CUNY's policy on intellectual property (approved by the Board of Trustees in 2002) defines how intellectual property produced by CUNY faculty is to be owned, distributed, and commercialized. This important document is available here:

http://inside.gc.cuny.edu/orup/IntellPropertyPolicy11003.htm

Efforts to rebuild general education at Queens College continue. The latest chapter involves creating an upper-level requirement: Synthesis and Integration courses.

A proposal passed by the UCC will be brought to the Academic Senate at its upcoming November 13 meeting.

Questions about this proposal, ahead of the meeting, should be directed to the UCC Chair, Ken Lord.

Click here, for a printer-friendly version of the slides presented at the Meeting of the Academic Senate on November 13, 2008. The slides offer an overview of the features of the online system, compared to the paper-and-pencil course evaluation technique currently in place.

If you would like to examine a demo version of the system, please contact the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Following a vote by faculty and students in the Academic Senate, all course evaluations will be online this semester. The questionnaire is exactly the same as in past years, but this semester students will fill it out and submit it electronically. The period for evaluations this semester is November 24 to December 11.

To read about the transition to the online system, and about what you can do to encourage participation from your students, click here.

A series of demos of the new Blackboard 8 (coming this spring to a class near you!) have been scheduled by the Ed Tech Lab. To register, point your browser to https://apps.qc.cuny.edu/workshops/login.aspx.

Use your Active Directory ID to login, click on Workshop List, and select Educational Technology from the pull-down menu at the top.