Friends:

I am truly sorry to inform you that Martin Burke, Chair of the University Faculty Senate (UFS), has decided not to reappoint me to represent the UFS on the Committee on Academic Technology (CAT).

I attended the meetings that led to the creation of CAT and have served as faculty representative of Queensborough Community College (QCC)…[Read more]

Colleagues:

CUNY is proposing a policy on use of cloud services for the CUNY BOT to adopt.  In its current form it will restrict faculty ability to choose what applications they would use in the classrooms, with their students, in their research and in their creative work involving the relevant technologies.

You will want to take a careful…[Read more]

Where are we on Smart Classrooms in 2016?
More and more faculty in CUNY are using classrooms equipped with a variety of information technology items. Although the exact inventory of equipment may vary they are called “smart classrooms”. More and more new hires are expecting that the classrooms they use will be so equipped. Faculty are bei…[Read more]

As I indicated at the last CAT I am initiating efforts to disseminate information related to IT and ED for all CUNY Faculty. One means is a continuing series of UFS Blog posts and distributions to all CUNY faculty leaders and then to all faculty in CUNY. I am going have as a continuing feature a post of a calendar of events in CUNY (see below).…[Read more]