CUNY Academic Commons

TRANSCENDING FRONTERAS: BUILDING ON THE WORK OF DR. OFELIA GARCÍA

The work of Dr. Ofelia García–noted scholar, educator, and activist in bilingual education and critical sociolinguistics–has empowered people across geographical, linguistic, and disciplinary borders. Her work has prompted multiple generations of students and colleagues to r…[Read more]

Dear Composition Colleagues–

Dr. Bruce Horner from University of Louisville will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming SUNY COW Conference, Farmingdale College October 18 & 19th. Please distribute the attached flier widely with your departments and colleagues.

Warm thanks,

Cristina Migliaccio

Please share widely with your networks in and beyond CUNY:

SUNY Council on Writing Conference (CoW) 2018

Call for Proposals

Theme: Why Writing Matters: Articulating the Value of Writing to Students, Administrators,

and Faculty from Across the Disciplines

Dates: Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20, 2018

Location: Farmingdale State…[Read more]

Please consider attending the following conference at Medgar Evers College on May 11, 2018.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Chris Emdin author of For White Folks Who Teach In the Hood and the Rest of Ya’ll Too, which is currently on the New York Times best sellers list.

The 6th Annual Coordinated Undergraduate Education Conference will be held on Fr…[Read more]

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Dates: Friday,…[Read more]

Audrey Watters: “Teaching Machines: How the Automation of Education Became ‘Personalized Learning’”

Thursday, April 26 | 6:30pm 
Room 4406 (The Ph.D. Program in English Lounge)
Reception to Follow

RSVP http://cuny.is/hack

Co-Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and the Ph.D. Program in Engl…[Read more]

Please find attached a combined calendar featuring selected workshops being offered at the Graduate Center in Spring 2018 by the Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, the Futures Initiative, the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development, and the…[Read more]

Dear all,

We have received many excellent proposals from across the CUNY system for this spring’s CUNY-wide composition conference, “Critical Pedagogies at CUNY: Learning through Writing,” which will be held at LaGuardia Community College on Friday, April 13, 2018. We have also received a number of requests for a little extra time to submit as we…[Read more]

Critical Pedagogies at CUNY: Learning through Writing
A CUNY-wide Composition Conference
Friday, April 13, 2018 @ LaGuardia Community College

The City University of New York has long been a home for innovative, thoughtful writing pedagogies that have sought to engage and support its large, diverse student body. This year, with the removal of the…[Read more]

Hi all,

Comp Comm is the Graduate Center’s interest group for teachers of writing and writing-intensive classes, and for people who are interested in Writing Studies scholarship.

We are happy to announce our Fall 2017 schedule of speakers, workshops, and events. Our events this month will take place on select Mondays in 5414 from 6:30-8:00pm…[Read more]

The Teaching and Learning Center invites members of the CUNY community to contribute to <a href="http://cuny.is/vp">Visible Pedagogy’s</a> “Teach@CUNY Series,“ which spotlights actual assignments, activities, and approaches being used in CUNY classrooms.

Each call for contributors focuses on a single topic or theme; those interested in contr…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Graduate Center's <a href="http://cuny.is/teaching">Teaching and Learning Center</a> is pleased to announce the launch of <strong>Visible Pedagogy,</strong> a new blog about teaching and learning at CUNY: <a href="https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a&gt;

VP editor and TLC Assistant Director…[Read more]

<strong>Call for Contributing Writers!</strong>

The Graduate Center’s<a href="http://cuny.is/teaching"&gt; Teaching and Learning Center</a> (TLC) is seeking contributing writers for its new project, Visible Pedagogy. We are looking for up to three bloggers who will write a series of posts during the Spring 2017 semester on teaching and learning i…[Read more]