Unlocking Your Hunter College Net ID: A Comprehensive Guide

Navigating the digital landscape of Hunter College requires understanding and utilizing your Net ID. This unique identifier serves as your key to accessing a wide array of online resources and services essential for both students and faculty. This article will delve into the Hunter College Net ID, explaining its purpose, how to obtain it, and how to use it effectively.

What is a Hunter College Net ID?

Your Hunter College Net ID is a unique username that, along with a password, grants you access to various online platforms and services provided by the college. These services include:

HunterNet Wi-Fi
Blackboard learning management system
CUNYfirst
Email
Library resources
Software downloads
Other online tools and resources

Obtaining Your Hunter College Net ID

For Faculty and Staff

The process of obtaining your Hunter ID, which is linked to your Net ID, typically begins after receiving a letter of appointment. Take this letter to 203 West Building at the 68th St campus to receive your Hunter ID. There is also usually a day towards the beginning of each semester in which ID cards will be made at Silberman.

Activating Your Net ID

Once you have your Hunter ID, you'll likely need to activate your Net ID online. This usually involves setting a password and security questions. Specific instructions for activation are typically provided by the college's IT department.

Using Your Hunter College Net ID

Accessing HunterNet Wi-Fi

To connect to the HunterNet Wi-Fi network, you will need to use your Net ID and password. Once you’ve logged into the HunterNet on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop, you will still need to register your device. Open any browser and type in “hunter.cuny.edu.” Click on the registration link.

Navigating CUNYfirst

CUNYfirst is a vital platform for students and faculty alike. It allows students to manage their academic careers and financial accounts in real time while giving faculty tools to enhance their interaction with students. Accessing CUNYfirst requires your Net ID and password.

Blackboard

Blackboard is the primary learning management system used at Hunter College. It provides access to course materials, assignments, grades, and communication tools. Your Net ID is essential for accessing your Blackboard courses. SSSW will offer workshops on Blackboard integrated tools like VoiceThread, Turninit, Collaborate Ultra, at the start of each semester. In addition to Blackboard trainings, the TRC also offers training on MS Office products, blogs wikis, podcasting, etc.

Email

Your Hunter College email account is another essential tool that is accessed using your Net ID and password. Official college communications, important announcements, and course-related information are often sent via email.

Printing

You can print directly from computers in the library to the printer HP Laserjet 4250n.

Security and Privacy

Protecting Your Credentials

It is crucial to protect your Net ID and password to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information and college resources. Never share your CUNYfirst login information, not even with people you trust. Because CUNYfirst is a "fully integrated system," sharing your account login information will give others access to personal information, such as your social security number, wage and salary information and home address. Security within CUNYfirst is very strict and what each user is able to view is determined on a "need to know" basis. To protect your privacy and prevent unauthorized use, please keep your IDs and passwords in a secure place.

CUNY's Privacy Policy

The City University of New York (CUNY) is committed to respecting your privacy. As an unregistered user, you can visit most of cuny.edu without revealing any personal information. However, in order to personalize your view of our site and gain access to certain information systems, you must register and provide some personal information. CUNY does not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease personal information collected on this site. For purposes of this policy, ''personal information'' means any information concerning a natural person which, because of name, number, symbol, mark or other identifier, can be used to identify that natural person.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of text placed on your computer by a web server. CUNY occasionally use ''session'' cookies on some parts of cuny.edu to enhance your experience of the site and to help you move through it easily. Session cookies created on your computer by CUNY servers do not contain personal information. CUNY may use a session cookie to store a randomly generated identifying tag on your computer. If you register to personalize cuny.edu you will be asked for permission to store a ''persistent'' cookie on your computer's hard drive. This permanent cookie will allow the web site to recognize you and your access privileges when you visit again, and to tailor the information presented to you. Most web browsers may be customized to refuse new cookies or delete existing cookies.

Logs and Network Monitoring

CUNY maintains log files of all access to cuny.edu and also monitor network traffic for purposes of site management and security. CUNY use this information to help diagnose problems with the server and to carry out other administrative tasks. CUNY also use log analysis tools for such purposes as creating summary statistics to determine which information is of most interest to users, identifying system problem areas, and determining technical requirements.

Information Collection and Retention

If you complete a transaction such as an online application or an information request form, CUNY will collect the information, including personal information, that you volunteered in completing the transaction. CUNY do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. We retain the information collected through this web site in accordance with the CUNY records retention and disposition policy. The retention period differs depending on the type of information collected.

Access to and Correction of Personal Information

You may submit a request to the CUNY records access officer to determine whether personal information pertaining to you has been collected through this web site. Your request must be in made in writing and must be accompanied by reasonable proof of your identity. Reasonable proof of identity may include verification of a signature, inclusion of an identifier generally known only to you, or similar appropriate identification. The records access officer will, within five business days of the receipt of a proper request, provide access to the personal information; deny access in writing, explaining the reasons therefore; or acknowledge the receipt of the request in writing, stating the approximate date when the request will be granted or denied, which date shall not be more than thirty days from the date of the acknowledgment.

Confidentiality and Integrity

CUNY limit employee access to personal information collected through cuny.edu to only those employees who need access to the information in the performance of their official duties. Employees who have access to this information follow appropriate procedures in connection with any disclosures of personal information. In addition, CUNY have implemented procedures to safeguard the integrity of CUNY's information technology assets, including, but not limited to, authentication, authorization, monitoring, auditing, and encryption. These security procedures have been integrated into the design, implementation, and day-to-day operations of cuny.edu as part of our continuing commitment to the security of electronic content as well as the electronic transmission of information.

Additional Resources for Faculty

Teaching Support

At the start of each semester the school offers several workshops and trainings to support your teaching. Please visit our Faculty Resources Calendar for the current offerings. You can request your own copy from the textbook publisher at no charge. You may need to set up an account with the publisher to get the textbook(s). We may also have a copy of your textbook here. You can make your own copies with a copy code at copiers, 4th floor. The Copy Center is on the 3rd floor across from the elevators. You also have the option with meeting with students online. Each Blackboard course site has Collaborate Ultra, a web-based meeting tool.

Guest Speakers

You can invite a guest to your classroom. We also provide a small honorarium for one guest speaker each semester.

Absence

If you are sick or have an emergency and cannot teach your class, please contact the Dean’s Office. To make up class time, you can reschedule or post materials and assignments on Blackboard.

Academic Calendar

Each year, the Silberman School of Social Work provides an academic calendar that is specific to our school.

Reappointment Letters

Because of the contract between the union and Hunter College, each semester the School is required to let you know by a certain date whether you will be teaching in the upcoming semester or not. Often the deadline for sending this letter is before staffing of courses has been completed, and you may get a letter informing you that you are not reappointed even if this is not actually the case. In addition, the language used in this letter is governed by this agreement and may seem different from other communications you have had from us.

Meeting with Students

If you need a private room to meet with a student, one option is to reserve the study rooms in the library. Rooms are reserved at the Circulation Desk in person (no reservations are taken over the phone) for groups of 2 to 8.

Addressing Controversies

Professor on Leave After Remarks

A Hunter College professor was placed on leave amid backlash over what the school called her "abhorrent remarks" during a public school district meeting. Hunter College associate professor Allyson Friedman made the remarks during a NYC District 3 Community Education Council (CEC3) meeting earlier this month that she was virtually attending as a parent in the Manhattan district, the university confirmed. While an unidentified eighth grade student spoke against the potential closing of her school, Friedman can be heard saying in a video of the meeting, "They're just too dumb to know they're in a bad school. … Apparently Martin Luther King said it. Like if you train a Black person well enough, they'll know to use the back, you don't have to tell them anymore." Friedman appeared to be referencing remarks made earlier in the meeting by District 3 interim acting superintendent Reginald Higgins, who had quoted the Black scholar Carter G. Woodson: "When you can control a man's thinking, you do not have to send him to the back door, he will go without being told."

During Friedman's remarks, other attendees could be seen reacting in shock and someone interrupts her to say, "What you're saying is absolutely hearable here, you've got to stop." Friedman has apologized for her remarks, which she said were taken out of context during an accidental unmute and did not truly reflect her own views. "During a recent online CEC3 meeting, I was trying to explain the concept of systemic racism to my child by referencing an example of an obviously racist trope," Friedman said in a statement to ABC News. "Due to an inadvertent unmute, only part of that conversation was captured. My complete comments make clear these abhorrent views are not my own, nor were they directed at any student or group. I fully support these courageous students in their efforts to stop school closures. However, I recognize these comments caused harm and pain, while that was not my intent I do truly apologize."

Hunter College said earlier this week that it is "reviewing the situation under the university's applicable conduct and nondiscrimination policies." On Wednesday, Hunter College President Nancy Cantor updated that Friedman, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been placed on leave while the school investigates the incident. "This painful incident unfolded at a meeting where Black History Month was being celebrated and the pernicious and enduring effects of anti-Black systemic racism were being discussed, especially with regard to the role of educational institutions in addressing them," Cantor said in a statement. "Hunter has long embraced such a role, which requires constant vigilance to remain attentive and responsive to the ways in which we continually draw and redraw discriminatory social lines."

CEC3 has condemned what they called Friedman's "racist, anti-Black remarks." "These comments were deeply harmful and wholly unacceptable," CEC3 said in a statement. "That such remarks were made during Black History Month while a student was courageously offering public comment makes this incident even more troubling." New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels has also condemned her remarks, saying at an unrelated press briefing on Tuesday, "It was abhorrent to listen to. And our students deserve so much better." CEC3 member Felicia Reese Amos called for Friedman's resignation as a professor at Hunter College. "The conduct heard publicly demonstrates a breach of moral and professional fitness that cannot be repaired through internal review alone," she said during a CEC3 meeting on Thursday.

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