City College English professor Kathleen Molloy will be hosting the annual faculty lecture, “Those Who Can Teach: Those Who Can’t Go into a Less Significant Line of Work” about her experience as an educator.
The lecture is considered one of the highest honors to faculty members each year.
“A lot of students come into [college] and fear that they won’t be able to do the work,” said Molloy, who will host the 34th annual faculty lecture 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20 at the Garvin Theatre.
Her speech will target the success that students have at City College and include her research findings from surveys and classroom observations.
Data collected by Molloy both “contradicts and reinforces” what faculty may assume about this generation of students at City College.
She received her master’s degree from UCSB and applied to work at City College in the English and English skills department. She has been an active participant and supporter of Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, and Disabled Students Programs and Services.
Molloy said that City College has done an outstanding job of offering effective programs and practices, but the real difference is made in the classroom.
“That’s what the research tells us, and more importantly, that’s what our students tell us,” she said.
As former Academic Senate president, Molloy led the Student Success Initiative, an award-winning tutoring program for students. Since her appointment, Molloy was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award from her colleagues.
Because of the pressure for the California community college system to be “all things to all people,” Molloy has been participating in programs aimed at helping students reach their goals and make it through the college system.
Many students have goals, but not all of them manage to achieve getting an associate degree or transferring to a four-year university and that is what Molloy intends to address.
The lecture will include performances from volunteer actors who will offer the audience the information that Molloy has collected in a more interesting way.
She will reflect “perceptions when students enter college” by staging scenes with the actors periodically throughout her talk.
