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Doomsday Preppers in New York City
On today’s episode of the QC Pod, we meet Prof. Anna Bounds (Sociology) to discuss doomsday preparation in New York City. Prof. Bounds is the author of Bracing for the Apocalypse: An Ethnographic Study of New York’s ‘Prepper’ Subculture (Routledge).
Applying to Graduate School
Queens College has a history of placing its undergraduates into world-famous graduate degree programs. In today’s episode, we talk to Robin Rogers (Associate Professor of Sociology), a former Director of Queens College’s Honors Program and a mentor to many students on the path to advanced degrees.
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Succeeding in Online Learning
COVID19 has pushed school online, and learning online is a new experience for a lot of students. In today’s episode of the QC Pod, we talk to Queens College’s educational technology gurus — Eva Fernandez and Michelle Fraboni — to discuss how students succeed while studying online.
Eva Fernandez is Queens College’s Associate Provost for Innovation and Student Success, and a Professor of Linguistics and Communications. Michelle Fraboni is an Assistant Professor of Education at Queens College. They are, respectively, the former and current Directors of Queens College’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
For more tips and information on College resources, visit Queens College’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
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The Women of Generation X
In today’s episode of the QC Pod, we meet with Professor Robin Rogers from the Department of Sociology to discuss her research on the women of Generation X. The young women of the 1990s and 2000s were told that they could do everything that men could do, but were their expectations of a better life fulfilled? Are there lessons for younger generations?
Teaching During COVID
In today’s episode of the QC Pod, we talk to Eva Fernandez and Michelle Fraboni, two of Queens College’s teaching and technologies gurus, about how to serve our students while COVID19 forces us online. Eva Fernandez is Queens College’s Associate Provost for Innovation and Student Success, and a Professor of Linguistics and Communications. Michelle Fraboni is an Assistant Professor of Education at Queens College. They are, respectively, the former and current Directors of Queens College’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
For more tips and information on College resources, visit Queens College’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
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QC Data Analytics in the 1990s
Professor Mindy Rhindress is a valued faculty member and Mentor-in-Residence at Queens College’s Program in Data Analytics and Applied Social Research. She is also one of her program’s highly-successful alumni, with a very successful corporate career that culminated in a senior executive at the major marketing research firm Abt Associates.
It often surprises Data Analytics students that our program is decades-old, with a long history of training students to apply quantitative social science to public and private sector enterprise problems. Check out this gem we found!
In our inaugural episode of The QC Pod, we ask Professor Rhindress what it was like to study analytics back in the 1990s. She talks about how QC students were trained to evangelize the idea that enterprises should give all their knowledge workers a computer of their own, and should teach people to use them! We talk about the resistance to computers back in the 1990s, how a male-dominated executive culture thought it too emasculating to type up your own work, and how people like Prof. Rhindress were able to capitalize on their understandings of what techs did to better work with them as a business executive.
Queens College’s Master’s Program in Data Analytics and Applied Social Research continues that tradition today by training students in today’s cutting-edge data analytics and applied social science. It is an outstanding program with a great placement record (at a fraction of the cost of our private school competitors). Applications are free for Queens College students.
