On Tuesday, April 24th at 11:30 in Founders Hall Dr. Rafaele Fierro moderated a panel discussion on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Two guests,Dr. Ellen Andrews, Executive Director of the Connecticut Health Policy Project and Fergus Cullen, Executive Director of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy were on the panel along with Tunxis Professor Bob Brown.
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On Wednesday, April 18th, local spiritual leader and Tunxis adjunct faculty member Rabbi Howard Herman spoke in our Proof & Possibility lecture series. His talk was be on ways that thinkers address the relationship between the human and the divine – and the relation between philosophy (the love of wisdom) and theology (the study of God). In his talk, he explored how in religious and spiritual circles, it has often been suggested that human beings are from two different worlds – living half in heaven and half in earth. However, he notes, it has also been speculated that mortals are not quite at home in either place. If one attempts to reconcile heaven and earth, at what point does mystical union with the divine and personal integration of the different parts of oneself become one and the same.
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The International Dinner is the final event of International Week, a week of special events designed to celebrate the diversity of the international students at Tunxis. The dinner is a pot luck supper where students and faculty bring food to share. There is a “tea cup” judging of dishes and prizes are awarded for the favorites of the night. Bob Chase, one of our Spanish teachers, volunteers to be the MC for the evening. The music for this year’s dinner was provided by Goza Latin Jazz Band.
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Presented at: The April 13, 2012 Professional Development Day at Tunxis Community College
Dr. Jason G. Irizarry is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and The Latinization of U.S. Schools: Successful Teaching and Learning in Shifting Cultural Contexts among others.
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Tunxis held their 4th Annual Jazz Night on April 11, 2012. The guest performer was Khalim Zarif who performed on keyboard and between sets, shared some of his experiences working as a professional jazz musician over the years. He was accompanied by a local group that features Kevin O’Neil on guitar.
Dr. Kevin O’Neil is the teacher of the Tunxis Jazz class and students in this class also performed as a group at Jazz Night.
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About 75 students, faculty, and staff members attended Tunxis Community College’s fifth Forum on News Media on Wednesday, March 28. The topic for discussion was online publishing of newspapers. Panelists were Jenifer Frank, editor of the online Connecticut Mirror (www.ctmirror.org); Doug Hardy, business manager of Connecticut News Junkie (www.ctnewsjunkie.com); and Jackie Majerus and Steve Collins, co-founders of Youth Journalism International, which publishes news articles written by high-school age students from around the world (www.youthjournalism.org)
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Students in the ESL Oral Skills Class serve as panelists to share with other Tunxis students both their good and bad experiences of moving into the U.S. culture. This event is an annual part of International Week which celebrates the diversity of cultures that come together to study at Tunxis
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This year’s Humanities Spring Writer event featured comedian Chris Tabb who spoke about what it takes to be a comedian and the process he uses to write and revise material for a variety of audiences. He followed the Poetry Slam and the CT Poetry Circuit Student Poets. This event was put together through the efforts of Patrice Hamilton and Sandy Kovach. The event was held in Founders Hall on Wednesday, March 7th
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Elizabeth Lyra Ross and her pianist, Gerald Moshell, performed on campus on February 8, 2012. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and did graduate study at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. Since completing her enlistment with The United States Army Band and Chorus, her international career has included the opera roles of Aida, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, and both Bess and Serena in Porgy and Bess. She has appeared with the New York Metropolitan Opera and she was in the New York City Opera Production of Porgy and Bess that was nominated for an Emmy Award on the Live from Lincoln Center Series. In December 2010, Elizabeth released her fourth CD titled, Oh Holy Night and Other Holiday Songs. She currently lives in Collinsville, CT.
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On January 1, 2012, the Connecticut Community Technical College System became a part of the larger system of Connecticut College and Universities, governed by a single Board of Regents. An event was held on December 15, 2011, to commemorate the previous forty-five years as a community college system and to say thank you to the Board of Trustees. Selected interviews and pictures from the event are included to represent that celebration. All still images by Allison Egan, Public Relations Associate from Naugatuck Valley Community College.
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