CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

Sent to faculty on March 25, 2020, from the Office of Academic Affairs at CUNY's College of Staten Island (CSI) to faculty, this email offered administrative responses to looming questions at the center of City University of New York's (CUNY) "current telecommuting situation," with guidance related to office hours, teaching observations, annual evaluations, as well as reappointment, tenure, and promotion practices. The email also highlighted the subject of "Distance Learning and Contractual Obligations" for departments to conduct classroom observations of faculty instruction before describing updated expectations, logistics, and protocol pertaining to these issues.

This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's 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, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.