Recognizing New York University’s mission of public service and the Division of Student Affairs hallmarks of learning, diversity, and community, the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (aka, the Center) created the Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative in the fall of 2007. The Initiative began after a successful Welcome Week Event focused on hip-hop and education, and later grew into a working pedagogy group comprised of NYU faculty, administrators and staff, which eventually included community based non-profit leaders, graduate and undergraduate students. The Initiative serves as an umbrella for the NYU community for hip-hop programming and events, and offers cutting edge resources and referrals for academic based hip-hop courses and trainings.
The breadth of student learning and addressing critical campus needs through this initiative prove ingeniously expansive. As can be expected, the diversity of students that are drawn to, contribute to, and benefit from the many expressions of the Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative serve as an example of the truly intercultural experiences we wish to provide in education. At any given program or in any given classroom of the Initiative, you will find students of all social identities, representing the full spectrum of experiences and communities related to socio-economic class, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious faith, language and much more, with a continuous intersection of these identities in intentional modes of intellectual exploration and communication. Students of all ages, previously unmotivated by the conventional teaching techniques and not reaching their full academic potential have been inspired by this innovative pedagogy that stimulates new ways of thinking that lead to improvements in overall institutional climate.
This Initiative has allowed the Center to collaborate on many high profile and powerful events over the course of the last year including film screenings, performances, and conferences, all while working with NYU schools and departments, ranging from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to the Tisch School of the Arts, and from the Admissions Office to Residential Education.
At a time when university professionals search for technological resources, curriculum, applicable research and methodological approaches that meet the diverse learning styles of students in a rapidly modernizing world, the Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative draws from the most contemporary of art and intellectual forms familiar to so many young people. Consequently, the Center, through this Initiative, has worked with countless students who have become deeply engaged with the essential concepts and skills of a wide range of disciplines such as writing, history, art, public speaking and technology/new media through the creative platforms that hip-hop culture so creatively offers.
The result is that faculty and administrators integrate their scholarship into course curriculum and programming that leads to demonstrable learning outcomes that students attest to in assessment after assessment. Finally, the intricate and deep web of interrelationships built through the support of the Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative, along with the generation of innovative tools for the implementation of incredibly creative thought, insures a truly sustainable legacy at the university.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
Wednesday, December 2
5:00 PM: Graduate Students of Color Socials
Thursday, December 3
12:30 PM: Network of BLACK Men Meeting
12:30 PM: Making it in Media
Thursday, February 4
5:00 PM: Network of BLACK Men Meeting
Thursday, February 18
12:30 PM: Network of BLACK Men Meeting
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