Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn College will celebrate its longstanding commitment to the performing arts by honoring outstanding musicians and theater professionals at its eighty-first Commencement Exercises on Thursday, June 1, at 10:30 a.m. on the campus Quadrangle. The honorees include musicians Randy Weston and Arturo O’Farrill (class of 1996); theater producer Woodie King, Jr. (MFA, [...]
Brooklyn, NY — The Brooklyn College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold its annual induction ceremony for new members, June 1 in the Brooklyn College Student Center at 1 p.m. Professor Sara Reguer, chairperson of the Judaic Studies Department is the invited guest speaker. The event is free and open to the public.
This year, [...]
Leaders from Academia, the Arts, and Public Service to Celebrate the College’s Graduating Class of 2006 and Receive Honorary Degrees for their Life-long Commitment to Academic Excellence and social justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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BRONX, NY — The Lehman College Community Band will kick off its summer concert season with “Broadway Night” on Thursday, June 8, at 8 p.m. in the Lovinger Theatre. The show is free and open to the community.
The program will feature a variety of Broadway favorites by Gershwin, Bernstein, Gilbert and Sullivan, Rodgers and Hammerstein, [...]
NEW YORK, (May 30, 2006) — A Better Chance, the national resource for identifying, recruiting and developing leaders among academically gifted students of color, will present its Benjamin E. Mays Award to Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College of the City University of New York. The award memorializes the late Dr. Mays, scholar, [...]
Lieutenant-General Romeo A. Dallaire, who commanded the United Nations Mission to Rwanda from 1993-94 and tried to stop the genocide that claimed 800,000 lives in 100 days, will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters and deliver the commencement address. His book about his experiences in Rwanda, Shake Hands with the Devil, was [...]
BRONX, NY — Lehman College will graduate its largest class in 30 years at Commencement exercises June 1 that will feature an address by Myrna Rivera, a Lehman alumna and leading figure in the world of investment consulting and management. She is the founder, president and chief executive officer of Consultiva Internacional, Inc., one of [...]
BRONX, NY — The Tenth Annual Independent Publisher Book awards, honoring the year’s best independently published titles, recently named On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate by Dr. Sondra Perl, Lehman College Professor of English and Urban Education, as a 2006 finalist in the autobiography/memoir category.
Winners and finalists were formally recognized at [...]
BRONX, NY. May 25, 2006. Columbia University’s Class of 2006 included two alumnae of Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College’s Serrano Scholars Program. Ms. Luz-Maria Lambert from the Dominican Republic, and Ms. Kazi Ahmed, a Bangladeshi-American from New York, both earned Master of International Affairs (MIA) degrees from the School of International [...]
– Schomburg Chief Howard Dodson, Physicist Harry Lustig to Receive Honorary Doctorates –
NEW YORK, May 22, 2006 – The City College of New York (CCNY) will confer an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on Howard Dodson, historian and Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and an honorary Doctor of Science [...]
