Cathy Leaker

• Kingsborough Community College

Almost from its inception in 1971, Empire State College has offered students and faculty opportunities to work in different learning modes, including the foundational face-to-face teaching and learning model at regional centers and distance learning through the Saratoga Springs-based Center for Distance Learning (CDL).

In this chapter, I assess the fraught cultural messages embedded in the trials and tribulations of daytime TV’s only leading gay character, Bianca Montgomery of All My Children (AMC). While I touch upon the responses of soap fans to the Bianca story line, I rely largely on narrative analysis. Such an analysis indicates that the investments and mean...

In this article, we argue that prior learning assessment (PLA) essays manifest a series of issues central to composition research and practice: they foreground the "contact zone" between the unauthorized writer, institutional power, and the articulation of knowledge claims; they reinforce the central role of a multifaceted approach to writing exper...

In this article, we argue that prior learning assessment (PLA) essays manifest a series of issues central to composition research and practice: they foreground the “contact zone” between the unauthorized writer, institutional power, and the articulation of knowledge claims; they reinforce the central role of a multifaceted approach to writing e...

In this chapter, I assess the fraught cultural messages embedded in the trials and tribulations of daytime TV’s only leading gay character, Bianca Montgomery of All My Children (AMC). While I touch upon the responses of soap fans to the Bianca story line, I rely largely on narrative analysis. Such an analysis indicates that the investments and mean...