50th Anniversary

Queensborough Community College - City University of New York

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March 2010
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Celebrate Queensborough at 50

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Technology thru the years...Photos from the Archives

CUNY Commons Blog: The Bleeding Edge by Bruce Naples - 1967 Alum

Technology and Queensborough’s 50th Anniversary

This year Queensborough Community College will be commemorating its 50th Anniversary with year-long events and many celebrations of the past, present, and future. We have a rich history, remarkable for many successes, including numerous graduates who have come back to work here. The current chairs of the ECET and Physical Education Departments, the Executive Director [...]

Student Response Systems a.k.a. Clickers

I recently attended an excellent Webinar entitled “Clickers: Keys to Transforming Classrooms & Engaging College Students” given by Dr. Douglas Duncan, University of Colorado, Boulder – via Higher Ed Hero. In his presentation Dr. Duncan covered mostly pedagogy with only a sprinkling of tech-talk – very informative; highly recommended. Many College’s including Queensborough are adopting clickers [...]

Digital Signage

Many campuses are installing digital signage systems. They can be used as a means of keeping various constituents aware of things that are going to happen or that have already happened. Items such as office or lab hours, reminders of local parking regulations or bus schedules, book store hours and specials, as well as upcoming [...]

Looking for an Echo

I spent most of my teenage years on stage as a singer. But some of the best times were the rehearsals when we were, as the song says, “singing Doo-Wops to the wall” – or the hall, the bathroom, the stairwell… We were always searching for the best possible sound. More recently my searching has been [...]

Photography

One of my passions is photography. I started as a young boy, working in my father’s basement darkroom, developing negatives, and then exposing, dogging, burning-in, developing, short-stopping, and hypo-ing, washing and drying the many photos he had taken in his avocation as a wedding and child photographer. He took and sepia-toned the photos and my [...]
 
 

Q9: Before 1600, the area where Queensborough Community College is located was called what by the Indians who inhabited it?
A9: Seawanacky

Q10: In which year did computer technology bring to home-bound students visualization of mathematics courses (they could see everything being written on the blackboard as it was being written)? Until then, home-bound students attend class only via telephone.
A10: 1997
 

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