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New Year New Faculty
Ask any faculty development professional about the beginning of a new school year, and four out of five will talk about New Faculty Orientation. (The other one will wonder how on earth New Yorkers are able to take vacations in … Continue reading
It’s August?!
Remember all that writing you were going to do this summer. I hope you got some of it done. I did. SOME of it, that is. And now here we are, in the middle of August, with the start of … Continue reading
The Unavoidable Curriculum
I’m looking forward to joining some colleagues this weekend at a summer institute organized by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU.org). We’re planning to get some good work done to organize professional development for high impact teaching practices … Continue reading
Learning from peers
At a recent gathering of meeting of our Faculty Leadership Academy, I asked the group to think about a “significant, supportive relationship with a colleague” and what made it valuable. Although I was careful not to use the word “mentor,” … Continue reading
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Open Ed New York
UPDATE BMCC was awarded $371,750 to continue our initiative in 2017-18. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ In spring 2017, CUNY was allocated $4,000,000 from New York State to establish, sustain, and enhance new and ongoing open educational resources (OER) initiatives throughout CUNY. This funding … Continue reading
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Community College Researchers
Hooray! We have our first guest blog by Director of Research, Alona Bach. The concept of academic research, and particularly undergraduate research (outside the classroom), has been associated with the image of white lab coats, fancy laboratories, Erlenmeyer flasks and … Continue reading
Supporting Faculty Research and Collaboration
Community college faculty face the largest teaching loads in higher education. And most do it without an expectation of doing research at the same time. At CUNY, community college faculty, tenured and tenure-track, are expected to do research while holding … Continue reading
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Provost’s Address at Faculty Convocation
Designing for Student Success Karrin E. Wilks, Senior Vice President & Provost January 27, 2017 Good morning and welcome to our first annual Faculty Convocation. Thank you all for joining us. We are very pleased to have to have this … Continue reading
First Faculty Convocation
As a large, urban college, BMCC has a large, urban faculty. It’s difficult to communicate with them–in any direction. We find ourselves relying on small groups, some elected such as department chairs and academic senate, and email. Our web site posts … Continue reading
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Leaders, not administrators in training
A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education featured leadership development programs for faculty at Rutgers and Macalester, among other universities. The article [paywall alert] focused on the need to train faculty for roles as department chairs and deans. At … Continue reading
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