Writing Intensive Subcommittee meeting.

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

Let's celebrate General Education!

Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend an evening of presentations and discussion that celebrate General Education at Queens College. This celebration is the kickoff event that will launch “The Year of Gen Ed.”

Our new provost, James Stellar, and faculty will offer their views on the opportunities that the new curriculum affords us as we begin to envision its possibilities across the disciplines.

Light refreshments will follow in the Atrium.

If you plan to attend, RSVP via email to president@qc.cuny.edu or by telephone to extension 7-5556.

Time: 4 - 7pm
Location: Lefrak Concert Hall, Music Building

Faculty participating in the Epsilen ePortfolio pilot are gathering to share impressions of experiences implementing Epsilen this semester.

To be included in the conversation: what's worked, what faculty perceive to be challenges, and next steps for both the Spring 2010 semester and next academic year. Also to be discussed: plans to submit two Tech Fee proposals relating to ePortfolios for next year:

1- a proposal to extend the pilot for year two
2- a request to fund student interns who can provide support to faculty and students in the implementation process.

If you aren't available or missed the Nov 17th gathering, please feel free to share your thoughts via email to c2perry@nyc.rr.com.

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 2:30-4:00pm
Place: Razran 318
Light refreshments will be served.

This year's Colloquium on Second Language Acquisition at Queensborough Community College focuses on feedback practices. The speaker is:

Hansun Zhang Waring
Teachers College, Columbia University

Date: November 13, 2009
Time: 1-3 p.m.
Place: Queensborough Community College

For more information, please contact Jilani Warsi

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

The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Ed Tech Lab cordially invite Queens College faculty to a conversation on teaching online, led by faculty from Weekend College who have been experimenting with teaching online:

Terry Balkaran
Nancy Hemmes
Anique Qureshi

Our guest presenters span levels of expertise, from beginner (one is teaching online for the first time) to advanced. They will share what they have learned about teaching practices and evaluating student learning, addressing both the assets and liabilities of online instruction.

Please register online by clicking here. Space is limited, and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Date: November 10, 2009
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Place: Razran 318

The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy

The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars, students and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. This year's conference includes panels and papers on a wide array of issues, ranging from teaching for social justice, to feminist pedagogy in the museum setting, to teaching survivors of war trauma.

Michelle Fine will give the keynote address entitled, "Slanted practices of inquiry and pedagogy."

Through the conference we aim to create a space where people can discuss the politics, problems, and transformative potential of feminist pedagogical practices in classrooms and community settings.

See http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/wgp for a complete schedule and registration information, or contact organizers Pamela Burger and Jennifer Sugg at feministpedagogy@gmail.com.

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

Time: 12 - 2pm
Location: Razran 318

General Education Advisory Committee meeting.

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

Faculty are invited to attend Writing Across the Curriculum's Fall 2009 faculty workshop.

University courses often ask students to use sources (academic essays, books, newspaper and magazine articles, etc.) to join disciplinary debates and conversations. This workshop will focus on ways to help students "break into the conversation"-- the phrase composition scholar Mark Gaipa uses to describe the variety of strategies writers use when they work with sources.

A limited number of seats are available. If you would like to attend, please register online as soon as possible by clicking here.

Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: President's Conference Room #1, 5th Floor Library