New faculty are cordially invited to an open house on the third floor of Razran Hall, which houses three important sources of institutional support for faculty: the new Educational Technology Lab, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Writing Across the Curriculum. Come celebrate the opening of the new Ed Tech Lab, 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.

Please RSVP to Melinda Miller (melinda.miller@qc.cuny.edu) by Friday, October 26.

Location: Razran 3rd floor
Time: 5:30-7:30

New faculty are invited to join CUNY Writing Fellows and Queens College Faculty Writing Partners in a cross-divisional discussion on teaching with writing.

A light lunch will be served; please let us know of any dietary restrictions, when you RSVP (to Melinda Miller, melinda.miller@qc.cuny.edu).

Location: Patio Room (dining hall)
Time: 12:15-1:30 pm

In a talk titled "The call of teaching", Professor Robert Gurland (NYU) will describe the essential expectations teachers have --- or should have --- of their students, and the impediments teachers face in the context of the contemporary university structure.

Time: 12:15-1:30
Location: President's Conference Room #1, Rosenthal Library

Space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible, but no later than February 11th, by completing this form online: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/arts_humanities/rsvp/gurland/.

For our last forum for new faculty this academic year, 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 last 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 18th, by completing this form online: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/rsvp/hightea/.

Location: Q-Side (dining hall)
Time: 4:30 to 6:00 pm

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

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

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

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.

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)

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 second roundtable event for the fall semester. More details and information on how to register coming soon.

Time: 11am - 2pm
Location: to be announced