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Student Success Communication Campaign: Resources for Faculty

We know that students value, and often hear, faculty voices best.  So, we are collaborating across Academic Affairs to share a new faculty and student support resource. We call it the Student Success Communication Campaign! We connect the weekly Tips for Success messages that students receive with a companion slide that faculty can share in class (or online) that amplifies the same message. The goal: by collaborating to reinforce the same messages, we hope to help students stay on track and strengthen their success skills.

Professional Development Opportunities

Register here: Streamlining Accommodations

 

Call for Applications: TLC Funded Faculty Seminars 

Deadline: Sun, Sept 28, 11:59pm ET

 

1. Flipping the Pyramid: Critical Thinking, AI, & the Bloom Revised Taxonomy Seminar (upper level/grad course focus). 

Apply here: https://forms.gle/ZPgYPekZESrUvujV6

 

2. What’s Love Got to Do with It: Understanding Emotions In Critical Pedagogy Seminar.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/7u2tJHR9RxUw5Lmf7

 

3. Social Science AI Learning Communities: AI + Positionality: Learning & Practice Communities for Social Sciences. 

Apply here: https://forms.gle/TmXvn7AsuqCRe1LEA

 

ODL: AI Considerations: Cheating and Detection, Policies, Grading & Rethinking Quality

Thurs, Sept 25, 1:40-2:40 pm, Hyflex (Digital Creation Lab (334HH) and Zoom). In person-please bring a laptop for hands-on session. Complete this survey in advance.

 

ODL LMS Brightspace Discussions

Weds, Sept 24, 2-3pm, Zoom

 

The Write Space writing group 

In this 10-week peer writing group, participants commit to writing together for 2 hours online each week, without interruptions.

Thurs, Sept 18 & Sept 25,, 9:30-11:30am, Zoom. (TLC).

 

AI Ethics: TLC Brown Bag Lunch Discussion

Weds, Sept 17, 12-1pm, 335HH (TLC): Academic Integrity.

Faculty First Friday – new faculty orientation event

• Teaching at John Jay
• Friday, September 5, 1:30-3pm, Teaching & Learning Center (335HH).
• NOTE: We will order lunch so please let us know if you are coming ([email protected]) by Wednesday, Sept 3 at 5pm.

 

 AI-Assisted Faculty: Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning Productivity

• Tuesday, Sept 9, 1:40-2:40 pm, Zoom: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q_vWELSdTt-S302Rtbwqfg
• Description: Interactive workshop to discover how Generative AI (GenAI) tools can streamline course preparation tasks that take hours. Dive into practical ideas for crafting instructional materials and engage in hands-on opportunities using Large Language Models. Participants will practice using ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and other tools to generate welcoming and relatable additions to syllabi, instructor bios, assignment instructions, and beyond, based on suggestions in AI Hacks for Educators. Enhance your productivity and gain time to engage with students!  Before the session, please take this survey to help us better understand your thoughts on AI in teaching and learning.

 

AI Considerations: Cheating and Detection, Policies, Grading & Rethinking Quality,

• Thursday, September 25, 1:40-2:40 pm, Hyflex (Digital Creation Lab (334HH) and Zoom: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/KYdVNQVIRmGmbZeYgz02eA).
• Description: Worried about AI misuse in your courses? This 60-minute session will cut through the hype and offer realistic, time-saving strategies for addressing academic integrity in the age of ChatGPT. Learn what detection tools can and can’t do, consider assignment designs that discourage cheating, and take away ready-to-use templates for syllabi and investigations. Leave with practical approaches that protect rigor while reducing your workload. If you plan to attend, in person, you are encouraged to bring your own laptop to this hands-on session. If you do not attend the first session, please take this survey to help us understand your thoughts on AI in teaching and learning.

 

Community Events

The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery exhibition, Femicide, will be on view September 3 – October 24.

• Opening reception: Wednesday, September 3, 5-7:30pm. The Gallery is located at 11^th Ave & 59^th St.

Open Forum with Provost Pease and Academic Affairs Deans, Monday, September 8, 1:40-2:50pm, 9.64 NB.

• Please come share your questions and concerns.

John Jay commemorates 9/11 with an annual series of community events.

• Please join us and encourage your students and peers to attend the events happening on and around campus. They include: flag planting (9/9, 1:45pm), tribute (9/11, 1:45pm), blood drive (9/16, 12:30-6:30pm), pack-a-thon (9/16, 1:30-4pm), ‘I am a Ready Responder’ training (9/18, 1:45pm, 3:15pm and 4:30pm) and 9/11 memorial and museum clean up (9/30, 10am-12pm). Visit the website for details and to RSVP.

Save the dates!  The Fall Library Author Series kicks off Tues, Sept 16, with Peter Moskos (LPS) discussing his book Back from the Brink. RSVP: https://BackFromBrink.eventbrite.com

• Wednesday, October 8, Philip Yanos (PSY) will discuss Exiles in New York City.
• Wednesday, October 22, Simone Martin-Howard (PAD) will discuss Conversations with Correctional Staff: COVID-19, Confinement, and Culture at Rikers Island Jail.
• Thursday, November 6, Vicente Lecuna (MLL) will discuss A Promising Past: Remodeling Fictions in Parque Central, Caracas.  Talks are in the library classroom during community hour.

 Save the dates! Our fall Food for Thought schedule is set! Join us to lunch and learn with colleagues. Each event is 1:30-2:45pm in the Faculty/Staff Dining Room. RSVP HERE. 

• Monday, September 29 (Latin American & Latinx Studies)
• Tuesday, October 21 (Art & Music)
• Monday, November 24 (English)
• Wednesday, December 10 (History).