As we anticipate a new administrative structure we can enjoy this creative video-take on David Bowie’s popular song, “Changes”.
If you prefer, here is a live version, filmed in Paris in 2002:
And because change is never simple, here is a song recommended by one of Elizabeth’s students during a Social Change class session focused on the [...]
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This morning’s request is my own (Elizabeth, SOC/ANT/SWK, and Treasurer of the NCCFT). It’s Jai Ho/You Are My Destiny as re-imagined by Pussycat Dolls. It strikes me as somehow appropriate for the lead-in to Thanksgiving week. It is of cultural fusions and appropriations (albeit nonlethal ones) turned into entertainment. And yet it captures me with [...]
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In a special section of The Chronicle of Higher Education on “Online Learning” Deputy Director of postsecondary improvement at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mark David Milliron (full article requires subscription) suggests that we end the feud over online learning in higher education. On the one side of the debate Milliron says we [...]
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A call to action from the Long Island Federation of Labor. Please make a call in support of those who can’t find work.
Across America, jobs just aren’t there. It can take a year, 18 months, or even longer for many job- seekers to find work.
Congress is back, but is only in town for a [...]
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This morning’s selection is requested by Dianne Guarino, Admissions Counselor and NCCFT Executive Board representative for the Professional Faculty Unit. She chose it in honor of all those who are taking advantage of the retirement incentive. Congratulations to you all!
And while you’re celebrating, note that the NCCFT Retiree Handbook is available in the NCCFT Documents [...]
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Nine members of the NCCFT attended last weekend’s annual NYSUT Community College Conference. We attended sessions on leadership development, SUNY’s perspective on assessment, identifying and preventing bullying, health care, labor history, distinguishing gripes from grievances, and meeting the increasingly challenging needs of community college students. There was lots to be learned and we each brought [...]
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Christine Tuaillon, NCCFT Department Representative from the Biology Department, selected this week’s Monday Morning Music in the van on the way home from the NYSUT Community College Conference.
Christine says
It is a song by the “Fatal Picard”, an alternative humoristic French rock group. I saw them in a free concert last summer (in France of course) [...]
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Please remember to vote today, and encourage others to do the same. If you need help with polling information try these links:
Need to look up your voter registration information or find your polling place? Click here for CanIVote’s helpful tools.
Need something else? Try the New York State Board of Elections page.
Voter turnout is central to [...]
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This week’s request was submitted by Tom Bruckner, of the Physical Sciences department, who writes:
After several weeks of politically-charged songs, I’d like to play a feel-good song. The song is “1979″ by the Smashing Pumpkins. This is one of my all-time favorite songs.
I also enjoy the video which, according to Wikipedia; “…follows a day in [...]
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CHE Community College news AFT’s FACE campaign
