Faculty

Since its launch in Spring 2020, LaGuardia Humanitarian Initiative is currently LaGuardia’s only collegewide initiative providing experiential learning opportunities to ALL students, irrespective of department and program.

Through partnerships with local and global organizations, LHI’s high-impact pedagogical practice focuses on a yearlong interdisciplinary inquiry of global issues as defined by the United Nations. By aligning with the mission of LaGuardia and the goals of Experiential Learning as stated by the Association of Experiential Education, LHI addresses General Education’s all the core competencies and communication abilities.

40+ courses have incorporated LHI in their curriculum since its inception. LHI foregrounds reflective pedagogy by a) helping students understand why they are learning the academic content and b) teaching them strategies of how they could apply that knowledge. LHI’s work has been acknowledged by the United Nations, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Laureate and Vice President Al Gore, among others.

Faculty are highly encouraged to share their LHI pedagogical projects/theme(s) to be included in the United Nations Academic Impact Program annual report. Click here to submit the form.

To receive more information on

1. How to incorporate or integrate LHI in your existing curriculum/syllabi
2. Designing LHI assignments
3. Submitting LHI assignments to the Learning Matters Assignment Library
4. Creating a LHI CUNYFirst Marker to your course, and/or for any additional queries please email Tuli Chatterji at tchatterji@lagcc.cuny.edu.

LaGuardia’s Library can support faculty and students in finding information and data around LHI’s yearly theme and UN Sustainable Goal. Consult our LHI Research Guide or contact Librarian Elizabeth Jardine at ejardine@lagcc.cuny.edu for further assistance.

To schedule classroom visits, contact Stefania Dinu at sdinu@lagcc.cuny.edu.

Please complete the interest form here to be contacted by a LHI committee member.

Classroom Learning/Inclusive Pedagogy (Led by Faculty)

Research Guide

• Dana Trusso (Humanities)
• Sada Jaman (Business and Accounting)
• Tuli Chatterji, Rochell Isaac, Rochelle Spencer (English)
• Anja Vojvodic, Alice Baldwin-Jones (Social Sciences)
• Claudette Davis, Christopher Farley, Marina Klebanov (Natural Sciences)
• Sandra Sze (M.E.C)
• Kyoko Toyama (College Discovery)
• Sada Jaman (Business and Technology)
• Rebekah Johnson (ELA)