By Jill Jarvis
Ask him why the Hunter College Creative Writing MFA program is rapidly becoming a magnet for the nation’s apprentice writers, and CUNY Distinguished Professor Peter Carey, its executive director, is quick to attribute this success to someone else.
“I work with terrific people,” Professor Carey demurs when I pose the question in Hunter’s Wexler [...]
Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College will hold its thirty-seventh commencement exercise on the evening of Wednesday, June 4, 2008.
Hostos President Dolores M. Fernandez stated: “This is the fortieth year of this college’s existence, so in addition to celebrating our graduates’ accomplishments, we are also continuing our celebration of the ruby anniversary of our ‘jewel [...]
Louis Armstrong was famous for practicing trumpet on his balcony to the delight of his neighbors in the decidedly working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Continuing the tradition, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is pleased to present Ray Vega and his Latin Jazz Quintet on Tuesday, July 8 for the seventh edition of Jazzmobile at LAHM. [...]
This is the summer of CUNYfirst, the launch of the new generation of information technology that will revolutionize the underlying University business systems that serve students, faculty and staff. When completed, it will streamline the way almost everything is done, from registering for courses to hiring personnel and paying bills
For college students, the uncertainty of the economy has aggravated an age-old dilemma: How do I merge my need for a decent-paying job with a desire to do good in the world
On March 1, 2008, The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York welcomed its newest faculty member when Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering Sanjoy Banerjee arrived from his previous academic home at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In addition to his faculty appointment, Professor Banerjee will serve as Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Technologies at CCNY (soon to be renamed the Energy Institute).
—Mexican Sculptor Sebastian to receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, CCNY President’s Medal to Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau—
Dr. Gregory H. Williams, 11th President of The City College of New York, to deliver the commencement address. Dr. Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY), CCNY Class of 1963, will offer [...]
— TV Journalists Jane Tillman Irving, ‘69, and David Diaz, ‘65 to Speak at 156th Annual Alumni Meeting, June 5 —
Lynn Appelbaum, Associate Professor and Director of the Advertising /Public Relations Program at The City College of New York (CCNY), will receive the 2008 Faculty Service Award from the College’s Alumni Association at the Association’s [...]
“I don’t do well in offices,” Distinguished Professor Eric Alterman informs me as he directs me away from his Upper West Side apartment and toward a shaded bench in sunny Riverside Park. Glancing at his watch, he notes that at the end of our interview he will be obliged to dash of to an electric guitar lesson, his third. “I have to keep up with my daughter,” he adds. “She’s nine.”
WHAT: The 84th Commencement of Queens College of the City University of New York
WHO: Over 2,000 degree candidates expected to attend. Over 4,200 have been invited from the classes of September 2007, February and May 2008, and prospective September 2008
graduates. Total audience, including graduates, will number more than 10,000.
DATE: Thursday, May 29, 2008, rain or shine
TIME: 9 am
PLACE: Campus Quad, [...]
