The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) helps faculty and administrators compete for and win grants that strengthen the intellectual climate and improve the learning environment at City Tech. The office provides notices of grant opportunities and works with faculty and administrators over the life-cycle of a grant – from concept development through close-out.
Open access scholarly literature—roughly, scholarly works that are online and free of charge for all—has developed over the past 20 years from wild idea to widespread reality. Open access journals, books, and repositories are now established parts of the scholarly ecosystem, and many consider near-universal open access to be inevitable.But publishing itself is not cost-free,
Architects, academics and change makers consider solutions to some of the most pressing problems in the built environment. Organized by AIA Brooklyn & City Tech Department of Architectural Technology Where: New Academic Building A-205 This program is IN PERSON ONLY. Refreshments will be served in the Tillary Lobby at 6 PM and talks start promptly at
One of the challenges in writing-intensive instruction is developing a syllabus that weaves together course content with WAC principles to improve student writing and facilitate their writing process. In this workshop, we will suggest critical elements for crafting syllabi for writing-intensive courses and consider ways to adapt assignments and course practices that help students learn
Epistemological Constructions: The Eternal Struggle with the Real and Virtual in Architecture The built environment masks a multitude of virtual manifestations of itself that were engaged in the course of its formation. As an operation embedded within the discipline of design, the act of making collapses the virtual into the real, and yet remnants of
As a space dedicated to language, the Writing Center looks forward to celebrating International Mother Language Day on Tuesday, Feb. 21st from 1pm-3pm in L-632 (the faculty lounge in the Library Building). This day marks the importance of multilingual education and the value of bringing more languages into public life. To celebrate, we will have a line-up of
Dear CUNY Faculty and Staff, Last week, I wrote to you to share our new initiative regarding transfer and seek your support on behalf of our students. Although much progress has been made to facilitate transfer, work remains to be done. Students continue to lose credits upon transfer in the same major, delaying academic progression
Would you like to engage City Tech students in your research project(s) ? Are you seeking research mentees? Would you like to meet a cohort of our best, our brightest, and our most promising students? Are you interested in learning more about funded research opportunities at City Tech ? If you answered yes to any of the above questions,
Mamie Till Mobley said it best after the murder of her son Emmett Till: "What happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of all of us."In keeping with this sentiment and in a continuation of our BRESI theme on Black and Latinx Girlhood, for this Black History Month we
This presentation analyzes a nineteenth-century image of a white man shooting black civil rights activist Octavius Catto, and discusses the complications related to researching and writing about black people in US history. Geoff Zylstra is a historian of technology who focuses on the industrialization of the built environment in the nineteenth century. His research includes
We invite you to consider mentoring talented students as part of City Tech’s Honors Scholars Program. City Tech encourages students who have demonstrated high academic achievement to undertake honors-level work in any course. Honors projects involve a substantial challenging assignment in addition to the standard requirements of the course (Note: Honors projects can be a research
