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

RFCUNY Brown Bag Research Webinars: NSF Grants for CUNY Graduate Students

Overview: From research experiences across the world to internships at its headquarters, the U.S. National Science Foundation offers graduate students and recent doctoral degree recipients paid opportunities to expand their skills and knowledge in science and engineering. Prospective applicants must be pursuing or have pursued graduate study in a research-based program in STEM or STEM

RFCUNY Brown Bag Research Webinars: NSF Grants for CUNY Early Career Researchers

Overview: Researchers who are beginning their careers have not developed the body of research that mid- career or senior faculty have accumulated over time and are at a disadvantage when competing for NSF research grants. NSF has set aside funding to early-career researchers working across a wide range of research areas where early career researchers

The Chemistry & Beauty of Fragrance

Join us for an interdisciplinary exploration into the sensory world of smell, fragrance, and chemistry! This is an interdisciplinary Speaker Series hosted by City Tech’s Business and Chemistry Departments and open to all: Guest speakers are Kevin Ryan, chemist at City College and Aamir Attarwalla, a fourth-generation fragrance expert and brand manager for his family