05 January 2022

registration for Spring and a new resource

Spring 2022: Registration for Doctoral Students

A new University initiative will provide doctoral students who are receiving a full tuition scholarship with a fee scholarship. However, they must be registered for Spring 2022 to receive this benefit.

Please be sure to register your doctoral students for Spring 2022 as soon as possible and prior to the 1st day of classes.

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We are pleased to announce that Binghamton University has joined the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) as an Institutional Member. The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students.

They provide a variety of virtual programs and resources including:

Weekly Monday Motivator
Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars
Monthly Guest Expert Webinars
Access to Multi-Week Courses
Access to Dissertation Success Curriculum for graduate students
Private Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring, problem-solving, & moderated writing challenges
Monthly accountability buddy matches
Access to 14-Day Writing Challenges
Access to the Member Library that includes past webinar materials, referrals, and readings

In order to gain access to these programs and resources, you should first sign up, using our Institutional Membership. After doing so, you will be added to the NCFDD listserv, which will dispatch weekly messages informing you about upcoming events.

Please complete the following steps to sign up:

1) Go to http://www.facultydiversity.org/join

2) Choose Binghamton University from the drop-down menu and click "Continue".

3) Select “Activate my Membership”

4) Complete the registration form using your institutional email address (@binghamton.edu)

5) Go to your institution email to find a confirmation/welcome email. Click “Activate Account” in the email.

6) After registering, enter “My Dashboard” to get started with the NCFDD’s core curriculum and to take advantage of other programs and on-demand content in the NCFDD library

If you have any questions about the membership, I’ll be holding an open office hours session, via Zoom, on Tuesday, January 11, 1 - 2:30 pm, https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/9506909880. You can feel free to drop in at any time during that slot so that I can introduce you to some of the resources and opportunities that the membership provides. If you have any technical questions or problems establishing your registration, please email the NCFDD directly at Membership@FacultyDiversity.org.

I hope that you can make use of this valuable resource, which aims to provide support for academics at all stages of their careers. Many thanks to Provost Nieman and Vice President Karen Jones who have generously supported this membership. Please feel free to circulate this message to your graduate students as well.

01 January 2022

Spring Covid guidance

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-spring-semester-guidance-has-been-issued-suny-and-cuny-campuses

Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine Booster and Mandatory Pre-Testing for All Students Planning to Regularly Access Campus

Ongoing Testing Plans Required for All Campuses

Vaccinations for All Faculty

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced issuance of spring semester reopening guidance for SUNY and CUNY campuses which includes the continuation of the student vaccine mandate as well as requiring all students regularly accessing campus to receive the COVID-19 booster for the spring semester. Additional requirements for students also include mandatory pre-testing ahead of their semester return, which will apply to all students who plan to regularly access campus. Each campus will develop and communicate an ongoing testing plan to monitor for positive cases throughout the semester. Campuses will continue to enforce universal indoor masking regardless of vaccination status and social distancing for anyone who is unvaccinated on campus — as New York State continues to help communities respond to the uptick in COVID cases.

“We need to ensure students in New York are able to stay in school and learn in-person throughout the spring semester,” Governor Hochul said. “Students deserve to have a safe, and high quality in-person college experience, and with these new measures, students will be able to stay on campus and in their classes. SUNY and CUNY have already done an extraordinary job at fighting the pandemic, with COVID-19 rates much lower than the general population, and it's time to take the next step to keep everyone safe."

Students who are regularly on campus who are eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster are now required to receive one for the Spring 2022 semester. Campuses must develop a plan and timeframe requirement for students to provide proof of booster vaccination.

SUNY and CUNY campuses must also implement, or continue if they had previously implemented, an ongoing testing program throughout the semester. Campuses will develop a random sampling methodology, which will be communicated to students. Campuses may also implement an exemption process for those who have received a booster. All faculty will be required to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

SUNY will continue to report real-time results at the COVID-19 Case Tracker available here. Since the beginning of the Fall 2020 semester, when students began returning for in-person classes, SUNY has administered nearly three million tests on campus with an average positivity rate of about 0.45 percent, far lower than statewide and surrounding community rates.

23 December 2021

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13 December 2021

Emerging Voices Fellowship Competition

for early-career humanistic scholars (We welcome applications from scholars whose PhDs were conferred between January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2021. Students who anticipate receiving the PhD degree after December 31, 2021 are not eligible.)

The American Council of Learned Societies Announces Third and Final Round of Emerging Voices Fellowship Competition

Program supporting outstanding early-career humanistic scholars now welcomes applications for two-year posts with select ACLS Research Consortium Universities

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the third and final round of the Emerging Voices Fellowship program.

Following the success of the first two competitions of the program, which supports early-career scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences facing a challenging academic job market, both the competition and fellowship have been redesigned to best serve those who have received their doctorates just before or during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Emerging Voices Fellowship has been distinguished for its rapid response approach in supporting new and recent PhDs during a time of great economic uncertainty,” noted ACLS President Joy Connolly. “In addition to providing funding to help strengthen humanistic disciplines, we have also incorporated feedback from scholars and partner institutions from the first two rounds on how best to use our resources to make the program a success for everyone involved.”

For its final round of competition, the Emerging Voices Fellowship program invites applications from qualified PhDs whose voices, perspectives, and broad visions will strengthen institutions of higher education and humanistic disciplines in the years to come. Nominations are no longer required and will not be accepted. We welcome applications from scholars whose PhDs were conferred between January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2021. Students who anticipate receiving the PhD degree after December 31, 2021 are not eligible. Learn more in the Emerging Voices Fellowship FAQ.

Scholars of color, from low-income and unconventional backgrounds, and those who have taken on extraordinary roles in graduate school (organizing public art exhibits, teaching in prison education programs, coordinating research groups, to name just a few), are especially encouraged to apply.

The fellowship will now offer two-year in-person posts at participating institutions from the ACLS Research University Consortium during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years.

Applications are due Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 9 PM EST.

Learn about the 2022 Emerging Voices Fellowship Competition

The program will award up to 45 fellowships and provide a $65,000 annual stipend plus benefits, a one-time relocation allowance of $3,000, and $3,500 (annually) in research/professional development funding, childcare or eldercare costs, as well as access to ACLS professional development resources. Fellows are expected to teach one course or the equivalent per year, contribute to projects at their host institutions, as well as advance with their own research and participate in ACLS-sponsored professional development activities. Given the limited number of fellowships available, ACLS intends to support qualified candidates who lack full-time academic positions for the 2022-23 academic year (including fellowships and postdoctoral positions at their home institutions).

The first two Emerging Voices Fellowship competitions yielded 93 outstanding scholars representing a variety of backgrounds and fields of study who have demonstrated strengths in using the classroom as a vehicle to attract a diverse community of learners to humanistic study and research. The 2022 Emerging Voices Fellows will join a robust community of practice in the publicly engaged humanities and will have the opportunity to draw on networks of related ACLS programs, including past awardees of the Mellon/ACLS Leading Edge Fellows and Scholars and Society Fellows. The diverse experience of the ACLS community is a shared resource that fellows are encouraged to draw on during and after their fellowship terms.

The Emerging Voices Fellowship is funded through the ACLS endowment, which has benefited from the generous support of esteemed institutions and individuals including The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arcadia Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ACLS Research University Consortium and college and university Associates, past fellows, and friends of ACLS.

Questions? Email us at EVFapplications@acls.org