Today we share a few of the projects that we’ve undertaken at the Teaching and Learning Center this year.
The first is our new website. Our old website — now at tlc-legacy.commons.gc.cuny.edu — was built in the fall of 2015, designed to represent the work of a brand new center. Over time, it expanded to incorporate teaching guides and resources, and housed an archive of TLC workshops. The new site captures the breadth and depth of what we’ve produced over the past decade.
See a list of the programs we run, selected projects and resources we’ve developed, read about our approach to this work, and, most importantly, about the people who’ve made it happen.
Connected to this redesign, we separated out the TLC Workshop Archive into its own space on the CUNY Academic Commons. This project, led by Laurie Hurson and Angela LaScala-Gruenewald, offers three ways to explore over one hundred workshops developed and run by the TLC over the past several years. You can access them by search, by category, or by touring an index. All workshops are openly licensed and free for reuse and remixing.
This week we also launch the sixth edition of our Teach@CUNY Handbook, our first revision of this text since 2022. The fifth edition welcomed over three thousand unique readers, and provided the curricular spine for three Teach@CUNY Summer Institutes. Version 6.0, edited by Brooke Thomas, has slimmed down the text, integrated practical guidance into every chapter, and incorporated a number of resources developed by TLC Fellows that invite readers to actively reflect on the guidance in the text.
The TLC also continues to build out a community of practice reflecting critically upon the impacts of genAI and LLMs on the university, extending our work on the Critical AI Literacy Institute to anyone around CUNY who wants to engage through a Critical AI Interest Group on the CUNY Academic Commons.
Finally, we are pleased to share a project that is the culmination of TLC Fellow Jeff Voss’s work over the past two years on “resocializing reading.” Jeff interviewed ten CUNY scholars about their reading practices, and has worked with designer Juan F.M. Marcano to produce Do Not Ask Me To Remain the Same. A pdf version of the book is visible here, and an event will be scheduled for Fall 2025 to share it more broadly.
