenters: |
Nate Dickmeyer (Institutional Research) and Reine T. Sarmiento (Student Affairs) |
| Room: |
E264 |
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Increasing the Graduation Rate by 80% - Enabling Students with 45+ Credits to Graduate!
In 2009 the College became one of 130 community colleges from 24 states participating in a national project funded by the Lumina Foundation and committed to improving student success. In signing on to Achieving the Dream, the College set three ambitious goals to reach by 2017:
- Increase graduation by 80% (from 26% to 47%)
- Increase graduation by 80% (from 26% to 47%)
- 80% of ACE GED students will be college ready
This workshop will trace the evolution of the recommendations of the two Achieving the Dream Steering Committees (2009-10 and 2010-11) and demonstrate the research and guiding principles behind the 45+ credit initiative, in particular how data was used to inform actions and decisions. Having discovered that LaGuardia students drop out at a consistent rate of 15% even when they are in good standing and within sight of graduation, the steering committee recommended focusing on students with 45+ credits as one approach to increasing the graduation rate. The workshop will show how the 45+ credits initiative focuses on students who are close to graduation, examining the issues and barriers that prevent them from taking that last step and how these can be overcome.
| Presenters: |
Jane MacKillop (ACE) and Michael Rodriguez (Humanities) |
| Room: |
E258 |
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Simulation in Nursing Education
With the advancement of technologies in health care settings, from electronic medical records to the use of bar codes on hospital wrist bands, nursing has now brought technology into education by using both electronic records and most importantly simulation in the academic setting. In order to improve and enhance students’ performance, the educational environment is set to look like a typical hospital setting and simulated activities are taped and reviewed by the students afterwards when debriefing takes place. Students have active hands-on roles to play during the simulation such as observer, LPN, RN, or family member. This workshop will demonstrate how simulations help students gain the skills needed for effective patient care and to promote patient safety.
| Presenters: |
Kira Lupeke (Health Sciences), Philip Gimber (Health Sciences), Deborah McMillan-Coddington (Health Sciences), and Margaret Norris (Health Sciences) |
| Room: |
E361 Nursing Lab |
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