In the News

CUNY SPS ePortfolio Assistant Karen Gonzalez is featured in the latest episode of the Digication podcast, where she discusses her work and shares her insights into ePortfolio pedagogy and practice. The ePortfolio of Rokshana Ali, a student in the MS in Disability Services in Higher Education program and the assistant director of Communications & Media and Liberal Studies at CUNY SPS, is highlighted in this podcast as well.

Dr. Elizabeth Alsop, academic director of communication and media and liberal studies at CUNY SPS, has published the video essay "The Television Will Not Be Summarized" in the latest issue of [in]Transition, a peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. Her video explores "excessive" style in contemporary TV, in shows including Twin Peaks: The Return, The Leftovers, The Knick, Hannibal, and Enlightened.

An article about inclusion in the workplace, written by CUNY SPS alum Ebonye Gussine Wilkins (MA in Business Management & Leadership ’11), has been featured in a list of top 5 intriguing Cutter Business Technology Journal articles for 2020.

Four CUNY SPS MA in Applied Theatre students have co-authored articles published in the December 2020 double issue of NYU’s ArtsPraxis Educational Theatre journal. Alexis Jemal (’21), Brennan O’Rourke (’21), Jenny Hipscher (’21), and Tabatha Lopez (’21) wrote “Pandemic Lessons" (Volume 7 Issue 2a) and “Theatre for Liberating Social Work Education" (Volume 7 Issue 2b). Both articles draw on work these students undertook in MAAT courses.

Three CUNY SPS MA in Applied Theatre alums have had their work published in the Fall 2020 issue of the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal. Julian Pimiento ('19) published "Joker's Log 2020: An Odyssey," and Grace Cannon ('19) and Nicole Kontolefa ('19) published "Don't Poke the Bear - A Project Report.” Cannon and Kontolefa’s article was derived from an MAAT independent study that took place in collaboration with Ashleigh Bragg ('19) and Elise Goldin ('20).