November 17, 2025 | Michelle Gabay | Leave a comment 17 November 2025 News Editor Jane Weiss Kingsborough Learning Center Writing Workshop Wednesday 19 November 2025, 3:00- 4:00 PM in l-304 and On Zoom: The Ethics of Citation A message from Maxine Krenzel: The next writing workshop at the KLC will take place this Wednesday, November 19th, from 3-4pm in L-304 + on Zoom. This workshop, titled “The Ethics of Citation: How to cite your sources and more!”,will go over why citations are a vital part of the writing/research process. We will also discuss how to work with different citation styles (MLA and APA) and go over how to critically use citation generators. Please let your students know and share the flyer that has been sent to your KCC email address. Here is a Zoom link as well that you can share with your students: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86733544331?pwd=ix96RfNekTezIOE8d7VgNY4sZCwLMJ.1 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 also 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 a virtual information session through MS Teams on Friday, November 14th 12pm EST. The link for the information session is: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_ZmM2NTkxZGEtOTk1My00MTU0LWJhZDEtNzgyNzc3MTcwNWYw%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%25224c0b46f4-4b2e-48fc-a71e-80b002bd00c1%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522eb422da6-0d60-49bd-a91a-22c3e7145460%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=8f2f359a-4293-48c9-8919-d099e413b63f&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true Meeting ID: 247 633 649 568 Passcode: z2sPfS 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. Tuesday 16 December 2025: English Department Luncheon The English Department will hold its end-of-semester luncheon on Tuesday 16 December 2025. Call for Manuscripts: Special Issue of Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Faculty on Identity and Contingency: When Who We Are Shapes What We Do A message from Cheryl Smith: Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is January 20, 2026. Issues of identity shape not only who we are as faculty, but also how we perform and the connections we make in the classroom. Identifying one’s place, not just as an educator but as a person, has unique implications for part-time and contingent faculty in higher learning, both in and outside the academic spaces they take up. In an article published by Inside Higher Ed, Colleen Flaherty points out that “students who identify with their instructors based on certain underrepresented visible identities can benefit from an increased sense of belonging and self-efficacy, better course outcomes and more.” Understanding how identity shapes the work done by part-time and full-time contingent faculty is the first step to addressing equitable measures of support as we engage with students in the classroom. Part-time and full-time contingent faculty offer rich real-world perspectives, shaped by identities established inside and outside of their institutions. This special issue invites voices that identify the connections between identity and contingency. Viable submissions for the special issue will explore considerations of personal and professional identity for part-time and full-time contingent faculty in the field of writing studies. Submission topics might include, but are not limited to, considerations of the following: Working-professional-as-faculty identities; Underrepresented minorities; Bilingual and multilingual identities; Faculty evaluations and assessment practices; Subculture identities; Accessibility, difference, and inclusion. Submission Requirements: The deadline for submissions is January 20, 2026. Submissions must be original, 1,500 to 2,000 words long, and formatted in the latest edition of MLA style. Please send your submission to the editor, Kimberly Bain, as an email attachment to [email protected]. The cover message should include the following information: Your name; Your title(s); Your institution(s); Institutional address(es) and phone number(s) if applicable. Direct all submissions to the following address with “FORUM article” in your subject line: Kimberly Bain, PhD Editor, Forum [email protected] Proposals and general inquiries may also be directed to Kimberly Bain. Forum welcomes you to submit essays related to the teaching, working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. Faculty and scholars from all academic positions are welcome to contribute. Essays should address theoretical and/or disciplinary debates. They will go through the standard peer-review and revision process. For more information about Forum, visit https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/forum. A Note about the Newsletter A message from Jane Weiss, News editor: The next newsletter will come out on Monday 24 November 2025. Send items to be included by Friday 21 November 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.