Faculty Resources
Getting Started
The Center for Teaching and Learning is here to help you become a more effective and accessible online educator. We support your use of instructional technology for; online, hybrid, hyflex, and face-to-face teaching. In addition, we can help with the design, implementation, and delivery of your online courses, as well as the creation of new online courses and programs.
Whether you have just a few short questions, or need more extensive support, Faculty Consultants can help with a range of topics, from:
- Course planning, design, and development
- Using the latest and emerging technologies
- Online, hybrid, hyflex and in person instructional strategies and best practices
- Switching textbooks to Open Educational Resources
- Making a course more student-centered
Individual consultations are in person or online, can last from 30 minutes to three hours, and can help you with establishing instructor presence, motivating and retaining students, and how to continually engage your students.
To schedule a consultation, email us your course syllabus or draft of your course development plan and note specific questions you would like to address during the consultation.
Brightspace Ambassadors /Faculty Mentors & Program Overview
The 2024/25 Class of Faculty Mentors will also be leading the transition to Brightspace, helping Lehman faculty enhance their distance teaching and learning abilities.
Note: They will also still be able to help with Blackboard issues until Spring 2025, the last semester of Blackboard.
Faculty Mentors will:
- Advise department colleagues with the set-up of Brightspace to support (e.g. how to make the course available to students, post an announcement, create a discussion forum, create an assignment, etc.)
- Answer questions concerning instructional approaches and options to enrich their courses with quizzes, discussion forums, grades and rubrics, and other relevant institutionally supported technologies.
- Learn about their department/school faculty needs and communicate the needs for additional resources, training, and support as needed to the Office of Online Education and IT.
2024/25 Brightspace Ambassadors/Faculty Mentors
Art and Humanities
Adjunct Lecturer (Foundation - Digital Imagining classes), Art
Adjunct Assistant Professor, English
Associate Professor (Music), Music, Multimedia, Theatre & Dance
Business
Continuing & Professional Studies
Coordinator for Digital Skills for Professional Program, Non-Credit Certificate Programs, Adult Education, Continuing Education
Education
Associate Professor, Early Childhood & Childhood Education
Associate Professor/Graduate Program Literacy Studies, Counseling, Leadership, Literacy & Special Education
Human Services, Health Sciences and Nursing
Lecturer and Internship Coordinator, Health Equity, Administration, and Technology (HEAT)
Lecturer, Recreation Internship Coordinator, Exercise Sciences and Recreation
Lecturer/Deputy Chair, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Leonard Lief Library
Assistant Professor Web Services - Online Learning Librarian
Natural and Social Sciences
Lecturer Doctoral, Biological Sciences
Doctoral Lecturer, Psychology
Courses: Statistical Methods in Psychology, Experimental Psychology
Magna 20-Minute Mentors
These practical and informative sessions are tailored to higher education faculty. Released each Monday, these videos are available to watch at your convenience for one week.
See the offerings here.
Past Lehman Mentors
- GD Peters (peters@lehman.cuny.edu) English
- Crystal Curry, English
- Susan Quarrell, Languages & Literatures
- Nari Kim (kim@lehman.cuny.edu), Management and Business Innovation
- Jennifer Van Allen (vanallen@lehman.cuny.edu), Counseling, Leadership, Literacy and Special Education
- Julia Hood, Counseling, Leadership, Literacy and Special Education
- Sherry Deckman, Middle & High School Education
- Amy White (white2@lehman.cuny.edu), Health Services Administration
- Natasha Nurse-Clarke, Nursing
- Douglas Oberlin, Exercise Science
- Alison Behrman, Speech-Language Hearing Sciences
- Elizabeth Hollander (hollander@lehman.cuny.edu), English
- Michael Polesny, English
- Kenneth Weisshaar, Philosophy
- Naomi Spence, Sociology
- Rich Lahijani, Economics and Business
- Sherry Deckman, Social Studies Education, School of Education
- Brian Murphy, Computer Science, School of Natural and Social Sciences