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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

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BMCC associate professors of English Joe Bisz and Carlos Fernandez stimulated the formation of CGN when they were awarded a 2007/08 CUNY faculty development grant to study how. We targeted math skills for STEM majors who want to go into GIS because we found that there was a need to help them remediate,” Crocco says. “A

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

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Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College. Dr. Conway has served as director of Teaching and Learning for seven years at DMACC and is one of the content developers for the Inclusive Stem Teaching Project.

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Rethinking the First Two Years of Higher Education

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Students always take four courses, and the faculty have designed the assignments and the courses around themes. That includes humanities, social science, STEM and communications, but all of those classes are maybe working on the senses for six weeks or immigration for eight weeks. This is what we're calling an integrated curriculum.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

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Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College. Dr. Conway has served as director of Teaching and Learning for seven years at DMACC and is one of the content developers for the Inclusive Stem Teaching Project.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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It facilitates the comprehension of complex issues and equips students with the skills needed for complex jobs in STEM and the humanities (Spelt et al., One approach is for higher administration, deans, and faculty to commit to an interdisciplinary agenda and review course syllabi for evidence of interdisciplinary focus.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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It facilitates the comprehension of complex issues and equips students with the skills needed for complex jobs in STEM and the humanities (Spelt et al., One approach is for higher administration, deans, and faculty to commit to an interdisciplinary agenda and review course syllabi for evidence of interdisciplinary focus.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

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Faculty development for online instruction in higher education. Analyzing a faculty online learning community as a mechanism for supporting faculty implementation of a guided-inquiry curriculum. International Journal of STEM Education. [link] Gilpatrick,, M., & Vasquez, T. 2020, September 01). Education Today.