ACERT lunchtime seminars

This session begins with a round of lightning talks from a wide variety of departments, centers, support offices, and more available to you at Hunter College. Participants will get to know what resources are available to you and your students. In the second half of the seminar, we’ll open breakout rooms and participants can freely move between breakout rooms to visit “virtual offices” for these programs. This seminar will help to connect Hunter faculty to college resources and the first half will be recorded and posted on the ACERT YouTube channel for those who cannot make it or who want to watch it again.

This lunchtime seminar reinvigorates our teaching in the new academic year with new approaches to AI. This event is for those looking for inspiration and new ideas for AI assignments, ranging from “AI-proof” to creative integration of AI into student assignments. Included among our panelists are faculty who completed Camp AI this past winter. Whether you’re searching for fresh ideas, just curious, or interested in joining a future Camp AI this winter – this seminar is for you!

Are students reading your emails? How else can we reach them? What are some good ways to establish positive communication channels—and maintain healthy boundaries? This seminar explores real-time communication practices with students in our classrooms and also on a wider scale: communications with majors, building community, and keeping in touch with alumni. This panel includes faculty and staff from a range of disciplinary approaches to address the topic of communication from multiple angles.

“Teaching Fails” happen to all of us. There’s even a whole section of Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy devoted to “Teaching Fails.” In this session, panelists talk about their best recovery strategies for when it all goes wrong. We might think of these as “Teaching Saves.” Whether you’re managing discussions on difficult subjects in the classroom, integrating AI into assignments, or trying out something else new—it’s hard to anticipate every turn and how it will go, but these panelists have some generous pedagogies and student-centered approaches that can come in handy. Whether you’re teaching a new course this semester, or one you’ve taught for 20 years, all are welcome as we navigate a new year.

We can’t assume that our students feel like they belong here—in college, at Hunter, or in New York City—but how do we cultivate a sense of belonging? For individuals and as a collective? In this session, presenters and participants will share how we co-create structures in our classrooms and workplace that help us to connect in our shared humanity. This session features colleagues from C-SELL to guide us. Jeneca Parker-Tongue is the Director of the Hunter College Collaborative for Social Emotional Learning & Leading (C-SELL). The Collaborative integrates SEL into teacher and leadership education. She will be joined by the author of Conscious Communication: A Guide to Building Connection, Collaboration, and Community, Sarah Suatoni.

In this session presenters describe how faculty might use podcasting in the classroom and make use of a new Digital Content Creation studio (HW 1638) made possible by Hunter College President Cantor. We now have access to a space for podcasting with audio recording equipment and a computer! Presenters Justin Tricarico and Jessie Daniels will share how we can use the studio in our teaching to help students create podcasts and other digital media, and how we might approach the learning outcomes of a traditional assignment through podcasting and digital production. 

Join us for a dynamic conversation on Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Research at Hunter, where faculty share how collaborative, impactful work extends beyond our college campuses. This event highlights current, past, and prospective projects, including works-in-progress. Presenters will share strategies for building—and maintaining—reciprocal partnerships, addressing community priorities, and making scholarship accessible to the broader public. We will explore models of engaging research that advance knowledge for the public good and foster equity and innovation. Open to anyone curious about public engagement in academia, this event offers inspiration and practical approaches for integrating community-centered practices into research and teaching.

At Hunter College, so many faculty, staff, and students are stepping outside the traditional classroom by using New York City and the world itself as an extension of campus - transforming museums, neighborhoods, cultural institutions, and civic spaces into immersive learning environments.  These experiences are deepened through collaborative dialogue with peers, faculty, and community partners - encouraging students to question, reflect, and gain new perspectives. Join us to learn about ways students are connecting theory to practice by engaging in place based and experiential learning activities across the college!