A comprehensive system to assure proper training and education for those who work in New York City’s early-childhood centers is essential to assure that children become lifetime learners, according to a new report by the New York City Early Childhood Professional Development Institute at The City University of New York.
LaGuardia Community College’s NY Designs, the first business center in New York City to help emerging designers grow their design firms, is pleased to announce the opening of its Prototype Lab. With more than 175,000 designers competing in the marketplace in one of the most expensive cities in the world, small design firms and [...]
The Hunter College School of Nursing and the College’s Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function have been selected to be part of an ambitious and innovative biomedical complex on New York’s Upper East Side.
They will work in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medical College and a consortium of other prestigious institutions in the Hunter [...]
The public is invited to take a guided tour on October 11 of the current exhibits in the Lehman College Art Gallery and talk with two acclaimed artists whose work is featured in the shows. The free event is sponsored by The City and the Humanities program at Lehman and begins at 12:30 p.m. in [...]
Douglas Carmichael, the Wollman Distinguished Professor of Accountancy in the Stan Ross Accountancy Department of Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, was named one of 2007’s Top 100 Most Influential People by Accounting Today.
The 2007 list describes him as “one of the country’s foremost authorities on auditing standards and financial integrity.” Accounting Today has previously [...]
EDUCATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PRE-K – 16
“Multi-literacy: The Key to Success”
WHO: The Keynote speakers are three leading experts who happen to be members of the same family-father, mother, and daughter:
-Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ;
-Yetta M. Goodman, Regents Professor Emerita, University of Arizona; and
-Dr. Debra Goodman, Associate Professor in the Department [...]
WHAT: Queens College Business Forum (by invitation only)
WHO: Daniel Zausner, Managing Director of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) National Tennis Center, will talk about what it takes to pull together the U.S. Tennis Open, the world’s most highly attended annual sporting event, for two weeks every summer at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in [...]
With affirmative action remedies in flux and tuition costs still rising, access to a college education remains difficult or impossible for many bright young men and women. Despite the millions of dollars available in Pell grants, scholarships, and loans, many thousands of students find themselves in life circumstances that make higher education unattainable.
The Baruch College [...]
Long Island City, NY—LaGuardia Community College’s Veterans Program received over $249,000 from the U. S. Department of Education’s Upward Bound Veterans Program to prepare veterans for postsecondary education.
The college’s veterans program, which has been providing high school equivalency and college preparatory classes to veterans for the past 35 years, will provide the academic enrichment [...]
The College of Staten Island (CSI) will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the closing of the Willowbrook State School on October 12 with a public forum addressing what closing Willowbrook has meant to the Staten Island community, including the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families.
Dr. Tomás Morales, president of CSI, said, [...]
