Catalog – CUNY Pressbooks Network

A Handbook on Mentoring Students in Undergraduate Research, 2nd Edition

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Undergraduate Research Committee, New York City College of Technology

Subject(s): Higher education, tertiary education, Education: examinations and assessment, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion

Last updated: 26/07/2024

Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Resistance Movements (Through Literature and Culture)

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): LUIS ENRIQUE ESCAMILLA FRIAS

Subject(s): Literary studies: from c 2000, Digital, video and new media arts, Films, cinema, Documentary films, Radio / podcasts, Film, television, radio and performing arts genres, Language teaching and learning material and coursework: culture / civilisation, Migration, immigration and emigration, Political structure and processes, Human rights, civil rights, Capitalism, Colonialism and imperialism, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

Institution(s): The Graduate Center, CUNY

Last updated: 09/07/2024

An OER meant to help instructors and students at College level to approach contemporary Latin American and Latinx social movements. The five sections, The Green Tide, Everyone and Everything Against the Youth, Indigenous Populations say Enough!, Puerto Rico: The Epitome of the Caribbean Islands, and Latinx Means Resistance, have a common denominator in the Neoliberal Turn that has struck those social groups and countries over the last almost 50 years. This is an OER in both English and Spanish.

CUNY SPS Accessibility Toolkit

CC BY (Attribution) 42 H5P Activities English (Canada)

Author(s): Kelly Hammond

Editor(s): Kelly Hammond, Sarah Kresh

Subject(s): Accessibility in web and digital design, Writing and editing guides, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Teaching of students with physical impairments or disabilities, Desktop publishing

Publisher: CUNY School of Professional Studies

Last updated: 09/07/2024

Like two of its sources (BCcampus’s Accessibility Toolkit — 2nd Edition and Briana Fraser and Luke McKnight’s Accessibility Handbook for Teaching and Learning), the goal of the CUNY School of Professional Studies’ Accessibility Toolkit is to assist CUNY SPS faculty and staff in creating truly open textbooks and online academic experiences that are free and accessible for all students.

TLH in a Box

CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) English

Author(s): Isabela Cordero

Editor(s): ckatopodis, gracehandy

Subject(s): Educational systems and structures

Last updated: 09/07/2024

TLH in a Box is an OER (Open Educational Resource) created in the third and final year of the Transformative Learning in the Humanities grant supported by the Mellon Foundation at The City University of New York. The grant supported public talks on innovative pedagogies and teaching workshops, a student summit, and a series of intensive peer-to-peer faculty seminars for CUNY faculty at all ranks (including adjuncts) in the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences. The TLH team created this Open Educational Resource that shares TLH’s antiracist teaching strategies and the transformative methods of TLH with the general public. This publication contains: teaching tools and more for faculty; templates, budget models, annual reports, and other resources for administrators and staff; and ideas for student engagement, including how to form a Student Advisory Board and hosting a virtual student summit.

Writing About Literature Spring 2024

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Rachael Benavidez, Kimberley Garcia

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides

Institution(s): Queens College

Last updated: 09/07/2024

A Guide for the CUNY Open Publishing Collective

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) 1 H5P Activities English

Author(s): Rachael Nevins, Elizabeth Arestyl, Anna Minsky

Subject(s): Higher education, tertiary education, Open learning, distance education, Publishing and book trade, Desktop publishing

Last updated: 09/07/2024

This guide was created for the CUNY Open Publishing Collective, a community of practice that emphasizes accessibility, equity, and open pedagogy in open publishing. The guide serves as a repository of information, templates, and other tools to be used in Phase 1 of the program. Cover image “Come in, We’re Open – Paris” by Amélien Bayle via Flickr, licensed CC BY-NC 2.0.

Vem Falar Português! Portuguese for All

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) 1 H5P Activities English

Author(s): Regina Castro McGowan, Ph.D.

Subject(s): Language teaching and learning material and coursework: culture / civilisation, Language teaching and learning: second or additional languages

Institution(s): The City College of New York

Publisher: Pressbooks

Last updated: 09/07/2024

Vem Falar Português! Portuguese for All is an open source textbook for Portuguese language acquisition at the college level. This textbook addresses the four modalities of communication (listening, speaking, reading and writing), with grammatical explanations and examples, reading, listening and viewing passages, classroom activities, and material for group projects. The material in Vem Falar Português! Portuguese for All shows progressing levels of complexity; from elementary to intermediate high. This book includes cultural topics from eight Portuguese speaking countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and Sao Tome and Principe.

The Modern World Since 1815

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Mahalia Méhu

Subject(s): General and world history

Last updated: 09/07/2024

Geology 101 for Lehman College (CUNY)

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Yuri Gorokhovich, Lumen Learning

Last updated: 09/07/2024

Percy E. Sutton SEEK Program Student Handbook

CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) 25 H5P Activities English

Author(s): SEEK Department

Editor(s): Dorla Grant, Dr. Rebecca Cenatus, Sherrill-Ann Mason

Subject(s): The Arts

Institution(s): Medgar Evers College

Last updated: 09/07/2024

This handbook has been designed as a supplement to the Medgar Evers College handbook and catalog. Our program wants to ensure that your transition into college is a smooth and easy one. In this handbook, you will find answers to numerous questions that you may have. Please look to this guide as you enter into your college experience. Should you still have questions and/or concerns regarding S.E.E.K specific requirements or the requirements of Medgar Evers College, feel free to contact any of the department’s personnel listed below. May you find peace that passes all understanding in the upcoming years as a Medgar Evers student!