Dear Fellows,

At times like this it helps to have good information at hand, so we want to share several CUNY-wide resources. The “CUNY Continuity” page is a place to start:

https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-continuity/cuny-continuity-for-students/

From here you can access University-wide resources as well as each CUNY college’s “coronavirus page” for information specific to the individual campuses.

Because this week is likely an especially difficult one for the CUNY community and for New York City, we also want to mention that CUNY has resources focused on health and wellness, including counseling and mental health services, as well as child care and food security on our campuses. Links to campus counseling centers can be found here:

https://www.cuny.edu/current-students/student-affairs/student-services/counseling/campus-centers/

More general information about health services at CUNY are here:

https://www.cuny.edu/current-students/student-affairs/student-services/health-services/

At some CUNY colleges, individual departments have compiled resource lists. An example of a departmental resource list is the following from Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College:

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/blackandlatinostudies/?page_id=9

Many campus webpages also point CUNY community members to health and wellness resources outside the CUNY system, including NYC Well Counseling Services:

https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/en/

As ever, and on behalf of our Mentors, we want you to know how thankful we are to have you as colleagues and how deeply we value your participation in the Faculty Fellowship Publication Program.

All our best,

Shelly and Matt

 

Former FFPP Fellow and Kingsborough Community College (KCC) faculty just earned an ACLS/Mellon Community College Faculty Fellowship Prize for her project, In the Footsteps of Emmet Till:  And Intellectual and Experiential Engagement with Civil Right Movement Legacies.  Her award will support a participatory research trip with six KCC to civil rights sites in Mississippi.

Debra began her work on this amazing project during her time in FFPP, and we are thrilled to celebrate this recognition of her scholarship as an inspiration for students to learn and to engage racial justice.

 

Congratulations, Debra!

Hello Fellows,

We are truly heartened to hear that you have been relying on the structure provided by your writing groups and your Mentors to stay focused and find professional support in the face of adversity. The underlying strengths of the FFPP are becoming more vivid than ever: the capacity to connect, draw on professional resources, build layered support systems, and persevere together.

We have several timely informational items to share with you.

1. The CUNY Research Foundation has just released the following for PIs and grant workers:  https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite/about/announcements/coronavirus-guidance/ and specifically  https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite/learning-resources/covid-19-guidance/faqs-for-rf-field-staff-and-principal-investigators/   This guidance will be updated periodically, so please check back at the RF site.
2. The current moment only highlights something the FFPP has long focused on: the question of how faculty of color can achieve a good work-life balance in academe. Dwayne A. Mack, professor of history and Carter G. Woodson Chair of African American History at Berea College, offers his perspective here.

Finally, our STEM Mentor, William Carr, recently gave a talk about coronavirus (COVID-19). Thank you to William for sharing your expertise with us!

We look forward to communicating with you regularly–even as we want to respect the fact that we’ve all been a bit overwhelmed with email lately! The FFPP Commons will be, we hope, a valued site of connection, resource-sharing, and collegiality as we move ahead.

Very best wishes to all,

Matt and Shelly

Hello Everyone,

By now you may have already read our post about the importance of self-care in a time like this.  It is more important than ever.

We’d also like to remind you that we’ll be sharing some selections from our Professional Tool Kit—items like tips from publishers and editors, advice from grant makers, and slides about tenure and promotion.  You’ll find them here, in our digital community so please continue reading our posts as they land in your inbox.

We know the personal connections Fellows make during our Professional Development day are really important, so we’ll schedule an event early next fall.

Stay tuned and stay well!

Shelly and Matt

FFPP’s co-director Matt Brim won the MLA’s Crompton-Noll Award for Best Essay in LGBTQ Studies!  The article became the introduction to his new book, Poor Queer Studies:  Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP).

You can read it here.

Congratulations, Matt!  Your scholarship, your leadership, and your commitment to quality education for everyone makes us so proud!

The FFPP Academic Directors and Mentors offer our warmest congratulations to the spring 2020 Fellows! This year FFPP expands to 10 writing groups across the most diverse range of disciplines and specialties in our history, including STEM fields and Rhetoric & Composition. We look forward to another productive year of writing, peer review, and professional development at CUNY!

Faculty Mentor	Faculty Name	Campus	Department
Kelly Baker Josephs, York	Stuart Davis	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Sean Gerrity	Hostos	English
	Donna Hill	Medgar	English
	Minna Logemann	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Cristina Migliaccio	Medgar	English
	Chun-Yi Peng	BMCC	Modern Languages
Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn	Christine Farias	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Victoria Muñoz	Hostos	English
	Raquel Otheguy	Bronx CC	History
	Erica Richardson	Baruch	English
	Marisa Solomon	Baruch	Sociology & Anthropology
	Marta-Laura Suska	John Jay	Anthropology
Nivedita Majumdar, John Jay	Andy Connolly	Hostos	English
	Adrian Izquierdo	Baruch	English
	Yasha Klots	Hunter	Classical & Oriental Studies
	Laurie Lomask	BMCC	Modern Languages
	Schneur Newfield	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Rafael Walker	Baruch	English
Anahí Viladrich, Queens	Tanzina Ahmed	KBCC	Behavioral Sciences & Human Services
	Dwayne Baker	Queens	Urban Studies
	Brenda Hernandez Acevedo	Lehman	Nursing
	Fabienne Snowden	Medgar	Social Work
	Jessica Van Parys	Hunter	Economics
	Myriam Villalobos Solís	Baruch	Psychology
Mark McBeth, John Jay	Sara Alvarez	Queens	English
	Carrie Hall	NYCCTech	English
	Yana Kuchirko	Brooklyn	Psychology
	Marcela Oss Parra	Queens	Elementary & Early Childhood Education
	Meghmala Tarafdar	QBCC	English
	Missy Watson	CCNY	English
Ted Ingram, Bronx CC	Asrat Amnie	Hostos	Health Education
	Stacey Cooper	Hostos	Behavioral & Social Sciences
	Jacob Eubank	Lehman	Health Sciences
	Nicole Kras	Guttman	n/a
	Anya Spector	Guttman	n/a
	Anuradha Srivastava	QBCC	Biological Sciences & Geology
Ava Chin, CSI	Jonah Brucker-Cohen	Lehman	Journalism & Media Studies
	Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich	Queens	Media Studies
	Donika Kelly	Baruch	English
	George Larkins	NYCCTech	Communication Design
	Brenda Vollman	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Natasha Yannacañedo	Hostos	Humanities
Katherine Chen, City College	Marcello Di Bello	Lehman	Philosophy
	Charles Gomez	Queens	Sociology
	Naja Berg Hougaard	QBCC	Social Sciences
	Andrew Lambert	CSI	Philosophy
	Elizabeth Minei	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Maite Sánchez	Hunter	Curriculum & Teaching
William Carr, Medgar Evers	Tatiana Emmanouil	Baruch	Psychology
	Karen Flórez	SPH	Environmental, Occupational & Geospatial Sciences
	Mabel Korie	Medgar	Nursing
	Sandra Maldonado	Lehman	Nursing
	Anna Manukyan	Hostos	Natural Science
	Mara Schvarzstein	Brooklyn	Biology
Lina Newton, Hunter	Marcus Johnson	Baruch	Political Science
	Jennifer Laird	Lehman	Sociology
	Ke Li	John Jay	Political Science
	Min Liu	Bronx CC	Social Sciences
	James Rodriguez	Guttman	n/a
	Liza Steele	John Jay	Sociology

Kudos to FFPP Mentor Anahi Viladrich, who will be featured at an upcoming exhibition sponsored by LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment, in collaboration with the Queens Historical Society. Ani has very graciously used this occasion to highlight the good work of FFPP, as the following “In Her Own Words” paragraph beautiful demonstrates. Thank you so much for allowing FFPP to share in your well-deserved celebration, Ani!

The exhibit will be placed in the Marine Air Terminal rotunda (Terminal A), La Guardia Airport. Please note below the INVITATION to a reception hosted at the airport this coming Wednesday, October 23^rd, at 2 pm.

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Hi FFPP Peeps,

Some of  your institutions might subscribe to a service called Cabell’s that lists acceptance rates, time to publication, and other useful kinds of information. For those in the field of education who do not have access to this, I found this pretty comprehensive chart. It could be useful as a reminder of all the journals out there and for those who would like to cite acceptance rates for your tenure packets and CVs.

JOURNAL RATES

Debbie Sonu

Hunter College