Faculty Resources

Getting Started 2025/26 Brightspace Ambassadors Magna 20-Minute Mentors Past Lehman Mentors

Getting Started

The Center for Teaching and Learning is here to help you become a more effective and accessible online educator. We support your use of instructional technology for; online, hybrid, hyflex, and face-to-face teaching. In addition, we can help with the design, implementation, and delivery of your online courses, as well as the creation of new online courses and programs.

Schedule a Course Design Consultation

Whether you have just a few short questions, or need more extensive support, Faculty Consultants can help with a range of topics, from:

Course planning, design, and development
Using the latest and emerging technologies
Online, hybrid, hyflex and in person instructional strategies and best practices
Switching textbooks to Open Educational Resources
Making a course more student-centered

Individual consultations are in person or online, can last from 30 minutes to three hours, and can help you with establishing instructor presence, motivating and retaining students, and how to continually engage your students.

To schedule a consultation, email us your course syllabus or draft of your course development plan and note specific questions you would like to address during the consultation.

Brightspace Ambassadors /Faculty Mentors & Program Overview

The 2024/25 Class of Faculty Mentors will also be leading the transition to Brightspace, helping Lehman faculty enhance their distance teaching and learning abilities.

Note: They will also still be able to help with Blackboard issues until Spring 2025, the last semester of Blackboard.

Faculty Mentors will:

Advise department colleagues with the set-up of Brightspace to support (e.g. how to make the course available to students, post an announcement, create a discussion forum, create an assignment, etc.)
Answer questions concerning instructional approaches and options to enrich their courses with quizzes, discussion forums, grades and rubrics, and other relevant institutionally supported technologies.
Learn about their department/school faculty needs and communicate the needs for additional resources, training, and support as needed to the Office of Online Education and IT.

2025/26 Brightspace Ambassadors/Faculty Mentors

School	Name	Department
Arts & Humanities	Janine Carla Collins	Art
Business	Minnwoo Song	Finance, Information Systems & Economics
Continuing & Professional Studies	Bridget Lepore	Adult Degree Program (credit)
Education	Karen Ellefsen	Early Childhood and Childhood Education
Human Services, Health Sciences and Nursing	Tammy Christensen	Health Equity, Administration & Technology
Leonard Lief Library	John Delooper	Leonard Lief Library
Natural & Social Sciences	Karyna Pryiomka	Psychology

Magna 20-Minute Mentors

These practical and informative sessions are tailored to higher education faculty. Released each Monday, these videos are available to watch at your convenience for one week.

See the offerings here.

GD Peters (peters@lehman.cuny.edu) English
Crystal Curry, English
Susan Quarrell, Languages & Literatures

Nari Kim (kim@lehman.cuny.edu), Management and Business Innovation

Jennifer Van Allen (vanallen@lehman.cuny.edu), Counseling, Leadership, Literacy and Special Education
Julia Hood, Counseling, Leadership, Literacy and Special Education
Sherry Deckman, Middle & High School Education

Amy White (white2@lehman.cuny.edu), Health Services Administration
Natasha Nurse-Clarke, Nursing
Douglas Oberlin, Exercise Science
Alison Behrman, Speech-Language Hearing Sciences

Elizabeth Hollander (hollander@lehman.cuny.edu), English
Michael Polesny, English
Kenneth Weisshaar, Philosophy

Naomi Spence, Sociology
Rich Lahijani, Economics and Business

Sherry Deckman, Social Studies Education, School of Education
Brian Murphy, Computer Science, School of Natural and Social Sciences