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Peter Engel, Associate Director of Admissions, joined our community in 2017, having come from the CUNY Welcome Center with 10+ years of Admissions experience. In his role at Lehman, Peter had the opportunity to work closely with many offices and colleagues in developing recruitment plans, marketing materials, and communications for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. He was critical to the Office’s transition to CUNYfirst, to developing virtual services during Covid, and to enhancing our communication with students. Please join us for a Celebration of Peter's life on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 10 am -12 pm. To register your virtual attendance please click here.
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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. To register for T-Rex Awareness Day click here.
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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.
Faculty Mentors are appointed every Fall and Spring semester to help Lehman faculty enhance their approaches to online, hybrid, and teaching with technology. The selected Lehman faculty serve as peer mentors and resource to support their colleagues in the respective academic school to leverage technology to support student learning and quality instruction. The Office of Online Education supports the faculty mentors to ensure that they have all the necessary resources to be successful in their roles. Reach out via email to contact a faculty mentor in your school to schedule an appointment or to get support and assistance via email. Faculty mentors will also be hosting webinars on a variety of topics this semester, from engaging online learners, implementing alternative assessments to using Blackboard features and technology tools.
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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Preparation for Teaching Online Workshop: January 9-22 & March 13-26
(RSVP by December 1)
Dear Faculty,
“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 discussion and to 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 1st, 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 has 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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