Faculty Day 2013

17th Annual Faculty Day Conference

Student Center
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Want to know the next big thoughts on the horizon in subjects ranging from teaching about natural disasters to reforming health care; from culturally diverse communication to views on a post-human world? Come to this year’s Faculty Day Conference and engage in lively, thought-provoking discussions with Brooklyn College faculty as they share their scholarship and artistic endeavors. Throughout the day you will have many opportunities to speak about your latest ideas and creative work with familiar colleagues, while also getting to meet and collaborate with people from across the entire college community.

  • Symposiums and Panel Discussions
  • Alternative Format Mini-Sessions
  • Luncheon and Roundtable Discussions
  • Gallery and Academic Posters
  • Faculty Awards Ceremony and Reception
  • Lounge Open All Day! (with computers to check your e-mail)

With lunch provided and refreshments served the entire day, you’ll have a unique opportunity to get to know other members of the college and share your thoughts, your concerns and your ideas. The Faculty Day Conference will renew your enthusiasm for scholarship while reinforcing your sense of connection to the Brooklyn College community.

We hope to see all of our full-time faculty, our adjunct faculty, and our professional staff at the 17th Annual Faculty Day Conference!

Conference Details

About Faculty Day

The 17th Annual Faculty Day Conference and Award Ceremony affords all of us an opportunity to pause from business as usual in order to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of the Brooklyn College faculty. The day features a multidisciplinary conference—including workshops, panel discussions, presentations, art gallery, academic poster sessions, and informal roundtable discussions over lunch—culminating in an awards ceremony and reception. At the conference, colleagues participate in an exchange of ideas about a wide variety of scholarly, artistic and pedagogical interests and concerns. At the awards ceremony, individuals nominated by their fellow faculty members are honored for their accomplishments in teaching, research and service.

The Faculty Day Conference emerged out of a desire to provide a unique college-wide opportunity to foster connections with our colleagues and improve the quality of intellectual and social life here on campus. Each year this day gives us a chance to engage in dialogue about academic and pedagogical activities with our colleagues from remarkably diverse disciplines.

We invite you to participate in this year’s Faculty Day Conference and contribute to Brooklyn College’s professional and intellectual vitality.

Conference Committee

Co-chairs

  • Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
  • Myra Kogen
  • Jerry Mirotznik

Committee Members

  • James Eaton
  • Graciela Elizalde-Utnick
  • Len Fox
  • Mobina Hashmi
  • Katherine Hejtmanek
  • Gail Horowitz
  • Nicholas Irons
  • Catherine McEntee
  • Mariana Regalado
  • Richard Vento
  • Judith Wild

Special thanks to everyone in the Office of Communications and Marketing for all of their hard work and creativity in support of this year’s event.

Schedule

9:30–10 a.m.

Kick-Off / Breakfast
State Lounge, fifth floor

  • For the remainder of the day, the State Lounge will have refreshments and computer for conference participants. Check your e-mail, grab a snack, and chat with your colleagues!

10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Gallery and Academic Posters
Maroon Room, sixth floor

  • Presenters available to discuss their work during the luncheon period from 12:45 to 2:15 p.m.

10–11:15 a.m.—Symposium Session 1

The Feminine Mystique: Fifty Years On
Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Joseph Entin, English

  • Wendy Fairey, English, “Is It ‘Relatable’? Teaching Feminist Theory in the Twenty-First-Century Brooklyn College Classroom”
  • Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Conservatory of Music, “Subverting the Suburban: Miriam Gideon’s Music at the Close of the 1950s”
  • Barbara Winslow, Secondary Education and Women’s and Gender Studies, “The Feminine (and feminist) Mystique at Fifty”

Has anything really changed for women since Betty Friedan published her groundbreaking book in 1963?

Obama Redux: What Can We Expect in the Second Term?
Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Len Fox, English

  • Alan Aja, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, “Latinos, Obama and the Paradox of Immigration Reform”
  • Veronica Manlow, Finance and Business Management, “Obama’s Promises to the Middle Class”
  • Deborah Shanley, Dean, School of Education, “Are We There Yet?”

Will we make progress in the vital areas of immigration reform, the economy, and education?

Speak to Me: Culturally Diverse Communication
Alumni Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Herman Jiesamfoek, Early Childhood Education/Art Education

  • Sharon O’Connor-Petruso and Barbara Rosenfeld, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, “Mobile Phone Use: A Comparison of Chinese and American Students”
  • Akiko Fuse, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, “Service Delivery for Students and Their Families From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds”
  • Jason Thompson, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, “Memorable Messages and Intergenerational Transmission in the African American Community”

Does modern communication serve as a bridge across cultures? How does a dramatic increase in cultural and linguistic diversity affect educators and clinicians across the nation?

10:15–11 a.m.—Mini-session 1

What Is Politically Correct Teaching?
Aviary Lounge, fifth floor

  • Joe Burden, Physical Education and Exercise Science

11:15–11:45 a.m.—Mini-session 2

Constructing Superstorm Sandy
International Lounge, fifth floor

  • Katherine Fry, Television and Radio
  • Michael Menser, Philosophy

11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.—Symposium Session 2

Out and Proud on Campus: Why We Can’t Wait—A Conversation
Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Eliza Dragowski, School Psychology, Counseling, and Leadership

  • Wayne A. Reed, Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education
  • David McKay, English
  • Maria Scharron-del Rio, School Psychology, Counseling, and Leadership
  • Matthew Moore, Philosophy
  • Gail Horowitz, Chemistry
  • Matthew Harrick, Library
  • Arshad Bacchus, President, BC-LGBT Alliance
  • Sunny Wilder, BC-LGBT Alliance

What will it take for Brooklyn College to be Out and Proud by 2015?

Letter to the New Mayor: School Reform in New York City
Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Jessica Siegel, English and Secondary Education

  • Stephan Brumberg, School Psychology, Counseling, and Leadership, “Past Efforts at School Reform in NYC”
  • David Bloomfield, Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education, “The Bloomberg Administration’s School/Community/Parent Record”
  • Sonia Murrow, Secondary Education, “The Impact of Current Reform Practices”
  • Harold Golubtchik, School Psychology, Counseling, and Leadership, “Changes in Educational Leadership Practices”

What will our public schools look like after Mayor Bloomberg?

On Reforming U.S. Health Care
Alumni Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Leslie Jacobson, Health and Nutrition Sciences

  • Anna Law, Political Science, “Reforming Health Care: What Do the Federal Courts Have to Do With It?”
  • James Greenberg, Health and Nutrition Sciences, “Skyrocketing Costs: The Ongoing Problem”
  • Robert Cherry, Economics, “Making Health Care Equitable”

Will “Obamacare” lead to improvements in U.S. health care?

Noon–12:30 p.m.—Mini-session 3

Urban Sustainability: Podwalks at BC
International Lounge, fifth floor

  • Tammy Lewis, Sociology
  • Brett F. Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Kenneth Gould, Sociology

12:45–2:15 p.m.

Luncheon and Roundtable Discussions
Gold Room, sixth floor
Gallery and Academic Posters
Maroon Room, sixth floor

  • Presenters available to discuss their work during the luncheon period from 12:45 to 2:15 p.m.

2:15–3:30 p.m.—Symposium Session 3

Oh, the Posthumanity!
Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Mobina Hashmi, Television and Radio

  • Karl Steel, English, “Worms and Ethics”
  • Scott Dexter, Computer and Information Sciences, “On the Autodissection of an Android”
  • Armand Diaz, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, “Considering Transdisciplinarity”

How can we think about the ever-fluid Humanities in new ways?

Teaching Sandy: Natural Disasters in the Classroom
Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Tammy Lewis, Sociology

  • Barbara Winslow, Secondary Education and Women’s and Gender Studies, “The Impact of Sandy on the Schools, Students and Teachers in the Era of High Stakes Testing”
  • Hindi Krinsky, Secondary Education, “Eyewitness: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Trauma and Disaster”
  • Karel Rose, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, “Emotions and Education”
  • Ken Gould, Sociology, “Teaching Urban Sustainability Before and After Sandy”

Is teaching about Hurricane Sandy a pedagogical or a philosophical issue?

The Life Aquatic: Dispatches From the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC)
Alumni Lounge, fourth floor

  • John Marra, Earth and Environmental Sciences, “The Life Aquatic at Brooklyn College: An Overview of Research in AREAC”
  • Brett Branco, Earth and Environmental Sciences, “Eutrophication and Regime Shifts in Urban Waters”
  • Jennifer Basil, Biology, “Cephalopods as Model Systems for the Evolution of Complex Brains and Behavior”
  • Frank Grasso, Psychology, “Intelligence and Anesthesia in Cephalopods: Where Research, Government Regulation and Ethics Meet”

Animal intelligence, behavior and learning, aquaculture, sustainability, ecology, vocal and auditory modulation in fish brains and biofuels? What are they doing in AREAC?

2:15–2:45 p.m.—Mini-session 4

The Art of Problem Solving
Aviary Lounge, fifth floor

  • Christian Beneš, Mathematics

3–3:30 p.m.—Mini-session 5

The Rights of Authors When Publishing Journal Articles
International Lounge, fifth floor

  • Jill Cirasella, Library
  • Mariana Regalado, Library

3:45 p.m.

Awards Ceremony and Reception
Penthouse

Luncheon and Roundtable Discussions

12:45–2:15 p.m.
Gold Room, sixth floor

Colorblind: Obama and America’s “New” Race Problem

  • Katherine Hejtmanek, Anthropology and Archaeology

Difficult Dialogues: Pedagogy of Fact and Opinion

  • Mobina Hashmi, Television and Radio
  • Jerry Mirotznik, Associate Provost for Faculty and Administration
  • Maria Scharron-del Rio, School Psychology, Counseling and Leadership

Academic Blogging: Two Perspectives

  • Corey Robin, Political Science
  • Maria Conelli, Dean, School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Support Services for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders at BC

  • Susan Bohne, Speech and Hearing Center
  • Valerie Stewart-Lovell, Center for Student Disability Services
  • Ilene Tannenbaum, Health Clinic
  • Adriana Di Matteo, Personal Counseling Services

Making Group Work Work: Team-Based Learning in the Classroom

An initiative sponsored by the Center for Teaching and supported by a grant from CUNY Office of Academic Affairs

  • Sharona Levy, Acting Associate Provost for Academic Programs
  • Suklima Roy, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities

Do Students Have the Professional Skills Employers Want?

  • Robert Oliva, Magner Center for Career Development and Internships
  • Michael Sarrao, Magner Center for Career Development and Internships

How to Help ESL Students in Your Classes

  • Len Fox, English
  • Grace Elizalde-Utnick, School Psychology, Counseling and Leadership

Canon in the Classroom: Teach It? Subvert It?

  • Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Conservatory of Music
  • Jeff Taylor, Conservatory of Music

Obama’s Second Term

  • Alan Aja, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
  • Veronica Manlow, Finance and Business Management
  • Deborah Shanley, Dean, School of Education

Academic Freedom: Honored in the Breach?

  • Paul Moses, Journalism and English
  • James Davis, English
  • Joseph Entin, English

Awards Ceremony and Reception

Penthouse, Student Center
3:45 p.m.

Award for Excellence in Teaching for a Part-time Faculty Member

Soha Ghallab, Accounting
presented by Andrew Arlig, Philosophy

The award, in the amount of $3,500, will be presented annually to a part-time (adjunct) faculty member for his or her demonstrated excellence in teaching and recognizes the important contributions made by adjunct faculty to teaching and learning at Brooklyn College.

Award for Excellence in Teaching for a Full-time Faculty Member

Rona Miles, Psychology
presented by Christine Vitrano, Philosophy

The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member for his or her demonstrated excellence in teaching at Brooklyn College.

Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement

Robert Viscusi, English and the Wolfe Institute
presented by Sharon Zukin, Sociology

The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member of Brooklyn College for creative work in his or her artistic or scholarly field.

Eric M. Steinberg Award for College Citizenship

Barbara Winslow, Secondary Education
presented by George Rodman, Television and Radio

The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member for meritorious service chiefly to Brooklyn College, but also for fulfillment of the college’s mission in its relationships with communities in the Greater New York area and beyond.

The Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award

Laura Rabin, Psychology
presented by Roberto Sanchez-Delgado, Chemistry

The Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award was established through a generous gift from Leonard Tow ’50, a trustee of the Brooklyn College Foundation, in honor of his wife, Claire Tow ’52. The award recognizes a senior member of the faculty for outstanding qualities as a teacher and for being a role model to students and other faculty. It carries a stipend of $10,000, to be paid in one installment through the Brooklyn College Foundation.

Brooklyn. All in.