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8:30 – 9:30 a.m.              Academic Festival Registration & Check-in, Zankel Building – Main Hall 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.              Continental Breakfast, Everett Lounge 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.            Academic Festival Opening Ceremony & Awards Ceremony Keynote Address Jeffrey Sachs on Information Technology and Sustainable Development, Joyce Berger Cowin Conference Center; Q & A session moderated [...]

Global economist Jeffrey Sachs will headline TC’s fourth annual Academic Festival, themed “Rewiring the Learning Landscape,” on Saturday, April 21st. The full-day, on-campus event will feature faculty, alumni and students in interactive sessions that explore the intersection of technology and humanity in education, computing, the arts, psychology, nutrition and leadership. Sachs, Director of The Earth [...]

Concurrent Sessions I Connecting Communities Online moderated by John Allegrante, Professor of Health Education and Deputy Provost; featuring Thomas Chandler (PhD, ’09, MA, ’00), National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health; Christel Hyden (EdD ’11), Public Health Researcher; Annie Feighery (ME  ’10) Today’s communities are evolving from geographic to virtual. This [...]

If you need help re-finding your way around TC’s campus, use this Route Finder built by our friends in EdLab: TC Route Finder. TC EdLab staff will present a session featuring all of the e-resources available every day, most of them free of charge, to alumni, students and the TC Community as a part of [...]

Thank you for visiting the Academic Festival 2012 website. We are currently in the process of finalizing our lineup of speakers and breakout sessions. Please come back at a future date to see more about the day and to RSVP. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tcalumni@tc.edu.

Congratulations to the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients (from l-to-r): Kevin Jennings (MA ’94), Lucille Ann Joel (EdD ’70), John King ( EdD ’08), Harold J. Noah (PhD ’64), Robert Schaffer ( EdD ’52) and Early Career Award recipient, Betty Perez-Rivera (EdD ’03). Kevin Jennings was the Assistant Deputy Secretary on the Obama Administration for the [...]

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, will be presented with the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service and will deliver the fourth annual Academic Festival Keynote Address. Additionally, TC Alumnus Matthew Pittinsky, CEO of Parchment & founder of Blackboard, Inc. will be honored with the Teachers College President’s Medal of Excellence. [...]