WHAT: Queens College Business Forum
WHO: Bruce Bendell, head of Major Automotive Companies, Inc. In less than a decade, Bendell turned a $10-million, two-person operation into the largest car dealership in New York State with sales of $300 million and 190 employees.
Queens College President James Muyskens will discuss QC’s economic impact on the borough and how public [...]
Baruch College’s Deborah Balk, associate director of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, is one of seven co-authors of a ground-breaking study of emerging disease “hot spots” around the world. The study, which appears in the February 21, 2008 issue of the scientific journal Nature, says that new diseases originate primarily from increased contact between [...]
“I have so many things I want to do in this third act of my life,” says Victoria Rauch Lichterman, assistant professor of humanities at New York City College of Technology (City Tech). A veteran professional actress, published writer, teacher and articulate advocate for the advancement of women and minorities, Lichterman, who is in her [...]
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the College of Staten Island will host “Expanding Wing…Stretching Space: Creating Room ‘tween a Rock and Hard Place,” a theatrical poem-in-motion of choreographed poetry and stories with music, dance, and song written by survivors of domestic violence, on Thursday, March 20 at 3:30pm in the college’s Center for the [...]
Once college students jump over all of the hurdles required to get a degree and graduate, they then face the daunting task of launching their careers. The Career and Scholarship Center at the College of Staten Island is not only helping CSI grads to find jobs, it is finding them at prestige firms and organizations, [...]
Staten Island, like the other four boroughs of New York City, represents a diverse ethnic fabric, with many people coming to the Island and the College of Staten Island to make better lives for themselves and their families, some eventually choosing to remain in the U.S., while others return to their home countries.
Some of these [...]
As a young woman fresh out of college in the early 1990s, Freida D. Foster-Tolbert took a job with BMCC — a move she now partially credits for her growth as a person.
“I learned a tremendous amount about my history during those years at BMCC,” she said. “BMCC is in such a historical location, being [...]
Two Hunter College wrestlers are headed for the NCAA Championship Tournament on March 7 and 8 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Senior Ben Bonaventura qualified for the NCAA tournament for the first time in his four-year career after taking first place at the Metropolitan Conference Championships held on February 24 at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Bonaventura [...]
Morris Sheriff, the past President of the Evening and Weekend Student Club at BMCC, a Peer Mentor, a note taker for a disabled student, and an Accounting major and President of The Accounting Club was just named a New Century Scholar, an award only bestowed on members of the First All-USA Academic Team.
The All-USA Academic [...]
Queensborough Community College’s Mock Trial team, newly formed by the Business Department, won the Spirit of the AMTA award at the Atlantic Coast Regional Mock Trial Tournament of the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA).
The tournament, held February 22-24 at St. John’s University, was the first Queensborough’s team of seven students has participated in. Twenty-four [...]
