Call for Papers

Inquirer is a journal devoted to teaching, learning, and scholarship at BMCC. The editors welcome manuscripts on any number of topics for No. 31, including but not limited to the following:

  • Teaching in times of trauma & ethical teaching
  • Expanding discussions of equity and inclusion
  • Zooming—What works, what doesn’t, how do students experience it.
  • The story of on-line teaching: successes, failures, benefits, problems, joys!
  • New pedagogies in theory and practice
  • Ways to enliven the (on-line) classroom
  • Teaching challenges faced and resolved
  • Disciplines and skills across the curriculum
  • Classroom-based research
  • Impacts of syllabus, curriculum, and policy changes
  • Teaching globalization and global citizenship
  • Teaching sustainability and environmental awareness
  • Fiction, poetry, and narratives related to teaching
  • Book reviews

Proposals for Teachable Moment Symposia (four or more papers on a shared theme) Send proposals to the editors by February 19, 2024. The deadline for completed manuscripts is April 22, 2024. Authors should aim for a finished manuscript of roughly 2500 words, though the editors will consider longer and shorter submissions. Works in Progress will also be considered. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word, double- spaced and in 12-point font, with text, notes, and references formatted in a recognized style (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago) or in the conventional style of the author’s discipline.

Send inquiries and articles to the editors: Holly Messitt, English, hmessitt@bmcc.cuny.edu Elizabeth Wissinger, Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice, ewissinger@bmcc.cuny.edu