The Hunter College and Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) AANAPISI Bridge Initiative (ABI) was a collaborative project funded by a five-year U.S. Department of Education / Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) / Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Title III Part A Cooperative grant from 2020-2025.
One initiative of the ABI was a faculty development cohort program, called the Faculty Seminar Series (FSS). This initiative aimed at addressing the needs and barriers faced by Asian American students at BMCC and Hunter, as well as other CUNY students who were similarly first-generation college goers, English Language Learners, and students from low-income and immigrant families. The FSS ran twice a year for five years, with both part-time/adjunct faculty and full-time faculty from all disciplines. Sessions focused on themes of classroom pedagogy, cultural humility, cultivating belonging, and student and instructor identity and purpose.
At the end of the program, this workbook was created as a celebration of the work that was developed and as a resource for former participants and non-participants alike. In the workbook, there are descriptions of the topics covered, additional resources on each topic, examples of teaching enhancements participants created, and lastly reflection questions for readers to explore their teaching practice.
For more information about the Faculty Seminar Series including examples of previous
classroom interventions developed through the series, go here:
https://abiseminaralums.commons.gc.cuny.edu/