The Education Team welcomed five Baruch Faculty Fellows to the museum last Wednesday to tour our collections and review online resources. Our goal was to develop innovative ways that the Fellows and their students can interact with our collections. 
Stan Altman discusses the importance of the art education.
Soon after Baruch formed a Partnership with the museum in July of 2010, Stan Altman created the Fellows program to provide 5 to 6 faculty members the opportunity to create innovative curricula inspired by our collections and special programs. Armed with a stipend and a research assistant, faculty are encouraged to utilize the museum as an exiting laboratory for new learning.
The Fellows are introduced to museum resources
The museum not only offers beautiful sacred and contemporary Himalayan art to explore; we also offer a wealth of human resources. One Fellow has already tapped into this rich vein: Donna Gitter, who teaches Law of Business Organization, brought 78 of her students to the museum to meet with Marilena Christodoulou and her Finance team. The topic? The business of art, as discussed in my previous blog, “Baruch students explore business and art at the Rubin Museum”. Donna herself wrote a lovely blog about the experience: http://www.altcprojects.org/blog-3/2011/11/16/business-students-reflect-on-the-buddahs-renunciation-of-worldly-pleasures
2011-2012 Baruch Faculty Fellows: Donna Gitter, Amy Estes, Don Waisanen, Katherine Behar, and Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
This year’s Fellows are a wonderfully diverse group, with research interests and expertise spanning from New Media, Theater Studies, and Fine Art, to Political Communication, Public Advocacy, and Law. We’re looking forward to seeing what kinds of projects they develop for the Spring 2012 semester. We’ll be sure to keep you posted!