Research
LIRT News Selects Guttman Professors’ Article as One of Top 20 for 2021
May 23, 2022 | Academics, Faculty, In the Media, Publication, Research
Library Instruction Roundtable has selected an article by Guttman Professors Meagan Lacy and Alexandra Hamlett as one of the Top 20 instruction articles published in 2021. The LIRT Top-20 Committee reviews the library instruction literature from the previous year and identifies the twenty best instruction articles of that year. Professors Lacy and Hamlett’s article, “Librarians, step out of the classroom!: How improved faculty-led IL instruction improves student learning,” was originally published in Reference Services Review.
Guttman Staff Present at the CUNY Advising Summit
May 6, 2022 | Advising, Research
Members of the Office of Advising & Transfer Support and Office of AccessABILITY partnered to present at the annual CUNY Advising Summit. This year’s summit, themed “Advising Reimagined,” encompassed a host of workshops that reflected on the pandemic and its impact on institutions that inspired transformation among advising practices and innovative approaches to advising models.
Guttman Professor Named STEM Pedagogy Institute Fellow
May 4, 2022 | Academics, Faculty, Fellowship, Research, STEM
The Teaching and Learning Center’s STEM Pedagogy Institute (SPI) has named Professor Jihyun Kim, Assistant Professor of Science at Guttman Community College, a fellow for summer 2022. SPI serves to engage with critical issues associated with STEM-related disciplines and fields. More specifically, SPI seeks to attract, support, and retain ethnic, racial, and gender minorities. Methodical and empathetic pedagogical approaches can help students from underrepresented groups develop deeper connections to STEM inquiry. In the process, students can envision diverse futures made possible by STEM learning.
Guttman Professor Named CITA 2022 Summer Institute Experiential Learning Fellow
April 20, 2022 | Academics, Faculty, Fellowship, Research, STEM
The CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy (CITA) has accepted Professor Jihyun Kim, Assistant Professor of Science at Guttman Community College, as an Experiential Learning Fellow for summer 2022. CITA Institutes focus on extended, in-depth examinations of special topics in teaching and pedagogy. The Experiential Learning CITA Institute will be facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Maloy, Queensborough Community College, and Dr. Claudette Davis, LaGuardia Community College.
Guttman Professors Publish Paper on Reducing Math Anxiety Through Psychological Intervention in the Classroom
April 11, 2022 | Academics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Publication, Research, STEM
Guttman Community College Assistant Professor Tashana S. Samuel’s article “‘I Can Math, too!’: Reducing Math Anxiety in STEM-related Courses” was published online in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice on March 28, 2022. Professor Samuel, along with her co-authors, Sebastien Buttet and Jared Warner, note that “math anxiety has become an alarming social justice concern, as it results in negative academic consequences, contributes to disinterest and lack of persistence in STEM programs for underrepresented students, and limits their opportunities in STEM careers.”
Alexandra Hamlett, Information Literacy Librarian and Assistant Professor, Library Science and Information Literacy
March 22, 2022 | Academics, Faculty, Faculty Feature, First Year Experience, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Research, Technology
As an information literacy librarian, Alexandra Hamlett helps students learn essential research skills, skills that include finding, evaluating, and using multiple information types in order for students to be able to access credible information for their academic and personal information needs. In 2015, she was thrilled to join Guttman College, where an innovative and creative pedagogy is embraced. Guttman’s founders outlined a non-traditional community college and developed a curriculum tied to student success. “I have been privileged to develop an information literacy program where I collaborate closely with faculty to embed information literacy skills across the First-Year Experience and the Programs of Study,” says Professor Hamlett.
Dr. Ayisha Sookdeo, Assistant Professor, Biology
March 1, 2022 | Academics, Faculty Feature, First Year Experience, Research, STEM
“I think it is important for students to understand that their ability to stick with tasks, goals, and passions is crucial for success. Perseverance demands effort and practice, which is the truest way to unlock our highest potential.”
Dr. Ayisha Sookdeo joined Guttman College in 2019. She came to Guttman because she was excited to get the opportunity to teach students in a college that truly emphasizes the importance of dedicated and compassionate instruction.
Dr. Jinzhong Niu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
January 21, 2022 | Academics, Experiential Learning, Faculty, Faculty Feature, Global Guttman, Information Technology, Research, STEM
Professor Jinzhong Niu
Dr. Molly Makris Co-Publishes Paper on Education during the Pandemic
January 11, 2022 | Academics, Faculty, Publication, Research, Urban Studies
Guttman’s own Dr. Molly Makris, along with Dr. Elise Castillo and Dr. Mira Debs have published Integration Versus Meritocracy? Competing Educational Goals During the COVID-19 Pandemic. This paper comes to fruition because of the Spencer Grant which supports research in an effort to improve education.
Guttman Students Present at Global Scholars Achieving Career Success (GSACS) Fall 2021 Student Conference
January 10, 2022 | Academics, Career Development, Conference Presentation, Experiential Learning, Faculty, Global Guttman, Grants, Humanities and Social Sciences, International Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Research, Student Achievement
Guttman Community College students participated in the international Global Scholars Achieving Career Success (GSACS) Fall 2021 Student Conference held on December 1st and 4th 2021. GSACS is a collaborative multi-campus program that foregrounds United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and career readiness competencies in class-to-class virtual exchanges between students from five colleges at the City University of New York (CUNY): Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, LaGuardia Community College (lead), and Queens College of the City University of New York, and at four universities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (Morocco), The American University in Cairo, Jordan University of Science and Technology, and Palestine Ahliya University.
