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The CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy, established in 2020, aims to improve pedagogy at scale and recognize excellence and innovation in teaching by CUNY faculty. The Academy is predicated on the recognition that the quality of pedagogy and access to high-impact practices has a direct and measurable impact on the quantity and quality of degrees produced by CUNY and the ability of CUNY graduates to be well-positioned for meaningful careers and further study.
Here is a list of upcoming events hosted by CITA and its partners:
Current and Upcoming Events
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(TLH) From the Classroom to the Workplace: CUNY Alumni Speak on their Experiences (Online). Thursday, December 1, 2022, 4—5 PM. Register here.
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Teaching Matters: Modeling Your Assignments after Your Own Writing Practices with Karen Miller. Friday, December 2, 2022, 10 – 11 AM ET. Register here.
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(TLH) Community Inside and Outside of the Classroom (Online). Friday, December 2, 2022, 12—1:30 PM. Register here.
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(TLH) Not the Master’s Tools: Building Community in the Classroom (Online). Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 4—5 PM. Register here.
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(TLH) Equity through Creativity: Examples of Transformative Teaching Across Disciplines (Online). Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 4—5 PM. Register here.
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Online Teaching Essentials is an asynchronous course that gives participants first-hand experience of what it is like to learn online, including the flexibility of asynchronous instruction. Learn more.
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Overview
The 21st annual CUNY IT Conference will convene this fall! The conference brings together faculty and administration from across the CUNY system to discuss IT.
This year’s theme, The Power and Perils of Scripting, will consider the power that scripts play in our educational, professional and personal lives.
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National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), is an independent professional development center dedicated to helping faculty make successful transitions throughout their careers. This membership enables Lehman faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students from across disciplines to participate in comprehensive professional development activities that are entirely free of charge. As an institutional member of NCFDD, Lehman College joins the ranks of over 450 higher education institutions nationwide—leading research institutions. Be sure to claim your free account today. To activate your membership, visit NCFDD and choose Lehman from the dropdown menu.
Don't miss out on your chance to take advantage of:
- Weekly Monday Motivator
- Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars
- Monthly Guest Expert Webinars
- Multi-Week Courses
- Dissertation Success Curriculum for Graduate Students
- Private Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring, problem-solving, and moderated writing challenges
- Monthly accountability buddy matches
- 14-day Writing Challenges
- Member Library that includes past webinar materials referrals and readings
Upcoming Opportunities
Core Curriculum Webinar: Every Semester Needs a Plan (LIVE on Zoom)
1/12/2023 (Thursday) 2:00-3:30 pm ET
Facilitator: Joy Gaston Gayles, PhD, North Carolina State University
14-Day Writing Challenge
February 20, 2023
Core Curriculum
Thu, Feb 9, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET
Naomi Levy, PhD
Thu, Mar 9, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET
Anthony Ocampo, PhD
SKILL #4: Mastering Academic Time Management
Thu, Apr 13, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET
Carlita Favero, PhD
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All faculty are invited to reach out to the respective mentors from their school for guidance and support as needed about teaching with technology and online!
The current Faculty Mentors Cohort appointment for Fall 2022 is from August 25 to December 21, 2022. We encourage you to make use of faculty mentors’ expertise and tap into their collegial support.
For more information and to identify the mentor for your school each semester, visit the mentors page or see below.
What Can Faculty Mentors Help With?
- Advise school colleagues who need assistance with set-up of Blackboard to support a class (e.g. how to make the course available to students, post an announcement, create a discussion forum, create an assignment, etc.)
- Answer questions concerning instructional approaches and options to enrich their courses like Blackboard quizzes, Zoom, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, discussion forums, Grade Center and rubrics, VoiceThread, and other relevant institutionally supported technologies.
- Share best practices, instructional strategies, tips for efficient and effective teaching and learning online and with technology.
- Serve as a sounding board and exchange ideas on time-saving solutions and high-impact practices in technology-enhanced environments or online.
How to Contact Faculty Mentors?
- You can reach out directly to faculty mentors assigned to your school via email (see below). Faculty mentors respond to questions via email, host regular office hours, schedule training or special topical sessions, and one-on-one and/or group appointments.
Faculty Mentors for Fall 2022:
School of Arts and Humanities
School of Business
School of Education
School of Human Services, Health Sciences and Nursing
School of Natural and Social Sciences
LEH Courses
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Transfer Explorer provides you and everyone else--inside and outside of CUNY--with quick and easy access to information about how ANY CUNY course at ANY CUNY college will transfer to ANY other CUNY college. Transfer Explorer will tell you (and anyone else), for a particular CUNY course at a particular college, what kind of credit every other CUNY college will give that course if a student who has taken that course transfers within CUNY. For more information click here.
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Preparation for Teaching Online Workshop: January 9-22 & March 13-26
(RSVP by December 1)
“Preparation for Teaching Online: A Foundational Workshop for CUNY Faculty” is offered January 9-22 & March 13-26, 2023, and open to faculty who teach online or hybrid courses. Faculty who successfully complete the workshop are eligible for compensation at their NTA rate for 10 hours (up to $550).
This program is for faculty who are scheduled to teach online or hybrid courses at Lehman College within the year following the workshop. For the January workshop, we will give priority to those teaching in Spring 2022.
This intensive workshop, offered completely online in Blackboard, models effective design and facilitation skills, and addresses pedagogical approaches to teaching online and hybrid courses, as well as to the organization and management of an online class, while providing first-hand experience in online learning.
There are no required synchronous real-time sessions, but faculty must be available to log in frequently to participate in discussions and complete work during each of the two weeks. Faculty who successfully complete the workshop are eligible for compensation at their NTA rate for 10 hours (up to $550). For more information, see the description on our webpage which also contains the registration link, confer with your chair about participating, and register here by December 1, 2022.
Note that if faculty completed this workshop in the last 3 years (2019-2022), they cannot retake it and we encourage them to schedule a course design consultation with our office. For new faculty, all hiring paperwork must be completed with HR before the workshop start date for faculty to participate in the workshop.
Feel free to share the message with your colleagues who could benefit from taking this workshop! Please do not hesitate to email me directly if you or any of your colleagues have any questions about this workshop.
Note this workshop is facilitated by Dr. Susan Ko, Faculty Development Consultant in the Office of Online Education. Dr. Ko is the author of Teaching Online: A Practical Guide (4th edition), a leading book in the field of online teaching and learning. Dr. Ko developed the workshop while working at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies as the Director of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology. The workshop is largely based on her book and her experience supporting faculty teaching online at several institutions. Dr. Ko also teaches Humanities and Asian Studies courses online for the University of Maryland Global Campus, USA.
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We oversee all educational programs; faculty matters; accreditation reviews; strategic planning; and the review of division and departmental budgets. Questions? Email provost.office@lehman.cuny.edu or call 718-960-8222. For submissions or issues relating to the eDigest, email edigest.provost@lehman.cuny.edu.
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