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Ground Up Interdisciplinarity: A Multifaceted Pedagogical Approach to Business Studies for College Freshmen

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 […]

“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 […]

Fostering Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty: Taking the Digital Storytelling Internship Virtual

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 […]

A Sense of Normalcy in a Difficult Time: A Renewed Spirit of Collaboration Provides Virtual Academic Support at Montgomery College

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 […]

Maintaining Global Perspective in an Ever-Closing World

By Gregory Malveaux, Collegewide Coordinator, Study Abroad; Professor of English, Montgomery College A Rude Awakening As college-wide coordinator of Montgomery College Study Abroad, I approached the spring 2020 semester with enthusiasm about the implementation of coming short term abroad programs (one to three weeks in length), including a program to Japan. Despite reports of a […]

Seen, Heard, and Empowered: Meeting student needs in our remote learning classrooms

By Professor Jennifer Lee, English, Rockville At the close of this difficult semester, as we all take a moment to breathe, recover, and look forward to another semester that begins in the remote classroom, we are all engaging in the work of learning or fine tuning our technological capabilities and reevaluating the merits of the […]