Since opening in October 2001 to assist businesses affected by 9/11, the Small Business Development Center at LaGuardia Community College has counseled more than 8,000 business owners, helping many to access capital and create jobs. Now, recognizing that community colleges are engines that drive economic development, Goldman Sachs has announced that LaGuardia will be its first partner in a $500 million initiative with small businesses across the country. “Small businesses are key to growing the economy,” said Jane Schulman, vice president of the Division of Adult and Continuing Education at LaGuardia, which oversees the center. “This initiative will help small business owners navigate the system of marketing and the system of business plans and help to grow their businesses.”
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Guatemala’s bloody civil war lasted 36 years and left 200,000 civilians in it’s wake. In April 1998, human rights activist and the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Guatemala, Juan Gerardi, released a report that held the Guatemalan military responsible for 90% of the atrocities, including the slaughter of children. Days later, Bishop Gerardi was found bludgeoned to death in his home. Acclaimed Guatemalan-American novelist, Francisco Goldman, spent the next nine years immersed in the investigation, resulting in his latest book, “The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed The Bishop?,” a non-fictional investigative report. In a lecture at Baruch College, Goldman discusses the case, including the eventual convictions of three army officers and a collaborating priest, in the killing.
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