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.
The CUNY School of Professional Studies is pleased to announce its new online Master of Science in Information Systems degree program.
The online M.S. in Information Systems was designed in response to the growing need for individuals with the skills to transform large amounts of data into meaningful knowledge, and then apply this knowledge to real world problems. Advances in information technology have created numerous opportunities for revolutionizing the ways that organizations do business, from reinventing the consumer experience, to improving operating efficiencies and increasing profitability.
The CUNY School of Professional Studies is pleased to welcome Halima Leak as its new Director of Alumni Relations and Development. Halima has over 10 years of experience in alumni relations, development, and volunteer management, and has provided programming and fundraising leadership for organizations and educational institutions such as Communities in Schools, INROADS, Barnard College of Columbia University, and New York University.
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.
