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. We’ll meet in C216 on Thursday 11/7 at three p.m. Thank you for sharing with your students!
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.
PSC-CUNY Grant Proposals
A message from Nancy Lee Sánchez-Badillo:
The Cycle 56 PSC-CUNY Grants Proposal System is now open. The Office of Institutional Advancement is here to support you in the development and submission of your application for the Cycle 56 PSC-CUNY grants. As a reminder, the deadline for Cycle 56 applications is 11:59pm on Monday, December 16, 2024. Please click https://rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx to apply.
Kingsborough faculty and staff have a history of success with this process. Last year, KCC applicants had a 77% success rate (27 funded out of 35 applications), with a total of $143,562.70 awarded!
The Research Foundation is holding information sessions (details below). If your schedule conflicts with the workshops, and/or would like to get support in your application, you can arrange a one-on-one session with Raymond Fong. Please feel free to contact him at raymond.fong@kbcc.cuny.edu, or call 718-368-5940.
The Research Foundation will host virtual presentations on the following dates:
Thursday, November 7th 1pm EST
Friday, November 15th 12PM
Meeting ID: 247 633 649 568
Passcode: z2sPfS
As always, we urge you to apply early if possible. The sooner you submit your proposal, the more time Raymond will have to review it and help you to address any issues. Remember, the deadline for Cycle 56 applications is 11:59pm on Monday, December 16, 2023.
Please visit https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/principal-investigators/explore-pre-award-resources/psc-cuny-award-program/ for more details.
Universal Design for Learning Seminar: Applications Due 11 November 2024
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an evidence-based framework that allows you to equitably support individual learning differences. KCeL is offering a UDL Seminar during the Winter of 2025.
Seminar outcomes include:
- Recognizing and addressing the spectrum of individual learning differences.
- Identifying UDL strategies to support student success in diverse student populations.
- Creating a course map, revised syllabus and action plan for course revision based on your course outcomes.
- During the seminar, you will learn how to align your course material to UDL through hands-on instruction, collaborating with colleagues, and activities. Participants will apply the core concepts of UDL 3.0, focusing on the importance of offering multiple means of representation, action and expression, and engagement. Through practical activities, you will revise your course assessments and materials using the UDL framework to better support diverse student populations. The seminar will guide participants in creating an inclusive course map and syllabus that accommodates a variety of learning modalities and abilities, ensuring all students can effectively access and engage with the content. The final step will be developing an actionable plan based on this inclusive map to implement changes in your teaching practice.
Schedule:
Four synchronous sessions on:
Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 1:00-2:30pm
Tuesday, January 30, 2025 (Wednesday schedule), 1:00-2:30pm
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 1:00-2:30pm
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 (follow-up), 3:00-4:30pm
Space is limited to 10 faculty members and faculty will receive a $1500 stipend upon completion of the seminar deliverables.
Please complete the application form by November 11, 2024.
Call for Applications: Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading Spring 2025 Collaborative Seminar
Kingsborough faculty are invited to apply for one of ten openings in the Winter-Spring 2025 virtual FITR Collaborative Seminar on the Teaching of Reading. The deadline for applications is Friday, December 6th.
The cohort of faculty involved will:
· Discuss scholarship on teaching college reading
· Explore ways to teach challenging, college-level texts
· Explore ways to integrate reading into coursework across
disciplines
· Share existing successful practices
· Experiment with developing new approaches to using reading in our own
classrooms
Seminar participants will have the opportunity to observe virtual synchronous, asynchronous, or in-person class sessions on reading and collaborate on creating reading related lessons. Those who wish to publish about this work will also receive support. Each participating faculty member will receive one credit hour of reassigned time or the equivalent in pay.
In order to apply, faculty must commit to the following:
1. Attend all virtual collaborative seminar meetings on the following dates:
Thursday, January 16th from 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Thursday, February 6th from 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Thursday, March 13th from 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Thursday, April 10th from 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Thursday, May 8th from 12:00 – 2:00 pm
2. Develop a reading lesson or activity to try out and report back on. The focus of this work will be shaped by participants’ own interests and classroom goals (or outcomes).
3. Participate in one classroom intervisitation (synchronous, asynchronous, or in-person) in Spring 2025.
4. Write a brief reflection on your semester’s work.
To fill out the brief application, please clickhere
For more information on FITR and our activities, visit the FITRKBCCwebsite or feel free to email Emral Devany (Emral.Devany@kbcc.cuny.edu), Joanna Maulbeck (Joanna.Maulbeck@kbcc.cuny.edu), or Joanna Agnello (Joanna.Agnello@kbcc.cuny.edu) with any questions.
GIFTS Workshops: Great Ideas For Teaching Students
The Kingsborough Center for Teaching & Learning is accepting proposals for faculty-led workshops for the 2024-2025 academic year. These 30-60 minute workshops will be part of the GIFTS Workshop Series (Great Ideas For Teaching Students) and should highlight a pedagogical approach, assignment, practice, or tool that instructors have used, and have found success with, in their classrooms. Workshop proposals that explore civic engagement, equity-based teaching practices, and fostering community in the classroom are of particular interest.
Faculty will receive a $250 stipend for their workshop facilitation and presentations. Workshop proposals will be reviewed and programmed on a rolling basis throughout the academic year.
Faculty with questions should contact the Director of the Kingsborough Center for Teaching & Learning, Professor Ryan McKinney, with any questions, and proposals can be submitted here.
A Note about the Newsletter
A message from Jane Weiss, the Newsletter editor:
The next of the Newsletter will come out on Monday 11 November 2024. Please send newsletter items by Friday 8 November 2024 to Jane Weiss at Jane.Weiss@kbcc.cuny.edu. 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, and performances of all kinds.
