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Department-sponsored services
Area of Service
Served
WID-WAC Initiative (2 coordinators from department)
30
Computer Classroom-Open hours
280
Academic Advisement
21
Honors Scholars' Program-participation in Honors Conference
1
CETL (Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning)-Chairperson and Advisory Board Chair
1
CPE Coordinator - ACT/CPE - ACT/CPE College Committee
1
College Now Faculty Development Workshops and Teacher Observations
1
Conference of the College
7
Learning Communities (LCs)
20
WI (Writing Intensive) Appeals Committee
1
IRB (Institutional Review Board) Committee, Chair
1
Liberal Arts Academy Coordinator
1
Blackboard classes
10
Department-Sponsored Staff Development Activities
Activity Type
Topic
Date
Total
Creative Writing Committee - Multilingual Poetry Celebration, faculty advisor,
Dr. Joan Dupre
4/28/2010
50
ASAP (Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, Liberal Arts Faculty
8/28/2010
Coordinator, Dr. Susan Jacobowitz. ASAP emphasizes a creative new
approach to community college education featuring enriched academic
support services to encourage graduation with an Associate degree within two
to four years. The ASAP program at QCC, spronsored by CUNY with funding
from Mayor Bloomberg and the citywide Commission for Economic
Opportunity, was implemented at QCC in the fall of 2007 to provide qualified
students with the tools necessary to ensure academic success. The program
is now being funded from with CUNY and a new cohort has been recruited.
The liberal arts faculty coordinator provides support to faculty teaching ASAP
sections or teaching ASAP students. This takes place through group
meetings, individual discussions and also through e-mail contact. Enrichment
activities are also planned for the students; this year's offerings included a
field trip to the Museum of the Moving Image and a creative writing reading
event featuring readings by Danielle Izzo, Carolyn Raphael, John Talbird,
David Rothman and Richard Tayson
120
gave presentations
organized
"Communique" (school newspaper), faculty advisor, Andrew Levy
8/28/2009
48
Muslim Student Association, faculty advisor, Dr. Trikartikaningsih (Kiki) Byas
8/28/2009
60
QueensZine, on-line student submissions - faculty advisor, Dr. Beth Counihan 8/28/2010
300
Digital StoryTelling, faculty advisor, Dr. Jean Darcy. There is also ongoing
developments with the Challenge Grant (CETL) and Dr. Darcy is also working
with LAGCC on the FIPSE for the E-Portfolio project
8/28/2010
10
Department-Sponsored Staff Development Activities
Activity Type
Topic
Date
Total
Learning Academies Coordinator, Dr. Linda Stanley, Fall 2009 pilot program to 8/28/2010
develop rubrics in EN-101 based on Gen. Ed objectives and CPE. Rubrics for
LA Academy, faculty advisors, Drs. William Marsh, Jean Murley and Zivah
Perel
English Department Personnel & Budget Representative on Assessment and
Handbook committee, Dr. Linda Reesman. She also volunteered for and
helped complete College Assessment Handbook
10
8/28/2010
Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Trikartikani
Byas
Conference
Presentation, other
Reference
Water is life: A textual analysis of the Qur’an. A presentation at
the 3rd International SSEASR Conference in Denpasar, Bali,
INDONESIA, June 3-6, 2009.
Trikartikani
Byas
Conference, workshop,
training attended
3rd SSEASR International Conference. Four-day international
conference organized by SSEASR (South and South East Asia
Religion and Culture) in Denpasa, Bali, INDONESIA on June 3-6,
2009.
What teachers need to know about language. CETL sponsored
panel discussion. Panel member led by Dr. Jilani Warsi,
Queensborough Community College, March 04, 2009.
RefWorks series. Workshops on using Refworks for research led
by Dr. Sara Marcus and Dr. Barbara Smith sponsored by CETL
and the QCC Libray. July 21, 2009 and August 4, 2009
Trikartikani
Byas
Journal Article, peerreviewed
Proverbs in Intercultural Communication: A Comparison between
American and Indonesian Proverbs. Edu-Lingua. Journal
Pendidikan Bahasa (Language Education Journal). 2:1 (July
2009).
Trikartikani
Byas
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Served as the Faculty Advisor for the Muslim Student Association
of QCC, since Spring 2008. In the Fall of 2009, on behalf of MSA,
proposed idea of establishing a Reflection room to Vice President
of Student Affairs.
Served as a volunteer at the Islamic Center of Long Island (ICLI)
since December 2004. My main activities are related to the
collaboration with various organizations (such as LI CAN,
Interfaith Nutrition Network, St. Bridges parish, and some Non
Government Organizations in Indonesia) to distribute donations
from ICLI's community.
Served as a member of QCC's Inclusice Excellence Committee.
Served on working group 4 of the self-study for Middle States
Accreditation.
6
Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Trikartikani
Byas
Lecture (Invited)
Reference
Invited to teach four sessions of two sections of Academic Writing
course at the Graduate English Program of Muhammadiyah
University (Program Pasca Sarjana, Prof. Dr. Hamka, Universitas
Muhammadiyah) in Jakarta, INDONESIA, June 2009.
Trikartikani
Byas
Works
submitted/accepted/in
press or in progress;
works
reprinted/republished
Where the land is stepped on, the sky above it must be upheld. A
narrative piece submitted for inclusion in the eighth edition of
Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers, edited by Sheena Gillespie
and Robert Becker.
Five entries and two folktales on Indonesian American folklore
and folklife (narrative folklore, arts and crafts, performing arts,
rites of passages, and customs), submitted for inclusion in the
upcoming Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife
edited by Jonathan Lee and Kathy Nadeau to be published by
Greenwood Press.
Beth Ann
Counihan
Book, Authored
Counihan, Beth. Mousepads and Memoirs: Literacy Development
in Late Life. Beau Bassin, Germany: VDM Publishing House,
2009.
Beth Ann
Counihan
Grants awarded (title,
awarding agency,
amount and period of
award)
PSC-CUNY Research Grant: The Summer of Four.
Beth Ann
Counihan
Conference
Presentation, other
Counihan, Beth, Georgia McGill, and Jannette Urciouli, “Reaching
Across Disciplines: Theatre in General Education.” Conference of
the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, New York. 9
August 2009.
Beth Ann
Counihan
Curriculum or
laboratory
development, workshop
conducted
Counihan, Beth, Teaching EN101 as part of the Queensborough
Interdisciplinary Digital Storytelling Teams Project, Fall 2009.
Joan
Dupre
Conference
Presentation, other
Dupre, Joan. "Crazy for Your Viewing Pleasure: Representations
of Mental Disorder on Fox's Mental, HBO's In Treatment and
Showtime's United States of Tara." Northeast Popular Culture
Association NEPCA, October 2009, Queensborough Community
College, Bayside, NY, (Part of panel entitled "Literature, Television
and Rock Band Depictions of Illness.")
QCC Conference of the College, October 2009. Presentation on
the Digital Storytelling Project.
Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Joan
Dupre
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Reference
October 2009. The Queensborough Celebration of Faculty and
Student Creative Writing. Hosted the Event in the Oakland Logia
on October 22nd.
The Big Read -- Took part in the performance/reading of parts of
Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried -- Oakland Loggia -October 2009.
Collaborated with Basic Skills and Theater as part of the Digital
Storytelling Project, Fall 2009.
Organized and Hosted (with Beth Counihan) the 9th Annual
Multilingual Poetry Celebration in the Quad. April 29, 2009.
Cornerstone Collaboration -- Met during Fall '09 semester with
Adjuncts regarding EN 101 as a Cornerstone course and how this
designation fits with ideas of teaching in various genres and how
it relates to the Freshman Academies. Submitted a written report
on these meetings.
Joan
Dupre
Performance (music,
dance, theater)
Poetry Performance at the Annual Gazebo Reading Series in
Oceanside, New York, August 2009.
David
Humphries
Journal Article, peerreviewed
Humphries, David. “Returning South: Reading Culture in James
Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Zora Neale Hurston’s
Mules and Men.” Southern Literary Journal. 41.2 (Spring 2009):
69-86.
David
Humphries
Book, Authored
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Humphries
Grants awarded (title,
awarding agency,
amount and period of
award)
2009-2010 PSC-CUNY Research Grant: “Telling Tales: The
American Family and the Post-War Novel”
David
Humphries
Service as a
reviewer/editor/consul
tant
Reviewer: Studies in American Fiction (2009-Present)
David
Humphries
Conference
Presentation, other
Panel Member: “The Effects of WI Training on Professors and
Students,” Fall Faculty Meeting: Seventh Conference of the
College, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, October 30,
2009.
Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
David
Humphries
Curriculum or
laboratory
development, workshop
conducted
Reference
Workshop Leader for Faculty Development: Workshops to Certify
Faculty to Teach Writing Intensive Courses (2009-Present).
Workshop Leader: Online Workshops to Certify Faculty to Teach
Writing Intensive Courses (2009-Present).
Workshop Leader for Faculty Development: “Creating Integrated
Assignments in Learning Communities–-A Hand’s On Approach,”
Queensborough Community College, CUNY, March 4, 2009.
David
Humphries
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Peer Reviewer for the Professional Staff Congress - CUNY
Research Foundation Grants (January, 2009)
Susan
Jacobowitz
Conference
Presentation, other
“’Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation:’ Intergenerational and
Interdisciplinary Learning at the Community College Library,”
Committee on Community Colleges, Modern Language Association
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30, 2009.
“Coming of Age on the Page: Graphic Depictions of Adolescence,”
Comics & Graphic Novels, Northeast Popular Culture Association
Conference (NEPCA), Queensborough Community College,
Bayside, NY, October 23-24, 2009.
“The Aftermath of War: Second Generation Performance Art,”
Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, History and Memory,
Western/Midwestern Jewish Studies Assoc. Conference, Denver,
April 25-27, 2009.
Susan
Jacobowitz
Other
“Into the Forest: Variations on a Theme,” The Queensborough
Celebration of Faculty and Student Creative Writing, Kupferberg
Holocaust Resource Center, October 21, 2009.
Susan
Jacobowitz
Lecture (Invited)
“Words & Pictures Together: The Growth of Graphic Genres,”
Faculty Spotlight Lecture, Queensborough Community College,
April 29, 2009.
“The Jewish Graphic Novel: Will Eisner,” November 12, 2009,
Lake Success Jewish Center, Lake Success, New York.
Susan
Jacobowitz
Service as a
reviewer/editor/consul
tant
Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman, eds., The Jewish
Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches. In Journal of American Ethnic
History, 2009.
Maeera Shreiber, Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American
Poetics. In Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the
Philosophy of History, 2009.
Richard Schickel, Woody Allen: A Life in Film. In Post Script:
Essays in Film and the Humanities, 2009.
Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Susan
Jacobowitz
Works
submitted/accepted/in
press or in progress;
works
reprinted/republished
Reference
“Jewish Writers in Australia,” in Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal
(eds.), Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader.
New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009. First published in Nicholas
Birns and Rebecca McNeer (eds.), Companion to Australian
Literature after 1900. Rochester, New York: University of
Rochester Press, Camden House, November 2007.
Susan
Jacobowitz
Grants awarded (title,
awarding agency,
amount and period of
award)
PSC-CUNY Research Grant, 2009, “Into the Forest: A Survivor’s
Daughter Confronts the Past,” Interdisciplinary Panel, $3,050
Erica
Lein
Conference, workshop,
training attended
Spring 2009 CETL Workshop: "Critical Thinking Across the
Curriculum" (materials submitted may be accessed online through
the CETL archives).
Andrew
Levy
Book, Authored
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Levy
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Levy
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Presentation, other
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Levy
Lecture (Invited)
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Levy
Works
submitted/accepted/in
press or in progress;
works
reprinted/republished
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Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Andrew
Levy
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Reference
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William
Marsh
Conference
Presentation, other
Marsh, Bill. “NoDiff That Makes a Diff: Building Bridges Across
Tech Literacy Divides.” Northeast Popular Culture Association
(NEPCA)Conference, Queensborough Community College,
Bayside, NY, October 2009.
“Battling Evil-Doers: Visual Education and the Anti-Fly Crusade of
1910.” International Communication Association Conference,
Chicago, May 2009.
Eli
Merchant
Journal Article, peerreviewed
Merchant, Eli. National Parliamentarian, Vol 20, No. 2, Second
Quarter, 2009, p. 12, "The Minutiae of Minutes Taking."
Jean
Murley
Conference
Presentation, other
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Jean
Murley
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Chaired two panels at the Northeast Popular Culture Association
annual meeting at QCC, October 2009.
Secretary, New York Metro American Studies Association,
NYMASA. Editor, bi-annual newsletter, The Metro, 2009.
Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Jean
Murley
Awards
Reference
Nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, granted by the Mystery
Writers of America, for "The Rise of True Crime" in the category
"Best critical/biographical work," 2009.
Zivah
Perel
Book, Chapter
"Teaching Nella Larsen in an Urban Community College.”
Approaches to Teaching Nella Larsen, ed. Jacquelyn Y. McLendon.
New York: Modern Language Association of America (in
contract).
Zivah
Perel
Conference
Presentation, other
Perel, Zivah. “Fact Meets Fiction in Jarhead,” NeMLA Conference,
February, 2009.
Zivah
Perel
Grants awarded (title,
awarding agency,
amount and period of
award)
PSC-CUNY Research Grant, Research Foundation of the City
University of New York, 2009.
Linda
Reesman
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Appointed to College search committee for Provost, 2009.
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Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Linda
Reesman
Works
submitted/accepted/in
press or in progress;
works
reprinted/republished
Reference
“Immoral Law and Untenable Actions in Caleb Williams," chapter
in Visions and Realities, ed. Gloria Eive, Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, submitted 2009; forthcoming 2010.
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Reesman
Review/Commentary
(including Blogging)
Book Review(reviewer). Seeing Suffering in Women’s Literature of
the Romantic Era, by Elizabeth A. Dolan (Ashgate 2008) Tulsa
Studies in Women’s Literature (Peer-reviewed journal), July 2009.
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Reesman
Conference
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“Dissenting Views and Liberal Sentiments: Godwin and Coleridge
Debate," Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, EC-ASECS (East Central
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies), October 2009.
Linda
Reesman
Conference, workshop,
training attended
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John
Talbird
Other
Talbird, John. “An Allegory.” poeticdiversity (December 2009).
“Foreword.” Essays & Fictions V (October 2009)177-182.
“Honey Bear.” Sycamore Review 21.2 (Summer/Fall 2009). 66-67.
“An Allegory.” Penumbra IV (Spring 2009). 46-48.
“My Dear Son.” New Orphic Review 12.1 (Spring 2009): 71-74.
John
Talbird
Review/Commentary
(including Blogging)
Stephen Vaughn, Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies
in an Age of New Media. Cambridge UP. Quarterly Review of Film
and Video. 26.2 (2009): 169-173.
John
Talbird
Conference, workshop,
training attended
Talbird, John. “Sexual Identity in Film and Literature,” Chair—
Northeastern Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Conference at
Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, October 2009.
Individual faculty/staff professional activities
First Name
Last Name
Work Type
Reference
John
Talbird
Works
submitted/accepted/in
press or in progress;
works
reprinted/republished
“Obituary.” The Licking River Review, forthcoming (Fall 2010).
“The Adventures of Jeffrey.” Coal City Review, forthcoming (Fall
2010).
“A Coming of Age Story.” descant, forthcoming (Fall 2010).
“Two Soups.” Red Rock Review, forthcoming (Spring 2010).
Karen
Wunsch
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
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Equipment changes
Equipment Changes
Purpose
Semester Evaluation
New computers
Replace old ones
Spring 2010 Equipment installed and in use
Digital Cameras
To be used by student and faculty for Spring 2010 Equipment in use
digital storytelling
Purchase new flat screen televisions
and VCR/DVD players for media carts
for classroom use
To provide multi-media playback in
English classes
Fall 2009
Equipment installed and in use
Purchase USB flas drives for faculty and To replace obsolete storage media
students
(to enable file-saving).
Fall 2009
Media in use
Resource changes
Other Resources Purpose
Semester Resource Evaluation
Laptop computers for To replace obsolete units and
smartcarts
expand access for classroom
use
Fall 2009
Equipment installed and in use
DVDs
Fall 2009
Equipment has been delivered and in use
To add to department library
for classroom use
Resource changes
Other Resources Purpose
Semester Resource Evaluation
New security
software for labs
Replace old one that doesn't
work with new computers
Fall 2009
Mac Book Pro
To be used by faculty in
classrooms
Spring 2010 Equipment installed
Microphones; digital
voice recorder
To expand what we already
had
Spring 2010 Equipment installed and in use
Scanners for faculty
For faculty use
Spring 2010 In use
New Printer for
department
To add a new printer
Spring 2010 Equipment has been delivered
Equipment installed
Other changes affecting department
N/A
Departmental procedures for conducting assessment
N/A
Departmental participation in self-study/program review
Program(s): Reviewed
Program Review Follow-up
Action Item
Timeline
Accomplishements
Course Objectives and Course Assessment
Results of certification exams, employer and alumni surveys, student surveys, advisory board
recommendations
Data Source
Results
Action Plan
Other assessment activity
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Goals/objectives for year just completed
Goals
Strategic
Plan
Evaluation of achievement
Action Plan
Experiment with pilot programs
using multiple genres in EN101 & 102
None. Objective to be carried over to
next year.
Due to Department involvement in
assessment activities, to be
continued in 2010-11.
Encourage EN-101 faculty to
incorporate one assignment
eash semester that requires
students to visit the Art Gallery
and/or the Holocaust Resource
Center.
None. Objective to be carried over to
next year
Due to department involvement in
assessment activities, to be
continued in 2010-11 as a priority
project
Continue to offer computer
technology and pedagogy
workshops for English
department faculty
10 adjunct faculty participated in
workshops delivered by Department CLTs
(half-time and adjunct). Several faculty
have now expressed interest in teaching
in the Department's computer classrooms
Offer additional workshops
(contingent upon allocation of 15
adjunct CLT hours per week per
semester (210 hours per semester)
Increase opportunities for
workshops on Blackboard,
including weekends
Faculty continue to show interest in
implementing technology-based
padagogy. Objective to be continued.
Ten faculty members participated
True
Goals/objectives for coming year
Upcoming Goals
Related Strategic Plan
Objective
Planned Method of Evaluation
Begin a conversation about the
relationship between technology
and pedagogy that invites
presentations for discussion by
department faculty and the CLT
Yes
Number of participating faculty who implement
technology into their courses. Possible future
reporting by participants to department.
Continue a conversation about the Yes
incorporation of high impact
strategies in EN-101, a cornerstone
course. Presentations for
discussion by faculty currently
involved with learning communities
and ePortfolios
Number of participating faculty who incorporate
high impact strategies into their EN-101 classes.
Possible future reporting by participants to
department
EN-101 faculty, including adjuncts
will participate in a pilot project to
incorporate one assignment each
semester that requires students to
visit the Art Gallery and/or the
Holocaust Resource Center
Yes
Number of participating faculty. Possible future
reporting by participants to department
Increase opportunities for
workshops on the use of
Blackboard and the Sympodium
Yes
Number of workshops and participating faculty
Secure new printers and copiers to No
support faculty needs
Purchase and installation of additional new
printers/copiers
Secure another computer
classroom to satisfy the demand
for technology-based pedagogy.
No
Purchase and installation of additional computer
classroom.
Obtain additional office space in
view of current overcrowding and
in anticipation of hiring three new
full-time faculty members
No
Procure additional office space
Goals/objectives for coming year
Upcoming Goals
Related Strategic Plan
Objective
Planned Method of Evaluation
Promote asynchronous EN-101
classes in response to CUNY
initiatives to provide fully online
freshman courses
None. Objective to be carried over to
next year
One full-time faculty member is in charge of
planning three online courses in EN-101 for a
CUNY funded project to be offered in the coming
academic year. (Two adjuncts are also
participating).