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BC Mourns the Loss of Four Staff Members Pg. 14 - 15 the VANGUARD ISSUE 10 - APRIL 15, 2020 / PAGE 2 THESPECIAL BROOKLYN ONLINE-ONLY “DISTANCE-REPORTING” COLLEGE EDITION Spring 2020, Issue 10 thebcvanguard.com Wednesday, April 15 Passing On BC Mourns the Loss of Four Staff Members pg. 14 - 15 THE VANGUARD ISSUE 10 - APRIL 15, 2020 / PAGE 2 General Inquiries [email protected] New Grading Policy, Commencement, Club Hours Indefinitely cancelled (Thanks, COVID-19!) Summer Classes, CUNY Funding Editor-in-Chief Quiara Vasquez (Rundown of the Past Two Weeks) [email protected] By Ian Ezinga stipulate any refunds that CUNY kickstarted the fund. Managing Editor Ryan Schwach Staff Writer for the courses in Chancellor Félix V. An additional $1.25 [email protected] question. This policy is Matos Rodríguez million was compiled With the rescheduled targeted strictly at the informed the student through donations Business Manager spring break coming students’ concern over body that Spring from the Robin Hood Farhad Rahman [email protected] to a close and classes maintaining grade Commencement Relief Fund and a resuming this week, averages that could be would be postponed, number of other Layout Editor Brooklyn College has at stake because of the he also gave an update donors. Camila Dejesus enacted a number transition. on Summer 2020 “Students will begin [email protected] of changes that will Following the news classes. receiving emergency Digital Editor affect students going about the new grading “I also want to grants of $500 each Carmen Saffioti forward. Here is policy, students were share that afterthe week of April 20. [email protected] everything that has informed through careful consideration The recipients will Section Editors happened over the another email from and consultation, be chosen by lottery News: Natalina Zieman past two weeks. President Michelle CUNY’s Summer from a group of about [email protected] In an email from the Anderson that 2020 course offerings 14,000 students who Features: Moises Taveras CUNY Chancellor’s all CUNY Spring will be exclusively have been identified [email protected] Opinions: Allison Rapp office that went out Commencement conducted via distance as meeting financial- [email protected] Wednesday, March ceremonies will be education format,” need and academic Arts: Jack Coleman 25th, students were postponed. wrote Rodríguez. criteria.” CUNY hopes [email protected] informed of a new “Rest assured, The decision is into reach more students Sports: Conrad Hoyt [email protected] grading policy for Brooklyn College will accordance with if they are able to the remainder of the confer all degrees as the New York obtain more funding. Columnists semester. The policy regularly scheduled. State Education It was also announced Michael Castaneda is designed to give However, the diploma Department’s April on Monday April 13, Ryan Gleason students the choice itself will not soothe the 2nd update which that the Undergraduate Cartoonists whether or not to pain of not being able extends approval for Student Government Mo Muhsin receive credit for to celebrate in person,” all online courses, election will be Gabrielle Toro Vivoni courses they’ve taken. wrote Anderson on which are still not continuing online via Staff Writers “All students shall have Monday, April 6. officially registeredBC Webcentral on Nasra Abdalla Khamis the option to convert This announcementas such, through May 4 through May 6. Michela Arlia any or all of the (A-F) was coupled with Summer 2020. Lorenzo Davies letter grades they earn an assurance that A final piece of news is Maya Dower-Johnson Ian Ezinga in their classes, during the Senior Class the launch of another Makeet Finch the spring 2020, to Gift Committee will CUNY wide initiative Stacy Fisch Credit/No Credit “assess options for an that extends relief to Gabriela Flores grading,” the new alternative celebration students who are in Chaya Gurkov Zahra Khan policy states. for May 28.” A week urgent need in the Qichelle Maitland This new policy, since this news, there midst of COVID-19. Carlos Daniel Martinez designed to is still no word as to $1 Million donations Kendra Martinez accommodate what the alternative from the James and Milette Millington Kwame Perez students who are celebration will look Judith K. Dimon Paola Sacerdote struggling during the like. Foundation as well as Martin Samoylov transition to online In the same the Carroll and Milton John Schilling v classes, does not announcement Petrie Foundation Maya Schubert Photographers Chloe Abosch Christianna Cox Aricka M. Davis Faculty Advisor Anthony Mancini THE VANGUARD ISSUE 10 - APRIL 15, 2020 / PAGE 3 Adapting to Distance Learning By Natalina Zieman News Editor Distance-learning has been a complicated transition for the Brooklyn College community, working to substantially replace our normal educations having been given only one week to switch to online learning and adjusting their curriculum accordingly. The faculty have overcome many challenges during this difficult time of abruptly switching over to online classes. Professor Meral Kaya from the Childhood, Bilingual A student distance learns. / Diana Martinez and Special Education Department had contacted each of her access for my students Kerstin Musolf and that material.” Remote learning is students and their to be working with Theodore Muth of the Professor Musolf not ideal for many school partners to their mentor teachers.” Biology Department. mentioned the students, and may make sure they had Kaya also attended These instructorstransition to online even be more of a easy access to their meetings with the developed new online learning was challenge for faculty, virtual classrooms, NYC Department of labs for their students; surprisingly smooth, considering they had since under normal Education to adapt while also organizing considering Biology to adjust their syllabi circumstances, and begin novel adjuncts, findingis a hands-on subject accordingly. The teaching students are approaches to student resources, developing where students learn Brooklyn College staff required to complete teaching. lesson plans and best in a physical is working hard this field work in real-life “I had virtual assessment modules learning environment. semester to provide classrooms. meetings with a DOE for the labs and “Some of our adjuncts the best remote form “I got in touch with representative to accomplished a new knew that a lot of video of education for the the public schools discuss more about delivery system for the material was already students. immediately,” said the ways clinical new curriculum. out there; and what Kaya. “I asked about experience can fit in “I went through the was missing, a few of the possibility for our the online teaching,” remaining lab exercises my colleagues started teaching candidates to she continued. “DOE and experiments and to film themselves continue their clinical provided resources I assigned one or two and created wonderful experience online about Google labs to each of the labs visuals that go along platform alongside classroom platform as to the Micro 3004 lab with our labs,” Musolf their mentor teachers. well as web resources instructors,” Muth said. “Additionally, They provided ato support online explained. “Each publishers have positive response. teaching,” she said. instructor developed been very helpful in Once their online More faculty an online adaptation offering their services classroom platforms members that went of the material that and their material for are up and running above and beyond would have been free, which allowed us principals that I work for their students’ covered in lab, and to get all our lab topics with connected with v sake were Professors then an assessment for covered.” me and provided THE VANGUARD ISSUE 10 - APRIL 15, 2020 / PAGE 4 Free CUNY Organizes Aid For Students Amid Pandemic By Maya Schubert part. evicting students from joined relief efforts by includes a COVID-19 Staff Writer “CUNY has failed in its dorms, providing no forming independent solidarity tab, which response to COVID-19,” relief to families of resource groups, known links to their new Free CUNY, a the group wrote on students, staff, andas mutual aid networks. network. The network grassroots movement their website. “Thefaculty who have The networks connect consists of several of students and CUNY conflicting, vague, and lost their lives due to those in need to Google spreadsheets, workers, is organizing a alarmist information COVID-19,” said Hailey volunteering providers including a document mutual aid network for coming through Lam, an organizer for online. Corona for submission as CUNY members during what few channels of Free CUNY. Couriers, founded by a a provider, a list of the COVID-19 crisis. communication CUNY The group also librarian now working providers, and a list of The network is designed has set up for students, denounced state from home, now has needs. to connect those in faculty, and staff has resources and charities. close to 300 volunteers, “Mutual aid is not need of counseling, caused more harm than They attributedaccording to CityLimits. charity work,” said Lam, legal representation, good.” inspiration for their Free CUNY, a group of “It is people pooling and social services The group criticized efforts to local,students, teachers, and resources together guidance, among other CUNY’s actions and independent groups community members, and redistributing things, with qualified inactions in dealing like Mutual Aid NYC, advocates city funding them. It’s building providers. with individual needs a resource network, for higher education these relationships and In the announcement during the crisis. and Corona Couriers, in NYC. The grouplearning to trust one of the network on its “The CUNYa citywide, free grocery has held rallies and another.” website, Free CUNY administration has delivery service. protests, including a emphasized solidarity shown time and time As coronavirus speak-out late January across campuses in the again that their idea of numbers have swelled on over-policing on face of what it believes what care looks like—an in the past few weeks, CUNY campuses.
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