By Natalia Sucre, Instruction & Digital Services Librarian At our last library virtual roundtable, Women’s Grassroots Leadership: Global/Local, on the last day of Women’s history week, we were led by two distinguished guests --Dr. Pamela Ransom of MCNY and Shorai Chitongo of the Huairou Commission-- through a [...]
If you didn't have the opportunity to join us on April 8, here's what you missed! On April 8, 2021, Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) hosted a virtual [...]
By Nathan Schiller, Director of Academic Support Many MCNY students are adult learners who want their education to be connected directly to their professional fields. That’s why MCNY has accelerated programs and Purpose-Centered Education, whose [...]
What’s Poetry Got to Do with It? A Community Reading of Amanda Gorman By Tina Callender MCNY Library hosted its first roundtable of the new year and semester on February 9th at 5pm. Our topic: Poetry and politics via the work of Amanda Gorman, who most recently commanded the nation’s attention on January 21st. Many thanks to students [...]
Give Back by Sharing Your Educational and Professional Experiences, Mentoring, Planning Events and Networking! Audrey Cohen School for Humans Services and Education Alumni Network Committees To join a committee AND for more information contact: Eugene [...]
By Nathan Schiller, Director of Academic Support Since last spring, education has revolved around Covid-19. Everything changed so abruptly, then MCNY went totally online in the summer, and now we’re doing hybrid courses. These were [...]
By Kristen Plylar-Moore, LEC writing specialist “It is a paradox of my experience that Morning Pages both take time and give time. It is as though by setting down our inner movie onto the page, we [...]
Student Spotlight Todd Bristow is an MCNY MBA student, class of 2020,who has held leadership positions in the nonprofit sector. The library was fortunate to have his attendance at our last conversation event, “The Anti-Racist [...]
The Anti-Racist Reading List - Then and Now: Framing the Conversation By Tina Callender, Evening Reference Librarian Weary and exhausted from the pandemic and being socially distanced, isolated from family and friends, at the end of May I --like so [...]
By Michael Schoch, LEC Writing Specialist Most MCNY students are adult learners who commute to school, work jobs, and raise families—characteristics that label them “non-traditional” college students. But, as Madeline St. Amour observes in a recent article in Inside Higher Ed, this demographic will soon represent the majority of higher education students. This is [...]
