MAA History Department
The goal of our history department is to make history come alive for the students by encouraging students to take first person perspectives and relate to the content as human beings, while using a differentiated approach that combines reading, writing, questioning, use of primary sources, video links and visual images to tap a variety of student modalities and learning styles.
B.A.-Major: History;
Minor: Political Science
Rutgers UniversityM.S.E.D Secondary Education, Social StudiesCUNY Queens College
*About Rutgers University: www.rutgers.eduRutgers is the only university in the nation that is a colonial college, a land-grant institution, and a leading public research university. It is the nation’s eighth oldest institution of higher learning—one of only nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution.Chartered in 1766 as all-male Queen’s College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the school was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of trustee and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel Henry Rutgers.In the mid-19th century, Congress established the nation’s land-grant colleges in response to the Industrial Revolution. In 1864, Rutgers prevailed over Princeton to become New Jersey’s land-grant institution, tasked with offering educational access to a wider range of students who would be the new workforce for America’s expanding businesses, factories, and farms.In 1989, Rutgers was invited to join the Association of American Universities, making Rutgers one of the top 62 research universities in North America. Rutgers’ standing as a leading university reached new heights in 2013 when a state legislative act transferred to Rutgers much of the University of Medicin\e and Dentistry of New Jersey, including two medical schools and a dental school.Today, with more than 65,000 students, Rutgers is one of the most significant and diverse comprehensive research universities in the nation.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Fordham University was always a permanent ficture growing up reminding me and my parents that this was my ultimate goal- going to college. I guess you could say I was destined to go to this school because I was actually born at Fordham Hospital which was later torn down and became a part of the Fordham University Campus. Although many of my friends wanted to go to school as far away from home as possible, I wanted to stay as close to home and work and Fordham University would give me this rare opportunity.
Fordham, one of three Jesuit schools in New York concentrates on the arts and sciences which is what I knew I really wanted. Besides offering a great liberal arts education, I recieved a great financial aid package paying almost nothing for four years of a truly well rounded, fantastic education from a private university that was just a few blocks away from the comforts of my home. I could not have asked for more. Pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History and Russian Studies I decided to go into the field of teaching and I enrolled in the Master of Arts in Teaching at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan. Having three campuses- one at Rose Hill in the Bronx, the second at Lincoln Center, and the third in Westchester, is what makes Fordham so desireable and convenient for many New Yorkers interested in a first rate education.
Course Website: http://maaushistory.blogspot.com/
Pace University B.A. History/Psychology
St. Thomas Aquinas College M.S. Education
About Me
I originally studied business marketing at Pace, but as I took elective classes in History I realized That my interest in the topics went beyond curiosity. I later changed my declared major to History and Psychology. Throughout my life I coached and trained student athletes, so mixing my love of the History content and my report with students seemed the best course.
About Pace University
Since 1906, Pace University has produced thinking professionals by providing high-quality education for the professions with a firm base in liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York Metropolitan Area. A private university, Pace has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, enrolling almost 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its College of Health Professions, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.
The Pace Story
Pace is a University whose resources have played an essential role in the realization of individual dreams of achievement, and whose mission is voiced in the motto: Opportunitas.
I'm a Boston College graduate class of 2007. Major in History, minor in Sociology. My Masters is from Pace University, class of 2010, with a Master in Science for Teachers degree, with a major in adolescent education. I am the History Department Chair and have worked at Millennium Art Academy for 6+ years. The goal of our history department is to make history come alive for the students by encouraging students to take first person perspectives and relate to the content as human beings, while using a differentiated approach that combines reading, writing, questioning, use of primary sources, video links and visual images to tap a variety of student modalities and learning styles.