The spring semester’s Community Days will focus on immigration as a central theme and be held on two consecutive days during New York’s Immigrant Heritage Week (April 17-24). On April 17 Community Day Workshops will offer students opportunities to participate in interactive sessions and meet experts and advocates to learn about a broad range of [...]
The New Community College celebrates National Poetry Month with educational and entertaining events to recognize the importance and excitement of poetry and to build community through poetic expression. The Academy of American Poets established National Poetry Month in 1996 as a month-long, national celebration of poetry to increase the visibility and availability of poetry in [...]
The New Community College at CUNY will host the 11th annual Citizenship NOW! immigration hotline April 22-26. Co-sponsored by The New York Daily News and the City University of New York (CUNY), the hotline provides free and confidential citizenship and immigration information to thousands of callers. To learn more about the Citizenship NOW! call-in event, [...]
José Luis Morín, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and at The New Community College at CUNY, is the Guest Editor of CENTRO Journal’s fall 2012 edition and author of the introduction, “The Social Condition of Stateside Puerto Ricans: Critical Needs and Public Policy Implications.” An underlying theme featured throughout the new special issue [...]
NCC President Scott Evenbeck (far left) congratulates the NCC’s Student Government Association (SGA) officers and advisors on the ratification of the SGA Constitution. Top row: (L to R) Stephen Icaza, SGA President; Sherine Smith, SGA Vice-President; Alfajo Jallow, SGA Treasurer; Henesse Molina, SGA Secretary; and Randy Moore, Student Success Advocate and SGA advisor. Seated: Richard [...]
On Monday, March 4, members of the New Community College’s Ethnographies of Work II class visited City Hall for the New York City Council’s fiscal year 2014 budget hearings. Accompanied by Larian Angelo, NCC’s Vice President for Administration who helped organize the trip, 14 students toured the beautiful and historic corridors of City Hall. As [...]
Friday, February 15, 2013 (New York, NY): The New Community College at CUNY’s Office of Student Engagement and the Student Government Association co-sponsored four events to warm the hearts of the NCC community on Valentine’s Day, February 14. The day kicked off with distribution of special “NCC Warms My Heart” stickers and chocolates around campus. [...]
January 23, 2013 (New York, NY): On January 21 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, first-year students Gibsy Lino and Alfajo Jallow volunteered eight hours to support the ongoing Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in the Rockaways as part of the college’s MLK Day of Service and in partnership with New York Cares. Despite [...]
January 18, 2013 (New York, NY): Alia Tyner-Mullings, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The New Community College at CUNY, is co-author with Angelique Harris of Writing for Emerging Sociologists (Sage Publications, Inc., 2013). A writing guide for upper-level sociology undergraduate students and graduate students, this instructional text introduces students to the variety of writing projects [...]
Thursday, January 17, 2013 (New York, NY): Eight students from The New Community College at CUNY have been selected to join an inaugural class of 20 students for Mobilize.org’s Mobilizer Academy: Talia Arif, Jakeline Arteaga, Maria Lissete Estrada, Stephen Icaza, Alfajo Jallow, Cassandra Ortiz, Richard Persaud, and Angie Urena. Students were selected as part of [...]
