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Archive | Professional Development Workshops
June 15 | Writing a Strong Resume with Richard Montauk
Thursday, 06/15/2017 4:00 p.m., Graduate Center, Room C415A Richard Montauk, author of How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs and noted career consultant, will lead a resume writing session designed to help graduate students and alumni be strategic in their pursuit of employment in the non-profit or for-profit world. Writing a strong resume is not […]
June 8 | Discover Your Options with Fatimah Williams Castro
Thursday, 06/08/2017 3:00 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, room 9204 As a graduate student or postdoctoral scholar, you have a knowledge base and skill set that makes you an attractive candidate to prospective employers in industry, government, and nonprofit sectors. In this seminar, you will learn how to inventory your transferable skills and market yourself to […]
GC Digital Initiative Workshops
Workshop: “Cleaning Data with OpenRefine” Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 – 6:30-8:30pm Data cleaning is an important step in any data-driven research project. Often data is harvested from diverse sources such as the web, databases, spreadsheets, text files, and countless other places. Before it is cleaned, “messy” data can suffer from a host of problems, including […]
April 5 | Legal Workshop for International Students
Calling all international students! Please join the Doctoral Students’ Council for a legal workshop and information session led by CUNY CLEAR, a clinic of the CUNY Law School that advocates on behalf of immigrants, non-citizens, and populations that have been targets of police and government surveillance. Wednesday, April 5th at 6:30 pm Room 5409 at […]
Mar 29 | TLC Workshop: Social Reading and Writing with Online Annotation Tools
By Rukshana Jalil on March 24, 2017 in Events, Professional Development, Professional Development Workshops, Upcoming Events
March 29, 1-3pm Room 9206 Are you looking for ways to improve your students’ close reading skills or to kickstart class discussion by asking students to annotate readings online as a group before they come to class? Are you trying to find (new) strategies for peer review or collaborative writing projects? Or are you designing a hybrid or online […]
TLC Workshop, 3/15: Demystifying Ed Tech (First in a Series)
The TLC will be leading three upcoming workshops on educational technology. Too often, conversations about educational technology are rife with black and white thinking. On the one hand, some assume that the introduction of technology into pedagogy will destroy the relationship between student and teacher, resulting in distracted students with no ability to focus. On […]
Mar 1 | Putting NYC to Work: Using Place-Based Assignments in Your Courses
March 1, 2017, 6:30-8:30, Room 9207 In the second installment of the TLC’s two-part workshop series on place-based learning, we’ll explore strategies for creating and integrating creative assignments that take advantage of New York’s cultural resources, including its many archives, museums, libraries, performing arts institutions, green spaces, etc. (more…)
Office of Career Planning Workshops
By Rukshana Jalil on February 21, 2017 in Professional Development, Professional Development Workshops
Cultivating a Public Voice for Your Research 02/28/2017 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm in room 9206 Digital media technologies have become increasingly important in academic life, offering both new opportunities and new challenges. Digital technologies provide academics an array of platforms on which to share their work, broaden its reach, gain recognition and involve a […]
Feb 22 | Teaching as an International Student
By Rukshana Jalil on February 17, 2017 in Professional Development, Professional Development Workshops
Teaching as an International Student Wednesday 2/22, 1-3pm, room 9206 As international graduate students, we often don’t know what to expect when we first step into the classroom as teaching fellows or adjuncts. We might have questions about our students’ lives, their cultural and academic backgrounds, and about the American university system in general and CUNY more […]
