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M E M O R A N D U M
TO:The CUNY Community
FROM:Allan H. Dobrin
DATE:June 9, 2010
SUBJECT: Call for Proposals for the 9th Annual CUNY Information Technology Conference(s) -- Fall 2010
On behalf of the IT Steering Committee, I am requesting your input in the development of the 9th Annual CUNY IT Conference(s) schedule for the Fall 2010 semester. Based on conference-goers' feedback, the conference has been expanded to two events on two separate occasions with the appropriate theme of "Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: The Tried and the New." Please see the call for proposals below. I look forward to your continued participation in this very successful gathering of the best that is thought and said about IT in CUNY.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
CUNY's 9th Annual IT Conference(s)
Friday, December 3, 2010 @ JohnJayCollege of Criminal Justice
AND Tuesday, December 14, 2010 @ The CUNYGraduateCenter
Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: The Tried and the New
The City University of New York's 9th annual IT Conference will have two different occasions and venues, each with its own focus and keynote. The "traditional" conference will be held at John Jay on the first Friday in December, as has been the case in the past. It will offer overviews of the University's key IT initiatives, demonstrations of how technology continues to change instruction, research, and administration, and a chance to meet with vendors. As always, proposals for presentations are invited from the CUNY community, particularly those addressing two key questions:
1. What works?:How has technology not just changed but improved our instructional and administrative practices? What tests have been met? What value added? What innovations deserve to be extended and duplicated?
2. What points to a shared direction?:What changes are most promising, most scalable and sustainable? What developments call for collaboration and strategic planning? What changes are especially important to a multi-campus university?
With its own keynote and vendors (of a different stripe), the Grad Center event on 12/14 -- a "reading day" after classes and before finals for most of CUNY -- will focus on emerging technologies and applications, new uses and trials, even prospects rather than realized projects. In this context, we will vary the conference format, inviting less pure presentation, more interchange, participation, and discussion. Proposals for roundtables, workshops, and interactions are invited, particularly those addressing two key questions:
1. What lies on our horizon(s)?:What are the changes we might consider in the delivery of instructional content, the sharing of information and knowledge, the improvement of practices and procedures? What new modes of collaboration and community building-invite our consideration -- and perhaps even our skeptical scrutiny?
2. What do we need to think through together?:What challenges await us on such fronts as academic integrity and intellectual property, the scheduling of classes and the integration of the University? How do we need to think about changing forms of publication (whether of textbooks or scholarship)? What new opportunities exist for collaboration?
Specifying the date and venue for which they are intended, proposals should include a title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and the name and affiliation of each party to the proposal. (Proposals may be made by groups as well as individuals.) Proposals must be submitted using the form at
Proposals are due by 9/15/10. Acceptances will be announced by the end of that month.