27 October 2025                                           News Editor Jane Weiss

28 October 2025 3:00- 4:30 PM in U219: College Council Meeting

The KCC College Council will meet on Tuesday 28 October 2025 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM in U219. The meeting is open to the public.

30 October 2025 3:00 -4:30 PM in C333: Literature Committee Meeting

The Literature Committee will meet on Thursday 30 October 2025 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM in C333 and on Zoom; email Rob Cowan at [email protected] or check the English Department calendar for the Zoom link.

5 November 2025 3:00-5:00 PM in V219: English Department Faculty Forum

The English Department will hold its Faculty Forum on Wednesday 5 November 2025 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM in V219. The presentations will be Stephanie Montalti, “Timeless Illustrations: Historicizing Fantasy Literature of the Golden Age,” and Tony Iantosca, “On the Management and Capture of Social Tensions, Individualism, and Transindividualism in the Age of LLMs.” 

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:

• Wednesday, October 22nd 12pm EST
• Thursday, November 6th 1pm EST
• Friday, November 14th 12pm EST

 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 Monday 3 November 2025. Send items to be included by Friday 30 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.