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York College (http://www.york.cuny.edu) is making a decided contribution to The City University of New York’s (CUNY’s) record high fall enrollment this year. The 1,017 entering freshmen who have hit the campus running is the largest class of first-timers since 1996. Overall enrollment is up 7.9% and full-time enrollment is up 12%. The increase for first-time [...]

The first weekend in December ushers in the next York College Theatre production. Harlem Speakeasy: An evening of Jazz and Poetry features poems by Langston Hughes and Jazz played by a trio from the York College Jazz Workshop. The production stars Robert Hogan,a recent graduate of York College, who performed in Fences, Blythe Spirit, and [...]

If you missed CUNY York College’s Inaugural lecture by Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Nazrul Khandaker’s regarding the Department of Environmental Protection’s newest water tunnel- dubbed Tunnel No.3- have no fear. More than a decade will pass before the tunnel is actually finished. The City’s first two water tunnels were ocmpleted in 1917 [...]

NY1 program host Dominic Carter will be at York College on Monday, November 5th from 2 until 4 PM for a discussion/signing of his book, No Momma’s Boy. The event will take place in Room 1M07 of the college’s Academic Core Building. Mr. Carter, host of the cable channel’s roundtable show, Inside City Hall, where [...]

Triant Flouris, Ph.D., who has distinguished himself in the field of aviation as both an academic and experienced commercial pilot and certified flight instructor, has joined the faculty of York College (http://www.york.cuny.edu), The City University of New York (CUNY), as the director of the new Aviation Institute. The aviation program at York College, under his [...]

York College Athletic Director and Head Men’s Basketball Coach Ronald St. John was honored by the Jamaica YMCA at their Second Annual Community Service & Leadership Awards Recognition Ceremony on Sunday, October 28th, at the Melrose Credit Union in Briarwood, N Y. The Community Service Leadership Award recognizes outstanding dedication by individuals and corporations that [...]

YORK COLLEGE will compete in the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, the first-ever academic quiz competition for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Begun in 1989, over 50,000 students have competed in Honda Campus All-Star Challenge. The questions cover everything: from traditional academic areas, including science, literature, history, geography, religion, philosophy, social sciences and [...]

Assemblyman William Scarborough is sponsoring an Environmental Summit co-sponsored by York College and New York City Councilman Leroy Comrie, Friday, April 13, 2007, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., in the Faculty Dining Room. Topics will include Global Warming, Brown Fields, Air Quality, Water Table, Sewers, Jamaica Bay and Parks and Wetlands. “These topics raise very [...]

Barrington Irving, 23, about to become the first African American and the youngest person ever to fly solo around the world will make an official stopover at York College, Monday, March 26, 2007, from noon – 2 p.m. to address students from the CUNY Aviation Institute at York College and well wishers. Irving will arrive [...]

York College took top honors at yesterday’s CUNY Athletic Conference Basketball Pre-Tournament Media Luncheon saluting the 2006-07 CUNYAC/Con Edison Senior College Men’s All-Stars. Basketball Coach Ronald St. John, in his 19th season, was chosen CUNYAC Coach of the Year. Coach St. John led the Cardinals to the South Division Championship and the top-seed in the [...]

Veteran civil rights/human rights leader, Dr. Ron Daniels has accepted an appointment as the first Distinguished Lecturer at York College of the City University of New York effective the spring semester 2007. Dr. Daniels, who served as Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights for twelve years, will offer courses in the Behavioral Science [...]

You are cordially invited to participate in the 18th Annual African American Read-In Chain at York College, Sunday, February 4, 2007, 3 — 6 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lobby (94-45 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, New York) and Monday, February 5, 2007, 4:30 — 5:50 p.m., Room 3B04, the African American Studies Center, Academic Core [...]

York College and the Black American Heritage Foundation will pay tribute to women of historic stature who often go unsung in the world of jazz. These are the wives of internationally renowned musicians who many have never met or seen. But on Friday, February 2, 2007, from noon – 2 p.m., in the lobby of [...]

On Monday, December 4, 2006, at 5:00 p.m., the York College Performing Arts Center presents Jazz Forum # 15 with our own Myrna Lake, Celeste Wortes and Dorothy Parks. Myrna Lake: A Magna Cum Laude graduate in Music at York College, is a total entertainer whose rich alto voice and piano ability have been showcased [...]

Two York College Honor’s Program Students, Khionna Douglas (Psychology Major) and Kathia Lamour (Philosophy Major), will be presenters in a symposium at the 18th Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research, Friday, November 10, 2006, 2 p.m., St. Francis College, 180 Remsen St., Brooklyn Heights, NY. Their work is the result of papers written in [...]

Small Business Administrator Steven C. Preston will join the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as it acknowledges the achievements of its best performing lenders at the Lenders Award Ceremony Thursday, November 9, 2006, 8 — 10:30 a.m., in York College’s Academic Core Building. Preston will be the keynote speaker on his first visit to York’s [...]

Gerald A. Reynolds, a York College/CUNY alumnus, will deliver remarks at York College Thursday, September 14, 5-7 p.m. at the York College Performing Arts Center. The topic will be “Civil Rights in the 21st Century” and the event is free and open to the public. Reynolds is chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, [...]

The York College Theatre begins its Fall 2006 season with Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece, The Glass Menagerie. Williams’ creation of an imaginary world is brought to life by director/professor Barbara Nickolich, who directed last season’s compelling production of Endgame. The Glass Menagerie opens Friday, October 27 at 4:00 p.m. and runs Saturday, October 28 at 8:00 [...]

The Office of Student Activities at York College will host its Fourth Annual Summit on Domestic Violence Saturday, October 28, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. — 4:00 p.m., at 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard. The Summit, a comprehensive Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Awareness Program, is open to the public. Admission is free. Continental breakfast, lunch, [...]

Geral A. Reynolds, a York College/CUNY alumnus, is Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an agency charged with investigating complaints of deprivation of rights and discrimination/denial of equal protection under the law because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. A national renowned attorney, Mr Reynolds also serves as Assistant [...]