Boricua College

The full-time faculty of Boricua College are known as Educational Facilitators. “Facilitation” has been implemented as a method of instruction for nearly thirty years to fulfill Boricua’s non-traditional mission and goals. Neither detailed planning nor comprehensive documentation and assessment can ensure the integration of Boricua students’ learning experiences without the work of the Educational Facilitator. Facilitators are the key figures in the College’s educational program. Performing a faculty role virtually unknown in traditional institutions, each Boricua Facilitator is responsible for the educational development of twenty-two students, whom they meet with individually and in small groups each week of the learning cycle. The Facilitator works with students in a transactional process to achieve a synthesis and mastery of the skills, knowledge, and values required for life-long learning and for professional and scholarly competence.

Roles and Responsibilities of Educational Facilitator The Faculty Facilitators at the center of Boricua's educational programs are full-time faculty members assigned for the academic year to either the Manhattan or Brooklyn Campus. Faculty Facilitators’ primary responsibilities include: Preparing, in advance of each learning cycle, schedules and course syllabi for Individualized Instruction, Colloquia, and Experiential Studies courses; Developing no fewer than three sets of Instructional Modules, focused on intellectual competencies and subject matter, for Individualized Instruction; Meeting with assigned students individually for one hour each week during the learning cycle.

1. Guiding students in sharpening the cognitive and intellectual skills necessary to complete their Learning Contracts. 2. Diagnosing and facilitating the elimination of cognitive, affective and psychomotor obstacles to learning. 3. Guiding students in focusing their energies on the learning objectives and tasks agreed upon. 4. Preparing scholarly research, reports, articles, or books. 5. Meeting with field supervisors and adjunct faculty who work with their Faculty Facilitator's students during a learning cycle and obtaining periodic reports of the students' progress in their internships and in Theoretical and Cultural Studies.

Roles of Adjuncts and Field Supervisors To supplement the services of Faculty Facilitators the College engages, from time to time, on a part-time basis, the services of individuals regularly employed by other institutions in the New York area.Adjunct Faculty are engaged to teach a single course of instruction for a given learning cycle in the field of Theoretical and Cultural Studies. Field Supervisors are honorary adjunct faculty, engaged to supervise the internship of one or more students for a given learning cycle at a particular institution or other work site outside the College.