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Join us to watch "Underwater Dreams" ~ Wednesday, Feb. 25th ~ Free hour
by Anahi Viladrich 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

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FW: PD Opportunity for Faculty
by Michelle Fraboni 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Hi everyone - See below for a professional development opportunity for full time faculty through Metropolitan Colleges Institute for Teaching Improvement (MetroCITI) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Application details are in the attached flyer. Best - Michelle Michelle C. Fraboni I Associate Director, Center for Teaching & Learning I http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu Queens College http://www.qc.cuny.edu From: Zhanna Kushmakova <Zhanna.Kushmakova(a)CUNY.EDU> Reply-To: Center for Teaching and Learning <CTL(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:49 PM To: "CTL(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU" <CTL(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Subject: FW: PD Opportunity for Faculty Dear Centers for Teaching and Learning Colleagues, Please see the attached call for applications to Arts and Sciences faculty who may be interested in this professional development opportunity administered through Teachers College. Applications from community and senior college faculty are encouraged; this year Kingsborough, Queensborough and Hostos have faculty participating. Please share widely with colleagues. The deadline is April 13. Thank you, Ashleigh ___________________________________ Ashleigh Thompson, Ph.D. University Associate Dean for Academic Affairs City University of New York 205 E. 42nd St., 9th Fl. New York, NY 10017 646.664.8151 @CUNYTeacherEd

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FW: Year of South Africa - 20 Years of Freedom Event
by Eva Fernandez 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Colleagues: Please see below for information about an exciting panel and concert, both taking place tomorrow, with arsts Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela. Best wishes, Eva From: Edward DiSpaltro [mailto:edispaltro@mac.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:53 PM To: Eva Fernandez Subject: Fwd: Year of South Africa - 20 Years of Freedom Event This Wednesday, February 18th, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College is proud to present two events for the Year of South Africa that will feature legendary artists Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela. At 12:15, there will be a panel discussion with the artists in the Campbell Dome to talk about the effects that the political climate in South Africa had on their music, and the ways in which they used music to both uplift the people and raise social and political awareness. Then at 7:30 in LeFrak Concert Hall Hugh Masekela and Vusia Mahlasela will perform live, featuring their own music and traditional South African Freedom Songs. Please join us for a unique opportunity to meet and listen to two legendary artists who lived on the front lines of the fight against Apartheid. Regards, Edward DiSpaltro Management Consultant Kupferberg Center for the Arts | 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, New York 11367 [cid:image001.jpg@01D04AD4.2DCA01C0]<http://kupferbergcenter.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=44>

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CUNY Service Corps applications are open for the 2015-2016 academic year!
by Cesar Oyervides-Cisneros 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

***Please distribute widely to all students.*** CUNY Service Corps applications are open for the 2015-2016 academic year! Service Corps provides paid service experience to undergraduate and graduate students across all majors (including undeclared). Students work on service projects for 12 hours a week, are paid $12.00 an hour, for a 24-week commitment in 2015-2016. Gain professional experience addressing the city's most pressing needs in education, the environment, health, and the economy. Join a growing network of students, over 800 students are expected to join from 9 CUNY campuses. Make a difference through service and gain work experience with great organizations throughout New York City! Open to undergraduate and graduate students. Open to all majors including undeclared. APPLY NOW: www.cuny.edu/servicecorps<https://mymail.qc.cuny.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> Priority application deadline: February 28, 2015. Final deadline: March 15, 2015. In-person info session and application tips: Tuesday, February 17th – 12:15pm – 1:30pm, Powdermaker 155 Wednesday, February 25th – 12:15 – 1:30pm, Powdermaker 155 Monday, March 9th – 12:15pm – 1:30pm, Powdermaker 155 Online info session and application tips: Friday, February 27th – 3:30pm – 5:00pm – Webinar: http:/tinyurl.com/StudentWebinarFeb27at330pm <mailto:http://www.flickr.com/photos/102031334@N04/>

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Mindfulness: Monday, February 23, 5:30pm-6:30pm
by Jean Kelly 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

>From the Center for Teaching & Learning Mindfulness practice can empower people personally and professionally as well as be a great stress reducer. This semester’s program continues to focus on enabling participants to both practice mindfulness and to teach it to others. Sessions will take place 5:30pm-6:30pm on February 23, March 16, April 13, and May 11 Register for the February 23 session at: http://goo.gl/Nfkciy More Information: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/mindfulness-spring-2015

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Call for Participants - Teaching Circle, 2015
by Jean Kelly 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching & Learning invite Queens College faculty to contribute to our Teaching Circle blog, http://teachingcircle.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu. The blog aims to provide a virtual space where faculty can share news, thoughts, and concerns on scholarship and pedagogy. If you are faculty at Queens and are interested in blogging about your teaching experience at the college, please fill out this form at http://bit.ly/TeachingCircle15_call. Previous blogging experience is not required. The project runs from March 2015 to February 2016 and participants are asked to write a self-introduction piece plus a total of eight blog posts. An iPad Mini will be distributed to participants who contribute at least eight posts. Please apply to participate by February 27, 2015. We will contact you with instructions on how to start blogging shortly after that date. If you have any questions, please send an email to rowena.li(a)qc.cuny.edu.

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FW: Helping Our Faculty Succeed through Participation in the COACHE Survey
by Eva Fernandez 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Greetings! All full-time faculty should have received (or will soon receive) an invitation to participate in the survey described in the email below. Please take the time to complete the survey (only 25 minutes of your time). Your responses will provide the College with important information we can use to improve ourselves as an institution. If you have any questions, please let me know, or contact our Institutional Research Director, Meg McAuliffe at Margaret.McAuliffe(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Margaret.McAuliffe@qc.cuny.edu>. Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu From: Elizabeth F Hendrey Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 1:29 PM To: Eva Fernandez Subject: FW: Helping Our Faculty Succeed through Participation in the COACHE Survey Please share with all full time faculty. Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you of an important opportunity you will be offered to participate in a survey of faculty job satisfaction. This survey research is part of a national program called the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), which has been operating from the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 2003. Participation will entail completing a 25-minute, web-based survey; your unique link to the survey should have been emailed to you from COACHE recently, or in the next few days. COACHE will not use any name or email address for any purposes except for this research. While there are many surveys that faculty are asked to complete, this one was designed entirely to determine your current job satisfaction compared to faculty at peer institutions. Your views are especially important to us as we strive to attract and retain the best and brightest scholars and teachers, increase the satisfaction of all faculty, and to make Queens College a great place to work. In a process approved by Harvard's and CUNY's institutional review board, COACHE will provide our campus with their summary analysis, as well as the confidential unit-record database, stripped of names and e-mail addresses. The data provided to Queens College will be received and kept on a secure server by Margaret McAuliffe, Director of Institutional Research. Neither I, nor any other administrator, staff or faculty member outside Institutional Research at Queens College will have access to the unit-record data. IR will explore and analyze broad patterns in the data to assist with planning and developing improved academic policies and practices across campus. To protect confidentiality and guarantee that the results of this survey cannot influence personnel decisions about individual faculty members, IR staff will disseminate survey results only with data aggregated in cells of five respondents or more, so that individual faculty and individual departments cannot be identified. We welcome this opportunity to learn from an independent, research-driven, comparative study. We believe that Queens College has the potential to be one of the best places for scholars to work, and with your help we can learn how best to support that goal. However, data from the COACHE study will be meaningful only if we have broad participation. You should receive an e-mail from COACHE (coachefaculty(a)opinioncast.com<mailto:coachefaculty@opinioncast.com>), directing you to the online survey. The survey is easy to complete. If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Margaret McAuliffe at margaret.mcauliffe(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:margaret.mcauliffe@qc.cuny.edu> or 718-997-5788, or COACHE at coachefaculty(a)srbi.com<mailto:coachefaculty@srbi.com>. Thank you in advance by helping us through participation in this study. Sincerely, Betsy Hendrey -- Elizabeth Field Hendrey Acting Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Queens College CUNY 718-997-5900 (o) 646-867-9799 (c)

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Reminder: Facilitating Constructive Conversations in the Classroom
by Jean Kelly 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Students sometimes bring up difficult issues in class, and with the after effects of the battle between Israel and Hamas and the police violence against Black men in Ferguson, Staten Island, and other parts of the United States, honing your skills in facilitating constructive conversations in the classroom is more important than ever. Join Sophia McGee and John Vogelsang, from QC’s Center for Ethnic, Racial, & Religious Understanding (CERRU) for a four-session workshop series designed to help you develop and augment your skills in facilitating constructive conversations. The workshop series is open to all Queens College faculty (full- and part-time). Sessions will take place in Queens Hall 325, on February 26, March 19, March 26, and April 16. There are three spots left in the CERRU workshop “Facilitating Constructive Conversations in the Classroom.” We will be accepting participants until the end of this week. If you are interested, please sign up by filling out this brief form: http://goo.gl/HDKCV8 For more information: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/cerru-constructive-conversations/

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Twenty Years for Democracy: a talk by Dr. Prins Nevhutalu, Vice Chancellor of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, February 19
by Helen A Gaudette 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Dear faculty, staff, and students, Please join us on February 19th for this exciting Year of South Africa event featuring Dr. Prins Nevhutalu, the Vice Chancellor of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, in Cape Town, South Africa. He will tell us about his experiences in higher education there since 1994, as he and his colleagues navigated the changes and challenges in education and society that arose after the end of apartheid. It should be an important and thought-provoking talk. Before the lecture, the Queens College Women's Choir, conducted by Dr. Sandra Babb and H. Roz Woll, will perform several songs from South Africa, in several of the local languages including Xhosa, Zulu, and Afrikanns. They are amazing! Thursday. February 19, 2015. 4:00-6:00pm. The Flex Space, at the Summit. Queens College. http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/20-years-for-democracy/ Thank you, Hope to see you there, Helen Dr. Helen Gaudette Director, Office of Global Education Initiatives Coordinator, CUNY-Paris Exchange Program Lecturer, Department of History Kiely Hall 179, Queens College, CUNY 718-570-0551 Helen.Gaudette(a)qc.cuny.edu<https://mymail.qc.cuny.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=lSQGZRiL-0q3Snt7GfuZcFEgrT5BGdA…> http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/GlobalEd/OGEI http://facebook.com/QueensCollegeOGEI

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This Wednesday: South African playwright gives campus wide talk
by Joshua T Rivenbark 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Dear Colleagues, I am sending along a reminder about the exciting talk that will take place this Wednesday during free hour in The Little Theatre, King Hall 115. Amy Jephta and her husband Sanjin Muftic have been working with students and faculty, and the work is going great. Please join us Wednesday as Amy discusses South African theatre, the use of space in theatre, and the work that has been facilitated with our students. A flyer is attached. You may also find more information at http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/legacy/ More information about Amy and Sanjin can be found here: amyjephta.com<http://www.amyjephta.com/>, sanjinmuftic.tumblr.com<http://www.sanjinmuftic.tumblr.com/> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask (joshua.rivenbark(a)qc.cuny.edu) Thank you, and have a great semester, Tyler Tyler Rivenbark, Projects Coordinator Center for Teaching and Learning | 718-997-4650 Writing at Queens | 718-997-4695 Razran Hall, 316 | Queens College, CUNY

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