December 2, 2024 | Annie Del Principe 2 December 2024 News Editor Jane Weiss End-of-term Department Gathering Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 11th starting at 11:30! This is always a festive and much-needed opportunity to relax and connect with colleagues at the end of the fall semester. Enid and Elroy have organized a delicious midday luncheon in C333, which follows the CRC meeting on that same day. We’re hopeful that everyone will join us! The cost to join will be $20 for full-time faculty and $10 for part-timers. Cash is always preferred, and you can leave your cash payment for the lunch in either Enid or Elroy’s mailboxes in the English Department. If you’d prefer to pay digitally, you can send payments to Annie via Venmo or Zelle, and please just put “department lunch” in the subject. Venmo = @AnnDelPrincipe Zelle = 7185304172 As a reminder, if you haven’t yet donated to the Sunshine fund for this year, please also consider making that donation. This year the Sunshine fund is asking $30 from FT faculty and $10 from PT faculty. Thank you! 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 this 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 ([email protected]), Joanna Maulbeck ([email protected]), or Joanna Agnello ([email protected]) with any questions. Fall 2024 Grade Rosters Due Thursday 19 December 2024 CUNYfirst Grade rosters will be available in the Faculty Center tile in CUNYfirst beginning on 9 December 2024. Final Grades are due before 11:59 PM on Thursday 19 December 2024. Grades must be submitted on or before the due date noted. “WN” grades cannot be assigned at the end of the semester. Fall Session B 2024 (Winter) classes begin Monday 6 January 2025. Submitting your grades has an impact on registration into necessary courses for the next term and or your student’s pending graduation requirements needed to be approved for degree conferral. Inaccurate or late submission of Grade Rosters may result in loss or inaccurate financial aid awarding for students for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Instructors will receive automated email reminders if grades are not submitted by the published deadline. If grades remain outstanding the matter will be referred to the appropriate Chairperson and the Provost’s Office. To access the grade rosters in the CUNYfirst Faculty Center, log on to the Kingsborough Website at www.kbcc.cuny.edu. Hover the mouse over “QUICK LINKS”, in the drop-down menu select “CUNYfirst Portal”. If you prefer to login to CUNYfirst directly, type the URL https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu in your web browser’s address bar. For additional information regarding the Grade Roster, please contact: Avery Mullen, Registrar ([email protected]); Sandy Lujan, Associate Registrar ([email protected]); or [email protected]. End of Term Procedures Faculty availability to students during finals week: All faculty are required to use the “final exam period” for their course(s) during finals week for an educationally appropriate activity. If you wish to give a final exam, this is the ideal time to do it. Of course, many of us do not give timed final exams, and there are a variety of other ways we might use this time: to give back student work and have conferences with individual students, to have students turn in final work and complete some sort of meta-cognitive reflection, etc. The final exam dates are available on the academic calendar: https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/registrar/academic-calendar/Fall-2024-A.html Saving student work/records: Please remember that each faculty member is required by the CUNY Records & Retention Policy to keep copies of their own students’ final exams and/or sample final coursework for one year after final course grades have been assigned. The precise form the student sample coursework takes will depend, of course, on the courses you taught this term and the final projects you assigned to your students. Please make a plan to retain student work that is appropriate to the courses you’ve taught this term, either in your office or digitally. (And if you’ve come to Kingsborough within the last five or six years, ask an old-timer about “The Vault” for genuinely bizarre KCC lore.) Creating, saving, and submitting a final grade roster: The CUNY Records & Retention Policy also states that instructors must keep a copy of their “grade records, tests scores, and marking sheets” for two years after final grades have been submitted. While this is the responsibility of each individual faculty member, the department requests that you complete and submit to the department a simple, grid roster for each of your courses that includes very basic information: student name and ID number, last date of class attended, final grade, and, if you assigned an “Incomplete” grade, a simple list of what the student is required to submit in order to resolve the incomplete. 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 11:59 pm 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! 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, 2024. Please visit https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/principal-investigators/explore-pre-award-resources/psc-cuny-award-program/ for more details. A Note about the Newsletter A message from Jane Weiss, the Newsletter editor: The next (and for 2024 final) issue of the Newsletter will come out on Wednesday 11 December 2024. Please send newsletter items by Monday 9 December 2024 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, and performances of all kinds.