Elin

From: Devrim A Yavuz (Teaching Sociology) <cuny-academic-commons@gc.cuny.edu>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2026 at 9:4…[Read more]

Devrim

Thanks for sharing this event info!

I super appreciate this attention to the first year of teaching experience. Note that most of the sociology first-years are in Stats II meeting from 11:45am to 3pm on Wednesdays, not Tuesdays. We are all in contemporary sociological theory from 11:45am to 1:45pm on Tuesdays, but a lot of…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]

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]

** 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]

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]

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]

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 <faculty.affairs@CUNY.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 9:12 AM
To: CUNY-FACULTY-AFFAIRS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU &…[Read more]

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 <ELIN.WARING@lehman.cuny.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 11:56 AM
To: t…[Read more]

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]

Let us plan to meet on Thursday, February 5th, at 1pm. We can discuss what we would want the user group to look like, and make plans for the semester.

Here is the link:

https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/89505239083?pwd=41RTuJX9R3nvyztXFd2b23YaEc7LR5.1

The GC Digital Fellows are planning to reinvigorate the R User’s Group in Spring 2026. We will plan to have our first meeting next week. We can use the first meeting to discuss what kind of space we want the user group meetings to be, and make a plan for the coming semester. Please comment below to indicate interest, and mention any times…[Read more]

Welcome back!
What we are living through right now presents a lot of good teaching topics from the profound–how to teach about and discuss challenging topics and coping with both our own and our students’ distress— to the totally practical, how do you pivot to online with little time to prepare.

Our upcoming dates are February 6 a…[Read more]

Faculty can apply to one of three tracks:

1. Critical Foundations of AI. We will recruit faculty from multiple disciplines to work together to develop modules for a course…[Read more]

Now it turns out the not only is there an event at the GC this Friday, the Crim workshop is showing a film as part of a joint meeting with the NYU Crim workshop on the 12th.

What makes sense? Should we just plan to meet on the first Friday of the spring semester?

I’m also wondering if people want to talk right now or in the s…[Read more]

We just realized that the day we planned for the next teaching workshop is also a sociology colloquium date. We could reschedule for the 12th or we could pick another day of the week.
What do you think?
Also, planning for the next meeting Lok, Devrim and I were thinking that if we could have 3 people who would want to share and get…[Read more]

The topic is: “The Syllabus: Writing, Revising, Reflecting”

Our recommended reading is
Sulik, Gayle, and Jennifer Keys. 2014. “‘Many Students Really Do Not Yet Know How to Behave!’: The Syllabus as a Tool for Socialization.” Teaching So…[Read more]

This is my first try using the mailing list. Two things I want to share.

First, Friday November 7, from 4 to 6 will be our first official meeting.
Here is the zoom:
https://lehman-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86306526526?pwd=ytQQFBqHgpcfIrKk0RfbVCiv1LSROK.1
Readings to come.

Second, this article from the April 2025 issue of Teaching…[Read more]