All Queens College faculty, please save the date:

On December 17, during free hour (12:15-1:30), the Center for Teaching and Learning invites you to participate in a forum on student engagement, led by a panel of faculty and administrators who will address ways to engage students, including:

• General Education
• Freshman Year Initiative
• Service Learning
• Writing pedagogies

Panel participants include

• Joe Bertolino, VP for Student Affairs
• Marty Braun, Freshman Year Initiative & Mathematics
• Susan Croll, Teaching Excellence and Evaluation Committee & Psychology
• Ann Davison, Freshman Year Initiative & English
• Eva Fernández, Center for Teaching and Learning & Linguistics and Communication Disorders
• Helen Gaudette, Center for Improvement of Education & College Preparatory Program & History
• Meg McAuliffe, Institutional Research
• Claudia Perry, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
• Dean Savage, Chair Academic Senate & Sociology
• Ed Smaldone, Aaron Copland School of Music
• Steve Schwarz, Interim Associate Provost & Physics

Please register online by clicking here.

Light refreshments will be served.

Location: President's Conference Room No. 1 (Library)

Time: 12:15-1:30

CTL is pleased to help spread the news about a presentation being given by the Seniors in the School of Earth and Environmental Science Capstone class in Environmental Problem Solving (ENSCI 373), taught by George Hendrey.

Location: Science Building (across from the Library) C207
Time: 11am - 12noon

Refreshments and reception to follow.

Download the flyer here.

Contact george.hendrey@qc.cuny.edu with questions or if you are interested in a copy of the student report.

The CUNY WAC/WID Program is pleased to announce:

This Is How We Write:
Literacy in an Age of New Media

Richard E. Miller

Chair and Professor of English
Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center
Rutgers University

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December 12th, 3:00 pm
Proshansky Auditorium
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

RSVP: zhanna.kushmakova@mail.cuny.edu

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For our next forum for new faculty this academic year, new faculty and their mentors are cordially invited to a conversation about how we communicate with students.

The discussion will be led by a panel drawn from this year's recipients of the President's Teaching Awards, including:

• Patrick Brock (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
• Clare Carroll (Comparative Literature)
• Alyson Cole (Political Science)
• Susan Einhorn (Drama, Theatre and Dance)
• Irving Leonard Markovitz (Political Science)
• Areti Tsiola (Biology)

Please save the date, and register online by clicking here.

Light refreshments will be served.

Location: President's Conference Room #2 (Rosenthal Library)
Time: 4:30 to 6:00 pm

Writing Intensive Subcommittee meeting.

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

The conference theme is IT as catalyst for transformational change at CUNY.

Be sure to register ahead of time.

Location: John Jay College; 899 Tenth Ave.; New York, NY
Time: all day

Speaker: Martin Braun

Marty Braun -- Director, Freshman Year Initiative and instructor, Math Department -- will be presenting on Good teaching practices: "John von Neuman meets Henry VIII."

We'll also discuss what folks would like to discuss / hear about next semester.

Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Razran 318

Light refreshments will be served.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by e-mailing cecilia.britez@qc.cuny.edu

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

Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318