CUNY Newswire

The CUNY School of Professional Studies is pleased to announce its new online master of science degree in data analytics. The program prepares its graduates for high-demand and fast-growing careers as data analysts, data specialists, business intelligence analysts, information analysts and data engineers in such fields as business, operations, marketing, social media, healthcare, transportation, energy, [...]

Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis, faculty members at the Murphy Institute at the School of Professional Studies, have co-authored Changing the Subject: A Bottom-Up Account of Occupy Wall Street in New York City, and the report has been featured in the New York Times: (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/in-occupy-well-educated-professionals-far-outnumbered-jobless-study-finds/). The research team surveyed 729 protesters at a May 1, [...]

The CUNY School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Rio Guerrero, an adjunct assistant professor in the SPS graduate certificate program in immigration law, has been named one of 2012’s “Best Lawyers Under 40” by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). Presented at NAPABA’s anniversary gala and celebration dinner on November [...]

The Murphy Institute at the School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Dr. Eugene Murphy has joined the school to lead Advancing the Field of Labor Relations in China, an initiative that will be funded by a $1.5 million U.S. State Department grant.

The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist.

Ellen Shakespeare, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, joins SPS from her last position as a faculty member and the program coordinator for the health information technology programs at Raritan Valley Community College. Prior to her position at RVCC, she was a health information management department director and consultant at hospitals in Florida, New York and New Jersey. [...]

The CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS) is delighted to announce the addition of an online Bachelor of Arts degree in Disability Studies and of a Master of Arts degree in Urban Studies to their Fall 2012 degree offerings.

“The State of the Unions 2012: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States,” the September 2012 annual report of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies and the Center for Urban Research, records “significant erosion” in organized labor in the private sector in New York City and the growing gap between private and public sector unionization rates. The report, coauthored by the director of the Murphy Institute, Graduate Center Professor of Sociology Ruth Milkman, and Laura Braslow, a doctoral student in sociology, was picked up by the New York Times in a September 3 article.

The CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS) is delighted to announce that an SPS Mentoring Program has been established to provide a connection between SPS students’ academic goals and the professional paths they pursue. Focusing on relationships and resources to help students succeed, SPS Mentors guide students through the challenges of balancing work, school, and family responsibilities, offer valuable input on courses, skills, and activities, and provide access to a job-related network after graduation. In return, alumni mentors broaden their own leadership skills and professional networks while enhancing the image of SPS.

SPS is proud to announce that the work of Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the SPS Murphy Institute, was featured in the New York Times on Monday, January 16th. Released the same day, the report, “Discounted Jobs: How Retailers Sell Workers Short,” which Luce co-authored with Naoki Fujita, of the Retail Action Project, details the working conditions of non-unionized hourly retail employees in New York City.

A human rights delegation comprised of professors and practitioners has issued a report calling on federal and state agencies to investigate allegations of abuse of international students employed by the Hershey Company and some of its subcontractors.

Researchers from The City University of New York issued a new study of unionization trends in New York City and State. Entitled THE STATE OF THE UNIONS 2011, the report highlights the continuing strength of organized labor in New York – especially in the public sector – despite the many challenges unions face in the context of the anemic economic recovery. Second in an annual series, the study looks in particular detail at variations in unionization rates among immigrants and by industry in the City and State.

The CUNY School of Professional Studies announces that its new Online Bachelor of Arts degree program in Psychology has begun accepting applications for Spring 2012.

The CUNY School of Professional Studies is delighted to congratulate 176 NYC Department of Education Custodian Engineers who were awarded their certificates after completing SPS’s Building Operator Certification training program in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. Held at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 29th, friends, family, and stakeholders gathered to celebrate the first graduates of what is believed to be the largest sustainability training initiative currently available in the United States, and acknowledge the sustainability skills and cost savings that the program teaches and provide

Since 2005, The CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS) and the Lincoln Center Institute, the educational arm of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, have partnered to offer training in the use of aesthetic education techniques. Aesthetic education is defined as “an intentional undertaking designed to nurture appreciative, reflective, cultural, participatory engagements with the arts by enabling learners to notice what there is to be noticed, and to lend works of art their lives in such a way that they can achieve them as variously meaningful” (Maxine Greene, Variations on a Blue Guitar, The Lincoln Center Institute Lectures on Aesthetic Education, 2001).

The CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS) celebrated its fourth commencement ceremony on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. This year, 357 SPS students graduated from SPS, 121 of them with bachelor’s degrees (68 in Communication and Culture, and 53 in Business). 74 students earned master’s degrees, led by the School’s first degrees in Business Management and Leadership (15) and in Labor Studies (15), which joined 24 in Applied Theatre and 20 in Disability Studies. The School also awarded 162 certificates, 91 of them advanced, in Business Communication, Disability Studies, Diversity in the Workplace, Education Foundations, Health Care Policy & Administration, Immigration Law, Labor Relations, Labor Studies, Management, Project Management, and Public Administration & Public Policy.

The CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS) is delighted to congratulate the inaugural winners of its newly-instituted Founding Dean’s Scholarship and the Bob Martin Memorial Scholarship. The Founding Dean’s Scholarship is open to all qualified applicants enrolled in a CUNY SPS degree program on a part- or full-time basis, and are awarded on the basis of financial need and academic merit. The Bob Martin Memorial Scholarship, established by his family and friends to honor his love of learning and the pursuit of potential, is open to any applicant with a 2.5 GPA or higher who is enrolled in a CUNY SPS online baccalaureate program on a part- or full-time basis, and who will be entering his/her final semester prior to completing the online degree.

The CUNY School of Professional Studies is pleased to announce that two of its students, Seamus McManus and Jenelle Washington, received CUNY Student Leadership Awards on Friday, May 6th, for their exemplary contributions to the SPS community. The awards were presented as part of the Malave Fellows graduation ceremony in the Great Hall of City College. Dr. Frank Sanchez, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, presented the keynote address, and Robert Rodriguez, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs at City College, welcomed students and their families. The event was moderated by Tracie Strahan, of WNBC.

The CUNY School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that its new online Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Management program is now accepting applications for the Fall 2011 semester.

The CUNY School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that its new online Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology program is now accepting applications for the Fall 2011 semester.