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.
Please join the HSI Committee for a discussion around collaborations with the OpenLab and Student Life and Development. All are welcome!If you have any questions please email, Mvillatoro@citytech.cuny.edu
Last semester, we met to discuss ungrading! This is part two of a series of Open Pedagogy workshops the OpenLab Community Team is developing to address inequity in assessment and anti-racist pedagogies. For this event, we’ll be joined by co-authors of a recent article from the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy titled “Resisting Surveillance,
In collaboration with the French Consulate, the City Tech Humanities Department will be hosting an evening of Francophone culture. This public event will include poetry readings, live music, film, an art competition, a cooking demonstration, a virtual reality demonstration, and other activities.
Overview of the reappointment, tenure, and promotion process, and detailed guidance on creating a clear, organized, and effective PARSE.
Covers Google Scholar Profile for citations and Google Scholar for journal rankings, Scimago for journal rankings, Altmetric Attention Scores for social media, and download reports from Academic Works (and other repositories). We’ll also touch on finding individual journal acceptance rates as well as Journal Impact Factors. The workshop will briefly address books and book chapters
Co-sponsored by CUNY/Hunter College and Professors at Play! All on Zoom! What does it mean to be a "playful professor"? Can gamelike aspects be woven into projects that address serious topics? What role does play have in the learning of adult students? We will explore these questions, be inspired, gain loads of new teaching ideas, and
Join a conversation to identify challenges faced by LGBTQ+ faculty and staff at City Tech while examining the steps and processes needed and the path forward. Share your experiences, thoughts, and ideas to promote LGBTQ+ equity and inclusion. All staff, faculty, and allies are welcome. Join the call! The COACHE faculty survey report enables us
This workshop will guide faculty to draft of their self-evaluation through self-reflection, guided peer-review, and group discussion. Participants are expected to complete the Part 1 self-paced workshop and create their draft before working with the WAC team on 4/7:
Shaun McPartland, Director of Customer Service Development, Research Foundation Poline Papoulis, Director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Queens College This webinar will present a “walk-through at the RF” for Faculty and Grants Administrators, from award account set up and web reports, to processing expenses, to how the RF assists with financial reporting
All are welcome to this open presentation in the Faculty Publication Support Workshop Series. Presentation by Prof. Richard Hanley – The journal editor’s perspective. Focus on the peer review process and working effectively with the editor.
Dear Asian faculty, staff, and students at City Tech, Hope you are well and staying safe. As you may know, I'm the editor for City Tech Writer, the journal of outstanding writing at City Tech. I wanted to follow up with the call for Asian faculty and students to submit audio, video, and/or written text from faculty, staff, AND students
Offered by the Wake Forest University Mentoring Resource Center:• Understand what mentoring is (and isn’t) and why it matters• Understand the roles and strategies of mentors and mentees in effective relationships, both formal and informal• Understand the value of strong, diverse networks for individual growth, and how to seek out mentors• Learn tools and strategies
n this interactive workshop led by Matthew Lewis, Multimedia Manager, and Antonia Levy, Associate Director, both from the Office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology at CUNY's School of Professional Studies, participants will learn about the accessibility features offered in Zoom, review best practices for leading accessible and inclusive online meetings, and discuss the implementation
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.
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 as developing a plan for promotion, the PARSE, grant writing, goal setting, mid-career pivot (developing a new scholarly or creative agenda), publication guidance, advice on non-traditional scholarly activity to
We are seeking senior faculty with different areas of expertise to help build a mentoring network program at City Tech throughout the 2022-2023 academic year. Please consider participating as a mentor or a lead mentor. Lead Mentors will receive a $500 stipend. Activities will include serving on the Mentoring Network Steering Committee and, developing and delivering
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
Attached is a flyer for the upcoming expert talk on quantum computing by Luciano Bello of IBM, Zurich. The flyer links to a registration landing page (https://bit.ly/QuantumComputingTTU). The Zoom session can hold up to 300 attendees. Where a group, such as a class, can participate on one connection that would be preferable but not necessary.
CUNY is offering a free simulated workshop providing best communication practices and interventions for student mental health wellness. Won’t you join us during spring break?* Participants will complete the simulated best practices workshop, join colleagues for a lively post-Kognito discussion, and obtain a Kognito completion certificate. Presented by Professor Justine Pawlukewicz, Human Services Department. Open
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 of faculty who are well prepared to thrive and serve in an academic executive leadership role at CUNY. The program is designed to provide faculty
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
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.
We will hear Dr. Zakiya Luna, Dr. Stephanie Begun, and Dr.Erica Goldblatt Hyatt discuss their use of critical feminisms in social work research. Dr.Mery Diaz, faculty in City Tech's Human Services department and Editorial Board member at Affilia, will moderate. This webinar is hosted and co-sponsored by the New York College of Technology's Human Services Department, Gender
Each month during the spring semester, faculty from the City Tech Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) and Dr. Karen Lundstrem, Chair of OLAC, will present techniques, resources, and best practices on a specific topic that is relevant to creating hybrid learning spaces designed to deepen student understanding and increase student success. After the presentations, faculty
The conference will take place on Thursday, April 28, 2022. However, the deadline for applying is next week Thursday, April 14, 2022. Would you please make your students aware of this grand opportunity by promoting it among them ? Your assistance in helping them prepare for this unique event would also be greatly appreciated, and we thank
Presented by Professor Steven Simon, Oxford University, UK Abstract:In two dimensional topologically ordered matter, processes depend on gross topology rather than detailed geometry. Thinking in 2+1 dimensions, particle world lines can be interpreted as knots or links, and the amplitude for certain processes becomes a topological invariant of that link. While sounding rather exotic, we
This event is part of the Communicating Your Science series. This series features presentations by The Graduate Center’s science librarian and communications staff, journal editors, and reporters. The goal of this series is to enhance the professional development and science communication skills of CUNY STEM faculty, postdocs, and students. Learn more » For more information,
