- Participation will be limited to 14.
- Each participant will receive a stipend of $800 ($400 this spring and $400 in the fall.)
- All participants must submit a one page statement of interest (details below.)
- All participants must commit to attending the four lecture/seminars listed above (as well as four more next fall).
- There will be some outside reading which will be assigned in conjunction with each seminar.
- During the fall, participants will work on developing workshops and other materials to disseminate the seminar learning throughout the college and the University.
- The seminar series will offer structured opportunities for peer-reviewed publications.
If you are interested in participating in the seminar series please submit a one page statement of interest in which you state your commitment to attend all seminar activities and how this participation will help your teaching goals . Send via email attachment to: CETL@qcc.cuny.edu (subject: ATTN.
D. Dibattista) or via inter-campus mail to CETL, L-221, ATTN.
D. Dibattista. Please include your name and contact information (including e-mail) ON a COVER SHEET. Please write your departmental affiliation on your Statement (but not your name)
DEADLINE to Submit: Monday February 12
NOTIFICATION: Tuesday February 13
The following criteria will be used to select participants:
- Statement of interest
- Departmental affiliation (we will select participants in order to ensure broad representation from across the disciplines and departments). Selection will otherwise be blind as cover sheets with names will be removed and submissions will be coded before the selection committee receives them. A multi-disciplinary group of faculty and the CETL director will make the selections.
Seminar Goals:
1. The development of a core intellectual community at QCC (with links to other CUNY colleges) to work on an in-depth, intellectually rich and focused exploration of the challenges of engaging diverse and underrepresented groups of students in demanding, high-quality educational experiences.
2. The creation and dissemination (by this community) of pedagogical/institutional and curricular strategies to address these challenges.
3. The production of one or more publications by faculty and staff participants, which may include a compilation of pedagogical and/or institutional strategies developed and derived from the seminars and/or a collection of essays on Urban Culture and Community College Pedagogy in the 21 st Century.
4. To provide faculty development in support of the campus Plan for Integrated Education and the CUNY Campaign for Success.
Seminar Themes:
The challenges and opportunities related to engaging diverse and under-represented groups in high-quality educational experiences.
Examples of working strategies to address those challenges.
Models for the creation of an intellectual community among faculty and students; cultivating rigor and excellence.
The educational importance of multiculturalism in the curriculum and the classroom, and its key relationship to the traditions of Western thought.
Language diversity and culture in the classroom, including issues related to teaching and learning in linguistically diverse classrooms, language and racism/nationalism, and thoughts on how to ensure students' preparation in “academic dialects" while also respecting their own.
*Co-Sponsored by the Office of Affirmative Action, Pluralism & Diversity/Compliance Office*
*Supported by a Grant from the Diversity projects Development Fund*
