By Dr. Elizabeth Benton, Acting Dean of English and Reading, Dr. Rodney Redmond, Interim Provost, College of Southern Maryland, Professor Jarvis Slacks, Program Manager, Professor Ellwood Johnson, McMFI Intern, Professor Jermaine Jones, McMFI Intern, and Professor William Martin, McMFI Intern In 2018, the Montgomery College English and Reading Area established an internship to increase the […]
By Matthew Decker, Assistant Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Digital Storytelling Internship, with Jamie Gillan, Associate Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Digital Storytelling Internship, Montgomery College For many Montgomery College community members, March 2020 was a stressful time. Faculty and students learned they would not be returning to their physical classrooms, and […]
By Dr. Lucinda Grinnell, Acting Manager WRLC, Rockville , Tanya Camp, Manager WRLC, Takoma Park/Silver Spring , Dr. Elysse Meredith, Manager WRLC, Germantown , Dr. Elizabeth Benton, Professor of English, Rockville When COVID-19 forced a shift to emergency remote learning, our team of learning center managers utilized every second of those first couple of weeks to evaluate and […]
By Emily Rosado, Professor of English, Montgomery College As a young college student in the 1990s, I was browsing through the clothing racks of Bloomingdale’s one day when I overheard a conversation between two employees who were roughly around my age. The mention of Jennifer Lopez perked my ears because at the time (and perhaps […]
By Elizabeth Benton Elizabeth Benton serves as the English and Reading Department Chair at Montgomery College, Rockville. Elizabeth has been a Montgomery College faculty member since 2004. Elizabeth has been the English and Reading Department Chair since 2012. Elizabeth teaches courses in English composition, grammar, distance learning, American literature, and ELITE professional development. Elizabeth is a doctoral candidate at The George Washington University in the […]
A Note from the Editors: This article and video is the first of many we hope will highlight how Montgomery College faculty, staff, and administration are recognizing and responding to the impact of food insecurity and homelessness on student success. Are you doing something in classroom, in your department or office, in your area of […]
By Art Grinath and Bruce Madariaga Introduction As the cost of hard-copy college textbooks continues to rise, calls from students and administrators for professors to instead adopt free or low-cost online course materials have risen in volume. Understandably, many instructors have resisted such calls, not wanting to adopt uncoordinated and incomplete collections of online material […]
Thinking about applying for an Innovation Grant but not sure what project to propose? Here are some examples of what others are doing across the country to help improve student and institutional success: New Challenges to Active Learning Initiatives What makes a successful, active learning course, beyond faculty training and a well-designed classroom? This […]
By Dr. Michael Mills, Vice President of E-Learning, Innovation and Teaching Excellence, Montgomery College Researchers at the University of California-Davis recently released a study that revealed community college students throughout California were 11 percent less likely to pass an online course than a face-to-face version of the same class. At Montgomery College, we see a […]
Call for Submissions During the Spring 2015 President’s Innovation Forum, Dr. MJ Bishop, Director of the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Maryland System, explained that there are changing priorities ahead for higher education. She introduced us to the iron triangle of access, affordability, and outcomes, and she challenged us to consider how […]
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“The Flap of a Butterfly Wing”: From Incarceration to College Access
By Sharon Anthony, Elizabeth Benton, Schai Schairer, Jarvis Slacks In August 2021, then-president of Montgomery College, Dr. DeRionne Pollard recommended that several deans meet with Ms. Schai Schairer, a graduate of Montgomery College who had started a nonprofit organization that focused on working with incarcerated women at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women (MCIW). By […]
Math and Art in Islamic Geometric Patterns: Creating and Teaching in Collaboration
By Rebin Muhammad, Ph.D. In first grade when I was in Iraq, I took my first art class. Given that my parents weren’t well-educated, and my dad was embroiled in the Iran-Iraq war, art had never been a part of our home life. I do not recall that we ever had colored pencils while I […]
With Time to Listen, a Montgomery College Professor Finds New Voice
By Esther Schwartz-McKinzie, Ph.D. I offer this advice for my colleagues who are eligible to apply for a sabbatical project at Montgomery College but have not done so yet: Ask yourself where you need to grow and do it. Sabbaticals create opportunities for personal expansion and self-challenge that are unique among the professions. I have […]
Some Departing Thoughts: On the Privilege and Responsibility of Inclusive Teaching
By Professor Tuere Marshall, Professor of English, retired As I retire this summer from my faculty position in the English department, reflections on my teaching career are flooding in. The seed for teaching was first planted during those twelve years of my early education when my teachers up through high school were nuns of the […]
“Foster My Skill Set as a Faculty Member of Color: Faculty Representation at Community College”
By Dr. Elizabeth Benton, Acting Dean of English and Reading, Dr. Rodney Redmond, Interim Provost, College of Southern Maryland, Professor Jarvis Slacks, Program Manager, Professor Ellwood Johnson, McMFI Intern, Professor Jermaine Jones, McMFI Intern, and Professor William Martin, McMFI Intern In 2018, the Montgomery College English and Reading Area established an internship to increase the […]
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