Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
12.4.2020
Bank of America has awarded the College with a $1 million grant to increase job opportunities, close the wealth gap, and enhance professional career tracks for black and Latinx communities. HWC is selected as the first educational institution in Illinois to receive a grant through this program. As part of the grant, the College will partner with Catalyte, a local tech firm, to provide students with computer programming training. The program will also develop students’ skills and enhance other industry partnerships for the College’s cybersecurity, software development, and business curriculum. Moreover, the program hopes to expand student participation in existing workforce pathways and placement services offered through our Center of Excellence in Business, under the leadership of the Vice President and Dean Shang-Kwei Wang.
11.6.2020
HWC was awarded the Illinois Humanities Grant in the amount of $12,500. In partnership with DePaul University, under the leadership of Associate Dean Dr. Asif Wilson, the team will explore formerly incarcerated college students’ experiences at community college through Participatory Action (PAR) research.
10.9.2020
Professor Dr. Farahnaz Movahedzadeh, from our Biology Department, was recently appointed as a faculty member at University of Illinois’ Honors College.
8.28.2020
Jacqueline Cunningham, ESL Professor and Co-Chairperson for English Language Learning and World Languages. She has been selected as the Chicago Loop Alliance’s September Loop Employee of the Month! Check out her incredible story here.
Carrie Nepstad is one of the leaders of the formation of a national Think Tank that was developed this summer and includes an ongoing project developing an Advocacy Toolkit for the Associate Degree Early Childhood Teacher Educators group known as "ACCESS". https://www.accessece.org/
Carrie Nepstad was invited to present recently at the 2021 Public Policy Forum for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) to discuss the role of higher education in Early Childhood policy: https://www.naeyc.org/events/policy-forum
English Professors Maria Ortiz, Amy Rosenquest, and Larnell Dunkley presented at the MLA conference regarding persistence and culturally sustaining pedagogies.
English Professor Kennette Crockett edited a Norton Custom Mix (reader) on empathy and wrote the introductory essay, "Striving to Do the Right Thing: Reading and Writing on Empathy."
Chemistry Professor Thomas Higgins was elected the Chair of the Two-Year College Chemistry Consortium (2YC3) for 2022. I began my year at Chair-Elect on 1 January 2021. The 2YC3 provides a forum for chemistry educators to enhance student learning through professional development.