Faculty and Administrative Blogs

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Admission
Admission Hear from Hofstra's Admission counselors and current Pride Guides to get insight into the admission process and the student experience.
BLOG: Inside Hofstra Admission

Herman Berliner
Provost Dr. Herman A. Berliner, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, is in his 40th year at Hofstra University, having joined the faculty in 1970 after receiving his PhD in economics from the City University of New York. Dr. Berliner’s areas of specialty as an economist include the economics of higher education. He presently also serves as a TIAA/CREF Institute Fellow, a Trustee of the North Shore School District, and Secretary of the Project GRAD Long Island Board of Directors. He is a regular blogger for Insidehighered.com, for which he writes about his experiences in and insights about higher education.
BLOG: insidehighered.com

Herman Berliner

Provost
Dr. Herman A. Berliner, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, is in his 40th year at Hofstra University, having joined the faculty in 1970 after receiving his PhD in economics from the City University of New York. Dr. Berliner’s areas of specialty as an economist include the economics of higher education. He presently also serves as a TIAA/CREF Institute Fellow, a Trustee of the North Shore School District, and Secretary of the Project GRAD Long Island Board of Directors. He is a regular blogger for Insidehighered.com, for which he writes about his experiences in and insights about higher education.

BLOG: insidehighered.com

Suzanne Berman
Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations
BLOG: At This Moment

Computer Science Faculty
Computer Science
BLOG: Hofstra University Computer Science

Laurie Fendrich
Fine Arts/Art History/CAAC Laurie Fendrich is a painter and professor of fine arts at Hofstra University. A retrospective of her work, featuring 30 painting and 30 drawings dating back to 1992, is scheduled to hope in the fall of 2010 at the Williamson Art Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She is a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm blog in which she writes about education and the arts in higher education.
BLOG: Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Laurie Fendrich

Fine Arts/Art History/CAAC
Laurie Fendrich is a painter and professor of fine arts at Hofstra University. A retrospective of her work, featuring 30 painting and 30 drawings dating back to 1992, is scheduled to hope in the fall of 2010 at the Williamson Art Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She is a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm blog in which she writes about education and the arts in higher education.

BLOG: Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Martha McPhee
English Martha McPhee teaches in Hofstra’s Creative Writing Program. She is the author of the novels Bright Angel Time, Gorgeous Lies, L’America and the forthcoming Dear Money. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
BLOG: marthamcphee.com

Bob Papper
Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations
BLOG: RTDNA

Geoffrey A. Roth
Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations Prof. Roth has 30 years of experience in broadcast and online media as a writer, producer, executive producer, and News Director in national and local news organizations.
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Alan Singer
Curriculum and Teaching Alan Singer has a weekly column on Huffington Post discussing national, state, and local educational issues and political concerns in the New York metropolitan area. His column frequently tweaks those in power and includes testimony from local teachers and students. In Hofstra University School of Education, Health and Human Services, he is a professor of secondary education and the director of social studies education. Singer is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and is editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York State and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. He is also the author of Social Studies for Secondary Schools (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 2nd edition, 2003) and editor of a 268-page secondary school curriculum guide, New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance.
BLOG: Huffington Post

Alan Singer

Curriculum and Teaching
Alan Singer has a weekly column on Huffington Post discussing national, state, and local educational issues and political concerns in the New York metropolitan area. His column frequently tweaks those in power and includes testimony from local teachers and students. In Hofstra University School of Education, Health and Human Services, he is a professor of secondary education and the director of social studies education. Singer is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and is editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York State and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. He is also the author of Social Studies for Secondary Schools (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 2nd edition, 2003) and editor of a 268-page secondary school curriculum guide, New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance.

BLOG: Huffington Post

Daniel M. Varisco
Anthropology Dr. Varisco is an anthropologist, historian and Arabist with extensive research and consulting experience in the Middle East. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a highland agricultural community in Yemen in 1978-79 and has returned to Yemen more than 15 times for research and as a development expert. During the 1980s he received four post-doctoral grants for research on Arabic texts in Egypt, Yemen, Qatar and Turkey.
BLOG: Tabsir

Daniel M. Varisco

Anthropology
Dr. Varisco is an anthropologist, historian and Arabist with extensive research and consulting experience in the Middle East. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a highland agricultural community in Yemen in 1978-79 and has returned to Yemen more than 15 times for research and as a development expert. During the 1980s he received four post-doctoral grants for research on Arabic texts in Egypt, Yemen, Qatar and Turkey.

BLOG: Tabsir