The 2023 Faculty Development & Engagement Survey was designed to understand the professional development needs and interests of Hostos faculty to advance teaching and learning. With 118 faculty members responding—a 29% response rate—the survey reflects a representative cross-section of our academic departments. The findings offer a broad view of faculty perspectives and needs, as well as specific recommendations for action. [...]

Teaching is a humbling but immensely rewarding experience. I can clearly remember my first day standing at the front of a classroom with what seemed to be all the eyes of the world watching me and waiting in complete silence. To say that I was nervous and wondering if I understood what I had signed up for would be an [...]

Over the past decade, I have had the distinct privilege of mentoring more than 30 community college students through 13 diverse research projects. Sponsored by the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program (LSAMP) and the CUNY Research Scholars Program (CRSP), these initiatives have not only fostered significant academic growth but also opened doors to numerous professional opportunities for the [...]

Manifold, a digital publishing platform that is a collaboration between the CUNY Graduate Center, University of Minnesota Press, and a web development firm called Cast Iron Coding, gives you the ability to create beautiful, multimodal teaching materials with a powerful social annotation tool. Manifold is a grant-funded, open source project that was originally created to support open access publications at [...]

The book “Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education,” authored by Mary C. Wright, was published in 2023. This seminal work provides a comprehensive overview of more than 1,200 Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) across the United States. Wright, the associate provost for teaching and learning at Brown University, recognized a gap in the field [...]

Provost Shiang-Kwei Wang and Dean Andrea Fabrizio formed a committee tasked with preparing three optional syllabus templates offering policies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI). These templates were designed to be included in spring 2024 syllabi. The purpose of these templates is to offer possible wording for faculty who want to establish a policy for AI for their courses, [...]

Perusall launched in 2015 as a free collaborative e-book reading platform to help students complete readings and increase student engagement with readings. For instructors, completion of readings is necessary for student discussion and active learning activities for in-person but also online courses. However, research of undergraduate students has consistently shown that students often do not complete assigned readings before class [...]

As educators, one question we frequently ask ourselves is: What pedagogical strategies can we use or implement to ensure our students grasp course concepts and successfully apply them in their chosen career path - i.e., Liberal Arts, Mathematics, Business, Accounting, Science, Nursing, etc.? A fundamental approach that has been successful for me over the years as a Business and Accounting [...]