The Honors Project Hub is a collaboratively-crafted Open Educational Resource containing projects and assignments used by faculty teaching three honors seminars at the Macaulay Honors College, CUNY: The Arts in New York City, The People of New York City, and Shaping the Future of New York City. (One of the seminars, Science Forward, has its own separate OER.) Launched for beta testing in the summer of 2024, this site is a project of the Teaching & Learning Collaboratory at Macaulay.
The Hub is ever-evolving as instructors add new projects and assignments, or new iterations of existing ones, building off of one another’s work.
One of the site’s aims is to help those who are teaching one of Macaulay’s seminars, especially for the first time, by hosting materials used by those who’ve taught the class before.
Another is to help those who are teaching honors classes outside of Macaulay by sharing the materials and techniques that we have been working on with the broader community.
Every assignment or project on this site includes information on how to use it in your class, what learning goals it addresses, and how to assess its success, as well as a discussion board for faculty to ask questions, offer tips, and consider ways these materials might be adapted for their own classes. Note that, while the learning goals are specific to Macaulay’s seminars, many of them can be easily adapted to other contexts.
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Using this Site
Virtually everything in the Hub is readily publicly accessible. If you’re able to read this page, you’re able to access all of the materials posted here, read the discussions, submit your own materials, and search or browse the site’s full contents.
But in order to participate in any of the discussions, you’ll need an account with Macaulay’s eportfolios platform. Most of our faculty already have an eportfolio account and can simply log in here. If you don’t have one yet, please contact Teaching & Learning Collaboratory Postdoctoral Research Associate Joseph Pentangelo.
If you find something you like, we encourage you to use it for your class. Then, post about it in the assignment’s discussion section. What worked? What didn’t? What would you change if you were to run it again next year?
Feel free to make any tweaks you’d like and to distribute your own modified version. All materials on this site are shared with the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to share and modify the material, provided that they give appropriate credit to the creator, provide a link to the license, and indicate if they made any changes. Commercial use of the material is prohibited, and if any modifications are made, the updated version should also be shared under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
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Help!
If you need help using this site, please contact Teaching & Learning Collaboratory Postdoctoral Research Associate Joseph Pentangelo.
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About this Site
This site was built in the summer of 2024 by the Teaching & Learning Collaboratory at the Macaulay Honors College, CUNY.
