The 4th Annual Educational Technology day will be held from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in the Patio Room, Dining Hall.

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

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

Writing Intensive Subcommittee meeting.

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

You are invited to a free screening of a documentary on copyright issues in the 21st century.

Location: Razran 318
Time: Free hour (12:15-1:30pm)

The English Department and Writing Across the Curriculum are co-sponsoring this event.

Can you own a sound? As hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, artists such as Public Enemy and De La Soul began reusing parts of previously recorded music for their songs. But when record company lawyers got involved everything changed. Years before people started downloading and remixing music, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change that still rages today.

All are welcome. However, please note that space is limited.

Outcomes Assessment Forum
Friday, October 23, 2009
12:45 - 2:00 p.m.
President's Conference Room #2, Rosenthal Library
Light refreshments will be served

You are cordially invited to join Steven Schwarz (Office of the Provost) and Eva Fernández (Center for Teaching & Learning) in a conversation about outcomes assessment. Our objective is to frame the assessment tasks departments have been asked to carry out within a framework of general teaching and learning routines. We will explore the various functions of the following tools:

* Learning goals
* Rubrics
* Syllabi
* Assessment plans
* ePortfolios

We hope that each department will be able to send at least one representative.
Please RSVP with the Provost's Office, either by email (kimberly.mccants@qc.cuny.edu) or phone (718-997-5900), on or before 10/20 so that we may order refreshments and prepare handouts.

We look forward to seeing you next Friday.

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

Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318

The annual 2009 Queens College faculty and staff assembly will take place on Wednesday, October 21. It will be followed by a reception.

Place: Lefrak Concert Hall and Atrium (Music Building)
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Visit the new General Education office in the Razran Complex!

New faculty are cordially invited to an open house on the third floor of Razran Hall, which houses: the new General Education offices, 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 these programs. 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.

If you plan to attend, please register online by clicking here or by going directly to: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/rsvp/21Oct09/. This is not a formal registration (crashers are welcome!) but we would like to get a general estimate for the refreshments.

Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm
Location: Razran Complex (314, 315, 316, 318, and 360)

Time: 11:30 - 1:30pm
Location: Kiely 12th floor conference room

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All students, faculty, and staff are invited.

Speaker: Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University)

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

We tend to think of an island as enclosed and isolated, as a paradise or a hell of solitude, a jail or a fortress. Science has regarded islands as ideal isolated sites for observation and as fragile ecologies that can be easily destroyed by outside contact. Perceptions of physical isolation extend to the temporal status of islands so that their cultures and inhabitants are thought of as cut off from progress, modernity, even time itself. These ways of thinking about islands have a history that begins in the Early Modern period with works such as Thomas More’s Utopia, William Shakespeare’s Tempest, and John Donne’s Meditation 17. This tradition continues in modified ways in modern theory by Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, and others.

But how else might we consider islands? Recent island theory by Pacific Island writers, by scientists, and by others challenges preconceptions about insular space and time, and encourages us to contemplate islands in other ways. However, even these reconsiderations overlook an older history of understanding islands. Greek, Roman, and medieval writings about islands and maps can help us question and think through ideas about what constitutes a continent versus an island, how we consider individual territories around the world, how we orient ourselves on the earth, and ultimately how we might recognize a homeland.

Goldie is a scholar of medieval literature and author of Middle English Literature: A Sourcebook (Blackwell) and the forthcoming The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices. His talk draws on this new book and will focus on representations of islands in literature.

Location: Q-side (southeast corner of Dining Hall)
Time: 4:30 - 6:30pm

New faculty are invited to attend a roundtable discussion that will cover topics of interest and relevance to someone growing roots in the Queens College community and looking to successfully navigate the QC infrastructure to reach personal and professional goals in an academic career.

This will be the first of two roundtable events for the fall semester.

Philip Anderson will lead discussions on how to tackle your academic career at Queens, and achieve satisfaction (and success) as you balance teaching, research, and service.

Professor Anderson brings a wealth of knowledge to the table from his experience studying education and teaching undergraduates, masters and doctoral students. He is Professor of Secondary Education at Queens and Professor of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center. He is formerly Department Chair and Acting Dean of Education at Queens, and Executive Officer of Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center. His most recent publication is Pedagogy Primer, Peter Lang, 2009.

Date: Friday, October 16th
Time: 11:00-2:00pm
Location: Q-side (southeast corner entrance of the Dining Hall)

Please encourage your mentor to join you, and please register online as soon as possible, but no later than October 9th, by clicking here or by going directly to: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/rsvp/16Oct09/. Space is limited and registration is on a first come, first served basis.

Note: If you know that your mentor will attend, you can register for him/her at the same time that you register yourself.

General Education Advisory Committee meeting.

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