Profile

Full Name

George Otte
College

CUNY Central, School of Professional Studies
Role

Administrator, Faculty
Title

University Director of Academic Technology, CUNY
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, SPS
Doctoral Faculty in English, Urban Education, and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, CUNY Graduate Center
Academic Interests In a previous life I was an English professor and a director of writing programs. In the late nineties, while still at Baruch College, I served Baruch College's Executive Director of Enrichment Programs, which included presiding over high school outreach and communication-across-the-curriculum programs. A member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center (in the PhD Programs in English, Urban Education, and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy), I was co-editor of the Journal of Basic Writing from 1996-2002. In 2006, I became Academic Director of the CUNY Online Baccalaureate, CUNY's first fully online degree, and since have been kicked upstairs as the chief academic officer of the CUNY School of Professional Studies, where that Online BA in Communication and Culture has been joined by other online degrees — an Online BS and an Online MS in Business, Online BAs in Sociology, Psychology, and Disability Studies, an Online MS in Information Systems, and an Online BS in Health Information Management. In 2008, I was named University Director of Academic Technology for CUNY, a modulation in the title of CUNY Director of Instructional Technology, a position I've held since 2001. That title reflects a lot of interests, chief among them academic technology, online instruction and blended learning, digital rhetoric, and computer-mediated communication.
Phone I've never loved phones, and I'm often between offices; email is the best way to reach me.
Email Address George.Otte@mail.cuny.edu
Website

http://www.cuny.edu/academictechnology
Blog

http://purelyreactive.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
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