Talks

Spoken Word, Bespoke Music

Spoken Word, Bespoke Music is the culmination of an innovative class sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center. It was designed and taught by spoken word poet Dr. Crystal Endsley (2016 and 2021 Distinguished Teaching Prize winner) and NY-Emmy award-winning composer Joseph Neidorf. John Jay Honors students Rae Ross (Forensic Psychology) and Brian Wade (Law and Anthropological Psychology) used the creative process as a research method to investigate the multilayered impacts of art as a form of resistance. Their poems are influenced by the interviews they conducted, published literature they found and their lived experiences. Throughout the writing process, they developed original music to accompany their poems, which will intricately inform listeners’ experiences. Special thanks to Dr. Gina Foster (director of the Teaching and Learning Center), who provided the educational vision and tireless advocacy that made this endeavor possible.

Click here to listen to the performances and creative discussion.

Contact:
[email protected]
[email protected]

How to Remain in the Question Space?

By Pamela LiVecchi, Doctoral Lecturer, Psychology, 2025 Distinguished Teaching Prize winner

Click to listen: How to Remain in the Question Space 

Everyone Can Learn

By Ana Pego, Assistant Professor, Forensic Toxicology, 2025 Distinguished Teaching Prize winner

Click to listen: Everyone Can Learn

Workshops & Events

ODL August 2025 Brightspace Training Opportunities

The Office of Digital Learning (ODL; formerly DOES) announces Brightspace faculty training opportunities for August 2025. They especially welcome new faculty to join these sessions!

Activities start with Teaching with Technology Week, Mon, Aug 11 to Weds, Aug 13. TwT Week features ODL Brightspace Bootcamp, a comprehensive, three-hour webinar of Brightspace basics, led by our Learning Management System Support team. TwT Week also includes several sessions on the most popular supplemental tools integrated into our Brightspace platform, led by experts from our vendor partners.  The month wraps up with additional Brightspace webinars and a Drop-in Lab offered by the LMS Support Team. 

Visit John Jay’s ODL Learning Management System news and resources for Brightspace help and training.  Please send all Brightspace LMS inquiries to [email protected] (faculty and staff) and [email protected] (students). 

Visit the Office of Digital Learning website for more information on ODL services. Schedule an appointment with an Instructional Designer.

Schedule

ODL Teaching with Technology Week (TwT) 1:  VoiceThread, Monday, August 11, 2-3pm

Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/83003482499?pwd=upca5iq55IlUpQ8HaWvTaoymZw7Znm.1

ODL TwT 2:  Brightspace Bootcamp, Tuesday, August 12, 10am-1pm

Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/85714211450?pwd=87hOiX8U22RyLaUJlXNA6JU4l75bEv.1

ODL TwT 3:  PlayPosit by WeVideo, Wednesday, August 13, 11:30am-12:30pm

Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/87476022658?pwd=0bSqluXpzjM3v7FkXcUqUoQVHEg01J.1

ODL TwT 4:  Perusall, Wednesday, August 13, 2-3pm

Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/87326864200?pwd=ySjBqodrn2OkuD7UD6T2YTeHFIpiUT.1

ODL Brightspace Semester Quick Start, Monday, August 18, 2-3pm

Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/81515798536?pwd=tOL0SYMs4AFaixGbQOFmXYFrdhQfMR.1

ODL Brightspace Open Q & A, Tuesday, August 19, 2-3pm

Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/89086714985?pwd=XJsok6ERZaf9pRd5nabyBUnwfMaafB.1

ODL Brightspace Open Q & A, Monday, August 25, 2-3pm

Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/86457509066?pwd=eZ2XjK6wxdltqPbek0fe9lPYXDYV89.1

ODL Brightspace Drop in Lab, Thursday, August 28, 1:40-2:50pm (Comm Hr), L2.72.03NB

Call for Applicants! AAC&U: 2025 Teaching with AI Workshop Series (Sept/Oct). 

JJ can fund up to 5 full-time faculty participants. The 4-part online workshop series will feature information on generative AI and its possibilities in higher education. Topics are:

1.   Working with AI for Teaching and Learning:  Mon, Sept 8, 2-3pm

2.   Cheating, Detection, and Policy:  Mon, Sept 22, 2-3pm

3.   Assignments and Writing:  Mon, Sept 29, 2-3pm

4.   AI to Improve Classes and Courses:  Mon, Oct 6, 2-3pm

To request funding to participate in the workshops ($299), please submit a Faculty Opportunity Fund application to Dean Crossman at [email protected] ASAP – by July 2.

Participants will be invited to share how they apply what they learn at JJ.

 NCFDD Writing Challenge

The next NCFDD 14-Day Writing Challenge is almost here! This simple, and free, two-week challenge is designed for anyone who wants to make consistent progress by writing just 30 minutes a day. No pressure. No feedback. Just structure, community, and results.

Registration deadline: Friday, July 11. Register HERE. 

Challenge dates: July 21 – August 3.

John Jay has an NCFDD institutional membership – so all faculty – part-time, full-time, doctoral students – have access to a free individual account. To claim your free NCFDD account: (a) Go to https://www.ncfdd.org/join; (b) choose John Jay College from the drop-down menu; (c) select “Activate my Membership”; (d) complete registration with your jjay email address; (e) confirm in jjay email by clicking “Activate Account”.

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Talks

Spoken Word, Bespoke Music

Spoken Word, Bespoke Music is the culmination of an innovative class sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center. It was designed and taught by spoken word poet Dr. Crystal Endsley (2016 and 2021 Distinguished Teaching Prize winner) and NY-Emmy award-winning composer Joseph Neidorf. John Jay Honors students Rae Ross (Forensic Psychology) and Brian Wade (Law and Anthropological Psychology) used the creative process as a research method to investigate the multilayered impacts of art as a form of resistance. Their poems are influenced by the interviews they conducted, published literature they found and their lived experiences. Throughout the writing process, they developed original music to accompany their poems, which will intricately inform listeners’ experiences. Special thanks to Dr. Gina Foster (director of the Teaching and Learning Center), who provided the educational vision and tireless advocacy that made this endeavor possible.

Click here to listen to the performances and creative discussion.

Contact:
[email protected]
[email protected]

How to Remain in the Question Space?

By Pamela LiVecchi, Doctoral Lecturer, Psychology, 2025 Distinguished Teaching Prize winner

Click to listen: How to Remain in the Question Space 

Everyone Can Learn

By Ana Pego, Assistant Professor, Forensic Toxicology, 2025 Distinguished Teaching Prize winner

Click to listen: Everyone Can Learn

Workshops & Events

Call for Applicants! AAC&U: 2025 Teaching with AI Workshop Series (Sept/Oct). 

JJ can fund up to 5 full-time faculty participants. The 4-part online workshop series will feature information on generative AI and its possibilities in higher education. Topics are:

1.   Working with AI for Teaching and Learning:  Mon, Sept 8, 2-3pm

2.   Cheating, Detection, and Policy:  Mon, Sept 22, 2-3pm

3.   Assignments and Writing:  Mon, Sept 29, 2-3pm

4.   AI to Improve Classes and Courses:  Mon, Oct 6, 2-3pm

To request funding to participate in the workshops ($299), please submit a Faculty Opportunity Fund application to Dean Crossman at [email protected] ASAP – by July 2.

Participants will be invited to share how they apply what they learn at JJ.

CUNY Career Success Fellows

Call for Applications! The CUNY Office of Transformation and Office of Academic Affairs invite applications for the Career Success Fellows program. Fellows will continue the program’s commitment to enhancing CUNY’s role as a powerful engine of social mobility and preparing our students for successful, meaningful futures per CUNY Beyond.

Full-time faculty from all disciplines are invited to apply. Fellows will be expected to: 

· Attend and contribute to a collaborative professional development series (three in-person half-day sessions and two virtual workshops over the academic year)

·  Create a strategic plan to advance core goals of the CSF: (1) integrate career-relevant content into courses; (2) serve as faculty leaders on their campuses; and (3) collaborate with campus administrators and staff to promote career readiness university-wide. 

· Submit a report of their activities to the leadership team 

Fellows will receive:

· A stipend ($1000) and funding to support their goals.

· An opportunity to collaborate with faculty across CUNY on a strategic CUNY priority.

· Professional development training to integrate career-connected learning into courses and/or major curriculum.

Interested faculty can apply using this link.

To learn about previous work done by Fellows, see the CSF compendium. 

Deadline to apply: Friday, June 20, 5:00 PM.

Accepted fellows must obtain Provost and Chair approval. 

Questions to [email protected].

NCFDD Summer 14-Day Writing Challenge 

The challenge is to write for at least 30 minutes per day for 2 weeks with an online writing community providing supportive accountability. 

Next challenge dates: June 16 – June 29. 

Deadline to register: June 6.  

Register HERE 

JJ Faculty Workshop:  Accessibility & Accommodations

With Elena Beharry (OAS) & Ingrid Conley-Abrams (LIB)

Thurs, June 10, 10-11:30am, 335 HH (TLC).

Zoom: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/85918367467?pwd=wYbRHgDPX9Ifj239d9gQf4c7LQo05P.1

OAR workshop: Diversifying Research Funding Portfolios. 

With Dr. Carrie Pettus

June 10, 11:30am-2pm, Zoom. 

RSVP HERE by June 7th. 

Limited attendance of 35.

Teaching with Technology Week

1.      Getting Started with Perusall, Mon, June 9, 11:30am – 12:30pm. Zoom: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/w8HrIJMzS7Gisman8qDxcg.

2.      Lessons learned from a year on Brightspace, Tues, June 10, 11:30am – 12:30pm. Zoom: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/guA3rvd0QRWERPNqHnnR-g.

3.      Creating Interactive Course Walkthroughs and Syllabus Overviews with PlayPosit/WeVideo, Weds, June 11, 11:30am – 12:30pm. Zoom: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/09b7WEJ-QxyH2jwz6MnvuQ.

4.      Perusall Hands-On Lab, Thurs, June 12, 11:30am – 12:30pm, in L2.72.03 NB.

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Workshops & Events

Update on our ongoing 2025-2030 Strategic Planning Process

Hear about work completed so far, including first draft of our revised mission statement and college values as well as information on the emerging 2025-2030 strategic planning goals.

Thurs May 15, 1:40-2:50pm

L.61 or Zoom.

Questions: [email protected].

Flipping the Pyramid: Critical Thinking, AI, & the Bloom Revised Taxonomy

Re-envision how we approach designing assignments with AI and guiding students in AI-friendly critical thinking development.

Seminar dates: June 2-June 20.

Live sessions: Mondays, June 2, 9, & 16, 12:30-2:30pm (Zoom)

Application deadline: Friday, May 23, 11:59pm ET

Application with full details here: https://forms.gle/z56v2pwYzdunHjqR8

OER funded Active Learning Assignment Seminar

In this two-part seminar, faculty identify skills and concepts that they want students to practice, then develop a series of simple, short assessments that can be embedded in class readings, slides, or other media. 

Workshop dates: Weds, June 4 & Weds, June 11, 10 am-12 pm (Zoom). Participants will be compensated $1,000 for completing the deliverables

Application deadline: Friday, May 23, 11:59pm ET

Application: https://forms.office.com/r/H1Aj17E4cp

The 2025 Research & Creativity Expo continues

Celebrating students’ accomplishments with their mentors. Join the celebration of our students’ exceptional work with their mentors during this annual multi-day series of events.

Click here for the complete Expo program of events

Email questions to [email protected]

Form C and the Personnel Process Workshop

Fri, May 9, 1:30-3pm

Location: 335HH (TLC). 

Form C here.

Please RSVP by Thurs, May 8([email protected]) and please specify if coming in person for lunch. 

Meeting ID: 841 3638 2630; 

Passcode: 523938.

Zoom Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/84136382630?pwd=UkEwV1RqOEVwclAyTnVkdGtwMVc4UT09

Futures Initiative Webinar: AI and the Future of Higher Ed

with Alondra Nelson and Cathy N. Davidson

Thurs, May 8, 11am-noon

Zoom (RSVP here)

Faculty & Staff Event Commemorating our Community: Beginnings and Milestones

Weds, May 5, 1:30-3pm

Location: Gerald W. Lynch Theater.

Faculty 1^st Friday:  Faculty Panel: Wisdom & Reflections from New-ish Faculty Colleagues.

Fri, May 2, 1:30-3pm

Location: Zoom or in the TLC (335 HH). 

RSVP by Thurs, May 1 to [email protected], and please specify if coming in person for lunch. 

Zoom Link: https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/84136382630?pwd=UkEwV1RqOEVwclAyTnVkdGtwMVc4UT09 

Meeting ID: 841 3638 2630; Passcode: 523938.

Student-led Dialogue with Faculty: What We Wish Professors Knew

Hear directly from psychology students about creating meaningful connections, supporting struggling learners, and embracing the whole student experience.

Thurs, May 1, 1:40-2:55pm,

Location: 335HH.

 RSVP: https://forms.gle/NPaxhF9RCdjXkDvcA.

Contact:[email protected]

CUNY Faculty Webinar Series for Online Instruction: Conquer Online Chaos: Craft Clear Pathways for Student Success

Your roadmap to transforming your online courses into clear, accessible havens where students thrive. 

Thurs, May 1, 3pm, Zoom. 

Register HERE. 

All webinar recordings are posted under Faculty Resources on the Online Education at CUNY website. 

NEW: Faculty Resources with One-Minute Video tips for Online Instruction. 

Questions? Please contact [email protected].

Conference

The 2025 Research & Creativity Expo (April 30 – May 9)

April 3 (virtual) and April 4 (in person at the Graduate Center)

Click here for Registration.

Please see the Website for more information.

Contact:  [email protected]

 

Talks

Teaching disciplinary transferable skills for student success in college, work, and society: An adaptable sociocultural framework for revising your course, lecture, or assignments

with Matthew Hora (UW-M)

Thurs, Apr 24, 1:40 pm, 1.103 NB 

 RSVP HERE

 

Center for International Human Rights Talk: Academic Freedom, Free Speech and Syllabi Design

Clare Forstie (Saint Paul College) will lead a discussion on how syllabus design intersects with academic freedom. 

Wednesday, Apr 23, 1:30pm-2:55pm, Zoom

Register at:https://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/21cHpzlKTcSceZVqu4QokQ

 

JJ OAR Research Open Forum

Wednesday, Apr 23, 12 PM

Join the Zoom meeting. Meeting ID: 862 1166 1239; Passcode: 564439.

 

Invitation:  Open Forum on Faculty & Staff Concerns 

Disruptions to higher education are raising faculty and staff concerns for our students, classrooms and teaching; for academic freedom; for our budgets; and for our research and/or funding.

Please join faculty and staff colleagues, Provost Pease, Deans Carpi and Crossman, and immigration attorney Afshar and for an initial Open Forum to share concerns and discuss issues impacting our work.  All are welcome. 

In person only.  

Thursday, April 3, 1:40-2:50pm,

L2.85 NB classroom.

 

Workshops & Events

Understanding Jewish Experiences and Antisemitism

Thurs, Apr 24, 1:40pm-3:10pm, virtual

NYC Commission on Human Rights. Register here or email Henry Cruz, [email protected].

 

Faculty Recognition Awards Ceremony

Tues, Apr 29, 4:00-5:30 pm, 630HH. 

RSVP here.

 

Thinking About Service Strategically 

with Karen Kaplowitz

Fri, Apr 4, 1:30-3pm, in the TLC (335 HH).

Lunch provided, please confirm attendance by 10am, Apr 4 ([email protected]).

 

Leaders of Justice

The Honorable Joseph Zayas

Join President Mason in conversation with Judge Zayas, chief administrative judge of the NYS Unified Court System.

Wednesday, Apr 2, 1:45-3pm, 6.68NB.

Register by emailing [email protected].

 

Live recording of the Indoor Voices podcast: The Value and Power of the Humanities

Conversation will address the importance of humanities in the academy and beyond, with particular emphasis on student and career success. Panelists: David Munns (His), Allison Pease (Provost), Belinda Rincón (LLS, Eng), Dean Ringel (His), moderated by Kathleen Collins (Lib).

Wednesday, Apr 2, 4:30 pm, 9.64 NB.

Bring your students! Register here.

 

Faculty Leadership and Innovation Fellows Program

The Faculty Leadership and Innovation Fellows Program aims to increase the pipeline of faculty who are prepared to thrive in academic leadership roles at CUNY.

Deadline: Mon, Apr 7, 11:59pm.

Applications must be submitted here by 11:59pm on April 7, 2025.

The application and more details can be found at https://www.cuny.edu/academics/faculty-affairs/faculty-fellows/2025-2026/

 

CUNY Faculty Webinar Series for Online Instruction: Peer Power Up! Using Collaborative Reviews & Peer Mentoring,

Learn to create powerful peer review processes that ignite collaboration and propel student learning in online courses.

Thursday, Apr 3, 3pm.  

Register here. For all webinars See here. 

Questions to [email protected]

 

Conference

The 2025 Research & Creativity Expo (April 30 – May 9)

Please check out the 2025 Research & Creativity Expo program, celebrating students’ accomplishments with their mentors.

Weds, Apr 30, 5:30-7:30pm, Moot Court (6.68NB). 

To RSVP for the reception, scan the QR code on the attached invitation (or go to https://bit.ly/EXPO25reception)

Email questions to [email protected].

 

2025 CUNY Teaching & Learning Conference

April 3 (virtual) and April 4 (in person at the Graduate Center)

Click here for Registration.

Please see the Website for more information.

Contact:  [email protected]