Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting May 2
April 29, 2022
Next week @ Baruch…
Monday, May 2
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Faculty Who Engage Our Students: The CTL Spring 2022 Showcase in Teaching Innovation, presenters, Harry Davis, Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Brian Haggerty, Department of Natural Sciences, and Bei Lei Wang, Stan Ross Department of Accountancy.
Please join us for the CTL Spring 2022 Showcases in Teaching Innovation. The showcases this semester featurs faculty who were cited by students as doing an excellent job of engaging them during the complicated times of the pandemic. Since March 2020, the CTL has run the COVID-19 Student Experience Survey. When asked the survey question, “Describe at least one way that your professors have successfully kept you engaged throughout the process of distance learning in your current online course(s),” students voluntary named, and commended these professors for their approaches to teaching that helped foster inclusive, effective learning environments. Come learn about their techniques! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Weissman Center International Business seminar, speaker, Prof. Shaper Zhara, University of Minnesota
The speaker in this seminar is Shaker Zahra, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota. Professor Zahra’s research centers on corporate and international entrepreneurship, and dynamic capabilities in science and technology global industries. He is also interested in social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in family firms operating in technology industries. His research has appeared in leading journals including all Academy of Management publications (Journal, Review, Annals, Discoveries, Perspectives, Executive, and Learning and Education), Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and others, and received many awards, notably the 2014 Global Award For Entrepreneurship Research. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. For more information, contact Lilac Nachum.
- Zoom Link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/82186612636
Tuesday, May 3
12:15 PM – 1:45 PM
Delta Seminar: External Knowledge Sourcing and Employee Mobility Barriers, speaker, Dr. Deepak Somaya, University of Illinois
Prior research highlights that external knowledge sourcing is important to firms’ innovation performance; however, we posit it may also increase their risks of losing valuable R&D talent. Therefore, paradoxically, employee mobility barriers may increase knowledge sourcing through multiple non-mobility channels from other firms to which R&D talent might otherwise move. Leveraging a shock to mobility barriers from a change in Michigan’s noncompete law, we find that non-competes increased firms’ external knowledge sourcing—consistent with their within-state jurisdiction—from within-state sources, and this effect was stronger for firms that relied more on internally developed R&D talent, and in weaker appropriability industries. These findings are corroborated with additional data on non-compete shocks, R&D alliances, and employee mobility. Our research contributes to the innovation and human capital literatures. Presented by the Narendra P. Loomba Department of Management. For more information, contact Lauren Aydinliyim.
- Zoom Link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/87856290296
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Career Weeks: Liberal Arts and Sciences Panel, moderated by Clemente Diaz, Starr Career Development Center
What do you do with a liberal arts major? Attend this Career Week panel and hear from top industry professionals from various organizations. Panelists will speak about their careers, the companies they work for and provide students with valuable job search tips and career advice. Panelists include Richard Blake, Diversity and Inclusion Recruiter at GEICO, Ricki Weitzen, Recruiter at the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Sharone Thompson, Former Intern at CAA and Floating Asst. Music Touring at Brooklyn College, and Molly McGrath, Director of Programs and Evaluations at There’s No Limit.
Thursday, May 5
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Baruch College Faculty Senate Plenary
The Senate assembles once per month during the academic year in order to address issues of importance to the Baruch community. Please note, we ask participants to keep their microphones muted upon entry. Open your Participants page and select the “raise hand” if and when you have a question or comment. The senate secretary will call upon participants in the order that hands were raised. When called upon, please unmute yourself and mute yourself again when finished speaking. The agenda for this meeting will be posted here. Please register using the following link below. You will need to use your CUNYFirst ID to register where the ID will end in @login.cuny.edu. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please contact Matthew LePere if you need assistance registering.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CUNY 1969 Summer Retreat Info Session, presenters, Seth Graves and Hamad Sindhi, Center for Teaching and Learning
Join the developers of the CUNY 1969 project to learn more about their call for Fellows for the Summer 2022 (Virtual) Teach-in & Retreat. The intensive, and compensated, summer retreat is an invitation to explore the CUNY 1969 project in more depth, form a community of inquiry around CUNY’s history, learn about open pedagogy techniques, and practice creating engaging student-facing classroom materials. The CUNY 1969 project is an open educational resource (OER) meant for instructors who want to engage their students in CUNY’s history, navigating college, and the purpose of public higher education. During this informal information session, the developers of the project will give a brief overview of CUNY 1969, share more information about the summer retreat, and answer any questions from those who are interested in applying for this paid summer opportunity. Please RSVP in advance. You are not required to attend the info session in order to apply for the summer retreat.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Addison Gayle Seminar: A conversation with Amber Musser, author; moderated by two students: Michelle Hernandez and Dana Stevens
The English Department and Department of Black and Latino Studies present the Addison Gayle Seminar, featuring Amber Musser, author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance.
Friday, May 6
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Faculty Who Engage Our Students: The CTL Spring 2022 Showcase in Teaching Innovation, presenters from the Department of Communication Studies, Brian Farkas, Eric Gander, and Gino Perrotte
Please join us for the CTL Spring 2022 Showcases in Teaching Innovation. The showcases this semester feature faculty who were cited by students as doing an excellent job of engaging them during the complicated times of the pandemic. Since March 2020 the CTL has run the COVID-19 Student Experience Survey. When asked the survey question, “Describe at least one way that your professors have successfully kept you engaged throughout the process of distance learning in your current online course(s),” students voluntary named, and commended these professors for their approaches to teaching that helped foster inclusive, effective learning environments. Come learn about their techniques! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Marxe DEI Fridays: Using an Equity Lens in Faculty Hiring, speaker, Cristina Balboa, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Marxe DEI Fridays are a series of weekly virtual events in which our Baruch community can come together to explore and discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics ranging from the systemic and structural to the individual and personal. Come reflect, connect, and explore with us. All are welcome! Contact Anna D’Souza (Provost Innovation Fellow) with questions.
Looking forward…
Tuesday, May 10
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Big Data: Who Uses It? Who Provides It? And What Risks Does It Create?, speakers, Larry Zicklin (BBA ‘57), Roger Freeman, Neuberger Berman, and Sebastiano Manzan, Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance
Businesses have the technology to capture billions of data items on a real-time basis – Big Data – but what are they actually doing with all this information? One application is the analysis of text in newspapers like the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal to gauge sentiment on the current state of the economy, so-called “Nowcasting.” Another is the use of financial data like credit card charges to better estimate firms’ revenues, with the potential for providing timely information to fundamental stock analysts. How well do applications like these really work? Are there other potential applications that might raise privacy and ethical issues? Larry Zicklin (BBA ‘57) discusses these questions with Roger Freeman, Co-Head of Data Science Team, at Neuberger Berman, and with Sebastiano Manzan, Associate Professor of Economics in the Zicklin School Department of Economics and Finance. With an introduction by Dean Fenwick Huss and a Q&A session moderated by Associate Dean Gwen Webb
Friday, May 13
5:15 PM – 8:00 PM
The 50th Annual Percy E. Sutton SEEK Awards & Scholarship Ceremony: Five Decades of Access, Equity, and Excellence, keynote speaker, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, CUNY Chancellor.
Join us as we acknowledge our students’ academic achievements, their service to the community, and celebrate the SEEK graduates. The celebration also honors distinguished alumni and recognizes faculty and staff who have contributed to the success of our students and program. Alumni awardees will be: Claude Aska (Director of Development, NY Urban League), Celia Au’ (Producer/Actor), Alexa Castellanos (Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank), Jibreel Jalloh (Brooklyn Borough Advocate), C. Daniel Negron (VP & Director of Business Development at Thomas Miller), and Connie Zhao (Partner, EY). We will also reflect on the memory of: Prof. Judith Broadwin, SEEK counselor Joseph Freeman, and Dr. Donald Smith, faculty and administrator.