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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

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.

What We’re Reading | January 12, 2017

Hillary Clinton and beyond

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Online writing and reflection, Student Engagement

Professor Wendy Hayden's (English) rhetoric course, Hillary Clinton and Beyond, explored rhetoric in the context of the recent election. The course experimented with a crowdsourced syllabus in which Wendy chose the readings for the first four classes of the semester and then turned the syllabus over to the students. By the end of the semester, her course uncovered answers to some of the guiding questions about Clinton and the power of rhetoric.

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

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.

Teaching Tips | December 8, 2016

Teaching fails

By ACERT
Topics : Online writing and reflection

During an ACERT Lunchtime Seminar, Laura W. Kane and Sarah Ruth Jacobs introduced the aims and editorial guidelines of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, which is a collaborative effort between 23 faculty members, graduate students, and academic staff at CUNY and other institutions.

Assess It! | November 10, 2016

Assessment is collaborative: Librarians and compositions work together to assess student’s research projects

By ACERT and Stephanie Margolin
Topics : Assess student work, Assessment, Map to assessments

Library instruction can be different from other college teaching. At the same time, librarians are urged to prove our impact. But how, in this model, do we measure our impact? What does successful library instruction look like?

Event Capsules | November 7, 2016

ACERT Event Capsule – Web scrawlers: Annotating digital objects with students

By ACERT
Topics : Rich media & presentation tools, Technology

What happens to the time-honored tradition of scribbling in the margins when texts migrate from the page to the screen? In this Event Capsule, Jeff Allred and Philip Ewell discuss their use of Skim and hypothes.is to annotate digital documents.