The Foundation of the College of Staten Island has announced that Joe Rende, Vice President of Energy Solutions Services, Metro New York, for National Grid, is the newest member of its Board of Directors. Rende was voted in by the Board at its meeting last December.
In 1985 Rende joined Brooklyn Union as a Management Trainee. [...]
Mary Robinson, BJ Bernstein and NYU Brennan Center for Justice Recognized for their Exemplary Dedication to Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice will present the 2009 John Jay Justice Awards to Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; BJ Bernstein, a prominent Atlanta-based attorney; and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of [...]
Making a case for “balanced immigration reform,” former Secretary of State Colin. L. Powell told a City College policy conference that “study after study … confirm that our economy utterly depends on the contribution of immigrants, documented and otherwise.”
NEW YORK, March 31, 2009 – Japanese artist Hiro Kagami brings his Mexican-themed artwork to The City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Worker Education (CWE) with his installation of “Mexico Through Oriental Eyes,” which will run through April 27.
Curated by Areceli Tinajero, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at CCNY and The [...]
NEW YORK, March 27, 2009 – Don Gomez, a junior at The City College of New York (CCNY) and a veteran of the U.S. Army who had two tours of duty in Iraq, has been named a 2009 Truman Scholar.
The Truman Scholarship provides up to $30,000 in funding to students pursuing graduate degrees in public [...]
NEW YORK, March 24, 2009 – Quest, a non-profit senior educational program that is now part of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Division of Worker Education (DWE), will host a luncheon to celebrate its official union with the College. The event runs from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at [...]
Brooklyn, NY — “If you talk the talk, this is the world in which you’ll have to walk the walk,” says Patrick O’Halloran, professor of Hospitality Management at New York City College of Technology (City Tech). “Which is to say, that the key to seeking and landing the job of your dreams lies in looking [...]
The New York Daily News recognizes the concerns of today’s small business owners with its column ‘Your Money.’ This section of the paper profiles successful NYC entrepreneurs and interviews financial consultants and experts about the ups and downs of starting, expanding, leaving or creating a business.
Since BMCC offers business management programs for students of [...]
Prof. Sarah Bartlett, who directs the Business & Economics and Urban Reporting programs at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, will moderate a workshop on financial crime reporting at a conference April 2 at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Called “Watching the Watchdogs: Best Practices in Financial Crime Reporting,” Bartlett’s panel will also [...]
James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, says it was Frederick Douglass’s “brilliant” tribute at the 1876 unveiling of a monument honoring Abraham Lincoln that convinced him to write about the politically complex ways the two great Civil War-era Americans worked to abolish slavery…
