Newsletter Editor Jane Weiss
Tuesday 17 October 2023, 3:00-4:30: English Department Meeting
The English Department will meet on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3-4:30 in V219. The agenda is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lc282tXhegjwcL1BDya4OGsBDPZCammFzP1Vip-VJik/edit?usp=sharing
The November meeting will be on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 3-4:30 (room TBA). The dates are in our department calendar in Outlook and Annie has sent you an invitation to save as an event in your own calendar.
PSC-CUNY Signs
A message from Emily Schnee:
As many of you know, the PSC is currently in contract negotiations with CUNY! One super easy
and simple way to raise awareness on campus and support us getting the best contract possible is to put a PSC contract poster on your office door. Emily has a variety of signs in my office and would be happy to slip one under your door if you shoot Emily an email at Emily.Schnee@kbcc.cuny.edu . If you’d like to choose your sign, just come by C117 and you can take your pick.
Professional Development Session – Friday, October 20 – 11am-12:30pm –
“Checking in with Students: Conveying Progress and Concern”
A message from Hope Parisi:
It’s a familiar step to check in with students at the mid-point. When students are given time and tools to reflect on their progress, it’s not only a reality-check or CLO objective, but also a reminder of our care and concern. It may be something particularly needed now, in the light of the atrocities overseas, that we help them “check in” about the affects that may be impacting their ability to do the work. How can we combine some tools for checking in, such as Starfish, Blackboard grade reviews, and reflections, among others, with humanistic and sensitive approaches to how they might be feeling, generally, and towards the course?
Let’s meet for a workshop, paid for part-timers and open to all: Friday, October 20, from 11am – 12:30pm via Zoom. Here is the Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84166867157?pwd=ZFdoUlpNVHhveG9rSUdxS0FmYnBxUT09
Meeting ID: 841 6686 7157 Passcode: 546987
Faculty Mentor and Support Hours in E219
A message from Hope Parisi:
Hope Parisi will be in E219 this semester, available for informal chats with new and experienced part-time faculty, and all faculty, on Wednesdays, from 1pm – 3pm, with more availability by phone or Zoom according to wish or need.
Please come by this welcoming environment, on Wednesdays, if you’re on campus.
November 1, 2023 4:30-6:30: Brooklyn PSC Rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall
A message from Scott Cally:
All the different Brooklyn Borough PSC chapters will be joining together on Nov 1 from 4:30 to 6:30 in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall for a rally (and possibly a march) to fight for a good contract. Click here to rsvp to attend the rally. Hope you can make it and great if you wear a Halloween costume! There will be candy, hopefully music, and likely one or two electeds there to speak in support of our contract fight and it will be a great chance to meet colleagues from the different Brooklyn borough chapters.
Invitation to Join the English Department on the CUNY Academic Commons
A message from Elizabeth Dill:
Last semester, an invitation to join the Kingsborough English CUNY Academic Commons group should have arrived in the inbox of your KCC email account. If you you haven’t already accepted this invitation, please do so! And if you can’t find it, please email Elizabeth Dill so she can get you signed up. Our weekly department newsletter will be shifting over to the Commons format! Soon, the department newsletter will be sent as a blog post from this group rather than as a department email; eventually, you will stop getting department newsletters as separate emails (unless you subscribe to the Academic Commons group). So please join! If you don’t receive an invitation at all, please let Elizabeth know at Elizabeth.Dill@kbcc.cuny.edu
PSC-CUNY Grant Applications Are Open
PSC-CUNY Grants Proposal System is now open for Cycle 55 applications. The final, non-negotiable deadline to apply is Friday, December 15th, 2023 at 11:59pm. Please visit the PSC CUNY Webpage for important details about the process, or check your KCC email for detailed instructions.
PSC-CUNY Research Awards are designed to encourage the scholarly and creative pursuits of CUNY faculty, especially junior faculty. Funds for research and creative projects are available to all Permanent, Full-Time members of instructional staff, and untenured members of the faculty in particular (untenured associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer); and Full-Time staff in HEO series. For the purposes of the PSC-CUNY Awards, junior faculty comprise those at the rank of untenured associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, and lecturer.
Applicants are encouraged to attend one of these four PSC CUNY Cycle 55 seminar dates:
• Tuesday, October 17th 1PM EST
• Wednesday, October 25th 12PM EST
• Thursday, November 2nd 1PM EST
• Friday, November 10th 12PM EST
Sessions will be held via Microsoft Teams; instructions to log on are at the bottom of the email announcing the Grants Proposal System.
Please remember that the Grants Proposal System no longer allow attachments as Word Docs, only as PDFs. If you are unable to convert your project narrative to PDF, please send it as a Word document to Kathy Giaimo, who will then re-format it as a PDF and upload it to your application. Kathy will be happy to assist you with this or to answer any questions you may have. She is on campus every day except Mondays, when she works remotely. You can call her at 718-368-6858, or email her at Kathryn.giaimo@kbcc.cuny.edu.
As always, the Advancement office strongly advises applicants to not wait until the last minute to submit their application. The earlier you submit your proposal, the more time Kathy will have to review it and help you to address any issues with your submission. Again, the deadline for Cycle 55 applications is 11:59pm on Friday, December 15, 2023. Please click here to apply.
KCC Information Technology Services Office
You can call KCC’s ITS Help Desk at (718) 368-6679 or email helpdesk@kbcc.cuny.edu 9:00 – 5:00 on weekdays. For Blackboard support during hours when KCC’s Help Desk is not available, call 1-646-664-2024.
A Note about the Newsletter
The next issue of the Newsletter will come out on Monday 23 October 2023. Please send newsletter items by Friday, 20 October 2023 to Jane Weiss at Jane.Weiss@kbcc.cuny.edu. Please keep items brief (preferably 100 or fewer words). Longer items will be abridged. Items about publications and achievements are very welcome.
