[Socrates] Call for participation: Adjunct Teaching Task Force

[Michelle Fraboni]

Call for participation: Adjunct Teaching Task Force

One of the ongoing functions of the Center for Teaching and Learning
(http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/) is collecting information to help improve
teaching resources at Queens College. At this time, we are seeking input
from our part-time faculty, since they teach a large number of courses at
Queens.  This call is for participants in a task force that will offer
advice on how part-time faculty might share teaching practices and propose
mechanisms for improving teaching services.

The Adjunct Teaching Task Force was first convened in November 2010. After
working together for a year, the group produced a report with
recommendations for providing better teaching support for adjunct faculty.
As a result, a number of resources were created to help support adjunct
faculty, including a resource site (http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/adjuncts), an
adjunct faculty work space in King Hall 109
(http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/adjunct-space-kh109/), the adjunct faculty
handbook (http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/files/2014/01/AdjunctHandbook.pdf), the
QC Adjunct Google Group
(https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/qc-adjuncts), and the
Teaching Circle Blog (http://teachingcircle.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/).

We are looking to reconvene the Adjunct Teaching Task Force and are
recruiting eight to ten members, representing all four divisions of the
College, including long-serving adjuncts as well as graduate teaching
fellows. Of the group, four team leaders will be selected to facilitate
organization among the other members of the task force around the
objectives of (1) technology, (2) space, (3) classroom issues, (4),
faculty development, (5) campus relations, and (6) teaching materials. The
objective of this task force will be to evaluate the success of the
measures recommended by the previous task force and, if necessary, make
new recommendations.

Participation requires attendance at a meeting on Tuesday, May 23  to
launch the task force and meet the others on the team, as well as a
six-month commitment (September 2017 through February 2018) to compile
information, communicate regularly with task force members via an online
forum, and help produce monthly reports to the Center for Teaching and
Learning. Participating part-time faculty will receive an iPad mini for
their work on the task force.

For more information, please contact Rowena Li (rowena.li at qc.cuny.edu,
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information
Studies), who is serving as coordinator for this project.

To sign up, please complete the form below and submit by May 16.

https://goo.gl/2cBhwO​


Best, 
Michelle

Michelle C. Fraboni, Director
Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning
http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/