TYCA NE

TWO-YEAR COLLEGE ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST

ENGLISH AT THE CROSSROADS: POWER AND POSSIBILITIES

@ LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

OCTOBER 11- 13, 2018

Host Colleges
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, New York
Queensborough Community College, CUNY, New York
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, New York

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 CONFERENCE THEME: ENGLISH AT THE CROSSROADS:
POWER AND POSSIBILITIES

With state legislatures increasing budget cuts and technology companies promising new avenues
to education and on-site job training, the traditional mission of community colleges has come
under scrutiny. However, these new challenges also bring new potential, as community colleges
have historically served as laboratories for institutional and classroom innovation. English and writing
educators are in the powerful position to help students discover the potential and the value of their
education in the workforce as well as civil society at large. We look forward to exploring the theme
of “English at the Crossroads: Power and Possibilities” through the cutting-edge pedagogy that is
happening in community college classrooms throughout the country.

TYCA-NE 2018 CONFERENCE TEAM

Conference Chair: Demetrios Kapetanakos, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Local Arrangements:
Demetrios Kapetanakos, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, co-chair
Leah Richards, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, co-chair
Jesse Schwartz, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, logistics coordinator

Registration:
Christa Baiada, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, co-chair
Anita Baksh, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, co-chair
Domenick Acocella, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Tuli Chatterjee, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Timothy Keane, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

Program:
Margot Edlin, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, co-chair
Lilla Töke, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, co-chair
Allia Abdullah-Matta, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Tuli Chatterji, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Jennifer Maloy, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Angela Ridinger-Dotterman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
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TWO YEAR COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION–NORTHEAST (TYCA-NE)

Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to LaGuardia and Long Island City! We are delighted to welcome you to one of the most
vibrant and diverse community colleges in the country. Located in a formerly industrial section
of western Queens, Long Island City boasts many amenities and easy access to Manhattan’s rich
offerings as well. Our local arrangements team has put together a list of local resources, and is here
to help you find anything else you’re looking for: look for team members wearing special name badges
that indicate our areas of local expertise! Cuisine from Moroccan to Schezuan, experimental theater,
a niche museum, bookstores, a department store to replace the jacket you left at home, a rooftop bar
with beautiful views: someone on our team can help you find anything, but no, we don’t know how to
get Hamilton tickets! Given the allure of New York City, we’ve tried not to over-plan your trip to our
campus for TYCA-NE, but we look forward to sharing our wonderful community with you. We’re plan-
ning two casual dinners at local spots for Thursday and Friday nights, after the reception and poetry
café, or the 7 elevated subway train, with stops near the college and the conference hotel, can take
you into Midtown Manhattan for a show on Broadway or the many neighborhood attractions of NYC,
or further into Queens where you’ll find, in communities like Jackson Heights, some of the best food
you’ll ever have! Check out the section on “Local Recommendations & Maps” for some suggestions on
getting around, and enjoy your time with us!

Leah Richards
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TYCA-NE Regional Executive Committee

TYCA-NE Conference @ LaGuardia Community College at a Glance

Conference Keynote Speaker

Conference Program

Friday Sessions

Saturday Sessions

Acknowledgements

State Representatives

Index

Local Recommendations & Maps

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 TYCA NORTHEAST REGIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2017-2018

Chair of TYCA-NE
Elizabeth Nesius, Hudson County Community College, NJ
Vice Chair
Elizabeth Keefe, Gateway Community College, CT
Secretary
Annet J. O’Mara, Onondaga Community College, NY
Treasurer
Iris Bucchino, Bergen Community College, NJ
Regional Representative to TYCA National
Leigh Jonaitis, Bergen Community College, NJ
Future Sites Coordinator
Mary Jo Keiter, Harrisburg Area Community College, PA
Membership Chair
Jacqueline Scott, Community College of Baltimore County, MD
Social Media Coordinator
Jerry Kavanaugh, Delaware Technical Community College, DE
Web Tender
Collin McCarthy
Nominating Committee Chair
Jennifer Garner, Howard Community College, MD
Nominating Committee
Susan Monroe, Housatonic Community College, CT
Kim Fetridge, Delaware Technical Community College, DE
Alison Randall, Delaware Technical Community College, DE

We welcome TYCA National Chair Jeffrey Andelora of Mesa Community College, AZ,
to the TYCA-NE 2018 Conference.

TYCA Northeast is an association of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

2018 TYCA-NE CONFERENCE

Conference Chair/Local Arrangements Co-chair

Demetrios Kapetanakos, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, NY
Conference Program Co-chairs
Margot Edlin, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY
Lilla Töke, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, NY
Local Arrangements Co-chair
Leah Richards, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, NY
Registration Co-chairs
Christa Baiada, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, NY
Anita Baksh, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, NY
 53 YEARS OF TYCA NORTHEAST

1966 Cazenovia, NY 1993 Princeton, NJ

1967 Providence, RI 1994 Hartford, CT
1968 Glens Falls, NY 1995 Portsmouth, NH
1969 Philadelphia, PA 1996 Rochester, NY
1970 Boston, MA 1997 New York, NY
1971 Annapolis, MD 1998 Newport, RI
1972 New York. NY 1999 Amherst, MA
1973 Philadelphia, PA 2000 Pittsburgh, PA
1974 Cranston, RI 2001 Washington, DC
1975 New York, NY 2002 Portland, ME
1976 Philadelphia, PA 2003 Boston, MA
1977 Buffalo, NY 2004 Annapolis, MD
1978 Washington, DC 2005 Princeton, NJ
1979 Pittsburgh, PA 2006 Providence, RI
1980 New York, NY 2007 Philadelphia, PA
1981 Baltimore, MD 2008 Atlantic City, NJ
1982 Boston, MA 2009 Boston, MA
1983 Atlantic City, NJ 2010 Washington, DC
1984 Teaneck, NJ 2011 Portland, ME
1985 Portland, ME 2012 Syracuse, NY
1986 Washington, DC 2013 Morristown, NJ
1987 Hyannis, MA 2014 Baltimore, MD
1988 Pittsburgh, PA 2015 Lancaster, PA
1989 Albany, NY 2016 Hartford, CT
1990 Philadelphia, PA 2017 Wilmington, DE
1991 Baltimore, MD 2018 Queens, NY
1992 Boston, MA
 TYCA-NE CONFERENCE LOCATIONS

Registration on Thursday will be at the Hilton Garden Inn LIC

SHUTTLE SERVICE BETWEEN HILTON GARDEN INN LIC

AND LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
from Hilton Garden Inn to LaGCC from LaGCC to Hilton Garden Inn

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

8:00am -
9:20am 10:50am
11:40am 12:00pm
2:00pm 3:00pm
3:30pm 4:05pm
5:30pm 7:45pm
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018
8:30am -
9:45am 10:05pm
11:10am 12:45pm
 Registration on Friday and Saturday will be at LaGuardia Community College,
in the entrance hall of the E-Building.

Vendor Exhibits in the Skylight Area

Continental Breakfast and Coffee Breaks in the Skylight Area sponsored by W.W. Norton & Company

Presentations will take place in the following rooms: M-104, M-106, M-107, M-108, M-110
 TYCA-NE Conference @ LaGuardia Community College at a Glance
October 11-13, 2018

Time Event Location

THURSDAY, October 11, 2018
3:00pm-7:00pm Registration Hilton Garden Inn, LIC
6:15pm-7:30pm Welcome Reception Hilton Garden Inn, LIC
7:30pm Friends of TYCA Dinner Local Restaurant
FRIDAY, October 12, 2018
8:00am-5:00pm Registration E-Building Entrance
8:00am Continental Breakfast, sponsored Skylight Area
by W.W. Norton & Company
8:30am-9:25am Session A – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
9:40am-10:35am Session B – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
10:50am-11:45am Session C – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
12:00pm-1:30pm Keynote Luncheon with E-Atrium
Dr. Cathy N. Davidson
1:45pm-2:40pm Session D – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
2:55pm-3:50pm Session E – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
4:05pm-5:00pm Session F – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
5:15pm-6:00pm Poster Session Poolside Café
6:15pm-7:30pm Annual Poetry Café and Poolside Café
Open Mic Night
7:30pm Friends of TYCA Dinner Local Restaurant
SATURDAY, October 13, 2018
8:30am-10:00am Registration E-Building Entrance
8:30am Continental Breakfast, sponsored Skylight Area
by W.W. Norton & Company
9:00am-9:50am Session G – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
10:00am-11:15am Brunch & Presentation, sponsored E-Atrium
by the Modern Language
Association and EBSCO
11:30am-12:25pm Session H – Concurrent Sessions M-Building Classrooms
1:00pm-5:00pm TYCA-NE Board Meeting Rosemarie’s Room in E103
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CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. CATHY N. DAVIDSON
Keynote Speech: “College for Everyone” | 12:00PM-1:30PM in the E-Atrium

Dr. Cathy N. Davidson, an educational innovator and a distinguished

scholar of the history of technology, is an avid proponent of active
ways of learning that help students to understand and navigate the
radically changed global world in which we now all live, work, and
learn. Dr. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of English and Founding
Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and
the R. F. DeVarney Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies at
Duke University where she served as Duke’s (and the nation’s) first
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies.

She has published some twenty books including Revolution and the
Word: The Rise of the Novel in America; Closing: The Life and Death of
an American Factory, with documentary photographer Bill Bamberger;
The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, with David
Theo Goldberg; and Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention
Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Her most recent book
is The New Education: How We Can Revolutionize Higher Education to
Prepare Students for a World in Flux.

In 2002, Dr. Davidson cofounded HASTAC (“Haystack”), Humanities,

Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, the world’s
first and oldest academic social network. She directed the 16,000+
member HASTAC network until 2017 and now co-directs with Professor Jacqueline Wernimont of Arizona State
University. She is on the Board of Directors of Mozilla and served on the National Council of the Humanities as
an appointee of President Barack Obama (2011-2017). She is the 2016 recipient of the Ernest J. Boyer Award
for Significant Contributions to Higher Education.

In the keynote address “College for Everyone,” Dr. Davidson looks at

the history of American higher education with special attention to
the founding of the community (junior) college and what all of higher
education can learn from the concept of “college for everyone.”
The talk draws from Davidson’s book The New Education: How To
Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in
Flux (Basic Books, 2017) and includes a participatory audience
activity that demonstrates how “college for everyone” works in the
classroom to prepare students not just to be “workforce ready” but to be
“world ready.”

Dr. Davidson invites you to the Humanities Alliance’s “Community

College and the Future of the Humanities,” a national conference that
will be convened by LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York, the following week, on October 18 and 19, 2018.

Community colleges are redefining the importance and centrality of the humanities to the lives of the “new
majority” of students, both during their academic careers and after graduation. To explore and celebrate the
role of humanities within community colleges and across the broader landscape of higher education, college
students, graduate students, faculty, and administrators will present and lead interactive sessions. She hopes
you can join her.
 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

FRIDAY
8am-8:30am Continental Breakfast available in the Skylight Area, sponsored by
W.W. Norton & Company

Session A: 8:30am-9:25am

M-104
SESSION MODERATOR: Heidi Johnsen
TITLE: “Intersectionality and Cultural Criticism in the Classroom”
DESCRIPTION:
Tim Dalton, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
“Disability Studies in the Composition Classroom”
This presentation will offer an overview of tactics for using concepts and texts from the worlds of
disability studies and Deaf studies in composition classrooms.

Nancy Hynes Lasek, Passaic County Community College and Hudson County
Community College
“Women’s Issues, Then and Now; Exploring Through Literature and Composition”
This talk discusses ways to explore women’s issues, historical as well as contemporary, through
literature and composition. Its purpose is to encourage students to interact verbally and to write
academically.

Michele Sweeting DeCaro, The City College of New York Center for Worker Education (CWE)
“#writeon: Theory and Cultural Criticism”
Through teaching various cultural theories, this talk will demonstrate how cultural criticism is used
to guide students in writing critical essays. Students are challenged to write essays based on the-
ories learned in the classroom and connected to the cultural issues of the current day. Composi-
tions in the age of #Blacklivesmatter, #Metoo, and #Queer, as well as understanding psychological
defense mechanisms challenge adult learners to acquire new critical vocabulary, and of course to
sharpen their essential reading and writing skills.

M-106
SESSION MODERATOR: Mary Jo Keiter
TITLE: “Destination Imagination: Using Creativity in the College Classroom”
DESCRIPTION:
Lauren O’Leary and Drew Stutsman, Gateway Community College
Creativity is an often overlooked and underutilized element of “traditional” college English. This
interactive workshop will leave attendees with many new and exciting activities that can be used im-
mediately in the classroom to inject creative thought, creative writing, and creatively critical reading
techniques into material to give it new life and fresh perspective
M-107
SESSION MODERATOR: Elizabeth Keefe
TITLE: “Collaborative Multimodal Composition: Activating the Power of Critical, High-Order
Thinking Skills”
DESCRIPTION:
Kathleen Wentrack, Trikartikaningsih Byas, Barbara Lynch and Alisa Cercone, Queensborough
Community College, CUNY
English Composition is a challenging landscape in two-year institutions with students of various
learning, cultural, social, and political backgrounds. Student Wiki Interdisciplinary Groups (SWIG)
facilitates multimodal compositions granting diverse students a different medium to showcase their
knowledge, perspectives, and potential. Presenters will engage attendees to infuse SWIG in develop-
ing project ideas across disciplines.

M-108
SESSION MODERATOR: Caitlin Larracey
TITLE: “Linguistics Approaches in Composition Pedagogy”
DESCRIPTION:
Mary Sepp, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
“Writing about language –WAC pedagogy in an online linguistics class”
This presentation will focus on the ways in which an online Writing Intensive class develops student
writing skills through varied and frequent writing assignments, along with discussions of language
use through peer and instructor feedback. Several writing assignments, with some student samples
will be presented.

Jamey Gallagher, Community College of Baltimore County

“The Politics of Proper English: Translanguaging in the Composition Classroom”
In this interactive presentation, participants will engage with real student writing produced at the
Community College of Baltimore County, academic writing students have turned in that meshes
vernacular writing with academic discourse. We will collaboratively break down what is considered
acceptable and what is not, and will discuss why.

Caroline Pari-Pfisterer, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

“Redesigning Developmental Writing with a Translingual Approach”
Responding to the field of Composition and Rhetoric’s calls for teaching with a translingual ap-
proach, I redesigned my developmental writing courses. In this presentation, I will review the current
research on the translingual approach and show how it is the most effective way to address our stu-
dents’ language differences, to develop our students’ potential as writers/ communicators, to under-
stand the realities of language use, and to prepare our students as global citizens.
M-110
SESSION MODERATOR: Gerald Kavanaugh
TITLE: “Popular Culture in Freshman Composition”
DESCRIPTION:
Steven Lessner, Northern Virginia Community College
“Never Plan to Stop, When I Write My Hand is Hot’: Expanding Writing Invention Techniques for
First-Year Writers Through Hip Hop”
The presentation explores expanding invention writing strategies for first-year writers at two-year
colleges by detailing the rich diversity of Hip Hop artists’ invention techniques and how these can be
helpful for students to interact with during early stages of their writing processes.

Joan Dupre and Christopher Leary, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

“I Am the Text and So Are You: The Intersection of Pop Culture and Autobiography”
The presentation will focus on the ways in which two faculty members have discovered that two
courses they teach -- one on Pop Culture and one on Autobiography -- intersect in ways that are
stimulating and fruitful for both students and faculty.

Session B: 9:40am-10:35am

M-104
SESSION MODERATOR: Heidi Johnsen
TITLE: “Digital Peer Review”
DESCRIPTION:
Gina Sipley and Valerie Fasanello, Nassau Community College
This session will overview critical reading and peer review strategies; demonstrate how to digitize
these strategies using advanced editing features in Google Docs; and how to implement peer review
in a mobile bring your own device (BYOD) classroom. Digital peer review makes the benefits peer
review explicit and accessible to all learners.

M-106
SESSION MODERATOR: Margot Edlin
TITLE: “The Messy Business of Innovation: Community, Process, and Chaos in
First-Year Writing”
DESCRIPTION:
Daniel Collins, Nate Mickelson, and Jane E. Hindman, Guttman Community College, CUNY
The discussion will highlight the challenges and successes of embedding “developmental” and
first-year writing in interdisciplinary learning communities. In particular, the discussion will center
on the sometimes chaotic process of enacting this approach. This approach is different by design:
there are no developmental courses per se at Guttman Community College. Instead, all students
enroll in a First Year Experience that includes a learning community course, City Seminar. This
unconventional structure transforms these classrooms in ways that are different from and
improve upon those in traditional writing programs.
M-107
SESSION MODERATOR: Jacqueline Scott
TITLE: “Communal Conexiones: Creating Institutional Identity as a Hispanic
Serving Institution”
DESCRIPTION:
C. L. Costello, Reading Area Community College
Joey Flamm Costello, Reading Area Community College
Jessica M. F. Hughes, Millersville University
David Leight, Reading Area Community College
Designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution prompted faculty at Reading Area Community College
(Pennsylvania) to explore connections between language-arts curricula and Latinx students’ experi-
ences. This presentation will explain how a 2015 NEH grant helped faculty appreciate dynamic Latinx
identities and incorporate more culturally relevant pedagogy.

M-108
SESSION MODERATOR: Mary Jo Keiter
TITLE: “Make It New”
DESCRIPTION:
Pamela Haji, Mary Crosby, and Iris Bucchino, Bergen Community College
This is a roundtable discussion on innovative ways to teach writing in the 21st century. The present-
ers’ three approaches include: creative ways of using poetry in the composition classroom, ways of
using narrative for teaching research in the developmental classroom and using digital literacies and
multi-modal writing in teaching argument in composition. Each presenter will discuss what they’re
experimenting with and why, and then open the floor up to questions and discussion.

M-110
SESSION MODERATOR: Eric Maroney
TITLE: “Improving Students’ Reading Skills”
DESCRIPTION:
Minkyung Choi, Bronx Community College, CUNY
“What Is College Reading and How Do Students Navigate It?”
This research study looks at what it means to read at the college level and how students navigate
college texts. In light of changing developmental education policies, a better understanding of what
adult literacy is and how to provide literacy instruction that addresses it is necessary.

Jonathan Scott, Bronx Community College, CUNY

“The Neuroscientific Case for Reading Books in the Composition Classroom”
For the past ten years, researchers at Washington University’s Dynamic Cognition Laboratory
have been studying the neurological effects of reading stories. They conclude: “Readers mentally
simulate each new situation encountered in a narrative. The brain regions activated mirror those
involved when people perform, imagine, or observe similar real-world activities.” This scientific
discovery offers a new direction for writing pedagogy. This presentation will make the case for a
return to reading stories as the key to mastering composition.
 Session C: 10:50am-11:45am

M-104
SESSION MODERATOR: Jennifer Garner
TITLE: English Chairs’ Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION: In this roundtable discussion, chairs of English Departments from around our region
will share information about how their departments are structured, their responsibilities as chairs
and what they love/hate about the job. This discussion is perfect for current department leaders and
those who see leadership in their future.

M-106
SESSION MODERATOR: Lauren O’Leary
TITLE: “Increasing Student (and Instructor) Engagement and Success through
Learning Communities”
DESCRIPTION:
Cheryl Scott and Amy R. Wilson, The Community College of Baltimore County
This presentation focuses on two learning communities at the Community College of Baltimore
County— Academic Development: Transitioning to College & American Pluralism: Search for Justice—
and how the paired curriculum and collaborative pedagogy and instruction benefit student success
and instructor development.

M-107
SESSION MODERATOR: Tara Coleman
TITLE: “From Sitars to WhatsApp: Making Asian Connections in ESL Composition”
DESCRIPTION:
William Lowe and Amelia Yongue, Howard Community College
The first presentation in this panel will explore generating student interest and engagement in Asian
cultures (primarily Indian culture) in an intermediate-level ESL writing course through the study of a
figure from Western popular music, George Harrison who developed a deep interest in Indian
classical music and Hindu philosophy and whose compositions featured Indian classical music
paired with Western popular styles. The second presentation in this panel will demonstrate how
easy it is to plan and carry out a fun, successful, and memorable global communication writing
project with students in Japan and the U.S. as they discover surprising similarities and differences
about others, practice important skills, and build international friendships.

M-108
SESSION MODERATOR: Linda Earls
TITLE: “The Challenges and Potential Benefits of Piloting a ‘Triple Developmental’ Learning
Community in the Age of CUNY Start/Math Start”
DESCRIPTION:
Donna Kessler-Eng, Minkyung Choi, and Joel Nagloo, Bronx Community College, CUNY
This panel presentation will explore the challenges and potential benefits of designing an
interdisciplinary developmental education learning community at a time when the City University
of New York is either having developmental education students complete their developmental
coursework in pre-matriculation programs such as CUNY Start and/or Math Start, or in co-requisite
courses that place developmental coursework within a credit-bearing course framework.
 M-110
SESSION MODERATOR: Lilla Töke
TITLE: “Teaching Literature in a Two-Year College”
DESCRIPTION:
Melissa Coss Aquino, Bronx Community College, CUNY, and Nicole Jones, former student at
BCC, now at Lehman College, CUNY
“Fairy Tales as Metaphors and Road Maps for Our Times”
This faculty/student presentation will offer practical ways to use the fairy tale journey as an
infrastructure for path making, writing and for bridging contemporary multicultural realities and
practices. Students will discuss the impact their work on fairy tales has had on them as readers and
writers and in their field of professional interests.

Andrew Tomko, Bergen Community College

“Using Moby-Dick as the Core of a Community College American Literature Course”
For the past six years, the presenter has been using Melville’s novel as the “hub” around which
he structures his American Literature to 1800 course at Bergen Community College. In this
presentation, the reasons for using such a long and dense text in what is for many students their
first and perhaps only literature course in college will be explained.

Holly Messitt, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

“Understand the Poem: A Low-Tech Approach to Teaching Poetry”
No high tech, the method here goes back to basics, and asks students in a poetry class to speak the
poems, paying close attention to sound, rhythm and form as a way to understand the emotional
elements of the poem before moving into analysis.

Keynote Luncheon: 12:00pm-1:30pm in the E-Atrium

Welcome remarks by Dr. Gail Mellow, President of LaGuardia Community College, CUNY,
and Dr. Jeffrey T. Andelora, President of the Two Year College English Association

Dr. Cathy N. Davidson

“College for Everyone”

Session D: 1:45pm-2:40pm

M-104
SESSION MODERATOR: Benjamin Miller
TITLE: “Towards a Shared Vision: Growing a Writing Program”
DESCRIPTION:
J. Elizabeth Clark, Neil Meyer, and Dominique Zino, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Two-year colleges need to reflect on the shapes and structures of their programs in order to foster
increased curricular coherence and, ultimately, student success. This roundtable presentation will
explain the configuration and values of our evolving composition program and how they have been
brought into focus through both curricular and cultural changes.
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SESSION MODERATOR: Lauren O’Leary
TITLE: “Heads in the Cloud: Using Online Education Resources to Teach First and Second Se-
mester Composition”
DESCRIPTION:
Mark Lamoureux, Robert Wycoff, and Eleanor Bloom, Housatonic Community College
This presentation will detail the practices employed by instructors at Housatonic Community College
in teaching Eng 101 Freshman Composition and Eng 102 Literature and Composition in concert with
an Achieve the Dream Grant. Presentation will offer best practices and strategies utilizing online
materials in this context and will outline both the benefits and challenges in using OER materials in
this context.

M-107
SESSION MODERATOR: Caitlin Larracey
TITLE: “Who Belongs Here? A Virtual Dive into America’s Immigrant Past”
DESCRIPTION:
Debbie Kemp-Jackson and Tulay Altin, Union County College
This workshop will discuss a group project across different ESL courses to help students become
aware of America’s immigrant past and the complexity of our immigrant history through a 150-year
period. Our goal is to broaden students’ awareness of this issue by placing it in an historical context.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Demetrios Kapetanakos
TITLE: “Understanding the Self, Understanding Others: Designing Effective Assignments for a
Multiple-Identity Classroom”
DESCRIPTION:
Marguerite María Rivas, Trisha Brady, Kelly O. Secovnie, and Jaime Chris Weida, Borough of
Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Panelists will discuss and demonstrate ways in which various pedagogical practices relevant to
students’ identities and cultures deepen students’ awareness of their own multiple identities and
strengthen their relationships to others in the writing and literature classroom.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Margot Edlin
TITLE: “Talking about Fake News, Teaching Media Literacy”
DESCRIPTION:
Steve Straight, Manchester Community College
“Teaching Students to Detect Bias, Spin, and Bullshit in the Media”
Discovering students’ failure to detect even obvious bias and spin in the media, the presenter
developed a training ground for critical thinking. This presentation will describe the games,
resources, assignments, and class activities that were designed or found so that students can
apply their knowledge as a lifetime skill.
Lane Glisson, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
“Teaching Humorous Accounts of Fake News – And Why They’re Not So Funny”
Learn about a humorous—yet serious—slide show of fake and credible news stories, which guides
students to recognize the underpinnings of good journalism and peer-reviewed scholarly writing.
The presentation features the slide show from class and interactive discussion, demonstrating this
active learning model.

Jacqueline Scott, Community College of Baltimore County

“More Than A Story: How Writing ‘Off the News’ Can Create Relevance and Meaning in Student
Writing, Specifically the Narrative”
What is writing “off the news”? How can teaching the narrative enhance media literacy? This
presentation will review elements of “The Narrative Project,” a collaborative effort in which English
professors used stories in the news to encourage students to tell their own stories, which ultimately
ended up in a public forum a la The Moth Radio Hour on public radio.

Session E: 2:55pm-3:50pm

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SESSION MODERATOR: Belkis Gonzalez
TITLE: “Think You Know What Students Want in an Online Course? Think Again!”
DESCRIPTION:
Jennifer Graham, Northern Maine Community College
Lynne Nelson Manion, Eastern Maine Community College
Over 500 community college students were surveyed to learn what they expect, what they
experience, and what they take away from online classes. In this session, the audience will be
challenged to a game of Kahoot! to compare your perceptions with what students reported.
Leave with strategies to energize your online courses.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Elizabeth Keefe
TITLE: “GPA and ALP: Reconfiguring Developmental English Approaches and Exemptions”
DESCRIPTION:
Marc Steinberg, Linda Earls, Sherri Foster, and Eleanor Welsh, Chesapeake College
This presentation will explore Chesapeake College’s various new approaches to developmental
English, primarily focusing on placement and use of the ALP (Accelerated Learning Program)
model, as well as discussing exemption and curriculum issues. The impact on retention, success in
later coursework, student morale, and the impact on instructors will be discussed.

M-107
SESSION MODERATOR: Margeurite Rivas
TITLE: “The Making of a Community College Major”
DESCRIPTION:
Jayashree Kamble, Phyllis Van Slyck, Lilla Töke, Marie Brewer, Shakira Whitley, and Michelle
Pacht, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
This panel describes the process of establishing an English major at LaGuardia Community College,
including the creation of an articulation agreement between LaGuardia and Queens College faculty,
and our subsequent efforts to foster the major.
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SESSION MODERATOR: Margot Edlin
TITLE: “Possibilities for Literary Engagement: Introducing Students to Literary Thought and
Interpretation”
DESCRIPTION:
Robert McAlear, Bill Ryan, and Richard Tayson, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
This panel will present strategies for introducing students to literary interpretation. Given the
diverse backgrounds and preparation of students in the two-year college classroom, instructors
cannot assume that students understand the ways of speaking about, inhabiting, and analyzing
narratives and poems as interpretable objects.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Tara Coleman
TITLE: “The Pedagogy of Social Justice”
DESCRIPTION:
Susan Naomi Bernstein, City University of New York
“Toward a Pedagogy of Bearing Witness”
Combining theory and practice on trauma and communal experiences of bearing witness, this
presentation offers examples of integrated reading and writing assignments that focus on more
compassionate classrooms for students and faculty. Assignments emphasize community building
and resilience in difficult circumstances.

Deniz Gokcora, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

“Teaching Academic Writing through the Lens of Social Justice”
Due to changing world politics, world population, approaches to education, and the influence of
technology, university faculty reexamines the role of higher education to prepare students for an
increasingly global setting. In this demo session, specific examples of global competencies of
cultural understanding and integrated reasoning practices will be demonstrated using a writing
course in an intensive English for Academic Purposes Program.

Benjamin Miller, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

“Heroic Research: Social Justice Pedagogy at the Community College”
A description of a non-traditional English 101 assignment that asks students to outline their essays
like heroic investigators on film and TV who analyze criminal conspiracies with photos, documents,
and string on a wall, and an interactive exercise that reviews Push Pin Project (PPP) kits used in the
classroom.

Session F: 4:05pm-5:00pm

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SESSION MODERATOR: Michael Boecherer
TITLE: “Close Reading Across the Curriculum”
DESCRIPTION:
Jan Stahl and Zhanna Yablokova, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
This panel focuses on strategies to help students become effective at close reading, engaging in
a thoughtful critical analysis of a text and being able to unpack its meaning. Presenters will share
methods for close reading in such classes as College Composition, Introduction to Literature,
and Film.
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SESSION MODERATOR: Belkis Gonzalez
TITLE: “Accelerating for Success – Leveraging High-Impact Practices for an Accelerated ESL
Sequence”
DESCRIPTION:
Hannelore Moeckel-Rieke, Janie Burkhardt, Robert Emigh, and Luke McCarthy, Norwalk
Community College
This panel discusses the development of an accelerated ESL sequence at Norwalk Community
College. Participants will share how the program evolved first to a credit bearing, integrated
reading/writing program, then piloted other high impact practices, such as learning communities
and ePortfolio and is now piloting an accelerated sequence. Participants will also share how the
development of ACE could leverage other initiatives at the college, including a Title V grant NCC
recently attracted that focused FYE, embedding study skills in gatekeeper courses, and advising.
Workshop participants will be invited to discuss the feasibility and possible roadblocks to creating
an accelerated ESL sequence and map existing high-impact practices and support systems at their
colleges that could help to boost and stabilize an accelerated sequence.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Linda Chandler
TITLE: “Reimagining Assessment with English Language Learners”
DESCRIPTION:
Missy Watson, Ibrahim Alhashidi, Javid Buchanan, and Laura Rizzo, City College of
New York, CUNY
While students’ academic and linguistic challenges often stem from forces beyond their control,
there has yet to be determined how to best approach this dilemma. This panel examines some of the
politics of assessing English language learners and reviews some best practices for more ethical and
effective writing assessment.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Demetrios Kapetanakos
TITLE: “Drawing Connections Between Visual Literacy, Textual Analysis and Issues of Gender
and Identity”
DESCRIPTION:
Janina Perez, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Nicole Sampson, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Visual literacy can be a vehicle into thoughtful and deeper analysis of readings and concepts often
explored in the college classroom. This panel will discuss an introduction of how visual literacy can
lead to analysis.
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SESSION MODERATOR: Cristina Bruns
TITLE: “Teaching with Technology”
DESCRIPTION:
Christina Marie Devlin, Montgomery College
“No Beheadings Required: Using Open Educational Resources to Create an English Literature
Course”
Creating a list of open educational resources for a literature course mirrored Gawain’s quest for the
Green Chapel, traversing the bogs of copyright to the castle of the digital humanities. This presentation
shows how OERs illuminate history of books and their audiences, bringing a fresh perspective to
both canon and course.

Megan Baker, Southern Connecticut State University

“Evaluating the Effectiveness of Peer Editing”
The presentation examines peer writing workshops, an educational tool that provides a more
successful approach to composition education in the collegiate classroom. This innovative technique
not only improves student writing but establishes interpersonal/communicative skills that can also
be applied at the societal and communal levels.

Poster Session: 5:15pm-6:00pm

Poolside Café

Posters by
Allison Bressmer and Dina Ledwith, Nassau Community College
Carla White Ellis and Erin Wynn, Johnson & Wales University
Carr Kizzier, Community College of Baltimore County
Caitlin Larracey, University of Delaware
Meredith Leo, Suffolk County Community College
Sophia Mitra, Union County College, and Catherine Sweeting, Hudson County
Community College
Meghmala Tarafdar, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Maria Vint, John Jay College, CUNY, James Dunn, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, and
Barbara Gleason, City College of New York, CUNY

Annual Poetry Café and Open Mic Night: 6:15pm-7:30pm in the Poolside Café
Moderated by James Freeman, Bucks County Community College,
and Steve Straight, Manchester Community College

All poets are welcome at the microphone. Appetizers and refreshments will be served.
SATURDAY
8:30am-9:00am Continental Breakfast available in the Skylight Area, sponsored by
W.W. Norton & Company

Session G: 9:00am-9:50am

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SESSION MODERATOR: Cristina Bruns
TITLE: “Empowering Dialogues across Borders: COIL Pedagogies in Writing Courses at
LaGuardia Community College”
DESCRIPTION:
Olga Aksalova, Tuli Chatterji, and Phyllis Van Slyck, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
This panel illuminates how writing courses with varying levels of difficulty and thematic foci can
integrate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) practices in order to create
opportunities for crossing national, cultural, linguistic and geographic borders via online platforms.
Each speaker will address the potential of COIL to empower community college students to develop
multiple literacies necessary for construing themselves as global citizens able to communicate
across difference.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Anita Baksh
TITLE: “Reconsidering Reading across the Community College English Curriculum”
DESCRIPTION:
Beth Counihan, Aliza Atik, Elise Denbo, and Margot Edlin, Queensborough Community
College, CUNY
In this roundtable discussion, four presenters will glean insights and advice on best practices from
recently published scholarship for explicitly teaching reading skills in ALP, ENGL101, ENGL102 and
upper level Writing Intensive courses.

M-107
SESSION MODERATOR: Rochell Isaac
TITLE: “Pathway to Success”
DESCRIPTION:
Amy Baldassare, Barbara Abolafia, Iris Bucchino, and Heather Barrack, Bergen
Community College
Beginning with Success 101 and continuing with the Pathway Scholars Program, freshmen are
provided with academic, personal, career, and social support. These two programs combine to make
a powerhouse “first year experience” that builds a sense of belonging to the college community,
while improving retention and gateway course pass rates.
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SESSION MODERATOR: Linda Earls
TITLE: “Popular Culture as Text”
DESCRIPTION:
Stafford Gregoire, Sigmund Shen, Bethany Holmstrom, and Paolo Javier, LaGuardia Community
College, CUNY
Popular culture is a natural fit for teaching students because the texts are accessible and widely
dispersed. Whether they are graphic novels, popular songs or movies, if society is consuming it
already it is a good way to reach students where they are. This panel will explore ways of using
popular “texts” to teach academic skills.

M-110
SESSION MODERATOR: Christine Marks
TITLE: “Ways to Incorporate Creative Writing in Composition Pedagogy”
DESCRIPTION:
Annet O’Mara, Onondaga Community College
“A Chapter of One’s Autobiography/Memoir Writing Assignment: Accessibility for All Learners”
This presenter will share a project she is doing to reconstruct the first assignment of an
autobiography/a chapter of a memoir in a creative nonfiction course using Universal Design for
Learning (UDL) principles by providing multiple means of representation, action and expression,
and engagement.

Brunch & Presentation: 10:00am-11:15am in the E-Atrium

Brunch Presentation on the MLA International Bibliography with Full Text

Sponsored by the Modern Language Association and EBSCO

Session H: 11:30am-12:25pm

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SESSION MODERATOR: Margot Edlin
TITLE: “Theory to Praxis: The Personal as Political”
DESCRIPTION:
Tuli Chatterji and Florence Kabba, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
The panel will focus on culturally relevant theoretical and pedagogical practices that will aim
to de-centralize frameworks of Western epistemologies as the only way to interpret global
consciousness.
M-106
SESSION MODERATOR: Anita Baksh
TITLE: “Living Artifacts to Enhance Cultural Identity in the English Curriculum”
DESCRIPTION:
Michelle Prendergast and Alejandro Leopardi, Montgomery College
This presentation focuses on integrating public museums and historic landmarks into instruction to
increase student engagement. Developing assignments that encourage students to interact with
exhibits, artifacts, and/or historic sites is a way to develop student understanding of not only
specific topics but also their own role as an academic.

M-107
SESSION MODERATOR: Beth Counihan
TITLE: “The Power of Belonging: Strategies to Foster Inclusion and Equity Amongst Students in
the College English Classroom”
DESCRIPTION:
Kris Messer and Elizabeth Hart, Community College of Baltimore County
Educational research recognizes the role that belonging plays in the success of all students, but
particularly for students whose voices are underrepresented in a traditional classroom. CCBC faculty
will discuss research in the field of social belonging and share pedagogical strategies designed to
promote inclusion and equity among all students.

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SESSION MODERATOR: Rochell Isaac
TITLE: “Outside the Classroom: Faculty-Student Interaction as a Key Factor for
Student Success”
DESCRIPTION:
Julie A. S. Cassidy, Erica Campbell, Lol Elizabeth Fow, Borough of Manhattan
Community College, CUNY
This group presentation will focus on the experiences of first-year community college students in
freshman composition at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). Using excerpted
qualitative data (student narrative writing), this presentation speaks to the benefits of faculty-
student interaction, and also reflects upon students’ initial feelings of apprehension and resistance
to engaging with their professors. Considering the students’ first-hand accounts of their experiences
as new students leads to practical suggestions for building assignments that encourage engagement
and reflection for students.
 TYCA STATE REPRESENTATIVES
Connecticut New York
Catherine (Kate) Babbitt Malkiel Choseed
College Advancement Studies (CAS) English Department
Gateway Community College Onondaga Community College
20 Church Street 4585 West Seneca Turnpike
New Haven, CT 06510 Syracuse, NY 13215-4585
cbabbitt@gwcc.commnet.edu choseedm@sunyocc.edu
315-498-2813
James M. Gentile
Department of English Maria O. Treglia
Manchester Community College English Department
Great Path MS #19 Bronx Community College, CUNY
Manchester, CT 06045 2155 University Avenue
JGentile@mcc.commnet.edu Bronx, NY 10453
860-512-2667 maria.treglia@bcc.cuny.edu
718 289-5750
Susan Gentry
Academic Strategies Department Pennyslvania
Tunxis Community College Matthew Eberhart
271 Scott Swamp Road English Department
Farmington, CT 06031 Harrisburg Area Community College
sgentry@tunxis.edu Lancaster Campus – RM 320B
860-255-3706 1641 Old Philadelphia Pike
Lancaster, PA 17602
Maryland maeberh@hacc.edu
Monica W. Walker 717-358-2897
Department of English
The Community College of Baltimore County James Freeman
800 S. Rolling Road English Department
Baltimore, MD 21228 Bucks County Community College
mwalker@ccbcmd.edu Grupp Hall 127
443-840-4368 275 Swamp Road
Newtown, PA 18940
New Jersey james.freeman@bucks.edu
Carol Bruzzano (215) 968-8155 Ext: 8155
Adjunct English Instructor
Passaic County Community College States without representation
One College Boulevard Delaware
Paterson, NJ 07505 Maine
973-684-5718 Massachusetts
~ and ~ New Hampshire
Hudson County Community College Rhode Island
70 Sip Ave Vermont
Jersey City, NJ 07306 Washington, DC
201-360-4650
cbruzzano.hccc.edu Canadian Provinces without representation
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Labrador
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The conference committee would like to thank the following people for making TYCA-NE 2018
Conference happen:

Dr. Gail Mellow, President of LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, and Dr. Timothy Lynch, Interim
President of Queensborough Community College, CUNY, for their leadership in making sure our work
teaching in the community college is visible and valued.

Dr. Paul Arcario, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs of LaGuardia Community
College, CUNY, for providing the resources necessary for LaGuardia Community College to physically
host the conference and Dr. Sandra Palmer, Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs at
Queensborough Community College, CUNY, for the additional resources to support the conference.

Dr. Cathy N. Davidson, our keynote speaker, for her support of adjunct and graduate student
registration and her participation in the conference.

Dr. Gordon Tapper, chair of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, Dr. David Humphries,
former chair of English and Interim Dean of Faculty at Queensborough Community College, CUNY,
and Jennifer Maloy, current chair of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, for their
encouragement in bringing the work of our departments onto a national stage.

Mr. Stephen DiDio, Vice President of Communications and Marketing at Queensborough Community
College, CUNY, for donating the designing and printing of conference materials and providing the
gift bags, and Ms. Christina Kofron, Administrative Specialist, and Tony Gamino, Director of Creative
Services, from the Office Communications and Marketing at Queensborough Community College for
their assistance in getting everything done.

Ms. Karen McKeon, Events Coordinator, and Mr. Stephen Silva in the Registrar’s Office at LaGuardia
Community College, CUNY, for making sure that the infrastructure was in place for a successful
conference.

Ms. Jessica Mendoza, Executive Assistant to the President at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY,
and Ms. Aarkieva Smith, Central Office Manager for the Center for Teaching and Learning at
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, for their additional support.

The Two Year College English Association Northeast Board of Directors for choosing Queens, NY, as
the 2018 conference site and providing the guidance to ensure that the conference was a success.

The Modern Language Association for their sponsorship and support of the conference and of
community colleges and their faculty.

And of course, the members of the conference committees, moderators, and volunteers, whose
dedication, commitment, and hard work deserve a special acknowledgement. The conference would
not have been possible without you. Thank you!!!

Demetrios Kapetanakos
Conference Chair and Co-chair of Local Arrangements on behalf of the TYCA-NE 2018
Conference Team
Conference Presenters Hart, Elizabeth Stahl, Jan
Hindman, Jane E. Steinberg, Marc
Abolafia, Barbara Holmstrom, Bethany Straight, Steve
Aksakalova, Olga Hughes, Jessica M. F. Stutsman, Drew
Alhashidi, Ibrahim Javier, Paolo Sweeting, Catherine
Altin, Tulay Jones, Nicole Tayson, Richard
Aquino, Melissa Coss Kabba, Florence Töke, Lilla
Atik, Aliza Kamble, Jayashree Tomko, Andrew
Baker, Megan Kemp-Jackson, Debbie Tarafdar, Meghmala
Baldassare, Amy Kessler-Eng, Donna Van Slyck, Phyllis
Barrack, Heather Kizzier, Carr Vint, Maria
Bernstein, Susan Naomi Lamoureux, Mark Watson, Missy
Brady, Trisha Larracey, Caitlin Weida, Jaime Chris
Bressmer, Allison Lasek, Nancy Hynes Welsh, Eleanor
Brewer, Marie Leary, Christopher Wentrack, Kathleen
Bucchino, Iris Ledwith, Dina Whitley, Shakira
Buchanan, Javid Leight, David Wilson, Amy R.
Burkhardt, Janie Leo, Meredith Wyckoff, Robert
Byas, Trikartikaningsih Leopardi, Alejandro Wynn, Erin
Campbell, Erica Lessner, Steven Yablokova, Zhanna
Cassidy, Julie A. S. Lowe, William Yongue, Amelia
Cercone, Alisa Lynch, Barbara Zino, Dominique
Chatterji, Tuli Manion, Lynne Nelson
Choi, Minkyung McAlear, Robert
Clark, J. Elizabeth McCarthy, Luke Moderators
Collins, Daniel Messer, Kris
Costello, C. L. Messitt, Holly Baksh, Anita
Costello, Joey Flamm Meyer, Neil Boecherer, Michael
Counihan, Beth Mickelson, Nate Bruns, Cristina
Crosby, Mary Miller, Benjamin Chandler, Linda
Dalton, Tim Mitra, Sophia Coleman, Tara
DeCaro, Michele Sweeting Moeckel-Rieke, Hannelore Counihan, Beth
Denbo, Elise Nagloo, Joel Earls, Linda
Devlin, Christina Marie O’Leary, Lauren Edlin, Margot
Dunn, James O’Mara, Annet Garner, Jennifer
Dupre, Joan Pacht, Michelle Gonzalez, Belkis
Earls, Linda Pari-Pfisterer, Caroline Isaac, Rochell
Edlin, Margot Perez, Janina Johnsen, Heidi
Emigh, Robert Prendergast, Michelle Kavanaugh, Gerald
Ellis, Carla White Rivas, Marguerite María Kapetanakos, Demetrios
Fasanello, Valerie Rizzo, Laura Keiter, Mary Jo
Foster, Sherri Ryan, Bill Keefe, Elizabeth
Fow, Lol Elizabeth Sampson, Nicole Larracey, Caitlin
Gallagher, Jamey Scott, Cheryl Marks, Christine
Gleason, Barbara Scott, Jacqueline Maroney, Eric
Glisson, Lane Scott, Jonathan O’Leary, Lauren
Gokcora, Deniz Secovnie, Kelly O. Rivas, Marguerite
Graham, Jennifer Sepp, Mary Scott, Jacqueline
Gregoire, Stafford Shen, Sigmund Töke, Lilla
Haji, Pamela Sipley, Gina
 LOCAL RECOMMENDATIONS

There is so much to do in Long Island City, in Queens, and in New York that we had to choose just
a few of our favorite local spots. A suggestion: use Google Maps to get around LIC (some of us still
do!) – what seems like a nicely numbered grid quickly goes off the rails! – but also be sure to look up
from your phone while you’re walking: car, bus, and bicycle traffic can make LIC a little chaotic.

A Few Area Restaurants:

Levante (26-21 Jackson Avenue, LIC 11101): Neapolitan pizza, Italian Cuisine, and American Bar, all
with a New York vibe!
Mu Ramen (12-09 Jackson Avenue, LIC 11101): amazing noodles and Japanese bites
Dutch Kills Centraal (38-40 29th Street, LIC 11101): gastropub with local and organic creative
comfort food
LIC Market (21-52 44th Drive, LIC 11101): delicious food and drink from an ever-changing menu
Alewife (5-14 51st Avenue, LIC 11101): craft beer and cocktails, with a full food menu, and seating
options ranging from seats at the bar and large-group tables to a lounge area and outside patio

A Few Bars:
Dutch Kills (40-23 24th Street, LIC 11101): very dark bar with a speakeasy vibe and amazing artisanal
cocktails
The Beast Next Door (42-51 27th Street, LIC 11101): this cool little bar also serves a great selection
of small plates
Maggie Mae’s (41-15 Queens Boulevard, Sunnyside 11104): if you’re looking for some great drinks and
a place to relax, this is an unpretentious Irish bar where customers are encouraged to bring their
own food (try the pizza place two blocks down!)

Coffee Shops near Campus:

Doughnut Plant, behind campus in the Falchi Building on 47th Avenue, serves delicious, creative
doughnuts and coffee
The Falchi Building more generally has several food vendors representing several cuisines in a
reclaimed industrial space
Coffeed, in The Factory (a creative office space), also right behind campus on 47th Avenue, serves
great coffee and is a great place to work or meet with people

Et Cetera:
Book Culture LIC (26-09 Jackson Avenue, LIC 11101): a fantastic, community-oriented, independent
bookstore
MoMA P.S.1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue, LIC 11101): this satellite to Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art
has permanent and large-scale exhibits as well as special exhibits of modern and contemporary art

Further Afield:
Astoria is a few stops from the hotel on the N or W trains from Queensboro Plaza, near the hotel:
once the destination for Greek food in NYC, Astoria now boasts a range of world cuisines at a variety
of price points
Sunnyside/Woodside is a short walk or 7 train ride from campus or the 7 train: this historically Irish
neighborhood houses many small restaurants and bars with a friendly neighborhood vibe
Jackson Heights is accessible via the 7 train: over 150 languages are spoken in Jackson Heights,
and each of those languages represents amazing food, served from windows and food carts or in
traditional restaurant settings