Does your program, department, or initiative include professional development for BMCC faculty? Interested in becoming a Faculty Collaboratory partner? Please complete this interest form. Partners events are publicized through the CoLab newsletter and calendar, and partners can request to reserve Faculty Collaboratory spaces.
Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CETLS) serves the BMCC community by providing a forum for faculty to develop as teachers and scholars. We foster cross-disciplinary dialogue about pedagogy and scholarship, and provide opportunities for faculty to connect and collaborate.
Digital Education
The Digital Education Center offers consultations about designing courses and learning activities incorporating digital technologies and supports faculty use of a range of learning technologies, including Brightspace, Zoom, Padlet, Hypothesis, VoiceThread, and the BMCC OpenLab.
Honors Scholars Program
The BMCC Honors Scholars Program is tailored to offer high achieving students more freedom to engage in academic exploration and interdisciplinary connections as they relate to their majors, their professional goals, and personal interests. Each semester, BMCC offers honors classes in a variety of subjects. The Honors Scholars Programs partners with the Faculty Collaboratory to offer workshops and support for faculty interested in teaching honors classes.
Inquirer
The Inquirer is a journal where BMCC faculty and staff can explore ideas for teaching, learning, and scholarship. Any faculty or staff member at BMCC may propose an article for the journal – the editors welcome manuscripts on a wide range of topics. Contributors to the Inquirer will be invited to further the conversation around their ideas through Inquirer Talks, created in collaboration with BMCC CETLS.
OER/ZTC Program
Since 2015, BMCC faculty have been among the leaders at CUNY in adopting and creating open educational resources (OER) for their courses.
Office of Research and Scholarly Inquiry
The Office of Research promotes research and scholarly activity among BMCC faculty and students. In collaboration with the Faculty Collaboratory, the Office of Research offers faculty opportunities to develop as grant seekers and mentors of student research.
Writing Across the Curriculum
Recognizing that writing develops skills in critical thinking and idea generation, as well as logical organization, development and support for ideas, the BMCC Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program works with faculty across academic disciplines to embed diverse writing assignments and process-oriented pedagogical strategies directly into course curricula, thereby fostering active, critical learning and moving beyond writing as solely an assessment tool.
