The 19th Annual Faculty Day Conference

Conference Details

19th Annual Faculty Day Conference

Student Center
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Overview of Schedule (pdf)
Full Conference Program (pdf)

9:30 – 10 a.m. — Continental Breakfast and Conference Kick-Off

State Lounge, 5th Floor

For the remainder of the day, the State Lounge will have refreshments and computers/internet access for conference participants. Check your e-mail, double-check your presentation, grab a snack and chat with your colleagues.

10 – 11:15 a.m. — Symposium Session 1

Teaching People, Power and Politics in a Brutal Age

Alumni, 4th Floor
Moderator: Emily Molina, Sociology

Kristen Casey Miller, Sociology, "What's Up With the Kids Today? A Generational Look at Youth Activism"

How are our students' worldviews connected to, or disconnected from, critical historical and contemporary struggles and events? How can this course foster civic engagement and critical activism?

The Achievement Gap: A New Look Through the Lens of Early Childhood Development?

Jefferson-Williams, 4th Floor
Moderator: Erika Niwa, Psychology and Children and Youth Studies

Lulu Song, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, "How Vocabulary Development in English and Spanish Is Related to School Readiness"
Karen McFadden, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, "Parental Responsiveness During Play in Low-Income Households: Links to the Development of Early Academic Skills"
Katharine Pace Miles, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, "Growth Trajectories of Second Language Learners' Basic Reading, Vocabulary, and Comprehension Skills"
Mark Lauterbach, Early Childhood Education/Art Education, "Learning to Read: What Can We Expect for Children With Special Needs?"

Elementary and high schools are asked to do more and more to close the "achievement gap" that exists for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. However, many of the factors that contribute to this gap occur outside of school and prior to formal education. This panel will look at some of the issues and solutions from an early childhood perspective.

The Brooklyn Listening Project: Discovering the Culture of Brooklyn Through Its Sounds and Stories

Maroney-Leddy, 4th Floor
An open discussion with project participants.

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Conservatory of Music
Joseph Entin, English
Jessica Siegel, English
Madeline Fox, Sociology
Vilde Aaslid, Conservatory of Music

What happens when a group of students, staff and faculty set out to interview the borough, archive the recordings, and change the world? Students and faculty give the low-down.

Amyloids in Ale and Alzheimer's: What Do We Know and What Can We Remember?

Occidental, 5th Floor
Moderator: David Balk, Health and Nutrition Sciences?

Peter Lipke, Biology, "Amyloids: What Are They, and When Are They Beneficial and Maleficial?"
Laura Juszczak, Chemistry, "Repeat, Repeat, Repeat: A Diversity of Function and Pathogenicity for Amyloidogenic Peptide Repeat Sequences"
Melissa Garcia-Sherman, Biology, "The Cloaking Device: Amyloid Immune Evasion Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease"
Laura Rabin, Psychology, "Cognition and Beta-amyloid in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease"

Amyloid aggregates are hallmarks of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases like mad cow disease. These aggregates also lead to microbial biofilms, including those that yeast use to make beer and wine, and those that form slime on rocks in streams. Amyloids are also being used as nanowires for nanotechnology. What are the beneficial and pathological activities of amyloids?

10 – 10:30 a.m. — Mini-Session

An Ownership Model of Education for the 21st Century

Aviary, 4th Floor

Norman Eng, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education

What defines 21st-century global society? Find out what top scholars had to say and how these themes can inform a new approach to U.S. education.

10:45 – 11:15 a.m. — Mini-Session

When Research Is Really Me Search: An Academic's Genealogical Journey

Cosmic, 5th Floor

Sally Robles, Psychology and Personal Counseling Program

Genealogy can be a window into obscure, unrecognized historical events that reveal the heroes (and demons) of our ancestral past. It also reveals patterns in families that are repeated across generations. The presentation will study the complexities of class, oppression, political rebellion and gender roles as seen through the micro-lens of the Diaz family tree.

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

Confronting the Illusion of an LGBTQ-Inclusive Brooklyn College

Alumni, 4th Floor
Moderator: Wayne Reed, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education

David McKay, English and Director of the LGBTQ Resource Center, "Battling Campus Complacency around LGBTQ and Other Diversity Issues"
Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology, "Student Voices: Diversifying the Discourse in Academic Departments"
Paisley Currah, Political Science, "Creating an LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum"
Florence Rubinson, School Psychology, Counseling and Leadership, "The Critical Role of Allies in Becoming an Inclusive Campus Community"

Faculty discuss the challenges and possibilities of supporting LGBTQ students in a rapidly changing, historically heteronormative campus context.

From Ferguson to NYC: Research, Practice and Pedagogy on Race and Policing in the Age of Obama

Jefferson-Williams, 4th Floor
Moderator: Alan Aja, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies

Katherine Hejtmanek, Anthropology and Archaeology, "Policing Black Boys, Policing Adolescence"
Lawrence Johnson, Sociology, "When the Elephant in the Room Demands to Be Heard: Discussing the Reality of Race in the Classroom"
Alex Vitale, Sociology, "The Limits of Liberal Police Reforms"

From multiple disciplinary perspectives, we will critically examine the state of policing in a putative "post-racial" United States. With recent events in Ferguson to Cleveland to Staten Island as part of an interconnected background, we will discuss the public and policy responses to police brutality, the general state of race and community relations in the United States, and race and racism in the Brooklyn College classroom.

Repurposing Culture: Morphology, Commodification and Rupture in (and out of) Brooklyn

Maroney-Leddy, 4th Floor
Moderator: David Grubbs, Conservatory of Music

Aja Burell Wood, Conservatory of Music, "Sound & Sample: Hip Hop and Vinyl Culture in the Digital Era"
Malka Simon, Art, "The Production of Space in the Spaces of Production: Brooklyn's Evolving Industrial Landscapes"
Miguel Macias, Television and Radio, "Serial: The Success, Backlash and Backlash to the Backlash, of a Public Radio Production Gone Viral"

Hear how in three different repurposed cultural contexts, cultural production has broken free from the creative intent/confines of its original creator and taken on new life.

Internationalizing Community Health: A Multidisciplinary Look at Africa's Current and Future Health Challenges

Occidental, 5th Floor
Moderator: Peter Weston, Psychology

Lynda Day, Africana Studies, "The Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone: Evolution of a Crisis"
Raymond Weston, Health and Nutrition Sciences, "Cultural Competency: Application to Health Disparities"
Ruth McChesney, Health and Nutrition Sciences, "The Health Impact in Africa of Infectious Diseases and the International Response"
Taiwo Amoo, Finance and Business Management, "Awareness of Chronic Diseases and Its Complications"

What can we do to raise awareness about Africa and global health disparities to most effectively educate and develop cultural competency among students and engage in the mission to reduce disease rates?

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. — Mini-Session

City Digits: Learning Mathematics of the City in the City

International, 5th Floor

Laurie Rubel, Secondary Education
Vivian Lim, CUNY Research Foundation
Maren Hall-Wieckert, CUNY Research Foundation
Students, Bushwick School for Social Justice, Essex Street Academy and The Green School

What are pawn shops, how much do they charge, and where can they be found? Join us to hear high school teachers and their students present about how they used digital maps and tools in their mathematics classrooms to investigate the inequities of financial institutions in our city.

12:15 – 2:15 p.m. — Lunch

Luncheon and Roundtable Discussions

Gold, 6th Floor

Gallery and Academic Posters

Maroon, 6th Floor

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

2:15 – 3:30 p.m. — Symposium Session 3

Parsing Plagiarism: Thoughts From the Academic Integrity Committee

Alumni, 4th Floor
Moderator: Patrick Kavanagh, Acting Director of Graduate Studies

Kara Lynn Andersen, Film, "What Happens After You Fill Out a Faculty Action Report"
Dena Shottenkirk, Philosophy, "Three Easy Steps for Reducing Plagiarism"
Laraine McDonough, Psychology, "The Role of Memory in Plagiarism"
Janet Elise Johnson, Political Science, "Getting Past the New Research Process of Cutting and Pasting"

A modest proposal of what to do when three-quarters of college students admit to cheating.

Promoting Healing and Acceptance Through Children's and Young Adult Literature

Jefferson-Williams, 4th Floor
Moderator: Karel Rose, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education

April Bedford, Dean, School of Education, "Why Do We Need Diverse Books for Children and Young Adults?"
Matthew Harrick, Library, "Celebrating Diversity in Children's and YA Lit: A Librarian's Perspective"
Meral Kaya, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education, "Gender Variance in Books for Our Youngest Readers"

In the wake of recent tragic and violent events resulting from tensions regarding racial, ethnic, gender, religious, and cultural difference, books for children and adolescents provide one avenue for promoting healing and compassion. What role does current children's and young adult literature play in nurturing and valuing diversity in all its forms?

Through an Anthropological Lens: Medicine, Music, Militarism

Maroney-Leddy, 4th Floor
Moderator: Miguel Diaz-Barriga, Carol L. Zicklin Chair for the Honors Academy

Lisa Jahn, Anthropology and Archaeology, "Colonial Consequences: Puerto Rican Women and HIV and AIDS"
Ted Sammons, Anthropology and Archaeology, "From the Workshop to the World: Jazz, Black Nationalism and Jamaican Independence"
Jason Thompson, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, "Examining Health Communication in the Black Family Following a Cancer Diagnosis"
Margaret Dorsey, Anthropology and Archaeology, and Miguel Diaz-Barriga, Carol L. Zicklin Chair for the Honors Academy, "Radical Transformations in the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands: An Ethnographic Look at the U.S.–Mexican Border Wall"

A panel of full-time, visiting, and adjunct faculty present recent work on social life in the Americas.

Group Identity and Epistemic Reasoning

Occidental, 5th Floor
Moderator: Noson Yanofsky, Computer and Information Science

Steven Brams, Political Science, NYU, "What Voting System Best Facilitates a Group Consensus?"
Eric Pacuit, Philosophy, University of Maryland, "Deliberating in a Predication Market"
Rohit Parikh, Computer and Information Science, "Group Identity and Social Software"

Sociologists have discussed groups for a very long time now but it is only recently that logicians and computer scientists have started studying them. What are the current developments in the use of epistemic logic in studying groups?

2:15 – 3 p.m. — Mini-Session

Organizing Pilates-based Movement Fundamentals Through the Alexander Technique