CUNY Newswire

From funding shifts to student demographics to new technologies, public higher education is changing quickly and dramatically. For universities willing to examine their operations and experiment with new ideas, this is a time of great opportunity. If universities want to evolve, they must be more responsive — to students, to government, to business.

The University’s renowned faculty members continually win professional-achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from government agencies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside.

Many of the hundreds of students who volunteered assistance for Hurricane Sandy victims have spoken of their personal, life-altering experiences in service of those upended by the disaster.

Coverage of Albert Einstein’s 1921 CCNY visit – including his high praise for the college. Accounts of Depression-era campus protests and rallies. News spanning the years of World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Civil Rights and the Vietnam War.

HAVE YOU HEARD? How President Obama’s State of the Union address praised CUNY? Why Baruch students are lingering longer on campus? Where to quickly find news stories on major world and local events dating from the early 1900s?

From its beginning 165 years ago, The City University of New York has always had a dual mission: Deliver high-quality education — and serve the citizens of the city.

2 pioneering social media websites created at the University keep advancing based on continual interaction between designers and users.

Back on Nov. 26, 2010, the former Czech/Israeli pianist Alice Herz-Sommer began her day as usual, practicing a Bach invention in her small apartment in London’s Hampstead district. The Czech ambassador to Britain soon arrived to deliver a short speech (interrupted several times by Alice, then just age 107) and a brass plaque honoring her contribution to Czech culture.

Emancipation Exploration, Global Search For Home, Where’s The Food?, 18th Century Page-Turner, Up From The Depths

A visionary initiative “Built by and for Students” is streamlining connections between University-wide communities — with an eye toward far-reaching goals.

A PBS documentary on civil rights icon Whitney Young Jr. that capped Black History Month at Bronx Community College told how as National Urban League leader he championed employment equality by appealing directly to corporate and government leaders — and several U.S. presidents.

Sexual Harassment Policy Has Added Changes; Coping With New Pre-Tax Transit Limits, Fare Hikes; Why Is Your Check Lower in 2013? Higher Taxes.

Saving for retirement — or for anything — may not be a typical priority for those in their 30s. But Amy Jeu, 35, a Hunter Geoscience College Laboratory Technician, first learned that money mattered from her Chinese immigrant parents. In Brooklyn, her mother and father ran, at various times, a candy store, a coffee shop, a Laundromat, a take-out restaurant, a tackle store and an aquarium.

It’s Pathways ahead. The University’s new, improved general education and credit-transfer system known as Pathways is now open for registration with students choosing from a full menu of approved courses for the new core requirements, as well as for 10 popular transfer majors set for a fall 2013 launch.

Chancellors Dennis Walcott of New York City Public Schools, left, and CUNY’s Matthew Goldstein spoke at a December summit on STEM education, produced by U.S. News & World Report in association with CUNY and the Daily News and held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a 1965 voting rights march in Alabama. This picture was part of a photo essay by Stephen Somerstein, now a physicist and documentary photographer, who covered the civil rights protests as student editor in chief and photo editor of the City College evening newspaper, Main Events.

Faculty mentors and exceptional students help each other — and the University — to further cutting-edge research.

The right mentor can change a student’s life – and possibly trigger a cascade of mentoring that ripples through the next generation.
That’s the experience of cognitive neuropsychologist Jennifer Mangels, a professor at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, whose research into how people learn — particularly from mistakes — has won support from esteemed national institutes and agencies.

The University’s renowned faculty members continually win professional-achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from government agencies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside.

Across CUNY’s campuses, financial managers are reviewing budget and investment plans in anticipation of next year’s state and city budgets. And as I always remind our managers, any financial planning must start with an emphasis on our core values.

The Regional Economic Development Council cochaired by Chancellor Goldstein is turning abandoned NYC buildings into invaluable job-creating, economy-boosting projects.

Concrete and iron workers are converting three abandoned, World War II machine shops at the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a green, 21st century factory for a body-armor and military-apparel manufacturer; a laboratory for designers, digital manufacturers and university researchers; and state-of-the-art light manufacturing. About 400 construction jobs and 300 permanent jobs are expected.