We're thrilled to announce ACERT summer writing opportunities for the @huntercollege.bsky.social faculty community! We hope you'll join us to get the writing done this summer! Our #HunterWrites weeks coincide w/ #NCFDD summer Writing Challenges. Register here: bit.ly/4ty32MT

You can support faculty development and student success at Hunter College by participating in #HunterGives! Every contribution--no matter the size--helps to support meaningful learning. giving.hunter.cuny.edu/schools/Hunt...

#HunterGives is right around the corner on 4/29! ACERT is participating this year! Help us support faculty development and best teaching practices at Hunter College! giving.hunter.cuny.edu/schools/Hunt...

We had a blast last month at the Spring 2026 ACERT Teaching Innovations Lightning Talks! Big thank you to our presenters and attendees for an inspiring lunch and learn.

One of our workshoppers from ACERT Faculty Fellow Sofy Solomon's Teaching Scholarship Circle published her review of 'Is God Is.' Check it out!! blackstarreviews.com/aleshea-harr...

A happy welcome to ACERT Spring 2026 Faculty Fellow Sofy Solomon, who is hosting weekly Creative Writing Workshops as her Teaching Scholarship Circle this semester!

We are so excited to host our Spring 2026 Teaching Innovations Lightning Talks later this month! Have an idea for a 3-minute talk? Feel free to reach out with questions!

Join us later this month for HunterWrites!! We're hosting morning writing sessions, two receptions to celebrate works recently published, shown, or performed in 2025, and a Creative Writing Workshop! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Don't forget: Our call for fellows remains open until Feb 27!

Join us for HunterWrites! Take the NCFDD Challenge, RSVP for Monday Writing Sessions, a Creative Workshop, and Celebrations for Works Published in 2025! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We're still thinking about last week's inspiring presentations about incorporating identity, purpose, and belonging in our teaching! And still thinking about those dumplings--so yummy! 🥟 Thank you, HCAP!

We had a blast with HCAP last week! Fellows presented their pedagogies that prioritize inclusion and belonging. Thank you to all who joined us! We're excited to do a teaching scholarship circle w/the HCAP workbook! Coming soon--stay tuned! @huntercollege.bsky.social

We loved seeing our doctoral lecturers and clinical professors in the faculty center yesterday!! @huntercollege.bsky.social

Applications now OPEN for the 2026-2027 cohort of ACERT Faculty Fellows! acert.hunter.cuny.edu/blog/call-fo...

Tomorrow! Wednesday at 12-1:15pm ACERT is cosponsoring, with HCAP: "Incorporating Identity, Purpose, & Belonging in our Teaching: Creative Strategies for our CUNY Classrooms" HE 530 (In the Library) Lunch to be served! @hcapinc.bsky.social

We are so excited about Tuesday's Red Helicopter event with author James Rhee at Hunter College, 5-7pm ET in Hemmerdinger, co-sponsored with the School of Education. Join us! @huntercollege.bsky.social

Today we met for Austin Bailey's Teaching Scholarship Circle centered on Susan D. Blum's book on Schoolishness. We talked abt where we notice schoolishness & alienation in education. Looking forward to reading more next week & to our guest of honor, @susandblum.bsky.social who joins our 3rd session!

CUNY Colleagues! Take the 10-Day Syllabus Challenge this January!! We'll send you an email every morning for 10 weekdays with a prompt for a short task, breaking up syllabus (re)design into smaller, more manageable parts to slowly transform it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our Get the Grading Done series continues! Today in the Faculty Center (5th Floor of the Cooperman Library, 68th St) with coffee, tea, and snacks, and again on Friday, 12-4pm!

We had the best time yesterday with Jonathan González and the Hunter College Department of Dance at "Book Launch and Presentation Ways to Move" in the Peggy Theatre! His new book, "Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars," traces the embodied frequencies and assembled states of Black life.

Last week, we had the privilege of hosting a special event featuring four members of Hunter's LUCE Innovation Cohort! Their research in the sciences is so inspiring! Here are just a couple quick examples of the amazing research they are doing.

We're so excited! Our amazing @huntercollege.bsky.social photographers took headshots at our Open House on 10/8, and they came out GREAT. Check out this group photo of our 2025-2026 ACERT Faculty Fellows! Left to Right: Brooke Xavier, Sasha Maceira, and Austin Bailey.

We really enjoyed last week's lightning talks! Thanks again to our presenters and attendees, representing over 15 unique disciplines at Hunter College!

Check out this new beautiful addition to our lending library! "The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning," edited by Carlo Ricci and our very own Gina Riley!

Just a few snapshots of this afternoon's lightning talks!

Big thank you to everyone who joined us today for our Teaching Innovations Lightning Talks!! @huntercollege.bsky.social

Big thank you to Sarah Suatoni, author of Conscious Communication, for speaking at our ACERT Lunchtime Seminar today and to Jeneca Parker-Tongue for facilitating and sharing resources about C-SELL here at Hunter!

Last week, former ACERT Faculty Fellow Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck (English) led a Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC) reunion to continue reflecting on how we teach writing.

Congratulations, Xuemeng Li!!

Open House is tomorrow!!

Join us on Wed, Oct 8 in the Faculty Center for our ACERT Open House at 12-2pm!

Our ACERT Lending Library is now up and running in the Faculty Center! Borrow a book, bring it back. We have many wonderful titles for teaching & learning, now stamped with our Lending Library stamp!

Join us for our Open House in the Faculty Center on Wed, Oct 8 @ 12-2PM. Enjoy light refreshments, get your professional headshot taken, and meet colleagues!

Our Fall 2025 Writing Groups begin meeting Sept 8! Join us in person or join us online. All groups are led by @huntercollege.bsky.social faculty: Raj Korpan, Jillian Baez, Austin Bailey, and ACERT Faculty Director Gina Riley. Sign up and get the writing done in community! forms.gle/sJLYDW5HZTJk...

Happy first day of classes and welcome to our new 2025-2026 ACERT Faculty Fellows: Austin Bailey (English), Sasha Maceira (English), and Brooke Xavier (Economics and Accounting). We are so excited to collaborate with you in the year ahead! @huntercollege.bsky.social @brookexavier.bsky.social

Meagan Washington (English) shared her go-to phone numbers in our "What I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Teaching at Hunter": the IT Help Desk, PCS-IT, Security, and more. It's especially helpful to have those numbers on hand if you teach early in the morning!

Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...

Sign up for our Fall 2025 Writing Groups! Mon-Tues in person in the Faculty Center in the Cooperman Library at the 68th St campus, and Wed & Fri online.

In last Thursday's ACERT lunchtime seminar, Art and Art History faculty member Uchenna Itam gave some advice for parents at Hunter College

We are thrilled to welcome Gina Riley (Special Education) as our new ACERT Faculty Director at Hunter College! She is an award-winning teacher and a two-time ACERT Faculty Fellow, as well as one of the long-standing leaders of our weekly writing groups. Thank you, Gina! @huntercollege.bsky.social

Our ACERT Steering Committee met last week to do some strategic planning with oversized post-its, lunchtime seminar brainstorming with Padlet, and more. We celebrated our incoming Faculty Fellows (more on that soon!), our incoming Faculty Director Gina Riley and outgoing director Julie Van Peteghem.

Last week during "What I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Teaching at Hunter," Xuemeng Li shared some advice for new colleagues teaching large lectures.

Last week we hosted a lunchtime seminar in which our faculty spoke on "What I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Teaching at Hunter," sharing advice for new colleagues.