Global Guttman

A CUNY Story About Soul-Searching, Calling, and True Love: Alumna Shaitasia Holley, ‘16

December 19, 2022 | Alumni, Alumni Achievement, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Global Guttman, Publication, Student Achievement

Have you ever started a conversation with the familiar “What do you do?” and found, a few minutes in, that you’ve somehow been pulled toward the more profound question of “Who are you becoming?” Talk with Shaitasia “Shai” Holley, and that’s where she gently steers the first five minutes of your dialogue. It’s not surprising, […]

Dr. Jinzhong Niu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

January 21, 2022 | Academics, Experiential Learning, Faculty, Faculty Feature, Global Guttman, Information Technology, Research, STEM

Professor Jinzhong Niu

Dr. Lori Ungemah, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

January 11, 2022 | Academics, Arts in NYC, Faculty, Faculty Feature, Global Guttman, Humanities and Social Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences

Guttman Students Present at Global Scholars Achieving Career Success (GSACS) Fall 2021 Student Conference

January 10, 2022 | Academics, Career Development, Conference Presentation, Experiential Learning, Faculty, Global Guttman, Grants, Humanities and Social Sciences, International Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Research, Student Achievement

Guttman Community College students participated in the international Global Scholars Achieving Career Success (GSACS) Fall 2021 Student Conference held on December 1st and 4th 2021. GSACS is a collaborative multi-campus program that foregrounds United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and career readiness competencies in class-to-class virtual exchanges between students from five colleges at the City University of New York (CUNY): Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, LaGuardia Community College (lead), and Queens College of the City University of New York, and at four universities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (Morocco), The American University in Cairo, Jordan University of Science and Technology, and Palestine Ahliya University.

Dr. Grace Pai, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

July 8, 2021 | Academics, Faculty, Faculty Feature, First Year Experience, Global Guttman, International Education

“I love and live off of the ‘aha’ moments students have in class when they suddenly understand or build a new understanding of a concept. That has always been what excites me about teaching, whether it’s in a math class or a seminar course.”

In addition to the value she places on new ideas that come into being for individual students, Dr. Grace Pai sees “a career in education as a means of alleviating poverty and bringing about social mobility and equality.“ She does not mince words about “a lack of equity that too often leads to social stratification” and the scope of this crisis: “I’ve always found it astonishing that in a ‘developed’ knowledge economy like the United States’ that stresses the importance of obtaining a college degree, we still have about 15% of students who don’t even graduate from high school.” Experienced as a counselor and math teacher in NYC public schools and holding a Ph.D. in international education and development with a specialization in applied statistics for program and impact evaluation, Dr. Pai is a powerful emerging voice in the critical areas of global learning, culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP), as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as they relate to race in America. During just the last turbulent year, beset by the global pandemic, the Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies has presented or spoken at over a dozen events on CRP, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), and racial justice.

Guttman Community College Partners with LaGuardia Community College on Program to Virtually Connect Young People Around the World—Funded by Stevens Initiative

April 7, 2021 | Academics, Experiential Learning, External Affairs, Faculty, Global Guttman, Grants, Humanities and Social Sciences

Grantees will bring together thousands of young people from the United States and the Middle East and North Africa for an exciting opportunity to engage with global peers through virtual exchange.