CUNY Newswire

Long Island City, NY—Dr. Suresh Canagarajah, a professor of Applied Linguistics and English at Pennsylvania State University and an award-winning author, will be the featured speaker at LaGuardia Community College’s Literacy Brokers Program’s inaugural event on May 30. In his presentation/workshop, “Brokering Academic Publishing Conventions,” Dr. Canagarajah will discuss and demystify academic publishing conventions, show [...]

Long Island City, NY—Lloyd Blankfein, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., which under his leadership launched the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative and selected LaGuardia Community College as its first partner, will deliver the keynote address at the College’s 41st Commencement Exercises on June 6. Mr. Blankfein will address an [...]

          Long Island City, NY—May 20,  2013—In appreciation of its strong relationship with LaGuardia Community College, the Consulate General of Japan in New York has invited 46 CUNY students to take part in an all-expense paid 10-day study tour of Japan in May.   “Kakehashi – Bridge for Tomorrow” the Youth [...]

New Study Shows LaGuardia Community College’s GED Bridge Program Significantly Boosts GED Pass Rates and College Enrollment MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm, released encouraging findings today from a rigorous evaluation of a new approach to GED instruction pioneered by LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). [...]

Long Island City, NY—LaGuardia Community College student Weily Lang placed first for her research on the effects of antioxidants on fertility in male fruit flies at the Sigma Xi Research Showcase, a nationwide online science competition.  Weily, a fine arts major who loves insects and research, was up against some 100 student researchers, 80% of [...]

Long Island City, NY—A photography exhibition featuring photographer Walker Evans’s famous collection of images taken in Havana in 1933 will be shown at LaGuardia Community College now through May 29.  The event is free and open to the public.   The exhibition, comprising over 30 digital reproductions from original and posthumous prints, will be on [...]

Long Island City, NY—April 26, 2013—Chile, a country with a rich culture, modern cosmopolitan capital and breathtaking natural beauty with its jungles, fjords, glaciers, lakes and volcanoes, is the subject of a Queens Museum of Art Partnership Gallery photography exhibition by LaGuardia Community College Commercial Photography students. The exhibition runs from May 5 through the [...]

Long Island City, NY—To celebrate the wide range of Asian cultures that make up its student population, LaGuardia Community College on May 8 is hosting a festival featuring talented performers from China, Japan and the Philippines.  The events are free and open to the public. The event will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 [...]

      Long Island City, NY—April 23, 2013—In a major step toward launching its intercollegiate athletics program, LaGuardia Community College has hired two  accomplished basketball coaches for its men’s and women’s teams that will begin their seasons this fall.   Coaching the women’s basketball team will be Anthony Alfaro, a seasoned veteran who has [...]

Long Island City, NY—April 22, 2013—Facing a highly competitive and ever-changing job market, college students, more than ever, are asking themselves these questions: Am I on an academic path that will lead to my desired career?  Do I have the attributes that employers are looking for?  How do I impress potential employers during a job [...]

Long Island City, NY—To quash the stereotype that New Yorkers are just not nice, Priscilla Stadler, a LaGuardia Community College administrator and Queens artist, is spearheading a project challenging the people of Queens, and beyond, to defy the myth by doing FAVORS for friends, family and strangers during April.  To kick off the project, City [...]

Long Island City, NY—April 10, 2013—LaGuardia Community College, in partnership with an international research institute, on April 11 will open a student photography exhibition that looks at the people and places that make up the rich cultural diversity of Astoria.  The 50 stunning black-and-white and color images, which are part of the institute’s research project [...]

Long Island City, NY—Like all college students, Katherine Taberas has lofty dreams.   The LaGuardia Community College honor student plans on graduating, transferring to a senior college and then on to law school, which will pave the way to a career as an immigration lawyer.  There is one major obstacle in her way: her undocumented status. [...]

NEW YORK – Goldman Sachs on April 1 hosted a graduation of small business owners from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, a $500 million initiative to unlock the growth and job-creation potential of small businesses across the United States by providing them with greater access to business education, financial capital and business support [...]

Long Island City, NY—To celebrate its community’s rich cultural diversity and multilingualism, LaGuardia Community College on April 10 is hosting the Third International Mother Language Day Celebration featuring music from Bangladesh, North Africa/the Middle East and China. The keynote speaker will be Fabrice Jaumont, education attaché at the French Embassy’s New York headquarters. He oversees [...]

 Long Island City, NY—March 15, 2013—In celebration of National Nutrition Month, a nationwide movement to encourage people to eat healthy and sustainable food, LaGuardia Community College on March 20 will be hosting a variety of activities including having a green market on campus where local naturally grown produce will be sold.   W. Rogowski Farm, [...]

Long Island City, NY—LaGuardia Community College associate professor and mixed-media sculptor, Arthur Simms, was among 34 contemporary artists chosen to exhibit their work at the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013 Invitational Exhibition. His three sculptures are among over 120 paintings, sculptures and works on paper on exhibition at the galleries of the [...]

Long Island City, NY—Three LaGuardia Community College student filmmakers produced a video on financial literacy that took first prize in the fourth annual Financial Awareness Video Competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The team of Byron Guinanzaca, Christian Guinanzaca and Estela Melendez produced “Repair Your Credit—Repair Your Life,” a 30-second public [...]

Long Island City, NY—Erez Lenchner, a senior institutional researcher at LaGuardia Community College, has been invited by a program funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education to deliver a keynote speech at a major educational symposium on March 3. Mr. Lenchner will present his speech, titled “Using Institutional Research for the Development of Education Systems [...]

Long Island City, NY—February 21, 2013—At the Kennedy Center’s American Collegiate Theater Festival, a theater showcase where over 200 theater students from colleges and graduate schools throughout the northeast were competing, the same question was being asked by amazed students and faculty: “Who are those guys who did so well and where did they come [...]