[cuny logo] The City University of New York 205 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017 Allan H. Dobrin Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer Office: (646) 664-2888 Fax: (646) 664-2966 Email: Allan.Dobrin@cuny.edu<mailto:Allan.Dobrin@cuny.edu> M E M O R A N D U M TO: The CUNY Community FROM: Allan H. Dobrin DATE: August 25, 2015 SUBJECT: Call for Proposals for the 14th Annual CUNY IT Conference -- Fall 2015 ________________________________ On behalf of the IT Steering Committee, I am inviting your contributions to the 14th Annual CUNY IT Conference, scheduled for the end of the Fall 2015 semester. As has been the case for the past half-decade, the conference has been expanded to two days. The theme this year is "Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: Innovating and Integrating." Please see the full call for proposals below. I look forward to your continued participation in this very successful gathering of the best that is thought and said about IT in CUNY. ________________________________ CALL FOR PROPOSALS CUNY's 14th Annual IT Conference Thursday and Friday, December 3 and 4, 2015 @ John Jay College of Criminal Justice Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: Innovating and Integrating Innovation and integration are essential, nowhere more so than with academic uses of technology, but they pull in different directions: innovation strikes out in new directions; integration pulls in and consolidates. Without integrating the new, we would have only random acts of innovation; without innovation, integration would stultify rather than advance. The City University of New York's 14th Annual IT Conference will look at how our innovations can become more visible and sustainable as well as how integration can help us all move forward. What innovations are taking place in our core enterprises of teaching, learning, and research that we need to be more aware of and connected to? How has our functioning as a university system become more systemic and efficient? How do we avoid reinventing whatever new "wheel" emerges while making sure that we keep being inventive? As has been the case since its inception, the conference will be held at John Jay College, offering overviews of the University's key IT initiatives, discussions of how technology can support and advance teaching, scholarship, and administration, and a chance to meet with vendors. As always, proposals for presentations are invited from the CUNY community, particularly on how innovations can be shared and sustained. 1. What are important innovations are emerging? How do we know that what's new is not just different but better by careful assessment and evaluation? 2. How are we moving away from "random acts of innovation" and toward ways of consolidating and disseminating effective change? What are we doing to make innovations more visible, more accessible, more supportable? 3. How can alternatives to consolidation like collaboration and cooperation foster flexibility as well as integration, freedom as well as efficiency? Proposals are invited for panels or presentations but also roundtables, workshops, and other interactions. Specifying format as well as focus, each proposal should include a title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and the name and affiliation of each party to the proposal. (Proposals are welcome from individuals but are particularly welcome from groups that have found ways of arranging multiple perspectives on a subject.) Proposals must be submitted using the form at cunyitconference.commons.gc.cuny.edu/<http://maestro.cuny.edu/trk/click?ref=zqtbwp23f_2-1225x34b4ax0532&> Proposals are due by 9/16/15. Acceptances will be announced by the end of that month.