CTL Newstag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl/2462009-11-03T19:50:53ZMovable Type Enterprise 1.02Congratulations to this year's teaching awards winners!tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.228662009-11-03T19:14:12Z2009-11-03T19:50:53ZWe congratulate this year's winners of the President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching. They are: Full-time Faculty: Peter Conolly-Smith, History Yin Mei Critchell , Drama, Theatre & Dance Jeff Maskovsky, Urban Studies Adjunct Faculty: Peter Novick, Biology Doreen Schmitt, Anthropology...Eva Fernández
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/resources/awards.html]]>
Tech Fee proposals due December 16tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.228522009-11-03T17:15:43Z2009-11-03T17:26:59ZProposals for student technology-fee funded projects are currently being solicited. Guidelines for projects are available at: https://myqc.qc.cuny.edu/AdminServices/OCT/Tech%20Fee/default.aspx (The page requires login with an Active Directory account.) The deadline for proposals is December 16, 2009....Eva Fernández
https://myqc.qc.cuny.edu/AdminServices/OCT/Tech%20Fee/default.aspx
(The page requires login with an Active Directory account.)
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2009 CUNY Nobel Science Challengetag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.228402009-11-03T14:41:29Z2009-11-03T14:55:48ZThe 2009 CUNY Nobel Science Challenge is an essay competition for undergraduate students at CUNY. Students are invited to submit essays (1000 to 1500 words) describing this year's Nobel science awards: physiology/medicine; physics; chemistry; economics. Prizes (three in each category):...Eva Fernández
2009 CUNY Nobel Science Challenge is an essay competition for undergraduate students at CUNY. Students are invited to submit essays (1000 to 1500 words) describing this year's Nobel science awards: physiology/medicine; physics; chemistry; economics. Prizes (three in each category): Apple iMac, Dell Mini 10 Netbook, Amazon Kindle.
For more details on the contest:
http://cuny.edu/research/CUNY-Nobel-Science-Challenge.html
To read about the 2009 Nobel Prize winners:
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Undergraduate Research/Mentoring Initiativetag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.226162009-10-30T02:56:43Z2009-10-30T03:00:02ZThe 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...Eva Fernández
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.]]>
Making Connections, Year 3, call for proposalstag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.211512009-10-07T21:08:43Z2009-10-07T21:21:03ZThe 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,...Eva Fernández
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.
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CUNY Pipeline Programtag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.211442009-10-07T20:07:50Z2009-10-07T20:34:42ZThe 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...Eva Fernández
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.
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Grant writing assistance programtag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.207542009-10-02T20:42:03Z2009-10-02T20:48:22ZThis 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: *...Eva Fernández
2 November 2009
Details and application procedures: http://web.cuny.edu/research/gep/gep-grant.html
Contact: gender.equity@hunter.cuny.edu
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From inquiry to innovation: Integrating the humanities into general educationtag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.206242009-10-01T13:32:48Z2009-10-01T13:40:17ZThe 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...Eva Fernández
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
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Biography fellows: call for applicationstag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.203672009-09-28T18:50:58Z2009-09-28T18:54:39ZThe 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...Eva Fernández
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.
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Fellowship at Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruchtag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.194172009-09-16T01:00:35Z2009-09-16T01:04:50ZThe 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...Eva Fernández
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There is one opening for Fall 2009 (renewable for Spring 2010) for a Fellow to research external funding opportunities and prepare grant applications for the Institute’s current and future projects, including those in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), program assessment, qualitative research, and instructional technology. In addition to research and grant writing experience, eligible applicants must hold a Bachelor’s degree, and be enrolled in a doctoral program. The ideal candidate will also be self-motivated, be able to work independently, have a flexible schedule and experience in teaching and Communication-Across-the-Curriculum (written, oral, and computer mediated communication). Former CUNY Writing and Tech Fellows are encouraged to apply.
Call for funding requeststag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.194132009-09-16T00:55:25Z2009-09-16T01:00:07ZThe 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...Eva Fernández
this document.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, October 5, 2009.
Please direct questions to Richard Bodnar, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies.
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Call for Proposals for the 8th Annual CUNY Information Technology Conference -- Fall 2009tag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.183232009-09-15T15:54:10Z2009-09-01T16:15:25ZCALL 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...Cecilia B Britez
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
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Writing Fellow resource available for W-coursestag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.182152009-08-10T17:20:48Z2009-08-18T17:39:13ZPlease note: as of August 17th, the Fellows are fully booked for the fall semester. However, we may be able to connect you with a colleague who is working with a Fellow so that you can observe a workshop in...Mindy Miller
Please note: as of August 17th, the Fellows are fully booked for the fall semester. However, we may be able to connect you with a colleague who is working with a Fellow so that you can observe a workshop in his/her class on a similar topic. To help us determine this, please fill out the online registration form by clicking on the registration link below (at the bottom of the invitation) and choose the in-class workshops. We will be in touch as soon as possible with more information about whether and how we might be able to accommodate your request.
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Attention Writing Intensive instructors:
CUNY Writing Fellows are available to work with you and your students. Writing Fellows—PhD students from the Graduate Center who are specially trained to teach writing—are available to help you find and develop the resources you need to address your students' needs with regard to writing.
There are two specific ways this collaboration can take place:
1. In-class workshops
A Writing Fellow can visit your course to conduct a workshop with your students on just about any element of writing or the writing process—for example, a fellow might help students devise or test thesis statements, generate ideas or research questions, develop structure, integrate sources, or work on revision or peer response.
2. Dedicated Fellow
The second option is to work with a Writing Fellow who will be integral to the course for the duration of the semester. If you're interested in this, you can request a dedicated Fellow who will work with you from the beginning of the semester, to help strategize about in-class writing activities, the sequencing of assignments, workshops in and outside class, etc. Note, however, that Writing Fellows are prevented contractually from working as readers or graders of student writing. They may read student writing in order to facilitate a workshop, or to consult with students individually, but they cannot serve as readers in the sense that a T.A. might. Nonetheless, they can be a valuable asset to a course, providing students with additional writing instruction and helping to integrate the writing and intellectual content of a course.
If you are interested in this resource, please register online by Friday August 14th here or at this url: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Writing/rsvp/fellowf09/.
We encourage you to incorporate this resource in your syllabus; we can’t guarantee placement but we will confirm whether a fellow is available for your course the week of August 17th. (Because six Fellows serve the College's four Divisions, we can't always accommodate all requests, but we will make every attempt to do so.)]]>
Blogging in the Fall 2009 Semestertag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.182142009-07-23T19:22:36Z2009-08-18T17:35:23ZPlease note -- as of August 17th, we have reached the maximum capacity of our Movable Type site license, and are unable to add your course and students to the system. Please consider entering your course information anyway -- by...Mindy Miller
Please note -- as of August 17th, we have reached the maximum capacity of our Movable Type site license, and are unable to add your course and students to the system. Please consider entering your course information anyway -- by clicking on the "register online" link below -- so that we can accurately assess the possibility of increasing the site license for next semester to meet demand. Thank you!
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The Center for Teaching and Learning, the Writing Across the Curriculum program and the Educational Technology Lab are pleased to announce the opportunity for faculty to incorporate weblogs into their courses during the approaching fall '09 semester.
Our current license is for 1,000 users, and course blogs will be created on a first-come, first-served basis. If you're interested in using Movable Type in a course this fall, please register online by August 14.
This opportunity comes as part of the college's ongoing pilot program with Movable Type blogging software. A flexible, user-friendly software, Movable Type has been used in more than 75 classes over the past six semesters. Both faculty and students have been very enthusiastic. Students have been energized by the process of authoring blogs, and faculty have been impressed by the quality of the writing that emerges when students are writing in the public forum created by the blogs. You can read more about the project in an article in an issue of FYI.
The CTL, WAC and the Lab will offer support--both technical and pedagogical--for the software, including an orientation meeting, workshops on MT’s advanced capabilities, and in-class demonstrations as needed. You can get a sense of the software and the support available by taking a look at the MT portal page, "Blogging at Queens College," and the support page, "Blog Tutorials" :
Typically, faculty have used Movable Type in one of the following ways:
1. To create individual blogs, linked to each other through a blogroll, for every member of a course.
2. To create a single blog to which every member of a course or department has posting privileges.
3. To offer students templates for uploading Web content and creating student-authored Web pages.
4. To create individual blogs within an interface that doubles as a course home page.
Movable Type can be used in other creative ways as well, such as a platform from which to present an on-line publication. See (on-line, powered by Movable Type) the spring '08 issue of WAC's Revisions 'zine.
If you have questions about using the software so that it's manageable and serves your course goals, or if you would like links to some sample blogs so you can see what the software can do, please contact Boone Gorges by email (Boone.Gorges@qc.cuny.edu) or phone (718-997-4857).]]>
Workshop Series for Junior Facultytag:blogs.qc.cuny.edu,2009:/blogs/ctl//246.182132009-07-16T19:55:11Z2009-07-20T17:58:52ZPresented by: The Gender Equity Project Open to all eligible untenured faculty in the natural and social sciences, mathematics and statistics, and engineering at Baruch, Brooklyn, City College of Staten Island, the Graduate Center, Hunter, John Jay, Lehman, Medgar Evers,...Mindy Miller
Presented by: The Gender Equity Project
Open to all eligible untenured faculty in the natural and social sciences, mathematics and statistics, and engineering at Baruch, Brooklyn, City College of Staten Island, the Graduate Center, Hunter, John Jay, Lehman, Medgar Evers, NYC College of Technology, Queens and York Colleges.
Space limited to first 25 eligible respondents
Application deadline: Tuesday, September 8, 2009Succeed in Academia. Learn more about how to:Develop your career -- balance research, teaching, and services; make effective conference presentations; prepare your vita; present yourself positively; teach effectively and efficiently
Write and publish -- manage time and reduce procrastination; handle publishing and rejection; write grants
Get and give advice -- build a circle of advisors, manage students and assistants
Balance work and personal life -- increase equality and negotiate in personal relationships, consider different types of balance
Be a leader -- handle power and politics within your department and institution; build a national reputation
Past Participant Comments:
"I learned a significant amount about what I need to do for the next few years as junior faculty"
"Great job! I thought the group community "feel" was something unique"
Workshops will be held at Hunter College:
Friday, 18 September 2009, 10am - 5pm
Friday, 20 November 2009, 10am - 5pm
Friday, 11 December 2009, 10am - 5pm
For more information click here
For application procedures click here]]>