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Long Island City, NY—Dr. Xiwu Feng (冯锡武), a LaGuardia Community College Communication Skills professor, has been approached by the Hunan University of Science and Technology in Hunan Province, China, to share his expertise and help in the redesign of its graduate linguistics program. “The university is launching a campaign to innovate its programs and is [...]

Long Island City, NY—LaGuardia Community College’s 2011 physical therapist assistant graduates received a 90.3% pass rate on the national licensure exam.  Twenty graduates passed the National Physical Therapy Examination, which tests the basic knowledge and skills necessary for safe and effective entry-level physical therapist assistants (PTA), and all are now employed. “LaGuardia has a nationally-respected [...]

Long Island City, NY—LaGuardia Community College’s 2011 physical therapist assistant graduates received a 90.3% pass rate on the national licensure exam.  Twenty graduates passed the National Physical Therapy Examination, which tests the basic knowledge and skills necessary for safe and effective entry-level physical therapist assistants (PTA), and all are now employed. “LaGuardia has a nationally-respected [...]

Long Island City, NY—A team of LaGuardia Community College students solved a series of complex mathematical problems that added up to the top scores in the team and individual categories of the Fall 2012 New York State Mathematics Association for Two Year Colleges Math League Contest (NYSMATYC). Yifei Shen, who competed against 663 number crunchers [...]

  Long Island City, NY—LaGuardia Community College is finally going to have a team of its own.  Actually, six teams, when its intercollegiate athletics program is officially launched next fall.  In October of 2013, LaGuardia’s men and women’s basketball teams will face its first community college competitors when they begin their seasons.  The following fall, [...]

Long Island City, NY—The saying that nice guys finish last doesn’t always prove true. In fact, for Sarah Farzam, founder and owner of Bilingual Birdies in Manhattan, this is exactly how she started a successful business teaching children foreign languages through live music: by being nice to people; through hard work, determination and dedication; and [...]

Long Island City, NY—As LaGuardia Community College student Freda Raitelu reflects upon the last two years of her life she still finds it hard to believe how it has changed so dramatically. In that short time, the 32-year-old single mother enrolled at LaGuardia as a liberal arts major; joined its Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society; [...]

Long Island City, NY— When LaGuardia Community College students, faculty and staff gathered in the Cobblestone Courtyard to film a “Gangnam Style” group dance last week, it was in response to something much bigger than the wacky music video that became an Internet craze this summer. Coordinated by Humanities Assistant Professor Ari Richter, the flash mob-type [...]

Long Island City, NY—Dr. Paul Arcario, an academic leader in higher education who over the past 24 years  has served LaGuardia Community College as both a professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition and a Dean of the Division of Academic Affairs, has been appointed Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. [...]

Long Island City, NY—Adan Olivares, a biology major at LaGuardia Community College who has been conducting research he hopes may help lead to a breakthrough in the cure for Alzheimer’s, won two best poster presentations at two prestigious collegiate competitions for his important work.  Most recently, he won best poster presentation in the neuroscience category [...]

Long Island City, NY–LaGuardia Community College’s American Sign Language (ASL)-English Interpretation Program (AEIP), in collaboration with SUNY Empire State College, was recently awarded $1.25 million by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs. The grant, which will be distributed over a five-year period, was awarded to only 10 programs nationally in the [...]

  Long Island City, NY–November 19, 2012–The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at LaGuardia Community College is working closely with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to help small businesses recover from the physical and emotional damages caused by Hurricane Sandy. In addition to providing expert services on how to start up and operate a [...]

   Queens, NY – Just over one year ago, Queens Botanical Garden and LaGuardia Community College launched a collaborative workforce development initiative, the Green Jobs Training Program. Today, these partners announced the impressive results of the first year of the program, which has trained 215 participants. Moreover, in the workforce development field where a 50% job placement [...]

Long Island City, NY—In the first step in the revitalization of Newtown Creek, a highly polluted waterway in Long Island City that has been designated a Superfund site, a group of LaGuardia Community College students are supplementing the EPA’s data collection plan by going on site and collecting water samples and microscopic organisms of the [...]

Long Island City, NY–What do you get when you put together a highly skilled and experienced industrial designer and a top notch global company who both share the same business values and vision? A perfect match. That’s why Yeh IDeology has been called the “eHarmony” of industrial design recruitment. “We have a unique methodology that [...]

Long Island City, NY–Jessenia Velazquez, the founder and CEO of Jessie’s CleanSweep, Inc., a green, full service janitorial small business located in Baldwin, Long Island, was stuck in the day-to-day operations of running a small business and felt she was at a standstill.  With $600,000 in revenue in 2011 and a staff of two full-time [...]

Long Island City, NY—In celebration of National Food Day, a nationwide movement to encourage people to eat healthy and sustainable food, LaGuardia Community College on October 24 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, a family-owned farm [...]

Long Island City, NY—Eric Shkolnik knew he had found the recipe for a successful small business. It was his mother-in-law’s recipe for her traditional Russian crepini, which she had tweaked after visiting relatives in Paris.  The final product was a delicious cross between the delicate French crepe and the robust Russian blini with its hardy [...]

Long Island City, NY—LaGuardia Community College on September 27 formally acknowledged Queens Borough President Helen Marshall for the instrumental role she played in securing $6 million for the expansion of the College’s library. With Queens Borough President’s financial support, the College will be expanding its 36,620-square-foot library to the second floor allowing for an increase [...]

Long Island City, NY— Faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the College gathered in the Jacob K. Javits Center North on September 21 to celebrate the conferring of degrees on LaGuardia Community College’s 40th graduating class, the Class of 2012. This year, the College graduated 2,500 students.  To view photos of the ceremony, visit:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/lagccalumni/sets/72157631576161864/ [...]