H. Elizabeth Smith Ed.D

Dr. H. Elizabeth Smith, Professor of English, has taught composition and literature at Bronx Community College since 2003, when she began as a lecturer in the English Department. Smith has earned degrees from Marlboro College (BA/International Studies), the University of Houston (MA/English), and Teachers College, Columbia University (Ed.M and Ed.D/English Education). For Smith, teaching is a vocation; over the course of her career, she has taught middle and high school students as well as community college, university and graduate students. Born in India, Smith spent her formative years as a “third culture kid” and American expatriate in Tanzania, Nepal and Switzerland before moving to Vermont for college. Smith brings a distinctly international worldview to her teaching practice and, with this, a belief in the transformative possibilities of global literature to connect humanity across worlds. Smith views the composition process as a profoundly personal form of critical thinking and is committed to pedagogies of inclusivity, community-building and individual empowerment.

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Professor Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco

Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a Ph.D. “Cum Laude” in political science and sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a concentration in political changes in contemporary democracies. Dr. Jiménez Polanco is the author of Los partidos políticos en la República Dominicana: Actividad electoral y desarrollo organizativo and Corrupción y cartelización de la política en la República Dominicana. In 2023 she co-edited and co-authored the book Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change and the anthology Divagaciones II: An Anthology by Dominican Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women/Divagaciones II: Una antología de mujeres dominicanas lesbianas, bisexuales y queer. Her latest authored book Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians was published by Routledge in 2024. She was granted a CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Research Award and a PSC-CUNY Award in 2022-2023.

Dr. Jordi Getman-Eraso (faculty)

Dr. Jordi Getman-Eraso, a Professor in the History Department, was named inaugural Director of Online Learning at Bronx Community College in 2021. Dr. Getman-Eraso has extensive experience teaching online and with faculty development, having led faculty seminars for BCC’s Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology for the last decade and a half. Along with two BCC colleagues, in 2014 he developed the New Faculty Seminar integrating pedagogical and assessment best practices, as well as career development strategies for all new faculty at BCC. Before that, he created BCC’s Honors Program and the ePortfolio Program. He chaired the college’s Institutional Effectiveness Committee and Co-Chaired the Middle States Self-Study submitted in 2019, which received a commendation for educational effectiveness assessment from the Middle States Commission.

Albert Robinson (staff)

Albert Robinson is the Director of Online Support and Learning Management System at The Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Albert has been at BCC for 16 years and has worked closely with BCC Presidents, VP’s, Deans, Directors, Department Chairs, Faculty, Students, and Staff. Albert was born and raised in the Bronx. He is a graduate of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education (M.S. in Education) and The College of New Rochelle (B.A. in Psychology and Business). Some of his accomplishments at BCC include: creation of the LMS support rapid response team, the faculty, staff and student Audio/Video studio located in BC Room 309D and the 3D Printing lab. He also serves on several committees at BCC and CUNY central. During the pandemic, he and his team were instrumental in making sure faculty and students were prepared to teach and learn remotely. Currently he is the Co-chair of the BCC Blackboard to Brightspace LMS transition team. 

“Working together and being involved in campus activities will make the college community stronger.” Albert Robinson 

Questions:

All questions can be directed to the committee chair Seth Offenbach.