The following two ELA faculty were awarded the PSC-CUNY Research Award 2024-2025. The PSC-CUNY Research Award program seeks to enhance the University’s role as a research institution, further the professional growth and development of its faculty, and provide support for established and junior scholars.

• Kenneth Yin: Representation of Indigenous Nanai Culture in the Works of Russian Far Eastern Writer Grigorii Khodzher, 1929–2006
• Tomonori Nagano: Knowledge of Japanese compound words by second/heritage learners of Japanese

https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/principal-investigators/explore-pre-award-resources/internal-funding-psc-cuny-award-program/

Prof. Leigh Garrison-Fletcher co-edited a new book titled “Humanizing Collectivist Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Humanities in Community College and Beyond.”

The book introduces concrete examples of teaching that creates learning spaces with students, values their mutual agency, and invites everyone to play a leading role in remaking higher education. The book is co-edited by Sujung Kim, Leigh Garrison-Fletcher & Kaysi Holman, and co-authored with (in alpha order): Rafael Costa, Davide Guiseppe Colasanto, Araminta Poole, Mike Rifino, Katina Rogers, Micheal Rumore, Oliver Sage, Stefanie Sertich, and Eduardo Vianna.

There will be a book talk event on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. See https://www.eventcreate.com/e/sneakpreview/?uid=0318e9ee-51de-44f6-b3e4-bf3588650330 for more information.

https://www.eventcreate.com/e/sneakpreview/?uid=0318e9ee-51de-44f6-b3e4-bf3588650330

LaGuardia Community College offers a diverse array of Liberal Arts Options catering to various academic interests. Come and speak with the program representatives and learn about the curriculum, transfer, and career paths for the Liberal Arts Options. Meet faculty and students in the LA Option. Pick up a handbook and play some interactive games!

Each program is directed by a dedicated faculty member, ensuring specialized attention and expertise. The options include Applied Math, spearheaded by Prof. Tao Chen, and Deaf Studies under Prof. John Collins, highlighting the program’s inclusivity. Newly introduced in 2022, Ethnic Studies led by Prof. Rochell Isaac, and Health Humanities in 2023, directed by Prof. Christine Marks, reflect the college’s commitment to expanding its curriculum. Other options such as History, International Studies, Japanese, Latin American Studies, and Political Science, are directed by proficient professionals like Prof. Chelsea Del Rio, Prof. Maria Savva, Prof. Tomonori Nagano, Prof. Ana Maria Hernandez, and Prof. Anja Vojvodic respectively, showcasing the broad spectrum of liberal arts education at LaGuardia Community College.

• Title: Liberal Arts Options Open House Spring 2024
• Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
• Time: 10:30am-12:30pm
• Place: E-Atrium

NYS DOE’s Multilingual Learners Division is looking for bilingual volunteers for their Seal of Biliteracy programs. They need native speakers of several languages to be volunteer (non-paid) advisors for individual students in NYC Public Schools.

Here are the languages that advisors are needed for: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian, Tagalog, Tajik, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba

See the flyer below for more information. And here is the link to become a NYSSB Advisor: https://tinyurl.com/NYC-Advisor.

https://tinyurl.com/NYC-Advisor

The NYS Unified Court System offers an intensive 20-hour internship program to bilingual students in Spring 2024. Interested students must be proficient in the English language as well as a second language, and interested in pursuing or exploring a career as a court interpreter. During the internship, students will learn about court interpreter ethics, the three modes of interpreting, the structure of the courts, different case types and lessons from a day in the life of a court interpreter.

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Prof. Habiba Boumlik has been selected to participate in the CAORC (Council of American Overseas Research centers)-WARC (West African Research Association) 2024 Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in Senegal. CAORC offers fully-funded overseas seminars. The CAORC-WARC is a fully-funded faculty seminar to help faculty and administrators gain the requisite first-hand experience needed to internationalizing courses, curricula, and teaching materials.

https://www.caorc.org/faculty-development-senegal

Congratulations to Prof. Habiba Boumlik.

Prof. Tomonori Nagano has published a book chapter on modern language enrollments at community colleges. His chapter is in the volume titled Language Program Vitality in the United States, which addresses the current enrollment challenges in modern languages and proposes different approaches to invigorating the modern language programs in the U.S.

Prof. Nagano’s chapter is available at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-43654-3_5.

• Nagano, T. (2023). World Language Enrollment at Community Colleges in the U.S. between 1960 and 2010. In E. H. Uebel, F. Kronenberg, & S. Sterling (Eds.), Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. (pp. 44-55). New York, NY: Springer.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-43654-3_5

The Education and Language Acquisition Department is hosting its annual open house event on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Please share this information with your students.

• Title: ELA Department Open House in Fall 2023
• Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
• Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
• Place: E-Atrium
• Description: Please encourage your students to attend and learn about ELA courses, majors, 4- year college transfer opportunities, and possible career opportunities in the ELA majors.
• Contact: For more information about this event, contact either​ Walter Sistrunk [email protected] or Julio Rosario [email protected].

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The NYS Unified Court System offers an intensive 20-hour internship program to bilingual students in Fall 2023. Interested students must be proficient in the English language as well as a second language, and interested in pursuing or exploring a career as a court interpreter. During the internship, students will learn about court interpreter ethics, the three modes of interpreting, the structure of the courts, different case types and lessons from a day in the life of a court interpreter.

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