A warm welcome to instructors of Spring 2026 courses. I’m Director of Undergraduate Studies in the departments, and as such I maintain this site. It’s chock-full of resources for instructors, and especially for instructors of the core courses in our curriculum that sit between 120/220 and the specialized “topics” courses of the 300/400 level.

If you’re new to teaching these courses, please peruse the FAQs that pop out when you hover over the applicable course on the top-level menu. These documents give pithy overviews of the course and contain links to the “groups” (in CUNY Academic Commons parlance) that are targeted to instructors of each course. If you’re not a member of a “group” for a course you teach (again, 252, 285, 304, 306, 307, and 320 are included thus far), contact me and I’ll help you out.

As you get organized for the semester, a few suggestions/resources of interest:

• ACERT, our center for teaching and learning, is offering a ten-day syllabus challenge, starting Monday. It’s exactly what it sounds like: an asynchronous set of prompts that help instructors break down the process into manageable chunks and create nudges to keep us accountable to ourselves without getting overwhelmed or lost.
• The Provost’s site maintains a handy set of teacher resources, including a Faculty Handbook and Syllabus Checklist, with all required language re: grading, academic honesty, sexual harassment policy, ADA, etc.
• If you plan on having a session with a librarian this term (required for 252 instructors and might be helpful for other instructors emphasizing original research), this is the time to do it. Our subject librarian, Jennifer Newman, is lovely!
• If you’re new(ish) to Brightspace, Hunter’s preferred LMS, here are some resources to orient you. I’m using it for the first time this term (I normally teach on a Commons interface like this one), and I found the videos and especially the consult with the Ed Tech team in HN C105 to be very helpful.

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