Blog Feature Archives: News and Announcements

News and Announcements | February 16, 2017

Apply to be an ACERT Faculty Fellow

We would like to call to your attention the opportunity to be an ACERT Faculty Fellow in 2017/2018. Each spring, ACERT invites applications from potential Faculty Fellows for the following academic year. In a year-long appointment, Fellows work with ACERT in various ways, depending on their particular expertise and inclination.

News and Announcements | February 15, 2017

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Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab Event: Annotating Texts in Open Digital Pedagogy

By ACERT
Topics : Events

Join the OpenLab Team, City Tech faculty and staff, and CUNY colleagues at Openlab's Open Pedagogy event, where they'll be discussing annotating texts in open digital pedagogy. OpenLab will share tools to use for digital annotation, showcase examples of them in action, and discuss best practices for cultivating close reading and conversation in digital spaces.

News and Announcements | February 7, 2017

CUNY Research in the Classroom (RIC) Winners

By ACERT
Topics : Grants

ACERT is proud to announce that three Hunter College faculty members have been selected for funding through the CUNY Research in the Classroom (RIC) Idea Grant program.

News and Announcements | February 6, 2017

NYC Digital Humanities Week

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Events

Today marks the first day of NYCDH Week, a week-long series of workshops, lightning talks, and social events for digital humanists of all stripes and at all skill levels. There is a kickoff gathering all day today at the CUNY GC and an exciting array of workshops and discussions on platforms, computing languages, and more general scholarly and pedagogical topics going on all week.

News and Announcements | February 2, 2017

“American Hookup” with bold red, white, and blue diagonal text and “Lisa Wade.”

Hookup culture on campus

By ACERT
Topics : Events

On February 8th, Lisa Wade will be discussing her book, “AMERICAN HOOKUP: The New Culture of Sex on Campus,” which explores the culture of sex found in many American college campuses today. Lisa argues that today’s hookup culture equates college with freedom, fun, and casual sex. However, there are good, bad, and even ugly sides to this type of campus life.

News and Announcements | December 21, 2016

(Call for Papers) CUNY Conference on Undergraduate Education: The Professoriat at the Global University

By ACERT
Topics : Opportunities

(Call for Papers) The CUNY Conference on Undergraduate Education is looking for submissions from CUNY instructors that explore how they connect with such a global student population while developing their own careers as teachers and scholars.

News and Announcements | December 12, 2016

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End-of-the-Semester Public Policy Capstone Presentations

By ACERT
Topics : Events

The Roosevelt House public Policy Institute at Hunter College cordially invites students, faculty, staff, and family members to attend an End-of-the-Semester Public Policy Capstone Presentations event, to be held on Wednesday, December 14th, 2016.

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

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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.