WAC: Minimal Marking and Effective Grading

This workshop offers strategies for minimizing time spent on grading while maximizing the effectiveness of written comments. These strategies not only ease an instructor’s workload but also lead to more comprehensive student learning. We will cover a variety of minimal marking techniques that will allow faculty to focus on overall improvements in student writing.

Call for Fellows: What do you need to thrive?

As Fellows, 10 assistant or associate professors will receive a range of support from Mentors throughout the 2022-2023 academic year.  Activities may include workshops as well as one-on-one meetings on topics such

RF CUNY Brown Bag Research Webinars: NIH Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE)

Targeted Audience: Biomedical faculty in CUNY collegesPresenters: John Tsapogas-Director RF-Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support & Louise Hainline, Special Associate to the Provost for Grants and Contracts and Professor of Psychology, Brooklyn College Overview of Webinar: The goal of the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) program is to develop a diverse pool of

2022-2023 OUSAP Leadership Development Fellowship Program

The CUNY Office of Undergraduate Studies, Academic Programs & Policy (OUSAP) is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 OUSAP Leadership Development Fellowship Program.OUSAP initiated this program to increase CUNY’s pipeline

Retaining Diverse Groups in STEM

Speaker: Melanie Villatoro, Ph.D.Chair of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology Department Abstract:Colleges across the United States must produce more engineering graduates to keep up with demands of the engineering workforce. Population trends indicate that women and minorities are highly underrepresented in the STEM fields. Therefore, recruitment and retention of these populations is critical to

Adventures in Ungrading: The Community College Experience

What are your students actually learning from your course? Are your students intrinsically motivated to deepen their learning and content knowledge, or extrinsically motivated to play the game of getting a good score and grade? “Ungrading” is a growing movement in higher education that critically questions the conventional grading system and traditional forms of assessment.