Eversley isn’t teaching science or health. She’s a professor of English and the interim chair of Baruch’s Black and Latino Studies program. She is also a
In the Climate Justice course Professor Shelly Eversley taught at Baruch College last spring, her students created documentaries exploring how climate issues affect them person ally. When three students in the class realized they all had asthma, they decided to collaborate and produced a powerful short film about their experiences living in a place they call “Asthma Alley.”
Faculty across CUNY are transforming the humanities as a vital component of a CUNY education. They are expanding the notion of what makes for a well-rounded – and marketable – college graduate and making the humanities and social sciences more inclusive for our diverse students. Importantly, they are incorporating innovative teaching methods to build new bridges between a traditional liberal arts education and the career-oriented focus that students and parents are expecting of higher ed.
Support from the Mellon Foundation also enabled us to create the CUNY Humanities Alliance, a program in which doctoral students work to improve humanities education at community colleges.
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