Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee On Student Affairs And Special Programs, Monday March 31, 2008
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Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, Monday March 31, 2008
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Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Fiscal Affairs, Monday March 31, 2008
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Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Academic policy, Program and Research, Monday March 31, 2008
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“Entangled State Computations,” “The In Vitro Effects of Parathyroid Hormone on Immune Function” and other high school student research projects highlighted the New York City Science and Engineering Fair, co-sponsored by the city’s Department of Education and CUNY at the Graduate Center. Only a handful of the 140 science students were selected to represent their schools at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta later this spring.
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The second of four discussions, “Aspen at Roosevelt House: Conversations on Presidential Leadership” at Hunter College, examines the role of presidents, past and present, in the civil rights movement. The panel, moderated by the award-winning Newsweek columnist Ellis Cose, features Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch and former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan. Executive orders, observes Ms. Sullivan, from President Harry S. Truman’s decision to desegregate the Army up to President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, are only as effective as the means by which they are deployed. “We’re not past the need for civil rights … but civil rights are only as good as the social rights that accompany them.”
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The First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech and the press “is under attack as never before,” says legal expert Eve Burton, General Counsel Designate and Vice President of the Hearst Corp. Delivering the 6th Annual D’Agostino-Greenberg Lecture in Law and Policy at City College, Ms. Burton discussed her advice as counsel to two San Fransisco Chronicle reporters prosecuted by the federal government in 2006 for withholding their source’s name during the BALCO steroid scandal, and the key Supreme Court rulings on reporter’s “privilege” that were used to defend them.
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Prof. Mark Rosenblum examines the intricate issues mired in Middle Eastern politics in a lecture delivered at Queens College. “While there is a lot of scar tissue on both Israel and Palestine,” says Rosenblum, “we have a case here where peace is not inevitable, but neither is it impossible.” The author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, Rosenblum has appeared as a Middle East analyst on major television and radio networks, and in 1999 he was named one of the 50 most influential American Jews by The Forward. He is currently director of the Michael Harrington Center and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Queens College.
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Architect Peter Gluck argues that an architectural firm must take full responsibility, from design to construction, in assuming all aspects of a project. As part of City College’s Architecture Lecture Series, Mr. Gluck reveals the nuts and bolts of his firm’s various projects and discusses the rewards of his belief in the integrated process. Gluck’s firm has designed buildings for residential, commercial, educational and community-based uses, including the Bronx Prep Charter School and the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Services in East Harlem and more viewable at www.gluckpartners.com
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The life of Frantz Fanon, the black French psychiatrist turned philosopher, whose writings formed the intellectual ammunition for Algeria’s war of independence from France, is re-examined in John Edgar Wideman’s new novel, “Fanon.” In this, his first novel in a decade, the author weaves a pastiche of politics, history and biography to tell the story of the revolutionary thinker. One of the most prominent African American writers today, Mr. Wideman is the first author to have been awarded the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice. The reading, co-sponsored by Medgar Evers College and The Brooklyn Public Library, was the overture to the college’s nationally acclaimed Black Writers’ Conference, now in its ninth year.
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