Teach@CUNY Summer Institute

Since 2018, the TLC’s Teach@CUNY Summer Institutes have supported new Graduate Teaching Fellows (GTFs) and doctoral students teaching as adjuncts as they prepare to teach at CUNY. Open to doctoral students entering their second year of study, the Institute offers a supportive space in which new college teachers explore pedagogical approaches and strategies, and learn about teaching at CUNY. The Institute facilitates connection and collaboration between and across academic disciplines, and helps participants develop the foundations for a lasting practice of critical, engaged pedagogy.

Graduate Teaching at CUNY

Graduate Center students teach more than five thousand courses each year to well over one hundred thousand CUNY undergraduates. Though some teach as teaching assistants and lab instructors, the vast majority teach as instructors of record of courses they themselves have designed. Most doctoral students teach for multiple years, and many teach at different campuses and within different programs. Teaching has been a core part of the professional development of generations of Graduate Center students, who bring their passion, activism, commitment to justice, and emerging research identities with them into the CUNY classroom.

The Institute is designed and facilitated by the TLC’s staff, whose collective experience teaching at CUNY and working with Graduate Center instructors ensures that the programming remains timely, relevant, and grounded in the realities of CUNY’s classrooms.

Teach@CUNY Supporters, Partners, and Collaborators

The Institute has been supported by gifts from the Charina Foundation and the Lumina Foundation, and institutionally by the Graduate Center’s Provost Office, the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Library Services at CUNY Central, and the CUNY Academy for Arts and Sciences. The Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE) has developed formative and summative evaluations of the Institute which has helped shape the curriculum and has measured its impact on GTFs as they move forward with their careers.