Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting March 7

March 5, 2022

Next week @ Baruch…

Monday, March 7
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CTL Conversation with the COVID-19 Student Experience Survey Team: Two Years After the Transition Online, What Do the Students Want?, speakers, Pamela Thielman, Katherine Tsan and Ron Whiteman, CTL

What do students want from their online experience right now? We have been running a COVID-19 Student Experience survey every semester since spring 2020 and would like to share some of our results and discuss the approaches and interventions that have worked for you. We will focus on the following topics, which have been foremost in survey responses over the past two semesters: 1) community-building in the classroom, 2) teaching through the lens of empathy and understanding and 3) students’ desire to keep online learning as an option. Join this CTL conversation to brainstorm, listen to, and talk about your and your colleagues’ experiences. CTL Conversations offer faculty and staff a time to come together to virtually and informally workshop, brainstorm, and discuss topics related to teaching, with different topics each week. You are welcome to drop in for all or part of the session. Feel free to bring a snack and join the conversation! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/

Tuesday, March 8
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, Lobby
Depression Screening, presenters, Counseling Center

Please join us in the Lobby of the Newman Vertical Campus just inside the Baruch Plaza entrance to get screened for depression and chat with counselors from the Baruch College Counseling Center. Students are able to get a better understanding of their mental health by completing a screening form that has markers for depression. Counselors will then briefly meet one-on-one with each student to provide feedback and help them to connect to the Counseling Center at Baruch or outside counseling as needed or desired. We hope to see you there! This event is part of Mental Health Awareness Week.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CTL Conversation: Teaching in the Time of The Ukraine War speakers, Allison Lehr Samuels and Katherine Tsan, CTL

Russia’s declaration of war on Ukraine on February 24, 2022 marked the first time a European state has been invaded by another since the Second World War, unleashed a humanitarian crisis and heightened the international nuclear threat. What does this situation mean for us as the Baruch community? How can we be more cognizant of those of us–among faculty, students and staff–who are affected by the crisis and exhibit more empathy? What are reputable sources where we can find out about what is happening–and what can we do to help? CTL Conversations offer faculty and staff a time to come together to virtually and informally workshop, brainstorm, and discuss topics related to teaching, with different topics each week. You are welcome to drop in for all or part of this session. Feel free to bring a snack and join the conversation. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/

12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Newnan Vertical Campus, Lobby
Applying the Kognito Training: Supporting Students in Distress, presenter, Teresa Hurst, Counseling Center

After completing the Kognito mental health training for Faculty and Staff, we invite you to join this workshop for faculty and staff to help integrate and apply the material you learned. To take the training, visit: https://cuny.kognito.com/. Log in or create a new account and enter enrollment key: baruchcaruf. The training takes around 30-45 minutes to complete. This event is part of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Zoom Meeting ID: 865 1605 3564
Passcode: kognito

Thursday, March 10
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Prejudice Reduction: Progress and Challenges, presenter, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Princeton University

The past decade has seen rapid growth in research that evaluates methods for reducing prejudice. We review 418 experiments reported in 309 manuscripts from 2007 to 2019 to assess which approaches work best and why. Our quantitative assessment uses meta-analysis to estimate average effects. Our qualitative assessment calls attention to landmark studies that are noteworthy for sustained interventions, imaginative measurement, and transparency. However,76% of all studies evaluate light touch interventions, the long-term impact of which remains unclear. The modal intervention uses mentalizing as a salve for prejudice. Although these studies report optimistic conclusions, we identify troubling indications of publication bias that may exaggerate effects. Furthermore, landmark studies often find limited effect. This event is part of Psychology Colloquium Series.

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Zotero Workshop II: Advanced Zotero, presenter, Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library

The Zotero II workshop will show you how to maximize Zotero’s capacity and streamline the research and writing process with the help of Zotfile, Dropbox, PDF editor, and Zotero Bookmarklet software. This workshop is open to students and faculty at Baruch and CUNY SPS who previously completed the Zotero I Workshop and have the prerequisite software installed (see sign-up page for details).

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM, Newnan Vertical Campus, Lobby
Yoga for Students, Staff and Faculty, presenter, Ruthie Flynn, Renfrew Center

Please join us on for a 45 minute gentle yoga flow lead by Ruthie Flynn, MA, the Professional Relations Representative of the Renfrew Center in New York City. Ruthie teaches vinyasa yoga at St. Marks Yoga in Manhattan in addition to being the educational liaison for Renfrew. The Renfrew Center treats eating disorders in adolescents and adults through a variety of outpatient and residential programming. In honor of Baruch’s Mental Health Awareness Week, we are offering a virtual body-peace-yoga flow followed by a 15 minute Q&A with Ruthie about Renfrew as well as diet culture, eating disorders, and how to support others in recovery. This event is part of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Zoom Link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/85786780463
Passcode: selfcare

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Artist Talk, with Mia Enell

This Women’s History Month, artist Mia Enell will be in conversation with Mishkin Gallery’s Director and Curator, Alaina Claire Feldman, to discuss the artist’s newest body of work made predominantly over the past three years and featured in a new publication, “Mia Enell: Large Paintings” (2022). Enell is the recipient of the 2021 American-Scandinavian Society’s Elfi von Kantzow Alvin Art Award, given to a woman visual artist with outstanding talent, vision and perseverance with strong ties to one of the five Nordic countries. Born in Gothenburg, Sweden (1967) Enell spent her childhood between Sweden and Antwerp, Belgium. Enell is a graduate from Nyckelvik Art School in Stockholm (1987) and received her MFA equivalent from ENSBA: the Art Academy “Beaux-Arts” in Paris (1992), where she lived for before moving to New York. Her work has been featured numerous solo exhibitions which have been presented internationally

Friday, March 11
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Using Zoom for Student Engagement, presenter, Catherine Kawalek, CTL

Explore a variety of ways to use Zoom to engage students. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Empowering Student Researchers: Baruch Faculty Share Their Undergraduate Assignments and Tips, speakers, Kenneth Abbott, Department of Law, Sarah Bishop, Department of Communication Studies, Charlotte Brooks, Department of History and Alexis Perrotta, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs

This is the first in a series of workshops at which faculty from across Baruch’s three schools share assignments, practical tips, and ideas for engaging undergraduates with research. Our first workshop will discuss projects using interviews, archival materials, fieldwork and datasets: from rubrics to peer critiques. Topics for future workshops will include: Innovative Assignments and Practical Scaffolds (March 25), Hands-on Projects (April 8) and Labs, Numbers, and Data: Preparing Students for Conducting and Presenting Quantitative and Scientific Research (April 29). If you have an assignment to share or work with undergrads on research, please fill out this survey. This event is presented by the Innovation Fellows Program of the Provost’s Office.

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Globus Lecture on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of A Spy, speaker, Dr. Marie Thorsten, Doshisha University (retired)

Dr. Marie Thorsten will discuss two Japanese films Sea and Poison (Kumai Kei, 1986) and Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2021). Her lecture, entitled “Visual within Visual: Ethics of Viewing,” draws attention to the visual medium within the medium to bring focus to the act of viewing itself. To stream Wife of a Spy for free, click here. This lecture is funded by the WSAS dean’s office (Global Lecture Series), organized by the Japanese Program at Baruch College. For more information, click here.

Zoom Meeting ID: 892 3149 5984
Passcode: 469284

Looking forward…

Monday, March 14
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Weissman Center International Business Seminar Series, speaker, Stephan Manning, University of Sussex

The Weissman Center of International business will host Stephan Manning, a Professor of Strategy and Innovation. His current research focuses on social innovation and entrepreneurship and global value chains, and has been published in leading journals including the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy journals among others. Prof. Manning will present a co-authored paper entitled “Global Development Agenda Meets Local Opportunities: The Emergence of a Transnational Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for East Africa.” For more information about Prof. Manning’s background, visit: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p486672-stephan-manning

Zoom Link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/84522264586

Tuesday, March 15
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
To Waive or Not to Waive: Vaccine Patent Rights, speakers, Arthur Caplan, PhD, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population Health and Alex Mills, Academic Director of the Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity at Baruch College is pleased to host an online conversation with Dr. Arthur Caplan, one of the world’s leading medical ethicists, to discuss how the rich countries of the world should respond to the vaccine shortfall around the world from both an ethical and practical point of view. Dr. Caplan will be interviewed by Professor Alex Mills (Management), who will bring his expertise in operations and supply chains into the discussion as well. For more information on this event, click here.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Interfolio Spring 2022 Clinic #2: Focus on Reappointment, Tenure, CCE, and Promotion, speakers, Maria Burgos, Academic Administration, and Patricia Price, Associate Provost for Academic Administration and Faculty Development

Interfolio is an online environment used to manage the academic personnel processes for full-time faculty at Baruch. Please join us for a one-hour clinic geared towards faculty going through the reappointment, tenure, CCE, and promotion process for the upcoming year using Interfolio.

Wednesday, March 16
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Marxe Global Insights: Transitional Justice in Latin America Today, speakers, Jo-Marie Burt, PhD, George Mason University, Enrique Desmond Arias, PhD, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Stephanie R. Golob, Weissman School Arts and Science, and Jorge Peniche, “JTMX –Justicia Transicional in Mexico” Initiative

For decades transitional justice has played an important role in Latin America in helping to heal the wounds of conflict and dictatorship and to build stronger social and political ties as a foundation for new post-conflict orders and political regimes. In recent years, activists and policymakers in the region have begun to employ transitional justice in new and innovative ways. In some cases, it has been used as a strategy to end conflicts and achieve peace. In others, transitional justice has been envisioned as a response to criminal violence. In still other cases, it has been brought to bear decades later to seek redress for past abuses as a strategy to achieve justice and strengthen communities. This roundtable, co-hosted by the Marxe School and ISLA-The Initiative for the Study of Latin America at the Weissman School, brings together two leaders in this field to discuss ongoing debates in transitional justice and its contemporary applications.

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CTL Conversation: Active Learning Strategies for Spicing up the Semester, speakers, Christopher Campbell and Hamad Sindhi, CTL

As we reach the middle of this semester, things may be getting somewhat monotonous and routine in your classroom. Do you want to disrupt, or at least shake up, what seem to have become the set patterns of learning and participation amongst your students? Or would you like to do things just a bit differently in an upcoming session? Join this CTL conversation where we will discuss active learning strategies that may or may not be working in our classrooms, or ones that we’d like to try out. Be sure to check out the CTL’s Active Learning Repository for ideas. CTL Conversations offer faculty and staff a time to come together to virtually and informally workshop, brainstorm, and discuss topics related to teaching, with different topics each week. You are welcome to drop in for all or part of the session. Feel free to bring a snack and join the conversation! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/

Thursday, March 17
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CTL Conversation: Have a Heart: Leading with Compassion and Empathy in the Classroom, speakers, Ron Whiteman and Katherine Tsan, CTL

How are you feeling so far this semester? In two years marked by societal trauma, the CTL has aimed to guide its approach by compassion and empathy—described by Cathy Davidson in May 2020 as “the single most important ingredient in designing [an] online course.” We would like to hear from you: how do you come up with effective ways to boost student morale and resilience? And how do you set boundaries and prevent burnout for yourself in the process? We can share some of our findings from doing empirical research at the CTL but would most of all like to brainstorm together based on what’s been working in the classroom. CTL Conversations offer faculty and staff a time to come together to workshop, brainstorm, and discuss topics related to teaching, virtually and informally, with different topics each week. You are welcome to drop in for all or part of the session. Feel free to bring a snack and join the conversation! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/

Tuesday, March 22
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Zotero Workshop, presenter, Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library

This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to Zotero, a free open-source, bibliographic citation management tool that allows you to collect, store and organize information as you research, and to rapidly generate citations and bibliographies with your word processor in a variety of styles as you write. You will learn to install Zotero, capture items into your personal library, generate in text citation and bibliographies, sync to the cloud, and utilize many of the software’s functions.

Friday, March 25
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Showcase: Community Engaged and Field-based Teaching and Learning, speakers, Stephen Gosnell, Department of Natural Sciences, Vera Haller, Department of Journalism and the writing Professions, and Scott Newbert, The Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management

Join a virtual luncheon on community engaged and field-based teaching and learning. The luncheon will showcase journalism professor Vera Haller, entrepreneurship professor Scott Newbert, and biology professor Stephen Gosnell. Each panelist will discuss how they use learning that takes place outside the classroom, offering ways to build greater engagement between courses and outside communities. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
“Perspectives in Crime Fiction: Navigating the Past,” speaker, Sharon Dempsy, Crime Writer, and Elizabeth Mannion, Department of English, Baruch College

The renowned Belfast crime fiction writer Sharon Dempsey will be interviewed by Elizabeth Mannion, who teaches English at Baruch, in conjunction with the US release of Dempsey’s latest book, Who Took Eden Mulligan? Co-hosted by Baruch’s English Department and the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.