CALL FOR PROPOSALS
CUNY's 8th Annual IT Conference
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Friday, December 4, 2009

Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: Managing Complexity

The City University of New York will hold its 8th annual all-day conference devoted to instructional and information technology the first Friday in December 2009. Stressing the need to handle not just escalating change but increasing complexity, the conference will offer overviews of the University's key IT initiatives, discussions of how technology continues to change instruction, research, and administration, and a chance to hear from CUNY's faculty and IT leaders as well as to meet with vendors.

As always, the concurrent sessions will provide, in a rich array of presentations, a broad range of topics of interest to CUNY faculty, technology staff, and college administrators. Given the growing reliance on educational and administrative uses of IT by faculty, students, and staff, our increasing dependence (and interdependence) makes us especially interested in the following issues:

1. What works?: How has technology not just changed but improved our instructional and administrative practices? What tests have been met? What value added? What innovations deserve to be extended and duplicated?

2. What works together?: What mixtures of modes or services are available? Are we moving to the use of "mash-ups" in teaching and administration, combinations of applications that work together? How do we manage and sustain such combinations?

3. What helps us work together?: What innovations allow us to be mutually supportive? What are we doing in the way of training and mentoring? How are we spreading the word to colleagues, introducing them to new methods and technologies?

4. What points to a shared direction?: What changes on our horizon are most promising, most scalable and sustainable? What developments call for collaborative and strategic thinking? What changes are especially important to a multi-campus university?

Proposals should be between a paragraph and a page in length, and should include a title as well as the name and campus affiliation of each presenter. (Proposals may be made for group as well as individual presentations.) Submit a proposal using the form at
http://www.dln.cuny.edu/it/proposals.html

Proposals are due by 9/15/09. Acceptances will be announced by the end of that month.

Information for last year's conference ("Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: A Catalyst for Transformational Change") is available at
http://www.centerdigitaled.com/conference.php?confid=395&past=1

The Queens College Research Enhancement Committee has distributed a call for funding requests from Queens faculty in all academic divisions, for research activities as specified in this document.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, October 5, 2009.

Please direct questions to Richard Bodnar, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies.

The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch is offering a Communication Fellowship for qualified applicants who have substantial research and grant writing experience. This fellowship will pay approximately $23,000/yr and include full family health, dental and prescription benefits for qualified applicants (on a modified college assistant line).

If interested, please forward a CV and a cover letter via email to Dr. Mikhail Gershovich, Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute. Mikhail.Gershovich@baruch.cuny.edu (646 312 2062).

The Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography encourages CUNY faculty working on biographies to apply for writing fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011. Four fellowships are offered each year, one of which is earmarked for a member of the CUNY faculty. Resident fellows receive a stipend of $60,000 and writing space, and are able to participate in the Biography Seminar. Applications are solicited from biographers including novelists, poets, journalists, graphic novelists and those working in other innovative formats.


For more information, and the application and guidelines, visit http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.org.