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Discussion on required faculty trainings and syllabus posting at CUNY

1:56:54

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Council Member Eric Dinowitz inquires about specific required trainings for CUNY faculty and the requirement to post syllabi online. Jen Gaboury provides information on the limited mandatory trainings and the syllabus posting requirement.

  • CUNY faculty are required to complete four online training modules, including Title IX and cybersecurity
  • There is no systematic approach to training faculty advisors, with some receiving no formal training
  • Departments and programs require faculty to post their syllabi online as part of assessment and accreditation processes
Eric Dinowitz
1:56:54
So it's I guess, miss, there's no no agreement between PSC and CUNY that there are You're saying there are some trainings.
1:57:02
Title 9, you mentioned you mentioned don't don't the fishing emails.
Jen Gaboury
1:57:07
Right.
1:57:07
Do you
Eric Dinowitz
1:57:08
know the do you happen to know the other 2?
Jen Gaboury
1:57:09
Right.
1:57:11
Workplace violence.
Eric Dinowitz
1:57:13
It's not a quiz.
1:57:14
Don't worry.
Jen Gaboury
1:57:14
No.
1:57:15
I can email it to you through the submit this.
Eric Dinowitz
1:57:18
Oh, there's one more, see.
1:57:21
Okay.
1:57:22
And then anything else, it could be it can be required by
Jen Gaboury
1:57:26
Most faculty fact, most likely go out of their way not to have this information because It is such a burden when you signal that you are for a lot of faculty, they do not signal that they want to advise students.
1:57:47
I'd say this this is horrible to say I realize.
1:57:50
Because they don't wanna signal to students that I have knowledge that I can give to you on how to use x class for y class.
1:57:58
We're supposed to just outside of our department contacts, we're supposed to just send people to academic advising.
1:58:04
But also, there's some there are handfuls of people who have spent a lot of time basically acquiring the the kind of knowledge that some faculty have and that some of the professional advisers have.
1:58:21
But like, there that those are handfuls of us that have done that.
1:58:26
And it's not systematic.
1:58:28
And what you would need is workload credit and then agreement to have that workload credit have that training.
Eric Dinowitz
1:58:35
And then my last question, is there any requirement or requests that faculty upload or post online?
1:58:42
They're syllabus, curriculum?
Jen Gaboury
1:58:44
Absolutely.
1:58:45
Faculty.
1:58:46
Departments and programs absolutely require a faculty to post that as part of assessment and part of our accreditation Okay.
Eric Dinowitz
1:58:51
I wanna thank you for your testimony.
1:58:53
And lastly, we have miss Sharon Brown.
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