Prof. Maria Savva receives $176k grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s UISFL Program
Prof. Maria Savva has received an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) two-year grant in the amount of $176,134.65. The UISFL program is part of the U.S. Department of Education, which provides funds to plan, develop, and carry out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages. The grant […]
Prof. Luis Guzmán Valerio’s recent publication: Una visa por tus sueños: Finessing the Dominican Dream
Prof. Luis Guzmán Valerio has published an essay titled “Books, a Love of Languages, and School” in the anthology Una visa por tus sueños: Finessing the Dominican Dream. The essay is available online at https://www.dominicanwriters.com/post/books-a-love-of-languages-and-school and a copy of the anthology can be ordered at https://www.dominicanwriters.com/product-page/una-visa-por-tus-sue%C3%B1os-finessing-the-dominican-dream.
Bilingual volunteer opportunity at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is seeking bilingual volunteers to offer legal aid to low-income new immigrants. They are looking for volunteers who are fluent in Spanish, Farsi, Dari, Bangla, Arabic, Korean, or Mandarin. This provides a valuable opportunity for students interested in pursuing legal careers (but note that this volunteer position is unpaid). […]
Prof. Luis Guzmán Valerio’s recent publication in Latin American Literature Today
Prof. Luis Guzmán Valerio has published a translation of the essay ““Ritual in Body and Word: Poetry Written by Afro-Colombian Women” by Angélica Hoyos Guzmán in the latest issue of Latin American Literature Today. Congratulations, Prof. Valerio.
USED grant to support the early childhood special education program at LaGuardia Community College
With five other sister CUNY institutions and the New York City-based Kennedy Children’s Center (https://www.kenchild.org), the Education Program at LaGuardia Community College received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop courses in early childhood special education (ECSE). The partnership, which will be led by Borough of Manhattan Community College, will include […]
NYC Men Teach Application 2023 (deadline on 9/15/2023)
Men Teach is a program Mayor de Blasio created to recruit minority male teachers to teach in the city’s public schools. While males of color make up 43% of students in the city’s public schools, only 8.3% of the city’s teachers are Black, Latino or Asian. To help increase the diversity of the city’s public […]
NYS Court Interpreter Internship Program (Fall 2023: Sept – Oct 2023)
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 […]
ACE’s Spanish-English Legal Interpreting course in Fall 2023
LaGuardia’s Adult and Continuing Education is offering a non-credit course on legal interpreter course in Fall 2023. This course is an outcome of several years of collaboration between LaGuardia’s Modern Languages Program and the NYS Courts System, with which some of the CUNY campuses ran the court interpreter internship program in the past few years. […]
Open House for the MA/Ph.D. program in Linguistics at CUNY Graduate Center (10/19/2023)
For those who are interested in pursuing an academic career (e.g., teaching at college or university) in Linguistics. CUNY Graduate Center is hosting an open house for its Linguistics Program on Thursday, October 19, 2023.
CSin6: Tuition-free CS courses for DOE teachers in Fall 2023
CSin6 (Six Credits of Computing Concepts and Pedagogy) is a professional development opportunity for teachers and paraprofessionals for tuition-free 6-credit sequence of courses.
