CUNY Academic Commons | Jim Berg | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/deanjimberg/activity/ Activity feed for Jim Berg. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 2895c56a0fb7b8ba474eed067b3ec697 Jim Berg joined the group Transformative Learning in the Humanities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/711855/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:59:35 -0400 9099237b7b108feaad009f5abc02ee3f Jim Berg and Cathy N. Davidson are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/709134/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:24:02 -0400 0f8537a558a2bed917e8ec1101b61b6c Jim Berg and Darryl E. Brock Villanueva are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/596991/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 02:41:04 -0400 749678f4743cafe7e324e83de392f66d Jim Berg and Shenique S. Davis are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/581551/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:22:26 -0400 4ea6f1878a3da2b0090602a1a2d03b7e Jim Berg and John Beaumont (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/540276/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:16:58 -0500 bda6d4cf53ba29caa13dd2e0f41d7495 Jim Berg created the site Community College Career Fair https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/532800/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 17:24:03 -0400 80b935dabc9398716c374704e3ea606e Jim Berg and Anastassios Rigopoulos are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/531154/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:41:13 -0400 1b26ab181f1277e44d282b34ece89624 Jim Berg and Rachel Corkle are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/522128/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:28:09 -0400 7cfe8f424cb617b3a944a21a5cbb866e Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=247 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:32:21 -0400 Fall is always an exciting time on campus because we welcome new students and new faculty.

Last week, we had a two-day orientation with new faculty (and some staff). Below are some photos from a reception and […]

]]> 81d676b110c111f79005d4989e26471b Jim Berg and Carlos Hernandez (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/511530/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:20:46 -0400 c88dda05f17432734b2baef25c946275 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=240 Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:21:35 -0400 The higher education writer, Goldie Blumenstyk, as a blog on the Chronicle for Higher Education website about some common myths about online education. One is that the instruction is all one-way, and she points […]

]]> 0f32e06cd1bd3aadb749382afa04939a Jim Berg and Brenda K. Vollman, PhD are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509642/ Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:11:30 -0400 c3b97cd2965d1335d3d147e698cc0418 Jim Berg and Laurie Hurson (she/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509209/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:51:25 -0400 4465bd57634e94543ad699a23f83d282 Jim Berg's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509153/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:59:34 -0400 96e79cf070429007afefd0a935b29df8 Jim Berg and Chris McCarthy are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509141/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:35:37 -0400 dab18b9a57f62c2342e97156a3c88b28 Jim Berg and Deniz Gokcora are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509133/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:31:51 -0400 3d6203a00e944103c8627bca85fb66b2 Jim Berg and Sam Sloves are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509125/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:13:42 -0400 743eb132ff881680270a14c5cc301e6f Jim Berg and Paoyi Huang are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509095/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:52:00 -0400 1382727db7b685970284d09297e58c15 Jim Berg and M. George Stevenson are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509090/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:41:48 -0400 1ae353ca3d6b7966a31213cdca47ff59 Jim Berg and Brianne Waychoff are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509086/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:36:12 -0400 6dd84d415e548d63f7e532ce213b89ca Jim Berg and C.Christina Lam are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509083/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:34:25 -0400 d703166cf920fc701885d00c8e3b0eac Jim Berg and Benjamin Powell are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/509078/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:30:42 -0400 c067d1fcc478f5e430e39868b2365c5f Jim Berg and Christopher Shults are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/508763/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:52:47 -0400 45dacd61a58fa6e03b94e6673bfaa5ae Jim Berg joined the group The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/508635/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 20:20:05 -0400 22910eaec6889122a57281aee9b62d6f Jim Berg created the site BMCC Faculty Leadership Academy https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/507548/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 21:31:49 -0400 16a8ae13ac74c6c95199adc3775f5560 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=236 Fri, 25 May 2018 17:50:05 -0400 This summer at BMCC, teams of fulltime and adjunct faculty will plan and implement a project to improve outcomes in Gateway courses. Planning and design will happen in June and professional development for […]

]]> 65d1c68232a78e6d120c521cf3065bb1 Jim Berg changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/504921/ Fri, 25 May 2018 14:38:10 -0400 e937f5022826b6e0fbdad1f2feaed459 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=215 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:22:21 -0400 In a previous post, I quoted Kevin Gannon:
“When it comes to closing the shameful gaps in college student success, we need to place pedagogy at the center of our efforts” from his commentary in The Chronicle of […]

]]> 3950186b8634979800b7c8b6e385268b Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=212 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:09:17 -0400 Every year, I host a reception for faculty who have published books in the past 12 months. This year’s group includes faculty who work in mathematics, poetry, computing, philosophy, and literary […]

]]> 84f9b264491f818ba7afb08e209367d6 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=209 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:41:04 -0500 I have been saying this internally for some time now: our efforts to increase success rates (completion, retention, persistence) have improved services and supports for students outside the classroom. And we’ve […]

]]> f2bab4e9fa664e14c3012a647626e59b Jim Berg and Lane Glisson are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/488395/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:02:25 -0500 8ea0e2cbd5451191d27752ebf3f26bde Jim Berg and Christa Baiada are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/486507/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:25:51 -0500 d8f0c9244f7870644f789b24e73d91ce Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=203 Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 As part of a series on using social media in the classroom, I did a professional development activity for BMCC faculty on using twitter in the classroom. (See my earlier post.)

At the end of the two weeks, I […]

]]> da0cc6039732a6576552b91794ddf5c0 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=176 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:54:22 -0400 It all started with a tweet, as these things often do, which led to a blog post.

A colleague I have met IRL and online wrote about teaching with Twitter. Joshua Eyler is the Director of the Center for […]

]]> 2f3f34b76e1ebd9b5a92ad6aac4e88c3 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=170 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:29:38 -0400 Today I gave opening remarks to a symposium called “Reimagining Borders and Boundaries within a Globalized World.” It is the culmination of a project on cultivating global competencies in the community college […]

]]> b3ffd3c17c5cb4c3a8190aee9f8f92a8 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=157 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:58:16 -0400 Did you know that Blackboard turned twenty? It’s true, and they recently released a white paper on the future of higher education. “Future Forward” says that online learning is the most important thing to happe […]

]]> c8aa9e13f8752a854450231f1f5a52e2 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=149 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:38:41 -0400 Ask any faculty development professional about the beginning of a new school year, and four out of five will talk about New Faculty Orientation. (The other one will wonder how on earth New Yorkers are able to take […]

]]> 6b3082d38b95d29e1007c40a343b2718 Jim Berg and Robin Brown are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/467736/ Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:18:27 -0400 b075323dd2caeccace2f1c2faa75536c Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=137 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:08:07 -0400 Remember all that writing you were going to do this summer. I hope you got some of it done.

I did. SOME of it, that is.

And now here we are, in the middle of August, with the start of the fall semester […]

]]> 1fc8c6434cc5a7f70265510f2619ff45 Jim Berg started the topic Experiential Education Director: Job opening in the forum Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTL's) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/ctl/forum/topic/experiential-education-director-job-opening/ Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:55:16 -0400 BMCC Seeks a director of Academic Internships and Experiential Learning. See the full posting.

 

 

]]> 66b6798ba74452ecbaa0865377c61217 Jim Berg commented on the post, On Empathy and Reflexivity in Pedagogy, on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/07/17/on-empathy-and-reflexivity-in-pedagogy/#comment-551 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:19:41 -0400 Thanks for this posting. It raises some interesting questions about how much a new instructor adopts or adapts a syllabus from someone else, as well as having empathy for students who don’t have the kind of […]

]]> b3573824c8e70c66bb963205c57ccee4 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=119 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:26:05 -0400 I’m looking forward to joining some colleagues this weekend at a summer institute organized by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU.org). We’re planning to get some good work done to org […]

]]> 47d4225290922f958b47c4fb4e89543f Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=105 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:11:05 -0400 At a recent gathering of meeting of our Faculty Leadership Academy, I asked the group to think about a “significant, supportive relationship with a colleague” and what made it valuable. Although I was careful not […]

]]> ccce811672b01bc558c0af82a2f3bde6 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC https://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=93 Tue, 16 May 2017 15:05:21 -0400 UPDATE

BMCC was awarded $371,750 to continue our initiative in 2017-18. 

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In spring 2017, CUNY was allocated $4,000,000 from New York State to establish, sustain, and enhance […]

]]> bb4386241163aadc24a484a8f1447ce1 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC http://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=84 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:10:13 -0400 Hooray! We have our first guest blog by Director of Research, Alona Bach.

The concept of academic research, and particularly undergraduate research (outside the classroom), has been associated with the […]

]]> 6ba84d321ac0a101ab241337b57a432b Jim Berg and Joshua Belknap (He/him/his) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/457092/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:36:41 -0500 8b22f5a32b1850e2cbee1888b2064199 Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC http://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=70 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:26:26 -0500 Community college faculty face the largest teaching loads in higher education. And most do it without an expectation of doing research at the same time. At CUNY, community college faculty, tenured and […]

]]> fcf767e40928f8408bc30c2a166059da Jim Berg wrote a new post on the site High Impact Faculty at BMCC http://highimpact.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=54 Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:59:29 -0500 Designing for Student Success
Karrin E. Wilks, Senior Vice President & Provost
January 27, 2017
Good morning and welcome to our first annual Faculty Convocation. Thank you all for joining us. We are very […]

]]> 89bf9e7b1194cd739e57bf0dcdc8e45e Jim Berg and Kirsten Cole (she/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/454533/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:58:31 -0500 0cdb52fb030bbab4e4bed800579ed929 Jim Berg started the topic tech fee proposals in the forum Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTL's) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/ctl/forum/topic/tech-fee-proposals/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:51:35 -0500 Hi all, it’s coming time to prepare proposals for Student Technology fees for next year. I did a quick look around college sites and see some past proposals for CTL activities or faculty development efforts. What types of projects are people thinking of proposing for next year that you are willing to share?

Jim

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