Best Classroom Practices to support LGBTQIA+ Students

Are your classroom practices in compliance with current state law and CUNY policy regarding LGBTQIA+ students? Is your classroom a safe and equitable space for LGBTQIA+ students? Would you like to hear about practical, manageable steps you can take that will enable you to answer "yes" confidently to the first two questions? If so, please

Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop:Peer Review & OER

Explore the differences between open and traditional peer review models in this workshop. Part-time faculty will receive compensation at the non-teaching adjunct rate for participation. For more information, visit the Library Buzz or reach out to Joshua Peach for workshop details and for general OER inquiries email Anne Leonard or visit OER at City Tech on

RFCUNY Brown Bag Research Webinars: Writing Competitive Grant Applications Focusing on Project Summaries and Descriptions

Overview: Project summaries and descriptions are important sections in grant proposals that need to be carefully presented with a focus on the needs of the Principal Investigator project and the sponsor program goals. While preparing the document, emphasis should be given to the quality of information and how the information is organized, structured, and presented.

READ Faculty Workshop 

Where: N227 - Inner Conference Room Attention faculty from all disciplines interested in improving students' literacy skills!  Do your students have difficulty reading and/or comprehending their textbook, lab manual, or lecture slides?  In this hands-on workshop, we will explore effective strategies for fostering students' reading comprehension, analytic skills, and ability to engage with course materials in

Open Educational Practices Institute for Part-Time Faculty

The OER Team at City Tech Library invites part-time faculty to apply for the January Open Educational Practices Institute (Chairs and full-time faculty, please recommend to your part-time colleagues!). The institute provides virtual training focused on using free, openly-licensed materials for courses, and foregrounding student-centered pedagogical approaches. If you have questions, please contact Joshua Peach, OER

Works in the Works: The Beastiary – technical direction for new plays in development

The Humanities Department in its Works in the Works series has the following presentation: Speaker: John McCullough: Entertainment Technology Department Abstract: "Technical direction for plays is the pursuit of a technical answer to an artistic question: how can the artistic vision of the playwright, director, and design team be realized within the temporal, physical, and budgetary constraints of the production. For new plays, this challenge is compounded

2024 CUNY IT Conference

We are delighted to unveil the 2024 CUNY IT Conference theme Advancing CUNY: Intentional Connections & Smart Collaborations. All in the CUNY community as well as people in the industry are invited to showcase innovative approaches and technology-driven solutions that advance the educational experience and operational efficiency across the City University of New York (CUNY)

Fall 2024 Open Houses

We are excited to announce that this semester we are having not one but two Open Houses. They are scheduled to take place on the following dates: 📅 Date: Sunday, October 20, 2024⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM📍 Location: Academic Complex - 285 Jay Street 📅 Date: Sunday, December 8, 2024⏰ Enrollment Services: 10:00 AM

A reading featuring George Guida and Nina Bannett, followed by an open mic

Where: Room A209 ✨ Snacks and refreshments will be served!✨ Open mic to follow—bring something to share! About the Readers: George Guida is the author of ten books, including the novels The Uniform (Guernica Editions, 2024), Posts from Suburbia (Encircle Publications, 2022), and The Pope Stories and Other Tales of Troubled Times (Bordighera Press, 2012). His poetry collections include Zen