CUNY Newswire

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/ [...]

  Long Island City, NY – This fall, LaGuardia Community College will join six other colleges nationwide that are testing new strategies to help students complete college by integrating public benefit screening and application assistance into the college’s existing services and supports. The College will work with the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) [...]

Long Island City, NY–Mayor Michael Bloomberg on September 12 attended the first graduation for the CUNY Fatherhood Academy at LaGuardia Community College, a program that assists young fathers who are unemployed or underemployed in learning parenting skills, prepares them to obtain employment, earn their GED where necessary and enroll in, and graduate from college. Mayor [...]

   Long Island City, NY—To culminate LaGuardia Community College’s yearlong 40th anniversary celebration,  Dr. Sandra Hanson, one of the College’s founding faculty members, will be giving the keynote address at the 40th Annual Commencement Exercises on September 21. Dr. Hanson, the chairperson of the English Department who joined the faculty in 1974, will address an [...]

Long Island City, NY—To commemorate September 11th, LaGuardia Community College is presenting the staged reading of “The Guys,” a play by Anne Nelson about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center.  The event is free and open to the public. The play focuses on how Joan, an editor, helps Nick, a New [...]

Long Island City, NY–Vada Vasquez, a LaGuardia Community College freshman, always knew that nothing would stop her from attending college and earning a fine arts degree.  Not even a stray bullet to her head that nearly killed her. The accident occurred on November 16, 2009, when the 15-year-old sophomore from Bronx Latin High School was [...]

Long Island City, NY—Two LaGuardia Community College students who graduated this year with honors have received the highly selective Finch College Scholarship. Zineb Bouizy, a Liberal Arts: Math and Science graduate; and Harmonie Kobanghe, a Liberal Arts: Social Sciences and Humanities graduate, were among four community college women to be awarded a $2,000 grant to [...]

Long Island City, NY—A chance encounter back in 1993 got Monique Greenwood, a successful magazine editor-in-chief, thinking about trying her hand at a new career. Ms. Greenwood was driving in her Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood when she spotted a bride and groom getting their picture taken, unaware that there were garbage cans in the background. When [...]

Long Island City, NY— In an effort to improve the nation’s college graduation rates, LaGuardia Community College and the Knowledge in the Public Interest are taking a bold new look at remedial classrooms.  Through the partners’ Global Skills for College Completion (GSCC) project, a selected group of basic skills instructors from 23 two- and four-year [...]

Long Island City, NY—August 1, 2012–One year after launching a city-funded internship program for young adults who are not working or attending school, LaGuardia Community College has graduated 100 students from its Young Adult Internship Program (YAIP), most of whom are now continuing their education, permanently employed or enrolled in a vocational training program. Among [...]

Long Island City, NY—Arti Cameron, a ‘08 LaGuardia Community College graduate who went on to become a pre-med student, will be representing Guyana in the Miss World 2012 Competition.  The beauty pageant is currently underway. The final night of the pageant takes place on August 18 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. The 23-year-old contestant, who [...]

Long Island City, NY—Harmonie Kobanghe, a LaGuardia Community College honor student and campus leader whose commitment to social justice is leading her to a law degree and a career as a human rights activist for Congolese women who were victims of war, is the recipient of 2012 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, a premier [...]

Long Island City, NY—Like many of the nation’s manufacturers, the economic downturn had taken a major toll on Mario Fichera’s 78-year-old family-owned business in Woodside.  The manufacturer and fabricator of store interiors not only witnessed the collapse of the construction environment, but he hopelessly watched jobs and clients go to his domestic competitors who were [...]

Long Island City, NY—It was 1:15 p.m. on a typical weekday and Sage General Store, a folksy 20-seat Long Island City eatery owned by restaurateur and caterer Leslie Nilsson-Pedace, was busy feeding its lunchtime crowd.  Behind the long counter displaying luscious-looking homemade cupcakes and brownies, servers dished out to hungry patrons the day’s soups, sandwiches, [...]

Long Island City, NY—Suddenly, Laura Catana’s life had changed dramatically. One minute she was a senior at Wesleyan College majoring in anthropology, and the next minute she was running the family’s landscaping business when her father, the founder and owner of City Gardens of New York, located in Long Island City, suddenly passed away. Without [...]

Two LaGuardia Community College basic skills students, who both returned to school after a long hiatus to become voracious learners and budding writers, recently won New York City writing contests for literacy students.

    Long Island City, NY—Magda Kieliszek, an instructor of Vocational English for Speakers of Other Languages (VESOL) at LaGuardia Community College’s Center for Immigrant Education and Training (CIET), is a recipient of the 2012  Literacy Recognition Award, granted by the Literacy Assistance Center in New York.  Ms. Kieliszek was recognized for dedication to her [...]

Long Island City, NY—Take your business to the next level with help from Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses at LaGuardia Community College. Applications are now being accepted for the upcoming session of the business education program, which will run from October 19, 2012 to February 9, 2013. To date, 99 percent of the businesses entrepreneurs [...]