As a Graduate Teaching Fellow and doctoral student in the Speech, Language, Hearing department at CUNY, I was assigned, in August of 2014, to teach undergraduate Anatomy & Physiology of […]
Author Archive | Richard Lissemore
What’s the point of being a professor?
In today’s New York Times, Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein offers a stinging criticism of the culture of higher education. He bemoans the fact that 43% of students are given […]
LehmAnatomy & Physiology Class Map
Hello All, Here are some screen shots of our first class map for Anatomy & Physiology of the Speech Mechanism at Lehman College! And yes, we now affectionately refer to […]
A ‘Cognitive Surplus’ in the Bronx!
This week’s lesson in “Mapping The Futures” involved the complex topic known as “student-centered pedagogy”, an approach with which I have had no prior experience. Our colleagues Michelle, Hallie, and […]
Enticements to join in the fun of “Mapping The Future”…
I have upped the ante to try to get 100% participation from my Anatomy class at Lehman and thought I’d share the contents of my email to the students: Dear […]