Medgar Evers College’s newest building, Academic Building (ABI), is proud to announce it has been awarded the 2012 Building Brooklyn Award in the Education category. The Building Brooklyn Awards are awarded annually by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, recognizing recently completed new and renovation construction projects with a positive impact on the borough’s economy and quality of life. Officially opened in October of 2010, AB1 houses the College’s School of Science, Health and Technology, a new cafeteria, computer-enabled smart classrooms, cutting-edge labs, and the Edison O. Jackson auditorium. The five-story 194,000 square foot building, the campus’ fourth, was a $247 million dollar construction project, built with generous funding from New York City and New York State.
On Thursday, May 3 – the LIFE Club, the Association for Latino Students (ALAS), the Education Club, the Office of Differently-Abled Students, and the Office for Affirmative Action and Diversity; celebrate the diversity of Medgar Evers College’s social, cultural, ethnic and differently-abled community in a special and unique event from 3:30 to 5:30 pm in Academic Building I – EOJ Auditorium at 1638 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11225. Featured speakers include: the Honorable Patricia L. Gatling, Commissioner/Chair, NYC Commission on Human Rights; Commissioner Fatima Shama, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs; the Honorable Mucaro Borrero, President – U.S. Regional Coordinating Office of UCTP; and Dr. John Graham, Dean of the Medgar Evers College School of Business. A reception immediately follows from 5:30 to 8 pm in the President’s Conference Room (B-1008).
Medgar Evers College is proud to announce its Forty – First Commencement ceremony, to be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 12 noon. Themed “The Evolution of ME,” this year’s festivities shall celebrate the academic triumphs of 1,080 graduates. “Forty graduating classes have donned caps and gowns [...]
The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference will host a post-Conference fund-raiser for the Center for Black Literature with authors Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on Friday, April 20, 2012, at 6:30 p.m.
Medgar Evers College’s Adult and Continuing Education has partnered with Triumphant Journey’s to offer the High Impact Coaching™ Certificate Program, a comprehensive course that provides full preparation for functioning as a coach.
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, will host the Eleventh National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) on Thursday, March 29 through Sunday, April 1, 2012, on the college campus at 1650 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Medgar Evers College Social Work students – Nicole Franklin and Peta-ann Bigby – profiled in the The Positive Community March issue. This semester, the two BSSW students are servicing at-risk youth in our underserved neighborhoods through Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes’ Back on Track program at the CPCA Community Enrichment Center in Brownsville, where they plan and implement activities designed to steer at-risk youth away from criminal activity. Read more of this inspirational story on p. 24 of the magazine’sonline issue.
On Friday March 16, 2012, Medgar Evers College, in conjunction with the New York City Department of Education will hold the Ninth Annual National Professional Social Work Month Conference beginning at 8:00 am in the Founders Auditorium at 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Dr. William L. Pollard, President of Medgar Evers College will serve as Honorary Chair.
The Medgar Evers College Department of Physical, Environmental, and Computer Sciences – in conjunction with the National Science Foundation; and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration – will hold the 17th Annual Environmental Issues Conference on Saturday, March 10, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. in the Founders Auditorium.
Building on the success of its life coaching certificate program at Brooklyn College, Triumphant Journeys coaching is expanding its courses to Medgar Evers College Adult Continuing Education program in 2012.
