Senior Director
Meechal Hoffman has been providing pedagogical faculty development and supporting student success at Baruch since 2014, first at Baruch’s Schwartz Communication Institute and now in a newly expanded Center for Teaching and Learning. Before that, she taught first-year writing and literature courses at Baruch. In her teaching and faculty development, she is particularly interested in developing students’ communication skills across the curriculum, promoting active learning (even in large-enrollment and highly technical courses), writing- and speaking-to-learn, and inclusive and antiracist teaching practices. Her scholarly research focused on the epistemology, affect, and the social and political utility of negative emotions in the British 19th-century novel.
As Senior Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, she oversees all aspects of the Center’s strategy, collaborating closely with a faculty advisory committee and a faculty co-director, and working across divisions to further Baruch’s goals and contribute to student and faculty success. At Baruch, we are proud to offer a transformational education for New York’s students; Meechal’s mission is to ensure that, in delivering that education, faculty have the strategies and tools they need to succeed in (and enjoy!) the classroom.
Ask me about: developing students’ communication skills across the disciplines, inclusive and antiracist pedagogy, assignment design, active learning, groupwork, toddlers.