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CETLL Spotlight: Spring ‘26 Welcome 🌷
by QNS qcctlonline 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

[https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mcusercontent.com/2bf982422cf9fae883f98… ]<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/ > The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Leadership Newsletter February 2026 Faculty Resources Start of the Semester Checklist [An illustration of a checklist written on a sheet of looseleaf paper.] CETLL is pleased to welcome back faculty (and welcome new faculty!) to Queens College. We have some resources to help prepare for the new semester, including how to check your course information, determine Instruction Mode, and find your class rosters. To read more, go to qc.cuny.edu/cetll/start-of-the-semester-checklist/<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/start-of-the-semester-checklist/ >. Feel free to reach out to us via email with any pedagogical issues you may have at CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu.<mailto:CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu?subject=&body=> CETLL Virtual Drop-In Hours CETLL is here to support you with your Brightspace and pedagogical needs! We will continue to offer designated drop-in hours<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/cetll-its-drop-in-hours/ > throughout the Spring semester where you can ask the team any questions about using Brightspace and other instructional technologies in your courses as well as other teaching-related matters! Drop-In Hours:<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/cetll-its-drop-in-hours/ > Tuesdays: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Wednesdays: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. If these times don’t work with your schedule, please feel free to reach out to CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu and we’ll be happy to accommodate you! Link to Drop-In Hours: bit.ly/QCxCETLL__Zoom<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://bit.ly/QCxCETLL__Zoom__;!!E8lrGBvW!sFNIG… > [The CETLL team on a Zoom call.] CETLL Team from left to right: Soniya Munshi, Kareena Khan, Shadae Elliott, Elena Sigman, Meagan Sullivan, Christopher Coleman, Jean Kelly, WayGuard Wong, Tasnim Hossain, and Labiba Binte Amin. Here & Now Preparing for Promotion to Full Professor [A high angle shot of a three-story library.] Please join us for an event to support associate professors who are interested in or preparing to apply for promotion to full professor.<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/preparing-for-promotion-to-full-professor/ > We will review the promotion process, expectations and evaluation criteria, and best practices for documenting scholarly impact, teaching excellence, and service contributions to build a strong and compelling case. Faculty will have the opportunity to hear from a panel of senior faculty members who have served as chairs, deans, and/or on the Committee of Seven, and to ask questions in a supportive setting. All eligible and interested faculty are encouraged to attend. Panelists include: * Ashima Kant, Professor and Chair, Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences * Emilia Lopez, Professor, School Psychology * Michael Nelson, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Art History * Kate Pechenkina, Professor, Anthropology; Dean of Faculty Social Sciences * Larissa Swedell, Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology * Maria DeLongoria (Moderator), Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs and Graduate Studies We will meet on Wednesday, February 11 at 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room #2 (RO 525) Register Here: forms.office.com/r/RVZfHsSFZq<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/RVZfHsSFZq__;!!E8lrG… > This event is co-sponsored by the Provost’s Office. Pedagogies of Writing Workshop Guiding students to write with, without, and against Generative AI [A handwritten draft on lined paper with a yellow pencil, showing edits and the word "DRAFT" at the top.] Facilitated by Amy Wan (Special Assistant to the Provost on Writing and Professor of English) Join us to learn about how to revise your writing assignments in the age of generative AI. Whether you want students to write with, without, or against this new technology, we’ll focus on how course and assignment goals can help us start to respond to genAI. We’ll talk about some data from Queens College students and faculty about generative AI use, but the focus of the event will be hands-on time to revise assignments, problem-solve, and discuss with one another. All participants should bring an assignment to the workshop. We will meet on February 23, 2026 from 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room #2 (RO 525). Register Here: forms.office.com/r/4d2Vb2Wqey<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/4d2Vb2Wqey__;!!E8lrG… > Pedagogy Pop-Ups [An illustration of a chalkboard that reads "Pedagogy Pop-Ups".] Pedagogy Pop-Ups are a space for faculty to engage in peer-based discussion about teaching and learning at Queens College. Please join us for our upcoming pop-up: Career Competencies in our Courses<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/pedagogy-pop-ups/ > with faculty presenter Professor Susan Davis (Music). We will meet on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register Here.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/KSiwLScJUt__;!!E8lrG… > How can faculty support students to prepare for their post-graduation futures? What does it mean to “integrate career competencies” in our courses? Join us for a presentation and discussion to learn more about different ways to encourage career readiness through group work, class discussions, presentations, writing assignments, and more. Bring your questions, concerns, strategies, and stories! Faculty Presenter Bio: Dr. Susan A. Davis is Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Music Education at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. She teaches courses in instrumental methods, music education research, the psychology of music and music education, and mentors undergraduate and graduate student teachers. Next Pop-Up Date: March 25, 2026 at 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. with Johnathan Thayer, PhD, MLS (GSLIS) Local Community History Curricula and a Local Community Memory Program Brightspace Advanced Training for Faculty — Spring 2026 [Illustration of a person in front of a computer screen.] This Spring, CETLL will be continuing our series of workshops covering advanced features in Brightspace.<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/brightspace-advanced-training-for-faculty/ > Sessions on each topic will be offered twice, in order to accommodate faculty schedules. Each session will begin with a demonstration, followed by a hands-on period where you can apply what you learned to your Brightspace course. Please join us for the “Gradebook” sessions on Thursday, February 26, 2026, and Monday, March 2, 2026, from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. We will cover Brightspace Gradebook topics such as Weighting grades, Categories, Add/delete grade items, Display grades, Curve grades, Quick Eval, Ungrading, and Grade Passback. Click Here to Register for Thursday, February 26, 2026, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/EBeBhERBmk__;!!E8lrG… > Click Here to Register for Monday, March 2, 2026, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/ukXkETQsJX__;!!E8lrG… > Save the date for our upcoming Brightspace Trainings: Assignments + Turnitin Thursday, March 5 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Quizzes + Question Pools Thursday, March 12 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday, March 16 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Discussions Thursday, March 26 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday, March 30 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Future Focus Spring Teaching & Learning Showcase: Save the Date Save the date for CETLL’s Spring Teaching & Learning Showcase on Friday, April 17, 2026 in Muyskens Conference Room (The Summit). This event will focus on sharing strategies and conversation about the impacts of generative AI on teaching and learning! All faculty are welcome. More information and a registration link coming soon! [An illustration of an invitation that reads "Save the Date".] Pedagogy Pop-Ups: Invitation to Share Your Work [An illustration of a megaphone.] In Spring 2025, CETLL launched Pedagogy Pop-Ups<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/pedagogy-pop-ups/ > - an informal peer-based space for QC faculty to share innovative strategies, pressing questions, and helpful resources related to teaching and learning matters. We invite QC faculty members to bring their ideas to the table for presentation and discussion. If you are interested in presenting at or facilitating a future pedagogy pop-up, please fill out this short form: forms.office.com/r/VxmcfAp0wT<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/VxmcfAp0wT__;!!E8lrG… > Questions? Contact us at CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu.<mailto:CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu?subject=&body=> In Case You Missed It… WHY + HOW: Implementing UDL into your Brightspace Course Sites Workshop [A collage of four photos taken from the event featuring participants, facilitators, and part of the CETLL team.] In January, CETLL partnered with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Collaborative at QC to host a 2-day Brightspace + UDL Workshop<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/brightspace-udl-workshop/ > on campus. The workshop included comprehensive presentations and discussions on implementing UDL strategies<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://udlguidelines.cast.org/__;!!E8lrGBvW!sF… > in the classroom, with an emphasis on considerations of inclusivity while designing Brightspace courses and coursework. Participating faculty were able to collaborate and design content for their Brightspace courses, construct/revise their syllabi, and create welcome videos for their students. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Sally Izquierdo (Director, Applied Behavior Analysis Graduate Programs, Department of Psychology), Jean Kelly (Instructional Technologist, CETLL), Elena Sigman (Director of Learning & Development, CETLL), and Wayguard Wong (Brightspace Administrator, CETLL) with presentations from Faculty Ambassadors Desiree Byrd, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) and Melissa Lovitz, Ph.D. (Department of Family, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences). CETLL is located in Kiely 111 Phone: (718) 997-4650 Email: CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu - If you are experiencing issues with Brightspace, please visit our drop-in hours on Zoom<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bit.ly/QCxCETLL__Zoom__;!!E8lrGBvW!sFNI… >: Tuesdays, 2pm - 4pm Wednesdays, 2pm - 4pm - For future newsletters and other CETLL updates, subscribe to our mailing list: Socrates<https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman3/lists/socrates.lists.qc.cuny.edu/ > - View email in browser<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mailchi.mp/ecc589f116a4/february-2026-c… > [https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mcusercontent.com/2bf982422cf9fae883f98… ]

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Preparing for Promotion to Full Professor Event
by QNS qcctlonline 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

Preparing for Promotion to Full Professor<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/preparing-for-promotion-to-full-professor/ > Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Location: President’s Conference Room #2 (RO 525) Click Here to Register<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/RVZfHsSFZq__;!!E8lrG… > Please join us for an event to support associate professors who are interested in or preparing to apply for promotion to full professor. We will review the promotion process, expectations and evaluation criteria, and best practices for documenting scholarly impact, teaching excellence, and service contributions to build a strong and compelling case. Faculty will have the opportunity to hear from a panel of senior faculty members who have served as chairs, deans, and/or on the Committee of Seven, and to ask questions in a supportive setting. All eligible and interested faculty are encouraged to attend. Panelists include: * Ashima Kant, Professor and Chair, Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences * Emilia Lopez, Professor, School Psychology * Michael Nelson, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Art History * Kate Pechenkina, Professor, Anthropology; Dean of Faculty Social Sciences * Larissa Swedell, Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology * Maria DeLongoria (Moderator), Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs and Graduate Studies This event is co-sponsored by the Provost’s Office. Contact CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu with any questions. [CETLL_Preparing for Promotion to Full Professor_v7_2.11.26.png]

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UPDATE Black to the Future: 100 Years of Black History Month and Beyond February 18, 2026
by QNS qcctlonline 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

UPDATE Black to the Future: 100 Years of Black History Month and Beyond February 18, 2026 @ 4:30 PM RO 230 and Via Zoom Good Morning All. Happy Black History Month! Hope this finds you safe and warm. I am writing to update our invite to you and your students. AFST and SEEK look forward to having you join us to join for a roundtable discussion on the significance of Black History Month, now in its 100th year, and what opportunities holding the space presents for the future. Our discussion will be held on Feb. 18, 2026 at 4 :30 PM in RO 230 and via Zoom. To watch online please register at QCBHM100<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9hMmwH… >. Please share our flier with your colleagues and students. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Our panelists include: Regina N Bradley "The Red Clay Scholar" author of Chronicling Stankonia<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.redclayscholar.com/chronicling-stan… >, An OutKast Reader<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.redclayscholar.com/an-outkast-reade… >, Boondock Kollage<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.redclayscholar.com/boondock-kollage… > ,That's the Joint! the Hip Hop Studies Reader<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.redclayscholar.com/ttj__;!!E8lrGBvW… > . Dr. Regina N. Bradley is an award-winning writer and researcher of the Black American South. She is Associate Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies at Kennesaw State University, faculty editor for Southern Cultures journal, co-director of the Hip Hop Studies Consortium at Georgia State University, and co-host of the critically acclaimed southern hip hop podcast Bottom of the Map with music journalist Christina Lee. Dr. Bradley is also an alumna Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow (Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Spring 2016). Stefan Bradley author of If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson. Dr. Stefan M. Bradley is the Charles Hamilton Houston '15 Professor of Black Studies and History at Amherst College and the author of two award-winning books, Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League and Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s. As a scholar grounded in community work, Bradley is a respected voice and thought leader in African American history and modern-day American race relations. He has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, BET, the Oprah Winfrey Network, the History Channel, and more. Kenton Rambsy is a literary scholar and visualization specialist whose work bridges African American literature and data science. An Associate Professor of African American literature at Howard University and data storytelling specialist with the Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics (CADSA), Rambsy conducts data-driven research on Black literature, music, and culture. His projects explore literary geo-tagging and the use of visualization to map themes, settings, and stylistic shifts in African American short fiction and Hip Hop. He is the author of The Geographies of African American Short Stories (2022), #TheJayZMixtape (2018), and Lost in the City (2019). More broadly, Rambsy is committed to developing innovative ways of interpreting and visualizing Black cultural and heritage materials across Black Studies to make them more accessible and widely understood. His forthcoming book, One Black Writer at a Time, co-authored with his older brother, Howard Rambsy II, will be published by Bloomsbury Press in Fall 2026. Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead is the founding executive director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.loyola.edu/join-us/karson-institute… > and a professor of communication<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.loyola.edu/academics/communication/… > and African and African American Studies<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.loyola.edu/academics/african-americ… > at Loyola University Maryland<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.loyola.edu/__;!!E8lrGBvW!sEcCNPvUox… >. She is the host of the award-winning radio show Today with Dr. Kaye<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.weaa.org/show/today-with-dr-kaye__;… > on WEAA<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.weaa.org/*stream/0__;Iw!!E8lrGBvW!s… >, 88.9 FM and the recent recipient of the Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.morgan.edu/news/kaye-whitehead-awar… >, for her outstanding reporting on the impact racial reckoning has had in helping to close social/racial wealth gap for Black people in America. She was recently selected by The Daily Record<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thedailyrecord.com/__;!!E8lrGBvW!sEcCNP… > as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women of 2022 (an honor that she also received in 2020) and by Black Girls Vote as a 2022 honoree for its “Ladies & Politics” series. Her radio show, Today With Dr. Kaye, received both the 2022 Chesapeake Associated Press Award for Best in Show and for Best Radio Talk Show; and, the Second Place Award for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary. She is the author of four books, including RaceBrave: new and selected works; Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, which received both the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians; and Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America. She is a K-12 master teacher in African American history; an award-winning curriculum writer and lesson plan developer; and an award-winning former Baltimore City middle school teacher. Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead is also the sitting president of ASALH, the founders of Black History Month. Ytasha L. Womack is an award-winning author, filmmaker, independent scholar, and dance therapist. She is a leading expert on Afrofuturism and lectures on the imagination and its applications across the world. Her book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture (Chicago Review Press) is the leading primer on the subject and is taught in colleges and universities. Afrofuturism is also a Locus Awards Nonfiction Finalist and inspired the Afrofuturism themed restaurant Bronze in Washington D.C. She is featured in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture’s Afrofuturism exhibit running through February 24. She is also featured in the Smithsonian’s documentary Afrofuturism: An Origin Story. She was a co-curator for Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Afrofuturism Festival, a national event which includes music showcases, dance, workshops, and panels. She is an inaugural resident with Black Rock Senegal helmed by celebrated artist Kehinde Wiley. Sincerely, Natanya Duncan, PhD Director, QC Africana Studies Associate Professor of History “Black intellectual practice not as an approach to omniscience but as a perpetual desire activated in community as community.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs “The burden of working for racial justice is laid on the very people bearing the brunt of the injustice, and not the powerful people who maintain it. I say to you: I refuse." Nikole Hannah-Jones "Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy." Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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CETLL’s Pedagogy Pop-Ups: Invitation to Share Your Work
by QNS qcctlonline 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

In Spring 2025, CETLL launched Pedagogy Pop-Ups<https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/pedagogy-pop-ups/ > - an informal peer-based space for QC faculty to share innovative strategies, pressing questions, and helpful resources related to teaching and learning matters. We invite QC faculty members to bring their ideas to the table for presentation and discussion. If you are interested in presenting at or facilitating a future pedagogy pop-up, please fill out this short form: forms.office.com/r/VxmcfAp0wT<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/VxmcfAp0wT__;!!E8lrG… > Questions? Contact us at CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu [CETLL_Pedagogy Pop-Ups CFP_v5_.png]

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