The Hostos Center for Teaching and Learning and Office of Academic Affairs are calling for participants in a one-year interdisciplinary multi-campus initiative supported by an NEH grant. The activity will bring together faculty participants from across CUNY, to:

* promote the teaching of the humanities;

* help faculty develop syllabi and curricula that unify students' academic experience;

* generate ideas for first-year inquiry and capstone courses.

Participants will receive stipends to attend a workshop (Friday-Saturday October 23-24, 2009), 5 lectures/seminars during the 2009-2010 academic year, and a culminating workshop in May 2010. All events will be held at Hostos.

Application deadline: October 9, 2009.

For more information, and to complete the brief application: http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/oaa/neh/
or contact the project co-directors:
Andrea Fabrizio, Assistant Professor, English, Hostos CC., (718) 518-6697
Gregory Marks, Assistant Professor, English, Hostos CC. (718) 319-7958

This program, from the Hunter College Gender Equity Project, is for women in the natural or social sciences, mathematics and statistics, or engineering, looking to submit a grant application to a federal funding agency by July 2010. Participants get:

* A course release to allow sufficient proposal preparation time
* An intensive 4-hour grant writing seminar at Hunter (Date: 15 December 2009)
* Feedback on grant proposal drafts from experts
* Regular advice and encouragement from the GEP

The program is limited to six participants. Selection will be competitive.

Application Deadline: 2 November 2009

Details and application procedures: http://web.cuny.edu/research/gep/gep-grant.html

Contact: gender.equity@hunter.cuny.edu

The CUNY Pipeline Program has just released a call for proposals for students to participate in the 2010 Annual CUNY Pipeline Program Conference, scheduled for February 19, 2010.

Honors students from all CUNY campuses are invited to contribute to the conference, in one of three presentation formats: individual podium presentation, poster presentation, creative performance. See full details in the call for proposals. The deadline to submit an abstract---and a faculty approval form---is December 21, 2009.

The Making Connections National Resource Center has announced a call for participation in Year 3 of its highly successful ePortfolio mini-grant and seminar program.

The focus this year is on ePortfolios in professional programs, such as Fine Arts & Design, New Media Studies, Journalism, Engineering, Environmental Science. ePortfolios created by students in such programs could be presented to potential employers. Applications focused on General Education are also encouraged.

The deadline to apply for the program is Thursday, November 19, 2009.

For more information, and application materials: http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/connections/cohort3.htm

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning are pleased to announce an initiative to promote Undergraduate Research and Mentoring at Queens College during the Spring 2010 semester. The initiative will fund outstanding activities in which undergraduates and faculty collaborate in research or other scholarly or creative work. Faculty from all academic disciplines are invited to apply.

Details on the initiative, the application form, and online submission page are available at:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/urmi.