Semester Info: Update 6.5
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From: Michael C Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:10 PM
To: Andrew DeRosa (andrewderosa@gmail.com); Antonio L Gonzalez; Bill Clarke
(wwclark@comcast.net); Chloe Bass; Danne A Woo; Debra Priestly; Dustin Grella; Edward D Powers;
Glenn Goldberg; Gregory Sholette (gsholettestudio@gmail.com); Judy Sund (judysund@mac.com);
Kathryn Weinstein; Kurt Kauper (kkauper@gmail.com); Lawrence Waldron; Ryan Smith
(r.hartley.smith@gmail.com); Sinying C Ho; Tyrone Mitchell; Warren T Woodfin
Cc: Jacquelyn S Hopely; Jennifer W Kim; Jessica A Stolfa; Jessica P Membreno; Linda Jackson; Matthew F
Greco; Nasya R Patton; Paula M Costanzo; Tanapong Seangboonwattan
Subject: Semester Info: Update 6.5
Dear Art Department Faculty,
Please plan to move forward with your course continuity plans — the course change proposals
that you submitted. There are so many that the Dean and | cannot get through them all —
consider them approved.
CUNY Central, the Provost, and the Dean encourage everyone to administer some sort of
assignment to your students as soon as courses resume Thursday. The idea is to let the
students that “this is real” and they need to complete their coursework for the semester.
For those of you planning to meet with students in class or are requiring students to use
Klapper facilities, | met with the staff today to determine days and opening access hours for the
remainder of the semester. This information will be posted on our website shortly. Also, and
very importantly, you must put in place a Plan C should the mayor and/or governor declare a
“shelter in place” for all NYC folks. This means that the campus will close entirely.
Mike
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:10 PM
To: Andrew DeRosa (andrewderosa@gmail.com); Antonio L Gonzalez; Bill Clarke
(wwclark@comcast.net); Chloe Bass; Danne A Woo; Debra Priestly; Dustin Grella; Edward D Powers;
Glenn Goldberg; Gregory Sholette (gsholettestudio@gmail.com); Judy Sund (judysund@mac.com);
Kathryn Weinstein; Kurt Kauper (kkauper@gmail.com); Lawrence Waldron; Ryan Smith
(r.hartley.smith@gmail.com); Sinying C Ho; Tyrone Mitchell; Warren T Woodfin
Cc: Jacquelyn S Hopely; Jennifer W Kim; Jessica A Stolfa; Jessica P Membreno; Linda Jackson; Matthew F
Greco; Nasya R Patton; Paula M Costanzo; Tanapong Seangboonwattan
Subject: Semester Info: Update 6.5
Dear Art Department Faculty,
Please plan to move forward with your course continuity plans — the course change proposals
that you submitted. There are so many that the Dean and | cannot get through them all —
consider them approved.
CUNY Central, the Provost, and the Dean encourage everyone to administer some sort of
assignment to your students as soon as courses resume Thursday. The idea is to let the
students that “this is real” and they need to complete their coursework for the semester.
For those of you planning to meet with students in class or are requiring students to use
Klapper facilities, | met with the staff today to determine days and opening access hours for the
remainder of the semester. This information will be posted on our website shortly. Also, and
very importantly, you must put in place a Plan C should the mayor and/or governor declare a
“shelter in place” for all NYC folks. This means that the campus will close entirely.
Mike
Title
Semester Info: Update 6.5
Description
This series of emails from March 17th, 2020, between department faculty at Queens Colleges' Department of Art provided a snapshot of the sheer administrative burden that instituting remote learning practices was for many faculty. Rather than provide time for an exhaustive analysis of each course's teaching plans, the span of only a few days forced many departments to give a blank check to faculty course design. With little opportunity for oversight, such practices would quickly complicate the resumption of instruction.
This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Matthew K. Golds Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, we wanted to document the moment of crisis response with a critical approach to educational technology.
This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Matthew K. Golds Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, we wanted to document the moment of crisis response with a critical approach to educational technology.
Creator
Queens College Art Department
Date
March 17, 2020
Language
English
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution
Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Original Format
Correspondence
Queens College Art Department. Letter. “Semester Info: Update 6.5.”, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1820