"Campus Update" is a weekly e-newsletter published by LaGuardia's Division of Communications and External Affairs to provide news and information to the college community. | |
|
2023 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Awarded to South Korea-native Min Young Kim
Liberal Arts: Applied Math major Min Young Kim is one of just 60 students selected for the Jack Kent Cook Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, the nation's largest and most competitive scholarship program for community college students. As a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, Min Young will receive up to $55,000/year (for up to three years) to complete her bachelor's degree and will also be eligible for graduate studies funding. This year, there were some 1,700 applicants from 448 community colleges nationwide. Earlier this year, seven LaGuardia students were selected as semi-finalists. Min Young is LaGuardia’s 15th Cooke Scholar, since 2006. Congratulations to Min Young! And kudos to her teachers and mentors, including her Cooke recommenders, Dr. Nathan Hosannah (Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science) and Dr. Christopher Schmidt (English), and her current research advisor, Dr. Alaa Darabseh (MEC), who met her from the start in a First-Year Seminar. Dr. Karlyn Koh (English) serves as Cooke Foundation Faculty Representative for LAGCC.
| |
|
CUNY Chancellor Felix V. Matos Rodriguez And President Kenneth Adams Visit Boyce Technologies, Inc.
City University of New York Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and LaGuardia Community College/CUNY (LAGCC) President Kenneth Adams participated in a tour on May 5 of Boyce Technologies, led by its Founder and President Charles Boyce. During the tour, CUNY and LaGuardia leadership had an opportunity to meet with Boyce Technology student interns, who are currently enrolled at LaGuardia including Ryan Jhin, Human Resources intern, majoring in Electrical Engineering; Jimmy Tranquille, a Culinary intern, majoring in Electrical Engineering; Leo Tepoxtecatl, a Mechanical Engineering intern, majoring in Mechanical Engineering/General; and Tenzin Choesang Tamang, a Marketing intern, majoring in Business Administration.
| | |
|
|
Today, LaGuardia Community College hosted its fourth Greenway Plaza event to celebrate the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans through culture, food and entertainment.
Students, faculty and staff participated in a variety of events including table tennis, yoga, live dance performances and music. On May 17, the Greenway Plaza will feature Red Hawks Day, celebrating LaGuardia’s school spirit, athletics and fitness. Join us!
| |
|
The World Around Us Photography Exhibition Opening May 11
Works by LaGuardia’s Commercial Photography students will be featured in the 2nd annual Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation Exhibition, opening Thursday, May 11 in the LaGuardia Community College Gallery of the Photographic Arts, located on the third floor of the B-Building. A reception will be held in the Gallery at 6 p.m. on opening night. Organizers of the exhibit awarded LaGuardia student Sead Cena first place for his work in the exhibit. Cena’s images focus on people in everyday settings and quiet situations.
| | |
|
|
Center for Career and Professional Development Presents: A Conversation With President Adams on Networking Strategies.
The Center for Career & Professional Development invites students to attend a virtual workshop titled, “Conversation with President Adams: Networking Strategies” on May 12, from 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. on Zoom. Students should RSVP for this session HERE. Students who need special accommodations should email soar@lagcc.cuny.edu.
| |
|
LaGuardia Humanitarian Initiative Student Conference and Showcase Scheduled May 24
LaGuardia Humanitarian Initiative (LHI) is an inclusive platform for students, faculty, and staff foregrounding pedagogical inquiry, civic engagement and academic service learning by facilitating a year-long college-wide inquiry of a global issue as addressed by the United Nations. Through partnerships with local and global NGOs, students gain access to career opportunities and professional development workshops. On May 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., LHI will host its annual conference and showcase, featuring keynote speaker Prof. Raysa S. Rodriguez, chief program & policy officer for FPWA and adjunct professor at Columbia University. The all-day event will also include a student talent show at 11:30 a.m. at the Poolside Café and an afternoon session focusing on LHI student activism and LaGuardia CARES. See full schedule here.
| | |
|
|
Credit for Prior Learning Open House, May 18
Students, faculty and staff are invited to the first Open House of the Office of Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) on Thursday, May 18, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. in room M-142. Attendees can explore how their skills, knowledge, and credentials can be transformed into college credit towards their degree. For more information email: CPL@lagcc.cuny.edu.
| | |
|
|
SAVE THE DATE: LaGuardia Faculty and Staff Years of Service Ceremony, June 1
LaGuardia students, faculty and staff are invited to celebrate fellow employees who are celebrating significant milestones in their careers at the college. The college will host a recognition ceremony and reception on June 1, 10 a.m. in the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, where employees will be celebrating 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 45 years of service with the college. More details to follow in the future.
| | |
|
|
RSVP for Commencement 2023
Marshals and Volunteers Needed!
LaGuardia’s faculty and staff are invited to attend the 51st Commencement Exercises, taking place Wednesday, June 21 on the Queens College campus. Please RSVP as soon as possible, whether you plan to volunteer, serve as a Commencement Marshal, march in the Academic Processional, or sit in the audience. The Commencement website contains additional information regarding academic regalia rental, directions, and information for students.
Student applications are still being accepted for Class Speaker. See details online; deadline May 12, 2023.
| | |
|
|
Twelfth Annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture, May 17
The LaGuardia students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the 12th annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture on May 17, from 1 to 2 p.m., in Room E-242. This year’s speaker is Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. The annual lecture is named in honor of Robert Fitch, who taught in the Social Science department at LaGuardia between 1993 and 2011. He was an inspirational professor who taught many different courses in two disciplines: Sociology and Political Science. Faculty are encouraged to bring their classes to the lecture.
| |
|
Fresh Vegetables, Bread, and Eggs Available for Students Through LaGuardia CARES
LaGuardia CARES is distributing fresh vegetables, bread, and eggs every Monday through June 26, while supplies last. Faculty are encouraged to bring their classes and spread the word. Distribution is made through the LaGuardia CARES office in C-107. LaGuardia CARES can be reached at (718) 482-5135 or laguardiacare@lagcc.cuny.edu.
Volunteers Sought for the LaGuardia CARES Food Pantry
Faculty and staff volunteers are sought for the LaGuardia CARES Food Pantry. A small space with a big heart, the Pantry welcomes the support of our community, especially with moving around deliveries of food and other items. Even 30 minutes of donated time makes a difference in ensuring the expedient accessibility of food and necessities to anyone in need. If you can pitch in, kindly email Rhonda Mouton, director of LaGuardia CARES, at rmouton@lagcc.cuny.edu.
| | |
|
|
Queens-Wide Lavender Graduation Celebration Taking Place on May 26
Colleagues from LaGuardia Community College, Queens College, York College, Queensborough Community College, and CUNY Law School invite you and your graduates to a CUNY Queens Lavender Graduation Celebration honoring LGBTQIA+ undergraduate and graduate students on May 26, 2023, at Queens College’s Music School Atrium. RSVP by May 19.
| | |
|
|
Student Success Mentor Program Hiring
LaGuardia’s Student Success Mentor Program is hiring! The SSM Program offers resources and assistance for students to reach their full potential. Student Success Mentors provide a wide-range of support to students while facilitating the Studio Hour component of a discipline-specific First Year Seminar course or Capstone course. They introduce students to key strategies and habits of mind for academic success, initiate and guide ePortfolio development, promote co-curricular learning opportunities, and share important campus resources designed to support each student’s academic journey. For information email: SSM@lagcc.cuny.edu
| |
|
On May 4 at the Queens Community Board 2 Meeting, LaGuardia Community College representatives shared information about College and Career Connect (C3). This program is geared toward potential LAGCC students to gain knowledge on what college life is really like. It offers a free 3-credit course, full access to LaGuardia’s extensive resources and participants of the program can earn a stipend upon successful completion. The deadline for students to apply to the program is June 1.
For more information contact David Brandt, Program Coordinator at dbrant@lagcc.cuny.edu or Ellen Quish, Program Director at (equish@lagcc.cuny.edu.
| |
LAGUARDIA AND WAGNER ARCHIVES | | |
|
|
Archives Exhibit on New York LGBTQ Elected Officials Receives Critical Acclaim.
The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives exhibit A Seat at the Table on LGBTQ elected officials in New York City Council and the State Legislature continues to receive critical acclaim. Following a rave in the literary magazine The Gay & Lesbian Review, the exhibit won praise in The Gotham Center Blog for New York City History. The exhibit, a collaborative effort between the Archives and the college’s commercial photography program, was co-curated by historian Stephen Petrus and Photography Professor Thierry Gourjon-Bieltvedt. LaGuardia students took photographs of the exhibit subjects and helped conduct oral history interviews. A Seat at the Table examines the personal lives and political experiences of elected officials from the 1990s to the present. The exhibit is also a pedagogical tool, meant to be used in both high school and college classrooms. It features three curricula units on New York City LGBTQ history created by Petrus and LaGuardia Professors Juline Koken and Tara Hickman. In this oral history clip, former Queens City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer reflects touchingly about his coming out experience with family.
| | |
LAGUARDIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | |
|
LaGuardia’s Award-Winning Theater Program Presents Big Love
The award-winning Theater Program at LaGuardia is putting on a production of Big Love, a tragic yet hilarious play that takes the plot of an ancient Greek play into modern times. Tickets are available now for shows running May 17–20 at the Little Theater. Big Love is a tragicomic, modern re-telling of one of the Western world's oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. It tells the story of 50 brides fleeing arranged marriages to their 50 cousins and seeking refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy. Big Love deals with themes of refugeeism, gender roles, dysfunctional relationships, and ultimately love. It raises questions about the institution of marriage and shows that there are no easy answers to some of life’s biggest problems. LaGuardia students and recent graduates who are part of the Big Love production include crew members D'Amari Brown, Bryan Feliciano, Christian Houston, Morticia Salazar, and Tsumugi Fukuda, and cast members Isaias Aragon, Cheyenne Campbell, Jaden Collins, Viktoriya Gurskaya, Michael Hernandez, Annabelle Paez, Jermaine Parker, Liz Pratt, Jason Rodriguez, Christian Torres, Bambo Coulibaly, Raven Furs, and Isabella Rivera.
| |
|
ServiceNow Live!
ServiceNow, our new cloud-based ticketing system, is now available for use. visit the ServiceNow Website page.
-
To open a ticket in ServiceNow, read the “How to Create an Incident or Request on ServiceNow” guide. For more details, watch the CUNY IT Help Portal Overview video created by CUNY/CIS.
- The LaGuardia community can also access ServiceNow on the Faculty & Staff Portal. In the first column, under Request Support, click on the service area where you need support. Note: If you click on the “IT HelpDesk”, please select the area that best describes the support you need.
Zoom training sessions are available:
-
Tuesdays, May 16, 23 and 30: 10 AM – 11 AM; Zoom Link Passcode: 004579
-
Thursday, May 11, 18 and 25: 9:15 AM – 10 AM; Zoom Link Passcode: 985882
-
Fridays, May 12, 19 and 26: 10 AM – 11 AM; Zoom Link: Passcode: 890404
| |
|
CUNY Preferred Name Request Form
If you wish to select a preferred name for internal CUNY purposes (in situations in which your legal name is not required) please complete and submit the Preferred Name Request Form to LaGuardia’s Department of Human Resources. This form can also be accessed in Human Resources’ Employee Forms section, in the General Forms listing, by title. A preferred name may be requested for use in College e-mail, and unofficial documents such as College directories, course catalogs, and other internal documents. Please be advised that a preferred name will not be used for payroll, benefits, and employment verification purposes. No documentation is required to have a preferred name recorded.
| |
 | |
3rd Annual Philosophy and Social Science Undergraduate Conference Held at LaGuardia
On Thursday, May 4, LaGuardia students shared presentations about contemporary social and philosophical issues, e.g., love, financial crises, gender, and welfare, at the 2023 Philosophy and Social Science Undergraduate Conference, which drew more than 125 attendees. Presenters included Ryan Jhin, Accounting; Laredo Regular, Psychology; Jahrena Hodge, Therapeutic Recreation; Wynn Salman, Fine Arts; Mahee Islam, Energy Technician; and Timothy Ramanand (LaGuardia’22, Philosophy), City College. “Our students gave spectacular presentations, with a mix of polished videos, organized PowerPoint presentations, and extemporaneous reflections,” said Dr. Cheri Carr, director of the Philosophy Program (Humanities). “For me, the most memorable moment was when Timothy spontaneously exclaimed ‘I love Philosophy!’ during his presentation on the idea of love and its relationship to madness.” Each presenter was honored with a Chaffee Award of Excellence, named in recognition of Dr. John Chaffee, founder and former director of LaGuardia’s Philosophy program. The conference was organized by Dr. Andrew McFarland (Humanities), Dr. Koun Eum (Social Science), and Dr. Choon Shan Lai (Social Science).
| |
|
LaGuardia Faculty Shared Best Practices at the CUNY Hispanic-Serving Institution Conference
LaGuardia faculty shared scholarship and strategies on promoting Latinx student success at last week’s CUNY Hispanic-Serving Institution (CUNY HSI) Conference, funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Preethi Radhakrishnan and Dr. Holly Porter-Morgan (Natural Sciences), and Dr. Nicolle Fernandes (Health Sciences) reviewed the USDA-funded Project SEMBRAR, which provides paid internships for Sustainable Urban Agriculture students. Dr. Monika Ekiert (Education and Language Acquisition), Dr. Dušana Podlucká and Dr. Eduardo Vianna (Social Science), and Dr. Dana Trusso (Humanities) were part of a group from six CUNY colleges that presented an initiative to train faculty from a wide range of disciplines in best practices for teaching data analysis and quantitative reasoning skills. And Dr. Yasser Hassebo (Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science) was part of a multi-campus group that discussed preparing Hispanic STEM Ph.D. candidates for faculty positions at community colleges. LAGCC’s Casa de las Américas was highlighted by CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez at the conference, as one of the great things happening across CUNY to support Hispanic/Latinx students.
| |
|
Center for Teaching and Learning Seminar and Workshop Applications Are Open
The Center for Teaching and Learning recently announced its first round of professional development seminars and workshops for the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year. Opportunities for in-person, online and hybrid programs are available. Themes range from artificial intelligence and inclusive pedagogy to mindfulness and housing insecurity. Participant applications are due Monday, May 15.
| |
|
Liberal Arts Brown Bag Sessions
Faculty are invited to attend an upcoming session to learn more about building a Liberal Arts identity, thinking about how to intentionally and mindfully shape the major, and information about the new course, LIN150. Sessions are taking place on Zoom, May 16 at 3:30 p.m.
| |
|
Latest Updates from LaGuardia’s Library
- Even though construction in the Library continues, we have plenty of seating available. Other than the first floor, the Mezzanine is still accessible to students by the side staircases and the elevator. The Thomson Reading Room on the second floor is open and accessible by elevator.
-
It’s a new month! Check our Library Hours before making the trip in.
- The Center for Career & Professional Development (CCPD) will be in the Library on Thursday from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Stop by to learn about their resources.
-
Did you know we keep a copy of our faculty’s publications? Check them out here.
| |
LAGUARDIA IN THE HEADLINES | |
|
Thursday, May 11
Friday, May 12
Monday, May 15
Tuesday, May 16
Wednesday, May 17
| |
"Campus Update" is produced and published by the Communications and External Affairs Division. Faculty and staff who wish to submit items for publication can Share a Story or send an email to CampusUpdate@lagcc.cuny.edu. Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. Monday to be considered for publication on Wednesday. |
| | | |
