18 November 2024 News Editor Jane Weiss Good Wishes to Shelly This Thursday, 11/21, will be Shelly’s last day in the English department office, and she’ll be working until 1pm that day. You might like to come by the department office sometime this week to express your best wishes for […]
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Curriculum Committee Friday, November 15, 2024 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. on Zoom MINUTES Annie opened the meeting with the first item on the agenda – shifts in the ESL program. She explained that while there is nothing to review now, the plan is to realign and reconfigure the hours of […]
11 November 2024 News Editor Jane Weiss English Department Meeting 12 November 2024 3:00-4:30 The English Department will meet on Tuesday 12 November 2024 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM in V219. The agenda includes: Approval of past minutes and current agenda; Announcements & updates; Updates on Spring 2025 […]
4 November 2024 News Editor Jane Weiss Film Club A message from John Keller and Frank Percaccio: Please invite your students to this semester’s second meeting of the newly re-minted film club, a place for film aficionados to find each other, talk film, screen masterpieces, meet future collaborators, etc. […]
28 October 2024 News Editor Jane Weiss Transitions and Transactions: Literature Pedagogy CUNY Committee A message from Rob Cowan: Some of you may have participated in the bi-annual Transitions and Transactions: Literature Pedagogy in Community Colleges Conference that has been hosted at BMCC since 2012 by English Professor Margaret Barrow. […]
Creative Writing Committee Meeting Tue. 10/1/24, 3pm Room C-317 Minutes The first Fall 2024 meeting of the Creative Writing Committee met in a hybrid format, both in person and via Zoom remote link. In Attendance: Gregory Bruno, Robert Cowan, Elroy Esdaille, Lea Fridman, Amy Karp, John Keller, Kevin Kolkmeyer, Jennifer […]
Literature Committee Meeting – October 9, 2024 Attendance: Jane Weiss Elroy Esdaille Monica Filmon Lesley Broder Rob Cowan Sara Rutkowski Joseph Sedita ************ Literature Gen ED Assessment –Jane solicited feedback from the committee about Gen Ed assessment, which is receiving credit for pathways assessment. The general consensus was that we […]
Newsletter Editor Jane Weiss End of Term Reminders A message from Annie Del Principe: 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 […]
Newsletter Editor Jane Weiss Spring 2024 Final Exam Schedule Academic Scheduling has published the final exam schedule for this semester. You’ll notice that it’s a somewhat different approach than previous terms. The exam times generally resemble the times that the classes meet during the semester. Please take a moment to […]
