More information coming soon, but save the date.

New faculty and their mentors are cordially invited to high tea with a group of Queens College scholars who will share their thoughts on the relationship between teaching and research.

Our discussants, drawn from a previous year's Strategic Planning Committee on the Balance of Teaching and Research, include:

• Andrew Beveridge (Sociology)
  Why teaching hardly counts for full-time faculty, especially when it's outsourced to adjuncts
• Susan Croll (Psychology)
  Scholarly engagement: The process of turning students into colleagues
• Robert Engel (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
  Teaching and research is like sex and violence: How do you separate them?
• Jeff Halperin (Psychology)
  Using the laboratory milieu to facilitate education and training concurrently at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels
• Steven Schwarz (Physics)
  PLAS and W courses in the sciences

Space is limited, please RSVP as soon as possible, and no later than April 16th, by completing this form online: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/rsvp/23Apr09/.

Location: President's Conference Room #2 (Rosenthal Library, 5th Floor)
Time: 4:30 to 6:00 pm

Writing Intensive Subcommittee meeting.

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

CUNY Faculty and Administrators are invited to an information session and discussion featuring two colleagues from the SENCER project, a National Science Foundation effort to improve undergraduate science education for both science majors and general education students.

Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibility

Learn more about SENCER, a nationally successful, National Science Foundation-supported strategy that helps you:

o Revitalize science courses for both majors and general education audiences.
o Improve science learning by making connections to important social issues.
o Bring civic engagement to the science classroom.

SENCER Leadership Fellow Gail Simmons, Dean of Science and Technology at the College of Staten Island, will lead a presentation and discussion featuring:

SENCER Prinicipal Investigator William David Burns
National Center for Science and Civic Engagement

SENCER Senior Associate Monica Devanas
Director of Faculty Development and Assessment Programs
Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Rutgers University

Friday, April 3, 2009, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Conference Room
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

Please attend for a look at how you can get involved with this important project, including participation in this summer’s SENCER Summer Institute in Chicago.

Contact Gail.Simmons@csi.cuny.edu for more information.

The Second Mindful Learners Conference: Classroom Practices and Faculty Conversations

• Come join together with other contemplative pedagogues to meditate, reflect on, share, and explore the latest research, theory and best practices in contemplative pedagogy in higher education.
• Come connect with a growing national research network in a variety of experiential exercises, workshops, panel discussions, and poster presentations.
• Come share actual assignments, techniques, texts, and strategies.

Keynote Address: Arthur Zajonc, Mellon Professor of Physics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Amherst College

Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Place: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., room 9204/9205
Fees: Full-time faculty $25, Adjuncts $20, Graduate students $10 (includes registration, breakfast and lunch)

Co-sponsored by:
The CUNY Contemplative Network; The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society; The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education; The CUNY Graduate Center Program in Composition and Rhetoric

For more information, go to http://cunycontemplatives.pbwiki.com or email Geri DeLuca at Gerdlu@aol.com

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/01Apr09/