Hi Class,

I hope that you all are well and comfortable. By this time, you have no doubt received multiple messages, alerts, and emails about the news that we will be shifting to online instruction for the rest of the semester.

Here is a condensed message from Stephen Soiffer, assistant to president Hotzler:

 

All CUNY schools will have a five-day instructional recess March 12-18. There will be no physical classes on campus. Students and faculty will be working on getting ready to have classes delivered via distance-learning for the remainder of the Spring semester.

CUNY’s 25 campuses, including dorms, libraries, research facilities, and essential on-campus services will remain open.

During the five-day recess, we expect students, faculty and staff to finish their plans to transition all instruction to distance education. Starting March 19, classes will resume in distance-learning form for the remainder of the Spring semester.

As always, the health and safety of the University community remains our top priority. These measures allows CUNY to continue serving its students while alleviating pressure on our areas during this public health threat.

More details will follow.

Stephen M. Soiffer, PhD, Special Assistant to the President, City Tech (New York City College of Technology)/CUNY

 

I am working with the English department to alter assignments and to augment instructional delivery methods. While I am sad that we will not be able to meet in person, I am excited by the challenge to help you learn and succeed in my class via new methods. Though many details need to be ironed out, I do imagine that we will be reading a lot (as usual) watching and possibly making short videos, engaging with online messaging apps, emailing more, and sharing our writing with each other more frequently.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me.

Additionally, Journal 5 will be due Friday, March 25 via email.

 

Best wishes,

Prof. Scanlan

sscanlan@citytech.cuny.edu