Greetings from the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development!  This October, we are pleased to offer events specifically designed to enhance teaching and learning through workshops, discussions, and lectures. The following events are open to all full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, professional staff, and CLTs.  Descriptions for the bulleted titles are provided below.

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Sprucing Up Your Academic Profile Online – Virtual Event

Oct 7, 2025,  from 2:30pm – 3:30pm 

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SMf6SQcyRJSw5qREGkraOg#/registration 

In this one-hour virtual presentation, participants will learn how to raise the visibility of their academic presence online using ORCID, your CSI faculty profile, Academic Works, and LinkedIn. These academic tools provide researchers with ways to share and connect to other researchers, as well as gain visibility within their discipline or university community.

At the end of this presentation, participants will:

1. Understand the importance of creating an online academic profile

2. Be able to create your own ORCID, CSI Faculty Profile, Academic Works, and LinkedIn accounts

3. Learn how to connect to other researchers in their discipline

4. Identify the advantages of having a professional headshot

5. Be able to maintain your professional profile with updates of your academic activities  

Presenter: 

Mark Aaron Polger, PhD, Associate Professor and Outreach Librarian 

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8768-6313

https://linkedin.com/in/markaaronpolger

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Basic Training on Using “Navigate CSI” forEarly Alerts and Feedback  – Virtual Event

October 14, 2025 from 2:30pm – 3:30pm

November 18, 2025 from 2:30pm – 3:30pm 

Navigate CSI is a collaborative advisement virtual tool that aims to improve student retention and boost academic success.  Some of you have utilized this tool before for progress reports; however, it has many more components that help identify at-risk students and offers assistance with various interventions. Basic Training covers the essential features to get started:   

–Professor/Staff Home 

–Adding your Faculty Office Hours to your Availability 

–Messaging (Text/Email) students 

–Submitting Progress Reports   

–Viewing student profiles 

–Reporting on Appointments/Adding notes to student record 

–Advanced Search to identify students in majors/minors and students eligible to enroll in courses 

–Recording Course Attendance  

This workshop is highly recommended for new instructors; or for those who need a refresher.  

Presented by Veronica DiMeglio, Curriculum Coordinator, Office of Academic Affairs (CSI) 

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Understanding Reasonable Accommodations for Faculty and Staff  – Virtual Event

October 17, 2025, from 11:00am – 12noon 

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Oq6qoTYzQ1Ovjfsf0psyIg

This virtual presentation will help familiarize you with the history, development, and purpose of reasonable accommodations. You will learn who is eligible to apply for reasonable accommodations as well as the process to apply. We will discuss how to appeal if a request has been denied and work on demystifying ideas concerning requests for reasonable accommodations. Lastly, we will explore real life “what would you do” scenarios based on previously filed legal cases.  

Learning Objectives:   • Develop an understanding of who qualifies for reasonable accommodations.   • Learn about the process to apply and path towards approval.   • Learn about employee resource stations on campus and available technology.   • Learn how to request an appeal if a request is denied.  

Presenter: Anjail Ameen-Rice, Employee Accommodations Specialist, Office of Accessibility Services  

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FERPA in the Real World: Protecting Student Privacy – Virtual Event

October 17, 2025 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bsTl4mzLRXuBY3m7iPCaDw

Join us for an informative workshop to build a foundational understanding of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the federal law designed to protect student privacy and regulate access to educational records. Through interactive discussions and real-world examples, participants will gain clarity on FERPA’s core principles, including what constitutes an educational record, students’ rights regarding their records, who may or may not access student’s records, when those records may be shared, and applicable exceptions to the FERPA requirement for consent.  

Brenda Valentin, Ed.D., Associate Registrar, Historical Records 

College of Staten Island | CUNY 

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Staten Island’s Elliottville: Abolitionist Enclave, Gilded Age Retreat, Ferry Suburb – In-Person Event

Date: October 21, 2025  

Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm 

Location: 1L-216 

RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/Q4zW7HqdWC

Please join the author of Staten Island’s Elliottville who will discuss years of research that uncovered the story of the neighborhood.                                     

New York City was known for supporting concessions with the South; however, on Staten Island, one neighborhood stood out for providing national leadership in the movement to end slavery. That neighborhood, Elliottville, was settled by New Englanders committed to social reform, including rights for women, economic reform, religious reform, and an end to slavery.  Residents included editorialists, Sydney Howard Gay, editor of the New-York Tribune, and George William Curtis, political editor of Harper’s Weekly, each of whom influenced national opinion. Two Civil War heroes also lived in the neighborhood: Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts, the first all-black regiment in the Northeast and Theodore Winthrop, one of the first Union officers killed in the Civil War. Winthrop’s posthumously published novels and travel writings found a broad audience after the war. So, too, did the publications of Anna Leonowens, who moved to Elliottville after the war to write her accounts of Siam, one of which is still popular as the musical, TheKing and I.

This event is held in observance of American Archives Month, which is observed nationally during October to celebrate and promote the rich documentary heritage of our nation and the importance of archival and historical records to our lives. 

Presentation by Professor James Kaser, Archivist, College of Staten Island/CUNY.   

This is a co-curricular credit event. 

Co-organized by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development and the Archives and Special Collections, Department of the Library 

Center for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development