Dr. Jody Resko

Professor Resko has taught part-time at CUNY since 1996, and full-time at QCC since 2018. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from CUNY Graduate School and University Center. For over 15 years she taught at Yeshiva University & Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is dedicated to collaborative interdisciplinary teaching and research endeavors. She is a past recipient of a Pedagogical Research Challenge Award for her work on Negative Math Attitudes in Pre-Service Teachers in collaboration with Mathieu Sassolas (Math Department). She is currently collaborating with Prof. Ward (Library Department) on a PSC-CUNY funded research project examining student engagement using Open Pedagogy and the UDL framework. Prof. Resko is dedicated to working with her students and is actively involved in Undergraduate Research and several college- and CUNY-wide programs (SIRP, CRSP, Undergraduate Research Day).

In this presentation, Dr. Gabriel Lataianu, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, will discuss the Trump administration's family separation policy and subsequently proposed Family Detention Centers. He will also shed light on how these policies bluntly violated the Flores Agreement, the most important legal act protecting immigrant children in the U.S., leaving thousands of immigrant children in legislative limbo as apprehended