Join APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for their professional development workshop series’ fourth event.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | 3:00 PM / 12:00 PM | Register Here
This virtual workshop provides specific advice and strategies for how to teach multiple sections of American government each semester, year after year. Panelists include community college faculty from California, New York, and Texas. Topics will include: course assignments and materials, open education resources, activities and games, active learning methods, and more. Join APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for the fourth event of their professional development workshop series.
Panelists Include:
- Peter Kolozi, CUNY Bronx Community College
- Shwana Brandle, CUNY Kingsborough Community College
- Josh Franco, Cuyamaca College
- (Moderator) Terry Gilmour, Midland College
Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org.
Meet The Panelists
Shawna M. Brandle is a Professor of Political Science and the Open Education Coordinator at Kingsborough Community College and a member of the faculty of the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research areas include human rights, media coverage of human rights and refugee issues, and Open Educational Practices in higher education. In Fall 2021, Dr. Brandle was a Fulbright Scholar at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She is the author of Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK: The Violations Will Not Be Televised (Routledge 2015). She spends her spare time making art with her family.
Peter Kolozi is Professor of Political Science at CUNY Bronx Community College in Bronx, New York. He earned his Master’s and PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. His most recent publication is a co-authored American Politics textbook entitled The Political Imagination: Introduction to American Government (forthcoming, Fall 2025). His other publications include Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization (2017, Columbia University Press) and co-authored articles including: “Afghanistan: The Making and Unmaking of a Modern State”, “Martin Luther King Jr. and America’s Fourth Revolution: The Poor People’s Campaign at Fifty”, “Remembering Martin Luther King’s Last, Most Radical Book”, “Trumpism is Conservatism: The New Conservative Mainstream”, “Poisoning the Well: Demagoguery vs. Democracy”, among others. He teaches a variety of courses in political science including American Government, Civil Rights in America, Comparative Politics, and Political Economy.
Josue (Josh) Franco is a tenured Associate Professor at Cuyamaca College in San Diego County, California. Born in Mexico and raised in Los Angeles County, he is a proud first-generation college graduate who holds A.A. degrees in economics and political science from Cerritos College, and a B.A. in public policy and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Merced. As a first generation college graduate, introducing political science to the next generation of leaders and scholars is his mission. He is a 2024-2025 APSA Congressional Fellow and Member of the APSA Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession.
Terry Gilmour has been a professor of Political Science at Midland College since 1993. She received her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and areas of study included American Government, Political Theory, and Public Administration but more recently she has written on the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has been a member of APSA since 1993 and served on the executive board as Chair of the Teaching and Learning Policy Committee from 2020-2023. She has attended the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference since 2008 and served as Co-Chair of the 2025 conference in Alexandria, Virginia. She also serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Southwest Political Science Association.
About the Status Committee
The Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession works to create an inclusive culture for community college faculty within the profession, increase community college faculty membership, build relationships across higher education institutions, and recommend programming to address the unique needs of community college faculty. Check out the committee’s website here.