Bridging Historias through Latino History and Culture: An NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Project

FAIN: ME-50019-13

CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center (New York, NY 10016-4309)
Pennee Bender (Project Director: August 2012 to April 2017)

A cooperative agreement for a two-and-a-half-year faculty and curriculum development project on Latino/a history for thirty-six community college faculty and academic administrators in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.

A cooperative agreement for a two-and-a-half-year faculty and curriculum development project on Latino/a history for forty-two community college faculty and academic administrators in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Queensborough Community College, the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center (ASHP/CML) organizes a program of sustained study for community college faculty and administrators on the history and cultures of Latino/a communities in the United States leading to the development of curricular materials on these topics. Under the leadership of Pennee Bender and Donna Thompson Ray of ASHP/CML, the project begins with a series of six full-day seminars on Latino/a history from the colonial period to the present. Speakers for the seminar series include Virginia Sánchez Korrol (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Andrés Reséndez (University of California at Davis), Pablo Mitchell (Oberlin College), John Nieto-Phillips (Indiana University), Orlando Hernández (Hostos Community College, CUNY), Cristina Beltrán (New York University), María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (New York University), Ramona Hernández (City College of New York, CUNY), María Montoya (New York University), and Lisandro Pérez (John Jay College, CUNY). These seminars are supplemented by an online reading discussion series and mentoring from Queensborough faculty members Megan Elias, Aránzazu Borrachero, and Amy Traver; Carlos Hernández and Patricia Mathews-Salazar from Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY; and Karen Miller (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) as participants develop and implement curricular materials. A separate program helps administrators develop strategies to support the project on their campuses. The closing conference features Vicki Ruiz of University of California at Irvine, and provide opportunities for participant teams to present on their progress. Readings are drawn from the works of the project faculty, as well as from historians Samuel Truett, Raúl Ramos, María Cristina Garcia, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof; anthropologist Arlene Davila; and sociologist Robert Smith, among others.

Associated Products

Bridging Historias Infusing Latino/Latina Culture into the College Curriculum (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Bridging Historias Infusing Latino/Latina Culture into the College Curriculum
Abstract: More than 17 countries were represented by Essex County College’s most recent graduating class. Over 25% of those who are Hispanic/Latino make up this diverse population. In conjunction with Liberal Arts Month, Hispanic Heritage Celebration and Humanities Week (Oct. 6-10), the Humanities Department is hosting a free event Bridging Historias: Infusing Latino/Latina Culture into the College Curriculum on Thursday, October 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. at the school’s main Newark campus. The event, which is open to the public, will take place in the Harry J. Smith Lecture Hall, Room 2131. Guest speaker will be José E. Velázquez, co-editor of The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora. Bridging Historias is also the name of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant-funded program in which Dr. Stephanie Aisha Steplight Johnson, Acting Vice President & Chief Academic Officer, along with three faculty members, Professor and Director of Paralegal Studies Linda Carter, Adjunct English Faculty member Maria Luna, and Assistant Professor of Sociology Charles Pinderhughes are participating. These faculty members will present during the event about how they are revamping their courses so that Latino/Latina content is taught and learned by Essex County College students.
Author: José E. Velázquez
Author: Linda Carter
Author: Maria Luna
Author: Charles Pinderhughes
Date: 10/09/2014
Location: Harry J. Smith Lecture Hall, Room 2131, A. Zachary Yamba Building; 303 University Ave. Newark
Primary URL: http://www.essex.edu/pr/2014/10/06/essex-county-college-hosts-bridging-historias-infusing-latinolatina-culture-into-the-college-curriculum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=essex-county-college-hosts-bridging-historias-infusing-latinolatina-cult

---