Medgar Evers College’s Male Development and Empowerment Center, which helps young urban males overcome adversity and work towards a productive life through a college education, will hold a two-day conference August 4 to 5 designed to introduce incoming freshmen to the college community and educate them about available services and support to ensure a successful [...]
In an effort to offer low to moderate-income level people in Washington state access to legal services, two CUNY Law grads, Charlene Quincey and Katy Sheehan, launched
Baruch College notes with deepest sorrow the passing of George Weissman (’39), whose generosity and vision had a transformative effect on our classrooms, our students and the excellence of our academics. Along with a handful of others, George Weissman changed the landscape of philanthropy at Baruch. A founding Trustee of the Baruch College Fund in [...]
Baruch College has been frequently cited for its diversity and multicultural character by The Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Report among other sources. In September, the College will again be recognized for its many diversity initiatives with an award from Minority Access, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the “recruitment, retention and enhancement [...]
The second time proved to be the charm for the Baruch College chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA). After failing to earn a place in last year’s KPMG National Student Case Study Competition, the team clinched the number one spot this year, besting NABA teams from nine other colleges and universities nationwide. [...]
More than 100 people from the Gramercy and Flatiron neighborhoods gathered at the Newman Conference Center last month to hear Baruch College President Kathleen Waldron pay tribute to community leaders for their work on behalf of the College. The occasion was the President’s annual Community Reception, which gives local leaders a chance to foster relationships [...]
Barbara Clark, Assistant Director at the College of Staten Island’s Center for International Service, had a rare opportunity to hone her understanding of Japanese culture and its entire educational system, thanks to her selection as a participant in a three-week Fulbright Program for International Education Administrators (IEA) that she attended in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima [...]
Three years ago, a group of Taiwanese artists, educators, scholars and government officials arrived in the U.S. to study public art. They visited sites in New York, Philadelphia and Washington and met with sculptors, curators and others involved in the creation and display of art in public places. Among the most fruitful connections they made [...]
CUNY Law professor and reproductive rights legal expert Caitlin Borgmann contributed an op-ed on the hazards of abortion parental notice laws
July 27, 2009 | Macaulay Honors College
For immediate release
NEW YORK, July 27, 2009 – Spiro Alexandratos, Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College at the City University of New York, was named Science Advisor to Macaulay Honors College students, according to Sylvia Tomasch, Ph.D., Associate University Dean of Academic Affairs at Macaulay.
“A cornerstone of the Macaulay [...]
