What is the FC/LSCC Publication Support Workshop Series?
City Tech faculty are cordially invited to participate in the 2025-2026 FC/LSCC Publications Support workshop series, with the goal of each participant setting a long-term goal and making substantial progress on their scholarly endeavors. The series may be of interest to faculty from disciplines where training is not typically focused on publication, to new faculty, and to mid-career and senior faculty seeking to reenergize or refocus their scholarly activities. The group will meet once a month. Meetings include a guest speaker on a topic of interest, as well as group discussions of monthly goals, progress, and challenges.
Workshop presentation recordings and PowerPoints and many other resources supporting writing and publishing are available on this site. Learning materials from workshops prior to 2020 can be found on the library’s guide, Resources for Academic Publishing. City Tech faculty can benefit from the library’s scholarly publishing site as well. Kudos to Faculty Commons Graphic Designer Savonne Andrews for our logo design.
* Meetings are scheduled on the second Friday of the month from 12:00 – 1:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
2025-2026 Schedule
| Meeting # | Date | Topic |
| 1 | Friday Sept. 26* 12:00-1:30pm [hybrid] RegistrationorFaculty Commons — Namm 227 |
Welcome! Overview of program. A few words by program alumni Shelley Smith – Funding and other opportunities within CUNY. Pam Brown – Introduction to undergraduate research opportunities for advancing your scholarship. Monica Berger – AI in publishing and research |
| 2 | Friday Oct. 10 12:00-1:30pm |
Key topics in scholarly research and publishing – Prof. Monica Berger: Find target journals for publishing your work; get a quick bird’s eye view of your topic; review basics of using the library for the literature review; effectively use Google Scholar, citation managers, and link resolvers; quickly assess a journal and avoid predatory journals; Open Access publishing. Powerpoint
Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 3 | Friday Nov. 14 12:00-1:30pm |
Qualitative research methods – Qualitative research and scholarly publications, auto-ethnography, working with undergraduate researchers. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 4 | Friday Dec. 12 12:00-1:30pm |
Quantitative research methods
Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| January | No meeting | |
| 5 | Friday Feb. 13 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentation by Prof. Tina Kao – IRB approval for research involving human subjects. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 6 | Friday March 13 12:00-1:30pm |
Journal publications – The journal editor’s perspective. Focus on the peer review process and working effectively with the editor. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 7 | Friday April 10 12:00-1:30pm |
Book publications – Obtaining book contracts, working with editors, peer review.
Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 8 | Friday May 8 12:00-1:30pm |
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Presentations by Profs. Diana Samaroo & Sandie Han – Educational research and publishing – components of an educational research journal article. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting and beginning of the year.RECAP OF SERIES – Discussion on publication program and ways to improve. Set up summer writing buddies. |
