Event Archive

When/Where	Event
Tuesday Mar 21, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Serious play: Games in the classroom Presenter(s): Jeff Allred (English), Iris Finkel (Library), Leah Potter (Electric Funstuff), Lauren Spradlin (English) This panel will explore pedagogical projects that explore ways that learning can be playful and play can be pedagogical. [Details...]
Thursday Mar 16, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Curating video collections for your courses Presenter(s): Laura Baecher (Curriculum & Teaching), Linsey Ly (Graduate Center), Theresa Navarro (American Documentary \| POV) Laura Baecher, Linsey Ly, and Theresa Navarro curate video collections, create videos themselves, and guide their students in producing videos. Find out how they go about assembling video collections for their courses and designing meaningful assignments using the videos. [Details...]
Thursday Mar 9, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	City Tech's Open Lab + Living Lab Learning Library: Open-source teaching, learning, and collaborating Presenter(s): Jill Belli (Assistant Professor of English at City Tech; OpenLab Co-Director), Charlie Edwards (OpenLab Co-Director), Kristen Hackett (OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow), M. Genevieve Hitchings (Assistant Professor of Communication Design; OpenLab Co-Director), Philip Kreniske (OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow), Andrew McKinney (Senior OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow), Jody R. Rosen (Associate Professor of English; OpenLab Co-Director), Jenna Spevack (Associate Professor of Communication Design; OpenLab Co-Director), Bree Zuckerman (OpenLab Senior Instructional Technologist) In this Lunchtime Seminar, we will hear from several members of the OpenLab team, who will discuss the project’s development and future direction, including the new Living Lab Learning Library, a space for free exchange of teaching materials and practices. [Details...]
Tuesday Mar 7, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Creative approaches to the syllabus: Moving beyond the transactional in course design Presenter(s): Mark Bobrow (English), Rob Cowan (Arts & Sciences), Alyssa Lyons (Sociology-Grad Center), Paul McPherron (English) From using the syllabus to tell the narrative of learning in a course to generating course topics from student interests outside the classroom walls, this seminar will present examples of creative syllabus design and syllabus presentation from a variety of departments and fields. [Details...]
Thursday Mar 2, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Online course development: First takes Presenter(s): Irene Morrison-Moncure (Classics), Jared Simard (Classics) In this seminar, two Classics instructors will describe their experiences as first-time developers of fully online courses. [Details...]
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	If at first you don’t succeed: What we learn from failure Presenter(s): Stephanie Margolin & Sarah Ward (Hunter College Libraries) Are you ready to talk about your failures in the classroom? In this workshop we will reflect on our failures in a supportive environment using active learning strategies. [Details...]
Wednesday Feb 22, 2017 10:00 am - 11:30 am 1203 HE	Assessment Accreditation and Why it Matters Presenter(s): James Llana (Provost's Office) James Llana, Hunter's new Associate Provost of Institutional Effectiveness, will be presenting on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) and academic accreditation. [Details...]
Wednesday Jan 25, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Readings about race: Exploring race in the college classroom Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology), Kirsten Grant (Chemistry), Stephanie Margolin (Library) Activist scholars have taken to social media to collaborate and create antiracist pedagogy. The Charleston Syllabus is one example of a crowd-sourced syllabus, which began as a hashtag in response to the racially motivated murder of nine people in Charleston, SC in 2015. That hashtag generated a new edited volume, The Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence, a compilation of excerpts from many of the Charleston Syllabus readings. This January, join us for a 4-part, weekly Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC) where we will read and discuss selections, considering how this literature might be used in our classrooms and its relevance for us and our students. [Details...]
Wednesday Jan 18, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Readings about race: Exploring race in the college classroom Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology), Kirsten Grant (Chemistry), Stephanie Margolin (Library) Activist scholars have taken to social media to collaborate and create antiracist pedagogy. The Charleston Syllabus is one example of a crowd-sourced syllabus, which began as a hashtag in response to the racially motivated murder of nine people in Charleston, SC in 2015. That hashtag generated a new edited volume, The Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence, a compilation of excerpts from many of the Charleston Syllabus readings. This January, join us for a 4-part, weekly Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC) where we will read and discuss selections, considering how this literature might be used in our classrooms and its relevance for us and our students. [Details...]
Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Readings about race: Exploring race in the college classroom Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology), Kirsten Grant (Chemistry), Stephanie Margolin (Library) Activist scholars have taken to social media to collaborate and create antiracist pedagogy. The Charleston Syllabus is one example of a crowd-sourced syllabus, which began as a hashtag in response to the racially motivated murder of nine people in Charleston, SC in 2015. That hashtag generated a new edited volume, The Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence, a compilation of excerpts from many of the Charleston Syllabus readings. This January, join us for a 4-part, weekly Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC) where we will read and discuss selections, considering how this literature might be used in our classrooms and its relevance for us and our students. [Details...]
Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Readings about race: Exploring race in the college classroom Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology), Kirsten Grant (Chemistry), Stephanie Margolin (Library) Activist scholars have taken to social media to collaborate and create antiracist pedagogy. The Charleston Syllabus is one example of a crowd-sourced syllabus, which began as a hashtag in response to the racially motivated murder of nine people in Charleston, SC in 2015. That hashtag generated a new edited volume, The Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence, a compilation of excerpts from many of the Charleston Syllabus readings. This January, join us for a 4-part, weekly Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC) where we will read and discuss selections, considering how this literature might be used in our classrooms and its relevance for us and our students. [Details...]
Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 1203 HE	Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology) Most in higher education value a diverse workforce and professoriate, but universities continue to struggle hiring, supporting, and retaining faculty of color. In this TSC, we will read and discuss selections from Patricia Matthew’s edited volume Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure, and consider how the issues raised by the book’s contributors relate to the experiences of faculty at Hunter. [Details...]
Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 1203 HE	Readings about Race: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure Presenter(s): Jessie Daniels (Sociology) Most in higher education value a diverse workforce and professoriate, but universities continue to struggle hiring, supporting, and retaining faculty of color. In this TSC, we will discuss how faculty learn to balance political activism, community engagement, and the demands of tenure in our fractured political times. [Details...]
Wednesday Dec 14, 2016 10:00 am - 11:30 am 1203 HE	Best practices in using online tools for assessing students Presenter(s): Nancy Guerrero (TTLG), Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) Nancy and Shiao-Chuan will talk about tools to assess students and tools to give and get feedback from students, such Blackboard quizzes, surveys, in-line grading and rubrics. They will also discuss best practices in using online tools for assessing students and suggest some ideas to address academic integrity online. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016 10:00 am - 11:30 am Online - register for details	Creating mini-lectures for your hybrid, online and flipped classes Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung (ICIT) Learn how to create mini-lectures that can be used to introduce students to a class or online module; to explain how to solve a problem; or to demonstrate how to navigate a website or use a software program. We will introduce two web-based tools: VoiceThread and Screencast-O-Matic. [Details...]
Thursday Nov 10, 2016 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 425 E 25th St, Gebbie Room	Cornerstones for Teaching and Research: Faculty Resources at Hunter College - CANCELED Hunter College Libraries, Office of the Provost, the Office of Research Administration, and the Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT) are hosting a series of events that will bring faculty members together with representatives from college-wide offices and departments that offer resources for faculty research and teaching. Each department will provide information and details about their resources in an informal setting, with ample time for questions and discussion. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 9, 2016 10:00 am - 11:30 am 1203 HE	Assessing academic support programs Presenter(s): Pamela Clark (SEEK) For our second Assessment Breakfast of the semester we will meet and hear from Pamela Clark, our new SEEK Director, as well as talk about how to assess non-academic programs. Come hungry and ready to learn! [Details...]
Tuesday Nov 8, 2016 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1007 HW	Cornerstones for Teaching and Research: Faculty Resources at Hunter College Hunter College Libraries, Office of the Provost, the Office of Research Administration, and the Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT) are hosting a series of events that will bring faculty members together with representatives from college-wide offices and departments that offer resources for faculty research and teaching. Each department will provide information and details about their resources in an informal setting, with ample time for questions and discussion. [Details...]
Monday Nov 7, 2016 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Silberman School of Social Work, Room SB 329	Cornerstones for Teaching and Research: Faculty Resources at Hunter College Hunter College Libraries, Office of the Provost, the Office of Research Administration, and the Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT) are hosting a series of events that will bring faculty members together with representatives from college-wide offices and departments that offer resources for faculty research and teaching. Each department will provide information and details about their resources in an informal setting, with ample time for questions and discussion. [Details...]
Thursday Nov 3, 2016 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Providing Students with Early Evaluation and Feedback, an ACERT “Ideas Lab" Presenter(s): Michael Steiper (Anthropology) In this “Ideas Lab,” members of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Student Success will brainstorm approaches that might be deployed here at Hunter College. Our Committee hopes that, in aggregate, these interventions will directly and positively impact metrics such as graduation and retention rate, measures widely held as indicators of student success. [Details...]