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Newsletter Week 11

Hi all,

As I was grading the last blog post assignment, I noticed many of you are behind in the work for the course. This has been a trying semester, and it has likely gotten more challenging for you as the coronavirus numbers creep up and New York has faced and continues to face more cancelations and closures, most notably the closure of public schools.

You can finish the course despite these challenges, and as we enter the end of the semester, I want to make the workload lighter to help you do this.

In the final weeks of the semester, I would like you to focus on four areas:

  1. Finish any incomplete work
  2. Complete Paper 2 by 12/04
  3. Short response to the DuBois reading. For this assignment, I would like you to revise and expand your response to question #1 on Blog Post 8.You should expand your response to this question to about 400-500 words. The new due date for this assignment is 12/07. Upload your response to Blackboard.
  4. Optional: revise Paper 1  for a better grade. (Upload your new draft to Blackboard in Assignments “Optional Paper Revision.”)

Finally, I would like to schedule a meeting with each of you individually. Please go to this Google Doc and sign up for one 15-minute time slot. (If you cannot find a time to fit your schedule please email me and we can work something out.)

Let me know if you have any questions.

All best,

PF

Week 10 Newsletter

Hi all,

Many of you have likely heard that cases of the virus are growing rapidly and people are discussing various kinds of closures including the possibility that the school system will close again. I know that many of you are greatly impacted by these measures because they affect your jobs and your family members.

I want you to know that I am here to work with you. We are very close to the end of the semester, and I would really hate to see you not complete the course because of new coronavirus measures. Please let me know if there is any way I can help if you are struggling. We should be heartened that there has been progress made with vaccines, and I would love it if you emerged from this crisis well on your way to completing your degree despite the challenges we’ve been presented with this year.

Please contact me if you need to catch up on assignments or if you are confused about the upcoming work. I’ve also scaled back the reading a bit to help with the work load.

Don’t forget to review the second paper assignment.

Completed Work

Upcoming Work

 

Blog Post #8

  1. According to Du Bois, what is the significance of what he calls the “sorrow songs” to African-American history and culture?
  2. Which of the songs featured in this chapter us the most significant, in your opinion, and why? (Check out the Spotify playlist if you are not familiar with them.)

Week 9 Newsletter

Hi All

We are now in the last third of what has been a semester of very hard work coupled with juggling new challenges we couldn’t have imagined facing a year ago. I hope you have had a chance to catch your breath a bit last week before the final push. 

General Announcements & Events

  • I have finished grading the essays. Please let me know if you’d like to revise yours for a better grade.
  • I have also posted the assignment for Paper 2

Upcoming Work

Blog Post #7

At the beginning of the “Power” episode, Damon Krukowski asserts, “the marginal-the rejected-the repressed-is whatever the powerful have decided is of no use at the moment.” He goes on to ask, “But might it [the marginal-the rejected-the repressed] not be a key to alternate approaches-to art, to society-to power itself?” (“Marginalized” is an adjective that describes a person, group, or concept that is treated as insignificant or peripheral.)  What is he trying to get at with this question? How does music indicate the differences between the powerful and the marginalized?

 Just Strategies: Pathways to Water, Food and Wellness

Dear Colleagues

The Presidents Society Environment Team and the ECHO Project would like to invite you and your classes to participate in an incredible interactive conversation. Join us on October 30, 2020 from 1-3pm EST via zoom for the event titled Just Strategies: Pathways to Water, Food and Wellness. To register for the event https://www.eventbrite.com/e/just-strategies-pathways-to-water-food-and-wellness-tickets-126571373385

 

This cross-pollinating conversation will highlight how communities are navigating the climate crisis and amplify efforts and experiences in NYC, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico that focus on water, food and wellness. Join these activists Ysanet Batista (Woke Foods), Jacqueline Pilati (Reclaim Seed NYC) Olatokunboh Obasi (Omaroti, from the Well of Indigenous Wisdom), and Amara Abdal Figueroa (Tierrafiltra) who will discuss their projects meant to inform, inspire and incite student-led and community-based efforts organized at and adjacent to LaGuardia College. The conversation will be moderated by LAGCC Professor of Anthropology Ryan Mann-Hamilton.

In delving into these conversations we hope to cultivate and share strategies across spaces that help us imagine and create a more just world.  You can find a full description, additional information and Bios of the invited speakers at the following page.

https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/just-strategies-pathways-to-water-food-and-wellness

Please share with your students and for any additional questions contact rmann-hamilton@lagcc.cuny.edu

 

You can support and stay connected to the ECHO Project and PS. Environment Program by following us on

Facebook: ECHO Project Group

Instagram @echoprojectlg

Twitter @LaGuardiaPSE

This event is co-sponsored by the Environment Community Humanities Oasis (ECHO) project as part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center CUNY, ISER Caribe, the President’s Society Environment Program (PSE) at LaGuardia Community College, and the Rauschenberg Foundation.

 

Cheers: PS.E Faculty Leaders

Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Joby Jacob, Holly Porter-Morgan

Virtual Job Fair

The Center for Career & Professional Development Staff (CCPD) cordially invites students and recent alumni to participate in our Virtual Job & Internship Fair – Fall 2020.  This event will be held on Wednesday, November 4th from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Career Connect (Symplicity).

In preparation for the virtual fair, we are offering workshops and instructional videos explaining steps to prepare for the fair and what to expect the day of the event.

Virtual Job & Internship Fair – Prep Workshops

          Thursday, October 29     11:00 AM-12:00 PM

                              https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/3be7dbdb2a7348ccae01892a856d25c0

                              1-571-392-7650  PIN: 320 030 6498

               Monday, November 2    12:00 PM-1:00 PM

                              https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/712df63b561a4f2c9da0ac89855455b3

                              +1-571-392-7650  PIN: 601 715 9383

Instructional Videos: Everything students need to know about the fair!

               Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsG8WcBm1I

Part 1 is the “pre-job fair”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpFVshiM1yI

Part 2 is the “during the fair”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBbcp390r0

To RSVP and view participating companies, visit https://bit.ly/fairjob2020 or log in to Career Connect

               Events<Career Fairs< Virtual Job & Internship Fair-Fall 2020

Please share with students.  For more information, please contact us.

Thank you,

Center for Career & Professional Development Team

Jessica Perez

Director, Center for Career & Professional Development

Build • Transform • Lead

LaGuardia Community College-CUNY

Division of Student Affairs

E: JePerez@lagcc.cuny.edu

P: 718.482.5170 or ‪929.277.8127