Erica Jong, author of eight novels including Fear of Flying, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones and Sappho’s Leap, will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary PhD
degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from The City University of New York’s
College of Staten Island.
WHO:
Erica Jong, commencement speaker and honorary PhD recipient
WHAT:
Twenty-Ninth [...]
At the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in Albany last month, the CSI Archives and Special Collections received a second-place award for the finding aid to The Eric N. Vitaliano Papers.
The finding aid award recognizes “outstanding achievement in the preparation of finding aids, paper or electronic, by institutions within the MARAC region (NY, NJ, PA, MD, [...]
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver the keynote at the first graduation ceremony of The City University Honors College on May 31. The graduating class is comprised of 189 students who would have been accepted to virtually any top college but chose to enter the new CUNY program that was launched by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein [...]
Dr. Adam Aponte, a CUNY alumnus who holds senior positions at Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical School and North General Hospital, will be the keynote speaker at The City University of New York’s Jones E. Salk Award ceremony on Wednesday, May 25. Eight outstanding CUNY pre-med students will be awarded Salk Scholarships to study medicine. [...]
Mary Lu Bilek has been appointed by the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York as Interim Dean of The CUNY School of Law, effective May 21, 2005.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Bilek had previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at CUNY Law School.
“Dean Bilek has done extraordinary work [...]
Renowned writers, distinguished journalists, public servants, human rights activists, scientists and educators are among the array of speakers and honorees for the 2005 commencement ceremonies at The City University of New York.
“Students in CUNY’s Class of 2005 have compiled a remarkable record of achievement,” said Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. “They are a source of great [...]
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This past year, the New York State Archives awarded the College of Staten Island a $10K exploratory grant focused on documenting the Willowbrook State School .
On Tuesday, May 10, the grant consultant’s report will be issued, and CSI’s Library Archives and Special Collections will host a tour of the Willowbrook sites at 2:15 p.m., followed [...]
Today we celebrate further progress in CUNY’s renewal with the announcement by Mayor Bloomberg of the largest community college capital construction program in the history of the University.
Mayor Bloombergs proposed capital budget will infuse more than $157.4 million in new city funding for new science laboratories, classrooms, research facilities, student computer laboratories and long needed [...]
