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Academic SummitThe first stage of the transformation of general education that will increase standards while facilitating transfers at CUNY has been proposed by a task force of distinguished educators and accepted by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, who hailed the plan as key to the University’s academic renaissance and to providing all students with a truly rigorous, broadening and more valuable college education.>> |
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Grants and Honors: Recognizing Faculty AchievementThe University’s renowned faculty members continually win professional-achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from government agencies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside.>> |
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Winter Session: Timely Access to a World of KnowledgeDuring three mid-January weeks, students can fulfill prerequisites, earn extra credits — even study abroad. For as long as she can remember, Sarah Leibowitz has had a keen interest in visiting the Galápagos Islands. But working on a double major in neuroscience and psychology at Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, she never had the time or the budget to fit a trip into her rigorous schedule.>> |
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Noted and QuotedA unique exploration of “The Great Recession” in the context of economic upheaval throughout U.S. history is now available on a dynamic website and a richly illustrated companion calendar.>> |
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Focus: Daily JobsThere are hidden treasures throughout CUNY, programs launched and nurtured by faculty members with a particular blend of vision, passion and wherewithal. One of them is the Department of Photography at LaGuardia Community College, a program that started small in 1986 and became what remains CUNY’s only degree-granting program in photography. Its students’ work has become a signature of the college, earning the department a growing reputation as a jewel of the community colleges.>> |
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Tech-Sharing Boosts CUNY FirstAt Hostos Community College, students win prizes for using home grown technology to register for classes early and perform other tasks. At Brooklyn College, long lines at the registrar have thinned, thanks to a new online appointment scheduler for face-to-face advisement. And IT staff at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have devised a secure wireless link between two college buildings without using expensive fiber optic wiring.>> |
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Book Talk: It’s Easy Bein’ Green in Our CityThat man from Stratford was an expert on the arboreal. He knew from deciduous. Take Macbeth, who wistfully observes just before his demise, “My way of life/ Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf….” Or the>> |
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For Your Benefit: ChangeHow do CUNY employees — or workers anywhere — deal with change at the office? How do they handle new protocols, new supervisors, new schedules — or a new way of working online? The short answer: Change is >> |
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Aspiring Oncologist’s Rx for Success: CUNY Aid x 4Sinai Cuahutenco is on a mission to become an oncologist to honor her mother, who died of colon cancer at age 30 when Sinai was 13. And thanks to four CUNY programs that help talented but academically underprepared and financially needy students, she’s on her way.>> |
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In his four decades at Hostos Community College, Gerald Meyer has been a history professor whose personal history has been defined by his activism in behalf of political, social and educational causes — perhaps none so close to his heart as the college itself. As a member of Hostos’s full-time faculty for 30 years and an adjunct the past seven, Meyers founded the campus chapter of the Professional Staff Congress and served on the executive board of the Hostos Senate. If you ask him to list his activities in support of students and faculty through the years, he says, “I was on almost any committee you could name.”...>>
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CUNY RadioCommittee on Faculty, Staff and AdministrationStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, February 6, 2012. >> |
Testimony of Chancellor Matthew Goldstein on the State Executive Budget Before the Legislative Joint Budget CommitteesGood morning, Chairperson DeFrancisco, Chairman Farrell, members of the Finance and Ways and Means committees, staff, and guests. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today about The City University of New York and the 2012-13 State Executive Budget Proposal. I will ask the senior officers of the University accompanying me to introduce themselves. > Committee on Fiscal AffairsStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Fiscal Affairs, February 6, 2012. ... <podcast> Nas, Jay-Z ‘Battle’ Examined at CCNY Hip Hop ConferenceTechnology and the deejay, the battle between rappers Nas and Jay-Z, B-girls in a male dominated hip-hop world and a retrospective on graffiti are among the issues to be addressed during the third annual “Is Hip Hop History?” conference. Presented by The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, the conference runs February 24-25 at the Center for Worker Education, seventh floor, 25 Broadway, New York. > Academic SummitThe first stage of the transformation of general education that will increase standards while facilitating transfers at CUNY has been proposed by a task force of distinguished educators and accepted by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, who hailed the plan as key to the University’s academic renaissance and to providing all students with a truly rigorous, broadening and more valuable college education. > Grants and Honors: Recognizing Faculty AchievementThe University’s renowned faculty members continually win professional-achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from government agencies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside. > Report On Credits For Transfer StudentsA University-wide study has reported on ways to streamline course credit transfers among community and senior colleges. Too many transfer students find their college credits rejected by their receiving colleges, each of which has discretion to shape its own general education courses and credit requirements, according to the report of a working group convened by Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost Lexa Logue. The report found that transfer students "confront a variety of uncertainties and risks, including the risk of having some credits rejected, which can slow their progress toward their degrees and increase their costs."... >> Colleges Helped In Census DriveThe University played a significant role in the U.S. Census Bureau's massive effort to complete its 2010 New York City count. The University provided facilities in the five boroughs, 17 sites in all, to help the Census Bureau recruit and train students, staff, and community members for its biggest operation: going door-to-door to count households that failed to respond to mailed forms. Patricia A. Valle, an assistant regional census manager, stated that without the University's help "we would not have been able to test and train the thousands of people who came forward to be part of this tremendous undertaking."... >> The Trial of the 19th CenturyA new book by Harold Schechter, professor of American literature and culture at Queens College, recounts a sensational 1840s murder and trial that included an O.J. Simpson-like media circus and the jousting of well-matched legal teams for the prosecution and defense. Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend has a cast that includes the victim, a busy local printer named Samuel Adams, the accused killer, John Colt -- older brother of Sam Colt, inventor of the famous six-shooter -- New York Mayor Robert Hunter Morris, 90 witnesses, and an enthralled public. Was Colt guilty or not guilty? Read the book to find out.... >> Pilot e-Textbook InitiativeThe University has joined forces with IBM and New York City's Department of Education in a pilot e-textbook initiative at Stuyvesant High School aimed at better equipping students to succeed in higher education and then in a global workforce. In the trial program a group of 102 ninth graders will test Kindle DX e-book readers to download text and supplemental materials for geometry, biology and social studies classes. The partnership "takes aim at holding down costs and will offer students tools to better prepare them for college-level work," says Allan H. Dobrin, CUNY executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer. ... >> The World Through Women's EyesInternational filmmakers brought "The World Through Women's Eyes" into focus at the Graduate School of Journalism in April with a global documentary festival launched to recognize the importance of such films in covering world events at a time of declining international news coverage. "It was all that we envisioned at the start and more ... not just filmmakers talking about films," says film board founder and chairman Lonnie Isabel. CUNY's journalism school has also started a documentary film class and Isabel expects that student film projects and discussions will be part of the next documentary festival. ... >> CUNY's Website Is a Big HitCUNY's Website Is a Big HitThe University's website -- www.cuny.edu -- has increased traffic by more than 50 percent to a record 1.64 million unique visitors per month since its 5.0 redesign one year ago. It is now the second most searched site on Google in the New York metropolitan area. In March 2011, the site produced a record 6.6 million page "hits" or pageviews. Among the most visited pages were the homepage, the portal log, admissions related pages, and employment and job search pages. In addition to providing vital services to faculty and students, the site, which is managed by the Office of University Relations, is also becoming a favorite for lifelong learners. ... >> Honor for Anti-Apartheid HeroJonathan "Johnny" Clegg -- the renowned South African musician, human rights activist and anthropologist -- received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from The CUNY School of Law on April 5. Best known for songs such as "Asimbonanga" ("We have not seen him") -- a tribute to Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Victoria Mxenge, Neill Aggett and other anti-apartheid heroes and martyrs -- Clegg and his bands Juluka (the first mixed-race band in South Africa, formed with the Zulu musician Sipho Mchunu,) and Savuka defied apartheid laws by performing for racially mixed audiences, resulting in numerous arrests for Clegg and band members. ... >> Rising Star at Queens CollegeLiliete Lopez, a graduate of Hostos Community College now attending Queens College, has been honored as a "rising star" by the Queens Courier. Because she is blind, Lopez wasn't permitted to go to public school until she moved to America from Nicaragua at 13. But she's flourished in this country. Since 2009, she's been the treasurer of the CUNY Coalition for Students With Disabilities, which represents 9,000 students. Last fall, she was elected vice chair of disabled student affairs for the University Student Senate. ... >> CUNYfirst Speeds Things UpAt a recent conference at City College, Queensborough Community College students Aradhna Persaud and Ashley Grant gave the new CUNYfirst system a test drive. Persaud logged into her student center, checked her adviser-approved course plan, searched for classes and put two into her shopping cart. It was easy, she says and while it was just a demonstration, using CUNYfirst (fully integrated resources and services tool) will eventually be the normal routine for students, faculty and staff. It will replace a jumble of inefficient, campus-based computer systems -- some dating to the 1970s. When it's fully deployed, every University information system will seamlessly mesh with every other. ... >> Professor Tracks Ex-Convict's LifeFor eight years, Greg Donaldson, a communications and theatre arts professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, followed the life of Kevin Davis, a former prisoner who spent seven years behind bars. Out of that came the book Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small-Town America. The title refers to a neighborhood in Elmira, one of New York's many upstate cities noted for rusting factories and a big prison where "mixed-race couples and their children abound." ... >> |
Black History Month Kick-off Event: Perspectives on Race >>February 9, 2012
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