Centers and Institutes at Hofstra University
Annual Report 2017-2018
Introduction Hofstra University has long had centers and institutes within its organizational portfolio. This document is the first annual report of the activities of the centers and institutes that has been compiled by the Provost’s Office. Each center director was asked to submit a report that summarized: Basic Background: A. Center name B. Director name(s) C. Staff name(s) D. Board membership (if appropriate) E. Mission F. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? Key accomplishments: A. Research a. Please include a list of all associated publications and highlight those that are in peer-reviewed journals or academic presses b. Please include a list of all national and international conference presentations B. Curriculum and teaching C. Engagement and community service D. International activities E. Grant or foundation applications / Grant or foundation dollars received F. Fundraising Measurable outcomes for 2018/2019 academic year (note: please list 3-5 bulleted items total): A. Research B. Curriculum and teaching C. Engagement and community service D. International activities E. Grant or foundation applications F. Fundraising Directors were also asked to provide any expected staff/leadership/budget changes in the coming year. The following report highlights that the university has a range of centers and institutes. Some focus on education, some on community engagement, and some on research. All overlap these three themes in some way. The centers are producing new research, are interacting with the University’s educational mission, and are productively engaging with our community in profound ways.
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Because each center was asked to articulate goals for the coming year, the university community will be able to evaluate the success of centers and institutes and how they are impacting our shared mission. As Hofstra University continues to advance its research, teaching, and community engagement goals, its centers and institutes have a role to play in articulating progress. This report, and subsequent annual reports, will allow us to set and measure goals and outcomes. As can be seen in the pages that follow this brief introduction, our students, faculty, and staff are deeply engaged on important themes represented by the centers and institutes. The information contained in this document will help to memorialize their contributions.
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Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 2 Center for “Race,� Culture and Social Justice .......................................................................................... 6 Center for Civic Engagement .................................................................................................................. 10 Center for Educational Access & Success .............................................................................................. 15 Center for Entrepreneurship .................................................................................................................... 20 Center for STEM Research ..................................................................................................................... 24 Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy ....................................................................................... 26 Digital Research Center .......................................................................................................................... 34 Hofstra University Museum .................................................................................................................... 41 Long Island Studies Institute................................................................................................................... 48 National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University .................................................................. 51 Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency....................................................... 55 The Center for Children, Families, and the Law ..................................................................................... 58
Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice Center name:
Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice
Director name:
Having been inaugurated in January 2017, during the academic year 20172018 the Center for “Race”, Culture and Social Justice was still within its first year of existence, and run under the following leadership: • Jonathan Lightfoot, as Director for the entire year • Veronica Lippencott, as Associate Director since January 2018 • Santiago Slabodsky, as Associate Director for Fall 2017 (on leave in Spring 2018; inactive after December 2017) • Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, as Associate Director (on leave in Spring 2018, but collaborated with various Center’s tasks and duties throughout the entire year)
Staff name(s): The Center supported the activities and managed the work of 4 student leaders each semester, which were hired as Center’s fellows: • Meshack Eshun Addy (Fall 2017 only) • Jaloni Owens (Spring 2018 only) • Ian Guzman • Maryam Qureshi • Genesis Rivera Student Advisory Board: The Center maintained a fully active Advisory Board, composed of 14 students; 11 executive members; 25 professors, and 2 external members. This academic year we incorporated to the board 3 new faculty members and 4 new student leaders. The Center held 4 full advisory board meetings through the year: on November 6, December 5 and 6, April 2 and May 9; as well as a house warming/holiday party on December 11. The Center maintained a 30-hour a week open door office throughout the school year, and a 20hour a week open door office through the summer, to interact with the student, staff and faculty community on campus. A mailbox for questions and inquires has been installed by the Center’s door at Roosevelt 203.
Mission: During the 2017-2018 academic year, The Center in consultation with the advisory decided to work towards achieving three primary objectives: • Develop an ongoing education program for the entire Hofstra campus community centered around implicit bias/sensitivity/diversity/awareness training. • Revive Hofstra’s African Studies Program with eventual development to Department level status. 6 Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice
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Encourage Hofstra to hire a cabinet level Chief Diversity Officer to address issues of discrimination and bias within the campus community.
A graduate student intern from the Hofstra Law School –Chantal Kwade— was hired as a summer intern from June 11 to August 20, to produce a 3-part impact feasibility the primary objectives outlined above. Key accomplishments: Research: The Faculty Summer Research Grant 2018 was launched this year for second time. Three proposals were granted, partially due to the support of the HCLAS Dean who contributed $1,000 towards the winning proposal. The following are the grant recipients, expected to develop a campus wide academic activity in 2018-2019: • Tomeka Robinson and Katrina Sims, “Facilitated Difficult Dialogues on Systems of Power, Privilege and Oppression” • Valeria Luiselli, “Black & Brown Confinement: Intersectional Politics of Mass Incarceration & Mass Detention in Contemporary America” • Yisheng Peng, “Racial Group Differences in Experiences of and Responses to Workplace Mistreatment” National and International Conference Presentations: • Veronica Lippencott attended the 12th Greater New York Area African History Workshop, held at Columbia University on March 2, on behalf of the Center, to present a bid to bring the Workshop to Hofstra University in Spring 2019. The bid was not accepted, but we will try again next year, in order to link Hofstra faculty and students with a network of scholars beyond campus. • Jonathan Lightfoot attended the annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) in New Orleans, LA from May 29 to June 2. Curriculum/Teaching, Engagement and Community Service: • The Center directors began assuming the responsibilities of directing the Africana Studies Program, with the intent of revitalizing it. They are recruiting and advising students interested in the major or minor in Africana Studies, signing on waivers and graduation requirements for students enrolled in the program, handling the course schedule, and will be programing a calendar of events co-sponsored by Africana Studies. • The Center housed an international Visiting Research Scholar from the University of Aarhus in Denmark –Sara Santamaría-Colmenero— in residence for two months from November 4-January 4, to conduct research on race, and lead scholarship discussions with students and faculty. • Jonathan Lightfoot was featured at WRHU on February 27, to discuss social justice issues of relevance to the Hofstra community. This will be a recurrent outreach feature. • The Center in collaboration with the Dean of Students Office submitted a grant for $100K to jump-start a Campus-wide Diversity Awareness/Sensitivity Training initiative but was not successful. We will try again next year. • The recipients of the Center for “Race” Faculty Summer Research Grant 2017 delivered their public lectures:
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o Wednesday February 28, “Who Are You? Mixed Emotions: The Multiracial Student Experience”, by Kristal Brent Zook. o Wednesday April 4, “Interculturality: Bridging the Divide”, by Mustapha Masrour. The Center sponsored and co-sponsored a total of 8 events this academic year, including events organized by students which attracted a considerable amount of audience: o September 19: Screening and film discussion of Audrie & Daisy, followed by panel featuring Daisy and other film characters, organized by Claudia Andrade. o October 9: Lecture by Adriana Brodsky, “Between Israel and Argentina: Youth, Gender and Politics”, organized by Jewish Studies. o October 25: Play by Todd Logan, The Defamation Experience: When Race, Class, Religion and Gender Collide, a Conversation Begins, organized by the Cultural Center. o February 14: Frederick Douglass Transcribe-a-thon and reading of Douglass texts from the Freedmen’s Bureau Records, organized by Keri Coco, the Digital Research Center at Hofstra, and the National Museum of African American History. o March 1: Staging of Just an Ordinary Lawyer? Written and performed by Tayo Aluku, with Dennis Nelson on piano, organized by the Center for Civic Engagement. o March 27: Muslim Political Activism and Diversity, with Dr. Nazreen Bacchus, Dr. Sharieem Rasheed, Imam Aiyub Abdul Baki, organized by Center’s student fellow Maryam Qureshi. o April 19: Fracturing Whiteness, screening and discussion of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Mask, organized by Center’s student fellow Ian Guzmán. o April 19: Healing from Racial Injustice, a discussion about mental health as a student of color in a predominantly white institution, organized by Center’s student fellow Ja’Loni Owens. The Center has committed to sponsoring/organizing 4 events for academic year 20182019: o Fall 2018: Film screening of Central Park Five, directed by Ken Burns, and lecture by Natalie Byfield, author of Savage Portrayals: Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story (Temple UP, 2014). Organized by Liena Gurevich. o Fall 2018: History of Native American People in the United States, organized by the History Department, with speaker Nichole S. Prescott, who belongs to the Myaamia (Miami nation of Oklahoma), and works as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in the University of Texas system. She has spent much of her career helping at-risk students, including those affected by poverty, firstgeneration status and language issues to succeed in high school, college, and what she calls the “unscripted and unknowable future”. o October 2018: Talk by Puerto Rican Nationalist Oscar López Rivera and organized by Mario Murillo for the annual Day of Dialogue. o April 2019: International Conference on Intersection of Sports, Writing and Culture, in partnership with Columbia University. Organized by Brenda Elsey and Jonathan Lightfoot.
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The Center is keeping an up-to-date Web page, and an active Blog with several new entries, which are being posted regularly.
Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: • Fostering ongoing discussions on how best to proceed to develop “racial” and cultural awareness and sensitivity training across the Hofstra campus community. • Collaborating with campus units, departments, programs, centers and –particularly—with student organizations, to sponsor campus activities which contribute to the Center’s core mission. • Continued collaboration with board members and university grants office, to identify external grant opportunities to further expand the work of the Center. Center’s ongoing objectives: • Expand the demographic profile of Hofstra faculty to include more faculty of color. • Minimize discrimination, cultural insensitivity, and bias. • Advocate policies to encourage and incentivize faculty to improve their pedagogy and advance their professional development through ongoing diversity training. • Support development of curricular offerings across all schools and disciplines, to enable students to embrace diversity, and to continue doing so as Hofstra alumni. • Support faculty research, scholarship, and publications on “race”, culture, and social justice. Expected Staff/Leadership/Budget Changes in the Coming Year: We do not expect any budget changes, or additional budget expenses, for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Center for Civic Engagement Center name:
Center for Civic Engagement
Director name(s):
Aashish Kumar, co-director Yvonne Teems, acting co-director
Staff name(s):
Rosalie Hume, graduate assistant Kristen Misak, graduate assistant Arlette Herrera, law fellow CCE undergraduate Fellows: Kelly Mizuno (fall 2017 only) Pakelody Cheam (fall 2017 only) Kelly Wells (fall 2017 only) Fatimah Mozawalla Cem Gokhan Paula Chirinos Caroline Bowes Imani Hinson Aleena Pasha Emily Kelley Sarah Massoni Emily Sauchelli Tess Griffin (spring 2018 only) Sarah Dowd (spring 2018 only) Shanon Thomas (spring 2018 only) Rebecca Bero (spring 2018 only)
Board Members:
Martine Hackett Michael D’Innocenzo Marty Melkonian Margaret Melkonian Robert Brinkmann Andrea Libresco Sylvia Silberger Kari Jensen Sandra Stacki Debbie Goodman Scott Harshbarger Daisy Miller Chris Niedt Anthony Robinson Bret Bennington Nancy Richner Jess Holzer 10 Center for Civic Engagement
Amy Baehr Lauren Kozol Katrina Sims
Mission: We are a university center designed to educate students in democratic values by actively engaging them as knowledgeable citizens in collaborative partnerships with their campus, local, state, national, and global communities. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? The Center supports Hofstra’s efforts to achieve the final two bullet points listed under the University’s Mission and Goals: Hofstra University offers educational, co-curricular and cultural programs and activities that foster an awareness of local, national and global issues, encouraging students to be active citizens and contributors to their local, national and global communities. Hofstra University recognizes its important role in our local community and in participating in a broader national and international dialogue. We offer programs and seek opportunities that mutually benefit the Hofstra community and those beyond our campus. The Center supports these goals by offering on-campus programming, curricular opportunities, and strategic community partnerships, as outlined in our Key Accomplishments, below. Key accomplishments: Research: The Center’s research-oriented activities are housed within the Community-Based Research Committee. This year, the Community-Based Research Committee has accomplished the following:
The committee hosted a Community-Based Research Workshop through FRED.
The committee held its third annual Community Connections Networking Night, which provided a forum for Hofstra faculty and staff to connect with community leaders to brainstorm ways to work together.
Curriculum and Teaching: ● The Center has a thriving minor in Civic Engagement with 24 students. ● This year, the Center guided ten students through credited internships with organizations including Herstory Writers Workshop. ● The Institute for Peace studies’ introductory course for the minor has been approved; IPS 001 - Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies is being offered this fall 2018. The inaugural course ran last fall as HIST 177G. We expect the minor to be approved this fall; faculty are currently offering thoughtful revisions to the 18-credit-hour curriculum, which includes, in addition to the introductory course, offerings from multiple fields.
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Institute for Peace Studies ● The Institute for Peace Studies has raised additional funding for programming and the endowment, the total of which exceeds $100,000. ● The Institute for Peace Studies has developed curriculum for a minor in peace studies and plans to offer a major and graduate program in the future. ● Peace Action NY selected Hofstra’s student chapter as the outstanding chapter in the state in 2018. Campus Programming and Events The Center for Civic Engagement has worked with speakers on and off campus to offer programming to the campus and local communities. More than a thousand audience members (students, faculty, staff, and community members) have attended and participated in the following four signature events, as well as multiple smaller events: ● ● ● ●
Day of Dialogue Globalization Day Civil Rights Series Earth Week
Active Citizenship and Community Partnerships The Center has formal partnerships with local nonprofit and grassroots organizations through which fellows, interns, and volunteers learn how to be active citizens by working to achieve the organizations’ missions. Noteworthy Partnerships ● Hempstead High School: With the Liberty Partnerships Program through Hofstra’s Center for Educational Access and Success and the Hofstra Honors College, CCE hosted a tutoring program at the high school with 50 Hofstra tutors up to four days per week. ● New York State Mentoring Program: By partnering with Mrs. Cuomo’s program, CCE sent eight Hofstra students to mentor Barack Obama Elementary School students once per week in spring 2018. ● Herstory Writers Workshop: CCE connected Hofstra fellows and interns with three programs that run weekly on Hofstra’s campus. These include a community writing workshop, a youth writing workshop with Long Beach High School students, and a tutoring training program.
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Fellows, Interns, and Volunteers also worked with the following partners: ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
EAC Senior Nutrition & Food Services Greater Uniondale Area Action Coalition (GUAAC) Homecoming Farm Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives Long Island Wins (fall 2017 only) Uniondale Chamber of Commerce Uniondale Community Land Trust
Infrastructure The director for active citizenship worked with Hofstra’s IT department to create a database that is ready to be operational. Through the tech infrastructure, ● Community nonprofit and grassroots organizations can submit applications to become CCE partners; ● Hofstra faculty, staff, and graduate students can submit inquiries to work with partners; ● CCE staff can access the data to make direct connections and to support blossoming relationships. Tech infrastructure can be viewed through the following icons on the Hofstra Portal:
Assessment The board approved new procedures for accepting new community partners and reviewing existing partnerships. Part of this process includes annual assessment of university-community partner relationships. Assessment for 2017-2018 is currently underway. Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: ● Secure an administrative assistant line to support the work of the CCE ● Seek and apply to grants for CCE programming ● Recruit a permanent co-director for active citizenship and community partnerships
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Expected Staff/Leadership/Budget Changes in the Coming Year: Directors: Aashish Kumar, CCE co-director Marty Melkonian, acting CCE co-director, fall 2018 (pending approval) Staff:
Pedro Mano, graduate assistant Josie Dituri, graduate assistant Legal fellow TBD
CCE Fellows: Fatimah Mozawalla Sarah Dowd Imani Hinson Shanon Thomas Rebecca Bero Emily Sauchelli Madison Mento Jonelle Butler Donia Firooz Adriana Galarza Daria Valan J’Loni Owens Imani Thompson Anna Kizito
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Center for Educational Access & Success Center name:
Center for Educational Access & Success
Director name:
Anthony E. Robinson, PhD
Staff name(s):
Kerry Eckert, Julie Goulart, Marielly Gallucci, Blanca Rajkowski, Beatriz Toledo, Maria Moreno
Mission:
To be a community that inspires scholarly excellence.
How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? The Center for Educational Access and Success addresses the university’s mission through providing a provision of academic programs and services for students (grades 6-12), Hofstra University college and graduate students, and teachers (pre-k-5) in schools (designated highneed) within the local community. In so far as supporting Hofstra University mission and goals, the services benefit the local community, including students of various grade levels (as well as those of Hofstra University through mentorship and tutorship opportunities), teachers and local and regional educational institutions. Hofstra University CSTEP participants are student mentors and tutors for the pre-collegiate population including STEP and LPP participants. Key accomplishments: Engagement and Community Service: Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) September 2017- May 2018, CSTEP students sought out over 120 counseling hours, with 92% of visits for academics October 2017- May 2018, CSTEP provided 286.75 hours of tutoring. Ten (10) tutors worked with 27 students (or 26% of CSTEP students) in 13 different courses in the areas of mathematics, chemistry, biology, biochemistry and physics May 2018, 19 students graduated from Hofstra University in STEM related or prelicensure fields September 2017- May 2018, CSTEP hosted 23 workshops of which 207 students attended; topics included academic, financial, professional development and social Eleven (11) CSTEP students received a cumulative GPA of 3.7 or higher September 2017- May 2018, CSTEP hosted 23 workshops where 207 students attended, covering topics including academics, finances, professional development and social challenges CSTEP Summer Academy 2017, a 3-week summer program (enrolling 15 incoming first-year students) provided the opportunity to work directly with classmates, faculty, and the campus support/CSTEP staff. During week 2, students stay in residential housing and engage in 3-hours of class activities (biology, chemistry and writing), workshops with campus-wide academic support services as well as activities with their upper-class student mentors. During week 1 and 3, students engage in on-line assignments/activities via Blackboard, complimenting material presented during week 2. 15 Center for Educational Access & Success
Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) and the Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) Program services for students from surrounding community o 8673 hours of classes (mostly Saturdays) including tutoring and mentoring o 3058 hours including counseling, workshops, colloquiums, college tours o 344 internship hours by seniors 29 seniors graduated and will attend college in the fall Six students presented research at conferences One student selected to participate in Hofstra Summer Research Program Teacher/Leader Quality Partnerships Program (TLQP) Supported 245 teachers for approximately 1713 hours (including after school workshops, in – class 1:1 sessions, in addition to 10 Saturday Science Best Practice sessions, TLQP Best Practices Mini Conference, Best Practices Math Workshops with Greg Tang and an (closing) Administrators Luncheon. Grant or Foundation Funds Received/Applications: Renewed the Science and Technology Entry Program and the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program grants.
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Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP)
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Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) / Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP)
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Teacher/Leader Quality Partnerships (TLQP):
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Center for Entrepreneurship Center name:
Center for Entrepreneurship
Director name:
Mark Lesko, Vice President for Economic Development and Executive Dean
Staff name(s):
Stacey Sikes, Senior Assistant Dean for Administration Sharon Goldsmith, Director of Operations
Board Members:
Advisory Board: Kelley Coughlan, Tritec Real Estate Group Dan Deegan, Forchelli Deegan Terrana, LLP John Dragotta, Sovereign Global Advisors Thomas Garry, Harris Beach PLLC Kevin Hesselbirg, The Gemini Companies Paul Homer, Northwood Ventures Josh Sason, Magna NextGen Advisory Board: Max Bidna, Hell’s Creative Ariel Dure, ADP Jon El-Kordi Hubbard, Hell’s Creative Jacqueline Hsu, Centerfield Media Christian Ladigoski, NextCore Media Andrew Marks, Long Island Content Creations Alec Polsley, Bettr
Mission: The mission of the Center for Entrepreneurship is to provide Hofstra’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni with the skills and training necessary to become accomplished entrepreneurs and to establish Hofstra University a leader in Long Island’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? The Center for Entrepreneurship administers programs that focus on new business formation that encourage the free and open exchange of ideas and instills foundational skills including problem solving, critical thinking, team building, and verbal and written communication skills. The Center for Entrepreneurship is a resource for students studying at all of the Hofstra’s colleges and schools from an educational and co-curricular perspective, preparing students to become active contributors to their local, national, and global communities. Key accomplishments: To date: 994 applications to competitions/programs 589 mentor sessions $198,000 in prizes distributed 20 Center for Entrepreneurship
111 prototypes tested 127 events held 9,679 visits to ideaHUb
Curriculum and Teaching: Continued the Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Practicum at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law in the Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters, which provides probono assistance to small businesses and startup companies with a focus on intellectual property issues. Vice President for Economic Development Mark Lesko serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law. Collaborated with the Frank G. Zarb School of Business on the Silicon Valley Experience Course. Vice President for Economic Development Mark Lesko served as an Adjunct Professor. Mr. Lesko and Sharon Goldsmith, Director of Operations, accompanied students to Silicon Valley and assisted with organizing immersive experiences. A newly appointed Fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurship, Robert Pollak at SV Angel, also assisted with coordinating trips in Silicon Valley, which included visits to Pinterest, Airbnb, and Google. Engaged in discussions with the Frank G. Zarb School of Business regarding collaboration on Entrepreneurship 115, which will be a required course for all incoming business students starting in Spring 2018. The Center for Entrepreneurship collaborated with the Frank G. Zarb School of Business on the Silicon Valley Experience course and engaged in planning discussions regarding Entrepreneurship 115. Engagement and Community Service: Held the Hofstra-Digital Remedy Venture Challenge, a business plan competition with $75,000 in total prizes, and a Hofstra-Digital Remedy Lion’s Den pitch competition. Continued the successful student-run record label, Unispan Records. The record label affords students from the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science the opportunity to hold positions in a record label, sign an artist, develop and release music, and interact with Executives-in-Residence from the music industry. During the 2017-2018 Academic Year, the Extended Play Record and Music Video of the first artist, IzzeYe, was released, and Unispan Records signed its second artist, Karmarè. Administered an Entrepreneur-in-Residence mentorship program with four experienced entrepreneurs. Held events and workshops at ideaHUb, including a MakerPark (in collaboration with Student Computing, Faculty Computing, and Continuing Education), an entrepreneurship Bootcamp, a Women in Entrepreneurship Week event, a Music Business Speaker Series, and prototyping design workshops. Launched the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Community Challenge. Hofstra University was awarded $485,716 in September 2017 from the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s selective i6 Challenge grant program to launch the Healthcare 21 Center for Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Community Challenge (“The Challenge”). The Challenge focuses on inspiring entrepreneurs to develop market-based solutions to health problems in underserved communities on Long Island, in New York City, and the Hudson Valley. A Steering Committee formed of public health experts selects an annual Challenge topic. Entrepreneurs participate in a Bootcamp, receive mentorship, and will showcase their innovations and pitch at a Regional Symposium on October 2, 2018. The Center for Entrepreneurship has partnered with the School of Health Professions and Human Services (HPHS), the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and Northwell Ventures to launch The Challenge. The Regional Symposium will include a pitch competition with $25,000 in prize money sponsored by Northwell Health, Digital Remedy, HPHS, the Office of the Provost, and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business. 100 teams of entrepreneurs applied to the program and 41 teams from nine states and Canada are currently participating. Received funding from JP Morgan Chase Small Business Forward to develop an Action Plan for a suburban model for their Ascend 2020 program called Ascend Suburbia. This project is being executed in collaboration with the National Center for Suburban Studies and the Scott Skodnek Business Development Center. Ascend 2020 grows minorityowned businesses in major metropolitan areas across the United States focusing on management, markets, and money (or access to capital). Hofstra is currently assessing the needs of minority-owned businesses in Hempstead Village, Freeport Village, Roosevelt and Uniondale. The goal is to establish an Action Plan by year-end 2018 and receive additional funding for implementation of a new program.
183 students applied to the Hofstra-Digital Remedy Venture Challenge and Student-Run Record Label, and the Center for Entrepreneurship hosted 269 mentor sessions during the 2017-2018 Academic Year. The Center was involved in the planning for the new ideaHUb space. The first candidate for the Hofstra START-UP NY program, a cybersecurity company, was approved to move forward with the Hofstra and Empire State Development application process by the Hofstra START-UP NY Selection Committee and the President. Grant or Foundation Funds Received/Applications: Submitted three grant applications and collaborated on two successful grant applications.
Collaborated with the National Center for Suburban Studies and Scott Skodnek Business Development Center on the successful grant submission to JP Morgan Chase for Ascend Suburbia in the amount of $110,000. Collaborated with Facilities and Operations on the successful grant submission to National Grid for $100,000 in capital funding for the new ideaHUb in the Frank G. Zarb School of Business. Pending: U.S. Minority Business Development Administration ($300,000). Pending: Empire State Development New York State Certified Business Incubator Program ($625,000 over five years).
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The Center received $485,716 over five years for the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Community Challenge and collaborated on applications that resulted in $110,000 from JP Morgan Small Business Forward for Ascend Suburbia and $100,000 in capital funding for the new ideaHUb. The Center for Entrepreneurship applied for the New York State Business Incubator grant program through Empire State Development in July 2018. Fundraising: Continued to work with the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs and the Advisory Board to build financial support for the Center for Entrepreneurship. Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: Curriculum and Teaching: Collaborate on Entrepreneurship 115, a new requirement for all incoming business majors at the Frank G. Zarb School of Business in Spring 2018. Engagement and Community Service: Continue to increase student engagement, including applications to business plan competitions and the student-run record label and mentor sessions with Entrepreneurs-inResidence. Release the Extended Play Record and music video for Karmarè and sign a new artist to Unispan Records. Recruit entrepreneurs nationally to participate in the next installment of the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Community Challenge. Successfully move to the new ideaHUb incubator in the Frank G. Zarb School of business building and leverage state incentive programs including START-UP NY, Long Island Innovation Hot Spot, and the anticipated New York State Business Incubator program to attract startup companies. Grant or Foundation Applications: Seek additional funding for the Center’s programs, including a long-term commitment from JP Morgan Chase and other anchor partners to fund the Ascend Suburbia program.
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Center for STEM Research Center name:
Center for STEM Research
Director name:
Drs. M. David Burghardt and Michael Hacker
Staff name(s):
Lois Miceli Ellen Furuya
Mission: Connecting STEM research and practice in K-16 STEM Education. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? The Center’s educational mission is directly aligned with Hofstra’s educational mission. Key accomplishments: Research: Publications: Hacker, M. (2018). Concepts in Engineering and Technology Education. In de Vries, M., ed. International Handbook of Technology Education Research. Springer Publishing. Pp. 173-191. ISBN 978-3-319-44686-8 Hacker, M. (2017). Engineering and Technology Concepts: Key Ideas That Students Should Understand. In M. J. de Vries (Ed.), Handbook of Technology Education, pp. 1– 19. In Springer International Handbooks of Education (series). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-38889-2_15-1. Reid, K., Reeping, D., Stephan, E., Hacker, M., Burghardt, D., Leuptwo, R., Bowman, D., Park, W., Sill, B., & Ohland, M. (2017). Principles of Applied Engineering. Textbook, 441 pp. Pearson Education. Hacker, M., and Barak, M. (2017). Important Engineering and Technology Concepts and Skills for all High School Students in the US: Comparing Perceptions of University Engineering Educators and High School Technology Teachers. Journal of Technology Education. 28(2): 31–52. Hacker, M., Crismond, D., Hecht, D., Lomask, M. (2017). Engineering for All: A Middle School Program to Introduce Students to Engineering as a Social Good. Technology and Engineering Teacher. 77(3):8-14. Hacker, M. (2018, December/January). Integrating Computational Thinking into Technology and Engineering Education. Technology and Engineering Teacher. 77(4): 914 Crismond, D., Lomask, M., & Hacker, M. (2018). Using Teaching Portfolios to Revise Curriculum and Explore Instructional Practices of Technology and Engineering Education Teachers. Journal of Technology Education. 29(2): 53-72. Hacker, M., Cavanaugh, S., DeHaan, C., Longware, A.J., McGuire, M., & Plummer, M. (2018). Engineering for All: Classroom Implementation. Technology and Engineering Teacher. 77(8): 22:27.
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National Conference Presentations: Burghardt, David. (May 2018). Wise Guys & Gals—Engineering Design using WISEngineering. 2018 STEM for all Video Showcase. http://stemforall2018.videohall.com/presentations/1158?panel=mc#panel-jq Ochs, L., Chiu, J. L., & Mumba, F. (2018, March). Developing Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Engineering Design Strategies Through Teaching Scenarios. National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual International Conference, Atlanta, GA Chiu, J. L., & McElhaney, K. (2018, April). Using Knowledge Integration Tools to Support Next Generation Science Standards–Aligned Science and Engineering Instruction. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, New York, NY. Hecht, D., Chiu, J. Bridgelal, I. & Burghardt, D. (2018). Supporting Engineering Practices in Informal Learning Environments with a Tablet-Based Engineering Design Environment. 2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Conference. McMullen, S. (2017). Hofstra Center for STEM Research—A Resource for NYSSLS. STANYS Fall Regional Conference. Hacker, Michael. Technology and Engineering Education: Fulfilling its Promise. PATT 31 Conference (July 2017). Philadelphia, PA. Hacker, Michael. Engineering for All: Where middle school engineering design meets social justice. A new curriculum for technology teachers. 23rd Annual Read Write Act Virtual Conference (October 2017). Hacker, Michael. Overarching Themes and Authentic Contexts – Not Standards! ITEEA Conference Atlanta (April 2018), Georgia. Hacker, Michael. Engineering for All. (2018).SUNY-Industry Conference and Showcase, Stony Brook University. Grant or Foundation Funds Received/Applications: Received supplementary funding of $196,004 for Wise Guys & Gals project Received 2018-19 funding of $385,616 for Wise Guys & Gals project Received $250,000 for Needed Math Conference Prepared two NSF grant proposals; unfortunately, neither was funded. o Exploring Computation Integrated into Technology and Engineering (ExCITE) – proposal denied o WISE Kindergarten Kids- Students/Parents/Teachers as WISEngineering STEM Learners (WKK) – proposal denied Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: Research: At least one publication in support of grant project research. (See above list under Key Accomplishments - Research) Grant or Foundation Applications: At least one grant proposal to a foundation or NSF.
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Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy Center name:
Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
Director name:
Dr. Gregory DeFreitas
Staff name(s):
Greg DeFreitas, Economics Dept., Hofstra University Debra Comer, Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University Niev Duffy, Politics, Economics & Law Dept., SUNY Old Westbury Robert Guttmann, Economics Dept., Hofstra University Conrad Herold, Economics Dept., Hofstra University Sharryn Kasmir, Anthropology Dept., Hofstra University Cheryl R. Lehman, Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University Martin Melkonian, Economics Dept., Hofstra University Bhaswati Sengupta, Economics Dept., Iona College Marc Silver, Sociology Dept., Hofstra University Lonnie Stevans, Zarb School of Business (Emeritus), Hofstra University Martha Weisel, Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University James Wiley, Geography Dept. (Emeritus), Hofstra University.
Board of Advisors: Robert Archer, Senior Partner, Archer, Byington, Glennon & Levine Elaine Bernard, Director, Trade Union Program, Harvard University. Susan Borenstein, Executive Director, UI Appeal Board, NYS Dept. Of Labor Roger Clayman, Executive Director, Long Island Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) Benjamin Coriat, Director, CREI, University of Paris. Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Law and Political Science, Rutgers University. John Coverdale, Director, Nassau County, New York State United Teachers Robert Dow, Former Commissioner of Labor, Suffolk Co., NY John Durso, President, RWDSU/UFCW Local 338 & President, Long Island Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) Nicholas LaMorte, Regional President, Civil Service Employees Association Adriana Marshall, Senior Fellow, National Research Council of Argentina, Buenos Aires. Ray Marshall, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor and University Professor, University of Texas. Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C. Cathy Ruckelshaus, Co-Director, National Employment Law Project Cheryl Smyler-George, Executive Board, Women's Fund of Long Island Edward Wolff, Professor of Economics, New York University. Michael Zweig, Professor of Economics, SUNY Stony Brook 26 Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
Mission: The Center for the Study of Labor & Democracy is a research institute that aims to contribute to public education and debate about important labor issues. CLD pursues a distinctively interdisciplinary approach to labor problems and institutions, extending from the local Long Island and New York City labor markets to the national and global economies. This approach is designed to both inform and stimulate discussion of policy alternatives that promote sustainable improvements in living standards, fairness in economic opportunities, and democratic decisionmaking processes throughout the world. CLD pursues its mission through sponsoring and publishing original research projects, designing and implementing surveys and analyzing their findings, organizing forums, workshops and conferences, hosting international guest scholars, publishing our 20-year-old journal, Regional Labor Review), disseminating our research findings to a wide audience, and offering a major, minor and certificate in Labor Studies. The interdisciplinary Labor Studies curriculum explores important and controversial questions about the determination and distribution of employment, compensation, and socioeconomic power. And students are introduced to the most important employment, labor, and collective bargaining laws, practices and institutions. Opportunities for practical applications of course material are offered through internships with labor unions, business firms or other organizations. In advanced courses, Labor Studies majors consolidate what they have learned through more in-depth study in a focused research project in the senior seminar. Students develop the analytical, writing, and oral communication skills necessary to succeed in securing professional employment or admission to appropriate graduate programs. Within these program goals, Labor Studies and CLD help carry out the University’s mission to educate students as active, critical thinkers who are intellectually ambitious lifelong learners and adaptable to change. Key accomplishments: Research: Publication and distribution of 2017–18 issues of Regional Labor Review, one of the oldest of the very few refereed journals continuously published at Hofstra. Celebrating its 20th year of publication, RLR’s content reflects our aim to provide lively and thought-provoking articles on important issues of work, working people and labor movements. We focus primarily but not exclusively on the New York metropolitan area and we publish original articles written in a widely accessible style. Our authors have included economists, historians, sociologists, lawyers, and other labor specialists at a variety of research centers, government agencies, labor organizations and other universities (including Brooklyn College, Columbia U., City University of NY, Rutgers and SUNY). Contents is online at www.hofstra.edu/cld. Original econometric research studies presented in the RLR this year included: “Is New York’s Public Sector Workforce Overpaid?” by Gregory DeFreitas, Regional Labor Review, vol. 20 (Spring/Summer 2018): pp. 5-10. Defending Deportees at Hofstra Law: “The State of New York Unions 2017,” Regional Labor Review, by Gregory DeFreitas & Bhaswati Sengupta, vol. 20 27 Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
(Fall 2017): pp. 5-12. Curriculum and Teaching: The Labor Studies Degree Program (founded by CLD) offered the following LABR courses this past year. Both required and elective courses for the major were offered by other departments (including Anthropology, History, Legal Studies in Business, Sociology, etc.). Fall 2017: LABR 14F – MicroFreakonomics (4 sh, FYC Seminar) LABR 170 – Internship in Labor Studies (3 sh) LABR 180 – Senior Seminar in Labor Studies (3 sh) LABR 199 – Honors Essay in Labor Studies (3 sh) Spring 2018: LABR 1A – Introduction to Labor Studies (3 sh) H1202 – Introduction to Labor Studies (Continuing Ed Certificate Course) LABR 170 – Internship in Labor Studies (3 sh) LABR 180 – Senior Seminar in Labor Studies (3 sh) Engagement and Community Service: Journal – We regularly communicate our research findings to a broad audience in each issue of our magazine, Regional Labor Review. It is written in widely accessible style and distributed to community and labor organizations, educators, local government officials, and social service and human resource agencies. We also have a CLD Working Papers series. Website – CLD regularly updates its website (www.hofstra.edu/laborstudies) with information on local job-related events, employment statistics, our own research, and our labor studies course offerings, using both text, photos and videos. Media: The CLD Director and faculty give interviews to newspapers (Wall St. Journal, Newsday, Long Island Business News), TV and radio programs about our program’s research findings, our public events, and about diverse employment issues in the news. Among those last year were: Newspaper Interviews: Newsday interviewed, quoted me in its story: “LI's jobless rate rises for third time this year, to 4.6% in March,” (4/24/2018) Newsday interviewed, quoted me in its story: “State Parks Boost Long Island Economy, Report Says,” (12/17/2017). Newsday interviewed, quoted me in its story: “Technology Destroys, and Also Enhances, Long Island Jobs,” (11/13/2017). Newsday interviewed, quoted me (&included my photo) in lengthy story: “The Graying of LI Unions: LI Union Membership Below Pre-Recession Level,” (9/1/2017). Union Scholarship Consults – CLD Director Greg DeFreitas each year serves as Scholarship Advisor to two large local unions: IBEW Queens Local 3 and the United Food & Commercial Workers Union (UFCW/RWDSU), Local 338. This includes annual review and ranking of academic records and essays of Long Island high school students applying for 21 college scholarship awards. 28 Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
Events – We regularly organize speakers, debates, conferences and films on important current issues of interest to both students and working people, open to the general public. In Spring 2017 our public events included: “THE COLLEGE GRAD JOB MARKET TODAY” (9/22/2017) Leading New York government and academic economists discuss the state of the metro area economy and the job prospects for new college graduates. “THE STATE OF NEW YORK UNIONS 2017” (10/5/2017) A celebration of our first 20 years of publication of Regional Labor Review. Speakers Included: Roger Clayman, Exec. Director, LI Federation of Labor. The new 2017 findings of CLD’s quantitative research on NYC and Long Island union membership will be presented. A panel of local union leaders will discuss the findings, the challenges facing unions today and the prospects for new growth in nontraditional sectors of the economy. “EQUAL PAY DAY 2018” (4/10/2018) Our annual Equal Pay Day event, featured a forum of 3 speakers: Karen Fernbach (Prof., Hofstra Law School); Nora Higgins (Regional Director, Public Employees Federation) and Shital Patel (Chief Regional Labor Market Analyst, NYS Dept. of Labor). “TEMPLE TRACKS: LABOUR, MOBILITY, PIETY” (4/24/2018) Professor Vineeta Sinha, National University of Singapore, spoke on his new book. We cosponsored, contributing funds to this Asian Studies Program event. “MAYDAY AT THE MOVIES: COMEDY & TRAGEDY AT WORK” (5/1/2018) Our 16th annual film festival of diverse new and classic films on work and working people (each introduced by a different professor and followed by audience questions & discussion): Films Shown: 12:50- 1:45 pm – PAINTED NAILS; 2:55- 4:20 pm – THE HAND THAT FEEDS; 4:30-5:55 pm – THE MEASURE of a MAN (French, English subtitles); 6:30- 8:00 pm – BOOM, BUST, BOOM . Adult Labor Studies Certificate Courses – In addition to our Labor Studies major/minor for matriculated undergrads, CLD organizes and staffs low-cost educational offerings [through Continuing Ed] for union members and others in community through our Labor Studies Certificate Program. In addition to courses set in Hofstra classrooms, we have also held courses at business sites and union halls. H1202, Intro Labor Studies, was taught to 23 union staff by Greg DeFreitas in Spring 2018. Professional Associations – Greg DeFreitas was elected to the Executive Board of the main national labor education professional organization: United Association for Labor Education (UALE). On April 6th, at their annual conference in Seattle, WA, he also presented a paper assessing 20 years of publication of our journal, Regional Labor Review. We also participated in the meetings of the Long Island chapter of the main national labor research organization: the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). LERA has a diverse membership of labor lawyers, corporate human resources staff and labor specialists from government, nonprofit groups and academia. We regularly nominate a top Hofstra Labor Studies student each spring for the annual $1,000 LERA Scholarships given to the top three Long Island Labor Studies students. We are 29 Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
also active members of the main national labor education organization: the United Association of Labor Educators (UALE). Board of Advisors – Our board is made up of an impressive and diverse group of leading representatives from academia, government, law and labor unions. By holding board meetings on campus, inviting their participation in CLD events and regular communication, we benefit from board members’ feedback on our research and activities and their long-term guidance on the future course of CLD.
Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: Research: Journal – We will this year publish new issues in the 21st volume of our journal, Regional Labor Review. Ongoing Research Project: “Long Island Millennials at Work: Challenging Transitions to Good Jobs”. A unique empirical analysis of post-WWII trends in youth employment and wage trends on Long Island. The project applies econometric techniques to large crosssectional cohort and panel data banks to understand the nature and causes of trends in employment, underemployment, union coverage, earnings and occupational mobility of Long Island youth (ages 18-32 in 2015) from 1950 to the present. Comparisons are drawn among millennials by age, race/ethnicity, sex, immigration status, education, social class, occupation, industry, and metropolitan area of residence, as well as between millennials, Gen Xers and baby boomers. The primary microdata sets are: General Social Survey, Current Population Survey-ORG, decennial censuses and annual American Community Surveys. The first findings were published in Regional Labor Review (Fall 2016), and were featured in a front-page article in Newsday “LI’s College-Educated Millennials Struggling at Work: New Study,” (12/12/2016). Subsequent findings will be distributed in periodic reports and communicated to the public more widely via scholarly publications, local media and Regional Labor Review. Curriculum and Teaching: Fall 2018: H1210 – Women in the Labor Movement (new Labor Studies Certificate course in Continuing Ed; Prof. Trasciatti) LABR 170 – Internship in Labor Studies (3 sh) LABR 180 – Senior Seminar in Labor Studies (3 sh) Spring 2019: LABR 141C – Labor Economics (3 sh; Prof. DeFreitas) H1203 – Labor Economics (Labor Studies Certificate course in Continuing Ed; Prof. DeFreitas) H1205 – Labor & Employment Law (Labor Studies Certificate course in Continuing Ed; Prof. Archer) LABR 170 – Internship in Labor Studies (3 sh) LABR 180 – Senior Seminar in Labor Studies (3 sh) Engagement and Community Service: Journal – We will this year publish new issues in the 21st volume of our journal, Regional Labor Review. 30 Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
Website – CLD will continue to regularly update its website (www.hofstra.edu/laborstudies) with information on local job-related events, employment statistics, our own research, and our labor studies course offerings, using both text, photos and videos. Media: Greg DeFreitas will continue to make himself regularly available for media interviews, as well as recommend other willing CLD faculty as experts to be consulted by journalists, as appropriate. Union Scholarship Consults – CLD Director Greg DeFreitas will again serve as Scholarship Advisor to two large local unions: IBEW Queens Local 3 and the United Food & Commercial Workers Union (UFCW/RWDSU), Local 338. He will evaluate and rank the application packages of high school seniors who are union members or the children of members. Events: “THE IMMIGRATION AND DEPORTATION CRISIS” (September 26, 2018) A forum on the current controversies over ongoing changes in U.S. immigration, refugee and deportation policies. Featured confirmed speakers are: Emily Ngarra (Director, Hofstra Immigration Law Clinic), Saul Guerrera (Union organizer, UFCW Local 338); and David Dyssegaard Kallick (Immigration Research Director, Fiscal Policy Institute). Organized by CLD & Labor Studies; co-sponsored by LACS. “THE ETHICS OF IMMIGRATION: IS U.S. POLICY IMMORAL?” (October 24, 2018) A Day of Dialogue forum on the ongoing debates over U.S. policies toward the undocumented and refugees. Featured confirmed speakers are: Ana Levy-Lyons (Senior Minister, 1st Unitarian of Brooklyn, & author of new book No Other Gods); Amy Baehr (Philosophy prof, Hofstra); Paula Chirinos (DACA recipient & CCE student fellow); and Moderated by Rosanna Perotti (Political Science prof, Hofstra). Book signing after event by Ana Levy-Lyons. Organized by CLD & Labor Studies; co-sponsor: CCE. EQUAL PAY DAY 2019” (March 28, 2019) Our annual Equal Pay Day event will feature speakers discussing the accomplishments and continuing challenges of working women in today’s labor market. Organized by CLD, we intend to again invite participation of our past cosponsors: the Women’s Studies Program and Honors College. At Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater. “MAYDAY AT THE MOVIES: COMEDY & TRAGEDY AT WORK” (May 1, 2019) Our 17th annual daylong film festival will celebrate International Workers' Day with new and classic movies on work and working people's lives. Each film will be introduced by a professor, and will be followed by an audience discussion session. At Leo Guthart Cultural Center Theater. OTHER CO-SPONSORED EVENTS: Each year, as new events are added by other departments, we try to cosponsor as many labor-related events as our resources permit (most often with Economics Dept., Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Women’s Studies) Adult Labor Studies Certificate Courses – In addition to our Labor Studies courses for matriculated undergrads, CLD will organize and advertise low-cost course offerings [through Continuing Ed] for union members and others in the community in our Labor 31 Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
Studies Certificate Program. Dr. Mary Anne Trasciatti will offer a labor history course: “Women in the Labor Movement,” in Fall 2018. In Spring 2019, Greg DeFreitas will teach an evening Labor Economics course (H1203) and Bob Archer will teach Labor & Employment Law (H1205). Professional Associations – As chief university representative on the Executive Board of the United Association for Labor Education, Greg DeFreitas will oversee choice of papers to be presented at the next annual conference in Philadelphia, PA. We will continue to participate in the meetings of the Long Island chapter of the main national labor research organization: the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). LERA has a diverse membership of labor lawyers, corporate human resources staff and labor specialists from government, nonprofit groups and academia. And we will also be active members of the main national labor education organization: the United Association of Labor Educators (UALE). At CLD’s “Equal Pay Day 2018” event on April 10th, 2018 in Guthart Cultural Center Theater, 3 speakers discussed the opportunities and challenges working women face in public sector jobs and unions.
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Hofstra Law Prof. Karen Fernbach, PEF Union Leader Nora Higgins & NY State Dept. of Labor Economist Shital Patel (L to R)
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Digital Research Center Center name:
Digital Research Center (http://hofstradrc.org/)
Director name(s):
John Bryant, Director; Ethna Lay, Associate Director; Keri Crocco, Managing Director
Staff name(s):
Development: Jamie Folsom, Principal DRC Programmer and Web Designer IT Advisors: Robert Juckiewicz Brian Ferris Kevin Pechin Faculty Project Directors: Meenekshi Bose John Bryant Frank Gaughan Martha Hollander Janet Kaplan Lisa Merrill David A. Powell Mario M. Ruiz Craig M. Rustici Theresa Saxon Adam G. Sills Vern R. Walker Students: Kelcie Birsner Rachel Davis
Staff and Administration: Managing Director. This year we have been able to add Keri Crocco as DRC’s official managing director. Previously, she had been permitted to give “one hour” a week to DRC activities. This past year, Bryant met with Crocco’s Faculty Computing Services (now EdTech) supervisor Monica Yatsyla who has generously arranged for Crocco to contribute one full day of her Hofstra work week to DRC. This increased commitment has enabled her to give closer assistance to faculty in tool training and content upload. In addition to work with faculty, she has been instrumental in event planning: Douglass Day (as noted above), our fall and spring faculty director meetings, and DREx. Student Interns. Part of our effort to encourage digital pedagogy has been to set aside DRC funding for student interns. Managing director Crocco helped us secure three DRC student 34 Digital Research Center
interns to work on specific projects: Ashanti Davis (AMP), Hannah Matuszak (Octoroon), and Tiyanna Forest (Wayang Kulit).
Mission: In the DRC Lab, we work with Hofstra IT, EdTech, and the leading DH development company Performant Software Solutions (Pres: Nick Laiacona; VP: Jamie Folsom) to
Work with faculty in finding digital solutions for problems in their research, Design sites and tools interactively and collaboratively so that faculty projects necessarily stimulate digital pedagogy, Train faculty and student interns in digital humanities technologies, coding, and protocols, Assist in workflow management and site maintenance, Develop grant applications (with NEH, Mellon, and other agencies) that will support DRC development, affiliations abroad, and individual faculty projects.
In the DRC Forum, we organize online and campus activities, including
Blog posts on our web site that acquaints faculty and students with updates in the digital humanities, Video interviews with faculty directors, Workshops on digital humanities tools and techniques, Livestreaming of DRC events, Online transcription sessions at Axinn Library with the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center, on Frederick Douglass Day, DRC’s annual Digital Research Exchange (DREx)
How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? The Digital Research Center (DRC)—funded through Hofstra’s annual budget and individual grants—addresses Hofstra’s commitment “to provid[e] the informational and technological resources required for learning and the advancement of knowledge” (Statement of Mission and Goals). Our specific goals—met through DRC’s Lab and Forum—are to inform, train, and assist faculty and students in the advancement of Digital Humanities. To those ends, we design digital projects to be interactive and collaborative so that Research and Pedagogy are necessarily united. Please visit our website at http://hofstradrc.org/. The following report discusses DRC’s accomplishments during the 2017-2018 academic year, our plans for future development, and Dr. John Bryant’s retirement as director. Key accomplishments: Research: Mellon Prospect. Last fall, on the basis of their work on TextLab 2.0, MELCat, and Juxta Editions, DH leader Laura Mandell (Texas A&M) asked Bryant and Laiacona to participate in a one-year Mellon-funded project on creating an online collaborative publishing platform that would consolidate centers like DRC and facilitate the dissemination and interoperability of 35 Digital Research Center
digital scholarship. A major concern is for the development of Linked Open Data (LOD). Already in DRC’s development of SEEDD (see above), we are confronting the problem of how separate archives can be linked, through metadata and coding, for single user searching and display. For his part in the Mellon project, Bryant will also work on a proof-of-concept project involving DRC’s mapping tool Itinerary, MEL’s collection of Melville letters housed at NYPL, and the University of Nottingham’s edition of Robert Southey’s letters, under the aegis of MITH’s prestigious Romantic Circles project. The resulting POC will involve the collaboration of scholars and digital experts in four states and the UK. Mandel also invited Bryant to work with her in writing the implementation grant proposal for Mellon, which if successful will bring a share of Mellon funding to Hofstra’s DRC for a projected three years. Curriculum and Teaching: The 2017-2018 academic year is our second year of full Hofstra funding. Just as our first year of development focused on the theme of the Digital Archive, our theme this year has been Digital Pedagogy. Both ideas have informed, and will continue to inform, our DRC technological development, especially in two overall tasks: generating and maintaining Faculty Project sites and creating Tools. Twice a year, DRC staff—director John Bryant, associate director Ethna Lay, managing director Keri Crocco, programmer Nick Laiacona, and project director and web designer Jamie Folsom—gather at Hofstra to meet with faculty directors to discuss the progress of our projects, the initiation of new projects, strategies in tool development, and content workflow. Faculty Projects. DRC’s goal is to assemble a robust center for projects representing the widest possible spectrum of Digital Humanities scholarship and pedagogy, headed up by individual faculty from Hofstra’s various schools. Our strategy is to develop each project’s fundamental features first as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and then work subsequently to enhance functionality and web design. We invite faculty in all disciplines to join our current twelve charter members, including experts in art history, literature, digital poetry, disability, law, performance, history, anthropology, and political science. Descriptions of their projects may be found at http://hofstradrc.org/projects/. 2017-2018 saw continued project development beyond the MVP stage. We helped the George Sand Association in the transition of its director, Hofstra’s David Powell, to its new editor. Bryant worked with Hofstra IT’s Kevin Pechin to add new content to MEL and to re-organize its website to visualize MEL’s integration of scholarship and pedagogy through its path-breaking design of Archive, Edition, and Project. Bryant also wrote an NEH grant proposal to fund editorial growth and is a participant, along with Laiacona, on a Mellon proposal exploration grant. Jamie Folsom and law professor Vern Walker worked on enhancing Walker’s RSLT project, which enables color-coded annotation of legal arguments for classroom use. Folsom assisted creative writing professor and editor Janet Kaplan in launching the third issue of her born-digital poetry magazine AMP. Each year Prof. Kaplan gains fuller independence in managing the site; she was also assisted by one of DRC’s first student interns, Hofstra student Ashanti Davis. Presently and into the summer, Folsom and English professor Adam Sills will adapt DRC’s mapping tool Itinerary to facilitate his mapping of London parishes and to add images and texts to his Frightful Number project, which uses novelist Daniel Defoe’s data to trace the London Plague. Throughout the year, Crocco has trained individual faculty in content 36 Digital Research Center
upload. New Projects / New Tool. In addition to sustaining these fully-launched sites, our principal focus in 2017-2018 was on developing two new MVPs and a new tool to accommodate them:
Timothy Daniels and Patricia Welch’s Wayang Kulit (featuring a special collection of contemporary Malaysian shadow puppets) Anne Chen’s Southeast Europe Digital Documentation Project: SEEDD (featuring archaeological Roman sites and statuary)
Our perspective on technological development has always been to create tool and workspace technologies that can be used in multiple projects regardless of specific content. DRC’s development of these two projects demonstrates this kind of integrative agility. To develop both sites, designer Folsom and programmer Laiacona created and launched exhibits.hofstradrc.org, a new self-service, collection and exhibit building platform. Based on existing Blacklight and Spotlight technologies, DRC’s Exhibit enables faculty and students to collect images and texts, apply metadata for faceted searches, and display content. For our progress so far, go to SEEDD and Wayang Kulit. Professor Chen’s project is particularly promising as it involves the integration of three separate and massive archival databases that currently have no way of “talking” to one another. With SEEDD, we will explore potentials in the cutting-edges Linked Open Data (LOD) movement at the forefront of DH development. (See also Mellon Project below.) This year we were also pleased to welcome four other projects:
Geri Solomon’s From Hempstead to Sacramento: One Man’s Gold Rush (featuring Gideon Nichols’s 1849 diary in Axinn special collections) Christopher Neidt, Lawrence Levy, and James Levy’s Black / Latino Suburbia (featuring data on African American and Latino migrations on Long Island) Mary Ann Trasciatti’s Storm Narratives (interviews of Sandy victims) Aashish Kumar’s proposed digital expansion of his documentary Body, Home, World: Queer South Asian Journeys
Together these projects allow DRC to expand its content to cover new fields—archaeology, sociology, early and modern Long Island local history, the study of narrative, and LGBTQ studies—and to address technological problems, such as coding and transcribing audio-visual narrative, linking widely dispersed international databases, and mapping storms, archaeological digs, and cross-country travel, over time, with commentary. Next year, we will move these projects to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage. The technological development spent on these projects will be transferable to future projects, in different fields. Tool Development. DRC follows best practices in researching technologies that will meet our present and future project needs. We draw upon existing open-source code to adapt tools for our specific needs and to “generalize” those tools so that they can be used on multiple projects. In addition, we have developed at Hofstra tools that have been adopted elsewhere in the 37 Digital Research Center
international Digital Humanities community. In this regard, DRC has an impressive track-record. With NEH and DRC funding, DRC’s programmer Nick Laiacona developed MEL’s innovative TextLab (for manuscript and revision transcription) and MELCat (for content management), and this year he adapted both tools so that they would integrate with Performant Software’s existing platform Juxta Editions (which enables, among other things, collation and annotation). Together these sophisticated tools now make a versatile and reliable publishing platform that is aiming to become an industry standard. We will use this platform for our Van Mander translation and art history project. Laiacona also updated TextLab so that it will include TEI performance codes for tagging the versions of the 1859 play The Octoroon. In addition, the TextLab-MELCat-Juxta platform is being used in workshops at MIT and King’s College’s Institute for English Studies at the University of London. It is also being used to build the Stephen Crane Archive and Edition at the USAF Academy’s digital research center. A measure of DRC’s impact is that USAFA is patterning their digital center on Hofstra’s DRC. MEL and DRC’s inclusion in the Mellon planning grant validates Hofstra’s DH contributions.
Itinerary. DRC’s innovative mapping, timeline, annotation tool was first developed at Hofstra by Folsom, Bryant, and Sills for Sills’s London Plague project and Bryant’s Melville in Rome prototype. By linking Itinerary to MELCat and providing advanced features, Laiacona and Folsom enabled MIT’s Wyn Kelley to create her Melville in London project. Going forward, we will continue developing Itinerary for the above-mentioned Mellon proof-of-concept in order to transcribe, map, and annotate the networks of correspondence for any given author. We will also adapt Itinerary to map three DRC faculty projects: Trasciatti’s Storm Narratives, Kumar’s LGBTQ narratives, and Neidt and Levy’s black and Latino suburban narratives. Exhibit. We see DRC’s Exhibit as a break-through technology for digital pedagogy at Hofstra. When fully developed, it will generate venues for collaborations between faculty, students, and library. It can be used not only to train interns and students in future DH classes on how to build sites in any field and tools but also to enable faculty and students in any course to create their own selective exhibits taken from massive digital collections for classroom assignments. Going forward, we expect to try out Exhibit as workspaces in already-developed DRC sites such as MEL, Frightful Number, Van Mander, and Octoroon. Pedagogy & Outreach. This year, Associate Director Ethna Lay continued assisting colleagues to adapt Hofstra’s version of MIT’s Annotation Studio to their classwork. She and English Professor Adam Sills— also a DRC project director—developed and co-taught “Recoding Literature: An Introduction to Digital Humanities” for Spring 2018; the course is part of Hofstra’s new sequence in Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Professor Lay also took the lead in setting up the new Digital Recording Studio in Mason Hall, for use by students, faculty, and administration. In February, she joined other colleagues in a FRED workshop that discussed her use of the studio in a project with DRC student intern Ashanti Davis. 38 Digital Research Center
Keri Crocco organized, with Bryant and intern Davis, a transcription day on Frederick Douglass’s birthday. Co-sponsored nationally by the Smithsonian Transcription Center, the Colored Conventions Project, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and co-sponsored on campus by DRC, Axinn Library, and Hofstra’s Center for “Race,” Culture, and Social Justice, this event allowed participants to transcribe primary source documents from the Freedmen’s Bureau into the Smithsonian research database. Students, faculty, administrators, and staff from HCLAS, the Schools of Education and Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, and Axinn Library participated in the transcription event, preceded by a reading of Douglass’s work at the Douglass Circle in front of Monroe Lecture Center. We will repeat this digital/communal event next year and annually. Douglass Day has also served as an opening for further DRC affiliation with Professor Jonathan Lightfoot of the Center for “Race,” Culture, and Social Justice.” Similarly, with Professor Kumar’s proposed LGBTQ project, we hope to develop a fuller affiliation with Hofstra’s Center for Civic Engagement, which Kumar co-directs. Engagement and Community Service: DREx. Each spring, DRC hosts its Digital Research Exchange, which brings a distinguished DH keynoter to campus and a panel of speakers for a responsive Symposium. This year our topic was Digital Pedagogy, and our keynote was delivered by the renowned Julia Flanders (Northeastern). For panelists, we asked two scholars from each of three different institutions to discuss their approaches to pedagogy: Alison Booth and Andrew Stauffer (Virginia), Kurt Fendt and Wyn Kelley (MIT), and Adam Sills (Hofstra). Despite the absence on the panel of Ethna Lay, who could not attend because of hip surgery, this year’s DREx keynote and symposium elicited stimulating responses from their respective audiences. DHSI. Because of the generosity of last year’s keynoter, Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, BC), who donated his stipend back to DRC as tuition vouchers for his Digital Humanities Summer Institute, we were able to send SEEDD project director Anne Chen to this internationally renowned annual, two-week set of workshops in Victoria. DRC was also able to help defray some of Chen’s travel expenses. International Activities: International Exchange. This year, Bryant met with Vice Provost Neil Donahue to develop an MOA that would enable an exchange between Hofstra and two premier Italian institutions: Università di Roma Uno (Sapienza) and Università di Napoli (Orientale). When established, the exchange will send Hofstra faculty and students (in various fields) to give lectures and/or courses (for designated periods of time) and bring Italian faculty and students to our campus as well. Bryant has discussed possible exchanges with Hofstra history professor Stanislao Pugliese, Rome’s Giorgio Mariani, and Naples’s Donatella Izzo. The exchanges would also focus on digital scholarship, which would permit a continuation of the campus exchanges online.
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Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: Future Development. For the 2018-2019 academic year, DRC will focus on developing its emergent collection and display platform Exhibit for two new projects (SEEDD and Wayang Kulit), adding content for two others (Van Mander and Octoroon), and bringing four projects into the MVP stage: One Man’s Gold Rush, Black / Latino Suburbia, Storm Narratives, and Queer South Asian Journeys. We anticipate integrating Exhibit with the TextLab, MELCat, and Juxta platform, for a suite of tools that will facilitate, indeed hasten, development of all future projects into their MVP stage and beyond. Performant Software. The role of Performant Software Solutions in DRC development has been immeasurable. Because Hofstra does not yet have an established DH infrastructure, Bryant has worked closely with IT Vice President Robert Juckiewicz in finding ways to implement DRC through both internal and external means. A common practice in Digital Humanities development is the use of free-lance programmers. It is efficient and cost-saving. Over the years, Hofstra DRC has deployed this approach to great effect. Since as early as 2009, Nick Laiacona has worked continuously in developing the DRC flagship and archive prototype MEL, and since 2014, Jamie Folsom has been central to the strategic development of DRC as an entity and DRC’s sites, tools, and workflow. From the beginning, Juckiewicz, Bryant, and Laiacona have agreed that Performant will continue to play its role, with the idea of moving toward independence, as Hofstra becomes better equipped and staffed for directing DRC internally. At the same, because the suite of tools Performant has developed at Hofstra, Performant remains a superb resource for consulting, development, and project and tool maintenance. Sustaining Hofstra DRC’s strong and fruitful relationship with Performant is not only, at this point, cost-saving but also desirable as Hofstra continues to make a mark in the field of digital scholarship and pedagogy. EdTech. In April 2018, Bryant and Crocco met with EdTech administrator Laura Martin to discuss how DRC can coordinate with EdTech, the library, and special collections in pursuing the provost’s digital pedagogy initiatives. Bryant has also consulted this year with Professor Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt about humanities computing, and, going forward, we hope to involve Computer Science more directly in our work on data mining and Linked Open Data. Outreach and DREx. We will continue tool development regarding TextLab and Itinerary in preparation for a Mellon grant application. We will expand our student intern program and develop our Italian exchange. Our tentative theme for DREx 2019 will be Digital Diversity: Gender, Ethnicity, and Ethics. Retirement. Bryant’s part-time status as DRC director will end on 31 December 2018. Bryant is happy to assist in the search for a new director and the transition.
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Hofstra University Museum Center name:
Hofstra University Museum
Director name:
Nancy Richner
Staff name(s):
Karen Albert, Deputy Director and Chief Curator Nicole Berberena, Museum Educator* Elisa Bruno, Museum Educator* Elizabeth Dysart, Director of Education and Engagement Renee Kurot, Museum Educator* Karla Oderwald, Senior Assistant to the Director Pamela Ollendorff, Coordinator of Education and Public Programs* Kristen Rudy, Collections Manager Amy Solomon, Museum Educator* Charmise Woodside-Desire, Communications Director* *Part-time
Advisory Committee:
University Members: Robert Brinkmann Stan Cherian Alice Diaz-Bonhomme Martha Hollander Cliff Jernigan Lauren Kozol James Lee John Lewis Carol D. Mallison Lisa Merrill Patricia Navarra Daniel Rubey Kristin Weingartner Patricia Welch Nassau Community Representatives: Carmen Ostolaza Joanne Spencer Erik Sumner Hofstra Student Representative: Hayley Blomquist Hofstra Ex Officio: Gail M. Simmons Melissa Connolly 41 Hofstra University Museum
Benjamin Rifkin Terri Shapiro Mission: The Hofstra University Museum advances knowledge and understanding through experiences with authentic works of art from the world’s diverse cultures. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? The Museum: Initiates and facilitates rich and varied cultural and artistic explorations and studies in an atmosphere that encourages curiosity and promotes the open exchange of ideas. Designs and offers exhibitions, programs and activities at highest standards to engage students and faculty in critical thinking, creativity and communication across disciplines and cultures. Works with faculty to ensure that experiences in the Museum directly connect to and help expand understanding of curricula, and of national and international issues. Provides opportunities for students outside the classroom to engage in research and in social and work opportunities as they prepare for continued engagement in the world beyond the University. Key accomplishments: Research: Exhibitions Presented along with related publication (catalogue or brochure): Converging Voices: Gender and Identity Women in Contrast Portfolios II: Offset Lithographic Prints Romare Bearden: Storyteller National and International Conference Presentations: Conducted session for National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Presented at annual conference of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries: “Addressing Student Learning Objectives Across the Curriculum.” Regional Presentations: Presented session at Balanced Mind, Annual Long Island Art Educators Conference Curriculum and Teaching: Museum staff taught 71 Hofstra University classes in the galleries, each session led by a museum educator. The sessions included both graduate and undergraduate classes and represent the following colleges and schools: HCLAS: School of Education School of Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs 42 Hofstra University Museum
School of Natural Science and Mathematics Honors College School of Health Professions and Human Services Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Lawrence Herbert School of Communication
For each of the 71 classes, Museum’s educators worked with faculty to understand the goals, topics, and relevant assignments and readings. The Museum educator then developed a gallery session in which students were active participants, “mining” the content of the works of art to gain a deeper and more layered understanding of the class topics. These works of art, selected with faculty, involved art on view in the current exhibition or works from the permanent collections moved into the gallery for the session. Several faculty members planned a series of sessions with Museum staff as part of their class syllabus, including a collaboration with a history class, in which students’ researched objects, added information to the Museum file, and created an online exhibit. Collaborated with School of Education mentoring two undergraduates each semester who spent one third of their required 90 Participant Observers hours with the Museum learning new strategies and approaches to teaching, and conducting related research. Established a Museum Exhibition Program Committee. Museum and Cultural Center staffs serve as core members with changing faculty as per exhibition topic. Committee’s goal is to explore and develop cross-curricular programming that connects with multiple departments and engages people in learning from multiple perspectives. Initiated potential collaborations with School of Engineering faculty. Collaborated with NOAH staff offering freshman three gallery sessions (summer, fall and spring) one of which was developed in conjunction with their research and writing course. Piloted “Night at the Museum,” a program developed in collaboration with Honors College in which students responded to works on view in the Emily Lowe Gallery through their own artistic performances in music, dance and spoken word. Students engaged in a conversation/tour with the exhibition curator prior to responding. Success of the first program created demand for second program in Spring. Will now offer each semester. Collaborated with Student Life and First Year Programs, conducting approximately 8 10min conversations each Tuesday for 8 weeks during summer orientations, introducing students to the Museum and designing a contest linking art to the first-year common reading selection. Presented with faculty at FRED workshop (Faculty Research, Education and Development), “Innovations and Collaborations in Teaching and Learning.” Collaborated with the Student Activities Leadership Team and Human Resources in offering team building programs that took place in the Museum galleries. Served as faculty for second year of Medical Humanities course offered by the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. Presented several Professional Development programs including: Northwell Health and Wellness Retreat for Physical Medicine and Rehab doctors, School of Education faculty 43 Hofstra University Museum
in special education, East Meadow art teachers, and teachers from the Institute for Health Professionals at Cambria Heights High School, Queens, NY Taught 4-6 summer HS Continuing Ed sessions. Piloted a multi-session museum-school partnership program with the De La Salle School, a parochial school providing quality education for young men from economically disadvantaged situations. Partnered with 35 third-grade classes in 14 local schools (775 students) who participated in Art Travelers through Time: Literacy and History through Art. Museum Educators work with each class 6 times throughout the year, including two visits to the Museum and campus. Students use authentic works of art as the catalyst for learning. Program connects and integrates various disciplines, cultures and time periods engaging students in alternate ways of learning. Partnered with the Elmont School District seeing all 24 4th grade classes (550 students) who visit the Museum where they gain literacy experience by learning to “read” the works of art on view. Students also tour the campus, often the first time they have experienced what a college looks like (connecting to NYS Education K-12 goals for “College and Career Readiness.”). Expanded the Academic Excellence program with the Freeport School District to include a second school working with all third graders (211 students) in object-based learning projects. Developed and conducted 72 after-school sessions for the Enrichment to Excellence program, a collaboration with the Freeport School District that engages middle school students identified as “almost at risk.” Program provides authentic learning opportunities three times a week to engage and excite students about the learning process.
Engagement and Community Service: Provided six programs open to the public, including “Drawing the Line: Accountability and the Arts,” a response to the #MeToo movement predicated on the inclusion of an accused artist whose work was in one of the exhibitions. Participated with Center for Civic Engagement in Day of Dialogue, developing and moderating, Monuments: What Museum be Raised and What Must be Razed. Offered “Let’s Talk” sessions of student-led conversations in the gallery related to the exhibition, Converging Voices: Gender and Identity. Co-sponsored program with Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine: Attaining Cultural Competency in Transgender Healthcare in conjunction with the exhibition Converging Voices: Gender and Identity. Participated in the University’s Pipeline Program meeting with 3 classes of students during the summer connecting science and health to works of art. Offered several programs each semester for clients at the Speech and Learning Center’s Aphasia Program. Piloted museum access programs with organizations serving adults with disabilities. Developed and led early childhood programs for the Hofstra University Diane LindnerGoldberg Child Care Institute and the Kornreich Early Learning Center. Piloted program with ESL Services and their Hofstra students.
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Designed and furnished the Cultural Arts Lab for art studio activities located near the Museum offices. Offered family programs on the second Saturday of each month, engaging families from local communities as well as from the Hofstra community. Participated in Hofstra family and parent events such as the Tulip Tour and Tea (providing tours of the outdoor sculpture) and Homecoming weekend events. Participated in planning of various upcoming conferences including Artistic Expressions and the Great War and the Theodore Roosevelt Legacy conferences. Expanded the Museum Library Pass program to two additional communities Hosted four exhibition receptions. Participated in leadership roles in regional and local museum organizations.
International Activities: N/A. Grant or Foundation Funds Received/Applications: New York State Council on the Arts (received $16,500, year 1 of 3-year grant $49,500 total) National Endowment for the Arts ($33,000 to be submitted July for Art Travelers) Bethpage Federal Credit Union ($7,500 request submitted for backpack program) Magnetar Capital ($20,000 request submitted for Art Travelers) xxx ($10,000 request submitted for Yonia Fain Project) Fundraising: Long Island Community Foundation ($20,000 for Art Travelers) Flushing Bank ($10,000 for Art Travelers) Bethpage Federal Credit Union ($5,000 for Backpack program) People’s United Bank ($2,500 for Artifacts Alive) Freeport School District Enrichment to Excellence ($38,850) Freeport School District Academic Excellence ($12,000) Individual gifts ($5,000) Program Revenues ($20,000) Other: Gifts in Kind: 64 works of art were accepted into the collections (6 prints, 9 African works, 7 photographs, 42 drawings) Assessment of Previous Year’s Goals: Articulate vision and plan for the Museum to integrate into the curricular goals of schools and departments. o Met with deans and chairs; presented to faculty and developed new relationships. o Established first credit-bearing internship for fall 2018 with Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Raise $150,000 for exhibitions, staff and programs. o Raised $129,850 45 Hofstra University Museum
Establish new relationships with high profile organizations, such as Bethpage Federal Credit Union, and people, such as Kathleen Stanley, as part of long-range development and sustainability plans. o Attended various dinners and events, followed with individual meetings; ex. met with representatives from Bethpage Federal Credit Union and People’s United Bank and received funding from both. o Met with individuals who assisted in articulating goals. Develop plan for Yonia Fain collection. o Inventoried documents, organized them by theme, placed documents in archival storage, and acquired works into the collections. Mount four quality exhibitions and related programming. o Accomplished
Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: Research: Mount four quality exhibitions with related publications and programming. Proceed with research and development for Yonia Fain collection: funding, documenting, conserving, community outreach, and long-term goals. Curriculum and teaching: Collaborate with departments (HCLAS) proceeding with development of a minor in museum studies. Engagement and Community Service: Expand Exhibition Program Committee to include community representation. International Activities: N/A Grant or Foundation Applications: Raise $150,000 for exhibitions, staff, and programs. Fundraising: Begin seeking funds for an endowment in museum education. Expected Staff/Leadership/Budget Changes in the Coming Year: Staff: The year should remain stable regarding Museum staff with the replacement of one-part time museum educator. Budget: No budget changes expected this year.
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Class Session with Artifacts
Night at the Museum, Romare Bearden: Storyteller
Third Graders in David Filderman Gallery
Close Looking
Campus Sculpture Family Activity
Public Roundtable Discussion with artists from the exhibition, Converging Voices: Gender and Identity
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Long Island Studies Institute Center name:
Long Island Studies Institute
Director name:
Geri Solomon
Staff name(s):
Victoria Aspinwall - Assistant to the Director Bronwyn Hannon - Acquisitions Curator Debra Willett - Education Coordinator Michael O’Connor - Processing Archivist
Mission: The Long Island Studies Institute (LISI) is one of three areas that fall under the umbrella of Special Collections. The mission of LISI is to make our research collections available to scholars, teachers, students and the general public. We strive to provide our researchers with a comprehensive collection of archival materials, hard to find print resources as well as maps, periodicals and publications that pertain to Long Island and its heritage. It is our goal to provide instruction on using these resources to teach first time researchers how to properly handle and get the most from the items they are consulting. We are also charged with the preservation of all materials in our care. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? In order to provide a quality education at Hofstra, our students must learn to do research on a variety of topics. In tandem with faculty, we hold classes to introduce students to archival materials pertinent to their curriculum and their class assignments on both the undergraduate and graduate level. Key accomplishments: Curriculum and Teaching: Professor Carol Fletcher’s Journalism Class examined Thomas Nast cartoons from the collection. Professor Mario Ruiz’ class “New York before and after September 11th” examined archival documents in the department’s September 11th Collection and each student chose an aspect of the collection to create their term paper. Professor Katrina Sims brought two classes to the department to do research projects using archival materials related to slavery and other topics related to oppression. These students visited the Institute approximately 100 times during the semester. The Archivist gave a presentation to 4 English faculty members about how to use archival materials and rare materials in their classes. Associate Dean Pasupathi, Professor Sims and the Archivist gave a lecture to students and faculty to view archival documents related to slavery on Long Island in the hopes of doing further research.
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Engagement and Community Service: Special event: Special Collections hosted the Angelin Family; relatives of Mr. Hofstra who live in Sweden visited and were shown the campus, met the mascots, had lunch, but most importantly, visited the Archives where they were shown family photographs and other documents that pertain to their genealogy. Archivist was co-director of the Brutal Library symposium. Social Media and exhibits: Special Collections posted to a large number of social media outlets to allow individuals both on and off campus to view items within our collections. This includes Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Flickr, and Instagram. This year followers from around the globe chimed in about many of our postings and are now ardent followers. The department is also responsible for exhibits on the 10th floor, main floor and ground floor of Axinn Library. We consider this another way to introduce the campus to the holdings of the department. We sponsor student art exhibitions on the ground floor and work with the art faculty to have formal “shows” for students during the year. This year we hosted 3 shows for art students in Professor James Lee’s classes. The Archivist also installed and provided images and ephemera for the Public Relations Department in creating the “Debates Exhibit” in the Unispan. Future signage for the campus will be augmented with photographs from the department’s historical collections. The Hofstra Museum has also used specific historical items in exhibits in their spaces as well. Three exhibitions in the future include the “Hurricane of ‘38” and “Hofstra and The Netherlands, 25 years of exchange,” and “To Tranquility and Beyond,” in support of the Apollo moon landing. LISI preserves and makes available several collections that community organizations have donated as they do not have proper records storage facilities or staff to accommodate possible researchers. These collections include: Long Island Traditions (an oral history collection that is comprised of over 500 interviews with Long Island maritime and farming families, as well as diverse ethnic groups); the Retired Teachers of Brentwood (an oral history collection of over 100 teachers in Suffolk County); each of these oral history collections has been updated and the finding aids or lists of participants is located on the Special Collections website under the tab “oral histories.” Other collections that pertain to community organizations include: Fair Media Council FOLIO Awards Collection; the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives Collection; and the Long Island Philharmonic Collection. Grant or Foundation Funds Received/Applications: LISI is currently working on a cooperative project with HERSTORY so that the written word of women who have been abused, imprisoned or are living in poverty can be preserved and shared for research purposes. The National Center for Suburban Studies gave LISI a $3,000 grant to get this project launched. A consultant has been hired to create a landing page and the first ten trial stories will be entered into OMEKA with appropriate metadata. The landing page has just been approved and the metadata for ten different stories is now being constructed. A major grant was successfully completed by LISI this year: the Gardiner Foundation funded $100,800 for the processing and description of the Hart/Nichols Collection, acquisition of select Long Island materials and student research projects. The finding aid and three different online exhibits can be seen on the LISI webpage under the 49 Long Island Studies Institute
Hart/Nichols Collection. All of the research projects are also available under “Exhibits – Student Research.” By the end of the summer a subsequent grant will be submitted to the Avenir Foundation to support the processing and description of additional materials to the Smith/Wallace family papers. Fundraising: The American Legion supports the LISI collections by contributing gift dollars to commemorate their members. This year approximately $3,500 was raised.
Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: Curriculum and Teaching: Continue to partner with faculty to hold classes in Special Collections and use archival materials for assignments and term papers. In addition to the current faculty that we have worked with in the past, we are now working with Professor Sophie Hawkins to use archival materials to create a Wunderkammer for fall 2018 Engagement and Community Service: Continue to encourage students from local school districts to use archival materials to create oral histories of their community members. Currently partnered with the National Center for Suburban Studies to house the Latino interviews of community members in Special Collections. Also partnered with Jase Bernhardt to have students investigate diaries for weather information. Currently, two high school students from local districts will be charting weather information from a diary, 1849-1852. Grant or Foundation Applications: Submission of additional grant to the Avenir Foundation to support processing of the Smith/Wallace collection.
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National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University Center name:
National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
Director name:
Lawrence Levy – Executive Dean
Staff name(s):
Christopher Niedt – Academic Director Sandra Garren – Suburban Sustainability Studies Director Martine Hackett – Suburban Health Equity Collaborative Leader Ina Katz – Senior Associate Dean for Administration
Mission: NCSS is a non-partisan, inter-disciplinary research institution dedicated to promoting the collaborative, inclusive study of suburbia's problems, as well as its promise. Rooted in the laboratory of Long Island’s diverse and aging suburbs, NCSS researches a broad range of issues at local, national, and international scales. The suburbs have emerged at the nexus of dynamic demographic, social, economic and environmental change in New York and throughout the world. We seek to understand the suburbs via academically rigorous research that encompasses the natural and social sciences and the humanities. The goal of the center is to work with communities, agencies and businesses to identify, analyze, and solve the problems of suburbia, especially in areas of sustainability, social equity, and economic development. Key accomplishments: NCSS continued its strong record of collaborative, multi-disciplinary research and engagement in a range of academic and community-based activities, some which may serve as national models. The work of the center was aided by a number of gifts, grants and contracts from foundations, governments and private businesses and individuals. Revenues in the past two years exceeded what the center generated in the prior four, enabling it to support other Hofstra programs and community groups. The number and scope of projects also expanded dramatically with the enthusiastic participation of professors and students from a number of departments and disciplines. NCSS leaders also maintained a high public profile with both numerous media, public speaking and academic appearances/presentations and service to the community. Dean Levy was named chairman of Northwell’s new system-wide Community Research Advisory Board. Director Niedt, as well as Profs. Garren and Hackett, also served not for profits as volunteers. The Center was able to technically and financially assist a number of community groups in various ways as part of a “give-back” philosophy. Research: Childhood Obesity. The center used a portion of a $100,000 grant from the Dolan Family Foundation, as well as $25,000 in private donations, to expand an existing five-year program of research and engagement in Roosevelt, Nassau’s poorest community. Embraced by the school district and he community groups, the project continued gathering quantitative and qualitative data, organized or sponsored health fairs and other events for families, and brought third-year pediatric residents from Northwell’s Cohen 51 National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
Hospital for Children into Roosevelt for a multicultural medical experience. The latter was said to be wildly popular among the pediatric residents, so much so that the opportunity will be extended to additional residents and to Zucker medical school students as part of their regular third or fourth year rotations. The program is overseen for NCSS by Dr. Hackett. National and International Conference Presentations: AARP. The center partnered with the American Association of Retired People to organize a symposium on the problems faced by black and Latino retirees on Long Island. LILTA. NCSS partnered with the Long Island Latino Teachers Association on separate conferences for minority boys and girls to create awareness of career and educational opportunities, including at Hofstra. CDCLI. The center worked with the Community Development Corporation of Long Island for a conference on the intersection of health and housing, following a report in 2017 that the center helped prepare on the same topic. Curriculum and Teaching: Minority Teacher Hiring. Using part of a Dolan grant, the center has embarked on a study of minority teaching trends and policies. Professor William Mangino, chair of the sociology and criminology department, is leading the research and Dr. Eustace Thompson, chair of the leadership and technology PhD program, is overseeing the policy development portion. Preliminary data, which has been shared privately with key state and local stakeholders, offers a stunning picture of under representation by minority educators in our public school system. Outreach, including setting up focus groups, has been assisted by the Long Island Latino teachers Association and the Long Island Black Educators Association. Data collection will continue this academic year, along with a plan for dissemination and policy development. This is a collaborative, inclusive effort that has strengthened our credibility as researchers into educational equity and our reputation with minority educators, including potential grad students. Student Research/Sustainability: Shelter Island. A graduate student in SS produced a professional-quality report on the feasibility of desalinization to solve the East End Island’s drinking water problems. The report was presented to the village board, which was effusive in its praise for the work, and the meeting received extensive coverage in the local newspaper. Long Beach. Several SS students produced an evaluation of the potential of solar energy on this city’s high-rise resident and government rooftops. The report will be presented at a “Sun-posium” sponsored by the city and is expected to guide efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. (Note: More than a dozen students are working on similarly promising research projects on stipends from NCSS sustainability gift funds. They have been supervised by Prof. Garren.) Oral History. Two years after a very successful collaboration with the Schomburg center for the study of Black history and culture, center is overseeing the second phase of it suburban oral history project. With the remaining portion of a $225,000 grant from the 52 National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
Turan family foundation, the center is focusing on the Latino experience on Long Island since World War II. This phase is beginning with the creation of a podcast by Mario Murillo of the school of communications, focusing on the work of law school professor Stefan Krieger to injustice for Latino immigrants seeking housing in the village of Farmingdale. Director Niedt is overseeing the work for the center. Engagement and Community Service: Community Development: Anti-Poverty Initiative. Dean Levy and director Niedt oversaw the writing of the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative report for the Village of Hempstead, under a $15,000 contract with United Way of Long Island. Working with a community advisory board and attending a dozen meetings around the village, the effort brought together normally contentious factions to develop a plan – lauded by the state -- that could reorganize services and deliver them more innovatively. As a result of the efforts, the village was eligible to receive $1.5 million in state funds Asset Mapping. As a result of the village’s satisfaction with NCSS work on ESPRI, its community development agency engaged the center to data-infused maps to help residents more easily and effectively access human services in the village. Dr. Sandra Garren oversaw this $15,000 project with Dr. Hackett. Water Quality: Mill River. The center organized a multidisciplinary team of professors to begin work on a four-year $566,000 contract with the state of New York and federal government to design education and public outreach programs in conjunction with the extensive rebuilding of the Mill River waterway in the wake of Super storm Sandy. The center is expected to receive an additional contract of up to $500,000 to develop additional elements to the project, which began with a summer research program for area high school students. The team is being led by Professor JB Bennington, chair of the Department Of Geology, Environment and Sustainability. Hempstead Harbor. The center helped organize another interdisciplinary team to produce a proposal to help the Long Island Regional Planning Council and the Town of Hempstead conduct water quality testing, data analysis and community outreach as part of the Long Island Nitrogen Abatement Project. Hofstra's proposal is currently a finalist with the decision expected by the end of October. The team, which is being led by Professor Steve Raciti in Biology, includes research professors from several other departments, including education. Politics:
National suburban Poll. The center went into the field to collect data for the ninth iteration of this groundbreaking survey that has produced many Academic publications and media articles. Media Commentary. NCSS personnel, particularly Dean Levy, appeared numerous on television, radio and in print on various topics related to politics and public policy within a suburban context. 53 National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
Celebration of Suburban Diversity. The center held its ninth annual Diversity Dinner, which was attended by nearly 600 people in a celebration of the strength and our differences. The event, which President Rabinowitz has called a Long Island institution, is a major Networking event that has helped burnish Hofstra's reputation in many communities and raised about $2 million for diversity related scholarships, internships, research and community grants. The center also begin planning the 10th annual diversity dinner scheduled for November.
Economic Development: LIREDC. As they have for the past seven years, during which their work was deemed "best in state" and brought nearly $600 million to the region, Dean Levy and Director Niedt played significant roles in producing the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council's 2018 strategic plan. Municipal Finance Reform. Dean Levy and Director Garren played key roles in the production of the Property Tax Alternatives Analysis on a $25,000 contract with the Long Island Regional Planning Council and PFM of Philadelphia. Dean Levy focused on the strategic framing and writing of the report, which will guide local elected officials as they consider alternatives to the nation’s highest property taxes, and Prof. Garren produced GIS mapping that aided understanding of complex data.
Grant or Foundation Funds Received/Applications: Ascend 2020: NCSS received a $110,000 grant from J.P. Morgan Chase Global Philanthropy to develop a plan to "suburbanize" an existing program aimed at identifying, training, mentoring providing access to capital for promising minority entrepreneurs. NCSS is partnering with the region’s major utility, PSEG, Nassau County government and other large organizations to develop a pipeline to their procurement systems from underserved communities. JPM Chase has tentatively approved an additional $350,000 for implementation in 2019 with an option to extend the program for a similar amount in 2020. The Center, which originated the grant, partnered with Hofstra Business Development Center and the Entrepreneurial Assistance Program.
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Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency Center name:
Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency
Director name:
Dr. Meena Bose
Staff name(s):
Organizational support from HCLAS Dean’s Office and Hofstra Cultural Center
Board Members:
Kara Alaimo Philip Dalton Carolyn Eisenberg Paul Fritz Richard Himelfarb Lisa Merrill
Mission: To engage students, faculty, staff, and the larger community in informed analysis of key issues about the presidency and American politics. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? Kalikow Center provides educational opportunities for students, faculty, and the larger community to learn about and participate in the study of the American presidency. Through conferences, lectures, seminars, and symposia that bring to campus leading scholars, current and former public officials, political strategists, and journalists, the Center bridges institutional analysis and contemporary assessment of presidential leadership and policy making. Key accomplishments: Curriculum and Teaching: Kalikow Center Senior Presidential Fellows Howard Dean and Ed Rollins participated in public events and met with classes in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. The Kalikow Center hosted two panels in Fall 2017: “Breaking News or Making News? Evaluating Media Coverage of the White House” (with Tom DeFrank, contributing editor, National Journal); and, co-sponsored with the Center for Civic Engagement, “Beyond the Base? Are the Political Parties Keeping Their Pledges to the American Public?” (with Juan Gonzalez, investigative journalist; moderated by Dr. Bose and Professor Mario A. Murillo). The Kalikow Center and Business Development Center hosted a Distinguished Lecture Series luncheon with Dean and Rollins, “How Will the Congressional Elections Influence Politics and Policymaking in 2018?” in December 2017. Ed Rollins co-taught PSC 121, American Presidency, with Professor Meena Bose, as a Writing-Intensive course in Spring 2018. The Kalikow Center had a master class for PSC 121, American Presidency, with presidential speech writer David Frum when he visited campus as part of Hofstra’s 55 Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency
Signature Lecture Series. Mr. Rollins and Dr. Bose led the conversation with Mr. Frum and moderated student Q&A. (Photo attached.) Engagement and Community Service: The Kalikow Center and School of Education hosted the seventh annual symposium for high-school students with Howard Dean and Ed Rollins in March 2018. Close to 500 high-school students participated, and their teachers selected the best essay in each class on topics about the American presidency and American politics. The top essays have been published in a booklet for participating schools (attached). Selected high schools also participated in a special breakfast meeting with Dean and Rollins in December 2017. The Kalikow Center hosted three panels with Kalikow Center Senior Presidential Fellows Dean and Rollins in Spring 2018: “The Trump Presidency and the World: ‘America First’ or America Falling Behind?” (with Heather Hurlburt, Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America Foundation; moderated by Dr. Bose and Dr. Paul Fritz); “The Uncertain Suburbs: Trump, Congress, and Swing Voters” (co-sponsored with the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University; with NCSS Executive Dean Larry Levy; moderated by Dr. Bose and Dr. Chris Niedt); and “How Is Washington Working in 2018? A Conversation with U.S. Congressman Tom MacArthur” (with Congressman MacArthur). Dr. Bose had several media interviews about the presidency and American politics. Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year: Research: The Kalikow Center and Hofstra University Library Special Collections published an online resource guide for “The Lyndon B. Johnson Film Collection,” a set of 70 official government films documenting the LBJ presidency that were donated to Hofstra by the estate of naval officer and White House cinematographer Tom Atkins. The guide contains summaries of selected films that were prepared by Hofstra students in a special honors seminar in Fall 2015. Guide is available at https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/library/libspc-rbam-lbj-film-fa.pdf . Curriculum and Teaching: The Kalikow Center and the Department of Political Science co-sponsored the Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honor society, induction ceremony and luncheon with U.S. Congressman Tom MacArthur (3rd District – NJ; Hofstra Class of 1982) as the keynote speaker. Kalikow Center Senior Presidential Fellows Howard Dean and Ed Rollins also participated in the event. (Photo attached.) The Kalikow Center and the Kalikow School Public Policy and Public Service (PPPS) Program developed a proposal to create a Hofstra Kalikow Poll. Surveys will be administered every semester to gauge how suburban swing voters’ electoral and policy views influence campaigns and governance. The PPPS Program and Kalikow Center will work with the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University on development, execution, and publicity of the Kalikow Poll. Two students completed Hofstra’s presidential studies minor.
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The Center for Children, Families, and the Law Center name:
The Center for Children, Families, and the Law
Director name:
A. Gail Prudenti
Staff name(s):
Andrew Schepard, Director Matthew Kiernan, Faculty Administrative Editor, Family Court Review Lisa M. Petrocelli, Managing Attorney / Project Director Paul Meller, Director, Institute of Forensic Psychology Franca Sachs, Assistant Dean for Experiential Programs Taniesha S. Allen, Esq., Postgraduate Fellow Bonita Ricks, Special Projects Coordinator Amy Brown, Editor, FamilyLaw@HofstraLaw Olivia Porter, Executive Secretary
The Center is proud to have a distinguished and diverse Board of Advisors who assist and guide Judge Prudenti in the Center’s short and long-range planning. Board Members: Hon. Jeffrey Sunshine, Chair Gail Broder Katz, Esq. Nancy Burner, Esq. Kim Ciesinski, Esq. Hon. Andrew Crecca Hon. Edmund Dane Cynthia Diaz, Esq. Prof. J. Herbie DiFonzo Donna England, Esq. Stacy Eves, Esq. Samuel J. Ferrara Rene P. Flechter, Esq. Stephen Gassman, Esq. Suzanne Gavin Hon. Lara J. Genovesi Harriet Weinberger, Esq.
Hon. Sharon M. J. Gianelli Hon. Jeffrey Goodstein Warren Graham Saundra M. Gumerove, Esq. Jennifer Gundlach Charles Hammerman William Kaplan M.D. Susan Kaufman, Esq. Matthew Kiernan, Esq. Hon. Jeffrey Lebowitz Prof. Theo Liebmann Donna Martini Prof. Paul Meller Teresa Ombres, Esq. Jed L. Paniter Hon. Hope Schwartz Zimmerman
Hon. C. Raymond Radigan Kieth Rieger, Esq. Lee Rosenberg, Esq. Prof. Andrew Schepard Stephen Schlissel, Esq. Lois Schwaeber, Esq. Crystal Screen Esq. Joe Scroppo, J.D., Ph.D. Gladys Serrano, LCSW Hon. Denise L. Sher Hon. Madeline Singas Hon. Conrad Singer Jill C. Stone, Esq. Hon. Linda Tally Zenith T. Taylor, Esq.
Mission: The Center was established in 2001 in response to the urgent need for more effective representation for children and families in crisis. Its mission: students and selected graduates are provided with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children and families engaged in the legal system through interdisciplinary and experiential learning including unique opportunities to participate in community service, public policy projects, legal representation, dispute resolution, and research. The Center provides advanced training for professionals by 58 The Center for Children, Families, and the Law
sponsoring lectures, symposia, conferences, ongoing family law reform initiatives and by facilitating dialogue among academic disciplines, practitioners, policy makers and the judiciary. How does your center or institute address the university’s mission and goals? The Center addresses the University’s mission and goals in several key ways. Through our service to those in our community who need help, best exemplified by our 17A Guardianship Project, Access to Justice Incubator (which has recently merged with the Center) and Navigator Program, we cultivate the participants’ social and ethical responsibility, offer programs that benefit the Hofstra community and those beyond it and encourage the students to be active citizens and contributors to their local communities. Additionally, by emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration between university departments, we produce innovative service programs and educational programs. Second, by sponsoring our conference and symposium presentations, we have demonstrated Hofstra’s commitment to providing information required to advance knowledge and to encourage intellectual curiosity. Third, the Center has remained active, with student participation, in the JROPE project which seeks to make parent education courses for divorcing and separating parents mandatory in New York State so that parents are better able to manage conflicts over their child-rearing responsibilities. Key accomplishments: Research: Publications: The Family Court Review (FCR) is under the Center’s umbrella. FCR is an international, interdisciplinary family law peer-reviewed quarterly journal in which Hofstra Law students serve as editorial staff. In conjunction with the FCR Seminar, eight (8) Hofstra Student Notes are published annually in the FCR. FCR has over 4,700 subscribers and is read by family law practitioners all over the world. FamilyLaw@HofstraLaw is the Center’s new quarterly digital magazine (www.familylaw.hofstra.edu). It contains articles focusing on all aspects of the Center and the classes, programs, projects, community service and experiential learning that it offers to the students and for the community. Informative and educational articles are written by faculty, students, alumni and the editor with messages in each publication from Judge Prudenti, Dean and Executive Director, and Prof. Andrew Schepard, Director. Upon its issuance each quarter, emails introducing the new articles are sent out to thousands of Judges, attorneys, psychologists, and other professionals involved in the family law arena as well as Hofstra Law students and alumni. Conference Presentations: 2017 Siben Lecture and Symposium - “Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Family Law: The Real and the Ideal” – held on November 10, 2017 https://law.hofstra.edu/facultyandcenters/centers/ccfl/events/interdisciplinarycollaboratio ninfamilylaw/index.html. An article on this symposium will be published in an upcoming edition of the Family Court Review. Also to be published in an upcoming edition of the Family Court Review is the Report of the Matrimonial Summit on the future of matrimonial practice, which was held on March 10, 2017 at Hofstra Law under the title “Matrimonial Practice in New York in the 21st Century: the Bar’s Role in Shaping Change.” 59 The Center for Children, Families, and the Law
Curriculum and Teaching: FCR Seminar Class Article 17A Guardianship Family Law with Skills Course offering Matrimonial Navigator Program component Modern Divorce Advocacy Course Child and Family Advocacy Fellowship Engagement and Community Service: Article 17A Guardianship course students assisted 6 AHRC families in obtaining guardianship for their disabled children in the Summer of 2017 and 9 more are in the process of being appointed as a result of the efforts of the students in the Spring 2018 guardianship class. Access to Justice Incubator (which has recently merged with the Center) opened: a) 8 SCPA 17-A guardianship cases as counsel for Petitioner; b) 17 MHL Article 81 guardianship cases assigned as Court Evaluator by the Court; and c) 12 MHL Article 81 guardianship cases assigned as attorney for Alleged Incapacitated Person by the Court. The Incubator concluded (including matters commenced prior to 9/1/2017): a) 6 SCPA 17A guardianship cases as counsel for Petitioner; b) 23 MHL Article 81 guardianship cases as Court Evaluator; and c) 15 MHL Article 81 guardianship cases as attorney for Alleged Incapacitated Person. International Activities: FCR has over 4,700 subscribers and is read by family law practitioners all over the world. Grant or Foundation Funds Received/Applications: AHRC: $25,000 applied / received LICF: $15,000 applied / received New York State Unified Court System Judiciary Civil Legal Services Grant: $131,888 applied / received Fundraising: Outstanding Women in the Law Event held on April 24, 2018 - Please see flyer attached ($85,000) Siben Conference and Symposium held on November 10, 2017 ($2,460) Various Private Donations ($29,412) Pledges: Abrams Fensterman - $10,000 Measurable Outcomes for 2018/2019 Academic Year:
Siben Distinguished Lecture Series and Symposium will be held during the 2018-2019 academic year with anticipated subject of Access-to-Justice in Family Law. Mediation Project: Joint project with Hofstra Law students and Hofstra Department of Psychology graduate students providing mediation services for divorcing or separating couples.
Navigator Program will be continued: Allows Hofstra Law students to assist select unrepresented litigants in Supreme Court, Nassau County Matrimonial Center. 60 The Center for Children, Families, and the Law