General Contact Information
Phone: 646-660-6500
Fax: 646-660-6501
Email:
provost.office@baruch.cuny.edu
Mailing Address:
Office of the Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Baruch College/CUNY
One Bernard Baruch Way
Box D-701
New York, NY 10010-5585
Walk-In Address:
Administrative Center
135 East 22nd Street, 7th Floor
Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Message Archive
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
This email is being sent to all members of the Baruch College faculty.
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Undergraduate Research and Engagement
Faculty Lunch Seminar:
Only Connect!
Baruch’s Freshman Learning Communities
Tuesday, October 24, 1:00pm. NVC 6-210
Lunch will be served and seating is limited
RSVP to researchandengagement@gmail.com
From: Professor Esther Allen, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this fall, Baruch College’s program of Freshman Learning Communities is directed by Associate Dean Gary Hentzi, who will speak about it over lunch. The program has counterparts in a large number of colleges and universities across the country; its underlying principle is that learning has a social dimension. A large body of research suggests that students learn most effectively in an environment that promotes regular exchanges with others, faculty as well as peers. The goal of our learning communities is to create such an environment for our incoming freshmen, and thereby empower them to pursue creative and research goals from the very beginning of their college years. Recently, the program has included a number of globally-themed communities, which expand the concept to complement the college’s other global initiatives.
Esther Allen
Professor, Modern Languages, B6-256
