45 Years of Tradition: Looking back on CUNY’s Faculty Senate
by Emily Tai This May will be the forty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of CUNY’s University Faculty Senate, which met for the first time as a faculty governance body in September, 1968. It...
View ArticleTo MOOC or not to MOOC?
by Emily Tai Many UFS Blog readers are involved in eLearning — the internet has revolutionized teaching, learning, and scholarship. Teaching online allows access to rich digital resources across...
View ArticleNeed Help Finding the Right Administrator?
President, Provost & Dean searches: Finding your campus’ right fit – Kathleen Barker’s Faculty Experience Survey, recently posted to the UFS website, is a useful faculty tool for campuses currently...
View ArticleRace for New Funding Under Way
CUNY2020 competition for new State funds open to campuses – CUNY2020, a new $55 million State of New York initiative, solicits proposals from CUNY individuals and campuses (preferably jointly) for...
View ArticleA lot of explaining to do.
A UFS workshop was held in April entitled The CUNY Budget Explained. Attempting to demystify this topic were speakers including Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning, Construction and Management...
View ArticleFormer UFS Chair Sandi Cooper traces “the Road to Pathways”
The May-June 2013 issue of Academe, the journal of the American Association of University Professors, looks at changing relationships between college faculty and boards of trustees. Among the featured...
View ArticleSUNY faculty gets MooCed: Administration moves with no consultation
by Emily Tai (also posted on Jun 5, 2013. www.cunyUFS.org) As reported in last week’s Inside Higher Ed, some colleges and universities are making arrangements with MOOC providers over the objection of...
View ArticleDiversity.edu?
by Emily Tai (also posted on June 13, 2013, www.cunyufs.org) Two articles by Paul Fain in last week’s Inside Higher Ed discuss a new report, Bridging the Higher Education Divide, that argues for the...
View ArticlePreserving Shared Governance: Food for Thought at CUNY
by Philip Pecorino (also posted on June 15, 2013, www.cuny.edu.) As reported recently in Inside Higher Ed, a meeting of the National Association of College and University Attorneys gave some attention...
View ArticleLook Who’s Teaching at CUNY!
by Jay Weiser, also posted July 2, 2013, www.cunyufs.org, CUNY adjuncts typically earn less than $3000 a course while teaching half of the university’s courses (and face continuing peril on their...
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