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How to Transform a Panel: TLH Presentations at ASA, CUNY DEI, AERA, and HASTAC The TLH team presented at 4 conferences in the 2022-2023 academic year. In November 2022, Shelly, Cathy, Christina, Jessica, Javiela and […]

Freedom Dreaming Zine (A Public Knowledge Project) Like many others in our cohort, we wanted to provide space for student joy, reflection, and art. CUNY has over 240,000 students, each of […]

Transformative Learning Projects at Hunter (TLH CTL Project Recap) Transforming Awareness into Action: Student Created and Led Applied Theatre Workshops  Dr. Alexis Jemal, associate professor at […]

Faculty Development Events at Queensborough Community College (TLH CTL Project Recap) Queensborough Community College’s operational plan includes a framework for fostering teaching excellence. Three faculty development e […]

Self-Reflection in Practice at BMCC (TLH CTL Project Recap) Hosted by the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship (CETLS)  and the BMCC Teaching […]

Pedagogies of Care Workshop at the Macaulay Teaching and Learning Collaboratory (TLH CTL Project Recap) The Macaulay Teaching and Learning Collaboratory (formerly known as the Instructional Technology Fellow/ITF Program) has deep roots in […]

College of Staten Island: Technology for Pedagogy (TLH CTL Project Recap) Authors: Wilma Jones, Director, Faculty Center for Professional Development and Fausto Canela, Academic Technology Specialist, Faculty […]

Empowering City College Faculty and Students Through Digital Humanities Tools and Methods (TLH CTL Project Recap)Authors: Stefano Morello and Olivia Ildefonso, Digital Fellows at the City University of New York Over the past three years, the […]

CUNY Student Summit event recap What is the university you want? That was the key topic of discussion and debate during a day-long virtual summit held on May 5, 2023 for […]

Crumbs, Pedagogies of Care, and Instagram: A TLH Public Knowledge Project During one of our first TLH seminars, we discussed what it means to treat students with care. What does it mean? What doesn’t i […]

Assignment Hack-a-thon and OER Focused Inquiry Group at the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLH CTL Project Recap) The CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) supports GC students’ in developing knowledge of the fundamental ele […]

Recentering Student-Centered Teaching and Learning within Student Experience and Reflection: Collaborative Journeys at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (TLH CTL Project Recap) We reenact archetypal stories so frequently that we may miss their significance and our own roles when we are caught up in the action. At […]

Pedagogy in Practice Intensive at Brooklyn College (TLH CTL Project Recap)With the generous support of the Transformative Learning in the Humanities Initiative, the Roberta S. Matthews Center for Teaching and […]

Event recap – The Transformative Power of Meaning: Poetics & Pedagogy – by TLH Faculty Co-Director, Matt Brim On April 27 Transformative Learning in the Humanities welcomed poet, scholar, and performer […]

Event Recap – Life after CUNY: 5-Minute Lessons – by TLH Faculty Fellows Nina Hien, James K. Harris, Anna D’Souza, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, and Elizabeth Alsop This virtual event […]

The CUNY 1969 Project: Teaching and Learning the Struggle for Black and Puerto Rican Representation (TLH CTL Project Recap) In 2021, the Baruch Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) launched the CUNY 1969 Project, an interactive Open Educational Resource (OER) […]

Event Recap: 'Language, Hegemony, and Power': Student Perspectives from and for CUNY Our virtual panel was designed as a safe space for students across CUNY to share their experiences using language in their academic […]

Showing Care in the Classroom  This is the second of a two-part post, synthesizing our final faculty seminar, with our final cohort of faculty fellows. These seminars […]

Ideas for Teaching (and Teaching Outside) the Canon This is the first of a two-part post, synthesizing our final faculty seminar, with our final cohort of faculty fellows. These seminars have […]

Event Recap: Universality in Specificity, a conversation with Ly Tran About Language, Identity and Love with Khanh Le On March 28th, 2023 TLH welcomed author of House of Sticks Ly Tran for an interview and interactive workshop, facilitated by TLH  […]