KCC English Department Newsletter
Newsletter Editor Jane Weiss
Elections for University Faculty Senate
Elections for delegates to the CUNY University Faculty Senate will take place Tuesday 4/25 and Wednesday 4/26. And an excellent candidate is our English Department colleague MaryLynn Navarro. Please be sure to check your KCC email for voting instructions, and be sure to cast your vote.
KCC PSC-CUNY Meeting Thursday 27 April 2023 at 4:00 PM
Please join us for our next PSC Union Chapter meeting on Thursday, April 27th at 4:00 PM. Heather James from the PSC Legislative Committee will join the meeting for a discussion of the current city budget situation. Zoom links have been sent to PSC-CUNY members’ email addresses.
Full Time Faculty: Winter 2024 Course Requests Due Friday 28 April 2023
This Friday, 4/28, is the deadline for Winter 2024 Course Request submissions from full-time faculty. Forms have been mailed to full-time faculty KCC email addresses; please return the forms to Bailin Song (bailin.song@kbcc.cuny.edu). If you do not wish to teach in Winter 2024, there is no need to submit the form.
Professional Development Session Friday 2 May 2023: Source Use: Emphasizing Purpose in Source Use for Better Research
A Message from Hope Parisi, Faculty Mentor: Our new ENG 12 curriculum no longer requires students to complete a capstone project at the end of the term to demonstrate their ability to bring together classroom reading and independent research; however, one of the new CLOs is students are able to “Compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with those of other texts.” What does it mean for ENG 12 instruction to substantively include material from texts (both classroom texts and texts students locate on their own)? What are some practical methods for supporting writing that brings together students’ voices and published authors? How can we help students toward clearer understandings of their purposes for source use, beyond what assignments just seem to require?
On Friday May 2, 2023 at 2pm by Zoom, we’ll hear instructors’ ideas on productive uses of texts in student writing and strategies to support these ways of learning about source use. It’s likely some concerns about ChatGPT will resurface in this discussion as well! Adjunct faculty attending this professional development opportunity will be paid for their time.
Meeting ID: 865 1952 8395 Passcode: 030930 +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Education, The Front Line in the Fight for Democracy: Stopping Education Censorship in Today’s U.S.: A Talk at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 11:00 AM
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Maureen Fadem will speak at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture: “The proliferation of state-level legislative efforts to impose educational gag orders must be understood urgently—and centrally—as a violation of student rights and academic freedom and as an attempt to mobilize fascism across the United States.” The event is open to the public and is hybrid, with in-person and online options. To join, please RSVP here.
Faculty Mentor and Support Hours in E219
Hope Parisi will be in E219 this semester, available for informal chats with new and experienced part-time faculty, and all faculty, on Wednesdays, from 1pm – 3pm, with more availability by phone or Zoom, along with Tuesdays as another on-campus day. Please come by this welcoming environment, on Wednesdays, if you’re on campus, or get in touch for a time convenient for you.
Composition Coordinators Spring 2023 Office Hours
Gregory Bruno
Tuesdays in C309B: 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
Wednesdays via Zoom: 10:30 am – 12 :30 pm
Thursdays in C309B: 12:30 – 1:45 pm (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6372657798?pwd=L28zMVBxenZzR05vbU1GRis5ajRUZz09)
Rachel Ihara
Tuesdays and Thursdays in C309B: 9:00 am – 10:00 am.
Fridays via Zoom: 9:00 am – 11:00 am (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5834566892)
KCC Information Technology Services Office
You can call KCC’s ITS Help Desk at (718) 368-6679 or email helpdesk@kbcc.cuny.edu 9:00 – 5:00 on weekdays. For Blackboard support during hours when KCC’s Help Desk is not available, call 1-646-664-2024
A Note about the Newsletter
The next issue of the Newsletter will come out on Monday 31 April 2023. Please send newsletter items by Friday, 28 April 2023 to Jane Weiss at Jane.Weiss@kbcc.cuny.edu. Please keep items brief (preferably 100 or fewer words). Longer items will be abridged. Items about publications and achievements are very welcome.
