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We invite you to participate in the exchange of ideas at this year’s Faculty Day Conference. Built around this year’s theme—Higher Education: Speeding Toward an Uncertain Future—the day promises to be filled with thought-provoking, absorbing and (perhaps) controversial presentations and discussions.
Throughout the day you will have many opportunities to speak about your latest ideas and creative work with familiar colleagues, while also getting to meet and collaborate with people from across the entire college community.
With lunch provided and refreshments served the entire day, you’ll have a unique opportunity to get to know other members of the college and share your thoughts, your concerns and your ideas. The Faculty Day Conference will renew your enthusiasm for scholarship while reinforcing your sense of connection to the Brooklyn College community.
We hope to see all of our full-time faculty, our adjunct faculty, and our professional staff at the 18th Annual Faculty Day Conference!
The 18th Annual Faculty Day Conference and Award Ceremony affords all of us an opportunity to pause from business as usual in order to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of the Brooklyn College faculty. The day features a multidisciplinary conference—including workshops, panel discussions, presentations, art gallery, academic poster sessions, and informal roundtable discussions over lunch—culminating in an awards ceremony and reception. At the conference, colleagues participate in an exchange of ideas about a wide variety of scholarly, artistic and pedagogical interests and concerns. At the awards ceremony, individuals nominated by their fellow faculty members are honored for their accomplishments in teaching, research and service.
The Faculty Day Conference emerged out of a desire to provide a unique college-wide opportunity to foster connections with our colleagues and improve the quality of intellectual and social life here on campus. Each year this day gives us a chance to engage in dialogue about academic and pedagogical activities with our colleagues from remarkably diverse disciplines.
We invite you to participate in this year’s Faculty Day Conference and contribute to Brooklyn College’s professional and intellectual vitality.
Continental Breakfast and Conference Kick-Off State Lounge, fifth floor
De Blasio’s Dilemma: Challenges Facing Our New Mayor Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Barbara Winslow, Secondary Education and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Will Mayor de Blasio be able to keep his campaign promises?
A Sense of Place: Researching and Making Global Documentaries Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Annette Danto, Film
How do documentary filmmakers craft narratives of place, identity, politics and history?
Living Well With Autism: Constructing a New, Strength-Based Narrative Alumni Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Ginny Dembek, Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education
Can we talk about autism in terms of strength, resilience and reward?
Team-Based Learning: How Does It Work at Brooklyn College? Occidental Lounge, fifth floor
Moderator: Suklima Roy, Wolfe Institute and Team-Based Learning Academy
How does teamwork affect learning in the classroom? Faculty from across the disciplines share their experiences.
Affording Higher Education: The Case of Brooklyn College Students Cosmic Lounge, fifth floor
What’s happening with student debt, nationally and for Brooklyn College students?
Varieties of Academic Experience: Religious Studies at Brooklyn College Occidental Lounge, fifth floor
Moderator: Paul Moses, Journalism and English
What does it mean to teach religion at a public college?
Faculty Opportunities for International Education and Engagement Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Terrence Cheng, Associate Provost for Academic Programs
Can internationalized courses encourage students to develop a global mindset, cross-cultural competencies and international engagement?
Making Cities Work: Urban Sustainability at Brooklyn College Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Tammy Lewis, Sociology
How is the urban sustainability major preparing a new generation of students to solve the problems facing an increasingly urbanized world?
Crossing Boundaries or Blurring Lines: The Role of Government in PreK-16 School “Reform” Alumni Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Deborah Shanley, School of Education
How will current school reform policies affect teaching and learning for our future students?
The Art of Problem Solving Cosmic Lounge , fifth floor
How are national competitions promoting the joys of problem solving?
Gold Room, sixth floor
Gallery and Academic Posters Maroon Room, sixth floor
They Ask, Should We Tell? A Discussion on Disclosure in the Classroom Occidental Lounge, fifth floor
Moderator: Wayne Reed, Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education
Taking our title from Rosamond King’s recent article, a panel of LGBTQ faculty and allies explores the topic of “coming out” to students in instructional settings.
Seeing Our Students as Researchers Alumni Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Joseph Entin, English
How do students actually approach research? How can we inspire them to greater engagement with research?
MOOC Mania: Access or Excess? Maroney-Leddy Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Scott Dexter, Computer and Information Science
What are the implications of Massive Open Online Courses for teaching, learning, institutions, and professions?
Pathways and the Brooklyn College GenEd Curriculum Jefferson-Williams Lounge, fourth floor
Moderator: Len Fox, English/ESL
How is Brooklyn College dealing with controversies about college GenEd curricula?
Open Access Textbooks Cosmic Lounge, fifth floor
A model for free, high-quality educational content based on an open access resource for teaching music.
Awards Ceremony Penthouse
Reception and Pete Seeger Sing-along With the Faculty Day Chorus Penthouse, Approximately 4:30 to 6 p.m. (following Awards Ceremony)
12:45–2:15 p.m. Gold Room, sixth floor
9:30 a.m.–2:15 p.m. Maroon Room, sixth floor
Presenters available during the luncheon period from 12:45 – 2:15 p.m. to discuss their work.
Penthouse, Student Center 3:45 p.m.
Diana Horowitz, Art presented by Rona Miles, Psychology
The award, in the amount of $5,000, will be presented annually to a part-time (adjunct) faculty member for his or her demonstrated excellence in teaching and recognizes the important contributions made by adjunct faculty to teaching and learning at Brooklyn College.
Sharon Beaumont-Bowman, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences presented by Steven Remy, History
The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member for his or her demonstrated excellence in teaching at Brooklyn College.
Sarah Christman, Film presented by Paula Massood, Film
The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member of Brooklyn College for creative work in his or her artistic or scholarly field.
Wayne Reed, Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education presented by Bruce MacIntyre, Conservatory of Music
The award in the amount of $5,000 will be presented annually to a full-time faculty member for meritorious service chiefly to Brooklyn College, but also for fulfillment of the college’s mission in its relationships with communities in the Greater New York area and beyond.
Peter Taubman, Secondary Education presented by Laura Rabin, Psychology
The Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award was established through a generous gift from Leonard Tow ’50, a trustee of the Brooklyn College Foundation, in honor of his wife, Claire Tow ’52. The award recognizes a senior member of the faculty for outstanding qualities as a teacher and for being a role model to students and other faculty. It carries a stipend of $10,000, to be paid in one installment through the Brooklyn College Foundation.
