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 SpirFit.org is up and running again. If you have any problems with it, please let us know. It's our pleasure serving you. Thank you.

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Our website at SpirFit.org is down right now.  Please pardon the inconvenience.  We are working to bring it back up shortly  Thank you for your patience.

CATW: Delaying Divorce

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Here's an interesting CATW prompt that a few of my students are working on:

https://sites.google.com/site/basicwritinglgcc/home/cat-w-prompts/delaying-divorce-to-save-marriages



For more practices on the CATW and CUNY ACT Reading, go to:

http://spirfit.org/Academy/catw

 and

http://spirfit.org/Academy/actreading

Free Software for CUNY Students and Employees

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If you are an employee or a student at any of the 23 CUNY campuses, you are eligible to legitimately download software (such as Microsoft, McAffee, and Maplesoft products) for free from CUNY eMall.  Some are free for employees and students.  Others are free for employees, while students have to pay but a discounted price.  To get these softwares for free, try the following CUNY links.  You may have to first log into your CUNY Portal.

https://cuny.onthehub.com/WebStore/ProductsByMajorVersionList.aspx

 
Note:  As an employee of Kingsborough, my CUNY Portal is different from my CUNY First login, and it is different from my other Kingsborough logins.  It may or may not be the same for students.


For free academic lessons, fitness and health lessons, and life lessons, feel free to go to SpirFit.org

Free Grammar Workshops

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Do you have problems with grammar on your essays and papers?  Do you think your grammatical problems are lowering your scores on certain writing exams?  Are your problems with grammar showing in your job applications, cover letters, and job interviews?  If so, you should sign up for FREE grammar workshops taught by Shu this current semester at L219.  Why not use this current summer session to improve your grammar.  Sign up as soon as possible at L219 before they fill up.

For now, I can only endorse Shu's grammar workshops, since he is the only one in L219 who incorporates the SpirFit educational approach.  I cannot here endorse other workshop instructors unless they are trained in the SpirFit educational approach. 

This approach effectively addresses each of your individual needs, whatever your English level.  Although students in the same workshop may be at very different levels, the SpirFit educational approach is able to effectively address each student's needs by incorporating innovative educational methods of recent years brought about by game changers from Silicon Valley, MIT, and Harvard.  In addition, the SpirFit educational approach includes pedagogy or teaching methods encouraged by the KCC English department, CAWS, CUNY Start, and other departments.  The SpirFit teaching approach also includes unconventional methods from other professions and methods backed up by science.

KCC students, recent KCC graduates, KCC Continuing Education students, and CUNY Start students are all eligible for these FREE grammar workshops.  Since you have already paid for these workshops with your tuition, why not make use of them!


Shu's Grammar Workshops
Sign-up Location:  L219 at Kingsborough Community College

Single Stop with Free Help with Food, Financial Aid, Lawyers, and More

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If you are a Kingsborough student, a continuing ed student, CUNY Start, CLIP, a student from Goldstein high school on campus, or if you have another type of affiliation with Kingsborough Community College, most likely you can benefit from the free services of Single Stop.  (For students of other CUNYs, see links at the bottom.)

Single Stop provides:

• Food vouchers and food (even if you don't qualify for food stamps)
• Help with food stamps, health insurance, housing, cash,, and other public benefits
• Help with financial aid (especially if you are taking out loans at a community college or cannot afford to pay for your tuition  
• Free legal services.  (They have a lawyer specializing in housing and rental issues and a lawyer specializing in immigration and naturalization issues, but they can also refer you to other legal assistance
• Free tax services (from January to June)
• Free financial advising and credit rebuilding
• Other services

For more information, contact:

Mrs. Hattie Elmore, Single Stop Coordinator
hattie.elmore@kbcc.cuny.edu
Room V231
718-368-5411
http://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/singlestop/Pages/default.aspx



For Single Stop at other community colleges of CUNY:

BMCC:  http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/singlestop/

Hostos:  http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/singlestop/

LaGuardia:  http://laguardia.edu/singlestop/

Queensborough Community College:  http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/singlestop/



All CUNYs: http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/sa/specialprograms/SingleStopCCI.html






If you are having trouble passing the CATW and CUNY ACT Reading, go to:

http://spirfit.org/Academy/catw

 and

http://spirfit.org/Academy/actreading

Kingsborough Graduation Cap and Gown

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TO ALL STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY APPLIED FOR GRADUATION (The deadline was April 16),

The deadline for ordering your caps and gowns is MAY 2, 2015. Go to: www.Jostens.com Select Kingsborough Community College and place your order. There is NO CHARGE for the cap and gown. However, if you miss the deadline, we will be ordering enough caps and gowns to accommodate ALL students. Please go to the KCC Bookstore after June 4th. to pick-up caps and gowns.

If you have any questions, please call Paul Winnick at (718) 368-5040.

Note: This was a message from Paul Winnick copied and pasted on this site.