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By Ryan K. Jones, MC student Overcoming Challenges on the way to MC Although I dreamt of attending Montgomery College right after high school graduation in 2008, that was not the journey I was meant to take. After receiving my GED in July 2023, I immediately enrolled at MC as a 34-year-old student with 16 […]
By Professor Ali Alavi The integration of interdisciplinarity in learning continues to generate a great deal of interest in academia. Educators are innovating experiential learning activities for their students to explore topics in their programs of study in larger, richer, and multifaceted contexts, thereby accomplishing the learning outcomes of their courses more effectively while allowing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Professor David Fallick The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Stewards Education Project (CSEP) was a program for teachers (now called the Planet Stewards Education Project) designed to help teachers prepare students to respond to environmental challenges. Its educational component for teachers included “webinars” on various climate and climate change topics and, less often, […]
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 […]
By Professor Elizabeth M. Benton, Chair, Rockville English Department and Professor Rebecca Eggenschwiler, Collegewide Coordinator, PACE Program The Montgomery College English and Reading Department launched an innovative pilot program in spring 2012, called Program for the Advancement to College English (PACE), to change the trajectory of developmental student completion in college-level English courses. Since the program’s […]
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 […]
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