Recap: Teaching the Humanities as a Survival Skill

Working together with the GC Teaching and Learning Center, and LaGuardia Community College, this session of The University Worth Fighting for was convened by:

• Cathy N. Davidson, Director, The Futures Initiative and Co-Director, The Humanities Teaching and Learning Alliance, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

• Eduardo Vianna, Professor, Psychology, LaGuardia Community College and one of our Futures Initiative Faculty Fellows

• Mike Rifino, doctoral student, Human Development, and Futures Initiative Graduate Fellow;

• Vanessa Bing, Professor, Psychology, LaGuardia Community College

We were also happy to have several LaGuardia Community College members in attendance: Demetrios Kapetanakos, Assistant Professor, English; Dahlia Elsayed, Associate Professor, Fine Arts; Jade E. Davis, Associate Director of Digital Learning Projects; and several recent graduates of the college.

In addition to a full-house at the live event, there were 55 viewers on the livestream today.

86 Twitter users tweeted the #fight4edu hashtag 268 times today.

Please see the resources below for a recap and further reading about our workshop Teaching the Humanities as a Survival Skill:

• Complete photo album

• Storify of the Twitter activity related to the event

• Recorded video of the livestream

• Collaborative Google Doc

• Continue the conversation by participating in the forum on HASTAC!

Ruth Wilson Gilmore concluded "Teaching the Humanities as a Survival Skill" on an inspiring note: "The nobility of our profession is to teach as many people as possible and make the mission of changing the world our collective mission."