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Elaine Avidon, a lecturer (retired) from the Department of Early Childhood and Childhood Education and one of the co-leaders of Lehman’s WAC initiative, has been a faculty member at Lehman College since 1969. She is director of the Elementary Teachers Network, a professional development program for New York City teachers, at the Institute for Literacy Studies at Lehman where she also leads the Institute’s Teaching and Learning Inquiry Seminar. Ms. Avidon is a former director of the New York City Writing Project and a founding member of the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking. Her specialty areas include composition, literacy education and descriptive inquiry. Prior to joining the faculty at Lehman, she was a teacher of social studies in New York City junior high schools. [office C-B48; phone 718-960-6091/7823; email eavidon@aol.com ] |
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Tyler T. Schmidt is an assistant professor of English and co-coordinator of the WAC program at Lehman. Involved with WAC since 2005, he worked alongside faculty as a Writing Fellow and co-led faculty institutes as a Faculty Development Associate. Tyler has worked as a teacher-consultant for the New York City Writing Project and coordinated Pass It On, their summer youth writers’ institute for NYC public school students. He has taught literature and writing at Baruch College, the Cooper Union, Bard College, and Eugene Lang College. His current project, Dreams of an Impossible Blackness: Racialized Desire and America’s Integrationist Impulse, 1945-1955, investigates cross-race writing, interracial sexuality, and queer identity in post-WWII American poetry and fiction. Research interests include 20th century American poetics, interracial cultural studies, critical pedagogy, and African American writers of the 1940s and 50s.[office C-397; phone 718 960 8556; email tyler.schmidt@lehman.cuny.edu
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Marcie Wolfe is the director of Lehman College’s Institute for Literacy Studies, a CUNY institute focused on literacy education, mathematics education, and school improvement and reform. Within these three areas ILS staff conduct professional development, provide site-based support to schools and programs, and conduct and disseminate research studies that draw upon and extend the knowledge of practitioners in school and community settings. Ms. Wolfe is principal investigator for the ILS’s numerous funded projects, and, in addition, co-coordinates Lehman College’s Writing across the Curriculum Initiative and the New York City Writing Project, the local site of the National Writing Project . For five years she co-coordinated CUNY’s Looking Both Ways project (a faculty-development collaboration among teachers of writing at CUNY and in the New York City public high schools). Her specialty areas include literacy education, composition, and school reform.
[office SP-113; phone 718-960-8758; email marcie.wolfe@lehman.cuny.edu ] |
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Jessica Yood is an associate professor of English and co-coordinator of the WAC program at Lehman. She completed her Ph.D. in English in August 2000, and started at Lehman in September of that year. Prof. Yood was part of the group that created and coordinated Lehman and CUNY’s first professional development workshops for faculty and writing fellows and continues to lead these workshops. Her teaching and research interests are in composition, rhetorical and cultural history and theory, and contemporary literature and she teaches a peer-tutor training course for Lehman undergraduates.[office C-387; phone 718-960-8380; email jessica.yood@lehman.cuny.edu ] . |
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Carla DuBose,a Writing Fellow at Lehman from 2006-2008, is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Her research interests include 20th Century American, African-American, urban, New York, and labor history. She is currently writing her dissertation on black migration to New York City during World War II and its demographic, economic, and social effects. Carla has taught introductory American-history surveys at Hunter College and City College. As a Writing Fellow she has worked with Lehman faculty in the departments of English, History, Latin American & Puerto Rican Studies, and Middle & High School Education.
[office C-305; phone 718-960-5825; email carla_dubose@yahoo.com].
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Rachel Ihara, a Writing Fellow at Lehman from 2004-2006, was our first Faculty Development Associate (2006-2008). In 2007 she completed her Ph.D. in English at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Her dissertation focused on the serialization of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American novels, specifically the role of serial publication in the construction of authorial identity. As a WAC Faculty Development Associate, Rachel supported faculty within Lehman's Freshman Year Initiative in developing cross-disciplinary writing assignments, led workshops for faculty, and collaborated on the development of a faculty seminar that connected WAC to the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. Rachel has taught courses in literature, freshman composition, and developmental writing at Lehman College, New York City College of Technology, and Queensborough Community College. Her research interests include American periodical culture, American autobiography, and the literary publishing marketplace. She is now an assistant professor at Kingsborough Community College. Lehman WAC wishes her much success. [office C-305; phone 718-960-5825; email rachelihara@yahoo.com]
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The WAC Advisory Committee (WAC-AC) provides support and direction to the WAC initiative. WAC-AC’s charge is to assist WAC in 1) expanding its scope to include all academic departments, 2) planning and conducting college-wide faculty development initiatives, and 3) working with the Office of Institutional Research to assess the impact that WAC is having on Lehman’s student population. WAC-AC meets monthly and includes many of the faculty and administrators involved in Lehman’s Coordinated Undergraduate Education Initiative (CUE). In addition to the WAC coordinators, members of WAC-AC include the Provost, the Dean of Arts & Humanities, current and former department chairs, and faculty/ administrators who direct the Freshman Year Initiative, Instructional Support Services, the College Curriculum Committees (undergraduate and graduate), General Education Initiative, CPE coordination, and CUE.
Current members include:
Elaine Avidon, Early Childhood and Childhood Education/WAC Coordinator; Althea Forde, Instructional Support Services; Marlene Gottlieb, Dean of Arts and Humanities; Barbara Jacobson, Sociology/Chair of Curriculum Committee; Robin Kunstler, Health Sciences/Graduate Committee; Eleanor Lundeen, Nursing/CPE Coordinator; Mary Papazian, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost; Vincent Prohaska, Psychology/ Chair of WAC-AC; Joseph Rachlin, Biology; Duane Tananbaum, History; Susanne Tumelty, Institutional Research; Lynne Van Voorhis, Ass't Dean, Summer, Weekend, & Transfer Programs/CUE Coordinator; Robert Whittaker, Journalism, Communications, and Theater/Gen Ed Coordinator; Marcie Wolfe, Institute for Literacy Studies/WAC Coordinator; Steven Wyckoff, English Composition and Coordinated Freshman Programs; Jessica Yood, English/WAC Coordinator.
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