This is a special episode of The Annex that looks at sociology at community colleges.  We meet four colleagues at community colleges: Shirley Leyro (CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College), Myron Strong (Community College of Baltimore County), Vondora Wilson (Nassau Community College), and Christina Wolfe (Georgia Highlands College).  We discuss the community college sector: what it is like to work there, excellence within the sector, and who might be well-suited for a career in community colleges.

Strong

Leyro

Wilson

Wolfe

This is a special episode of The Annex that looks at sociology at community colleges.  We meet four colleagues at community colleges: Shirley Leyro (CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College), Myron Strong (Community College of Baltimore County), Vondora Wilson (Nassau Community College), and Christina Wolfe (Georgia Highlands College).  We discuss the community college sector: what it is like to work there, excellence within the sector, and who might be well-suited for a career in community colleges.

Strong

Leyro

Wilson

Wolfe

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss a recent Gallup poll suggesting that public confidence in higher education is falling (article in Inside Higher Ed).

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss how they deal with attendance in their classes.

Other readings:

“The Contamination of Student Assessment“, by Jay Sterling Silver

“Do Attendance Policies Discriminate Against Disability” by Claire Potter

“Attendance, Discrimination, and LDA” by Matt Reed

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss the concept of toxic masculinity, and a recent New York Times essay on the topic.

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) on the study of culture and social class.   Jessi Streib wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages (Oxford University Press), a book on the challenges that college-educated couples face when one partner comes from a working class family.  More recently, she write “The Unbalanced Theoretical Toolkit” in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, an article on theorizing about the nexus of class, culture, and mobility.

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss a recent Gallup poll suggesting that public confidence in higher education is falling (article in Inside Higher Ed).

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss how they deal with attendance in their classes.

Other readings:

“The Contamination of Student Assessment“, by Jay Sterling Silver

“Do Attendance Policies Discriminate Against Disability” by Claire Potter

“Attendance, Discrimination, and LDA” by Matt Reed

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss the concept of toxic masculinity, and a recent New York Times essay on the topic.

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:

Streib

Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) on the study of culture and social class.   Jessi Streib wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages (Oxford University Press), a book on the challenges that college-educated couples face when one partner comes from a working class family.  More recently, she write “The Unbalanced Theoretical Toolkit” in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, an article on theorizing about the nexus of class, culture, and mobility.

Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon: