AHA Session 89
Friday, January 7, 2022: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Galerie 3 (New Orleans Marriott, 2nd Floor)
Chair:
Marjorie Denise Brown, Houston Community College
Panel:
Lauran Kerr-Heraly, Houston Community College
Samantha Rodriguez, Houston Community College
James A. Ross-Nazzal, Houston Community College
Shawna Williams, Houston Community College
Samantha Rodriguez, Houston Community College
James A. Ross-Nazzal, Houston Community College
Shawna Williams, Houston Community College
Session Abstract
At community colleges, innovation and interdisciplinary thinking are key to facilitating student success. With an average teaching load of 5/5, and open admissions, faculty need a teaching methodology that will maximize impact without adding additional layers of work for the instructor and assignments for the students. To do this, we are required to ask: What does it mean to be a historian in the 21st Century, what are the opportunities for historians, and how do we teach history? The West Houston Institute Innovation Fellows program at Houston Community College is a competitive one-year experience for faculty and staff centered on the mindsets and skills critical to becoming innovators in an ever-shifting academic environment. In this session, members of the Innovation Fellows program will discuss the ways they have applied innovation at the intersections in their courses and in their research. This panel is not only relevant to professors teaching at community colleges across the nation, but also serves as a launching pad for dissecting the ways innovation at the intersections offers a timely framework for re-examining our pedagogy and scholarship – both in higher education, and more broadly.
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