Aspiring high school TV production and moviemakers got a lucky chance this summer at Bronx Community College (BCC). As participants in College Now — a program to help academically-motivated high school juniors and seniors to get a head-start on college by taking courses for college credit — they had a chance to hear from and [...]
BMCC begins the 2007-08 academic year with a new governance plan.
Effective September 1, the new plan is designed to give all constituencies within the BMCC community a greater voice in college affairs. “Inclusion is a central theme,†says Emily Anderson, chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on Governance.
“What concerned many people – including the CUNY [...]
Bronx Community College of The City University of New York (BCC) has conferred on Walter Marin, Chairman of the Bronx Community College Foundation, the Presidential Medallion, its highest award of achievement.
Marin joins other notable Presidential Medallion recipients including: entrepreneur and civic leader Elias Karmon (Mr. Bronx); New York Yankee Manager Joe Torre; Pultizer Prize winner, [...]
Bronx Community College President Carolyn G. Williams caught up with New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre in August, in the Clubhouse behind the Dugout at Yankee Stadium minutes before he led the team onto the field for a midday game, to present him with the “Presidential Medallion,” the College’s highest award of achievement. Dr. [...]
The Center for the Arts (CFA) at the College of Staten Island (CSI) opens its 2007-2008 season, “Island Culture: Near and Far,” with the Seventh Annual New York International Choreographers Festival, produced by the Staten Island Ballet (SIB), on Saturday, September 15, at 8:00pm and Sunday, September 16 at 3:00pm.
Tickets are FREE, but reservations are [...]
Madame Butterfly on Times Square? Grand opera broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera to movie theatres all over the world? Who ever would have thought that was possible?
The newest guest on “Conversations With William M. Hoffman”—Peter Gelb, the Met’s new and innovative General Manager—has caused nothing less than a revolution in the opera world.
Recorded both [...]
Equipped with nets, notebooks, and insect repellent, Queens College researchers will descend on the wildest reaches of New York City on the afternoon of Friday, September 7, and they won’t emerge for 24 hours. They’re not filming an episode of Survivor; they’re staging the first BioBlitz—a round-the-clock tally of flora and fauna—of the Jamaica Bay [...]
Carl Rollyson, Professor of English at Baruch’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, writes biographies of maverick women; highly independent, strong-minded, and often iconoclastic figures. Frequently his subjects have been overlooked by other biographers, especially male biographers. Over the years, Rollyson has delved into the lives of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, Susan Sontag and Lillian [...]
Public high school students taking free college-credit courses in the “College Now” program sponsored by The City University of New York and The New York City Department of Education are at a record 20,614, an increase of more than 200 percent from the 6,795 students enrolled in the program in 1999.
“College Now helps students meet high school graduation requirements and ensures that graduates are better prepared to do college-level work,” said Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. “Research has shown that students who participate in College Now tend to do better academically than their counterparts once they enter college.”
Abe Goldschmidt (’07) is just 22 years old, but by the time he became a White House intern, he was already a seasoned veteran of the electoral process. Goldschmidt was bitten by the bug early and had already worked in the second Bloomberg mayoral campaign and in the ill-fated gubernatorial campaign of former New York [...]
