Arts & Humanities

Talk Back to the Internet ☆

Talk Back to the Internet: a making workshop event. Organized by Sean Justice & Richard Jochum, and sponsored by the Myers Media Art Studio, Program in Art & Art Education. Led by Don Miller, an artist and learning designer.

Celebration of Maria Torres-Guzman’s Scholarship ☆

On Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th the Program in Bilingual/Bicultural Education invited current students, graduates, faculty and colleagues from across Teachers College to join in celebrating the career and legacy of Professor Maria Torres-Guzman on the occasion of her retirement. A two-day conference sponsored by the Blue Sky Asian-American Research Foundation along with the Arts & Humanities …

Chelsea Katzenberg Featured in Innovations for Learning

Social Studies Alumna Chelsea Katzenberg (MA ’12) was featured in an article released today by Innovations for Learning entitled: A high school that aims to take struggling students beyond the basics. Read the article here:

Dr. Khalil Muhammad Visits TC ☆

Citing Lewis Lapham’s claim in “Ignorance of Things Past” that Americans have “a wonderful talent for grand simplification,” Dr. Muhammad made an unimpeachable case for the significance of history, archival work, and the Schomburg center in undoing at least a century of historical oversimplification of the black experience in America, and the American experience writ …

“Spearheading Debate: Culture Wars & Uneasy Truces”, with Steven Dubin ☆

"As South Africa's democracy matures, this book analyses the following questions: how does the state mediate between traditional tribal authority and constitutional law in matters such as initiation customs or the rights of women, children and gay people? "

Paper Presentations at the 2013 Diversity in Research and Practice Conference ☆

This past Friday and Saturday, April 19th and 20th, Teachers College held its 2013 Diversity in Research and Practice Conference (DiRP).

Around Teachers College with Zechariah Chiang ☆

Around Teachers College with Zechariah Chiang

TESOL Topics: ETS Presentation

The TESOL and Applied Linguistics Programs would like to extend a warm thanks to Dr. Philip Everson and Emilie Pooler from Educational Testing Service (ETS) for their innovative presentation on computer-based testing at TC this past Thursday, April 11th. At the presentation, Dr. Everson and Ms. Pooler shared with TC students and faculty the groundbreaking …

Viva Harlem U: Black and Puerto Rican Students and the Transformation of City College

The Development of Orchestrated Collisions: A Summer at Signature Theatre Company ☆

By Erin Moore M.A. Candidate, Arts Administration At most theatres, it would be unusual and thrilling to see the playwright of a particular production lounging in the lobby most afternoons. It would be even more unusual to see two playwrights, both with current productions being mounted, happening upon each other in the lobby. This would …

From TC to Joe’s Pub: Music Ed Students Play the City ☆

Since getting their undergraduate degrees at The New School, Christian Nourijanian and Dustin Kaufman have followed a similar trajectory in their career and educational paths.  Dustin recently graduated from Teachers College with a dual Master’s degree that pairs a jazz performance major from Manhattan School of Music (MSM) with a music education major from Teachers …

Career Panel and Education Career Fair this Wednesday

CAREERS IN ARTS ADMINISTRATION AND EDUCATION PANEL Wednesday March 6, 2013 12:30 pm- 1:30 pm Columbia University, Lerner Hall, Room 555 Come hear from alumni and guest panelists working in arts administration and/or education about the roles they perform, how their degrees prepared them for their roles and working within their organizations. Don't forget to …

Cancelled: “Ella Baker: Radical Educator with Harlem Roots”

CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED Due to a severe winter storm in Chicago, Prof. Ransby was unable to make the trip to New York for this event. We are working now to reschedule and hope that you will join us at a later date this spring. Please join us for the first lecture of the Educating Harlem …

New Faculty: Dr. Richard Jochum

We're excited to welcome Dr. Richard Jochum to the Art Education Program as the new Associate Professor of Art Education! Dr. Jochum, who earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna in Austria and his MFA in Sculpture and Media Art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, brings with him an …

Spotlight on Faculty: Lori Custodero’s Subway Series

Dr. Lori Custodero, Associate Professor of Music and Music Education, has established an Early Childhood Music concentration at Teachers College that integrates pedagogy and research through both theory and practice. She has just returned from Greece, where she presented her research to colleagues in music education and music psychology at three conference venues.

Alumna Spotlight: Johari Murray’s Not a Language School

Originally from New York, Johari is an all-terrain language teacher with her MA '02 from Teachers College in Deaf and Bilingual Education. She has taught English and Spanish from k-12 and on the university level. With her background spanning private and public schools as well as urban and rural communities, she has reached a childhood …

Cheng-Ling Alice Chen, Recipient of the Dean’s Grant for Student Research ☆

Alice Chen, 2012 recipient of the Dean’s Grant for Student Research, knew from an early age that she wanted to be a teacher. After living in Texas for four years while her father earned his PhD, Chen went back to her home in Taipei, Taiwan with a proficiency in English that set her apart.

Graduate Spotlight: Janice Marciano Nimetz, History and Education ☆

Janice Marciano Nimetz graduated this May with her PhD in History and Education. Nimetz has taught piano at the Emma Willard School for several years and plans to continue teaching there. Nimetz, who has also studied Musicology, hopes to find more places of intersection for her two passions: music and history.

Graduate Spotlight: Marisa Gallin, English and English Education ☆

Marisa Gallin, a recent English and English Education MA graduate, had practiced law for three years before deciding to teach English. She was drawn to the English and English Education program at Teachers College based on its student-centered approach to teaching, focus on literature and writing, and its progressive nature.