1. What is personal counseling and how does it differ from academic counseling? Personal counseling helps students solve personal or emotional problems. Academic counseling focuses on solving problems directly related to school.ย These include time management, grades, studying, homework assignments and stress management. Personal counseling usually helps students function better academically, even though that...
I received my Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. My book, โNegotiating Tradition, Becoming American: Family, Gender and Autonomy for Second Generation South Asiansโ describes the experiences of South Asian Americans whose families came to the United States in the post-1965 period following changes to immigration. My research interests focus broadly on the experiences...
Professor Patricia Mathews obtained her BA in Law with a minor in Anthropology from Pontificia Universidad Catรณlica del Perรบ. Thanks to a Fellowship from PUCP in Consortium with the Indiana-California program and a Fulbright Travel Grant she came to the US to pursue graduate studies. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at Yale University in...
Thursday, OCTOBERย 27,ย 2022 Welcome About BMCC Program Speakers BMCC Scholars Honorees Advertising Sponsors BMCC Foundation Board Welcome MESSAGE FROM THE BMCC PRESIDENT Welcome to the 2022 BMCC Foundation Gala. We are holding this event in person for the first time since 2019, and our community has earned this celebration! Throughout the pandemic, BMCC faculty have...
Prof. Gokcora is an Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Upon receiving a Fulbright scholarship, she came to the U.S. and completed an M.A. degree in Teaching English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. degree in Second Languages and Cultures Education at the University of Minnesota. She worked as a faculty developer...
Professor J. Thomas Means, Modern Languages Department, BMCC/CUNY, is an expert in language teaching and world cinema. He holds a Ph.D. in Italian and Second Language Acquisition from Rutgers and he has published widely in the field of language teaching and learning. He is trilingual (English, Italian, Spanish) and also has basic competency in French...
Jungah Kim received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined the faculty of BMCC in 2012. Prior to her appointment at BMCC, Kim taught honors courses at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she was a postdoctoral research fellow. She studied Asian American and comparative ethnic literary studies, postcolonial, transnational, and global literature and theory,...