Misun Dokko

About

Misun Dokko is an associate professor in the English Department at LaGuardia. Her current research focuses on engagement in an urban two-year institutional context. As an example of this work, her article “Promising but Struggling Multilinguals: Getting on Track in First-Year Composition” appears in the Journal of Basic Writing (42.4). Currently, she is writing an article manuscript about “class families.” This manuscript draws on familismo, belonging, collaborative learning, and cooperative learning scholarship to offer an approach to small group learning in first-year composition.

In addition to her work as a researcher and professor, she is co-director of LaGuardia’s Transfer Engagement Initiative. In this role, she supports transfer from LaGuardia to four-year colleges through assessing the college’s transfer efforts, organizing student transfer events, and presenting advisor and faculty events that acclimate them to support the transfer process.