Blog Feature Archives: News and Announcements

News and Announcements | November 2, 2016

Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference

By ACERT
Topics : Events

CUNY IT Accessibility Task Force, CUNY Computing and Information Services and Hunter College Library are sponsoring a subscription to Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference, to be held from November 14 – 18, 2016.

News and Announcements | October 28, 2016

CUNY Academic Commons Faculty Fellowships – Spring 2017

By ACERT
Topics : Fellowships

The CUNY Academic Commons (CAC), in collaboration with the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), requests applications for CUNY Academic Commons Faculty Fellowships for the Spring 2017 semester. CAC Faculty Fellows will have the opportunity to teach a course using the CUNY Academic Commons during the Spring 2017 semester with dedicated technical and pedagogical support from the CAC and the TLC teams. Proposals must be submitted by midnight on November 15, 2016.

News and Announcements | October 18, 2016

Wikipedia Art & Art History Edit-a-thon

By ACERT
Topics : Events, Library

The Hunter College Library is hosting a Wikipedia Art and Art History Edit-a-thon during Open Access Week at the Zabar Art Library. The event will focus on editing Art & Art History articles, and will provide participants with the opportunity to help improve the encyclopedia.

News and Announcements | September 13, 2016

PressForward Workshops

By ACERT
Topics : Uncategorized

Join the Library Association of CUNY, the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center, the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, to learn new ways to gather content from the open web and to share it using PressForward.

News and Announcements | May 23, 2016

Digital Pedagogy Prizes

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, ePortfolios, Online writing and reflection, Rich media & presentation tools

This semester, ACERT organized two new prizes to call attention to some of the innovative and exciting work happening at Hunter in the area of digital pedagogy: a Faculty Assignment Prize and a Student Digital Writing Prize. Here, we would like to share with you a small sample of the winning projects.

News and Announcements | May 20, 2016

ACERT Steering Committee members receive 2016 Presidential Awards

By ACERT
Topics : Awards

ACERT is proud to announce that Faculty Fellow Laura Baecher and Steering Committee member Sandi Clarkson are among the recipients of the 2016 Presidential Awards for Excellence.

News and Announcements | April 14, 2016

Day of DigPed: Workshop topic announced

By ACERT
Topics : Events

ACERT will be hosting a workshop on creating open access digital books as part of our May 3 Day of Digital Pedagogy. This hands-on workshop, led by Jack Dougherty (Professor of Educational Studies, Trinity College), will feature the open-source Pressbooks platform, a WordPress derivative that generates books in multiple formats.

News and Announcements | April 7, 2016

Exploring Student Learning: Assessment Day 2016

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Events

Join us at our second annual Assessment Day, featuring presentations from Hunter's cohort of seven Assessment Fellows, each of whom is experimenting with ways to explore their students’ learning.

News and Announcements | March 28, 2016

Day of DigPed: Digital Pedagogy Prizes

By ACERT
Topics : Awards

Submit an entry for the Day of DigPed Faculty Assignment Prize. Encourage your students to submit entries for the Student Writing Prize.

News and Announcements | March 25, 2016

FITT deadline extended to April 1

By ACERT
Topics : Awards

Faculty Innovations in Teaching and Technology (FITT) is a competitive program for faculty seeking to enhance student learning in innovative ways. We invite Hunter faculty to submit FITT proposals by April 1.