FLUSHING,NY, January 25, 2006 In the summer of 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recruited the late Rev. Hosea L. Williams and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) – along with over 500 summer college student volunteers – to register African Americans to vote in 120 counties in five Southern states. This [...]
NEW YORK, January 31, 2006 – The City College of New York (CCNY) today opened the Lillian and Harold Hoffman Student Center and Forum, a 4,900 square-foot multipurpose facility that offers students a place to relax, socialize, study and present extracurricular programs. The new facility was made possible by a gift from CCNY alumni [...]
This month, Medgar Evers College celebrates Black History with a series of exciting events, including a Retrospective on The Million Man Marches and The Millions More Movement (February 3rd), and a special tribute to Vice Chancellor of the New York City Board of Regents, Adelaide Sanford on February 25th.
The Retrospective on The Million Man Marches [...]
Long Island City, NY–LaGuardia Community College has received a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for a program that will engage members of the college and its surrounding ethnic religious communities in a dialogue on religious issues.
LaGuardia was one of 26 colleges and universities nationwide to win funding for its proposal. Other awardees include Yale [...]
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College recently announced that The Eighth National Black Writers Conference will be held on Thursday, March 30, 2006 through Sunday, April 2, 2006. Invited authors include Haki Madhubuti, Walter Mosley, Samuel Delany, Walter Dean Myers, Quincy Troupe, Ishmael Reed, Elizabeth Nunez, Willie Perdomo, and Camille Yarborough, among [...]
The Economist profiles CUNY’s ongoing renewal in its current print edition distributed globally. Entitled “Rebuilding the American Dream Machine,” the prestigious magazine with headquarters in London and a readership of more than a million subscribers, half of whom reside in the United States, notes, “Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of an alumnus, or having an influential sponsor, or being a member of a particularly aggrieved ethnic group–criteria that are increasingly important at America’s elite colleges. Most of the students who apply to the honours programme come from relatively poor families, many of them immigrant ones. All that CUNY demands is that these students be diligent and clever.”
In testimony before a hearing of the Legislature’s key budgetary committees, CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein today called for increased state support and the full restoration of the Tuition Assistance Program. “Only if the state makes public higher education a public priority can we expect other partners to do the same,” the Chancellor said. “Our students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, and business partners have demonstrated renewed and generous support of the University, but we cannot expect them to shoulder a disproportionate share of funding this public institution.” Read the Chancellor’s complete remarks.
Brooklyn, NY — January 26, 2006 — You can do your banking, order merchandise from shops and take care of a host of other things online these days. But using the Internet to “see” a shrink? Thanks to New York City College of Technology’s (City Tech) Professor Adrianne Wortzel, that’s now possible, too, albeit [...]
Mayor Bloomberg, in his State of the City address, has announced the “partnership for teacher excellence,” which brings together The City University of New York, New York University, and the city Department of
The proposed 2007 State Executive Budget recommendation totals $1.416 billion, an increase of $61.8 million over the current year for the senior colleges. The additional funding reflects an increase in State aid of $16.1 million and an increase in the revenue budget of $45.7 million. The proposal also recommends an increase of [...]
