Faculty And Staff NTES LaGuardia Community College/CUNY • Fall 2007 Publications: b ooks,

Barbara Comins’ “A Walk across the Bridge: articles and so ftwa re Transforming Space into Place” was published in The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Pedagogy Papers 2007. Abderrazak Belkharraz and Kenneth Timothy Coogan had his essay “The Lost Sobel published “Direct Adaptive Control for Air - Colony of Roanoke” published in Disasters, Acci - craft Control Surface Failures During Gust Condi - dents and Crises in American History , ed. Ballard tions,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions Campbell. New York: Facts On File, 2007. He had on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Journal. two essays, “Journeymen Carpenters Strike in Paul Arcario and Louis Lucca published Maxine Berger (ELA & CSE) and Martha New York (1833)” and “Sons of Liberty,” published “Online Advising through Virtual Interest Groups,” Siegel (ELA and ENG) have written a student in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class in The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal on workbook, New Land, New Language , (New Read - History , 3 vols., ed. Eric Arnesen. New York and October 9, 2006. ers Press, Syracuse, 2007). The book uses authen - London: Routledge, 2007. He also had his essay Paul Arcario’s article, “LaGuardia Receives tic (transcribed) immigrant voices as a common “Stepping Out: Student-Crafted Personalized Walk - FIPSE to SENCERize Math Instruction,” appeared unifying theme to teach communication skills. ing Tours of New York City,” accepted for publica - in the SENCER e-Newsletter , Volume 6, Issue 3, Nancy Berke selected and introduced the tion in the Fall, 2007 issue of In Transit: The November, 2006. chapter “Radical Moderns: American Women LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning. The Fourth Edition of Grammar Dimensions: Poets on the Left” for the critical anthology Gen - Marina Dedlovskaya and Karlyn Koh pub - Form, Meaning and Use—Book 1 , by Victoria der in Modernism: New Geographies/Complex lished “Humanistic Mathematics” in Mathemat - Badalamenti and Carolyn Henner-Stanchina , Identities , edited by Bonnie Kime Scott, (University ics, Information Technologies and Education , was published by Thomson-Heinle, Boston, Mas - of Illinois Press, 2007). Volume 2, edited by Sergey Gerassimenko (Oren - sachusetts, 2007. Evelyn Burg and Jose Fabara wrote and burg State University Press, 2006). Lenore Beaky published an article, “New published an article in In Transit , Spring 2006, enti - Mary Beth Early recently completed the Test Arrives at CUNY,” in Clarion December 2006, tled “Literacy and Propaganda: A College Course manuscript for the 4th edition of Mental Health p. 9. The test in question is the CLA, the Collegiate is Born, Grows Up and Goes to High School.” Concepts and Techniques for the Occupational Learning Assessment. Continued on page 2 Books... Yau.” [Review of Ing Rish ] Verse 23.1 & 2 (2006): 179- Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith co- Attainable in Elastic Backscatter Lidar Systems Using (anthology), McFarland Press: “On Seeing Brokeback Carol Montgomery and Linda Ann Kunz pub - Continued from page 1 182. Inside the Outside: An Anthology of Avant- authored an article entitled “Alien Films,” which will Polarization Selection,” (with S. Ahmed et al. ) in 23rd Mountain for the Sixth Time”; Red Rock Review: lished an article, “Corpus Linguistics at New York Garde American Poets, ed. Roseanne Ritzema. appear in the forthcoming Women in Science Fiction International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC), Japan, “Paper Ghost,” “One Among Many,” “Myself to State TESOL Saratoga” in the Winter 2006 issue of Therapy Assistant , to be published by Lippincott [Review] Galatea Resurrects 4 (Nov. 2006) and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia from Greenwood pp 187-190, 2006. Myself: A Retrieved Photograph at Age Seven,” The Idiom . This was a summary of two conference Williams & Wilkins in 2008. The 3rd edition of the http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com. “On Press. Carlos Hiraldo published a review of Gagarin “Locked in Sleep as if in a Pyramid, I See My Father presentations on corpus linguistics given at the NYS - same text was translated into Korean; the Korean Joanna Fuhrman’s Moraine. ” [review] Talisman 34 Hillary Gardner of the Center for Immigrant Street by Piotr Gwiazda for Book/Mark: A Quarterly as an Infant Mummy,” “Reliquary Room,” “Even the TESOL conference together with an overview of this edition published in 2007. (Winter2007): 78-80. Bruna Mori’s Derive . [review] Education and Training (ACE) published an article Small Press Review in the Spring 2006 issue. He Gods of Thought Have Thoughts: They Are Us,” and area of linguistics and a discussion of methodolo - Helmut Eppich has written, illustrated, and Otoliths 4 (Feb. 2007): 108-112. entitled “Why Drawing Belongs in the Adult ESOL published a review of Watermark by Jacqueline Pope “Is Facelessness Modern?; Sulphur River Literary gies that ESL teachers can use corpus linguistics to published the first issue of his fifteen-page science Ernesto Priego’s Not Even Dogs . [review] Word Classroom” in TESOL Compleat Links , volume 3, in Galatea Resurrects Issue #3, Fall 2006 Review: “Words Unravel” and “Wound”; The Wal - help students understand how native speakers of fiction action adventure comic book limited series, For/ Word 11 (Winter 2007) http://wordforword. issue 2 (June 2006). The article was incorporated , and lace Stevens Review: “Dusk over Hartford”; The English speak and write in their everyday lives. Astro Legion , from Enemi Entertainment, released at info/vol11/fink.html. “On Joseph Lease’s Broken into the online mini-course “Reaching Adult Learn - a review of Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems Western Humanities Review: “Introducing John L. Steven Ovadia published “The Need to Archive the Big Apple Science Fiction Comic Book Conven - World. ” [review] Denver Quarterly , (March 2007): 46- ers through Multiple Intelligences and Differentiated 1976-2006 by Tom Beckett in Jacket 33: July, 2007 Sullivan”; Zone 3: “The Painter of Self-Portraits.” His Blog Content” in Serials Librarian 51 (2006): 95-102. tion on June 23, 2007 along with a personal appear - 51. Noelle Kocot’s Poem for the End of the World Instruction” presented through World Education by . in Talisman : Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair, “How to Reform a Racist: Genre as Politics in Charles Nancy Erber , of the ELA department, published http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue8/reviews. part of the workshop she presented on “Multiple Milton Hollar-Gregory published an article in by George Kalamaras and Islands , by Robert Zaller. W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman ” at the American a review of a book, Nicole Albert’s Saphisme et Amy King’s I’m the Man Who Loves You. Galatea Intelligence Inspired Activities in the ESOL/Civics Live Wire entitled “LaGuardia Team Participates in A collection that he recently edited, Pomegranate Literature Association’s Annual Conference in Decadence dans Paris fin de siècle in the CLGH Resurrects 6 (May 2007) http://www.galatearesur- Classroom” at the CUNY Adult Literacy Program Lit - Fed Challenge,” December 1, 2006. Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry Boston, MA (24-27 May, 2007). She also served as Newsletter, Fall 2006, Volume 20, Issue 2. CLGH is rection6.blogspot.com. And he published these eracy Night in March 2007. Matthew S. Joffe was interviewed in Heroes (Somerset Hall Press), will be released this Septem - session chair and moderator for “Women Writing the Committee for Gay and Lesbian History, a mem - poems: “Responsible Fires Inserted”; “Dangerous Tony Giangrasso co-authored the 9th edition With a Thousand Faces: True Stories of People with ber. In addition, an interview with him by editor Community: Domesticity, Memory, and Identity in bership organization of historians. Intersection.” Talisman 32-33 (Summer/Fall 2006): of “Medical Dosage Calculation.” The adaptation Facial Deformities & Their Quest for Acceptance by Jeanie French appeared in Red Rock Review , in Octo - Women’s Short Story Sequences” and presented a Thomas Fink published the books, No Appoint - 27-29. “Deconstricted Sestina IV.” Mobius XXI (Sept. rights for this textbook have recently been purchased Laura Greenwald; Chapter 9, “Not Just Another ber. talk called “Creating Community: Motherhood and ment Necessary [poems]. Chicago: Moria Poetry, 2006): 81-82. “Alps Bulge”; “Deconstricted Sestina by the United Kingdom division of Prentice Hall. In Pretty Face” Cleveland Clinic Press, 2007. Charles Labita designed, wrote and published the Search for Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Love Med - 2006; and Staccato Landmark. [e-chapbook of III”; “He Wore a Business”; “Today’s Phone Offer - addition to working with British colleagues on the Janice M. Karlen published “Advice for Uni - the following books that are used at LaGuardia and icine ” at the National Women’s Studies Association poems] Chicago: Beard of Bees, 2006. ing.” 2nd Avenue Poetry 2 (2006) http://2ndavenue- adaptation, Tony has also just received a contract versal Orlando.” In Marketing: Real People, Real other CUNY colleges: Easily Learn an Introduction to Conference in Chicago, IL (28 June-1 July, 2007). In http://www.beardofbees.com. He also published poetry.com . “Introducing Wallpaper”; “Salad Core from Prentice Hall (U.S.) to be lead author of another Choices. Ed. M. Solomon, G. Marshall, and E. Stu - Computers and Windows XP, Quickly Learn Word addition, she presented a workshop on “Women in these articles, reviews, and interviews: Forrest Gan - Valentine.” Mi Poesias 20.3 (2006) textbook. art. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003, Quickly Learn Excel 2003, Easily Learn Power - Media: Careers in Magazine and Newspaper Pub - der, Eye against Eye . [Review] Talisman 32-33 (Sum - http://www.mipoesias.com. “Soda Melodies.” James L. Giordano authored the Online 2008 p. 324. Point 2003, Quickly Learn Access 2003, and Quickly lishing” at LaGuardia’s Student Center for Women. mer/Fall 2006): 248-49. Susan Schultz, A Poetics of Shampoo 29 (Mar. 2007) http://www.shampoo- Instructors’ Resources for the college-level market - Janice Karlen and Clarence C. McMaster Learn Office 2003. Joanne Reitano , professor of history in the Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American poetry.com/ShampooTwentynine/fink.html. “Bad ing textbook entitled Marketing; Essential technolo - presented a paper and published “Attrition of Kevin Lerner published four news and feature Social Science department, published The Restless Poetry. [review] Talisman 31-32 (2006): 249-51. “Lynn Blue”; “Folk Church Idol”; “Nonce Sonnet 2.” gies and strategies geared towards results , by Women Business Majors in an Urban Community stories in Architectural Record magazine in City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Crawford.” [Review of Fortification Resort .] Talisman Coconut 7 (2007) http://www.coconutpoetry.org/ Alexander Hiam with Linda E. Rastelli. His work cov - College: Assessment and Action.” In the Proceed - 2006–2007. Beginning in May 2007, he also served Times to the Present (Routledge: 2006). The book is 31-32 (2006): 141-43. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s fink1html . “At a Blood-”; “Nonce Sonnet 3”; “Ulte - ered the full 13 chapters of the text. He also pub - ings of the 2006 Retention Conference, Las Vegas, as editor for the Building Type Studies section of a non-traditional account of fascinating controver - I Love Artists. [Review] Galatea Resurrects 3 (August rior Creation Math.” BlazeVox 2K7 (Spring 2007). lished a research Article with several co-authors Nevada, 21-23 May 2006. archrecord.construction.com, the magazine’s web sies that have shaped our dynamic city. Written in 2006) http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/ http://www.blazevox.org/07-tfink.pdf. “Nonce Son - entitled, “International Comparison of Freshmen Caron Knauer reviewed two Women Make site. He also published a news story on the web site short units, it is widely accessible but academically 2006/08/i-love-artists-new-and-selected-poems.htm net 4.” Ars Poetica (Mar. 2007) http://www.logolalia Learning Styles: Statistically Speaking About Movies documentaries, “Nalini by Day, Nancy by of Metropolis Magazine. respectable. Mayors and mobs, workers and women, “Interview with Denise Duhamel and Nick Carbo.” .com/arspoetica/archives/003156.html. With Timo - Research vs. Practice.” Journal of Global Awareness Night,” and “Transnational Tradeswomen” for Daniel Caplice Lynch published the follow - reformers and rebels, policemen and powerbrokers E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (Sept. 2006) thy Liu. “Art in America.” Saints of Hysteria: A Half Fall (2006). 1-27. EMRO, Educational Movie Reviews Online, based at ing articles: Rev. of The Boys of Winter:Life and make history come alive. http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com . “On Geoffrey Century of Collaborative American Poetry . Ed. Denise Naomi S. Greenberg published “Partners in SUNY’S University at Buffalo. Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second Marie Sacino , Associate Professor in Cooper - O’Brien’s Red Sky Café. ” Denver Quarterly 41.1 Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and David Trinidad. New OT around the World: Crossing Borders: An Occupa - Dean Kostos published poems in several liter - World War, by Charles J. Sanders, University Press ative Education, published “Listen to My Story: Iden - (2006): 19-22. “Interview with Geoffrey Young.” E- York: Soft Skull P, 2007. tional Therapy Experience in Nicaragua; Internation - ary journals: Big City Lit.com : “Have the Dead of Colorado, 2006. The Berkshire Eagle. February 18, tifying Patterns and Purpose in Career Counseling” X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (Sept. 2006) Linda Forrester published the article: “A Nat - alizing a Curriculum” in Resource DVD of NYSOTA Washed One Hand?”; Borderlands: “Phlegethon— 2007; Rev. of The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, in Shaping the Story: A Guide to Facilitating Narra - http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com. “Musical ural Affinity: ESL099 and Introduction to Music” in Conference 2006 River of Fire”; The Cincinnati Review: “Myself to Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship that Freed tive Counseling . Ed. Kobus Maree. Pretoria, South Effects.” [Review of Eileen R. Tabios’s The Secret the Summer 2007 issue of NYSTESOL idiom, Vol.37, Yasser Y. Hassebo , Instructor, faculty member Myself: A Retrieved Photograph at Age Seven” and the American Mind by Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr., John Africa. Van Schaik, 2007. Lives of Punctuations , Vol. 1] Jacket 31 (October No. 2. Her article “Anatomy of an ESL Reading Clus - of Mathematics/Engineering department published “Photograph of Myself, Age Four, Asleep in My Wiley and Son. The Berkshire Eagle January 28, Renan Sezer co-authored a textbook entitled 2006) http://jacketmagazine.com/31/fink-tabios.html. ter” appeared in Volume 1, No.2 of In Transit. the following research articles: “Polarization discrim - Father’s Arms”; Confrontation: “Her Lists”; The Dirty 2007; and Rev. of Jefferson’s Second Revolution: The Mathematical Models with Applications , which was With Crag Hill. “Interview” (of Tom Beckett). In Ximena Gallardo C . authored the entries ination technique to maximize LIDAR signal to noise Goat: “Miss Havisham” and “Written in Hair”; Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republi - published in 2006. This book is selected as a high Tom Beckett. Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems “Feminism” and “Sexism” for A Fan’s Companion to ratio for daylight operations” (et al.), Appl . Opt. Vol. Ekphrasis: “Dwarf Pushing Pram”; Euphony: “The canism by Susan Dunn, Houghton-Mifflin, 2006. The school textbook in Texas. Also the second edition 1978-2006. St. Helena, CA: Meritage Press, 2006. Terry Pratchett which is forthcoming from Green - 45, No. 22, 2006, pp 5521-5531; “The Impact of Pharmacist’s Shoes”; GINOSKO: “Glossary of Loss”; Berkshire Eagle August 6, 2006. of Mathematics in Action: Pre-Algebra , and the third 162-179. Lyn Hejinian’s My Life in the Nineties . wood Press. She also wrote a book review entitled Receiver Aperture Design and Telescope Properties The Griffin: “Rivers of Hades”; Owen Wister Review: Ken Monteith published his first book, Yeats edition of Mathematics in Action I , and Mathemat - [review] Titanic Operas , Folio Three (2006) “Die Hard Fan: Sherry Gin’s Our Space, Our Place: on LIDAR Signal-to-Noise Ratio Improvements” (with “Gradual Dissolve: Two Views of Eakins’s Photo - and Theosophy , through Routledge Press in July ics in Action II , all of which she has co-authored, http://www.emilydickinson.org /titanic/material/ Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television” Khaled El Sayed), AIP Conference Proceedings Vol - graphic Portrait of Walt Whitman”; Porcupine: “On 2007. came into print in 2007. All her books were published three/fink.html. “On Shanna Compton.” [Review of which appeared in Science Fiction Studies 34.1 ume 888, 2007, pp. 207-212, and “Examination of the Difficulty of Reading Paul Celan” and “Hart Crane by Addison Wesley Longman and are sold interna - Down Spooky ] Verse 23.1 -3 (2006): 53-55. “On John (March 2007). Reductions in Detected Skylight Background Signal Before Drowning”; Reading Brokeback Mountain tionally. Continued on page 4 2 3 lary, 1997” & “Near the Champs d’Elysées, Paris” Books... Novels of War and Peace,” at the American Philo - Continued from page 3 in Spring 2007 Issue of Big City Lit , sophical Association’s Annual Meeting in December, www.nycbigcitylit.com. 2006 in Washington D.C. Evelyn Burg also partici - John Shean published “Venice and the Islamic Speeches and Conference/ pated in two NEH Landmarks in American History World, 828–1797” in the June, 2007 issue of “Live Ting Man Tsao revised his article “Don’t be workshops during the summer of 2006: “Henry Ford: Wire.” Shy of ‘I’: Empowering Student Voice through a American Industry Labor and Culture,” in Detroit, MI, John Silva has been contracted by Edwin Career Research Paper,” originally published in In Workshop Presentations and “Concord: Transcendentalism and Utopia” in Mellen Press to write a scholarly book-length study Transit 1.1 (2005): 59-63; he published the revision Concord, MA. of the significance, impact, and legacy of the Dianas under the new title “The Immense Possibilities of Raymond J. Carozza , Executive Director of of Jorge de Montemayor and Gaspar Gil Polo, prob - Narrating ‘I’: Developing Student Voice through a Human Resources and Nila Bhaumik , Professional ably the two most important works of Spanish prose Career Research Project” in Teaching English in the Development and Training Specialist, were notified fiction before Cervantes. Two-Year College 34.1 (2006): 84-91. In addition, Dr. that their proposal was accepted for presentation at C. Jason Smith wrote a book review entitled Tsao published a review of Carlos Hiraldo’s Seg - the 16th Annual International Conference for Lead - “Technophobes Unite! Or… not” which was pub - regated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial ers in Post-Secondary Education, held from March lished in Science Fiction Studies (Summer 2007). Hybridity in the U.S. and Latin American Literary Tra - 7th - 10th, 2007. Ray and Nila were unable to attend; Joanna Sokolowska , adjunct faculty member ditions (New York and London: Routledge, 2003) in Tony Allicino served as facilitator for Fires of the Humanities and Sciences in December 2006. The however, their conference paper entitled “Identify - in Counseling, co-authored the article entitled “Aca - Peer English 1 (2006): 83-86. Transformation , Shantigar Institute, Rowe MA, July subject of my presentation was the Collegiate Learn - ing and Developing Leaders in House—LaGuardia demic cheating as a function of defense mechanisms Phyllis van Slyck published “Learning Com - 19-23, 2006; Mask of the Shadow Warrior , Spirit ing Assessment, a test currently being administered College Leadership Development Program” was sub - and object relations” (with Samuel Juni and Julie munities and the Future of the Humanities.” Profes - Hollow, North Bennington VT, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2006; to some students in CUNY. She also participated in mitted to be included in the conference CD. Gross) published in Psychological Reports , in June sion 2006. Modern Language Association of Healing with Spiritual Light , Dawn Manor, Livingston the CCCC presentation on high stakes testing. Remi Castonguay presented at the Library 2006. Her article entitled “Cognitive aspects of America: 163-176. Manor NY, Oct. 27-29, 2006; Queer Death Walker , Jennifer Horton Benichou , Victoria Capeci , Association of the City University of New York behavioral tendencies in dimensions of temperament Leonard Vogt published Controversies in the Dawn Manor, Livingston Manor NY, Jan. 5-7, 2007; Kathleen Huggard , and Victoria Badalamenti , (LACUNY) Annual Institute 2007” Circulation is and problem solving style” appeared in Creative Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader , serving as co- Opening Ceremony , Society of Shamanic Praction - from The English Language Center, presented on “Dig - Abstract: Assessing Information Literacy Through Learning Today Newsletter , in August 2006. editor with Rosen and Entin, Teachers College Press, ers’ Third Annual Conference, Menla Retreat Center, ital Portfolios as Tools for Learners” at Opening Ses - Web Usability Studies” on May 18th, 2007. He also Gordon Tapper published the book The January 2008. He also published “Ani DiFranco’s Phoenicia NY, June 27-July 1, 2007; Coordinator, sions at LaGuardia Community College in Fall 2006. presented a Poster Session at the Library Assess - Machine that Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and ‘self-evident,’” Teaching Note in Radical Teacher, Complementary and Alternative Health & Healing Mimi Blaber , Director of the CUNY English ment: Conference Building Effective, Sustainable, the Culture of the Body (Routledge, 2006). He wrote #77, Winter 2007; and “Barbara Kingsolver’s Poison - Fair , LaGuardia, October 20-21, 2006. Language Immersion Program, presented “E-Portfo - Practical Assessment in Charlottesville, Virginia. the introduction, notes, and bibliography for wood Bible , the film Lumumba , and A Congo Chron - Paul Arcario , J. Elizabeth Clark , Bret Eynon lios, Digital Storytelling and Electronic Class Proj - Assessing Library Instruction with Experimental Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven icle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art, Teaching Note and Peter Katopes presented “First Year Acade - ects” at the New York State Applied Linguistics Designs on September 25-27. Gables , published by Barnes & Noble Classics (2007). in Radical Teacher, # 78, Spring 2007. mies: Facilitating Engagement and Student Success Conference at Columbia University in February 2007. Linda Chandler presented “Practice, Virtue, or In collaboration with Matthew Geller, he wrote Frank Wang ’s paper “The life and work of in the First Year of College” at the Community Col - More than 40 people attended the session. Mimi Ideology: A Second Look at Domesticity” at the Soci - “Thorny Rose,” a work of short fiction published in Emmy Noether” was published in Mathematics, lege Futures Assembly, Orlando, Florida, January, Blaber also spoke on “Chronicling Academic Careers ety for the Study of American Women Writers Con - MyWays , edited by Rita McBride and David Gray Information Technologies, and Education (ISBN 5- 2007. The presentation won the 2007 Bellwether Electronically” at TexTESOL III, in Austin, Texas, Octo - ference in Philadelphia, PA on November 10, 2006. (Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, 7410-0220-X, edited by Sergey Gerasimenko). His Award for the College. ber 2006. As part of her work in the College Prep Pro - Barbara Comins presented “A Walk across Inc. and Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006). He also published article “Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray Diffraction Photo - Paul Arcario , Peter Katopes , and Cecilia gram, Mimi Blaber was invited to speak on the Bridge” in the pedagogy forum at the Associa - a review of Girly Man (University of Chicago, 2006), graph of DNA” was featured in the June 2007 issue Macheski presented “Developing a Community Col - “Encouraging Immigrant Students to Transfer” at the tion of Writers & Writing Programs 2007 conference. a book of poems by Charles Bernstein, in the Brook - of the Maple Reporter. lege Reading Program” at the Annual Conference on 25th Annual Conference for the Council for Opportu - Timothy Coogan , Steven Lang , and Arturo lyn Rail (March 2007). Kenneth J. Yin of the Department of Education The First-Year Experience, Addison, Texas, February, nity in Education in New York, September 2006. Sanchez presented a talk entitled “Walking Tours Melinda Thomsen published the following and Language Acquisition published the article 2007. Heather Brown organized the 2007 CUNY as a Pedagogical Tool” at the Brown Bag Discussion articles: “Writing for an Audience: Interviews of “Teaching ESL with Chemistry: A Learning Commu - Paul Arcario and Prabha Betne presented Child Care Staff Development Conference. At the at LaGuardia Community College, sponsored by the Working New Yorkers.” In TESOL Perspectives on nity” in the NYS TESOL Idiom dated summer 2007, “Project Quantum Leap” at the SENCER (Science NYU Steinhardt Conference on Families as Partners: Center for Teaching and Learning, November 28, 2006. Community College ESL, Volume 1: Pedagogy, Pro - volume 37, number 2. Education for New Civic Engagements and Respon - Strategies for Effective Early Intervention Partnering Timothy Coogan presented a paper entitled grams, Curricula, and Assessment , Marilyn sibilities) Capitol Hill Symposium in Washington, on May 23, 2007, she served as a Panelist on Early “Iran-U.S. Relations 1953-Present “ as part of the Spaventa, Editor; and “Teaching Soft Skills in the D.C., March 12, 2007. Intervention Partnerships and the Childcare Commu - Forum titled Target Iran: The Planned U.S. Aggres - ESOL Classroom,” Literacy Update , Vol. 16 No.4 Marian Arkin and James Wilson presented nity. In addition, Ms. Brown was appointed as Board sion” at the Little Theater, LaGuardia Community Col - (March 2007). She published two book reviews: “Situating WAC and WID on the Campuses: Exam - Member of the New York City AEYC (Association for lege, March 12, 2007. He also moderated the panel Earth’s Ends , by Andrew Kaufman (Fall 2006 Issue ples from the Field” at the WAC/WID Professional the Education of Young Children). titled “The Venezuelan Corner,” featuring filmmaker 55) and A Secret Room in Fall by Maria Terrone Education Symposium at Baruch College (August 28, On March 29, 2007 Evelyn Burg and Jose Reyther Ortega and production designer Frederica (Spring Issue 57) in Home Planet News . Her poems 2006). Fabara presented an all-day seminar for students Nascimento, at the Conference on Immigration held were published in the following journals: “Tossing Lenore Beaky served as a panelist at the con - and faculty at Housatonic Community College, in the Little Theater, LaGuardia Community College, the Bouquet.” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.4 ference, “The Future of Higher Education: The Bridgeport CT, on LaGuardia’s Literacy and Propa - April 26, 2007. Coogan presented a talk with col - (Fall 2006), “Rock Pigeons in Love.” Poetry East , Spellings Commission Report,” presented by the ganda reading course. Evelyn Burg presented “Con - leagues, Steven Lang and Val Ginter at the Forum Numbers 58 & 59 (Spring 2007) and “Bill’s Vocabu - CUNY Faculty Senate and the CUNY Academy for tingency, Sincerity and Solidarity: Dorothy Canfield’s Continued on page 6 4 5 Speeches... Henry S. Flax , Associate Dean for Enrollment Laurie Gluck , Education and Language Acqui - in Post-Secondary Education” at the 2007 National tion entitled From the Horses Mouth: Getting News Pei-Wen Lee made three conference presen - Continued from page 1 Management & Student Development, and Gail sition Department, and Cynthia Casey, CUNY Association of African American Studies Conference, from Wherever it’s Made in the World to Your Stu - tations this year: “If you were a recruiter: A persua - Baksh-Jarrett , Director of Student Financial Serv - Language Immersion Program, gave a presentation Baton Rouge LA. Feb. 17, 2007. He presented dents at the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Inter - sive group project” in April 2007 at the annual titled “Competing Visions of New York: The Legacies ices, presented a conference paper at the League for entitled, “How can we respond both effectively and “Addressing Disparities in Post Secondary Educa - nationalizing Courses at LaGuardia panel on May 10, convention of the Eastern Communication Associa - of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses,” at LaGuardia Innovation in the Community College Conference on efficiently to our students’ writing?” to thirty ESL pro - tion-Endangered Black Males” at the Conference on 2007. Co-conducted a pre-conference workshop enti - tion, Providence, RI; and “Defining the phases of Community College, May 3, 2007. Coogan moder - March 4, 2007. The topic was “LaGuardia’s Enrollment fessionals from around the state at the New York Equity and Social Justice, Stockton College, April 28, tled Information Literacy in Institutional Assessment: relational identity construction in intercultural friend - ated the panel entitled “Casting Beyond the Aes - Services Center—an innovative student success part - State TESOL Applied Linguistics Winter Conference, 2007, and severd as a panelist at the New York A Case Study with Francine Egger-Sider, Cecilia ships: Identity Management Theory and Third-Cul - thetic: Navigating Past the Conventional Classroom” nership that works!” The paper focused on the which took place at Teachers College Columbia Coalition of 100 Black Women Mentoring Program, macheski, and Alexandra Rojas at the WILU (Work - ture Building Model assessed” and “Connecting with at the Third Annual CUNY General Education Con - LaGuardia Community College one-stop Enrollment University, February 3, 2007. Ms. Gluck and Ms. in the workshop “Keeping It Real,” a panel on suc - shop on Instruction in Library Use) 2007 Conference, American students and colleagues: Strategies for ference at Queens College, titled Professing Liberal Services Center and its role as a bridge across offices Casey demonstrated their approach of giving audio cess in business and life. L’Oreal Corporation, New Toronto, Canada, on May 16, 2007. He co-conducted enriching international instructors’ teaching and Education: What Do We Need To Know? What Do engaged in partnerships for student success. The cen - feedback to ESL writers. Ms. Gluck and Ms. Casey York, April 4th 2007. a workshop entitled Wiki’s in the Classroom with integration into the academia” in November 2006 at We Need To Do? with keynote speaker, Randy Bass, ter has become an outstanding example of best prac - continued their collaboration by expanding on ways Jerry G. Ianni and Lawrence B. Shuster (CUNY Steven Ovadia and Alexandra Rojas for the Brooklyn the annual convention of the National Communica - on May 4, 2007. He also organized and moderated tices and partnerships that employ “high-tech” and to use digital audio technology to respond to stu - GC) presented their joint paper “Subgroup Relations Educational Opportunity Center’s faculty Professional tion Association, San Antonio, TX. the panel titled “The History of U.S. Foreign Policy “high-touch” solutions to staff reorganizations and dents’ writing and presented at the Third Annual Among Pitch-Class Sets Within Tetrachordal K-Fam - Development Day on June 12, 2007. Kevin Lerner presented the paper “‘Magazin - in the Middle East” as part of a day long conference customer service as well as to assess and evaluate CUNY General Education Conference on May 4, 2007 ilies” [Revised Version] at the CUNY Graduate Karlyn Koh presented “A Poetics of Betrayal” at ing’ and Muckraking: The special place of magazines on the Middle East held on May 10, 2007 in the Lit - what we do to be more efficient and more effective. at Queens College. As part of their hands-on work - Center Music Forum on 20 October 2006 and at the the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Asso - in American media and culture” at the Joint Spring tle Theater at LaGuardia Community College. His Linda Forrester spoke at the “Teaching, Learn - shop entitled, Connecting Writing Skills and Knowl - Annual Meeting of the American Musicological ciation on April 19, 2007, at Portland State University. Meeting of the American Journalism Historians panel consisted of journalist Ronald Bleier and ing and Student Support Conference” at Sussex edge through Digital Audio , they presented research Society and the Society for Music Theory on 2 Dean Kostos made the following presenta - Association and the History Division of the Associa - activist Sara Flounders. At the Opening Sessions County Community College on October 20, 2006 on on giving feedback to writing and their own class - November 2006. They also presented their joint tions: “A Broad Overview of Poetry,” “The Pantoum,” tion for Education in Journalism and Mass Commu - of Fall I, 2006 (September 6, 2006), Coogan partici - the topic: “A Natural Affinity: ESL099 & Introduction room research with digital audio technology. paper “Subgroup Relations Among Pitch-Class Sets “Sources of Inspiration,” and “Dramatic Monologues nication, on March 24, 2007 in New York. He also pated as a panelist on two sessions: with Professor to Music”, and gave a workshop on the same theme Gail Green-Anderson participated in a panel, Within Tetrachordal K-Families” [Second Revised and Persona Poems” at the Columbia Scholastic presented the paper “Masters and Voice: The Carol Montgomery he presented forum on “Helping at the 36th Annual NYSTESOL Conference in “A Study of High Stakes Testing Practices: The City Version] at the CUNY Graduate Center Music Forum Press Association, for both the fall 2006 and spring struggle for personal writing style in American Students Explore Diverse Perspectives in a Learning Saratoga, New York on November 17, 2006. University of New York and Beyond” with Marisa on 13 April 2007 and at the First International 2007 conferences. newsrooms, 1890–1940” as a part of the panel Community; and with Professors Terence Julien, Ximena Gallardo C . presented “Sexing up the Klages (Chair), J. Elizabeth Clark , Gordon Tap - Conference of the Society for Mathematics and Steve Lang made the following conference “Journalism in the History and Theory of Writing” at Donald Monaco, and Leonard Vogt, he was a pan - Starships Part I: How SF Engenders the Universe” at per , Heidi Johnsen and Lenore Beaky at the Con - Computation in Music on 19 May 2007. presentations: “Politics, Community, and Heritage the South Atlantic Modern Language Association elist in the session titled “Teaching in a Time of War.” The International Conference for the Fantastic in the ference on College Composition and Communication Heidi L. Johnsen presented “A Study of High Wars on the Urban Waterfront” at the Society of the Meeting, November 10–12, 2006, in Charlotte, NC. Mala Desai was a panelist on the Topic “The Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (March 2007). in New York City on Thursday, March 22, 2007. Stakes Testing Practices: The City University of New Study of Social Problems in Montreal, Canada At the invitation of the paper’s author, David Green - Power of Community Relations in the 21st Century” Sean Galvin presented “Why Folklorists Naomi S. Greenberg presented “ePortfolio: A York and Beyond” at the Conference on College Com - (August 11, 2006); “Framing Wars: Community, berg of Rutgers University, Lerner also presented the on 5/7/ 2007, at the Conference by the Yeshiva Uni - Should Embrace ePortfolios,” at the American Folk - Tool for Success,” at the APACS Best Practices Con - position and Communication (CCCC) in New York on Media Representations and the Battle Over Wal- paper “War and the Expansion of Presidential Power: versity’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work at their lore Society Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, ference, Albany, New York, June 14, 2007; “ePortfo - March 22 with colleagues from LaGuardia’s English Mart” at the American Sociological Association in The Case of Public Persuasion,” at the Interdiscipli - 50th Anniversary Conference at the New York Sher - October 18-22, 2006. and “Is Hip-Hop a Descendant lio Development and Applications in Occupational Department: Lenore Beaky , J. Elizabeth Clark , Montreal, Canada (August 11-14, 2006);”Placemak - nary Studies in Information Privacy and Security aton Hotel. The Panel Moderator was Michael S. of the Broadside Ballad?,” at the MiT5: Creativity, Therapy,” at the AOTA Annual Conference, St. Louis, Gail Green-Anderson , Marisa Klages and ing and Heritage Wars on New York City’s Indus - (ISIPS) First Annual Workshop on Privacy and Secu - Miller, Executive Vice- President & CEO, Jewish Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age, April 2007; and “Occupational Therapy in Rare Dis - Gordon Tapper . In April, she also presented a paper trial Waterfront” at the Eastern Sociological Society rity, May 22, 2007, at Rutgers University, New Community Relations Council of New York. Panelists International Conference, April 26-28, 2007, held at orders,” also at the AOTA Annual Conference, St. entitled “The Ethics of High-Stakes Testing in a Basic conference in Philadelphia (March 15-18, 2007); and Brunswick, NJ. also included Dennis Walcott, Deputy Mayor for Pol - Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Louis, April 2007. Writing Class” at the College English Association’s “Reclaiming Newtown Creek and Struggling with the Sue Livingston presented “X-Word Grammar icy, Office of the Mayor of the City of New York. James Giordano was invited to present and Stafford Gregoire gave a paper titled: “Writ - Annual Conference in New Orleans. 3 E’s: Economics, Environment, and Equity” at the for Deaf Students” and “How to Manage a Four-Way Diane Ducat presented a paper which was co- share his student project assignment for conducting ing, Anxiety, and Resistance in the Works of William Janice M. Karlen and Clarence McMaster Sixth Annual Nature, Ecology & Society Colloquium Linked Course” (with Elaine Hoter of Talpiot Teach - authored by Diane Ducat and Lisa Orbé entitled “ESL Marketing Case Studies to a group of Entrepreneur - Wells Brown” at the 2007 ALA conference in Boston presented a poster session, “New Media and the at the City University of New York Graduate Center ers College, Tel Aviv, Israel) at the Fifth Annual Eng - Students in the Workplace: Utilizing Discipline Based ship & Small Business Management faculty mem - (5/24-5/27). American Immigrant Culture: Opportunity or Exclu - (March 23, 2007). lish Think Tank Conference at Gallaudet University, Accreditation Standards to Assess Skills Integral to bers from around the country at a focus group held Carol Haspel and Janet Michello presented, sion?” at the New Media Consortium Summer Con - Carole Lazorisak presented a series of four- June, 2007. Success in the Global Marketplace” at the 15th May 17-18 at McGraw-Hill/Irwin in Chicago. ELSI (The Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of the ference in June 2006. The poster was also published hour workshops, ASL Teacher Education (1/07, 2/07, Lorence Long , Professor Emeritus of Human World Conference on Cooperative Education in Sin - In 2006, Marcia Glick presented the program Human Genome Project) at CUNY, at the ELSI at the New Media Consortium Online Conference 3/07, and 5/07) at LaGuardia. She presented a Services, joined agency personnel and students in gapore, June 27, 2007. The paper will be published she developed “Parents as First Reading Teachers” Reunion Conference held at Dartmouth College in on Digital Media Online Virtual Poster Session in six-hour track workshop, ASL Discourse Education presenting a report on “Electronic Documentation of in the conference proceedings. at the first annual YMCA Enhancement Exposition in August 2006. October 2006. for Interpreters and a workshop, Deaf Interpreters: Community Support Skill Standards: An Experiment,” John A. Een presented his research on “Sex - New York. In 2007, Dr. Glick conducted two seminars Rob Hills was selected to present with three Charles Keyes co-presented The Role of Wikis Designing Your Education in Interpretation at 2006 at the 28th International Conference sponsored by ual Orientation and the ESL Classroom” at the Fall, at the College Reading and Learning Association of his program’s instructors at the Conference of in the Classroom with Steven Ovadia and Alexandra State Conference of the Florida Registry of Inter - YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities, 2006 LaGuardia Opening Sessions. International Conference in Austin, Texas, each pres - Interpreter Trainiers 2006 national convention (10/06) Rojas at Teaching, Learning, & Student Support: preters for the Deaf (FRID), Daytona Beach, FL Octo - on May 3, 2007, in New York. At the conference, stu - Wenjuan Fan presented a paper titled “Using entation examined and reviewed research and data on ‘Interactional Competencies for Interpreters.’ Atlantic Regional Conference, Sussex Community ber 12-15, 2006, and presented Deaf Interpreter: dents presented portions of the ePortfolios they had Multicultural Literature and Recasting Novels to pertaining to early childhood literacy. Marcia Glick Milton Hollar-Gregory presented “Educa - College, NJ, on October 20, 2006. He co-presented Language Foundations: Props at Deaf Interpreting prepared through taking an experimental course to Enhance Students’ Reading and Writing Proficiency” published an article, “A Community Based Early Lit - tional Success for Disadvantaged Young Men” at the Rubrics Cubed: Faculty, Assessment, Core Compe - Critical Issues: Summer Symposium on Effective document their professional skills and knowledge. at the Annual Conference of The American Reading eracy Initiative: Parents as First Reading Teachers,” Fifth Annual Teaching, Learning & Student Support tencies with Gordon Crandall and Cecilia Macheski Practices, Northeastern University, 6/06 Forum in Florida in December 2006. in In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal of Teaching and Conference, Sussex Community College, Oct. 20 at the Texas A & M Assessment Conference, College Learning, Fall, 2007. 2006. He also presented “ Attrition of Black Males Station, TX, on February 22, 2007. Gave a presenta - Continued on page 8 6 7 Speeches... Janet Michello presented at The African Richard Picardi conducted four seminars for College Grant Writing Workshop held at CUNY Grad - C. Jason Smith presented “Sexing up the Star - Byron Storck presented at the United States Continued from page 5 Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the administrators and staff at St. John’s University. uate Center and was also a featured speaker. He co- ships Part II: How SF Engenders the Universe” and Department of Education’s Minority Science and Americas: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Kingsbor - Based on a program he created in 2002 for the Uni - facilitated a workshop on Difficult Dialogues with served as a panelist on “Sex and Gender Online: A Engineering Improvement Program’s Technical Assis - Cecilia Macheski presented papers and ough Community College, “A Dualist View of the versity’s Center for Teaching and Learning, the ses - Vanessa Bing , Rosemary Talmadge , and Kyoko Roundtable Discussion “ at The International Con - tance workshop on February 8, 2007. His PowerPoint workshops on institutional assessment, best prac - African Experience and Religion.” November 7, 2006. sions aimed to improve Business Writing skills in Toyama at the “Teachers College Winter Roundtable ference for the Fantastic in the Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, presentation was entitled “LaGuardia’s Foundations tices, and literary criticism. In May, 2007 she joined She also presented at Dartmouth College, “ELSI memos, e-mails, and letters. on Cultural Psychology and Education” held at Teach - Florida (March 2007). of Chemistry Course Enhancement and Conduit Proj - Francine Egger-Sider , Charles Keyes and (Ethical, Legal, & Social Implications of the Human Steven Ovadia presented “Who Moved My ers College, Columbia University. He gave a talk on Joanna Sokolowska , Counseling adjunct fac - ect.” The MSEIP Program Manager, Bernadette Alexandra Rojas to present “Information Literacy Genome Project) at CUNY,” ELSI Revisited Confer - Desk? The Future Reference Platforms” at the May “Reacting to the Past” pedagogy at Oral Communi - ulty member, co-presented with Akane Zusho , a Hence, noted that LaGuardia’s project “clearly in Institutional Assessment: A Case Study” at the ence, August 2006. 18, 2007 Library Association of the City University of cation Across the Curriculum seminar meeting. He paper on “Effective” procrastination strategies? Self- demonstrated creative models to improve retention Workshop on Instruction in Library Use (WILU) at Ken Monteith presented the following papers New York (LACUNY) Institute (with Anamika Das - organized a public forum with other Social Science regulation of academic procrastination among high in the sciences, classroom performance, and labora - York University, Toronto, Canada. In February, 2007 during the past academic year: “Phantom gupta, York College). He also presented “Must Play Dept. faculty entitled “Target Iran: The Planned U.S. achievers” as a part of symposium on Academic tory performance through the use of laboratory she joined Gordon Crandall and Charles Keyes Limbs/Fenian Bodies: Sentimental Politics in Charles Well with Others: How to Work in the Library of the Aggression” and served as panel moderator. He was Self-regulation: The good, the bad, the other instrumentation and software.” LaGuardia was one to present “Rubrics Cubed: Institutional Assessment Kickham’s Knocknagow ”and he moderated the panel Moment” at the January 19, 2007 LACUNY Dia - a guest panelist on “Difficult Dialogues: A Radio (Christopher Wolters, Chair) at the 2006 Annual Con - of five colleges chosen to present in the Best Prac - of Information Literacy” at the 7th Annual Texas “Narrative Technique in Irish Literature”at the Mid - logues Town Hall meeting. He also presented (with Show” with members of the Difficult Dialogues proj - vention of American Psychological Association in tices, Transfer, and Exchange segment of the meet - A&M University Assessment Conference in College west Popular Culture Association/ Midwest Ameri - Charles Keyes and Alexandra Rojas) “The Roles of ect, LaGuardia College Web Radio. He organized a New Orleans. The presentation was an outcome of ing out of 75 colleges from across the United States Station, Texas. With Vice President Peter can Culture Association Conference in Indianapolis, Wikis in the Classroom” at the Sussex Community panel on Religion and Class as part of the Urban Stud - her residency research project conducted at Fordham and the University of Guam. Katopes and Dean Paul Arcario she presented IN (October 27-29, 2006). He also served on the pro - College Fifth Annual Atlantic Regional Conference ies Program Spring Conference entitled “CLASSified University. She also presented a poster presenta - Gordon Tapper presented “A Study of High “Developing a Community College Common Reading gram committee for the American Conference of Irish on Teaching, Learning and Student Support in New - Information” held in the Little Theater. He co-facili - tion on “Cognitive aspects of behavioral tendencies Stakes Testing Practices: CUNY and Beyond” at the Program” at the 26th Annual Conference, First Year Studies (ACIS) “Ireland and the Americas” held at ton, New Jersey, October 20, 2006. tated “Mix It Up Day” for students, as a part of the in dimensions of temperament and problem-solving Annual Convention of the Conference on College Experience in Dallas, Texas. She also presented the CUNY Graduate Center April 18-21. Additionally, Gary Richmond presented “Interoperability as Difficult Dialogues Project. He co-facilitated with style” at the 2006 Annual Convention of American Composition and Communication, (New York, March “Learning Basic Mathematics Through Knitting” with he presented the paper “Phantom Limbs/Fenian Bod - Desideratum, Problem, and Process.” (Keynote Adjoa Gzifa Study Circle No. 1 of the Difficult Dia - Psychological Society in New York. 22, 2007) on a panel with Lenore Beaky , J. Marina Dedlovskaya at the MAA Metropolitan ies: Senitmental Identity in Knocknagow ,” and, as Address) In Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperabil - logues Project held at the Razi School in Woodside. Carolyn Sterling-Deer presented “A Multidi - Elizabeth Clark , Gail Green-Anderson , Heidi Section Meeting at Sarah Lawrence College in May, part of the New York Yeats Society’s Taste of the ity Workshop of 14th International Conference on He presented a paper entitled “Reacting to the Past: mensional Analysis of Dominican Female Identity Johnsen , and Marisa Klages . He also made a 2007. In April, 2007, Macheski spoke on “The Yeats Summer School , he presented the paper “ The Conceptual Structures, Aalborg University Press. He Student Reenactment of Historic Political Roles and Online,” at the Conference on College Composition presentation about LaGuardia Community College’s LaGuardia Approach to Student Success” as a fea - Tower, the Tarot, and the Troubles ” at this same con - also presented “Trikonic Analysis-Synthesis and Crit - Goals” at the annual meeting of the New York State and Communication, NCTE, New York, NY, in Spring Difficult Dialogues project at the 2007 Annual Meet - tured speaker for the Los Angeles Community Col - ference. He also chaired the panel “The American ical Common Sense on the Web.” In Contributions Political Association held at Marist College, Pough - 2007. Carolyn also participated in the Assessing ing of the Association of American Colleges and Uni - lege District Student Success Initiative Workshop Impact on Irish Poetry,” at this conference. Finally, to ICCS 2006 Conference on Conceptual Structures keepsie, NY. He organized the Social Science Dept. Learning in Learning Communities Conference in Seat - versities in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the panel with J. Elizabeth Clark and Bruce Hoffacker at LA he presented the paper “Corporate Author - Aalborg, Denmark. Career Day, hosted by Psychology Club and also co- tle in March 2007 as part of LaGuardia’s Learning “Believe It or Not: Addressing Religion, Faith, and Trade Tech College, Los Angeles, California. The ity/Domestic Exchange: Trading Spaces and Refin - Susan M. Sanchirico co-presented with facilitated Difficult Dialogues Action Forum. Communities Assessment Leadership Team. The Con - Spirituality on Campus” (January 19, 2007). speakers were invited to repeat the workshop at LA ing Identity in The Travels of Dean Mahomet ” at the Francine White “Tell Me a Story… Digital Story - On October 27th, Sigmund Shen presented his ference was sponsored by the Washington Center for Lynne Teplin and Kyoko Toyama presented a West College. In March, 2007 Macheski offered International Association for the Study of Irish Liter - telling” at Faculty of the Future 2007: A Conference paper, “‘An Unatonable Guilt:’ Shame and Commu - Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education. workshop on “Multicultural Awareness: Effective “Comedy of Transgression: Room with a View , ature (IASIL) hosted by University College Dublin, for Learning and Leading at Bucks County Commu - nity’s Nightmare in Richard Wright’s Black Boy: In Fall 2006, she presented “ePortfolio and Second Consciousness-Raising Techniques for Students, Enchanted April , and Tea with Mussolini ” At the July 16-20. nity College, PA, June 1, 2007. American Hunger ,” before the Literature and Psy - Language Writers’ Multi-Modal Presentations of Faculty, and Staff” on April 16, 2007 at the Ninth Humor and Laughter in Film and Literature Confer - Carol Montgomery presented a seminar, Renan Sezer organized the NYSMATYC Region chology Session of the South Central Modern Self,” at the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhet - Biennial Tri-State Consortium of Opportunity Pro - ence at SUNY Binghamton, New York. “Speaking Across the Curriculum: Speaking to Learn IV Conference, at LaGuardia Community College on Language Association’s Annual Convention in Dallas oric and Composition at the University of Louisville, grams Conference. Carey Manifold , and Cheryl McKenzie , Edu - and Learning to Speak” for CUNY teachers of speech Nov 18, 2006. She also presented a paper entitled Texas. He also presented his paper, “Viral Video, KY and “Discipline-Specific Teaching for ESL College Melinda Thomsen led a workshop on “Teach - cational Planners, presented a workshop entitled held at the Borough of Manhattan Community Col - “Emphasizing Critical Thinking When Teaching Math - Traumatic Antigen: Ringu and the Legacy of Unit Freshmen,” at the Fifth Annual Atlantic Regional Con - ing Soft Skills in ESOL Classes” at the CUNY Liter - “Academic Advising RELOADED: Enrollment Man - lege in November of 2006. This seminar focused on ematics to Future Elementary School Teachers” at 731,” in the Horror Area of the Popular Culture Asso - ference on Teaching, Learning and Student Support at acy Day and Night sessions on March 6 & 12, 2007. agement Approach to Advising Millennial Students”, the rationale for having faculty in all disciplines pro - NYSMATYC Region IV Conference, 11/18/06 and ciation / American Culture Association National Con - Sussex Community College, Newton, NJ. Eleanor Q. Tignor presented a paper entitled at the National Academic Advising Association mote the speaking and listening skills of students as also at the NYSMATYC Conference, 4/24/07 at Niag - ference in Boston Massachusetts on April 7th. On Iona Thomas-Connor (NAS) and Marie “The Emerging August Wilson: From Poet to Play - (NACADA) Region I conference in North Conway, well as the processes of establishing, implementing ara Falls, NY. This paper can be accessed through campus, Shen moderated a panel, “Breaking the Cimino Spina (Library) presented their papers on wright” at Tell Your Story: An Interdisciplinary Con - New Hampshire (3/21-23). and assessing such a program. She was also a the NYSMATYC Conference proceedings. Chains: Workers Centers Organize for Justice” for the topic: “Going Beyond Find and Click: True Criti - ference on August Wilson & African American George McCormack presented “Using Writ - member of a panel on “Multiculturalism in the John Shean gave a Brown Bag Discussion on the CLASSified Information conference on March cal Thinking Skills for Our Future World Citizens” Theatre, Art, & Culture, sponsored by The Driskell ing to Understand Functions” for the Metro and Speech Classroom” at the annual CLASP (CUNY “Reacting to the Past” pedagogy. He also gave a 26th. Along with Stafford Gregoire and Tara J. They were joined by Alexandra DeLuise (Queens Col - Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture Seaway Sections of the Mathematics Association of League of Active Speech Professors) Colloquium held Brown Bag Discussion with Nancy Berke and Hickman , he was a co-presenter of the workshop, lege) and Tess Tobin (NY City College of Technology) of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the America (MAA) at Marist College 10/14/06. He also at John Jay College in April 2007. Her presentation, Karen Miller on “Teaching ‘Class’ in the Class - “‘Ghost Face Killahs:’ Expressions of Horror and Hip at The CUNY General Education Conference held at University of Maryland (March 9-11, 2007). Contin - presented “A Bridge Course to Precalculus” for the “Promoting the Oral Communication Skills of Chinese room.” He organized, with Donald Monaco , a pub - Hop” as part of the Hip Hop Conference on May 18th. Queens College on May 4, 2007. uing to chair the Committee on CLA & Historically 40th Annual Conference of the New York State Students in the Speech Class,” contrasted traditional lic forum entitled “Examining the Death Penalty” held John Silva presented a paper, “From Felicia’s Marie Cimino Spina presented a workshop on White Colleges, she did a roundtable presentation Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges. American and Chinese beliefs concerning speaking, in the Little Theater; and also served as panel mod - Potion to Cecropia’s Petitions: Changing Modes of Science Sources on the Web (May 16) and another on “Recruitment & Retention of African American Buffalo, NY 4/22/07 and “Methods of Differention listening and learning. She then went on to discuss erator. He organized with Donald Monaco a public Ministration from Montemayor to Sidney,” at the on APA and MLA citations (May 17) under the Library Faculty at the Community College” at the 70th of Functions of Two Variables” for the Mathematics strategies and activities that she has found effective debate entitled “Military Recruiters vs. Military Vet - annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of Amer - Series of workshops, Building Your Infosphere: Anniversary Conference of the College Language Association of America (MAA). Sarah Lawrence in helping Chinese and other Asian students improve erans” held in the Little Theater. He also served as ica in Miami, Florida from 22-24, March, 2007. Research Skills. Association, held in Miami (April 18-21, 2007). College May 6th, 2007. their speaking skills. panel moderator. He helped organize a Community Continued on page 10 8 9 Speeches... Samuel Ferrell , Irene Sosa , Stanley Rumph , the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Science and Engineering Improvement Program, or Continued from page 7 and C. Jason Smith co-authored a grant entitled Meeting, November 10–12, 2006, in Charlotte, NC. MSEIP, was for $286,737. The award is helping Enhancing Student Services for CUNY Veterans & Sue Livingston and colleagues Elaine Hoter , LaGuardia meet the MSEIP objectives of effecting Maria Toy , Esq., adjunct lecturer in the Human - Columbia University. In May 2007 during the Fifth Joyce Zaritsky presented “Looking at SI lead - Reservists Grant, which was funded by CUNY for Harry Markowicz and Patti Durr won honorable long-range improvement in science education ities and College Now Department, spoke on a panel New-York International Conference on Teaching Chi - ers: Results of a Survey” at NADE’s 31st Annual Con - 2007. The LaGuardia Veterans Services Collabora - mention for Exemplary Use of Technology in Deaf programs and by increasing the flow of underrepre - entitled, “Language and American Identity: Borders nese, organized by the Chinese-Language Teachers ference, March 21-25, 2007 in Nashville, TN. This tion Initiative will create and coordinate a network Education as part of the CITE/JTATE Technology sented ethnic minorities, particularly minority and Beyond” on March 31, 2007 at the Centennial Association of Greater New York and held at the paper was presented at the National Association of of connections through existing, successful college- Leadership Awards. women, into scientific careers. The focus of this Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. United States Military Academy at West Point, he Developmental Association’s 31st annual conference. wide programs by creating a low-cost, fluid outreach Janet Michello was awarded an NEH grant grant is the introduction of various computer-based From July 15 - 21, 2007, she participated in “Encoun - presented a paper, “Chinese for Specific Purposes: In it Zaritsky discussed and analyzed the responses program to contact veterans and reservists looking to attend the Africa and the Americas colloquium approaches designed to enhance the lecture and tering John Adams: Braintree and Boston,” a Land - Medical Mandarin for Beginners,” as part of a panel to a survey that was administered to all of our past for post active duty training, designing a comprehen - sponsored by Westchester Community College, laboratory sections of LaGuardia’s Foundations of marks of American History and Culture Workshop entitled “Linguistic Analysis and Communicative Academic Peer Instruction leaders (from 1993 on) as sive developmental advising plan targeted specifi - February–December, 2006. She was also the recip - Chemistry Course while increasing student retention sponsored by the National Endowment for the Experience in Chinese-Language Learning.” to how tutoring experiences at LaGuardia affected cally at student veterans and reservists, and ient of a Fellowship Award, LaGuardia Community rates in the course. He was also an honoree at City Humanities. their content knowledge, their self-confidence and establishing procedural linkages between student College—CUNY, for research, September 1, 2007- University of New York Chancellor Matthew Gold - Ting Man Tsao presented, with Bret Eynon , their future career choices and lives. support programs, the Veterans Affairs Coordinator August 31, 2008. stein’s reception honoring recipients of major insti - “Building a Culture of Evidence: Supporting the and the Center for Veterans, Youth and Adults (the Steven Ovadia received the Paul Neurath tutional grants for education and public service at Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia” Veterans Center). Memorial Graduate Award Scholarship from the The New York Historical Society on May 7, 2007. at the Third Annual CUNY General Education Kristen Gallagher won Third Prize in a contest Queens College Sociology department, May 8, 2007. George Sussman was selected to participate Conference in Queens College on May 4, 2007. called “Reinventing Paulo Freire” at UCLA’s Paulo Susan M. Sanchirico served as a fellow for in the 2007 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad pro - At LaGuardia, Tsao presented, with Diann Slade Freire Institute. I won for an essay emerging out of the NFS grant Learning Through Simulated Infor - gram. The Seminar will travel to South Africa for four and Iona Thomas–Connor , “When English and an ENC 101 class I taught at Laguardia in Fall 1 2006. mation Technology Enterprises (L•sITes) for the aca - weeks during the summer to study “Student Nursing Professors Meet: Using Narrative to Explore The title of the essay is “Pairing Freire: Teaching the demic year 2006-07. L•sITes improves the technical Achievement and Workforce Development in Disad - Diversity in Nursing Education” in the Opening Ses - Fellowships, awards, Banking ‘Concept’ of Education with the History of and business skills of information technology stu - vantaged Populations.” sions 2006; Dr. Tsao also presented “The Politics of Open Admissions at CUNY.” dents through interactive scenarios via virtual enter - Gordon Tapper was selected for the Faculty Understanding British-Sino ‘Friendship’ in the Age of Ximena Gallardo C. received a PSC-CUNY prise. Fellowship Publications Program, CUNY Graduate Free Trade Imperialism” at the Faculty Research Research Grant Award for the article in progress John Shean was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant. Center, in spring 2007. He also received a PSC-CUNY Colloquium on May 31, 2007. and grants entitled “Aliens, Cyborgs, and Other Invisible Men: He was also awarded $400 from the President’s Research Foundation Grant for “Invented Victims, Leonard Vogt presented the paper, “Using Representing Blackness in Hollywood Science Fic - Office to fund public forum entitled “Examining the Contemporary Poetics, and the Araki Yasusada Technology to Let Them Decide,” at The Third Inter - tion Cinema.” Death Penalty” and $300 from Difficult Dialogues Hoax.” national Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Rob Hills received $247,200 from the US Project to fund panel on Class and Religion organized Ting Man Tsao received a PSC-CUNY 38 Society, Cambridge University, England, January 9- Department of Education to enhance the American as part of Urban Studies Program Spring Conference Research Award for his research project titled 12, 2007, and “Teaching Politically in a Time of David Sign Language (ASL)-English Interpretation Program entitled “CLASSified Information.” “Readings Between Cultures: English Travel Books, Horowitz,” Left Forum, March 9-11, 2007. offered as a BA degree in collaboration with SUNY- John Silva has been awarded his 38th PSC- Audiences, and Modern Chinese History, c.1832 to Phyllis van Slyck conducted learning commu - Empire State College and a Professional Certificate CUNY research award, beginning 7/1/07, extending the Present.” nity workshops at J. Sargent Reynolds Community Program. and augmenting his current project on “Engaño and College, Bunker Hill Community College, Duquesne Tony Allicino received an EDIT Grant, to sup - Twenty Five or More Years of Teaching and Serv - Jerry G. Ianni received the John W. Williams its Discontents: Gil Polo’s Make-over of Mon - University, Norwalk Community College and Elgin port the Complementary and Alternative Health & ing, LaGuardia Community College, January 1, 2007. Memorial EDIT Grant in Fall 2006 to help support his temayor’s Diana.” Community College. Healing Fair , October, 2006, and a CUNY Diversity In the Spring of 2007, Coogan received an Educa - Mathematical Music Theory research presentation C. Jason Smith received a PSC-CUNY Frank Wang presented “A Cartoon-Assisted Projects Development Fund Award, Fifth Annual tional Development Initiative Team (EDIT) grant to at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicolog - Research Grant Award for the article in progress Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra” in LaGuardia Celebrates Deaf History, Culture & Lan - pursue research on “public opinion in the early ical Society and the Society for Music Theory on 2 entitled “Alienware: Starships as Sexed Surface in New York State Mathematics Association of Two- guage , April, 2007. republic” at the Boston Atheneaum and Boston His - November 2006. Science Fiction TV and Film.” Year Colleges Region IV Conference on Nov 18, 2006. Paul Arcario received a three-year, $500,000 torical Society. Finally, he was accepted as Visiting Steve Lang received an Edit Professional Joanna Sokolowska , Counseling adjunct fac - Kenneth J. Yin of the Department of Education grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsec - Scholar-in-Residence for The Gilder Lehrman Insti - Development Grant in the fall of 2006 to present a ulty member, received two travel awards for her and Language Acquisition delivered a paper entitled ondary Education (FIPSE) for Project Quantum Leap, tute of American History Seminar on “The Civil War paper at the Eastern Sociological Association Con - presentation on academic procrastination at the APA “Teaching ESL with Chemistry: A Learning Commu - designed to enhance basic skills math instruction. in Global Perspective,” New York University, June ference in Philadelphia and a PSC-CUNY Grant to in New Orleans: one award was from the American nity” during the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference of He was also named a 2007 “Outstanding First-Year 24-30, 2007, Director Dr. Thomas Bender. enable him to work on his article “Placemaking, Psychological Association 2006 Travel Award, and New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Student Advocate” by the National Resource Center Barbara Comins was awarded a PSC-CUNY Community, and Environmental Politics on the Postin - the other one from Fordham University Graduate Other Languages (NYS TESOL), which was held in for The First-Year Experience and Students in Tran - grant. dustrial Waterfront: New York City’s Newtown School of Education—Psychological and Educational November 2006 at the Saratoga Hotel and Confer - sition. In April, Maureen Doyle received a scholarship Creek.” Services Division 2006 Travel Award. ence Center in Saratoga Springs. He delivered The biography of Timothy Coogan appears in from the Connecticut Student Nurse Association. Kevin Lerner received an EDIT grant to support Byron Storck , of the Natural and Applied Sci - another paper called “ESL and Chemistry: A Com - Who’s Who in America , 61st Edition, 2006-2007. His This award was based on academic excellence and the presentation of his paper “Masters and Voice: ences Department, is one of the Co-Project Investi - mon Bond” at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Applied Lin - biography was also selected for Who’s Who in student leadership in the field of nursing and it was The struggle for personal writing style in American gators of a grant awarded by the United States guistics Winter Conference of NYS TESOL, which American Education, 2007. He was honored and presented at the Annual Connecticut Student Nurs - newsrooms, 1890–1940” as a part of the panel Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary was held in February 2007 at Teachers College, given a Special Recognition Service Award for ing Association Conference. “Journalism in the History and Theory of Writing” at Education. This grant, awarded by the Minority

10 11 Dean Kostos served as literary judge for Remi Castonguay performed at the Perform - Columbia University’s Gold Crown Awards (Decem - ing Arts Center of SUNY Purchase on October 21, Appointed or Elected Consulting ber 2006) and Columbia University’s Gold Circle 2006 and at Carnegie Hall on October 23, 2006. At Awards (January 2007). these occasions, he was a singing member of the Carole Lazorisak participated and consulted Dessoff Choir, which sang with the NHK Symphony Offices Activities in the New York State Infrastructure Collaboration Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. The Meeting, 4/07, Rochester, NY. This is a grant-spon - performance included Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé sored project, focusing on Standardizing Learning Suites and Fauré’s Pavane. Tony Allicino is a member of the Museum of Outcomes for ASL and Interpreter Education Pro - Tony Giangrasso was ranked by the United grams in New York State. States Tennis Association for the 2006 season as 3rd Claudia Baldonedo was elected for a third In September of 2006, Sigmund Shen and Modern Art’s Advisory Committee for Programs and During the 2006-2007 academic year Phyllis in the Eastern Section, and 18th nationally in his age term to serve as the Executive Vice President for the Stafford Gregoire were elected co-chairs of the Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Visitors. He is van Slyck , with her colleague William J. Kools - category. Northern Queens Health Coalition—an offshoot of English Department Composition and Research Com - also a member, Northeast Technical Assistance Cen - bergen , has conducted workshops on learning com - Matthew S. Joffe represented the Moebius LaGuardia’s Queens Forum. This is a community- mittee. ter’s New York State Advisory Consortium. Diane Ducat joined the Center for Creative munities at the following colleges and universities: Syndrome Foundation at Genetic Alliance Leaders’ based organization headquartered in Flushing Milton Hollar-Gregory serves as a Trustee on Leadership’s research team in Singapore for six Duquesne University, Elgin Community College, Ben - Exhibit, celebrating 20 years of Excellence in Queens. Its primary goal is to provide health care the Board Of Trustees, University of Medicine and weeks in May and June to work on the Lessons of nett College for Women and Norwalk Community Advocacy, Washington, DC, September 27th, 2006, services and information to the Queens community. Denistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). He was appointed Experience in Asia project. The Center for Creative College. She also served as a resource fellow for the at the National Geographic Society. He is aso vice- It has been in existence for the past 11 years and Feburary 20th 2007 Leadership is a nonprofit, educational institution for Summer Institute for Learning Communities hosted president of the Moebius Syndrome Foundation USA. had recently undergone leadership change. It’s cur - Janice M. Karlen was elected as a Member executive education. The project seeks to extend by the Washington Center for Improving the Quality In the last year, Dean Kostos has given read - rrent annual operating budget is over $500,000. of the County Committee in Union County, NJ. She of Undergraduate Education. research done primarily in North America and Europe ings of his poetry at City Lights Bookstore (San Fran - Lenore Beaky has been reappointed to the was also appointed to the Advisory Committee for Leonard Vogt was CUNY-Mentor, The Pablo to executives working in India, China, and Singapore. cisco), Moe’s Books (Berkeley), Dutton’s (Los American Association of University Professors Corporate-Higher Education Programs and as an Neruda Academy, Making Connections Program, The As a member of the research team, Ducat inter - Angeles), The Community College of Southern Committee on College and University Governance external member of the Curriculum Committee at American Social History Project, September 2006 to viewed senior business leaders in Singapore, trained Nevada, Symposium Books (Hoboken), and The Cor - (Committee T). Thomas Edison State University. She is a member of May 2007. interviewers, and analyzed data. nelia Street Café (New York City). Elizabeth A. Carde , BSN, RN, was elected to the editorial board of The International Journal of Rob Hills was a consultant for the television Régina Monfort’s photographs were exhib - serve on the Expanded Council on Nursing Practice Applied Management and Technology. show Law & Order: Criminal Intent for two episodes: ited at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, of the New York State Nurses Association. Carde Charles Keyes was invited to be a National “Albatross” (broadcast 2/2/07) and “Silencer” Guangzou, China in winter 2006 and at the gallery was elected to the position of Chairperson of the Selection Panelist for the U.S. State Department’s (broadcast 4/3/07). L’Art au Centre, in Luoyang, China in May of 2007. A School Health Nursing Clinical Practice Unit for a two Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Pro - Milton Hollar-Gregory served as Faculty group of photographs from her work titled “Metham - year term. Carde also was selected to serve as an gram by the Institute of International Education in Adviser, for the 2006 College Fed Challenge, where Exhibitions, phetamine Addiction in the American Heartland” Alternate Delegate to the Delegate Assembly of the Houston, Texas on May 22, 2007. he led a team of five students in a regional academic was recently acquired by the Library of Congress New York State Nurses Association. Steve Lang was elected chair of the Environ - competition, sponsored by the New York Federal Prints and Photographs Division. “Beyond Grand ment and Technology Division of the Society for the Openings, Reserve Bank regarding monetary policy and macro- Street , Brooklyn, New York” an exhibition of her Remi Castonguay was appointed co-Faculty Study of Social Problems for 2006-2008. economic theory, November, 2006. photographs depicting struggling young people in Mentor of the LaGuardia Web Radio Station Michelle Pacht was elected to a five-year Janice M. Karlen participated in evaluations Performances Latin Williamsburg will be on view at Kansas State (WLGCC). He also co-chaired the creation of term on the Modern Language Association’s execu - for the American Council on Education ‘s College University in the fall of 2007. This exhibition was LaGuardia’s new Urban Studies Website: tive committee for the Discussion Group on the Two- Credit Recommendation Service at Management originally sponsored by the Soros Open Society Insti - http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/urbanstudies/ Year College. She will serve as group secretary in Concepts in Virginia and the COPE Institute in New tute in New York City. Timothy Coogan was elected College Senator 2009 and as group chair in 2010. She was also listed York. Priscilla Stadler exhibited her sculpture for the Social Science Department. as an alternate nominee to serve on the MLA Dele - Caron Knauer (of Caron K Literary Enterprises (stonecarving and mixed media) in the Long Island Linda Forrester was elected to the Executive gate Assembly in the contest for Two-Year Colleges. Unlimited) sold Suzanne Kamata’s first novel, “Los - Faculty And Staff City Open Studios events in October, 2006 and May Committee of the LaGuardia Community College Renan Sezer completed her second year as the ing Kei,” to Leapfrog Press for a fall ‘07 publication, 2007. In July 2006 her work was included in the Senate, and was also chosen to serve as an Alter - Professional Development Chair of New York State and Best American Short Story (2004) winner Cather - juried exhibit “White Heat” at the Women’s Studio nate for the LaGuardia delegation of the CUNY Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges ine Brady’s latest story collection, “Looking for a Center, LIC, NY. Her work was selected for the Hun Faculty Senate. (NYSMATYC) in April, 2007. Female Tenet,” to the University of Nevada Press. Gallery International Juried Exhibit, New York, NY, NTES Ximena Gallardo C. currently serves as a C. Jason Smith was appointed as the Veteran’s Caron also sold Brady’s first book of non-fiction, “Eliz - 2006. In November 2006 she participated in the “LIC LaGuardia Community College/CUNY • Fall, 2007 Domain Editor for Reconstruction: An Interdiscipli - Developmental Advisor for LaGuardia and currently abeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deci - Artists Exhibit” at the JFK Federal Building, Jamaica, nary Research Journal , as a member of the Advisory serves as a Domain Editor for Reconstruction: An phering the Ends of DNA” to MIT Press, who will Evelyn Burg curated and printed a photogra - NY. Priscilla received a partial Fellowship for a res - Board for Asociación Chilena de Estudios Norteam - Interdisciplinary Research Journal and an Editorial publish it in November ‘07. Editor: Kevin Lerner phy exhibit at LaGuardia Community College: “From idency at the Vermont Studio Center in July 2007. ericanos . She is also a translation consultant for the Board Member for the journal WomenWriters. Nickels and Dimes to Dollars: Photographs from the Her online portfolio is available at: The information presented in Faculty and Staff Notes Pablo Neruda Official Website and Area Co-chair Smith is also Area Co-chair of Science Fiction and Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs.” http://www.solanima.net. is based on submissions from the individuals listed. of Science Fiction and Fantasy for the Popular Cul - Fantasy for the Popular Culture and American The publication is issued annually by LaGuardia Com - ture and American Culture Association of the South - Culture Association of the Southwest and Texas. munity College. Special thanks to Renee Somers west and Texas. for early work on the 2006 edition. 12 13 Michael Horwitz received his doctorate in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center. The Degrees title of his dissertation is Genetic and Areal Sta - bility of Phrasal Word Order and Its Potential as a Typological Marker. Earned Andrea Morgan-Eason , a faculty member in the Natural Applied Science/Nursing depart - In April 2007, Allison Douglas-Chicoye suc - ment, earned a second Master of Science degree, cessfully defended her dissertation and in so doing in Nursing Education, from Molloy College in earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administra - Rockville Centre, N.Y. on May 19, 2007. tion from New York University, School of Educa - tion. The dissertation is entitled “ Going To America: Caribbean Students’ Choice to Study In The United States Of America ” and documents the college choice processes as described by students from the English speaking Caribbean who made the decision to pursue higher education at two urban colleges in the United States of America. Their sto - ries take place against the backdrops of the United States in a post-September 11th era and the glob - alization of higher education. Yasser Y. Hassebo , Instructor, faculty mem - ber of Mathematics/Engineering department was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Electrical Engineering with the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. His dissertation was in title “ Lidar Signal-to- Noise Ratio Improvements: Considerations and Techniques .” He completed the requirements for the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Engineering in October 2006.

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