BRONX, NY — Dr. Leonard Lief, who served as president of Herbert H. Lehman College for 22 years — from its founding in 1968 as an independent college of The City University of New York until 1990 — died July 30 at Willow Towers in New Rochelle, following a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. He [...]
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography of the iconic American painter by Gail Levin, Professor of 20th Century American Art at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, has been selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the “five best” artist biographies ever. Levin’s book, originally published by Knopf in 1995, was reissued [...]
Long Island City, NY–When Teddy Wilson’s son, Dzhantam Warren, announced that he was going to enroll in LaGuardia Community College he wanted to do everything in his power to ensure that his son would succeed. So, he, too, enrolled in the degree program.
“The biggest problem I had when I was a kid was that [...]
Larry Cowen has been named the Director of Annual Giving and Major Gifts in the Office of Institutional Advancement at Queensborough Community College.
Before he joined Queensborough, Mr. Cowen was the Associate Director of Development for The Graduate Center at CUNY, where he worked since 2001. There, he consistently exceeded campaign goals and developed The [...]
“I look back fondly at my many days at Hostos Community College, a very special educational institution for me,” said Dr. Geraldine M. Perri, President of Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego County, California.
Dr. Perri conveyed these sentiments to Hostos’ Office of Public Relations after being contacted by Nydia Edgecombe, Director of Alumni Relations, in [...]
The Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management has been established in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York. The new center builds upon the school’s leadership in graduate education in nonprofit administration and on five years of programming specific to the needs of practitioners throughout the nonprofit sector in [...]
Hunter College School of Social Work alumna Annecy Báez (MSW ‘84) is the winner of the 2007 Miguel Marmol Prize for her collection of short stories, entitled My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories. The prize is awarded for a first book-length work of fiction in English by a Latina/o writer that reflects a respect [...]
The City University of New York Board of Trustees has elevated seven world-renowned scholars in chemistry, anthropology, art, music, media criticism and the law to the rank of Distinguished Professor, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein announced today.
Intensive English language immersion classes are available at a special low rate of $12 a week for qualified immigrant CUNY students seeking to advance their academic reading and writing skills. This affordable service can also help immigrant students avoid a common trap: spending financial aid and student loan dollars before they begin taking college level classes.
The faculty in the Department of Marketing of Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business has distinguished itself for scholarship. Marketing departments of business schools use the number of publications by their faculty in the top six marketing journals as a measure of quality. Baruch’s faculty placed in the top 12 percent out of 380 [...]
