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he experiment is to be tried…
whether the children of the people,
the children of the whole people,
can be educated; whether an institution of learning,
of the highest grade, can be successfully controlled
by the popular will, not by the privileged few,
but by the privileged many.”
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Unanimous Choice for Chancellor -- James Milliken
HE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of The
City University of New York voted
unanimously to appoint James B.
Milliken, president of the
University of Nebraska system since
2004 and a nationally prominent leader in
public higher education, as the seventh
Chancellor of CUNY, the nation’s leading
urban public university.
The appointment follows the
unanimous recommendation of a 16 member search committee of trustees, CUNY
college presidents, faculty, students and
alumni led by Board Chairperson Benno
Schmidt, a former president of Yale
University and a former dean of Columbia
University Law School.
The committee was assisted in its
national search by Isaacson, Miller, a leading executive search firm in the not-forprofit sector. President Milliken is a Phi
Beta Kappa graduate of the University of
Nebraska and was a Root-Tilden Scholar at
New York University, where he earned his
law degree in 1983. He spent the better part
of a decade in New York City, having served
with the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Division,
Chelsea Neighborhood Branch, and subsequently as an attorney with Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft from 1983 to 1988. He
served in numerous leadership capacities
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As University of Nebraska
president, CUNY’s chancellor-designate,
James B. Milliken, center, toured high schools
promoting Collegebound Nebraska, a tuitionassistance program for low-income students.
Prince Amukamara, a cornerback on the Giants
2011 Superbowl-winning team and an AllAmerican with the college Huskers, joined him at
Omaha North High School in March 2012.
Milliken invited Amukamara, who earned a B.A.
in 2010 in seven semesters of study, to be an
ongoing spokesman for Collegebound Nebraska.
Omaha North alumna Sharon Ward, a
Collegebound Nebraska recipient who is
now a junior majoring in athletic training,
also encouraged students to use the
scholarship to make higher
education a reality.
on state, national and international levels,
including recently representing the United
States in the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogues
conference in New Delhi with Secretary of
State John Kerry.
President Milliken currently leads the
University of Nebraska system, a
statewide public university comprising
four main campuses, including one of the
nation’s top 50 public universities. The
University of Nebraska enrolls more than
50,000 students, employs approximately
13,000 faculty and staff, and operates with
an annual budget of $2.3 billion, including
research expenditures of well over $300
million. The University of Nebraska
Medical Center has six colleges and two
institutes, which train students in medicine, dentistry, public health and related
fields. Previously he served as senior vice
president for university affairs at the
220,000-student, 16-campus University of
North Carolina system, whose current
budget for academics, research, hospital
and other services tops $9.3 billion.
He led a division responsible for the
development and implementation of universitywide strategy, outreach, economic
development, state and federal government relations, public affairs, communications, and advancement.
President Milliken has demonstrated a
deep commitment to academic excellence,
educational access, economic development
and community outreach. He has raised
enrollments and donations at the university to record levels, dramatically expanded
financial aid and scholarships, increased
ties to Nebraska’s public schools, and pioneered distance education through the
groundbreaking University of Nebraska
Online Worldwide program and the Virtual
Scholars program for high school students.
His presidency has included a focus on
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organizations as well as
research grants from
government agencies,
farsighted foundations and
leading corporations.
Pictured are just a few of the
recent honorees. Brief
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Transportation Research
Center (UTRC), Region 2,
based at City College and
directed by Camille Kamga,
has received more than $25
million in new federal and
state funding, as follows:
$5.2 million for 2013 and
2014 from the U.S. Department of Transportation
(USDOT) through the
Research and Innovative
Technology Administration’s
University Transportation
Center program; $10 million
each, both over five years,
from the New York State
Department of Transportation and the New York
Metropolitan Transportation
Council. The UTRC will
promote research to improve
public health and safety,
foster livable communities,
ensure that transportation
assets are maintained in a
state of good repair, support
the nation’s long-term
economic competiveness and
work to achieve environmental sustainability.
Bronx Community
College has received a
$1,383,864 grant from the
New York State Education
Department for an
“Institutional Improvement”
project under the direction of
Carin Savage. The U.S.
Department of Education has
awarded $563,750 to Erwin
Wong and Janey Flanagan of
Borough of Manhattan
Community College for
“Strengthening Academic
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Nationally Prominent Educator James Milliken t
Benefits for the University
I
write to inform you on some significant actions in Washington, D.C., and
Albany that could greatly benefit
CUNY and our students.
On Jan. 17, President Obama signed the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014.
This bipartisan budget agreement restores
the student aid programs that sequestration had cut and increases Pell Grants to
$5,730, effective in 2014-2015.
I joined Nancy Zimpher, the SUNY
chancellor, and Laura Anglin, president of
the Commission on Independent Colleges
and Universities, in writing letters of appreciation to New York’s members of Congress
who supported the bill. We also argued for
substantial increases for the National
Institutes of Health and the National
Science Foundation, whose grants are critically important to researchers; the act
raised their budgets, but they remain well
short of pre-sequester levels.
The act also advances President Obama’s
plan to link federal aid to college performance by requiring the U.S. Department of
Education (DOE) to report graduation
rates for Pell Grant recipients by institution; over time that should generate useful
trend lines.
Similarly, DOE last year created the
online College Scorecard, which posts
charts for each college on costs, graduation
rate, loan-default rate, average amount borrowed and employment after graduation.
The administration recognizes that the
metrics and data are not perfect. For example, employment depends on many factors
outside a college’s control.
The president intends to augment this
with a proposed rating system that would
highlight college performance and
accountability. To develop that system,
DOE sought technical advice from stakeholders. I appointed an ad hoc committee
chaired by Lehman College President
Ricardo Fernández.
Their thoughtful report should be DOE’s
blueprint for a valid rating system. Betterinformed students should make better
choices, and colleges that want to maximize
their share of $150 billion in federal financial aid would have an incentive to become
more efficient and student-centered. The
rating system takes effect by 2015. The
president intends to tie those ratings to the
amount of financial aid a college could give
to students by 2018.
Of course, President Obama isn’t getting
much cooperation out of Congress, which is
why he is doing some of this with executive
orders. Unlike laws, executive orders vanish
when a president leaves office, and many
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private and proprietary
colleges and universities hope to dilute the rating initiative.
CUNY, however, endorses the rating
effort. Our committee modeled the kind of
system that DOE should adopt, giving equal
weight to the president’s three metrics:
access, affordability and student outcomes.
In our modeling, CUNY’s four-year colleges
would rank in the top 36 of more than 550
public four-year institutions nationally.
Our two-year colleges would rank in the top
half of their peers. In short, CUNY already
delivers cost-effective higher education
that prepares alumni for the workplace.
On a related note, our community college presidents have joined the national
discussion. Kingsborough’s Interim
President Stuart Suss and Hostos’ President
Félix V. Matos Rodríguez provided their
thoughts at the recent White House
Summit on the future of higher education.
Closer to home, I attended Gov. Cuomo’s
State of the State address. He proposed
investing $55 million more in his CUNY
2020 capital construction initiative. While
awaiting the final go-ahead for the first
round, we’re excited to contemplate further
campus improvements. He also proposed
scholarships in STEM fields for the top 10
percent of high school students, an interesting idea. His Executive Budget proposes
$102.2 million more for CUNY, although it
would decrease aid to community colleges.
Of course, much can happen between a
governor proposing budgets and programs
and the Legislature enacting and funding
them. We will be working in Albany to try
to obtain an improved budget for the
University.
Finally, the University community
pledges our support to ChancellorDesignate James B. Milliken. We are helping in every way during this transition
period so he can lead the University that we
all love to even greater heights. I wish all
members of the University community a
successful semester as you pursue your
goals and objectives.
— William P. Kelly
Interim Chancellor
William P. Kelly was appointed Interim
Chancellor of The City University of New
York by the Board of Trustees effective July
1, 2013, succeeding Matthew Goldstein. Dr.
Kelly, a distinguished scholar of American
literature, is on leave from the presidency of
the CUNY Graduate Center.
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strategic initiatives resulting in expanded
access; record increases in research; significant physical expansion of the campuses;
a highly successful capital campaign; and
an emphasis on public/private partnerships and global engagement.
Chairman Schmidt stated: “President
Milliken is a highly regarded national
leader in higher education. He brings to
CUNY an impressive record of extensive
academic and administrative experience
and a demonstrated record of success in
working with students, faculty, alumni and
community leaders to offer quality, affordable higher education.”
President Milliken said: “I am honored
and excited by this appointment to lead
America’s premier urban public university.
CUNY has played a historic and vital role
for New York and the nation, producing
illustrious alumni including a dozen Nobel
Laureates and other leaders in the
sciences, the arts, engineering, business,
government and a host of other fields.
CUNY today has a world-class faculty, talented students, an outstanding reputation,
rising enrollments, increased academic
standards and the most diverse student
body in the nation. It enjoys significant
momentum and unlimited potential. I
look forward to working with the faculty
and students, the Board of Trustees and
other University leadership, and city, state,
and federal officials to build upon these
achievements as CUNY creates new
knowledge and prepares the workforce of
the future.”
Under President Milliken’s leadership,
enrollment at the University of Nebraska
in 2013 reached a 20-year high, totaling
50,705 at NU’s four campuses: the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the system’s flagship campus and one of the
nation’s top 50 public universities; the
University of Nebraska at Omaha, home of
the multicampus Peter Kiewit Institute of
Information Science, Technology and
Engineering; the University of Nebraska at
Kearney; the University of Nebraska
Medical Center, site of the cutting-edge
Durham Research Centers and NIC-designated cancer center; as well as a college
that offers a two-year technical degree program. First-time freshmen enrollment
rose by nearly 7 percent in 2013, and international student enrollment also grew to
record levels, totaling 3,638, including students from more than 130 countries.
During his tenure, the University of
Nebraska has made record investments in
financial aid, including Collegebound
Nebraska, which guarantees that qualifying Nebraska students can attend NU and
pay no tuition. Approximately 7,000 students attend tuition-free under the program. In addition, through several high
school academies the university provides
students in Omaha, Grand Island, Kearney,
Lexington and North Platte with early
advising and full scholarships, helping
increase college-going among historically
underrepresented student groups in the
state, including first-generation, lowincome and minority students.
President Milliken has described
human capital as America’s greatest asset
in a global economy. He has emphasized
the value of outstanding academic
programs, ranging from the liberal arts to
the STEM disciplines, in order to “teach
students how to communicate well, how to
solve problems, and how to work collaboratively.” For example, the University of
Nebraska’s Peter Kiewit Institute is
designed to advance research, scholarship,
and creative innovation and help meet the
needs of the nation’s technology and engi-
Research Grants from
EBUILDING after Hurricane
Sandy, the impact of climate
change on New York City, the
causes of crib deaths, and minority participation in medical education were among the exceptional faculty
research subjects honored recently by The
City University of New York. Some 250
faculty members received $379 million in
grants for research that expanded the
boundaries of science, detailed potential
improvements in public health and deepened knowledge in other academic disciplines.
Among the research highlights were
environmentally sound rebuilding after
Sandy and assessing the impact of climate
change on cities. Some of the weatherrelated fields were explored by City
University of New York faculty members
like Kyle McDonald of Brooklyn College,
Gregory O’Mullan of Queens College, and
Jack Caravanos and William Solecki of
Hunter College.
In the public health arena, professors
Tracy Chu of Brooklyn College and Doris
Cintron-Nabi and Denise Hien of City
College engaged in potentially lifesaving
research into, respectively, crib deaths,
minority participation in medical education
and the translation of basic research about
addictions into practices that can help
members of racial and ethnic minorities.
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neering firms by offering top-flight education in computer science and engineering.
Under President Milliken’s leadership,
donors to the University of Nebraska gave a
record $236.7 million to the school in 2013,
the best year ever for private gifts. This
amounted to a 43 percent increase over the
last fiscal year and a 37 percent increase
over the previous gift record in 2011. An
important component of the university’s
successful fundraising has been its ability
to leverage the support of the Nebraska
Legislature in providing funds for several
major initiatives that will benefit the state.
With a year remaining in a major capital
campaign, the university has raised over
$1.5 billion — well in excess of its initial
goal of $1.2 billion.
President Milliken has helped lead initiatives to develop new public/private campuses, including the 250-acre “Nebraska
Innovation Campus” to leverage the
research strengths of the Lincoln campus
in food, fuel and water; a 70-acre expansion
of the UNO campus to provide for growth
and private sector engagement; and planning for a 100-acre campus in Kearney with
private and university activities. He led the
development of the Robert B. Daugherty
Water for Food Institute, a universitywide,
global center to address the challenges of
food security and water shortage in the 21st
century, and chairs the board of the
Daugherty Institute, whose other board
members include Jeff Raikes, CEO of the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and
Mogens Bay, CEO of Valmont Industries.
President Milliken has been a strong
advocate of distance education through
innovative online courses and programs to
connect faculty and students across the
state and around the world. He led the
development of a new business model for
the distance education program in order to
offer high quality, competitively priced
high school, undergraduate and graduate
education. The university’s Online
Worldwide program offers adult learners
more than 130 programs and the opportunity to be taught by the same faculty who
teach at the University of Nebraska campuses, and to earn the same degree as that
of on-campus students. The goal is to help
individuals transform their lives by bringing them access to the finest teachers.
More than half of the University of
Nebraska’s undergraduates receive some
form of grant aid that does not have to be
repaid, and the four NU campuses have the
four lowest student loan default rates
among Nebraska public institutions. More
than 2,500 NU students are receiving
financial aid from the Susan T. Buffett
Foundation, which provides scholarships
to students at Nebraska public colleges and
universities and sponsors the Thompson
Scholars Program at NU, working with
first-generation and low income students
to increase success.
The university recently expanded opportunities in its Virtual Scholars program,
which began in 2011, so students from
across the state – many in rural districts –
are now able to supplement their education
with free online courses from the
University of Nebraska High School, which
is part of University of Nebraska Online
Worldwide and offers a fully accredited
high school curriculum. The high school
serves more than 2,400 students.
He also led efforts to establish the
Buffett Early Childhood Institute, a universitywide, multidisciplinary center
intended to transform the role of public
universities in early childhood development and education.
In 2009, the Obama Administration
nominated President Milliken as a delegate
and invited expert to the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization’s decennial World
Conference on Higher Education in Paris,
where he represented U.S. higher education’s innovation agenda and served as an
adviser to the UNESCO communiqué
drafting group. Last June, he participated
in the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogues in
New Delhi with Secretary of State Kerry,
where at the invitation of the Obama
administration he represented U.S.
research universities. He has led the development of research and education
programs in China, India, Brazil and other
countries.
President Milliken also holds faculty
appointments in the College of Law at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the
School of Public Administration at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha. He
serves on the board of directors of the
American Council on Education and was a
member of the ACE Blue Ribbon Panel on
Global Engagement. He served on the
board of directors of the Association of
Public and Land-grant Universities and is
the past chair of the APLU Commission on
Innovation, Competitiveness and
Economic Prosperity. He also co-chaired
the Council on Competitiveness’ Regional
Innovation Initiative Leadership Steering
Committee and serves on the Council’s
Executive Committee. President Milliken
serves on the boards of the Greater
Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the
Nebraska State Chamber of Commerce,
BioNebraska, the Nebraska Advanced
Manufacturing Coalition, and The
Nebraska Medical Center, the university’s
hospital partner. He is a co-chair of the
Nebraska P-16 Initiative and serves on the
national Business Higher Education
Forum.
President Milliken will assume the position of Chancellor no later than June 1,
2014. He succeeds Matthew Goldstein,
who served as CUNY’s sixth Chancellor
from 1999 until 2013. Dr. William P. Kelly
is currently serving as CUNY’s Interim
Chancellor.
Crib Deaths to Climate Change
Faculty members honored at The City
University of New York’s Salute to
Scholars annual reception in December
In history, sociology and other
disciplines, scholars including Herman L.
Bennett of the Graduate Center, Alberto
Hernandez of Hunter College and Maria
Volpe of John Jay College of Criminal
Justice explored issues that speak to the
breadth of human experience.
Scholarship and creativity blossom as
well at CUNY’s community colleges.
Grants and awards ranged across a the
spectrum, with an international poetry
prize for Carl Grindley of Hostos
Community College, a federal grant to
engage students in cell biology for Lalitha
Jayant at Borough of Manhattan
Community College, a National
Endowment for the Humanities award
involving Latino history and food for
Megan Elias of Queensborough
Community College and NASA grants to
Michael Weisberg of Kingsborough
Community College and Yasser Hassebo of
LaGuardia Community College.
Interim Chancellor William P. Kelly
said: “We applaud the scholarship and
research undertaken across the University,
which is central to CUNY’s historic mission. Faculty discoveries improve the
human condition, assist local and global
communities and enhance our students’
academic experience. We take enormous
pride in the work of all of our scholars and
commend the award winners.”
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Programs.” Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras of
City College has received $210,450 from the
National Institutes of Health for research
concerning “Neuronal Ensembles During
Development of Tonotopic Maps in the Auditory
Systems.”
Gillian Small, CUNY’s Vice Chancellor for
Research, was honored by the Feminist Press
at its benefit dinner with an award for
Inspiration, Empowerment, Insight and
Leadership. Dr. Small said institutions can use
feminism to determine how to be more
supportive of women who balance careers and
family. The Feminist Press has supported Dr.
Small’s Women in Science Group at CUNY.
Michelle J. Anderson, dean of the CUNY School
of Law, was a member of a New York City Bar
Association task force of prominent lawyers,
law school deans, prosecutors and other legal
professionals that proposed, among other
initiatives, establishing a new law firm where
young lawyers could gain experience by helping
people who need legal representation but
cannot afford to pay full price.
Ellen Noonan of the Graduate School and
University Center has received $626,157 from
the Education Development Center Inc. for
“Zoom In: Curriculum & Professional
Development Modules for Social Studies
Teachers Using Common
Core.” Kingsborough
Community College has
been awarded $530,000
from the Robin Hood
Foundation for “Opening
Doors Learning
Noonan
Communities,” directed by
Marisa Schlesinger. Mahesh K. Lakshman of
City College has received a four-year $500,000
grant from the National Science FoundationDivision of Chemistry for a project titled
“Catalysis Chemistry Involving Nucleosides
and Related Heterocycles.” Loretta Capuano of
LaGuardia Community College has been
awarded $216,452 from the New York State
Education Department for a “Student
Information Center.”
Ann Jacobs of John Jay College has been
awarded $4,500,000 from the New York City
Center for Economic Opportunity for “The New
York City Justice Corps,” as well as a $636,536
grant, with Jeffrey Butts, from the Pinkerton
Foundation for the “Pinkerton Fellowship
Initiative.” Lehman College has received a
$303,060 grant from the SUNY Research
Foundation for the “New York State Small
Business Development Center,” under the
direction of Clarence Stanley. Regina Cardaci
of Queensborough Community College was the
recipient of a grant totaling $235,971 from
HRSA – Bureau of Health Professions for
“Nursing Workforce Diversity – Pathways to
Nursing (P2N).” Reginald Blake of New York
City College of Technology has won a $198,909
grant from the National Science Foundation for
“REU Site: Experiences for Undergraduates.”
Ana Carnaval, Michael Hickerson and
Kyle McDonald of City College are part of a
multidisciplinary,
international team of
researchers that has been
awarded nearly $4 million
over five years to develop
a broad interdisciplinary
framework to explain and Carnaval
predict plant and animal
species distribution in Brazil’s endangered
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Atlantic Forest. The team includes scientists
from the New York Botanical Garden and the
University of São Paulo (USP) and is co-led by
Carnaval and USP’s Cristina Miyaki. The NSF
and NASA are jointly funding the study in the
U.S., while the São Paulo Research Foundation
is supporting the research in Brazil.
The New York City Department of Youth
and Community Development has awarded five
grants totaling $1,968,941 to Simone
Rodriguez-Dorestant of Medgar Evers College
for the following projects: “Steps to Success,
Out of School Youths”; “Beacon Center at IS
323”; “Crown Heights Beacon”; “Beacon
Flatbush”; and “PYE Beacon.” Brooklyn College
has received $376,800 in grant funding from
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a
research project, “A Multi-Component Approach
to Extinction in Pavlov Learning,” directed by
Andrew Delamater. The
PHS/NIH National Institute
on Deafness & Other
Communication Disorders
has extended $236,795 in
grant support to Ofer
Tchernichovski of Hunter
Delamater
College for research
concerning “Behavior Mechanisms of Vocal
Imitation.”
Jeffrey Parsons of Hunter College has
received three grants, totaling $1,784,848,
from the PHS/NIH/National Institute on Drug
Abuse for the following projects: “Syndemics &
Resilience for HIV Transmission in a National
Sample of Vulnerable Men”; “Multicomponent
Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk and
Substance Abuse”; and “Intervention Targeting
Substance Abuse Using Older Adults with HIV.”
City College has been awarded a $539,999
grant from the U.S. Army Research Office for
the study “Random Fields and Collective
Effects in Molecular Magnets,” directed by
Myriam Sarachik. The National Science
Foundation has awarded $299,921 to Michal
Kruk and Shuiqin Zhou of the College of Staten
Island for “Design of Novel Large-Pore
Nanoporous Materials Through Understanding
of Micelle Templating Process.”
Ezequiel Jiménez of Lehman College, a
visual artist and cultural
activist, was recently
honored by his hometown of
Santiago de los Caballeros,
Dominican Republic, as a
Distinguished Son and
Meritorious by unanimous
Sarachik
vote of the City Council.
Angel Rivera, Chief Diversity Officer for
Kingsborough Community College, received a
2013 Multicultural Leadership Award from
former U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell at
the National Diversity and Leadership
Conference held in September at California
University of Pennsylvania.
Marzie Jafari of Lehman College has
received five grants, totaling $648,550 from
Perfect Choice Staffing for “RN Completion/
MSN Program”; the Hospital League, Local
1199, for “Health Care Careers Core
Curriculum/ Certificate in Alcohol and
Substance Abuse Counseling” and “BSN Cohort
Classes”; from Healthpro Nursing Solutions for
“RN Completion Program Korea”; and from
Bronx Lebanon Hospital, for “Master of Nursing
Program.” Barbara Martin of Bronx Community
College has received two grants from the New
York City Human Resource Administration
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NEWSWIRE
AVE YOU HEARD? Working with NASA, Medgar Evers students launched a
satellite … CUNY students and alumni won 23 National Science
Foundation fellowships last year … The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at
Hunter celebrated its 40th anniversary ….
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Medgar Evers senior
Lissette Ortiz introduces
former President Bill
Clinton, who presided over
the swearing-in ceremony
of Mayor Bill de Blasio
A Medgar Evers College senior took
center stage at City Hall during the Jan. 1
mayoral inauguration. Lissette Ortiz introduced former President Bill Clinton, who
presided over the swearing-in ceremony of
Mayor Bill de Blasio. Ortiz, who was born
in the Dominican Republic and moved to
the United States when she was 15, said
she was honored to speak about the struggles of immigrant students. “I used to see
Sonya Sotomayor and other prominent
Hispanics, and I would dream of being
where they stand. I didn’t expect it, but
when it did happen, the only thing I could
do was prepare and take the responsibility
seriously,” said the public administration
major. Ortiz, a student leader at MEC, was
chosen to speak through her participation
in the New York Needs You Fellowship — a
career-development and leadership program at CUNY for first-generation
students.
Irish letters. Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin
and Colum
McCann are
among the 23 contemporary Irish
and IrishAmerican authors
profiled in CUNYTV’s 13-part
series, Irish
Writers In
America. The
series, directed
and produced by
Lisa Beth Kovetz, was filmed over a year
and a half.
Colum McCann
Another ‘A’ for CUNY. A new study by the
Institute for College Access and Success
puts the CUNY Value in perspective. While
the study showed that nationwide more
than 70 percent of college students in 2012
had student loans and average debt that
surpassed $29,000, nearly 80 percent of
CUNY students get a debt-free education
and only 15 percent end up owing money.
Nearly 80 percent of CUNY students
get a debt-free education and
only 15 percent end up owing money.
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How many flips does it take to turn a pile
of pancakes into a nicely ordered stack? It’s
no accident that City College professor
Jacob E.
Goodman
was asked
this question
during the
celebration
of his 80th
birthday on
Nov. 14. It
was he, after
all, who found out the answer in 1975, but
you might not connect his name to this
mathematical puzzle because he published
it in American Mathematical Monthly
under the moniker Harry Dweighter. It
seems that back in those days he had to
concoct a pseudonym because he thought
that such a trivial question would damage
his budding mathematical career.
Although some of Goodman’s other papers
were inspired by such staples as potatoes,
he hasn’t published anything on birthday
cakes, at least not yet.
Canine stress relief for
Queens College students
Students’ best friends. During finals
week, Queens College students got to work
off their stress by playing with puppies and
getting massages. The therapies, provided
by the student association, lowered pretest jitters and got an A from students.
Don’t count on videos. Not all math video
games add up to learning experiences,
according to a study of middle schoolers
that CUNY conducted with researchers at
New York University. It was only when students competed or collaborated that education was enhanced; those who played solo
didn’t go to the head of the class.
Tipsy Fruit Flies. If you want to know
how alcohol affects your love life, ask a
drunken fruit fly. That’s what LaGuardia
Community College honors student Wai
“Kat” Lam did to win top honors in the
National Collegiate Honors Council’s Best
Student Poster Presentation competition.
Her experiment showed that fruit flies
that got a buzz on jazzed up their
courtship rituals but did not have a higher
mating rate than their sober peers and also
produced fewer offspring.
National Science Foundation fellowships have been awarded to 58 CUNY students and alumni in the past five years, and
2013 was the best year yet. The University
had 23 winners of NSF fellowships last
year —each worth up to $126,000. But
CUNY could increase that number in coming years by promoting awareness of the
fellowships, reaching out to superior candidates and encouraging them to apply.
That was the message of the CUNY
Conference on Prestigious Scholarships
and the STEM Disciplines, a gathering in
November that was both a celebration of
this year’s success and an informational
meeting aimed at reaching students
throughout CUNY who either aren’t aware
of the coveted fellowships or lack the confidence or support to seek them.
“We’re focusing on individuals of high
potential,” Gisele Muller-Parker, program
director for the National Science
Foundation’s Graduate Research
Fellowships, told the gathering of CUNY
faculty, advisors, mentors and administrators. “You’ve got an amazing population of
people who should be thinking about
applying.”
Muller-Parker praised the CUNY faculty and staff for their success in recruiting
applicants, but urged them to reach out to
students who may not recognize their own
promise. “We want even more of your students to apply and succeed in our
program,” she said.
The foundation awards 2,000 fellowships a year nationwide to graduate students who demonstrate potential to be
high-achieving scientists and engineers.
The fellowships give them the freedom to
pursue scientific research early in their
careers. While winners are typically funded for research in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and
mathematics, fellowships are also granted
for research in economics, political science
and other social and behavioral sciences.
Half of this year’s award recipients were
women and more than 20 percent were
underrepresented minorities.
One way to help students submit
strong applications, Muller-Parker said, is
for more faculty advisers to join the specialized NSF panels that review fellowship
applications from all over the country.
That would help them become more familiar with the application process and what
the NSF is looking for. “We view being a
panelist for the program as the best outreach you can do for your schools,” she
said.
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NEWSWIRE
Fewer calories up, up and away. Air
flights may be up in the air, but the calorie
counts of their meals are down. That’s
what Hunter professor Charles Platkin of
the School of Public Health discovered in a
recent annual study of the industry. From
2012 to 2013, he says, the average calorie
count dropped from 388 to 360. Virgin
America and Air Canada offer the healthiest fare, he says, while Allegiant Air had
the distinction of being at the bottom of
the list.
Making kids safe. In the wake of the
December 2012 fatal shootings at Sandy
Hook Elementary School, the Connecticut
district is partnering with John Jay
College to review school security and make
recommendations.
Working on the railroad. A study by the Queens College Urban Studies Department may play a key role in determining the fate of a
3.5-mile stretch of abandoned railroad line that runs through Rego Park, Forest Hills, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and Ozone Park. The
borough of Queens has been grappling with several plans, including one that would turn a section of the land into a public park. State
Assembly Member Phillip Goldfeder praised the college, which is supplying $100,000 in grant money to evaluate the revitalization proposals and determine how they will affect residents.
Hunting Like a Shark. When it comes to
finding food, humans and animals are on
the same track. So says Hunter College
professor Herman Pontzer, who studied
the foraging habits of the Hadza tribe in
Tanzania.
Members of the tribe, one of the last
groups in the world to forage on foot using
traditional methods, wore GPS-equipped
wristwatches that recorded their movements, which showed that they, like sharks
and honeybees, move in a mathematical
pattern called the Levy walk.
The study, published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, is the
first to find the match.
Students at Medgar Evers College,
with a little help from NASA, recently built
a mini-research satellite that was launched
into space. The so-called CubeSat, which
is a 4-inch
cube, was
part of the
auxiliary
payload
aboard a
United
Launch
Alliance
Atlas V rocket and was
NASA’s fifth Educational Launch of
Nanosatellite mission that gives students,
teachers and faculty members hands-on
experience developing flight hardware by
providing access to low-cost research.
Get daily Newswire reports at
nic studies academic programs.
“As part of our goals for the 40th
anniversary, and with generous support
from the Ford Foundation, we launched a
national campaign to engage partners and
celebrate events recognizing pioneers and
Puerto Ricans who made a difference in
their communities,” said Centro Director
Edwin Melendez.
cuny.edu/newswire. To download the free app
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‘Supreme Decisions.’ A free CUNY calendar of judicial decisions that shaped American life is now available. CUNY and The New York Times in Education have partnered to publish the “Supreme Decisions” calendar and its companion website. They chronicle the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and how
its interpretations of the Constitution reflect in our politics, culture and society. Published in the wake of landmark decisions on marriage equality and voting rights, it is a timely and welcome contribution to the history of this powerful, unelected branch of our government, says Interim Chancellor William P.
Kelly. This is the 10th calendar from a unique partnership between the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College and The New York
Times Photo Archives. Previous calendars have explored voting rights and citizenship, women’s leadership, immigration, freedom, city life, public higher education, health, the economy, and science, technology, engineering and math. Search.cuny.edu “Supreme Decisions”
SUPREME DECISIONS
Center for Puerto Rican Studies 40th
Anniversary. To the driving beats of Latin
jazz, more than 400 scholars, elected officials and community activists gathered
Oct. 17 to mark the 40th anniversary of
CUNY’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies,
reaffirming its role as the nation’s only
research institute devoted to Puerto Ricans
in the United States. The center, based at
Hunter College and popularly known as
Centro, was established in 1973 by CUNY
students, faculty and community activists.
Its origins were rooted in the largely black
and Puerto Rican student-based efforts to
secure open-admissions access to public
higher education and the creation of eth-
FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances.
LaGuardia
and Wagner
Archives
2014 Calendar
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From Film School
to Photonics,
Sustainability to Branding,
Graduate
Degrees
for Tomorrow
T BROOKLYN
COLLEGE, plans are
under way to transform
a portion of Steiner
Studios at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard into the
Barry R. Feirstein
Graduate School of
Cinema, a new film
school that will boast
the largest production
studio outside of Hollywood.
Inside a photonics lab at Queens
College, graduate students are testing
fiber-optic components and learning
about advanced lasers for possible careers
in defense or national security.
And, at City College in upper
Manhattan, students in the Branding and
Integrated Communications master’s program are creating inspired multimedia
campaigns for Citi Bike, New York’s bikesharing system.
On the campuses and in the research
centers of the City University of New York,
dozens of new and innovative graduate
programs are being offered to better prepare students for careers in the emerging
areas of technology, medicine, public
health, advertising, film, and digital media.
Currently, the University has more than
800 graduate degree programs at its 24
schools and colleges in traditional fields
such as education, business management,
public administration and social services.
But the newest array of graduate degrees
that has unfolded in the past five years
illustrates the evolution in masters programs aimed at meeting demands of highly
competitive students and providing the
city with a more qualified workforce.
“The City University of New York is
continuing to build upon its historic mission of providing high-quality academic
opportunities for New Yorkers,” said
Interim Chancellor William Kelly. “These
new programs represent excellent examples of how, with the help of a world-class
faculty and staff, we are maintaining our
momentum to provide the best possible
A
education at an affordable cost.”
Perhaps the most
highly publicized initiative has been the new
Barry R. Feirstein
Graduate School of
Cinema. The Feirstein
school, the first such program at a public university and the first on a
commercial film lot, will
offer two new master’s
degrees: an MFA in
Cinema Arts and MFA in
Cinema Studies. Earlier
this year, director
Jonathan Wacks, of the
television show “21 Jump
Street,” was named
founding director of the
school.
In a show of public
support for the project,
the film school will
receive $6.7 million in
city funding to start the
school and another $5
million from the state.
Another high profile
project in the works is
the plan to transform the
Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education at City College into
a full-fledged medical school. Currently,
the school offers a five-year program that
includes a Bachelor of Science degree and
the first two years of medical-school education. The move to a full, medical-degree
program will offer a combined B.S./M.D.
degree in seven years.
The plan passed the first hurdle with
Board of Trustees approval in December
to create a department of medical education. Still needed are funding support
6 CUNY MATTERS — Winter 2014
from the New York State Department of
Education and approval by the Liaison
Committee on Medical Education, which
accredits U.S. medical education
programs.
Jobs in the health care sector are
expected to increase in the next decade,
leading to a greater demand for employees
with health-related graduate degrees. Dr.
Ayman El-Mohandes, dean of the CUNY
School of Public Health, said the expected
growth in health care jobs is attributed to
the combination of retirements and newly
created positions.
“Approximately 250,000 retirements in
the public health workforce are anticipated over the next five years,” said Dr. ElMohandes. “So there is no doubt that
there will be a tremendous need for people with public health degrees. And this is
in addition to new jobs that will be created and funded through the Affordable
Care Act.”
The CUNY School of Public Health,
which offers master’s programs at four
campuses, has added several cutting-edge
degree programs including a Master of
Public Health with a concentration in
maternal, child, reproductive and sexual
health. Dr. El-Mohandes said the focus on
women and children in public health
remains critical due to troubling disparities in rates of infant mortality, childhood
obesity and diabetes.
Another innovative public health program is the Master of Public Health in
Geographic Information Science (GIS) at
Lehman College, which trains students in
mapping and analysis of health data.
“GIS is a very important tool in looking
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Graduate students in the new Masters in Branding and
Integrated Communications degree present multimedia
campaigns. Far left, a silhouetted student, Anthony
Washington, in his team’s Citi Bike presentation.
At City College in upper Manhattan,
students in the Branding and
Integrated Communications master’s
program are creating inspired
multimedia campaigns for Citi Bike,
New York’s bike-sharing system.
at the distribution of urban disease, especially in public health when it comes to
planning and predicting risk,” said Dr. El
Mohandes.
At Queens College, the physics department recently started a Professional
Science Masters in Photonics, the rapidly
growing field that studies light and its role
in laser printing, fiber optics, security
machines and other industries. Photonics
program director Lev Deych said the PSM
degree is unique in that it combines
physics study with courses in business,
providing students with a more rounded
experience.
“The old master’s degrees in physics are
useless. They have become basically consolation prizes for those seeking Ph.D.s,”
said Deych. “With the PSM, we combine
photonics with business-oriented courses.
This is more practical for preparing someone to work in the field.”
In the Queens College Art department,
faculty started a new concentration within
the MFA Studio Art known as Social
Practice Queens (SPQ) that combines studio artwork with community activism.
Social Practice Queens works in partnership with the Queens Museum, where
graduate students are given collaborative
studio space inside the museum.
“This concentration is coming in line
with a lot of changes in the art world,” said
Gregory Sholette, art professor. “The
artists are not just sitting in the studio.
They are finding ways of making art in the
community.”
Other unique offerings at the John Jay
College of Criminal Justice include the
MA in International Criminal Justice and
MA in forensic mental health counseling.
At the CUNY School of Professional
Studies, one of the more well-known
degree programs is the Masters of Arts in
Disability Studies, which grew from a
Kennedy Fellows program in special education and rehabilitative counseling.
Courses in the disabilities program may
be taken in-person or online.
At City College, several new programs
have enlivened the campus graduate offerings, including a master’s in Branding and
Integrated Communication, or BIC. The
BIC program, which started in Fall 2013,
combines marketing research and communication with development of a print
and electronic portfolio. In the program’s
first year, the department received nearly
90 applications for 30 available spots.
“We’re living in a visual society and the
industry is changing very quickly, and so is
the way people consume information,”
said Nancy R. Tag, program director of
BIC. “We needed to create a program that
brings all the disciplines together, so that
creative [people] understand the data
[personnel] in this data-driven world.”
Cassondra Bazelow, a student in the
BIC masters program, said she appreciates the “real world” experience in the
curriculum. Industry professionals assisted in creating the curriculum and also
serve as adjunct faculty, guest lecturers
and project advisers.
“Between the people instructing the
courses and the guest lecturers that they
invite, the students at BIC have access to
the knowledge of working professionals
relevant in their fields,” she said.
Two other graduate additions at City
College are the Sustainability in the Urban
Environment master’s program at the
Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of
Architecture and the Earth Systems and
Environmental Science and Technology
Master of Science degree at the Grove
School of Engineering.
Tag said the variety of new graduate
programs is likely to help diversify the
upper management levels of many emerging industries that have few blacks,
Latinos, Asians, and women in leadership
roles. “When you look at the student population at CUNY, this is the ideal world,”
Tag said. “Many industry leaders have
already awakened to the fact that there is
a place right here in their backyard that is
producing great talent.”
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GREATTEACHERS
NAME:
Mark Ungar
Continued from page 4
totaling $422,458 for “Student Support” and
an “Education Collaborative,” as well as
$120,000 from Single Stop
USA Inc. for “Student
Support.” Kevin Ryan of
City College has been
awarded a $441,584 grant
from the Department of
Ryan
Defense, Army Research
Office, for a project titled “Olfactory
Camouflage: Understanding Odorant Receptor
Antagonism,” an investigation into how the
odorant receptors in the mammalian nose
detect and discriminate chemicals in natural
fragrance mixtures.
COLLEGE:
Brooklyn College
TITLE:
Professor of Political
Science
FOCUS:
“Honduras represents
a concentrated place
struggling with all the
problems the world
faces: poverty, crime,
inequality, violence,
unemployment, youth
disenfranchisement,
drugs and even
climate change.”
The University was honored by New York
State Industries for the Disabled as one of its
2013 Customers of the Year. The University is a
long-standing supporter of NYSID Preferred
Source Opportunities and sought NYSID’s
assistance in providing janitorial services at
three emergency shelters at York, John Jay and
Lehman Colleges in the aftermath of Hurricane
Sandy, according to Sharon Russell, CUNY’s
Associate Controller for Procurement. Frederick
Wasser of Brooklyn College, who is serving as a
distinguished chair at the University of Helsinki
for one year, delivered the inaugural lecture at
the University on Nov. 14, “Filmed History:
Spielberg’s Lincoln,” before an audience
including U.S. Ambassador to Finland, the Hon.
Bruce Oreck, and other American and Finnish
dignitaries.
Thomas Weiss of the Graduate School
and University Center has received grants
totaling $1,031,396 from the governments of
Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark, the
United Kingdom and Norway for the “Global
Center for the Responsibility to Protect.” The
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has
awarded $374,975 to Brooklyn College for a
project entitled “Site-Specific Delivery of
Photosensitizer and Singlet Oxygen in Vivo,”
directed by Alexander Greer. “On-Campus
Discoveries in Science,” under the direction of
Loretta Taras of Kingsborough Community
College, has won a $299,933 grant from the
National Science Foundation. Daryl A. Wout of
John Jay College has received a $266,343
grant from the National Science Foundation for
“Creating a Diverse Society that Works:
Investigating the Role of Social Identity Threat
in Interracial Interactions.”
John Martin of City College’s Sophie Davis
School of Biomedical Education has received
$3,700,000 for three new investigations into
how the nervous system controls movement:
two $1,700,000 five-year awards from the
National Institutes of Health and a grant of
$300,000 over two years from the Craig H.
Neilsen Foundation. Lynda Zimmerman,
executive director of the
CUNY Creative Arts Team,
announced that CAT has
received an 18-month,
$460,000 grant from The
New York Community Trust
Martin
- Brooke Astor Fund for
New York City Education to
expand CAT’s successful Early Learning
Program in K-2 classes at four public schools
with high concentrations of disadvantaged
students and English language learners.
“Enhancing Career and Technical Education
through Curriculum Revision and Incorporating
Technology,” a project directed by Bret Eynon
of LaGuardia Community College, received
$302,287 in grant funding from the New York
State Education Department.
Fighting for Reform in Honduras, Murder Capital of the World
By Margaret Ramirez
n a recent trip to Honduras,
Brooklyn College Political Science
professor Mark Ungar witnessed a
judge gunned down in the middle
of the afternoon in front of a bank.
The day before, while Ungar lectured at
the law school of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, a student
was fatally shot at the school.
The blatant shootings in broad daylight
illustrate the escalating violence in
Honduras, which is now known as the murder capital of the world. According to the
National Autonomous University, the murder rate in Honduras in 2012 was 85.5 per
100,000 in population, the highest in the
world.
In addition to the bloodshed, corruption
runs rampant in the Honduran National
Police with allegations of extortion, torture, and death squads that kill hundreds of
gang members. Homicides and drug crimes
are rarely reported as most Honduran citizens live in fear not only of gangs and drug
cartels, but also of the police who are
charged with protecting them. And if
reported, even serious crimes are unlikely
to be investigated.
In November, when Honduran voters
headed to the polls to elect a new president
in the first national election since a coup in
2009, crime was the big issue. The governing party’s candidate, Juan Orlando Hernández, has been declared president-elect.
“Honduras represents a concentrated
place struggling with all the problems the
world faces: poverty, crime, inequality, violence, unemployment, youth disenfranchisement, drugs and even climate
O
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change,” said Ungar, who is also a faculty
member in the Criminal Justice Doctoral
Program at the CUNY Graduate Center.
“It’s also a warning for the world of what
could happen if these problems go
unsolved,” he said.
Earlier this year, Ungar was tapped to
serve on a new six-person Commission for
Security Reform. Honduran human rights
activists sought out Ungar because of his
years of research on police reform and his
book, Policing Democracy: Overcoming
Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin
America.
Other members of the commission
include: Edgar Gutierrez, the former minister of justice of Guatemala; Jose Ugaz,
prosecutor in the Fujimori-Montesinos
trials in Peru; Joaquin Mejia Rivera, a
human rights lawyer; Rick Bandstra, former assistant attorney general of Michigan;
and Nick Seymour, of Transparency
International in the United Kingdom.
The commission, which meets in
Honduras every three months, was established to overhaul the National Police, the
attorney general’s office and the Honduran
court system.
So far, Ungar said, the commission’s
efforts on police reform have seen mixed
results. To purge the police force of corrupt
officers, the commission ordered that all
police be subjected to a four-part evaluation, including psychological and polygraph
testing, as well as drug and financial tests.
But the process stalled when hundreds of
officers who failed the test were never
fired.
“On one hand, it was the first time they
had the tests. The first time we had documentation that all these police had failed
these tests … so that was huge progress. On
the other hand, nothing has happened.”
“It’s an example of improvement, but
then power reasserts itself,” Ungar said.
At the next meeting in February, the
commission will focus on a proposal by the
president-elect to create a 5,000-member
military police force. But the commission
opposes the plan because the military is
not trained for community policing.
“Can you imagine taking a soldier and
putting him on the street? You can’t do
that. They’re not trained for policing.
They’re trained to shoot to kill,” he said.
More importantly, Ungar said the plan
fails to address the real problems: poor
coordination, police violence, endemic corruption, nearly nonexistent criminal investigation and systemic organized crime.
“We’re talking about a country where
courts don’t work. People are being terrorized. At crime scenes, police don’t collect
bullets. They don’t talk to witnesses.
Detectives fight with each other,” he said.
“So you can’t just create this great new
force that’s going to be a military. You have
to have an infrastructure.”
Despite opposition to the militarypolice plan, Ungar has hope that the new
president will work with the commission
on reform efforts and be recognized as
cooperative with international and socially
supported efforts.
And while some might view Honduras as
a country paralyzed by poverty, crime and
corruption, Ungar remains inspired by the
citizens who remain committed to reform.
“In such conditions, the real heroes are
the human rights activists, journalists,
judges, women's rights activists and others
who risk their lives for change,” he said.
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BOOKTALK
Huddled Masses, Ever Yearning
By Gary Schmidgall
N 1776 SAMUEL SHAW, the mayor of
Boston, referred to New York City as
“a motley collection of all the nations
under heaven.” Nearly a quarter millennium later, the city’s population is
even more exuberantly and colorfully motley: Almost half of the city’s adults are foreign-born, and 168 “home” languages are
spoken by its public school students. The
city that hosts the United Nations is itself
a metropolis of united nations.
New York has been the nation’s premier
gateway for immigrants ever since Dutch
fur traders sailed into town around 1625,
and the latest installment in the history of
huddled masses yearning to breathe free
has just appeared from Columbia
University Press: One Out of Three:
Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First
Century. The City University has served
new immigrants since its founding in 1847,
so it is no surprise that the provenance of
this essay collection has CUNY written all
over it. Its editor is Nancy Foner, a
Distinguished Professor of Sociology at
Hunter College and one of the nation’s
leading immigration scholars, and nearly
half of her authors are members of CUNY’s
sociology community.
The focus here is mainly on immigration since the passage of the Hart-Celler
Act in 1965, which abolished national origin quotas. A few essays give broad economic overviews, with Foner’s
introduction revealing that immigrants
constitute 45 percent of the resident labor
force, that the immigrant population has
doubled since 1970, and that Queens is the
most ethnically diverse county in the
nation.
In “A Portrait of New York’s Immigrant
Mélange,” Arun Lobo and Joseph Silva
analyze the choreography of the city’s
“demographic ballet,” which is constantly
in flux. In 1970 Italians were the largest
contingent; in 2010 it was the Dominicans.
They also sound one running theme of One
Out of Three: “Immigration is a central
element in understanding how New York
City has been able to grow and reinvent
itself demographically.”
In his look at immigration and econom-
I
analyzes the “clustering” phenomenon
ic growth, David Kallick credits
among Chinese who gravitate to others in
immigrants as key to the rebound of the
their own dialect group.
city from the 1970s recession, noting their
Pyong Gap Min says Korean immigrahigh labor participation rates and their
tion was largely post-1965 (before that
“unexpectedly high” share of economic
most Koreans settled in Hawaii or on the
output, especially as small-business ownWest Coast). She says the historical
ers. Kallick also points out that, “contrary
to common misperception, immigrants are Koreatown, centered at 32nd and
Broadway, has been losing its import shops
significantly represented in jobs all across
and also much of its population to Bergen
the occupational spectrum.”
County in New Jersey, but this cohort has
Unsurprisingly, the seven essays focusbeen prospering in small personal-services
ing on individual ethnic groups are more
businesses, especially
serendipitous and vivid
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cleaners and nail salons.
(most of the graphs and
One Out of Three: Immigrant
There were 4,000 Korean
tables vanish). Annelise
New York in the Twenty-First Century
nail salons in the New
Orleck focuses on the sevEdited by Nancy Foner
York-New Jersey area in
eral “waves” of Soviet Jews
Columbia University Press
2006.
who headed for Brighton
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Jamaicans have been
Beach (“Little Odessa”) and
immigrating to the U.S. and Britain for
Forest Hills (the “Bukharin Broadway” in
more than a hundred years, but with the
“Queensistan”). Among the best-educated
immigrants, they have suffered much from Hart-Celler Act they have been arriving on
the nearer shore. Milton Vickerman notes
downward occupational mobility, doctors
the difficulties Jamaicans have adjusting
driving cabs and the like. Orleck also takes
to the race-consciousness of mainland life
us into the world of the Russian mob, fea(Jamaica’s official motto is “Out of many,
turing a prolific hit man who operated out
one people”). He also says about a third of
of a nightclub named Rasputin.
New York has the largest Chinese popu- non-Hispanic blacks in the city are
Jamaican, and that their participation rate
lation outside China, and Min Zhou tells
in the economy is “remarkably high” (79
us it grew 14 times larger from 1960 to
percent for men, 83 percent for women).
2010, spilling out of the historic
They seem to share the CUNY view of eduChinatown in Lower Manhattan, notably
cation. “Jamaicans tend to express annoyinto Flushing and Sunset Park. Zhou also
ance with the idea that race is more
important than educational and occupational qualifications.”
The Liberians of Staten Island are more
recent arrivers. Bernadette Ludwig (a
Graduate Center doctoral candidate) tells
us nearly all have come in the past 15
years, refugees from a brutal civil war in
their land, which was founded by slaves
returning to West Africa. Resettled in the
rundown Park Hill neighborhood, where a
few Liberians had pioneered, these immigrants had no big ESL needs since English
is Liberia’s official language. Ludwig focuses instead on parenting problems posed by
“dissonant acculturation” (children turning too quickly from Liberian to Big Apple
culture).
Perhaps the longest immigration history belongs to the Dominicans who, declaring their independence in 1844, were
almost annexed by the U.S. under Grant,
were a U.S. protectorate from 1905 to 1940,
then ruled by the dictator Trujillo from
1930 to 1960. At the beginning of the 1960s
there were 13,000 Dominican New
Yorkers; in 2008 there were 585,000, and
in the last decade Dominicans were the
largest ethnic cohort of CUNY students.
The chapter by Silvio Torres-Saillant
(founder of CCNY’s Dominican Studies
Institute) and Ramona Hernández (its
current director) lays out the remarkable
survival of Dominican cultural identity in
the city, as epitomized by the Dominican
Day Parade (they offer a brief history of it).
Baruch’s Robert Smith’s chapter on the
city’s Mexican residents is haunted by the
specter of the current congressional
impasse on immigration law reform, with a
strong focus on the importance of educational outreach. Of the 450,000 here now,
Smith estimates that as many as 50 percent are undocumented, and his research
shows that this status leads to “lower educational attainments and more negative
outcomes.” A co-founder of the Mexican
American Students Alliance, Smith ends
on a hopeful note: “In good part, owing to
efforts by CUNY, Mexican young people
have increased knowledge that they can go
to college, that it is affordable, and that
legal status is not an obstacle to going.”
The three authors of the final chapter
titled “The Next Generation Emerges” —
Philip Kasinitz (Hunter), John Mollenkopf
(Graduate Center), and Mary Waters
(Harvard) — put the ball of immigration
squarely in CUNY’s court: “The presence
of CUNY, with its overwhelmingly immigrant and second-generation students and
its tradition of celebrating immigrant
achievement, has undoubtedly played an
important role in the relative success of
the second generation up until now.”
But then they add: “How it will continue to serve this population in more constrained fiscal circumstances is a key
question to be faced in the years to come.”
CUNY Matters welcomes information about
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NEWTITLES / CUNYAUTHORS
Mayors Take
Control
If Mayors Ruled
the World:
Dysfunctional
Nations, Rising
Cities, by political
theorist Benjamin Barber, provides a provocative and original
look at how some mayors are
responding to transnational
problems more effectively than
nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. More than a dozen mayors
from around the world were
interviewed by Barber, a senior
research scholar at the Center on
Philanthropy and Civil Society at
the Graduate Center.
Yale University Press
Bartlett’s Black
Quotations
Bartlett’s
Familiar Black
Quotations:
5,000 Years of
Literature,
Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases
and Proverbs from Voices Around
the World, edited by Retha
Powers, is a compilation of more
than 5,000 years of quotations
attributed to black people from
Ancient Egypt up to the present
day. This volume — the first-ofits-kind catalog — paints a rich
canvas of black history through
time. Powers is acting assistant
director of City College’s publishing certificate program.
Little, Brown and Co.
Exploring
Unexplored NYC
In The New York
Nobody Knows:
Walking 6,000
Miles in the City,
William
Helmreich invites readers to visit
largely unexplored neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. Following a game that he
enjoyed with his father growing
up, Helmreich goes to unfamiliar
places and meets many only-inNew York characters along the
way. A professor of sociology at
Graduate Center and City
College, Helmreich goes beyond
the melting pot in his detailed,
entertaining book.
Princeton University Press
Troubled Ireland
Memories
Shirley
Chisholm’s Story
The Irish
Examiner USA
called this collection of stories
“beautifully written shocks of insight and cruelty.” In As Close As You’ll Ever Be,
Seamus Scanlon draws from his
childhood memories growing up
in Galway to capture the tension
in Ireland’s history of internal
violence. The book was named
one of the Best Short Story
Collections by the Library
Journal. Scanlon is an associate
professor and librarian at City
College’s Center for Worker
Education.
Cairn Press
This biography of
trailblazer Shirley
Chisholm profiles
the AfricanAmerican woman
elected to Congress in 1968.
Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for
Change, by Barbara Winslow, is a
fascinating portrait of one
woman’s political ascent focusing
on lifelong advocacy for fair
treatment, access to education
and equal pay for all. A historian,
Winslow is a professor of history
who teaches in the School of
Education and the Women’s
Studies Program at Brooklyn
College.
Westview Press
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FORYOURBENEFIT
FINDING YOUR
PROFESSIONAL
PASSION
F
OR QUEENS COLLEGE junior
Isioma Ononye there’s little
question about the goal —
working in a job you love. The
challenge is how to get there.
And Gloriana Waters, CUNY’s vice chancellor for Human Resources, is providing
some help.
Waters led a panel last fall on “Finding
Your Professional Passion,” discussing
ways to discover a place where you can
become the most successful and productive employee.
Sometimes, though, it takes a while to
find the right fit.
“When I first entered the workforce, I
changed jobs every two years to find out
more about what interested me,” Waters
says. This included using her degree in
educational psychology and training in
English as a Second Language to direct a
Bronx Community College literacy program for adults, some of whom were
studying to get high school equivalency
diplomas.
“You, too, may wind up changing your
job several times before you find your
career,” Waters says. “I didn’t know what
I didn’t know till I found it out.”
Ononye, who like many students is
also a University employee, agrees. “I
know I shouldn’t map out things with the
expectation that there is only one way.”
An English major minoring in journalism — and an aspiring journalist—
Ononye had a paid internship last winter
as a marketing intern for NewsBeam, a
video-distribution service and is now
working at another internship where she
has been learning and using different,
albeit related, skills. For CUNY, she is a
courtesy desk attendant at the Summit
Apartments, her college’s dormitory,
where working with the public may
someday inspire her to continue to pursue her professional dream or follow
another path.
The panel led by Waters was part of
CUNY’s 2013 Women’s Leadership
Conference, an event for students held at
Hunter and co-sponsored by Chase, The
New York Times in College and the New
York City Commission on Women’s
Issues. Waters knows how important it is
for female students to network and learn
from one another and from those more
advanced in their fields.
But when it comes to finding passion
in work, she says that the same advice
applies to those who are already on
career paths, and to men as well as
women.
Waters recommends “cross-pillar
initiatives” — opportunities that allow
individuals to combine two or more of
their professional interests. “For example,” she says. “If you work with data and
would also like to work with students,
you might get involved with a project that
involves gathering data about students,
learning more about who they are.”
And what else can employees do to
find work they love? Waters offers some
suggestions:
ATYOUR
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Employee Evaluation Training
S
you really enjoy. Sometimes you have to
take a step backward so you can later take
two steps forward. Sometimes, you have
to take risks.”
Find either a mentor or someone
Catastrophic Sick Leave Bank
SERVICE
UPERVISORS from the University’s Central
Office learned more about how to
evaluate those who work for them during
four half-day workshops in December and
January.
The facilitator was Nancy Eagan, founder
and president of People Potential. Eagan, a
graduate of the Hunter School of Social Work,
has been providing workplace consultation and
training services since 1983. She was joined by
Katherine Isaacs, a Central Office human
resources manager.
The sessions, similar to others held
throughout the University, were timed to
coincide with deadlines for annual
performance evaluations for employees. They
were designed as half-day sessions to
• “You might have to take a cut in
salary or a lesser position to find work
accommodate supervisors’ busy schedules.
Isaacs emphasized that the goal of the
sessions was to assist supervisors in
“communicating what they expect of their
employees.” Timing, Isaacs says is an
important aspect of this communication
process.
For example, she says, “You shouldn’t
suddenly tell employees at their annual
evaluations that they did not do their jobs well
if you had not been communicating your
expectations for their successful performance
of duties all along. … If you don’t tell them
how to succeed, they can’t be successful.”
early 300 employees have donated time to
CUNY’s new Catastrophic Sick Leave Bank
Program (CSLB) in the initial open enrollment
period, depositing a total of 432.5 days.
The bank, which has been compared to a credit
union, operates on a membership basis: Only those
who donate their own time can take time from the
bank should they need it due to illness. Or, as
more formally stated by the
University: “The CSLB is a pool
of sick leave and annual
leave, voluntarily donated by
individuals employed full
time on an annual salary
basis, for potential use as
sick leave by employees who
are also donors to the bank.”
Employees donated 133 annual leave
days, deposited on a one-for-basis and 599 sick
days, which earn a half-day each in the bank, in the
initial application period.
Leslie Williams, University executive director of
who can help you on a less intensive
basis: “It doesn’t always require a lot of
time on their part. I’ve had people come
into my office to just sit and talk for a few
minutes. Sometimes they give me their
resume and ask me to keep my eye out. I
tell them I will try; that I can’t promise
Shared Services, adds that the bank is “yet another
good way to show that CUNY functions as a
community.” He said that in some ways it reminds him
of the charitable CUNY Campaign in which CUNY
employees – if they wish – may donate to CUNY
programs, even their own. In regard to the catastrophic
bank, Williams adds, “You’re able to help others and
you might possibly benefit from it yourself.”
CSLB differs from another University program,
“Dedicated Sick Leave.” In that program, one or
more employees may donate sick leave to a
particular individual.
The CSLB calendar will be the same as that
for an academic year and in future years, as
the program gets under way, it is expected
that the open enrollment period will be the
entire month of October.
The CSLB is a detailed program with eligibility
requirements. For more information and application
forms it’s best both to confer with your human
resource office and see information at:
search.cuny.edu “donating leave” and
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Isioma Ononye, a Queens College junior and a courtesy desk attendant at Summit Apartments, chats with
Anastasia Shakalis, another Queens College junior.
On the Web at cuny.edu
S P O RT S W I R E F O R T H E L AT E S T S C O R E S A N D N E W S
ant the latest CUNY sports news, from team scores to
player accolades? Introducing SportsWire, the University’s new and exciting, easy-to-check online sports report
providing regularly updated game scores from all competitive CUNY sports teams and all campuses. SportsWire’s regular features also include Top Stories, Scholar Athlete of the
Month, and Sports Channel offering game videos, interviews
and more. From basketball to volleyball, members of the University community can now get the latest game scores in one
place through a link included in the Monday and Thursday
email blasts sent to students, faculty and staff CUNY-wide.
Check your CUNY email on Mondays and Thursdays for the
SportsWire link, or access SportsWire directly at
cuny.edu/sportswire.
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TA X C R E D I T A D D S A B O N U S T O C U N Y VA L U E P L U S
ith student loan debt nationwide hitting $1.2 trillion, graduates carrying $27,000 in debt on average
and defaults rising, debate persists over how to ease the pain, including New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s recent proposal to allow graduates to refinance their federal loans at a maximum of 4 percent interest. At CUNY, debt is less of a burden due to the University’s golden combination of affordable tuition,
availability of federal and state financial aid and tax credits – CUNY
Value Plus – which made it possible for nearly 80 percent of CUNY’s
Class of 2013 to graduate loan free. But it’s always wise to save,
and as tax time approaches, the $2,500 American Opportunity
Tax Credit is another chance for eligible CUNY students, to further trim their already affordable education costs. Authored by
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the AOTC returned an average
benefit of $2,100 per New York State family in 2011. Thanks to
CUNY Value Plus, a high-quality, debt-free college education
is not only possible, it opens
new opportunities. As Zenas
Gallion, a debt-free Borough of
Manhattan Community College
graduate pursuing studies at
Hunter College, said, “It’s freedom. … Being debt-free, I can
start a little ahead of the
rest.”
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anything. Nevertheless, it’s good for
employees to be on someone’s radar.”
Networking. “I know that many
employees have family responsibilities
and second jobs. But when you can go to
a university event, do so. Sometimes you
can go on your lunch hour, or ask to take
•
Breast and Prostate
Cancer Screening
I
f you need time to have a breast or
prostate cancer screening, CUNY can help.
Employees are entitled to up to four hours
of paid leave in a calendar year for these
screenings, as long as the tests are taken
during regular working hours. The four hours
include travel time. This leave is not
cumulative and will be considered forfeited if
not used within a particular calendar year. If
more than four hours are used, the extra time
will be charged to employee’s annual leave
accruals or deducted from an employee’s
salary if no annual leave is available.
Colleges and
other offices may
require medical
documentation
stating that the
tests were taken
during work
hours.
that hour later in the day so that you can
attend. And when you do go, make sure to
let people know who you are and what
you can bring to the table.”
Identifying Abilities. Waters notes
that some of the college career centers
will administer tests to help employees
find their strengths, and she
recommends the book Now, Discover
Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
and Donald O. Clifton.
Waters also says that if there is some
aspect missing from your job — some
other endeavor that makes you happy —
there might be a voluntary way to make
that part of your workday. For example,
when she was a vice president for administration at City College she realized that
she missed working with students.
Drawing on her earlier experience teaching English as a Second Language she
offered to lead a conversation circle for
students who were also new immigrants
and wanted to practice their English. “So
at lunchtime we would sit and just talk,”
she says. “It all came out of the ESL
department. I had introduced myself to
the chair and said, ‘This is what I did in a
previous life.’ ”
As for Ononye, she, too, is volunteering as part of her own exploratory
process. The internship she has this
spring is unpaid, but she gets to work
with social media for a website that
teaches women about car mechanics. It’s
called: Women Auto Know.
•
search.cuny.edu
“value”
WE REMEMBER
LMER LOKKINS, far left,
an early symbol for the
cause of same-sex marriage, died in October at
94. Lokkins, the former
registrar at The Graduate
Center, married Gustavo
Archilla, right, his assistant, in Canada in 2003
after keeping their relationship secret for six
decades.
E
L
EADING CRIMINOLOGIST William “Jock” Young died Nov. 16 in Manhattan, at 71, of anaplastic thyroid
cancer. Young was a distinguished professor of criminal justice and sociology at the CUNY Graduate
Center and wrote extensively on the subject. His seminal works included, The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance published in 1973. It was rapidly established as an essential text in the discipline and was reprinted with his new introduction for its 40th anniversary in 2013.
BRAHAM NEMETH, the blind mathematician who created the Nemeth Code, a form of Braille that
helped visually impaired people to study complex mathematics, died in October at 94. Nemeth was a
Brooklyn College graduate who also taught there.
A
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Exile, Instability
for Refugees
Two literary masters, Andre
Aciman and Aleksander
Hemon, discuss displacement,
exile and memory at a Graduate Center event. “It’s so easy
to expect that by virtue of
being in the U.S. you have to
be happy, but the transition is
a traumatic experience,” says
Hemon, a native of Bosnia,
whose novel, The Lazarus Project, was a 2008 finalist for the
National Book Award and the
National Book Critics Circle
Award for fiction. In a conversation with Egyptian-born Aciman, Distinguished Professor
of Comparative Literature at
the Graduate Center, Hemon
spoke about feelings of banishment from his own country.
“Refugees are thrown out of
their homes and can’t go back
— this leads to a sense of
perpetual instability.”
Search.cuny.edu
“Refugees”
Angst is what a great play
should impart to its audience,
acclaimed playwright John
Guare says. “I like to send an
audience out with a sense of
unease. … A play gives you,
not the answers to life, but
rather the questions to ask of
life.” The multiple Tony awardwinning author of “Six Degrees
of Separation” and “The House
of Blue Leaves,” Guare is the
Floria Lasky Visiting Artist
Playwright at Hunter College’s
Theatre department.
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“John Guare”
Guare Values
the Unease
of the Unanswered
In the World & on the Web
ART / EXHIBIT S
Jan. 30 - March 10
Victor Forestier Sow,
a Pioneer Malian Painter
Queensborough Community
College
5 - 8 p.m.
Free
Jan. 30 - March 10
Powerful Arts of Cameroon —
Amadou Njoya Collection
Queensborough Community
College
5 - 8 p.m.
Free
MARCH 5-28
Alison Berry:
Mapping Knowtopia
Kingsborough Community
College
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Free
MARCH 19
Imaging Women:
Model, Muse,
Image Maker…
Lehman College
12:30 - 2 p.m.
Free
L E CT URE S / PA NE L S
Feb. 19
Lecture: “Lyric Dwelling:
The Art and Ethics of
Invitation and Occupation”
Lehman College
12:30 – 2 p.m.
Free
March 5
The Question of Africa
The Graduate Center
6 - 8 p.m.
Free
March 7,14
IRADAC Works in Progress
The Graduate Center
2 - 4 p.m.
Free
March 20
Public Square LIVE:
Environmental Justice
on the Cutting Edge
CUNY School of Law
6 - 9 p.m.
March 21
Africana Studies
Dissertation Discussion
— Ian Foster
The Graduate Center
2 - 4 p.m.
Free
March 30
Hillel at the College of
Staten Island
Jewish Author Series
College of Staten Island
10:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m.
$36
Confronting
Income Inequality
The 1 percent versus the 99
percent – an old story by now,
but one that etches societies to
varying degrees in countries
around the world. Interim
Chancellor William P. Kelly explores the issue with two Graduate Center faculty members,
Janet Gornick, a professor of
political science and sociology,
and World Bank economist
Branko Milanovic. While the
very poor in America fare far
better than the very poor in
many countries, the U.S. has
the widest income disparity in
the world, with the top 10 percent earning about 16 times
the average income of the bottom 10 percent, Gornick’s research shows.
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“Income Inequality”
T HEATER /FILM
Feb. 2
“Hair”
Lehman College
6 - 8:30 p.m.
$45, $40, $25
Feb. 14-15, Feb 21,
March 15
“Platanos, Collard Greens Y
Callaloo”
Baruch College
Check times
Reserved Front Seating:
Rows A-I $65.50
Reserved Center Seating:
Rows J-M $60.50
March 2
Shanghai Circus
College of Staten Island
3 - 5 p.m.
$15, 12
March 8
“Master and Margarita”
Baruch College
3 - 5 p.m.; 7 - 9 p.m.
Orchestra Tickets:
$100 Rows A-D
$85 Rows E-J
$75 Rows K-N
$65 Rows O-T
MEZZANINE TICKETS:
$75 Rows AA-BB
BALCONY TICKETS:
$65 Rows A-B
$55 Rows C-F
$45 Rows G-K
$35 Rows L-M
March 16
“Sleeping Beauty”
Lehman College
4 - 6 p.m.
$45, $40, $25 | Children 12
and under, $10 any seat
Gay Talese
Gives the Credit
to Curiosity
Legendary journalist Gay
Talese admits that a lot of his
talent stems from his innate
curiosity about his subjects,
real or imagined. “I’m not creating anything. What I am
doing is trying, as best I can,
to befriend people, including
people I’m interviewing or
want to interview,” said
Talese, who discussed his life
and times with Interim Chancellor William P. Kelly as part
of the Extraordinary Lives Series at the Graduate Center.
Known for his groundbreaking
“New Journalism” magazine
profiles of Frank Sinatra in the
1960s, Talese has authored 11
books, including the best-selling The Kingdom and the
Power, Unto Thy Sons and Thy
Neighbor’s Wife. The 81-yearold Talese says the desire to
know or learn still propels him
today. “I’m very curious about
how different I am from
them.”
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“Gay Talese”
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M USI C/ DAN CE
Feb. 2
NY Flute Club presents
Ian Clarke
Baruch College
5:30 p.m.
Feb. 5
Live@365 — Puro Fado
from Portugal: Ricardo
Ribeiro & Pedro Jóia
The Graduate Center
7 - 8:30 p.m.
$25, $20 members
Feb. 6
The Haifa Symphony
Orchestra
Lehman College
8 - 10 p.m.
$75, $35, $30, $25 | Children 12 and under, $10 any
seat
Feb. 14
Kupferberg Presents Love
is Good: An Evening with
Christine Andreas and Martin Silvestri on Piano
Queens College
8 - 10 p.m.
$59, $48, $38
Feb. 23
DINO-Light
College of Staten Island
3 - 4 p.m.
$16, $14
March 8
Claddagh: An Explosion of
Celtic Dance and Music
College of Staten Island
8 - 9:30 p.m.
$35, $30
March 11
Live@365 - The Art of the
Duo: Kinan Azmeh and
Dinuk Wijeratne
The Graduate Center
7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
$25, $20 members
March 16
Bobby Vinton in concert
Queens College
3 - 5 p.m.
$65, $55, and $45
March 21
Kathy Mattea Calling Me
Home
Borough of Manhattan
Community College
8 p.m.
$55, $45, $35
SPEC IAL E VENTS
Feb. 7
Idea Brewery Hackathon
Baruch College
All Day
Free
2014 CUNY Asian Faculty
and Staff:
Spring Festival Reception
The Graduate Center
6 - 8 p.m.
Free
Feb. 26 - March 31
Health Insurance Awareness
York College
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Free
Feb. 27
Financing
Your Legal Education
City College
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Free
March 12
“The Recent Wave of Public
Protest and the Limits of
Representation in Brazil”
Queens College
12 - 1:30 p.m.
Free
March 20
The Gloria Thomas
Memorial Lecture
The Graduate Center
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Free
March 26
“Diversity and Corporate
Cosmopolitanism in the
Workforce of a Global Magazine Publishing Company. "
Lehman College
12:30 - 2 p.m.
Free