BY JI LIU Exactly 100 years ago, Dr. Kuo Ping Wen became the first Chinese doctoral degree recipient at Teachers College. Soon after his graduation from TC, he returned to China, and founded the National Southeast University in Nanking. Dr. Kuo was regarded as the father of modern Chinese higher education because of the many… Read More Kuo Ping Wen, a Legacy that Still Lives Today
BY CHELSEY JONES Free tuition for all students would save $6.4 billion dollars—so, why aren’t we planning for a tuition free 2015-2016 school year? In January, Jordan Weissmann published an article in The Atlantic about government spending on American higher education; he writes that our country could actually save money if public college tuition was… Read More How saving 6.4 billion dollars AND giving students free tuition won’t solve all our higher education finance problems
BY NICOLE ELAINE AVERY Commentary: Firearms out-date the camera, or the versions one considers a camera, by several hundreds of centuries. Therefore, the likelihood of capturing a villain red-handed would had to have happened in-front-of a painter or quick sculptor in society’s “early-days.” Yet, with today’s ability to capture crime in mid-sentence through video surveillance… Read More Just-ish
BY DANIEL SOULELES This is a reprint of some words shared at a departmental memorial for Professor Bond last spring. I’ve heard that when you speak in public, if you want people to remember what you say, you pick three ideas and stick with them. And since I want people to remember Professor Bond, I’ll… Read More A Few Words for Professor Bond
BY APRIL EMPLEO FRAZIER Dharma-certified Yoga Instructor J.E.E.P. Coordinator- Community Impact Department at Columbia University Field Consultant-NYC Teaching Fellows 2014 Masters Student of Mindfulness in Education at TC- Columbia University This semester, a handful of Teachers College students have embarked on a journey within through a new partnership with Mindful Harlem. Students are completing certifications… Read More Harlem Mindfulness
BY MICHELLE WORTHINGTON M.A. Candidate, Clinical Psychology The following is a fictionalized account compiled from the stories of others’ experiences. Mental health is something many members of our community struggle with and everyone experiences it differently. Seeing different accounts of a shared topic can be useful in defining it more clearly for oneself. It can… Read More Nailing the Psychiatric Interview
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