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There has been a significant increase in world-wide cyber-attacks over the last few years. A recent survey suggested that 83% of organizations experienced at least one successful email phishing attack last year, an increase from 37% in 2020.
Lehman’s threat detection efforts block over 4 million spam/malicious emails each month, yet we continue to see new forms of phishing attacks aimed at stealing passwords, extracting personal information, and defrauding students of funds with false promises of part-time positions. These threats are expected to grow, and it is becoming easier to fall victim to such scams given that these attacks are more sophisticated.
In response, the Information Technology division, in collaboration with CUNY CIS, is rolling out Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on your Microsoft Office 365 apps over several days. See the below table to determine the date MFA is going to be enabled for your MS 365 account. If your last name starts with Your MFA will be enabled on
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To help you get ready and to learn more about MFA, please visit the MFA module in Lehman 360. Use your Lehman Account credentials to login.
Information Technology Division
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The CUN Office of Transformation is partnering with the CUNY Career Success Fellows, a group of dedicated faculty who have been working together over the past two years to learn more about faculty interest and engagement in the work of preparing our students for their futures. Faculty are the most powerful influencers of students on our campuses. Faculty involvement in CUNY’s planning related to career preparation and world readiness is essential to propelling more CUNY students into successful careers.
We are reaching out today to invite (and encourage) you to take a few minutes to complete this brief anonymous survey, which was designed by the Career Success Fellows. The information we learn from you will shape CUNY’s strategies for meaningfully engaging faculty in this important work over the next year. CUNY is one of the most important engines of social mobility in the country — and we want to build on that success.
The deadline for completing the survey is 11:59 pm on November 30, 2022.
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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
Tue, Nov 29, 2022
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
Michelle Jacob, PhD
14-Day Writing Challenge
February 20, 2023
Core Curriculum
Joy Gaston Gayles, PhD
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET
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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AASCU Institutional Transformation Assessment Survey
Understanding the journey of continuous improvement
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The American Association for State Colleges & Universities (AASCU) will be working with the Lehman campus as a member of the Student Success Equity Intensive (SSEI) to learn about and support our efforts to eliminate equity gaps for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income students.
As one of our first major milestones in the Intensive, Lehman College will participate in a web-based survey, the Institutional Transformation Assessment (or ITA). The ITA aims to facilitate self-reflection amongst university staff, faculty, and administrators by reflecting on existing student success efforts through an equity lens.
Please complete the 30-question assessment to provide a cross-campus perspective to help inform reflection on some of the main elements of student success. The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
Please use the following links to start and complete the ITA survey by November 15.
Read more about the ITA .
Your individual responses will be returned only to you. AASCU will help facilitate the review of the data to reflect on the results compared to our institutions’ student success strategic priorities.
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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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Testimony on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at NYC Council Committee on Higher Education and Economic Development
Pictured: Lauren Andersen, University Associate Provost for Careers and Industry Partnerships (CUNY); Council Member Eric Dinowitz, Chair of NYC Council Higher Education Committee; Council Member Amanda Farias, Chair of NYC Council Economic Development Committee; Jane MacKillop, Dean of School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Lehman College; Kenneth Adams, President of LaGuardia Community College
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ALPFA Lehman College Students Team Up with Bloomberg BOB at Governors Island Pumpkin Patch
Best of Bloomberg (BOB) volunteer service project Sunday, October 30, 2022, at the Pumpkin Patch on Governors Island! "From placing hundreds of pumpkins, painting pumpkins, and meet and greet with picture taking, you all were amazing with your spirit and support of this special event and the added bonus was the life and career mentoring while in “pumpkin patch” service mode!" Nanette Smith, Best of Bloomberg
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Lehman Student Leadership Retreat
After a two-year hiatus, the Office of Campus Life was finally able to host our Student Leadership Retreat with senior campus administrators and brilliant Lehman College student leaders! Students were able to develop a sense of commitment to campus involvement and their elected roles in student government. Take a look at our highlights: Retreat Video #1, Retreat Video #2, Retreat Photos .
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When Alice Michelle Augustine, Director of the Office of Prestigious Awards at #Fulbright 2022 #HSI Leader Lehman College, told a student she was a Fulbright finalist, the student didn't even believe her at first. Alice told her student, who had seemingly given up hope on the opportunity, "We never stop trying. This is our m.o., this is our mantra. With everything against us [...] we persist. Can't stop, won't stop. I am there for you." While Alice has held her current position since 2016, her history with the Fulbright Program began in 2009 when she was a Fulbright U.S. Student to #Turkey. At the time, she was a law student whose project focused on human trafficking and Turkey's response to victims. She has also been recognized by the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, and the The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans for her passion-fueled work. With her wealth of knowledge and experience, Alice has now guided countless students towards enriching educational and professional opportunities — including the Fulbright Program. We thank Alice for all of her hard work, and are proud to call her a member of the Fulbright family!
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