Prof. Angélique Alberge, Head of International Office at Rodez University Institute of Technology in France, is visiting LaGuardia as a visiting scholar in Fall 2022. The purpose of her visit is to strengthen and potentially widen the collaboration between our French University Institute of Technology based in Rodez, and CUNY.

Prof. Alberge collaborated with Prof. Habiba Boumlik (LaGuardia) through COIL projects. A new COIL project is being set up with other CUNY campuses such as Hostos and BMCC.

Rodez University Institute of Technology is looking for several COIL partners for the following concentrations:

• Computing
• Business Administration
• Quality & Logistics
• Paralegal careers
• Information & Communications

Prof. Angélique Alberge is also looking forward to exploring other forms of collaboration like student mobility (internships or study abroad programs) as well as staff mobility (teaching stays, admin stays).

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Kenneth Yin has been awarded a CUNY’s Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) award for his research project titled “Arli Arbudu: The Life, Times, and Work of a Soviet Dungan Writer.” Congratulations to Prof. Yin!

https://www.cuny.edu/academics/current-initiatives/bresi/

Prof. Lames Fadl will be presenting her COIL project at the 4th IVEC International Virtual Exchange Conference at Valencia, Spain on October 26-28, 2022 (https://iveconference.org). The title of her presentation is “Connecting ‘Third Space’ Pedagogy with Employability in Arabic Language Classes through Virtual Exchange: A Survey of Arab-American Communities in the US.”

Congratulations to Prof. Fadl.

https://iveconference.org

The following four ELA faculty were awarded the PSC-CUNY Research Award 2022-2023. 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: The Life, Times, and Work of Soviet Dungan Writer Arli Arbudu, 1917–1986 (Comparative Literature)
• Monika Ekiert: Spamvitations: Examining Invitations to Submit as a New Genre (Library)
• Tara Coleman and Maria Jerskey: What Does It Take to Enact Linguistic Justice on Campus? An Institutional Ethnography (English)
• Tomonori Nagano: A Survey of Modern Language Enrollments at Community Colleges between 1960 and 2010 (Linguistics)

Congratulations to Profs. Yin, Ekiert, Jerskey, and Nagano!

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