CUNY-Wide Composition and Rhetoric

Dear Colleagues:

I am excited to announce that we have an opening for a full-time comp/rhet lecturer line at CUNY Medgar Evers College located in Crown Heights (Brooklyn, NY). Our Composition Program is housed in a supportive English Department and co-facilitated by a dedicated, collaborative team of teacher-scholars who are committed to our…[Read more]

Virtual Exchange Academy

Emerging Approaches to Global Englishes: Learning, Using, Teaching, Judging
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How do people navigate various Englishes? Possibilities: World Englishes, unequal Englishes, English as a global language, translingual and transmodal approaches, digital approaches, raciolinguistic perspectives, linguistic (in)justice, identities, histories,…[Read more]

Application deadline extended to Wednesday, June 22!

The OpenLab is hiring! Please help us to spread the word. See below or on the OpenLab for details.

The OpenLab team seeks to add a Digital Pedagogy Fellow to our enthusiastic team.

City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/) is an innovative, open digital platform for s…[Read more]

The OpenLab is hiring! Please help us to spread the word. See below or on the OpenLab for details:
The OpenLab team seeks to add a Digital Pedagogy Fellow to our enthusiastic team.
City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/) is an innovative, open digital platform for students, faculty, and staff at New York City College of T…[Read more]

The CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center invites applications for Teaching and Learning Center Fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year. TLC Fellows support CUNY Graduate Center students who are teaching across CUNY by consulting with graduate instructors during office hours, developing workshops and Focused Inquiry Groups, p…[Read more]

Dear All:

The CUNY COIL Working Group is hosting a workshop: “A Language-Aware COIL: How to build on language diversity in virtual exchanges” led by Professors Lucy McNair and Leigh Garrison-Fletcher from LaGuardia Community College. It will take place on Thursday, March 18 from 9:00-10:15 am.

In an effort to ensure equitable op…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

We recently learned that at the December 14th meeting, the Board of Trustees will be voting to approve a $2m contract with Turnitin.

Lisa Rhody, Roxanne Shirazi, and I have prepared testimony opposition this contract, which must be submitted to the BOT by December 7.

You can read the statement here:…[Read more]

Colleagues:

Here‘s the latest issue of Forum published by European Association for International Education. Generally, it focuses on digitalization in international education. Jon Rubin’s and Piet Van Hove’s articles are very useful!

Best,

Olga

Dear Colleagues —

Please find attached a CFP for L2DL 2020 Symposium: Critical Transnational Dialogue and Virtual Exchange hosted by the University of Arizona’s Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL). It’s a one-week symposium + one synchronous day. No registration fee, and all participants will have access…[Read more]

To our CUNY friends and colleagues,

No one will deny that the coronavirus pandemic has left all of us with a deep sense of displacement. Not only have our 25 campuses splintered into thousands of individual bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens, but much of the family and community that we count on for support during the school year now…[Read more]

Dear All:

I’m delighted to invite you to the first CUNY-wide COIL Colloquium that will take place on April 12 at LaGuardia Community College. We have an exciting program planned. I hope you can register and attend.

If you have any questions, please email me at oaksakalova@lagcc.cuny.edu.

Best,

Olga Aksakalova

LaGuardia COIL Coordinator