15 October 2025                                           News Editor Jane Weiss

Updated Fall 2025 Calendar Note: Tuesday 21 October 2025 Is a MONDAY Schedule

Classes will not meet on Monday 20 October 2025. Tuesday 21 October 2025 is a Monday schedule at KCC.                  

Writing Workshop 15 October 2025 3:00-4:00 in L304 and via Zoom: Read Smart, Not Hard

Today, Wednesday, 10/15, from 3-4pm, there will be a writing workshop, available both in person (in L-304) and via Zoom for students who would like to attend remotely.  Here’s the Zoom link if you’d like to share with your students: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/83259820462?pwd=ifnN13SL8Ny4bKUJSVfzelxZGF9PfM.1 The workshop is titled “Read Smart, Not Hard: Strategies for Difficult Texts.”  This workshop will explore annotation strategies and help students navigate, in particular, peer-reviewed articles. This will be a great workshop for any student struggling with reading comprehension and/or students who are beginning to use academic articles in their writing/research. The workshop will also touch upon checking source credibility (with a focus on sources produced by AI!). 

PSC-CUNY and KCC Town Hall  on the Mayoral Election, CUNY, and Climate Resilience: 16 October 2025 1:15-2:45 in V219

KCC’s PSC-CUNY chapter and the KCC Community Farm and Garden are sponsoring a town hall tomorrow at 1:15 in V219 or by Zoom (register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1ls245mySxabzS8y97IMJQ#/registration ) on how the Mayoral Election might affect CUNY and Climate Resilience and Why it is Important to Vote. New Yorkers are about to elect a new mayor who will have a great impact on many things, including the environmental health of the city and funding and support for CUNY. Join fellow students, faculty, and staff at a town hall to share your ideas and hear from others about these important topics as well as the importance of registering to vote (Oct 25 is the last day to register if you want to vote in the Nov election!). We will be providing information on how to register to vote at the event. Speakers will include: Professor Arturo Enamorado from Behavioral Sciences, a member of the student environmental activist group Treeage, and Professor Shannon Caravello from the KCC Community Farm and Garden. Pizza and drinks will be provided and the KCC Community Farm will be bringing vegetables.

Also, PSC members will be joining members from other unions Saturday 18 October 2025 at 11 AM for the No Kings Labor March. Click here https://psc-cuny.org/calendar/no-kings/ for info and to RSVP for that.

22 October 2024 3:00-4:30 in V219: The Get Lit Reading Series: Royster Coppenger, “Translating Classic Plays for the Modern World: Ibsen, Chekhov, Racine”

On Thursday 22 October 2025 from 3:00-4:30 in V219, Royston Coppinger, Professor of Drama at Hofstra University, will speak on “Translating Classic Plays for the Modern World: Ibsen, Chekhov, Racine.” This is the first event in the Creative Writing Program’s and Literature Program’s Get Lit reading series, cosponsored by the KCC Student Union and Intercultural Center. Plus: Raffle of novels by English faculty Maggie Hill & John Keller!

Updating Your KCC Web Page

 Michelle Gabay is working to update faculty professional pages on the Kingsborough website. If you’d like to update your Kingsborough professional page, please fill out this form.  You do not need to respond to every question but do fill in the areas you wish to add or update on your page. The form will close Oct 23, 2025. If you’re unsure how to review your current Kingsborough professional page, use this link to find your page: https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/academicdepartments/english/faculty_listing_english.html

If you have any questions or trouble with the links, feel free to reach out to Michelle at [email protected] . 

English Department Sunshine Fund

The English Department invites faculty to contribute to the Sunshine Fund, which pays for gifts for our office staff, acknowledgement of milestone events both sad and happy in faculty and staff members’ lives, and helps supply the department’s parties. The Sunshine Fun contribution this fall is $30 from full time faculty and $15 from part time faculty – cash preferred, please. You can give the contributions to Enid or Elroy, or via Venmo or Zelle; Annie has emailed the Venmo and Zelle information to your KCC email address.

PSC-CUNY Research Award Applications: Deadline 15 December 2025

The Cycle 57 PSC-CUNY Grants Proposal System is now open.  The Office of Institutional Advancement is here to support all fulltime faculty in the development and submission of your application for the Cycle 57 PSC-CUNY grants.

                The deadline for Cycle 57 applications is 11:59pm on Monday, December 15, 2025.  

The PSC CUNY Research Award has undergone significant changes since the last cycle. Here are some major changes:

The pathways you can apply for now are simply Track 1 (up to $7,000) and Track 2 ($7,000 – $15,000). Also, they have separately added a Post Tenured Reassign Award Pilot (up to 6 credits of reassigned time). In the past it was A ($3,500), B ($6,000) and Enhanced ($10,000).

A faculty member can only receive this award twice every three years. In the past, restrictions on applications depended on whether you were Tenured faculty. Now these restrictions apply to all full-time faculty applying.

The eligibility for faculty summer salary has changed. Specifics can be found at the RFCUNY PSC CUNY Award website: https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/resources/psc-cuny-programs/psc-cuny-research-award-program-guidelines/ .

                The link to apply is  https://rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx .

The Research Foundation is holding information sessions:

If your schedule conflicts with the workshops, and/or would like to get support with your application, you can arrange a one-on-one session with Raymond Fong. Please feel free to contact him at [email protected], or call 718-368-5940.

A Note about the Newsletter

A message from Jane Weiss, News editor: 

The next newsletter will come out on Tuesday 21 October 2025. Send items to be included by Friday 17 October 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.