Writing Intensive Subcommittee meeting.

Time: 12:15 - 1:30pm
Location: Razran 318

The 3rd Annual Educational Technology day will be held from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the Patio Room, Dining Hall. Topics include the state of technology at Queens, the new version of Blackboard coming in Spring 2009, and more.

Be sure to attend the presentation on ePortfolios. Time TBA.

Breakfast and lunch are included with free registration. Click here to register.

Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Patio Room, Dining Hall

New faculty are cordially invited to an open house on the third floor of Razran Hall, which houses: the Center for Teaching and Learning, Writing Across the Curriculum and the Educational Technology Lab. Come meet the people involved, and learn more about the functions and services of CTL and WAC. This will be an informal forum, and you're encouraged to bring along your mentor or a colleague, if you wish; light refreshments will be served.

Registration for this event is now closed.

Time: 4:30-6:30 pm
Place: Razran 316, 318, and 360

Our conversations around the topic of quantitative reasoning across the curriculum resume on Wednesday, October 22.

The focus of the discussion will be a presentation by Susan Kuhn, titled "Incorporating quantitative reasoning into writing, strengthening both".

Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Location: Razran 318

Registration for this meeting is now closed. Please note that the QRAC forum will convene again on December 4th.

Speaker: Hilary Chute

A lecture sponsored by the English Department and Writing Across the Curriculum

Hillary Chute is a Junior Fellow in literature in the Harvard Society of Fellows. She earned her Ph.D at Rutgers University, where she developed the university's first courses in studying contemporary graphic narrative. She is currently writing a book about nonfiction graphic narratives by women. She is also working with Art Spiegelman as Associate Editor of his book project MetaMaus (about his Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic narrative Maus), which will be published by Pantheon in 2009. Her essays have appeared in Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies (where she also co-edited a 2006 special issue on "Graphic Narrative"), Twentieth-Century
Literature, American Periodicals, Women's Studies Quarterly, Literature and Medicine, Postmodern Culture, and PMLA. For many years she has also been a freelance journalist, writing about books and music for venues such as the Village Voice, Time Out New York, and The Believer.

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Location: President's Conference Rooms, Rosenthal Library
Time: 3-5 PM (including a reception)

The annual 2008 Queens College faculty and staff assembly will take place on Thursday, October 16. It will be followed by a reception.

Place: LeFrak Concert Hall and Atrium
Time: 3:30 p.m.

General Education Advisory Committee meeting.

Time: 12:15 - 1:30pm
Location: Razran 318

Minutes to the meeting can be found at: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/gened/geac/14Oct08/

Writing Across the Curriculum's Faculty Partners and Writing Fellows meet.

Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318