December 11, 2024 | Annie Del Principe 11 December 2024 News Editor Jane Weiss End-of-term Department Gathering Today, 11 December 2024 Our end-of-term department get-together is today, Wednesday, December 11th starting at 11:30! This is a festive and much-needed opportunity to relax and connect with colleagues at the end of the fall semester. Enid and Elroy have organized a delicious midday luncheon in C333, which follows today’s CRC meeting (for all who celebrate). The cost for the gathering is $20 for full-time faculty and $10 for part-timers. If you have not yet paid, cash is always preferred, and you can give your cash payment to Enid or Elroy. If you’d prefer to pay digitally, you can send payments to Annie via Venmo or Zelle, and please just put “department lunch” in the subject. Venmo = @AnnDelPrincipe Zelle = 7185304172 As a reminder, if you haven’t yet donated to the Sunshine fund for this year, please also consider making that donation. This year the Sunshine fund is asking $30 from FT faculty and $10 from PT faculty. Thank you! PSC-CUNY Chapter Meeting Today, 11 December 2024 The Kingsborough chapter of PSC-CUNY will meet today, Wednesday, 11 December 2024, at 4:00 via Zoom. We will be joined by members of the retirees chapter who will discuss pension issues with us. There will also be updates on the recent progress in our contract negotiations. Zoom information will be forwarded to members today. In addition, comments are invited for the New York Power Authority’s renewable energy goals. Please see the link below. https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypa.gov%2FContact-Forms%2FStrategicPlan&data=05%7C02%7CScott.Cally%40kbcc.cuny.edu%7Cee412b38a77c466f01b108dd130f0b8a%7C6f60f0b35f064e099715989dba8cc7d8%7C0%7C0%7C638687677516714067%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LATIMGiUc0BrUZvssvyUUau%2BsbxQwM4fpNjgueuhdek%3D&reserved=0 Workload and Multiple Position Forms Please submit your Workload and Multiple Position forms for Spring 2025 by December 16, 2024. (If you know you are requesting an overload for Spring, it is imperative that you meet the deadline.) All forms must be submitted in PDF format. No images or Word documents will be accepted. You can get blank forms, and the handy 16-page guide to filling out the Workload form, here: https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/aa/forms.html Please make sure to check your email throughout the winter in case your workload form has been returned for editing or needed revision. Be sure to keep a copy of your forms for your records. If anyone has questions don’t hesitate to contact Audrey Phillips. All forms must be submitted to the faculty mailbox: [email protected]. Fall 2024 Grade Rosters Due Thursday 19 December 2024 CUNYfirst Grade rosters will be available in the Faculty Center tile in CUNYfirst beginning on 9 December 2024. Final Grades are due before 11:59 PM on Thursday 19 December 2024. Grades must be submitted on or before the due date. “WN” grades cannot be assigned at the end of the semester. Fall Session B 2024 (Winter) classes begin Monday 6 January 2025. Submitting your grades has an impact on registration into necessary courses for the next term and or your student’s pending graduation requirements needed to be approved for degree conferral. Inaccurate or late submission of Grade Rosters may result in loss or inaccurate financial aid awarding for students for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Instructors will receive automated email reminders if grades are not submitted by the published deadline. If grades remain outstanding the matter will be referred to the appropriate Chairperson and the Provost’s Office. To access the grade rosters in the CUNYfirst Faculty Center, log on to the Kingsborough Website at www.kbcc.cuny.edu. Hover the mouse over “QUICK LINKS”, in the drop-down menu select “CUNYfirst Portal”. If you prefer to login to CUNYfirst directly, type the URL https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu in your web browser’s address bar. For additional information regarding the Grade Roster, please contact: Avery Mullen, Registrar ([email protected]); Sandy Lujan, Associate Registrar ([email protected]); or [email protected]. End of Term Procedures Faculty availability to students during finals week: The final exam period for the Fall 2024 semester is Tuesday 10 December 2024 through Monday 16 December 2024. Instructors will schedule their own final exam period using the following guidelines: The final exam for in-person and hybrid section(s) will be held on their regularly scheduled days, at their regularly scheduled times, and in their regularly scheduled rooms. For sections with only a lecture component (no laboratory component) schedule your final exam on the first occurring regularly scheduled day during finals week All faculty are required to use this “final exam period” for their course(s) during finals week for an educationally appropriate activity. you give an in-class final exam, this is the ideal time to do it. Many of us do not give timed final exams in writing and literature courses, so there are a variety of other ways we might use this time: to give back student work and have conferences with individual students, to have students turn in final work and complete some sort of meta-cognitive reflection, etc. The final exam dates are available on the academic calendar: https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/registrar/academic-calendar/Fall-2024-A.html Saving student work/records: Please remember that each faculty member is required by the CUNY Records & Retention Policy to keep copies of their own students’ final exams and/or sample final coursework for one year after final course grades have been assigned. The precise form the student sample coursework takes will depend, of course, on the courses you taught this term and the final projects you assigned to your students. Please make a plan to retain student work that is appropriate to the courses you’ve taught this term, either in your office or digitally. (And if you’ve come to Kingsborough within the last five or six years, ask an old-timer about “The Vault” for genuinely bizarre KCC lore.) Creating, saving, and submitting a final grade record for the English Department: The CUNY Records & Retention Policy also states that instructors must keep a copy of their “grade records, tests scores, and marking sheets” for two years after final grades have been submitted. While this is the responsibility of each individual faculty member, the department requests that you complete and submit to the department a simple, grid roster for each of your courses that includes very basic information: student name and ID number, last date of class attended, final grade, and, if you assigned an “Incomplete” grade, a simple list of what the student is required to submit in order to resolve the incomplete. PSC-CUNY Grant Proposals A message from Nancy Lee Sánchez-Badillo: The Cycle 56 PSC-CUNY Grants Proposal System is now open. The Office of Institutional Advancement is here to support you in the development and submission of your application for the Cycle 56 PSC-CUNY grants. As a reminder, the deadline for Cycle 56 applications is 11:59 pm on Monday, December 16, 2024. Please click https://rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx to apply. Kingsborough faculty and staff have a history of success with this process. Last year, KCC applicants had a 77% success rate (27 funded out of 35 applications), with a total of $143,562.70 awarded! As always, we urge you to apply early if possible. The sooner you submit your proposal, the more time Raymond will have to review it and help you to address any issues. Remember, the deadline for Cycle 56 applications is 11:59pm on Monday, December 16, 2024. For more details, visit https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/principal-investigators/explore-pre-award-resources/psc-cuny-award-program/ . A Note about the Newsletter A message from Jane Weiss, the Newsletter editor: This is the final newsletter for 2024. The next newsletter will come out on Wednesday 5 March 2025. Send items to be included by Monday 3 March 2025 to Jane Weiss at [email protected]. Please keep items brief (preferably 100 or fewer words). Longer items will be abridged. Many faculty members would like to learn more about colleagues’ areas of scholarship, so if you would like to share what you’re working on, the Newsletter will welcome descriptions of your research and recent or upcoming presentations, publications, performances, and creative achievements of all kinds.