Mark your calendars: Upcoming events
February 6, 2020
Coming next week…
Tuesday, February 11
12:45 PM-2:15 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, 14-220
Ethics and Brand Licensing, speakers, Yafit Lev-Aretz, Assistant Professor of Law, Baruch College and Director, Tech Ethics Program, Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity; Maura Regan, President, Licensing International; Marshall Mizrahi, Vice President, Handcraft Manufacturing Corp.; Elisheva M. Jasie, Senior Vice President, Licensing, Sales, and Merchandising, Coty Inc.
What do Beatles t-shirts and Disney coffee mugs have in common? Both tell the story of brand licensing! Brand licensing is the process by which brand owners allow other businesses to use their trademarked creations. Brand owners and their licensees face ethical and legal challenges when deciding to license a specific brand onto certain merchandise. These challenges can be exacerbated by advanced technologies that open businesses to new markets and new marketing opportunities but can also create risks such as privacy violations and security breaches. This event will showcase a variety of participants in the licensing chain who will discuss the ethical challenges the licensing industry is currently facing. Presented by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.
To RSVP click here.
*** Open Houses for Resources in Teaching and Learning—especially for adjuncts! ***
The Provost’s Division of Teaching and Learning invites all faculty to these open houses. We’re especially interested in being explicit about the ways we can assist with and improve adjuncts’ experiences at Baruch by enhancing teaching and student learning as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Tuesday, February 11
12:30-2:00 PM The Writing Center, NVC 8-185
The Writing Center offers free support to all Baruch students. Our professional consultants—teachers of college writing and writers themselves—work collaboratively with students to deepen their writing and English language skills. This center helps students become more independent, confident, and versatile writers at any step of the process.
12:30-2:00 PM Tools for Clear Speech, Feit Seminar Room (adjacent to the Writing Center, NVC 8-185)
Tools for Clear Speech (TfCS) improves the pronunciation, fluency, and pragmatic abilities of English language learners and non-native English speakers at Baruch College. Our participants achieve more effective and intelligible communication, developing skills that empower them to succeed in their classrooms, careers, and beyond. We offer a variety of services ranging from private tutorials and small-group sessions, to large-format workshops and distance learning opportunities. All services are free of charge and available throughout the semester for Baruch College graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and staff. Please join us for a conversation about our unique program and services, as well as how we might help boost your students’ classroom participation and success in other academic discourse. We’ll also discuss how to navigate the delicate task of referring students to our program, and answer any questions you might have about empowering NNES in your course.
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3:00-5:00 PM The Bernard L. Schwartz Communications Institute, 137 East 25th St, Room 323
The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute cultivates learning environments in which students become strategic, thoughtful communicators and creators. In addition to providing embedded course support to communication-intensive courses, the Institute works directly with faculty, facilitating seminars and workshops, and consulting one-to-one to support their teaching of communication skills, whether written, oral, visual, or digital. Please join us for an informal conversation about what we do and how we can support you, and an introduction to our Very Short Guides, a teaching resource designed to be easy-to-use and full of practical tips. We might chat about, for example, fundamentals of prompt design, fostering participation, the pedagogical value of writing to learn, or strategies for effectively responding to student writing.
3:00-5:00 PM The Honors Program, 137 East 25th St, Room 306
Honors Programs, Fellowships, and Creative Inquiry Day, oh my! Students and faculty have several opportunities to get involved in Honors Programs, Fellowships, or Creative Inquiry Day. Learn about the different honors programs at Baruch, including CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College. Leave with an overview of the different honors “tracks”, how to refer students, how to teach in Honors, and how get involved (such as reading applications or creating an assignment in your classes for Creative Inquiry Day).
Thursday, February 13
12:30-2:00 PM The Center for Teaching and Learning, Library/Information Technology Bldg., 151 East 25th Street, Room 648
All faculty are welcome, whether you are new or returning, full or part-time. This is an informal time to bring questions, concerns, ideas and meet your colleagues and the CTL staff. Light refreshments will be served. No RSVP required, just stop in and stay however long you can!
1:00-2:00 PM SACC (Student Academic Consulting Center – Tutoring Center), NVC, 2-116
SACC 101: Who We Are and What We Do, followed by Hidden Obstacles to Student Learning: Anxiety, Learned Helplessness, and Stereotype Threat
Thursday, February 13
Noon-2:30 PM, Library/Information and Technology Building, 151 East 25th Street, Rackow Conference Room 750
Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation
Dionne Ford, co-editor of Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation, discusses her book and the vision of Coming to the Table, a national racial reconciliation organization. The contributors to this edited volume tell their stories of dealing with America’s racial past through their experiences and their family histories. Some are descendants of slaveholders, others are descendants of the enslaved, and many are descendants of both slaveholders and the enslaved. They share a commitment to critical discussion and thinking about our nation’s history of oppression and its impact, as well as their quest to achieve a just and truthful society that acknowledges its past and seeks to heal. Lunch will be served from 12-12:30 p.m. Presented by the Office of Diversity, Compliance, and Equity Initiatives.
To RSVP: DiversityEventsRSVP@baruch.cuny.edu
To submit an event for the Office of the Associate Provost’s weekly email, please click here. Events must be submitted by noon on Wednesday of the week before the event takes place.
Vanessa Cano
Special Assistant to the Associate Provost
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (646)660-6517 Fax: (646)660-6531