Community Members

18 posts

Corazon P. Lacsamana

I am interested in this faculty learning community to improve the teaching-learning process. In a limited time (15 weeks), I would like to maximize the knowledge the students can acquire from my courses. This summer, I would be changing some of the classroom activities and researching outside-classroom learning activities. Programming […]

Jean Sophie Kim

I am a pianist, singer, choral conductor and have been teaching at BMCC for over twelve years. I have learned that as a musician, broadening one’s skill set and being part of the hyphenated career person who adapts to the directions in the field can make the inevitable changes feel […]

Doreen Bowens

I am always willing to learn more as a professor and to reach my students more effectively. I look forward to connecting with the faculty and expanding my experience as a professor. I finished reading “Thrust” by Lidia Yuknavitch, and it is one of the most fascinating and whirl of […]

Ariel Leutheusser (they/them)

I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, a former CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellow at the GC and BMCC, an adjunct in BMCC’s English Department, and a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at City Tech in the Fall! I’m interested in learning experience design, especially Universal Design […]

Rebecca Smart

I am an adjunct teaching psychology in the Social Science department. I am interested in this seminar because I want to have as many tools and resources as I can for my students, and keep on my toes for new learning approaches. I looking forward to some trips later in […]

James Donovan

I teach writing and literature courses for SUNY and CUNY. These courses include: Composition I, Composition II, Introduction to Literature, and Composition II with a special focus on short fiction. I am interested in developing new assignments, using open educational resources, updating the digital platforms for my classes, fine-tuning my […]

Van Havercome

I am happy to say that I am reading “Up From Slavery” again. In fact, my son got in the Seton Hall University and I’m super excited. Being an African American man from Brooklyn with a formal education is extremely rewarding. I teach in the English Department and I believe […]

MaKayla McDonald

Hi hi! My name is MaKayla, I am an adjunct lecturer in Voice for the Music & Art Department. When I’m not teaching at BMCC, I sing locally and around the country. I am excited to read a few books this summer, my next read is Reclaiming Our Space by […]

Yuliya Shneyderman

I’m interested to continue my development as an OER professor – my eventual goal is to have all of my courses as OER courses. Next semester I am teaching HED 220 Human Sexuality for the first time and I am very excited to do so! This is the course I […]

Kelley Vick

Hi, everyone! I’m Kelley, and I’m an Adjunct Lecturer in the English Department at BMCC. I’m fairly new to BMCC and to teaching, in general, so I’m excited to learn about how I can use OER in my courses and also create Open Pedagogy assignments that empower my Writing and […]