Faculty Commons, A Center for Teaching, Learning, Scholarship and Service coordinates all professional development, grants and assessment activities of faculty at New York City College of Technology. Faculty Commons adopts a programmatic approach to professional development and operates as a faculty resource and think tank where members collaborate on a variety of projects to shape curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
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.
The Professional Activity Report and Self-Evaluation (PARSE) is the documentation of a faculty member’s accomplishments during each academic year and cumulatively, in the three principal areas of teaching, scholarly and professional growth, and service. The PARSE serves as the basis for the annual evaluation. It is also provides faculty with an instrument to present to departmental and college review committees for reappointment, tenure, and promotion.
Purpose: To provide undergraduate students at New York City College of Technology an opportunity to present their research interests/projects/assignments at a professional forum.
Please join us for an exciting series of workshops from City Tech’s 2022-2023 PDAC Teacher Recognition Award Recipient, Rebecca Mazumdar! Three special Faculty Friday workshops will introduce faculty to a pedagogy informed by civic engagement and action, including discussion of shared readings, workshopping of course materials, and discussion of assessment strategies. Friday, March 31, 12pm-1pm
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). The workshop will touch on finding individual journal acceptance rates and Journal Impact Factors, and will briefly address books and book chapters as well.
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 4/4.
What makes a city livable? Transport, housing, health. Open space, mobility and the environment. Matters of culture, entrepreneurship, crime and safety. Affordability and access to education. Depending on whose ‘livability index’ you look at, it may include design quality, sustainability and the digital infrastructures of the smart city. Other criteria applied may encompass food access,
Overview of Webinar: The National Science Foundation offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to provide opportunitiesfor recent doctoral graduates to obtain additional training, to gain research experience under the sponsorship ofestablished scientists, and to broaden their scientific horizons beyond their undergraduate and graduate training.Postdoctoral Fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts
Please join us for an exciting series of workshops from City Tech’s 2022-2023 PDAC Teacher Recognition Award Recipient, Rebecca Mazumdar! Three special Faculty Friday workshops will introduce faculty to a pedagogy informed by civic engagement and action, including discussion of shared readings, workshopping of course materials, and discussion of assessment strategies. Friday, March 31, 12pm-1pm
This month Christopher Swift, Humanities Department, will present “Performing Empire: Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville” In this talk, theatre historian Christopher Swift discusses the upcoming publication of his monograph. "Performing Empire" traces an historical arc during the period of Christian rule of Seville from 1248 to the conquest of the New World,
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
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.
Attendees will learn the capabilities of this powerful, free open-source reference management software program. The session covers the functionalities of the Zotero client, adding the Zotero plugin to your browser, and importing citations to generate a bibliography. To maximize our workshop time, please download Zotero from https://www.zotero.org and create your username and password in the
Overview of Webinar: MRGP provides funding opportunities to support health equity research conducted at: 1) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); 2) Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs); 3) Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs); or 4) Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). Through this funding opportunity, the Minority Research Grant Program will make awards
Presentation by and Discussion with Emily C. Williams Ms. Williams is the Chief Executive Officer at UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN) at the UCLA School of Medicine This event is hosted by the Inclusion Diversity Equity & Access (IDEA) Committee of the General Education Committee This event is for the “How Do You
We are excited to announce a new informal seminar series, the City Tech Community Roundtable. The goal of the new series is to bring together faculty and students from all disciplines at the college and contribute to building, or re-building, the nurturing intellectual community that the last three years have made it difficult to have.
The City Tech 2023 Literary Arts Festival is happening on Thursday, April 27, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., at the Academic Complex Theater, 285 Jay Street.This year's event features acclaimed multidisciplinary artist, writer, and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater and the bestsellers You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty and The Death of Vivek
THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT'S HOSPITALITYINDUSTRY DURING THE PANDEMIC This full-day, virtual conference will examine what the Covid-19 pandemic did to the restaurant industry along the Brooklyn waterfront through panels composed of industry leaders, workers, owners, and city and borough officials. Panelists will speak about the steps that were taken to survive during the shutdown—re-purposing kitchens to
Provost Pam Brown’s Campus Climate grant will be funding this special event for all faculty and staff: Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz will discuss the power of racial literacy development, and why truth, love, and an Archaeology of Self™ are required when educating Black and Brown students. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English Education at
Please join us for an exciting series of workshops from City Tech’s 2022-2023 PDAC Teacher Recognition Award Recipient, Rebecca Mazumdar! Three special Faculty Friday workshops will introduce faculty to a pedagogy informed by civic engagement and action, including discussion of shared readings, workshopping of course materials, and discussion of assessment strategies. Friday, March 31, 12pm-1pm
Please join us for a presentation and discussion with Dr. Betsy Gilliland of Uni of Hawaii, at Manoa. She will share findings about second language writers and gaps in instruction from high school to college.
The Hispanic Serving Institutions — HSI Conference: Promoting Servingness across CUNY HSIs will take place at City Tech on May 4 and 5, 2023. This conference will bring together representatives from all CUNY HSIs in a call to action to intentionally serve Hispanic/Latinx students through data, practice, and leadership. Participants will highlight their HSI initiatives
ORCID IDs are author identifiers. They are especially helpful to authors with names that are more common but they have other benefits including speedier registration in systems for submitting articles, reviewing, and grant applications. Grantees who use their ORCID when applying for a grant help to assure that funders connect your funding program to your