December 2023 - Socrates - QC Mailman 3 Archives

Save the date! Syllabus Review and Revision co-work session, Thursday, January 18
by Jean Kelly 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Save the date! On Thursday, January 18 from 10:00-3:00 p.m, CETLL will be hosting an in-person Syllabus Review and Revision co-work session. Bring your laptop and work on your syllabus in a friendly and supportive environment. We will have snacks, tea/coffee, handy checklists and other syllabus review tools for you to use as you finalize your syllabi for the Spring 2024 semester. CETLL staff will be available for 1:1 support throughout the day. Drop in anytime and/or join us all day! More details will follow in January. Warm regards, The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, & Leadership<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/> (CETLL)

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C-IDEA 2024, Call for Proposals & Timeline
by Jean Kelly 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

On behalf of Doriane K. Gloria, Senior Vice Chancellor, University Human Resources Dear Colleagues, The University HR’s Office of Recruitment and Diversity (ORD) will be hosting its 2024 conference on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access (C-IDEA) on Thursday March 14, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate Center. The 2024 theme is Educating for Health Equity & Social Justice. Access to sound healthcare impacts all of us and it’s doubly sobering when we consider that during the height of the pandemic, Black and Latino New Yorkers died at twice the rate of White New Yorkers. Let C-IDEA be an opportunity to look at improved strategies to keep our CUNY communities safe, both mentally and physically. Click here for proposal guidelines<https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/media-assets/C-IDEA-2024.Ca…> – and submit your proposal today. Please note that the submission deadline is January 12, 2024. Conference registration will open at the beginning of the spring term. If you have questions regarding the conference, please contact the Conference Planning Committee via email at IDEA(a)cuny.edu<mailto:IDEA@cuny.edu>. We welcome your participation. Sincerely, Doriane K. Gloria Senior Vice Chancellor, University Human Resources

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Wrapping up the Fall 2023 Semester
by Jean Kelly 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

Dear Faculty, As the semester comes to a close, we encourage you to take some time to reflect on your teaching experiences over the last months. It may be helpful to document your thoughts and feelings before the break and then revisit your notes as you plan for the new semester. Below are a set of guiding questions you may find useful.* * What surprised you about your course this semester? * What about your teaching experiences this semester brought you pride or joy? Name your greatest successes or accomplishments (any size, big or small). * What were your biggest challenges (again, any size!) in your teaching this semester? * What did you notice about pace and timing? Where did you or your students need more time on concepts, readings/other materials, activities and/or assignments? Where did you or your students need less time? * What aspects of your course (e.g. topics, materials, assignments) do you intend to keep on your syllabus in the future? Why? * What aspects of your course (e.g. topics, materials, assignments) do you intend to change? Why? * What helped you to keep up your energy and engagement with your courses and your students this semester? What else would have been helpful? Are there resources you need to be better supported in your role as a teacher? If you would like to talk through any questions or other issues that your reflections raise, please contact CETLL at CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu>. *Guiding questions adapted from materials produced by Montclair State University Office for Faculty Excellence<https://www.montclair.edu/faculty-excellence/teaching-resources/reflective-…> Additional suggestions for end-of semester reflection<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/learning/10-ideas-for-reflecting-at-the-…> For additional suggestions and reminders for wrapping up the semester, please visit CETLL's End of the Semester Checklist<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/end-of-semester-checklist/>. Save the date! We will be hosting a pre-semester Syllabus Review and Revision co-working session on January 18 from 10:00 am-2:00pm. More details to come. Warm regards, The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, & Leadership (CETLL)

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2024 C-IDEA Conference, Call for Proposals
by Jean Kelly 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear Colleagues, The University HR’s Office of Recruitment and Diversity (ORD) will be hosting its 2024 conference on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access (C-IDEA) on Thursday March 14, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate Center. The 2024 theme is Educating for Health Equity & Social Justice. As renowned writer and social justice advocate Arundhati Roy noted in April 2020, “The pandemic is a portal” and C-IDEA hopes to explore this.Though the pandemic has since faded, NYC was at its epicenter and ripple effects continue in our communities. There is so much to learn from our experiences. C-IDEA offers you the opportunity to share your stories, your faculty research and administrative practices as authentic examples of what takes place on our campuses – click here for proposal guidelines<https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/media-assets/C-IDEA-2024.Ca…> – and submit your proposal today. Please note that the submission deadline is January 12, 2024. Conference registration will open at the beginning of the spring term. If you have questions regarding the conference, please contact the Conference Planning Committee via email at IDEA(a)cuny.edu. We welcome your participation. Sincerely, Doriane K. Gloria Senior Vice Chancellor, University Human Resources

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Brightspace Demo for Faculty, January 2024 sessions
by Jean Kelly 10 Dec '23

10 Dec '23

Dear Faculty, More Brightspace Demo for Faculty sessions will take place in January 2024. Register at Brightspace Demo for Faculty<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvcu2qpj0qGNV-Bc4bCJoC9mbeEqizDU…> This 1-hour webinar will demo the new CUNY Learning Management System - Brightspace. It will go over basic navigation, course navigation, student experience, look at a sample course, and learn about accessibility in Brightspace. Warm regards, CETLL

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Sit ‘N’ Write Biweekly Fridays, Spring 2024
by QNS qcctlonline 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

>From Natanya Duncan, Director, Africana Studies Program: Hope this semester is winding down well for you. On behalf of the Dean of Social Sciences, Kate Pechenkina, AFST<https://qcafricana.org/> and CETLL<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/> wish to invite you and your colleagues to join us for our Spring 2024 Sit 'N' Write Biweekly Fridays. View and download the Sit 'N' Write flier<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2023/12/SitNWrite…>. While still a new initiative at Queens College, Sit ‘n’ Write Fridays has managed to support our peers across campus as they increase their writing productivity; balance research and teaching obligations; overcome/navigate imposter syndrome; secure grants and publication contracts; and develop strategies that serve to expand their research portfolio. These successes are due in part to the cross section of participants that include administrators and full professors; mid-career tenured faculty; early career and adjunct faculty as we as lecturers and staff. In addition to Sit 'N' Write, which is a writing community for faculty, staff, and advanced graduate students, we have also developed a workshop series called Publish and Flourish. The series offers writing workshops from academic, and vanity press editors; writing coaches; university administrators; and full professors as well as public intellectuals. While these events are open to the campus community at large, each workshop offers one on one and group coaching to Sit N Write participants exclusively after the workshop. For Spring 2024 we will have Publish and Flourish workshops on writing for public consumption and developing a publishing pipeline. We strongly encourage everyone, advanced graduate students; lecturers; new tenure track faculty; mid-career tenured faculty; full professors; grant writers; and campus administrators, to join our safe space community. To do so, we ask that you complete the intake form found here: S ‘n’ W 24<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2OE…> . For Spring 2024, we will host our introductory session on January 12, 2024. The session will focus on a concept developed by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, founder of the National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development (NCFDD)<https://www.ncfdd.org/>, “Every Semester Needs a Plan.” We hope to have you join us in Spring 2024. Should you have any questions, please feel free to email me at nduncan(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:nduncan@qc.cuny.edu> or you may contact CETLL Director Soniya Munshi at soniya.munshi(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:soniya.munshi@qc.cuny.edu> We wish you a successful end of term and look forward to witnessing all the good you continually do for our campus community.

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