CUNY Newswire

New York, NY: President Jeremy Travis today announced the appointment of Jules Kroll, founder of Kroll Inc., as chairman of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation. “I am delighted that Jules Kroll has graciously agreed to assume the chairmanship of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation. Mr. Kroll brings with him [...]

Bronx, NY — Bronx Community College (BCC) and Sanctuary for Families will sponsor a panel discussion, “African Women’s Empowerment Day II (A.W.E. Day) on Thursday, from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., December 8. BCC is located at West 181st Street and University Avenue. The discussion, which is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, willbe held [...]

New Program Opens Door to Work for Youth with Special Needs BRONX, NY — Thanks to a new program offered at Lehman College by the City University of New York, young men and women with special needs are being prepared for a future many thought was impossible—the world of work. The program, which is called [...]

Brooklyn, NY — The Brooklyn College Theater Department presents Seamus Heaney’s 2003 play The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone directed by Johnmichael Rossi at the New Workshop Theatre, December 8- 11. Seats: $5. In this classic retelling, written during the months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winning [...]

The Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, the Rt. Honorable Dr. Kenny Anthony, will deliver the Feature Address a Special Seminar on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday, December 1, 2005, at 6:30 p.m. at the Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. The Seminar will deal with the subject: The Caribbean [...]

BRONX, NY— Lehman College has received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to establish the José E. Serrano Leadership Institute, which will help high school juniors from the Bronx better understand and become more involved in the political system. The two-year program will admit its first 25 students by the end of [...]

Brooklyn, NY — Savvy students seeking to build a career have a new option at Brooklyn College—the bachelor of business administration (B.B.A.) degree. The new program makes a strong connection between the liberal arts and the study of business, equipping young people with skills in the art and science of planning, organizing, and leading organizations [...]

Brooklyn, NY — Throughout her life, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, a 1946 graduate of Brooklyn College, battled racism, sexism, militarism, and poverty. To celebrate Chisholm’s achievement, her birthday, November 30, has been designated a day of commemoration by the New York State Legislature. Brooklyn College will host a daylong event with film screenings, panel discussions, and [...]

Brooklyn, NY — The Brooklyn College Theater Department presents Sight Unseen, a play by Donald Margulies directed by Mary Beth Easley, in the Gershwin Theater, December 1 to 11. Jonathan Waxman, a rising young American artist, is about to make his European debut. Clients clamor to buy his works, “sight unseen.” But Jonathan yearns for [...]

Brooklyn, NY — The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and the Brooklyn College Department of English will present “The Bush War against the Media,” a lecture by Eric Alterman, Professor of Journalism, on Thursday, December 8, at 1:30 p.m. Alterman’s essay “Bush’s War on the Press,” which appeared in the May 9, 2005 issue of [...]

CUNY’s 2005 Salute to Scholars honored 249 faculty members who won prestigious national awards or outstanding national recognition for their research, artistic endeavors, and other accomplishments in 2004-05. Their fields covered an extraordinary range—from temperature superconductors to Black Writers in America. These “teacher-scholars,” said CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, “are as devoted to the advancement of [...]

BRONX, NY-Classical pianist and Lehman faculty member Joanne Chang will celebrate the music of Bach, Debussy and Mozart in a special faculty recital on Tuesday, December 13, at 12:30 p.m., in Room 330 of the Lehman College Music Building. The public is invited to attend this free concert. The program will feature music from various [...]

Bronx, NY — Bronx Community College’s Continuing & Professional Studies Division is repeating its successful arts and culture program. The classes are designed for those who want to explore arts and culture and those with busy schedules. WinterArts 2006 will kick off in December. BCC will hold a French style wine tasting class at LeRefuge [...]

BRONX, NY—The Lehman College and Community Chorus will give its annual free Winter Concert on Sunday, December 11, at 2:30 p.m. in the Lehman Concert Hall. Complimentary tickets will be available at the Box Office at 1 p.m. on the day of the performance. Featuring the music of Mozart, the concert is a preview of [...]

CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has announced the completion of a task force report on the University’s Black Male Initiative that makes recommendations on how the University system can take an active role in recruiting, retaining and graduating black men and helping them make advances in their lives. “The University must now assume a leadership role [...]

The Center for the Study of Staten Island will hold its annual policy conference, “The Staten Island Economy: Past, Present, and Visioning the Future,” on Friday December 2 from 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts building of the College of Staten Island, located at 2800 Victory Boulevard in the Willowbrook [...]

Brooklyn, NY — November 22, 2005 — Within the next few weeks, thousands of immigrants from around the world will be celebrating in Brooklyn. Why? They will be coming to New York City College of Technology (City Tech) — selected by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to be the site for swearing-in [...]

NEW YORK, November 22, 2005 — Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” for 21 years, will deliver the Fall 2005 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) 5:30 p.m. Thursday, December 1, in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall. His address, “It’s Time to Reinvest [...]

Bronx, NY — Bronx Community College (BCC) of The City University of New York will hold an information session on the upcoming Firefighter Examinations and preparatory courses to be offered at BCC in January, February and March of 2006. Individuals with questions should come to Philosophy Hall, Tuesday, December 6th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., [...]

NEW YORK, November 21, 2005 – A report produced for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) by the Region 2 University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) calls on that federal agency to help local transit agencies get costs of light rail transit projects under control. The report, “Analysis of Capital Cost Elements and Their Effect on Operating [...]