September 9 English Department Newsletter
Newsletter Editor Jane Weiss
Academic Calendar
Fall 2021 day and evening classes begin today, Friday, September 9, 2022. Verification of Enrollment rosters will be available in CUNYfirst on Friday, September 16, 2022. The Verification of Enrollment rosters will be due on Sunday, September 25, 2022. Classes will not meet Sunday, September 25 through Tuesday, September 27, 2022; Tuesday, October 4 through Wednesday, October 5, 2022; Monday, 10 October 2022; and Thursday, November 24 through Sunday, November 27, 2022. The last day of day and evening classes is Monday, December 12, 2022. The exam period is Wednesday, December 14 through Tuesday, December 20, 2022. All grade rosters for Fall 2022 are due by Friday, December 23, 2022.
English Department Office
The English Department Office in C309 is now open for limited hours. The beginning of the semester is an extremely hectic time in the English Department office, whether on campus or virtually. Please try to avoid sending students to the department office (virtually or on campus) with problems. If it is truly urgent, write a note or email explaining what the problem is, and what action you’re hoping the English Department can take to resolve the problem. To find out your classroom assignments, please check CUNYfirst. Please be aware that overtallies are not permitted in English courses, and students should not be sent to the English Department office to request overtallies.
Workload Forms
If you have not already done so, please send your Fall 2022 workload forms to the English Department immediately. You can find blank workload forms (and the handy 19-page guide to filling them out) at https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/aa/forms.html
Room Assignments for In Person and Hybrid Classes
Please check room assignments for your in-person and hybrid classes on CUNYfirst; KCC frequently needs to change room assignments at the beginning of a semester.
Composition Office Hours
Composition Office hours in C309B:
Greg: Mondays and Wednesdays, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm;
Rachel: Mondays and Wednesdays, from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Remote office hours:
Greg: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 am to 10:00 am:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6372657798?pwd=L28zMVBxenZzR05vbU1GRis5ajRUZz09 ;
Rachel: Fridays, 9:00 am to 11:00 am https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5834566892
Campus Reopening Hub
For information about KCC’s reopening, visit the new KCC Campus Reopening Hub: http://kbcc.cuny.edu/campusentry/index.html . You can find information about the reopening plan, mask policies, on campus COVID-19 testing, the Cleared4 pass and visitor policies.
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
Sending Email to Your Classes: Additional Ways to Do It
For KCC communications – with department staff, with students, with Eileen – please use your KCC email address, not personal email accounts, whenever possible.
You can send email to any or all of the students in the classes that you currently teach by logging into CUNYfirst, clicking Faculty Center, and then the class roster; check the boxes in the column headed “Notify” to select individual students, or click “Notify All Students” at the bottom of the roster to send an email to everyone in the class. In Blackboard, you can send emails to all students or selected students by clicking “Send Email” in the course menu. The KCC IT office has also created email lists for each of your classes in Inside KCC on the KCC website, in the following format:
SubjectCatalog.ClassNumber@groups.kingsborough.edu
For example, if you are teaching Art 100 and the class number is 123456, your email distribution list would look like the following:
ART100.123456@GROUPS.KINGSBOROUGH.EDU
You can view email distribution lists for your courses by clicking Inside KCC at the top of the KCC website https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/ and selecting KCC Notices, Faculty and Staff Notices, and then log in to Inside KCC using your KCC email username and password; select Email Groups. You will see a table that will list all the courses you teach. You can also click on Members to view all the students that are enrolled in that particular course distribution list. You can send test emails to your students. If you do not see any courses listed or some are missing, please notify the IT Services office support@groups.kingsborough.edu Include these in your email: your EMPLID, the subject, the catalog number and class number for the courses that are missing. If there are students missing, please provide the same information above as well as the EMPLID for the student(s). Send this information to support@groups.kingsborough.edu Requests will be responded and replied to within 48 hours.
CUNY Alerts
To receive notifications by phone, text, or email regarding campus conditions, sign up for CUNY Alert by logging on to CUNYfirst. Once you have logged on, the CUNYfirst Main Menu will be near the top of the screen on the left side. Click CUNY Alert Subscription to sign up; you can update contact information at CUNY Alert Preferences. You can check KCC’s home page www.kbcc.cuny.edu/ for updates about campus conditions.
A Note about the Newsletter
The next issue of the Newsletter will come out on Monday, 12 September 2022. Please send newsletter items by Friday, 9 September 2022 to Jane Weiss at Jane.Weiss@kbcc.cuny.edu. Please keep items brief (preferably 100 or fewer words). Longer items will be abridged.
