Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has challenged educators with an innovative idea he says could help ensure the U.S. remains competitive in the 21st century. With fewer college students in the U.S. enrolling in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, Goldstein is calling for a program that would not only identify and nurture promising students from an early age through high school; but also grant these high academic achievers acceptance into some of the best PhD programs in the country as soon as they enter college. A similar model is used in the study of medicine where students are admitted into baccalaureate programs with the promise of moving on to medical school.
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Public meeting of the Board of Trustees, June 25, 2007, part 1 of 3.
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Public meeting of the Board of Trustees, June 25, 2007, part 2 of 3.
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Public meeting of the Board of Trustees, June 25, 2007, part 3 of 3.

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“Sharing Dreams: Cuban and American Graphic Designers Across the Digital Divide,” a new exhibit featuring digitally-created poster art by both Cuban and American artists, is featured through August 9, at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College. Dr. Amy Winter has made it a goal of the museum to display multi-ethnic and cross-cultural art, during her current tenure as director and curator. She sees “Sharing Dreams” as a step toward improving US-Cuban relations.
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Five years ago, 16-year-old Eder Izaguirre moved from Honduras to join his father in the United States. He spoke limited English, scored low grades in high school, and had no real interest in science. On June 1st, Izaguirre received his B.S. in physics and landed at the top of his class at City College as the 2007 valedictorian. Izaguirre, who is bound for Stanford University’s Ph.D. physics program, shares his immigrants experience and how he found his passion and purpose at CCNY. “I came to City not knowing what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” he said, “here I found my true calling–physics.”
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Banned from her village at sixteen years of age for the sin of learning to read and write, Estrella Thompson, the heroine in “The Girl With the Golden Shoes,” is forced to swim against the tide of indignation and invent her own life. Critically acclaimed, Jamaican-born author, Colin Channer, reads excerpts from his latest novella, which has been hailed as a “nearly perfect moral fable” by Russell Banks, as part of a book signing sponsored by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College.
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In this excerpt of CUNY Honors: A Decade of Science at The City University of New York, Pt. 1, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein talks with four prominent scientific scholars, CUNY Professors Ruth Stark, Jill Bargonetti, Derek Brazill and Micho Kaku followed by a question and answer period with students from the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY.
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In this excerpt of CUNY Honors: A Decade of Science at The City University of New York, Pt. 2, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein talks with four prominent scientific scholars, CUNY Professors Daniel Akins, Myriam Sarachick, Charles Liu, and Marie T. Filbin followed by a question and answer period with students from the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY.

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Every year since 2003, CUNY has sent a team of their best and brightest athletes to represent the university abroad as part of the CUNY Goodwill Tour. This summer a team of 18 baseball players will be traveling to Italy to visit historical sites and to hopefully do some charitable work along the way.
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