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The Clarion is the Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York news. It was a wonderful time for me. I left teaching at NYU,  and I was now the Director of the Counseling Center there providing mental health services to students, but had just published my collection of short stories in 2007. Everyone was shocked because they did not know that I had been writing for a long time, and creatively writing since 1995. The collection of stories was a process in between finishing a dissertation, and working as a Director of a trauma center for children, and later a professor at NYU and then finally ending at Lehman College as the Director of the Counseling Center. There I was whole, I was all of me and embrace this multiplicity within me, the artist, the writer, the teacher, the therapist, the researcher, the director, and it was all ok. I hope that you too can embrace the whole of who you are.

My Daughter’s Eyes is the title of Dominican writer Annecy Baez’s first book, winner of the 2007 Miguel Marmol prize from Curbstone Press, one of the most prestigious independent presses in the United States focusing on disseminating the work of Latino writers in the United States.

Liamar Almarza: Gendered Diaspora Experiences: Annecy Báez’s My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories and Junot Diaz’s Drown
Dominican-American authors Annecy Báez and Junot Diaz explore in their award winning collections of short stories the experiences of young Dominican migrants living in North American urban environments. However, while Báez gives voice to Dominican women struggling to come to terms to their transcultural and gender identities in the Bronx, Diaz focuses on male characters and the reconfiguration of Dominican masculinity in diaspora spaces.
Presenting migration experiences from two differing but interconnected perspectives—the articulation of femininity and masculinity in transcultural locations as lived by a female and male subjects—, these works offer complementary views on how ethnicity, race, social class, age and geopolitical location interact in the formation of transcultural gender identities.
Informed by feminist and postcolonial theoretical approaches, this paper will examine the ways in which these two works challenge and/or reinforce gender stereotypes and expectations in Dominican and Latino/a communities in the US, offering a critical evaluation of translocation strategies in urban borderlands.

Spearheaded by Detective Fudge, the Coordinator of the Law Enforcement Explorer program for youth at the New Rochelle Police Department, these Explorers undergo training in diverse areas of police work. This program emphasizes career development, life skills, and leadership experience. On that day, the Explorers were there to explore Zen meditation and learn more about the Empty Hand Zen Center.

November is National Family Caregivers Month - Take Care to Give Care
This articles relates to caring for my late husband, David Hernandez, who was a Senior Grants Officer at Bronx Community College. Missing his compassionate presence, and grateful for having had his love and support for those wonderful years of our marriage.

Business education is education for practice and thus, requires a systematic and integrative approach that will guide students toward becoming reflective practitioners. Case-based education is an important tool that can provide the educational experiences that produce effective practitioners but only if its use is guided by a sound theoretical and research based framework. Research and theory from the learning sciences can guide case-based instructional practices. This chapter will provide a framework for the design of case-based instruction that incorporates teaching and learning affordances derived from the theory of situated learning and cognition. If the educational goal is to produce business practitioners with the skills and knowledge necessary to operate successfully in today's global business environment, business education needs to be prepared to incorporate theoretical perspectives derived from learning sciences research into case-based education.

The goal of this chapter is to provide a framework for creating student-centered learning activities that rest on a firm theoretical foundation and are based on a definition that highlights the actual learner abilities involved in successful student performance. To achieve this goal, it is important to establish a definition of student-centered learning that can be used to guide the selection of the important pedagogical elements that must be addressed in the design of student-centered learning activities. Having established these foundational elements, the chapter provides a framework for the design of case-based instruction that incorporates teaching and learning principles derived from theory and research in the learning sciences.

This study integrated the Spiral Curriculum approach into the Robust Learning Model as part of a continuous improvement process that was designed to improve educational effectiveness and then assessed the differences between the initial and integrated models as well as the predictability of the first course in the integrated learning model on a wide range of educational effectiveness indicators for online master degree programs. Meaningful improvement in educational effectiveness was validated by the study. The importance of the first course's predictors in predicting and explaining the various degree program educational effectiveness indicators was also very instrumental. The theoretical and practical implications of the study's findings for online faculty, university administrators, and policy makers were examined.