Hi Everyone,

I wanted to make sure that all of you know about this conference coming up on May 8 at the GC. I know May 8 is also colloquium day, so maybe it’s a good chance to make a day of it! Would love to see people in person.

Normally we would meet on May 1 or May 8. I don’t want to do May 1 and May 8 is also crazy (see paragraph 1).…[Read more]

Hello Group Admins!

The Commons Development Team recently released an update to the privacy options for groups. The new release adds a question to the “Public” privacy settings option that allows a Group Admin to make a public group only visible to logged-in Commons members.

Now, if you select the “Public” setting option under Group Privacy, you…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

I added the recording the March 27 workshop discussion to the folder with the other materials here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/5vd4wp16vx6ofgbvshm6h/AB-J0s81VlIqMzCDnaPW7LM?rlkey=oogxtd0vbj9ly8bg1fukv5dyl&st=ocd9rrla&dl=0

Thanks so much to Hart for sharing his work! It led to a great discussion of many things…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

Don’t forget we have our teaching sociology workshop today at 4. This will include time for open discussion and collaboration/mentoring/discussions on any issues related to teaching.

https://lehman-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86306526526?pwd=ytQQFBqHgpcfIrKk0RfbVCiv1LSROK.1

Here is the recording of the last meeting, our session with c…[Read more]

“Let’s Archive It!” Three CUNY Archivists on What it Means to Steward Collections

** RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, APRIL 13, 12-1:30PM**

Graduate Center, Room 9206 with hybrid option (RSVP for Zoom link here).

Doing archival research? Teaching with archives? Creating digital archives? Come hear from three CUNY archivists about the exciting archi…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

Here are the details.

Many foundational sociology courses are part of the general education curriculum (at CUNY, also known as Pathways). How does or should this influence how we and what we teach? Hart Zhang will share his work on preparing a course proposal for pathways as a doctoral student.
We complement this with an old but…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks to everyone who participating in our very informative session with sociology chairs from across CUNY.

We are scheduled to meet this Friday, but the BRESI all day event will be happening.
We are thinking March 27 as the new date.

Also, please let us know if you have ideas for topics. In particular, if you have interesting…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to make sure that you saw this announcement. This is a big initiative for CUNY.
The OFA professional development events are usually well organized and helpful.

Elin
From: Faculty Affairs <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 9:12 AM
To: [email protected] &…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder that today is our first spring workshop! We have 5 CUNY chairs.

Here is the Zoom link
https://lehman-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86306526526?pwd=ytQQFBqHgpcfIrKk0RfbVCiv1LSROK.1
or join in person at the GC.

Elin

From: Elin Waring <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 11:56 AM
To: t…[Read more]

Hi all! I’ll be leading a workshop on Thursday on Digital Project Design in advance of the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant deadline. You will be able to get something out of our work regardless of whether you are developing your project for a PDIG proposal or something else. I can’t wait to share with you a new activity for helping to refine…[Read more]

Hi,

This Friday’s Teaching Sociology Workshop will feature a panel of chairs from a variety of CUNY campuses starting at 4. We will have a question and answer session with them, so now’s your chance to ask what you have always wanted to ask!

We will use the second hour for updates and discussing current topics.

Here is the Zoom lin…[Read more]