CUNY Academic Commons

Dear Colleagues,

We hope you’ll join us for some of the final events of our 3-year Transformative Learning in the Humanities initiative at CUNY:

• April 25, 12-1:30 PM Language, Hegemony, and Power (Zoom). Register here.
• April 26, 1-3:30 PM, (Hunter ACERT/TLH) Student Sessions on anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (Part…

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We’re spreading the word about the NY State budget and some actions you can take before April 1:

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Dear Colleagues,

We hope you’ll join us for the final two events in our Transformative Speaker Series:

Universality in Specificity: A Conversation with Ly Tran About Language, Identity, and Love  
Tuesday, March 28, 4:30-5:30pm (Zoom)

In this interview and interactive workshop, Ly Tran speaks about the transformative power of mining u…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Happy March to you all, and here is the new CITA Newsletter. Please share this with your colleagues widely.

As the weather gets warmer, we have many, many brilliant events happening CUNY-wide. Some upcoming ones are:

• Fri March 3, 9:30am-12:30pm CUNY Mindset Summit bit.ly/3HJK2WQ
• Fri March 3 and 10, 11:00am-1:00pm Faculty…

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• TLH & Macaulay Teaching & Learning Collaboratory present: Pedagogies of Care with Jesse Stommel. Monday, Mar 6, 2023 @ 11 am ET. Register here.
• Intellectual Publics presents: Black Disability Politics Now, A virtual conversation with Sami Schalk and Vilissa Thompson. ASL Interpretation by Body Language Productions
  Monday, March 6th @ 6:30 pm…

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Tuesday, February 14, 12-3 pm ET (multiple locations and online).

Douglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass. Each year, we gather thousands of people to help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history. We frequently focus on important Black women’s archives, such as Anna Julia C…[Read more]

The CUNY Office of Transformation invites you to our series of CUNY-wide listening sessions to gather feedback from students, faculty, staff, and employers on the best ways to help CUNY students prepare for their futures.

Our next “From Classrooms to Careers” listening session, on February 8, will feature employers, all who are CUNY alumni! Thi…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

One of our favorite parts of TLH is our Faculty Fellows interdisciplinary collaborations that contribute to public knowledge and further the mission of TLH. We work to transform the classroom through equitable, creative, student-centered pedagogical methods. Our faculty co-led events directly engage with students and student…[Read more]

Please share this upcoming event with your undergraduate students:

The Futures Initiative invites you to join us for the second installment in our series:

“Is Graduate School for Me?”

Monday, December 5th @ 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET

In continuation of the Futures Initiative series that launched during the spring semester, we invite you to join us…[Read more]

Please fill out this important survey about preparing CUNY students for future careers:

Dear Faculty,

The Office of Transformation is partnering with the CUNY Career Success Fellows, a group of dedicated faculty who have been working together over the past two years to learn more about faculty interest and engagement in the work of preparing our…[Read more]

Please join us for the 2nd event in our 2022-2023 transformative speaker series. In this interactive workshop and discussion, Kiese Laymon will share how to help students find their voices as writers and thinkers. He will discuss the role of the transgressive within personal narrative and memoir, exploring the value of vulnerability in…[Read more]

Please join us to celebrate the life, work, and accomplishments of Audre Lorde – Black poet, writer, radical feminist, Womanist, lesbian, and human rights activist – on the 30th anniversary of her death and the 50th of her moving to Staten Island with her partner Frances Clayton and two children. Audre Lorde lived in the Stapleton Heights…[Read more]

Friday, October 14, 9:00-11:00am

CUNY-Wide Conference (Online)

“Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) @CUNY Conference”

For more details and to register, click here.

For questions, please reach out to [email protected] .

Friday, October 21, 2:00-3:00pm

Teaching Matters Professional Development Series (Online)

“Posing Quest…[Read more]