Talks

Faculty Development Day 2025

The call for proposals is open for Faculty Development Day (Thurs, Aug 21, 9-3pm). Our Fall 2025 theme is “Here & Now: Justice-Centered Higher Education” 

Details: (full details, including Breakout Session Tracks here). 

Proposal Deadline: Fri, May 30, 11:59 pm ET. 

Submit proposals here: https://forms.gle/DtrrwsemR85XURLb7

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]