he experiment is to be tried… whether the children of the people, ‘T the children of the whole people, can be educated; whethe r an institution of learning, of the highest grade, can be success - fully controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few, but by the privileged many.” — Horace Webster CUNY Matters Founding Principal, The Free Academy cuny.edu/news • THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS THE FREE ACADEMY FALL 2011 From Lab yrinth to GRANTS &HONORS Recognizing Pathways Faculty Achievement HE UNIVERSITY’S renowned The new Pathways plan Udeogalanya faculty members continually for streamlining credit Twin professional-achieve - ment awards from prestigious transfers within CUNY organizations as well as research grants from government agen - promises to improve cies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured at academic quality and Brown left are just a few of the most graduation rates plus recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research pro - save money for students jects start here and continue inside. and the University. University Vice Chancellor for Kendrick Research Gillian Small has been awarded a $1,075,968 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan ASKED WITH transforming according to Executive Vice Chancellor for approves the Common Core structure, each Foundation to encourage and general education and stream - Academic Affairs and University Provost undergraduate college will specify individual support promising early career lining the credit-transfer pro - Alexandra Logue. courses that meet the 30-credit Core scientists — students and facul - cess, a distinguished panel of The Pathways to Degree Completion ini - requirements. ty members — through two educators has begun to tackle Small tiative was established by a unanimous vote The Aug. 26 retreat at the Graduate awards plans: a Summer Tthe complexities of developing a new of the Board of Trustees in late June. The Center — the first joint meeting of the steer - Undergraduate Research program “Common Core” for all CUNY colleges as task force includes faculty, as well as student ing and working committees — focused on a and a Junior Faculty Fellowship well as a transparent, efficient and fair sys - representatives, from every CUNY college, as key piece of the initiative, identifying the program. tem for transferring course credits across well as every liberal arts major and transfer learning outcomes to be required for the the University. major of significant size. Common Core’s various multidisciplinary Kingsborough CUNY Law School Dean Michelle The 42-credit general education frame - areas, following “best practices” modeled at Community College has Steingart Anderson has been appointed by Chancellor work, to be implemented in 2012, will other universities. received a $1,874,604 grant from Matthew Goldstein to head the task force, include the 30-credit Common Core for all Anderson said committee members The Mayor's Fund to Advance New which will develop the Common Core by campuses and 12 “College Option” credits “broke into small groups to deliberate on York City for the “Young Adult establishing required credits and learning that each baccalaureate college will desig - possible cross-curricular learning Program: Access to Success," outcomes in broad disciplinary and interdis - nate. Currently, general education require - outcomes,” such as the ability to understand under the direction of Stuart ciplinary subject areas. ments vary by senior college campus from 39 and criticize sources of information, the abil - Schulman . The U.S. Department The task force comprises two committees to 63 credits, averaging 51 credits. ity to communicate through writing or ver - of Homeland Security has award - appointed by the chancellor after consulta - The task force convened on Aug. 26 for a bally, or to employ quantitative reasoning. Green ed $399,983 to David Green and tion with the Council of Presidents and the “tremendously successful” working retreat, “We came up with seven different versions Maria Hartwig of John Jay College leadership of the University Faculty and Dean Anderson said. Another retreat is that the steering committee will assimilate for a “Homeland Security Doctoral Student Senates: the 16-member steering scheduled for Oct. 14, and a preliminary draft and winnow… to provide a touchstone for the Research Fellowship Program.” committee, and a 39-member working com - of the Common Core proposal is to be work as we go forward.” Distinguished Professor of mittee to advise it and serve as a two-way sketched by Nov. 1 and circulated for feed - “I was very impressed with the engage - Psychology Anthony Sclafani and Karen Ackroff of Brooklyn College communication channel between the steer - back from the campuses before it is to be ment and intellectual commitment that the Hartwig ing committee and the individual colleges, presented to the chancellor Dec. 1. After he Continued on page 8 ‰ have received $341,475 in fund - ing from the National Institutes of Health for research concerning INSIDE “Carbohydrate Appetite, Fat Non-Profit Org PAGE Appetite and Obesity.” CUNY Matters U.S. Postage Enrollment Soars Office of University Relations PAID 2 — Along With Quality Hunter College 535 East 80th St. Permit # 153 New Haven, CT McCann Distinguished Lecturer Colum New York, NY 10075 PAGE McCann has won the Students, Museums Form International IMPAC Dublin 4 Profitable Alliances Literary Award, more than $140,000, for his latest novel: Let the Great World Spin . PAGE Ready to Serve: Kingsborough Community College professor of physical sciences 6 CUNY Connolly Reservists Harold C. Connolly was among a team of scientists who recently discovered a new mineral, named Krotite. PAGE Not Your 10 City College has received Everyday $2,699,999 in funding from the Trauma Center Liu National Science Foundation for Continued on page 3 ‰ TH ECHANCELLOR’ SDESK Rational Tuition Policy: A Primer Enrollment Soars S ANY CUNY graduate knows, the students in need. setting of tuition at CUNY and In addition to TTRACTED by academic quality SUNY by the state has tradition - helping families and continuing affordability, a Degree-Credit ally been done in a haphazard plan for the costs of record 269,300 students are A way. During economic d own - expected to enroll at CUNY this higher education Students at CUNY turns, students might experience very steep and protecting stu - A fall, including 8,200 more tuition increases, while in other years, dents in need, the state’s rational tuition undergraduates than last fall. This is the tuition levels would hold steady. plan has several other advantages. It allows University’s 11th straight year of growth. 1849-20 11 For the better part of a decade I have the University to keep all of the revenue More top students than ever factor in the advocated for a predictable tuition policy, from the new tuition, rather than returning mix. The University accepted 20,202 appli - one that allows students and their families, all or a portion of it to the state, as in past cants with a high-school GPA of 85 or above. and the University, to plan for the future. years. This important provision ensures that That’s 7.8 percent more top applicants than in The centerpiece of the CUNY Compact students’ investment in their education fall 2010 and a stunning 104.5 percent more model is the establishment of a rational stays at the University, supporting academic than in fall 2002 — a clear indication of the tuition plan, one that builds in modest, pre - priorities and student services. Moreover, it steadily rising esteem with which students 0,000 dictable increases tied to state funding and enables multiyear planning by the who have academic options hold CUNY. 30 protects the neediest students. University, which increases our overall effi - The University accepted about 69,000 In June, such a policy came to fruition. ciency. The plan also encourages freshmen, approximately 2,250 more than The New York State Legislature passed a philanthropy. It demonstrates to donors last year. It accepted about 28,200 transfer five-year tuition plan for CUNY and SUNY, 0 that the state is investing in the University’s students, close to equally split between stu - 250,00 after an agreement reached by Gov. Andrew financial stability and that philanthropic dents transferring from within and outside Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gifts are not substituting for a lack of state of CUNY; the total number of transfers is and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. support. roughly 5,300 more than last year. Actual Chairwoman Deborah Glick and Chairman The five-year plan also helps the enrollment figures and details will be avail - 00 Kenneth P. LaValle, who lead the higher University meet the growing needs caused able later this fall, but a trend seen among 200,0 education committees of the legislature, by record student enrollment. external transfer students last year is likely worked diligently to achieve a new This fall, the University’s enroll - to hold — students are changing colleges to statewide plan. ment of degree-seeking students secure a quality education in an unforgiving The legislation allows CUNY to The plan also tops 269,000. Over the last three economy. 0,000 raise tuition up to $300 a year in encourages years, senior college full-time This academic year, CUNY’s neediest 15 each of the next five years for philanthropy. equivalent enrollment increased undergraduates will continue to pay no undergraduates from New York by 10.7 percent. In the same peri - tuition, thanks to federal Pell awards and State. Effective this fall, full-time, od, the University's operating the state Tuition Assistance Program. in-state, undergraduate student 0 budget sustained reductions of $205 mil - Efforts to block a proposed cut of $845 from 100,00 tuition at the senior colleges is $5,130 a lion. This year, an additional $95 million the maximum $5,550 Pell grant were suc - year. Full-time, in-state tuition at the com - was cut, for a total of $300 million. State cessful. In part, critics were responding to munity colleges is $3,600 a year. The plan base aid at the community colleges has been the high default rates on Pell grants by stu - also contains a state “maintenance of reduced by more than 20 percent over the dents at for-profit, or proprietary, colleges. 0 effort” commitment that the state’s finan - last four years, and the 2012 city adopted In fiscal year 2007, they accounted for 7 per - 50,00 cial support cannot be reduced from prior- budget included further reductions. cent of Pell recipients but 44 percent of year levels (except in cases of financial Cuts of this magnitude are unsustainable. defaults, according to The Institute for emergency). Without increased and predictable income, College Access and Success. In contrast, stu - Consistent with the CUNY Compact, the 1880 the University simply could not meet stu - dents in public four-year colleges were 35 1870 legislation also provides an offset for stu - dents’ needs, whether for sufficient course percent of Pell recipients but only 23 per - 1860 1849 dents who receive full aid under the state’s sections, laboratory equipment, or financial cent of defaults; students in public commu - Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), which is aid staff. We must facilitate our students’ nity colleges comprised 39 percent of Pell now capped at $5,000 a year. Students who progress and their ability to earn a degree. recipients and just 20 percent of defaults. the additional tuition, rather than seeing it receive less than the full TAP allocation will The longer it takes for students to graduate, In Albany, legislation signed into law by siphoned away to state coffers, as often had receive partial offsets. The legislation the greater the financial burden they and Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains CUNY’s cur - occurred in the past. directs CUNY and SUNY to conduct a study their families face. rent higher-education funding level for five A portion of the additional revenue funds and report on the effectiveness of TAP, The state has taken a historic step in years. Tuition increases of up to $300 per the TAP tuition offset for the neediest stu - including recommendations to improve the approving a rational tuition policy for year during that period for CUNY and SUNY dents, while the rest will finance educational program to enhance student affordability CUNY and SUNY. Its actions send a strong were authorized, establishing a rational enhancements for all. There will be a full and success. I should also note that, as a signal that developing a highly skilled work - tuition policy for the first time. And, in a offset for students receiving the full TAP result of the adopted state budget and the force through a vibrant, competitive public major change, CUNY and SUNY will keep grant; students who receive partial grants recent federal debt ceiling agreement, both higher education system is a priority in New TAP and the federal Pell Grant program are York. That bodes well for all New Yorkers. funded for this academic year. In the aca - demic year ending in 2010, nearly 167,000 CUNY students received state and federal When Tuition at CUNY Was Free, Sort Of financial aid. Approximately $716 million in UNY was for many years associated with free of general studies expanded throughout the city and TAP and Pell awards alone went to CUNY tuition, so much so that people still refer to served tens of thousands of non- matriculants. Ca time, not so long ago, when everybody These students paid for their courses. Financial attending New York City’s public colleges did so aid for needy students was non-existent. Tuition, BOAR DOFTRUSTEES CUNY Matters without paying a dime. known then as instructional fees, was uniform for all The City University of New York The reality, however, is more complicated. non-matriculants, who paid regardless of their Matthew Goldstein A free education for students regardless of their financial circumstances. Many hoped that one day Benno Schmidt Philip Alfonso Berry Chancellor background or financial means underpinned the their grade point average would permit transfer to Vice Chairperson Chairperson Jay Hershenson original Free Academy — and declared higher edu - Secretary of the Board of Trustees and the more prestigious — and free — day schools. cation an important societal investment — when it Others attended at night because they needed to Valerie L. Beal Peter Pantaleo Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations Michael Arena was established in Manhattan in 1847. Back then, a work during the day. Wellington Z. Chen Kathleen M. Pesile University Director for Communications and Marketing class typically averaged about 100 or so students. For many needy students in this pre-financial aid Rita DiMartino Carol Robles-Román Barbara Shea Managing Editor But starting in the early 20th century, as enroll- era, tuition was a hardship. In fall 1957, for exam - Freida Foster-Tolbert Charles A. Shorter Rich Sheinaus Director of Graphic Design ments grew, many accomplished students opened ple, nearly 36,000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens Judah Gribetz Solomon A. Sutton Charles DeCicco, Ruth Landa and Neill S. Rosenfeld their wallets to study in the city’s halls of public and City Colleges for free, but another 24,000 paid Joseph J. Lhota Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Writers higher education. tuition of up to $300 a year — the equivalent of Hugo M. Morales Miriam Smith Issue Designer In 1909, two years after moving to more spacious $2,411.98 today, according to the U.S. Bureau of André Beckles Photographer accommodations in Harlem, City College expanded Labor Statistics’ online inflation calculator. Articles in this and previous issues are available at cuny.edu /news . Cory Provost Sandi E. Cooper Letters or suggestions for future stories may be sent to the Editor by its offerings to include a separate evening baccalau - That year, in fact, undergraduate tuition and Chairperson, Chairperson, e-mail to cunycommunications @mail.cuny.edu. Changes of address reate program. Over time, the system’s night schools other student fees comprised 17 percent of $46.8 University Student Senate University Faculty Senate should be made through your campus personnel office.

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— Along With Quality Continued from page 1 0 300,00 “A Regional Earth System Model of the Northeast Corridor: Analyzing 21st Century Climate and Enrollment at the new Free Academy, CUNY’s founding college, was Environment,” under the direction of professor 202 students in 1849. Over the next 162 years, enrollment has Charles J. Vörösmarty . swelled to 269,321 overall at the University’s 11 senior colleges, 00 Professor of biological six community colleges, Macaulay Honors College 250,0 sciences Joseph Rachlin and six graduate and professional schools. and assistant professor Angela Kelly of Lehman College have received 0 $344,309 from the New 200,00 Rachlin York State Education Department for a “Teacher Education for Advanced Science Preparation” program. The National 0 150,00 Science Foundation has awarded a $200,323 grant to professor of biology Margaret A. Carroll of 00 Medgar Evers College for 100,0 the “STEP into Science Kelly Program.” Dean of Arts and Sciences Pamela Brown of New York City College of Technology has received $199,717 00 from the National Science Foundation for the 50,0 “STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP).” Diane Call of Queensborough Community College has received $300,000 from the Empire State Development Corporation for the “Senator Maltese Student Welcome Center.” CUNY ranks 23rd nationally with respect to the number of papers of research and profes - sional practice published in the leading journals 2011 2010 for subject-specialist librarians during 2000- 2005 2000 2010. Curtis Kendrick , University Dean for 1995 Libraries and Information Resources, accepted 1990 1985 the award on behalf of the CUNY libraries. 80 19 American Opportunity Credit, 1975 City College was awarded $1 million from 1970 which can be claimed for four years at 1965 the New York State Energy Research and 0 senior colleges, effectively cuts in half the 196 Development Administration for research deal - 1950 according to the Office of Student new two-semester tuition rate. 1940 ing with a “Flow Assisted Nickel-Zinc Battery for 1930 Financial Assistance. The New York City government defunded 905 Stationary Applications Development and 1 “A critical part of this five-year plan is the merit-based Vallone Scholarships, which 1890 Demonstration,” under the direction of will receive proportional offsets. that it addresses the importance of financial for more than a decade had provided several Distinguished Professor Sanjoy Banerjee and During the academic year 2010-2011, an aid as a component of any tuition increase,” hundred dollars of aid to students who grad - assistant professor of chemical engineering Dan estimated $770 million in combined need- Chancellor Matthew Goldstein said at an uated from a city public or parochial high Steingart . A research project directed by Frida based federal Pell grants and New York Aug. 4 Board meeting. “So part of the rev - school with a “B” average or higher and Kleiman of Hunter College, titled “Mechanisms State Tuition Assistance Program awards enue that the University receives from this maintained a CUNY GPA of at least 3.0. of Response to DNA Damage by Nuclear went to some 170,000 City University of increase is going to support students who As a result of affordable tuition, grants Factors,” has received $320,940 from PHS/NIH/ New York undergraduates, keeping a college are most at risk. The neediest students and tax credits, most CUNY students gradu - National Institute of General Medical Sciences. education within reach for CUNY’s neediest should not be impeded in their pursuit of a ate with little or no debt, compared with Professor Peter N. Lipke , chair of Brooklyn students. As University enrollment contin - degree because of a tuition increase.” their peers at SUNY and private institutions. College’s Department of Biology, has been ued its ascent to this year’s record levels, A less well known source of aid is a And when they do take on debt, it is for sig - awarded $317,925 from the National Institutes CUNY administered about $541 million in $2,500 federal tax credit for students with nificantly smaller amounts, according to the of Health for a “SC1: Amyloid-like Interaction in Pell grants for 139,609 recipients and $228 higher incomes (up to $90,000 for individu - Project on Student Debt (see Yeast Cell Adhesion” project and $149,802 from million in TAP awards to 100,118 students, als and $180,000 for married couples). The www.cuny.edu/value). Biothera, Inc. for a “Proprietary Yeast Strain Development” study. Baruch College has received $190,000 from the John A. Hartford million in the colleges’ revenues, about $7.74 million Full-time students who met the income eligibility access that can be traced to its founding in 1847. Foundation, Inc. for the “Hartford Geriatric — a figure equivalent to $62.4 million in buying criteria were permitted to receive TAP, ensuring for There are some who remain wistful for the return Nursing Initiative,” directed by Shoshanna power today. Even with tuition, a public higher edu - the first time that financial hardship would deprive of traditional free tuition for all as a more just soci - Sofaer of the School of Public Affairs. cation was an extraordinary value. New York no CUNY student of a college education. Within a etal imperative, despite CUNY’s evolution, financing Seogjoo Jang of Queens College’s depart - University, for example, raised its tuition to $900 few years, the federal government would create its structure and state-funded status along with SUNY, ment of chemistry and biochemistry has been that year. own need-based program, known as Pell Grants, which has always charged tuition. At stake today, awarded $360,000 from the National Science Merit-based free tuition survived through much providing the neediest students with a tuition-free however, is the challenge of providing a quality edu - Foundation for “CAREER: Synergistic Theory of the last century until 1970, when the University college education. cation and student support services on an unprece - Development and Computational Modeling of the dropped all tuition charges and accepted any stu - Pell and TAP awards for CUNY students reached dented scale, to 270,000 degree-seeking students Energy Flow Dynamics in Soft Optoelectronic dent with a high school diploma. The move ushered a record $770 million for the 2010-2011 academic and at least 250,000 adult and continuing-educa - Molecules.” The Ford Foundation has awarded in a brief period of free tuition for all undergraduate year. They enabled nearly 90,000 students to attend tion students. $165,000 to Steven Handelman of John Jay students that would not survive the economic reali - CUNY tuition-free. Another 10,000 have at least half These 21st century realities require year-round College for “Core-Funding to Support the Center ties. In fall 1976, amid the turmoil of a dire city their tuition covered by TAP and Pell and are eligible fundraising and resource acquisition, to provide facil - on Media, Crime and Justice.” Catalina Castano , fiscal crisis, the free-tuition policy was discontinued for a federal tax credit that pays the balance of their ities and instrumentation, services and programs of a director of the New York State Small Business under pressure from the federal government, the tuition. All told, 48 percent of CUNY undergraduates complexity far beyond days of old when teaching on Development Center’s Brooklyn Regional Office, state, and the financial community critical to rescu - paid no tuition. line meant talking to students during class registra - located at New York City College of Technology, ing the city from bankruptcy. Since 1976 these programs have provided tuition- tion. CUNY’s tuition history has tracked with the eco - has received $115,000 from the U.S. Small As part of the transition, New York State took free education for many, many thousands of under - nomic realities of fulfilling the University’s historic Business Administration in support of the center. over funding of CUNY’s senior colleges and tuition graduate students. Combined with CUNY’s bedrock mission — the principle of a free or low-cost quality LaGuardia Community College has been awarded was instituted at all CUNY colleges. CUNY students policies of academic excellence and affordable public higher education that has connected many $100,000 from the Research Foundation/SUNY were added to the state’s need-based Tuition tuition, they continue to make the University one of generations of immigrant New Yorkers and their chil - for “NYS Small Business Development,” directed Assistance Program, or TAP, which had been created the nation’s most outstanding higher education val - dren, those not born into wealth, to the ladder to by Rosa Figueroa . during the early 1970s to help private colleges. ues, in keeping with the mission of service and social, economic and educational success. Continued Continued on page 8 ‰

CUNY MATTERS — Fall 2011 3 Students& Museums Pro fit Via Creative Collaborations By Ralph Blumenthal

HE ROMANS defined the lib - ship allowing students and faculty to visit ject, Altman wrote, “A key assumption is gallery. The exhibit, through Jan. 6, 2012, eral arts as grammar, dialectic, the museum free and underwrote institu - that exposure to the Museum’s art collec - features “the most innovative, cutting-edge rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, tional memberships for Hunter, John Jay, tion and exhibitions will transform their art created by Latino, Caribbean and Latin astronomy and music. CUNY and Queensborough and Borough of perceptions of themselves, help them ques - American artists currently working in the has always had broader aes - Manhattan community colleges. tion their moral values and broaden their greater New York area.” Tthetic vistas, evidenced now through pio - All Baruch freshmen viewed a PowerPoint sense of social responsibility through learn - Hunter students have worked on exhibits neering partnerships with the city’s leading presentation about the museum and were ing about other cul - with the Metropolitan cultural institutions. able to fulfill their art requirement with tures.” Museum of Art. For the From Baruch to Lehman, from CCNY to museum visits and studies of the art. A writ - Beyond Baruch, I’m trying to … convey recent “Objects of Queensborough Community College, CUNY ing competition soliciting essays about the other creative col - Devotion and Desire,” students are curating art shows, critiquing exhibits drew four winning entries rewarded laborations include a sense of truth and wonder curated by art professor masterworks, combing historic archives and with prizes of Apple iPad2s. Six faculty mem - City Tech’s work “ Cynthia Hahn in spring researching the natural sciences in museum bers were named Rubin Fellows, receiving with the Brooklyn to the public. 2011, Hunter students laboratories, changing themselves in the grants of $5,000 each plus $2,500 for a stu - Historical Society worked with the Met for process. dent assistant. And five more Rubin Fellows and other schools in — Student/artist Michael Prettyman the loan of five medieval Michael Prettyman, 45, an artist and were just appointed, for a total of 11. a federally funded ” reliquaries. CUNY Baccalaureate candidate now at They brought classes to the museum and initiative called Students and Faculty in the The Gallery and Museum Studies pro - Hunter, has painted rain forest and dolphin designed assignments using the collection. Archives: History Museums, Colleges and gram at Queensborough has collaborated dioramas for the American Museum of One, Lilia Ziamou from the Zicklin School of Critical Thinking. “The goal is to engage with the Whitney, the Met, MoMA, and the Natural History. He spent the summer cre - Business, an accomplished sculptor, used students in archival research early in their Rubin, among other museums. This past ating a 50-foot-tall hanging scale model of her Marketing Management course to sug - college career,” said Matthew K. Gold, an semester students assisted with the installa - the solar system for a Canadian astrophysi - gest marketing strategies for the museum. assistant professor of English among 18 fac - tion of “Through the Eyes of Our cist. Closer to home, he designed a mural for In his recent, first-year report on the pro - ulty members who bring their classes into Ancestors,” an extensive exhibition of New York City high school the society’s Othmar Library African masks, costumes and ceremonial students and AmeriCorps vol - for original research. His class objects. unteers to paint on Van Brunt has been searching for traces QCC’s Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg and Wolcott Streets in Red of Walt Whitman in official Holocaust Resource Center and Archives Hook, Brooklyn. records. “One student found has also designed exhibits sought by other Said Prettyman, “I’m trying his name in a land institutions. This summer the Virginia to translate what scientists conveyance,” Gold said. Holocaust Museum showcased “Defying the have found and convey a sense A partnership between Baruch The Rockefeller Devil,” about Christian clergy who helped of truth and wonder to the College and the Rubin Museum Foundation awarded a two- Jews escape the Nazis. The Holocaust public.” involves students and faculty in year, $200,000 grant to Center of Suffolk Community College is Other CUNY cultural part - cultural projects extending Queens College and the showing “Goose Stepping on Long Island: beyond typical museum visits. ners, where students get in Queens Museum of Art in fall Camp Siegfried,” focusing on Nazi camps in free or at minimal cost, 2010 to develop a pilot pro - New York’s backyard in the mid-1930s. The include the Metropolitan gram for a master of fine arts Kupferberg center exhibited “Come from Museum of Art, the Rubin degree in social practice. They the Shadows: The Story of the Comfort Museum of Art, El Museo del presented the Yes Men, Women of Korea, Rape as a Weapon of War.” Barrio, the Museum of Incubate, Ted Purves, Larry Bronx Community College is the home of Modern Art, the Whitney Bogad and Pablo Helgera — all the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, a Museum of Art, the Brooklyn well known artists notable for 630-foot open-air colonnade designed by Historical Society, and the their avant-garde Stanford White and originally gifted to NYU Queens Museum of Art. performances tweaking the in 1901. The hall and its 98 busts were Nowhere is the collabora - establishment. The Queens acquired by CUNY with the University tion closer than at Baruch, Museum’s first artist-in-resi - Heights campus in 1973. Starting this fall, where a five-year plan, backed dence, Tania Bruguera, said director Wendell Joyner, English and by a promised $1 million gift, offered a project, Immigrant history classes will make required trips has begun engaging all 17,000 Movement International, there for educational assignments. students in programs of the using college students as City College professors with Rubin Museum, the premier interns and assistants. appointments as scientists at the Museum showcase of Himalayan art in With Queens College also of Natural History include Robert the Western world. enjoying a close relationship Anderson, Amy Berkov, Ana Carnaval, David “This project is unique in with the Rubin, a class on East Lohman and Robert Rockwell. Yael Wyner, its attempt to connect Asian Civilization will be an environmental educator in CCNY’s students and faculty to the taught at the museum this fall School of Education, also has a museum Rubin Museum in ways that by professor Gopal Sukhu appointment. The chemistry department’s move beyond the traditional from the Department of John Lombardi is working with the Met on ‘visit to the museum,’ ” said Classical, Middle Eastern, restoration of paintings. Stan Altman, a former Baruch Asian Languages and York College’s Mande Holford, assistant president who worked with Cultures. A minor in Tibetan professor of chemistry, is a research associ - Tibetan refugees in the 1980s and Himalayan Studies is in ate with the natural history museum, work - and was instrumental in development. ing in the Sackler Institute for Comparative securing a pledged $200,000 a The Lehman College Art Genomics. Three of her students are year for five years from the Gallery has a long-standing sequencing the genes of snails there. Shelley and Donald Rubin collaboration with El Museo Kingsborough Community College geology Foundation that underwrites del Barrio, New York’s leading professors Michael K. Weisberg and Harold projects at the museum, locat - Latino cultural institution. Connolly, and chemistry professor Homar ed in a redesigned portion of For the first time the Museo’s Barcena, also have a relationship with the the former Barney’s store at biennial event, The Street museum: Working from its extensive collec - 150 W. 17th St. As part of the Files, is being staged in the tion of 4,000 meteorites, Weisberg’s project, Baruch paid $3,000 five boroughs, with an instal - students have performed chemical analyses for an institutional member - lation at the Lehman art of still-untested samples.

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H capital funds and tax credits. The four scheduled at CUNY campuses, focus on economy.” P regions that come up with the top plans will development in Bronx, Kings, New York, In addition to Goldstein, Marcia V. Keizs, CCNY’s ‘Solar Roof Pod’ get $40 million each; the rest of the money Queens and Richmond Counties. Kenneth president of York College, is on the council. Heads to Washington Contest will be divided among the other six. Chenault, chairman and CEO of American Howard Apsan, University director of envi - The councils — which are chaired by Lt. Express, is Goldstein’s co-chair. At the inau - ronmental, health, safety and risk manage - ITY COLLEGE’S ENTRY in an interna - Gov. Robert Duffy and comprised of local offi - gural meeting on Aug. 10 at Baruch College, ment, and Suri Duitch, University associate Ctional competition is shown above cials, business leaders and community leaders Goldstein said that CUNY’s task force on dean of continuing education, are facilitators. being hoisted onto a flatbed truck at Marshak Science Center for shipment to the U.S. Energy Department’s Solar Decathlon at the Washington, D.C. Mall. Judging ends Oct. 2. The “solar roof pod” — City College’s cathedral-scale alone among 19 collegiate entries designed Great Hall was the grand setting for a dense, urban environment — was built for historic events, including the by students and faculty at the Bernard and 1963 inauguration of Chancellor Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and Albert Hosmer Bowker. the Grove School of Engineering. Intended for the roofs of commercial and residential buildings, it boasts a unique heating and cooling system twice as energy-efficient as conventional units. It also generates 10 kilowatts of electricity, twice what a typical house uses, so its owners can live off-the- grid and sell the surplus. State OKs New Community College ov. Andrew Cuomo Gapproved creation of the New Community College in a Sept. 20 letter THE to Education NEW Commissioner John B. COMMUNITY King Jr. The college is Commemorating CUNY’s Golden Anniversary Via Historic Photos and Recollections COLLEGE scheduled to open in Fall AT CUNY 2012 near Manhattan’s IFTY YEARS AGO , then-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller signed legislation codifying New York City’s system of seven municipal col - Bryant Park. “We are find - Fleges as a new University, with the new authority to grant doctoral degrees. That April 1961 milestone, which marked the birth of ing strong support and helpful collaboration the modern-day City University of New York and heralded the creation of the Graduate Center, evolved from a series of historical, across CUNY’s other campuses,” said college political, demographic and cultural forces reflecting decades of change in the city and the nation. President Scott Evenbeck. In 2007, In its Fall 2011 issue, Salute to Scholars commemorates the birth of the modern University with a detailed exploration of the forces — Chancellor Matthew Goldstein asked John city, state and national — that fueled the decision to establish a public university in New York City. It looks at the educational, financial Mogulescu, senior University dean for aca - and social challenges the institution has faced, and the mission it has embraced from the mid-1800s to today. The Salute to Scholars arti - demic affairs, to plan for a differently struc - cle, illustrated by some rarely seen historical photographs of New York’s public college system as it expanded to meet the burgeoning tured school to boost graduation rates. demand of the mid-20th century, can be read online at www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/09/16/the-birth-of-a-modern-university/ Tracy Meade directed that effort. 50 CUNY MATTERS — Fall 2011 5 To Serve A number of University staffers are also U.S. military reservists, who must leave their jobs and LaGuardia adminis - Kingsborough families on short notice if called to active duty. trator/Marine administrator/Navy reservist Trevaughn reservist Marlene E. Luncheon is a lead - Ranjitsingh relaxes with er in both realms. her daughter,Tylah Arthur. By Barbara Fischkin

ARLENE E. RANJITSINGH is the director of ets, particularly when the 4:12 p.m. Long Island Rail Road was, he says “all over the Pacific,” during the Gulf War. “We administration at Kingsborough Community train he takes home to Nassau County screeches to a stop at also shot a lot of missiles towards Iraq and Kuwait.” MCollege. She also mentors students, serves on the Penn Station. The peace officer joined the reserves in February 2000 — board of her condominium and is the single mother of a 15- “I say to myself: ‘I am going home. It’s a train … it would like most of us, never expecting that in less than two years the year-old daughter. shake me up and people would look at me. But then I started to world would change. It’s a full life. come out of it … when I first came home it was pretty tough.” Two months later, in November 2001, Ruiz, then the father But there is more. BMCC — the only CUNY campus damaged on 9/11 — has, in of an adolescent daughter, was preparing to go to work at 5 a.m. As a Navy Reservist, Ranjitsingh has a letter saying that addition to Mahabeer, three other reservists on its public safe - when he got a call from his reserve commander at the Throgs within a year or two she could be deployed to the war on ter - ty staff. They include Leonardo “Lenny” Zavala-Salas, also Neck–Fort Pennyfield Naval Operations Supply Center. ror, still raging a decade after Sept. 11. retired from the reserves. Zavala-Salas was on several state - Deployment. She tries not to make too much of this. In the morning she side drills with Mahabeer. In fact, it was Mahabeer — then at Ruiz says that after life on a ship in far-off waters, he was reads The New York Times and watches CNN footage show - LaGuardia Community College — who told Zavala-Salas he not ready for the proximity to danger — and the conditions — ing American military personnel overseas. She calmly should apply for a position at CUNY. Zavala-Salas was then a that was part of deployment on a boat patrolling very close to reminds herself “that could be me” — and then goes to work. Bushwick High School teacher specializing in desktop pub - land in Kuwait. One weekend a month and two weeks a year she drills at lishing. But he needed a change. “One hundred and two — to one hundred and twenty-five Fort Dix in New Jersey. And once a year, as is also required, Like Mahabeer and Zavala-Salas, Epifanio Rebollo, who degrees,” he says. “Sand-storms, camel spiders . . . We were a she asks her mother to sign a paper saying she will care for works at Brooklyn College, and Jose A. Ruiz, employed at stone’s throw away from Kuwait, closer and closer up the river Ranjitsingh’s teenage daughter if the CUNY administrator is Lehman College as a sergeant-level peace officer, were with the Army. Our main job was to keep our eyes and ears deployed. deployed while working at CUNY. open for soldiers who got trapped.” A retired naval personnel specialist, she emphasizes that Tanesha Orridge of City College was deployed before she He also inspected small fishing vessels, looking for even though she joined the reserves, the country’s backup worked for the weapons and terror - forces, in 1996 — in peacetime — it is now her duty to go to University. She ists. Ruiz says that usu - war if called. “Reservists are not just here to collect a says she would How CUNY Helps Reservists ally he ran into Kuwaiti paycheck. They are here to serve like everyone else.” go again. and Iraqi civilians, HE UNIVERSITY ’S deployment benefits include the Ranjitsingh has seen things change from afar before. On “It’s not a fishermen trying to following: active duty in the 1990s, she spent time in Guantanamo Bay matter of want - T make a living. They CUNY will make up any shortfall between a when it was a camp for Cubans fleeing their country. ing to go. I have • were polite to him and reservist’s CUNY and military salary during deployment. Throughout CUNY, in the University’s colleges and offices, to go,” she says. he followed his orders, at least 70 employees are either in the military reserves or are “I am single. I’d • University medical benefits for covered family which instructed him recent reservist retirees. Including Ranjitsingh, eight were rather go than members continue while an employee is deployed. to treat civilians with interviewed earlier this year. Others preferred not to speak, have someone • CUNY employees and their family members can call respect. But he also and their reticence is powerfully comprehensible. who is married a free confidential counseling hotline for help, informa - knew he had to be on Some, perhaps, have experienced what Ranjitsingh may and has children tion and referrals. Call 800-833-8707 or see guard. await: They have been deployed. go.” www.cuny.edu/worklife Wounded in a freak As of February 2011, more than 800,000 reservists have Her comment • The University also refers reservists to Veterans’ accident in rough been mobilized since 9/11/01; 250,000 have served more than reflects a sense Affairs Offices throughout New York City’s five bor - weather weeks before once and over half of reservists returning from deployment of duty voiced by oughs, which are staffed by veterans and mental his yearlong tour end - “experience some form of post-traumatic stress disorder the other CUNY health professionals. ed, Ruiz was treated for (PTSD), whether they realize it or not,” says Queens College reservists inter - For more information, go to www.nyc.gov and search six months at assistant professor of history Bobby A. Wintermute, a mili - viewed — and six “veterans.” American naval hospi - tary historian who has also connected with many current vet - of them are tals. From home he erans. The more than a million reservists serving in U.S. either married now sees how long the armed forces include more than 800,000 men and almost or have children or both. Rebollo has a son with autism. But war on terrorism has lasted and agonizes that “it’s never going 200,000 women, according to a December 2009 Defense even the most typical of families have a difficult time when to get won.” Department presentation. one parent is gone for a year. Mahabeer of BMCC says that he reacts far better to the CUNY — and U.S. Veterans Affairs offices throughout New Like Ranjitsingh, the Kingsborough administrator, they screeching of the Long Island Rail Road now that years have York City — offer counseling and other benefits for reservists drill generally one weekend a month and two weeks a year, in passed since that first difficult deployment. His second stint (see box). the United States – but away from home nevertheless. And, in Iraq in 2009 was calmer. The war was winding down and he Perry A. Mahabeer, a peace officer at Borough of except for those who have retired, they live with the prospect had a customs-related job, informing other servicemen what Manhattan Community College, has been deployed twice. In that they could be patrolling perilous waters, or on land in war “memorabilia,” items they could — and could not — take 2007 he was assigned to an Iraqi detainee camp for thousands Afghanistan or elsewhere. The majority of reservists are not home. He remembers a serviceman who had exchanged uni - of suspected Taliban. Rockets, launched by Taliban supporters deployed. But the minority is a substantial one, nevertheless. forms with an Iraqi soldier as a way to remember they had outside the camp, hit daily. Mornings at 6, Mahabeer scram - Ruiz, a peace officer at Lehman since 1993, is among 25 per fought the same battle. bled to get his gear together and head for a bomb shelter. cent of Navy reservists who are deployed nationally. In speaking more about PTSD, Wintermute notes that Mahabeer — married with a 6-year-old son, and recently In the 1980s and ’90s he served in the Navy, on active duty, although we often “hear about the worst cases,” subtler symp - retired from the reserves — says he can still hear those rock - stationed on a guided missile cruiser as a boatswain’s mate. He toms can also be painful. He describes these symptoms —

6 CUNY MATTERS — Fall 2011 Queens College teaching assistant/Army National Guard reservist Jack Giamanco hopes to pursue doctoral studies.

including headaches, fatigue, anxiety, loss of appetite, ennui, Marine Aviation Logistic Squadron 49 in Newark, is also “I know the plan is to give the people there a better life, to depression — as the normal response of “sane individuals try - administrative coordinator in the LaGuardia Community have them switch from the drugs they are planting to sustain - ing to reprocess the insane.” College Department of Legal Affairs, Labor, Compliance and able crops. That is going to take some time and when it is CUNY also offers benefits and services for reservists. Diversity. He earned a master of business administration going to end we don’t actually know.” Wintermute also urges reservists in need to visit Veteran’s degree from Baruch College in 2010. Wintermute says about 30 percent of reservists do not Affairs offices, located throughout the city and staffed by vet - Giamanco, a Queens College teaching assistant, has two show up when called for deployment. Others who had been erans and mental health professionals. (See box at left). undergraduate degrees in psychology and biology, a master’s deployed speak about many reservists who go AWOL. “It does sound like CUNY goes above in psychology from Queens College But at CUNY the topic of conversation among the and beyond its obligations to create a It does sound like CUNY goes and another one in biology from Long reservists interviewed revolved around duty — and yes, positive experience for reservists who Island University. He is hoping to around the need to use force when necessary. But the deploy,” Wintermute says. above and beyond its obligations to apply to doctoral programs in biopsy - University’s reservists also spoke about learning from people Despite the personal repercussions, “ chology, perhaps at CUNY. we view as vastly different, and who look at us with the same Mahabeer emphasizes that he does not create a positive experience for When interviewed last semester he misunderstandings about differences. Luis Ruiz says he tried regret one minute he spent on active was working as a teaching assistant at to do that when he set foot on those fishing boats. duty earlier in his military career in the reservists who deploy . Queens College and doing laboratory Perry Mahabeer of BMCC did much more than protect Navy, or later in the reserves. About work with professor Joan Borod on himself from rockets in that detainee camp in Iraq. He also — Queens College assistant professor staying in touch with family and friends facial expression and emotions in learned about the people who were being detained. At first it of history and military historian while he was gone, Mahabeer says, ” h uman subjects. He has also tried seemed they were simply brutal people. “On my first day they Bobby A. Wintermute “Skype is a friend of ours and then medical school in Poland and worked killed one of their own,” he said. “Prison justice.” Facebook came on too.” with children with autism. “I am a But as he got deeper into his deployment he learned more However, Wintermute cautions that not all servicemen and teacher,” he says. “That is what I do.” about the detainees and began to see them as individuals. He women benefit from the proximity. “How weird is it to come He enlisted in the Army National Guard in 2008, and recent - had frequent contact with an imam and a translator, who had off patrol and be on Skype with their kids doing their home - ly completed a course that distinguishes him as a member of its been selected as emissaries by the others. Mahabeer discov - work.” He has mixed feelings about instant communication. “I search, rescue and evacuation team -- first responders to ered that the translator was a physician and university profes - can’t help but think it was easier in the days of letters.” national emergencies such as explosions and hurricanes. sor. And that the imam had been a janitor at a hospital. Wintermute also has suggestions for civilian supervisors, What compelled him to enlist? He says that he comes from Sitting in a small conference room in the BMCC depart - when an employee returns from a deployment. “Welcome a military family — and is exploring the military as a career ment of public safety, peace officer Mahabeer said that serving them back to their former job,” he says. “Don’t play any games path. “I try to be a patriotic person,” he adds. “I almost joined in the Navy reserves was akin to “being part of the history of with them. Let them pick up their obligations without inter - after 9/11.” the military.” ruption. And don’t make a big fuss over their absence or the But patriotism, he emphasizes, should come with enlighten - And he would do it all over again. deployment.” Wintermute says that supervisors should ment. He is inter - demonstrate the same sensitivity for those who could be ested in peace, in deployed. They should be reassured — again, without fuss — protecting civilians, Navy reservist Jose Ruiz that they can come back to their same positions. in not seeing so on the job as a Lehman BMCC’s Zavala-Salas says he left for his deployment in many very young peace officer. 2006 secure about returning to his CUNY position as a safety men serve. “I don’t specialist working with television surveillance cameras and want to have to do the community college’s identification card system, among it by brute force,” other tasks. he says. In fact, he jokes that there were times when he felt as if he Luncheon sees was still at the University even when working on a fire rescue himself as a leader team at the Rota, Spain, air terminal. He recalls directing traf - whether as a civil - fic on the landing deck, with a troubled plane about to land — ian or in the mili - and receiving a call from his CUNY supervisor with an emer - tary. And like gency of a different nature. Giamanco, he “He told me he needed me right away, the I.D. system went thinks the mission down,” says Zavala-Salas, who like his coworker Mahabeer is of the American an energetic raconteur. “I said, ‘Give me 15 minutes and I’ll military, now call you back. I have a bird about to splatter on the deck. ’” focused on “What’s a bird?” the supervisor asked. Afghanistan rather “We call a plane ‘a bird,’” Zavala-Salas explained, and then than Iraq, should directed a safe landing. result in a better Perhaps it is a sign of their willingness to take risks in all life for civilians — aspects of their lives that Jack Giamanco, like Marine as difficult as that Reserves Sgt. Trevaughn Luncheon, has career ambitions may be to accom - beyond his current position. Luncheon, who is with the plish.

CUNY MATTERS — Fall 2011 7 GRANTS &HONORS services, programs and benefits available to Citizen CUNY Portal citizens of CUNY. Continued from page 3 From the University’s birth as The Free Academy 164 years ago, what has grown Kingsborough Community College into the nation’s largest urban public uni - has been ranked first in the nation by the Center Now Offers Even versity has maintained an implicit under - for Digital Education in its 2011 Digital standing with its students — public service Community Colleges Survey of schools with while in college or after graduation in 10,000 or more students. LaGuardia Community More Services return for the high quality, low-cost, public College ranked 10th in the survey. The top 10 higher education that is accessible to all. colleges were cited for their “comprehensive O WELCOME the largest number Nearly a century ago, in 1913, City College implementation of technology supporting the of students ever to enroll at The affirmed that value by introducing a recita - educational institution’s operations, as well as City University of New York this tion of the Ephebic Oath by graduating stu - serving students, faculty and administrators.” Tfall, the University has enhanced dents. Echoing young Athenian students of its online portal to student services, which Joshua Mehigan, a student in the CUNY antiquity, today’s CCNY graduates still is now called “Citizen CUNY, Your Portal to Graduate Center’s English doctoral program who recite the oath, which says in part: “We will Service.” works as a teaching fellow at Brooklyn College, strive unceasingly to quicken the public's The Citizen CUNY portal connects stu - has won a 2011-2012 creative writing fellow - Citizen CUNY is about sense of civic duty … We will strive to trans - dents with University services, including: ship in poetry from the National Endowment for mit this city … greater, better, and more expanded online library and database offer - the Arts. In addition, Poetry magazine awarded how a great university connects and beautiful than it was transmitted to us.” ings to enrich learning and research; online him its 2011 Editors Prize for the best feature “ Queens College, founded in 1937, adopted access to grades and transcripts; services for uplifts people and helps to transform article published in the past year. Mehigan’s the motto “Discimus ut Serviamus: We learn veterans; financial aid; savings on textbooks; first collection of poetry, The Optimist (2004), so that we may serve.” In 1959, nearly 50 campus-based child care; help with citizen - their lives in positive ways that will won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was a years after CCNY adopted the Ephebic Oath, ship; job-hunting assistance, and more. finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. benefit our city and state. some 8,100 students at the city’s public col - At the same time, the new portal’s content leges contributed 313,520 hours to social, Simone Rodriguez-Dorestant , Acting reflects the historic importance of public — Chancellor Matthew Goldstein educational and welfare agencies, according Director of the School of Professional and service to CUNY, and reaffirms the impor - to a report from the Board of Higher Community Development at Medgar Evers ” tance of student civic engagement today. In Education, which then supervised the small - College, has received grants totaling the realm of civic responsibilities, the portal diverse, engaged and richly talented popu - er, pre-CUNY municipal system. $2,119,277 from the New York City Department helps connect students with such activities as lation shares a common bond as citizens of Today, Citizen CUNY seeks to expand of Education, New York State Education registering to vote, gaining leadership skills our University,” he said. “They are essential this proud tradition of service for a new Department, U.S. Department of Education, New through civic engagement and tapping into to the future of our city and state, as they generation of students accustomed to the York City Department the mayor’s dynamic database of volunteer acquire knowledge indispensable to a web-based environment. of Youth and opportunities, an easy-to-use pathway to strong and flexible workforce. Citizen The Citizen CUNY portal was developed Community countless outlets for community service. CUNY is about how a great university con - through a partnership between CUNY’s Development, and the Students will find it easier to find opportuni - nects and uplifts people and helps to trans - Offices of University Relations and After-School ties for community service via a featured link form their lives in positive ways that will University Computer and Information Corporation for a to the city’s website for volunteers, benefit our city and state.” Systems. Among the portal’s other benefits number of programs, www.nyc.gov/service. Citizen CUNY will stay fresh with rotat - and services are an e-mall, special city cul - including the Young Chancellor Matthew Goldstein said that Rodriguez-Dorestant ing content, while providing messages, tural discounts, tax preparation seminars, Adult Learn to Work as CUNY's reputation continues to rise, the advisories and video announcements tar - counseling services, continuing education Center, the Science University is serving a record number of geted to discrete user communities. There for all ages, and access to athletic events and Technology Entry Program and a Summer freshmen and transfer students. “This will be continually updated information on and performances. Youth Employment Program. Queens College has received a $224,118 grant from the National Science Foundation to Jianbo Liu for a “Reaction Dynamics Study of Biomolecular Ions.” Professor Marilyn Aguirre-Molina From Labyrinth to Pathways of Lehman College has been awarded a Continued from page 1 $150,000 grant from the Corrections; English Language and The University’s new transfer policies and W. K. Kellogg Foundation faculty showed,” Anderson noted. Literature; Finance and Financial general education framework are expected to for a project dealing with The Trustees’ resolution called for identi - Management Services; Nursing; Psychology, improve graduation rates, help more students “Youth Circles for Racial fying the multidisciplinary areas of the and Teacher Education and Professional earn their degrees on time, and save money Healing.” The New York Common Core and the Development. for students and the University, as well as State Dormitory Authority learning outcomes A distinguished panel of educators Together, the Task raise academic quality. Chancellor Goldstein has awarded $100,000 to required for those Force, chaired by spurred study of the issues and the new assistant professor Aguirre-Molina areas, and for allocating has begun to tackle the complexities Dean Anderson, and Pathways initiative as critical to fulfilling Zhongqi Cheng of the 30 credits of the the major commit - CUNY’s mission as an integrated university. Brooklyn College for “Environmental Science Common Core to sub - of developing a new “Common Core” tees, chaired by The Office of Institutional Research and Research.” ject areas. The Board President Kelly, will Assessment estimates that in 2008-09, the also moved to create for all CUNY colleges as well as a help solve the knotty University’s 17,634 baccalaureate graduates “Empowering Youth to Excel and clear course pathways issue of creating averaged 130 credits — significantly higher Succeed,” a program under the direction of transparent, for the largest transfer course “pathways” to than the required 120 — at an excess cost to Distinguished Lecturer Veronica majors. Chancellor streamline what has them and the state of $72.5 million. Many of Udeogalanya , of Medgar Evers College, has efficient Goldstein is to convene been described as a those excess credits are due to students not received $300,000 from the Office of Minority faculty-predominant confusing, frustrating having received transfer credit for courses Health. Jason Rauceo of John Jay College has and fair committees by academ - and unfair process of they had taken at their original colleges. received a $140,296 grant from the National ic discipline, which in system for transferring credits, Some faculty members have expressed Institutes of Health for “Yeast Cell Wall spring 2012 will recom - typically from concern about whether the new framework Damage Response Pathways.” mend three to six transferring course credits CUNY’s community will adversely affect academic standards and The CUNY School of Professional courses to be accepted across the University. colleges to its bac - the faculty’s traditional role in shaping cur - Studies has received two grants, totaling as entry-level courses calaureate ricula. But Dean Anderson described the $2,012,679, from the New York State Office of in each major or as pre - programs—with stu - Pathways initiative as a “faculty-driven pro - Children and Family Services and a $147,781 requisites for such courses. All campuses dents often unclear which credits to take for cess” that “pertains to issues that the cam - grant from the New York City Housing Authority offering these majors will have to offer these transfer for general education or for a bac - puses have been working on for years.” for multiple projects under the direction of courses and accept them for transfer credit. calaureate major. The faculty are “engaged in a vigorous John Mogulescu , dean of the school and Graduate School and University Center An immediate result of the Trustees’ vote dialogue on these issues,” Anderson said. Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs. President William Kelly will lead this group is that now, no completed-course credits “They’re not all from the same perspective, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has effort, working across the senior colleges and taken at any CUNY college will be totally and there is no preordained outcome. … awarded Hunter College $151,817 in grant community colleges. The focus will be on the rejected when the student transfers to We’re all doing this for CUNY students. All of funding to Distinguished Professor Marie most common transfer majors, including another CUNY college. Still to be determined the faculty members on the task force have a Filbin for research on “Blocking the Inhibition Accounting; Biology; Business is how such credits will be accepted — for commitment to using this process to of Axonal Regeneration by MAG/Myelin.” Administration, Management and general education or for the major or as elec - strengthen the intellectual achievement of Operations; Criminal Justice and tives — at the receiving school. students at CUNY.”

8 CUNY MATTERS — Fall 2011 BOOK TALK Civil Rights’ NYC Roots A Wonderful Satch-urated World Civil Rights in New York City From World War II to the Giuliani Era (Fordham University Press), edited by By Gary Schmidgall and wrongheaded assumptions that have A serious running theme of What a distorted” how this period has been viewed. Wonderful World is Riccardi exploding the Clarence Taylor, professor of history ————————————————— He also argues that Armstrong “became a bad rap on Armstrong’s supposedly exces - and black & Hispanic What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis better technical trumpeter” in his later sive “ooftah” — a term among black activists studies at Baruch Armstrong’s Later Years years, quoting his colleagues convincingly to for what black folks do to please white folks. College and the CUNY By Ricky Riccardi prove his point. In his last pages, he calls the Riccardi notes that the All Stars were an Graduate Center, is a Pantheon performances of the later years “epic,” and integrated band “from day one,” and he collection of 10 essays ————————————————— to underline his defense he quotes a Satch quotes some of Satchmo’s bitter antiracist demonstrating the ERNARD SHAW was tetchy about standard between 1947 and 1970: “Someday private remarks and letters, as well as his importance of the his first name: “ Don’t George me,” he you’ll be sorry/The way you treated me reminiscences of racism during a lifetime of northern civil rights Bwarned. So was the beloved trum - wrong.” countless one-nighter bus tours. movement – which began long before peter known as Satchmo. When he was The book focuses not on the rising mete - An amusing running joke has to do with the 1960s and across groups with a recording “Hello, Dolly!” for the first time or’s early New Orleans and Chicago days and Armstrong’s avid proselytizing for the wide range of perspectives. The New and came to “Hello, Dolly, this is Louie, the great Hot Five and Hot Seven bands, but herbal laxative marketed as Swiss Kriss (it York City’s Teachers’ Union had been Dolly” he shouted out, “It’s not Louie, it’s on the period of the long fourth marriage to looked a lot like marijuana, another long - fighting for racial equality since 1935, Louis !” Lucille, which started in 1942; the residence time taste of his). Later in life he would for example, and the Harlem Bus The ho-hum session vamped on, with on 107th Street, purchased in 1943; and the cheerfully pass out packets of it to one and Boycott was launched in 1941. Armstrong ridiculing this trifle he’d been long, complicated relationship with his man - all — fans and flight attendants. When he It’s a Hip Hop World asked to do. He and his band, the All Stars, ager Joe Glaser, who lorded it over sent a telegram to President Eisenhower Close to the Edge tells the stories of a forgot about this one-off session and went Armstrong’s gigs and finances but also gave congratulating him on sending federal global generation that came of age out on a Midwest tour. Suddenly they start - him some blunt good advice that he appears troops to Arkansas in an attempt to foil Gov. with hip hop. Part memoir, part social ed getting requests for the song. to have followed: “Forget all the ... critics ... Orval Faubus’ refusal to integrate schools in history, the book Unbeknownst to them, Jerry Herman’s Play for the public. Sing and play and smile.” Little Rock, his closing salutation was: “ AM relates the author’s 1964 musical had just opened back on Among the high points covered is the SWISS KRISSLY YOURS LOUIS SATCHMO experiences as she tra - Broadway. “Any of you guys remember this 1954 “Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy” ARMSTRONG. ” verses the hip hop damn tune?” he asked, and no one could. for Columbia, which Riccardi calls "arguably The book is rich in backstage moments, globe from Australia to The band boy had also lost the sheet music, the greatest album Armstrong ever record - including the All Star colleague recalling Detroit and from so a record had to be flown to everyone being back in their hotel Havana to Caracas. them. In the throes of rampant and Louis still signing autographs Sujatha Fernandes, Beatlemania, vaudeville-flavored until the last fan was standing; and assistant professor of “Hello, Dolly!” became an improb - Joe Muranyi, his last clarinetist, sociology at Queens College and the able mega-hit for the Dixieland recalling, “He was very real. There CUNY Graduate Center, explores hip legend, reaching No. 1 on the sin - wasn’t a phony bone in his body.” hop elements including rapping and gles chart, and soon Armstrong Satchmo had a wry way with graffiti as they melded with street cul - could not leave the stage without words, too. He described the tures and local slang to be reinvented singing it. phlebitis of his last years as “very- around the world. This droll story is among many close veins,” and he had a little recounted in Ricky Riccardi’s new trouble spelling that most impor - What Does Fido Think? biography from Pantheon, What a tant part of a trumpet-player’s Animals live in a world of other Wonderful World: The Magic of anatomy, the embouchure — trying minds, human and nonhuman, and Louis Armstrong’s Later Years. “Embushure or Amberschure.” their survival often depends on what Riccardi is young — he says the Fondly recalling his early mentor is going on in the minds of these other book began in 1995 when he was 15 Peter Davis, he enthused: “You sure creatures. But do ani - and saw Armstrong in “The Glenn taught us the rudimentals.” mals know that? In Miller Story,” but he was perfectly But nothing is more poignant Mindreading Animals: situated for this project, being a than Riccardi’s pages on The Debate Over What jazz pianist himself and the Young neighbors get a music lesson from the master on the steps of the Armstrong’s heroic effort, despite Animals Know About archivist at the Louis Armstrong Queens house where he lived out his life. doctors’ warnings, to fulfill the last Other Minds (MIT House Museum in Corona, gig of his life, a two-week run at the Press), Brooklyn ed.” This is followed by the amusing story Queens. His Acknowledgments pages show Waldorf, a harrowing testament to a fero - College’s Robert Lurz behind “Mack the Knife,” which appealed to he is tight with all the right aficionados, jazz cious work ethic and his dedication to his presents a new approach to under - Satch because he “knew cats like that in New historians and surviving members of the fans. The last song of the final show was “Boy standing what mindreading in Orleans. They’d stick a knife in you as fast as entourage (Louis died in 1971). Riccardi is, to from New Orleans.” The music was “When animals might be. Lurz, an associate say hello.” Also hilarious is the vignette of borrow his own word, thoroughly “Satch- the Saints Go Marching In,” but the words professor of philosophy, describes an Armstrong coaching Kurt Weill’s widow urated.” rehearsed Armstrong’s life. The last lines he innovative series of experimental pro - Lotte Lenya, who had no sense of jazz Though his M.A. in jazz history is from would utter from a bandstand were these: tocols that show how various animals rhythm. Turk Murphy, the great Bay Area Rutgers, there is a major CUNY connection Folks, I’ve had a ball, — from monkeys to ravens to dogs — trombonist and bandleader (I actually fre - here. Satchmo’s fourth wife, Lucille, who Oh, thank you, Lord, can be tested for perceptual state and quented his Frisco joint Earthquake apparently was allowed to call him Louie, And I want to thank you all. belief attribution. kept the flame until her death in 1983, and in McGoon’s as a teenager), wrote the arrange - You were very kind, 1994 the museum was formally established ment, but the session was almost ruined To old Satchmo, New Views of Reconstruction in the Armstrong house under the aegis of when Armstrong’s valet lost it. Just a boy from New Orleans. Declaration of Dependence: The Long Queens College (it is both a National and Covered, too, are the famous tours as To the shock of many, the Queens funeral, Reconstruction of Popular Politics in New York City Historic Landmark). Its America’s jazz ambassador, notably the trip presided over by Lucille, featured no music the South, 1861-1908 (University of founding director was and is Michael in 1956 to Africa’s Gold Coast, filmed for at all. “Satchmo’s Funeral ‘White and Dead’ North Carolina Press) has been hailed Cogswell, and a new $15 million Visitors Edward R. Murrow. As The New York Times in New York, but ‘Black, Alive and Swinging’ as a highly original study in which Center is scheduled to open across the street shrewdly opined, “America’s secret weapon in New Orleans,” Jet magazine reported. City College associate professor in 2013. Visit the website at www.louisarm - is a blue note in a minor key.” Several well- Muranyi brought his clarinet and never got Gregory P. Downs stronghouse.org. received collaborations between Armstrong to open his case, but multiple brass bands argues that the most Riccardi’s admiration for Satch runs deep, and Ella Fitzgerald followed, part of their played in Louisiana for a crowd of 15,000. American of wars, the and his study is well-timed to counter the success being the “odd couple” vocal styles, Riccardi says a final “beautiful touch” Civil War, created a often negative criticism that he suffered in defined by some as “whipped cream and closed the ceremony: A trumpeter seemingly un-American his last two decades and in the two following sandpaper.” performed “Taps” on the same battered popular politics, rooted his death, which tended to ac-cen-tchu-ate There’s some solid trivia too. After his cornet Armstrong learned to play on at the not in independence the negative (his alleged Uncle Tomming, his death, it was discovered he was not born on New Orleans Colored Waifs’ Home for Boys but in voluntary claims cartoonish happy-facing, his “tragic” life the patriotically convenient Fourth of July in 1913. of dependence during story, the derisive criticism from fellow in 1900, but on Aug. 4, 1901. And he actually the long reconstruction of govern- blacks like Sammy Davis Jr. and Miles recorded four songs in Italian! (Check out ment authority when people turned Davis). Riccardi calls the ’50s and ’60s “the “Mi Va Di Cantare” on YouTube.) He got his CUNY Matters welcomes information about new books that have been written or edited by facul - fervently to the government for pro - most misunderstood period of the life of a postage stamp in 1995, and the New Orleans tection and sustenance. genius,” and his goal is “to shatter the myths Airport was named for him in 2001. ty and members of the University community.

CUNY MATTERS — Fall 2011 9 response capacities,” said CUNY Chancellor flight simulations?” asked Riles, who is an NOT YOUR EVERYDAY Matthew Goldstein. He commended Vice expert in carotid artery disease and the Chancellor for Facilities Planning, Frank C. Spencer Professor of Surgery and Construction and Management Iris Associate Dean for Medical Education and Weinshall for her exemplary work in over - Technology at Langone. seeing the construction of this largest-of-its- Riles added that as the center was being kind facility in any urban designed he visited oth - setting. He added that er prominent ones TRAUMA partnering with NYU is a around the country. “natural extension” of “None can compare in the University’s efforts to design, function, sophis - train those who can tication of technology, ensure the safety of all scope of program or New Yorkers. expertise of staff,” he said. Later, he added, CENTER The crucial role simulation plays in an era “We want to be the best in the world.” where terrorism threats are commonplace and Other speakers at the packed opening In this CUNY-partnered training ground natural disasters seem to be increasing was ceremony spoke about simulation as a new also emphasized. The opening also occurred model for medical education because it at a major local hospital, the patients are after tremors from a distant earthquake rum - enables professionals and students in vari - bled through New York the same week as the ous disciplines to get hands-on experience high-tech ‘human simulators.’ tropical storm — and days before the 10th while working with one another. Typically, commemoration of the anniversary of 9/11. they are trained separately and often miss “You can never be too prepared for an learning about the role collaboration plays. emergency,” Assembly Speaker Silver noted. Using the city and state allocations, Emergency Medical Technicians rushed State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. It And as always, accidents sometimes just CUNY provided the capital to construct and two patients on stretchers into the hospital was funded with almost $20.8 million, equal - happen. equip the center. NYU Langone will provide trauma room and reported to a physician. ly divided between the city and state. The In explaining the funding for the operation of the center until The patients moaned and bled; outside a hur - 25,000-square-foot facility is spread out need for the center, the university’s initial investment is amor - ricane raged. over the entire its founding direc - tized. After that, the two institutions will Words and None can compare in design, function, third floor of tor Dr. Thomas share operating expenses. Bellevue Hospital phrases prolifer - the C and D Riles said he has given CUNY a 15-year lease for the space ated: “Hit with sophistication of technology, scope of program or wing of would like to plus two five-year extensions. CUNY is sub - flying debris,” Bellevue remind the audi - leasing the space to NYU Langone. “not respond - “ Hospital ence about the The center has multiple simulation ing,” “fracture,” expertise of staff. . . . We want to be the best in Center at 462 emergency landing of rooms, including a disaster train - “abdominal First Ave. in a plane in the Hudson ing room, a five-bed Intensive the world. wound,” “mor - — Dr. Thomas Riles , director Manhattan. River in January Care Unit, two operating phine,” “The City 2009 by the now rooms, trauma rooms, a “surgery.” University of legendary pilot Sully labor and delivery room and Suddenly a stretcher arrived wi”th a thi rd New York has always been deeply commit - Sullenberger. 14 patient patient, a 7-year-old boy. He had slipped on ted to educating and training those who “Would the outcome water and was also unconscious. His serve New York as nurses, firefighters, emer - have been different distraught father tried to tell what he knew. gency medical technicians, and through had he not spent hours of training in A frightening scene. But it wasn’t real. many other health-care and emergency- It was a state-of-the-art training session for medical personnel at a new simulation center that marks an unprecedented collab - oration between CUNY and the NYU Langone Medical Center. The “stars” of the event — the patients — were mannequins, but a far cry from those in store windows. Although made from plastic, they can be programmed by computers to be injured or ill, to stop breathing and to mimic any number of other medical conditions. In this simulation, Borough of Manhattan Community College Allied Sciences students Ra Jassir and Jonathan Ramos, numerous medical professionals and an actor who played the father worked with the mannequins. Jassir and Ramos, who are studying to be EMTs at the BMCC campus, said they felt as if they were in a real-life situation — even though the patients were plastic, the hurri - cane was called “Irene” and the simulation occurred nine days after the real Tropical Storm hit the city. Jassir said the simulation helped him to prepare for the frightening possibility that the worst could happen here. “You do kind of lose the perspective that it is not real,” he said when the “emergency” was over. “It’s the teamwork, the way everyone gets involved doing their job. It’s very believable. The mannequins simulate blood, they breathe. They shiver if they are in shock. It gives it a sort of reality.” This practice session on Sept. 6 was one of several that marked the auspicious open - ing of the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences, said to be the most sophisticated facility of its kind in the United States. The center is the result of years of planning, championed by New York

10 CUNY MATTERS —Fall 2011 examination rooms, • I can • I can open and where the actors will be sweat and close my eyes, used. There are 17 man - make blink at saliva. nequins, more formally different rates, known as human simu - and produce tears. For a (More) lators, including three • I can make neurological babies — one on loan normal examination: On the Web at cuny.edu until the center’s own and My pupils react arrives — and a newborn abnormal to light. They can be normal, child. Among the other breathing sounds. dilated or ASSISTANCE FOR STAFFERS adults is a “birthing constricted. ASK A LIBRARIAN — mom.” The gender on most of the mannequins • My body ITH BUSY STUDENTS often hard-pressed to get to the library, CUNY provides a variety of options can is interchangeable — • I can make to get research support online. Almost all campus libraries respond to phone and e-mail inquiries and there are also more produce W urine. normal and and some offer instant or text messaging. Seven college libraries have gone further by joining an than 50 mannequin abnormal international consortium that offers their students librarian assistance 24/7. The seven libraries are heart sounds. body parts including at Baruch, Brooklyn, Hunter and Lehman Colleges; Borough of Manhattan and Bronx Community arms and heads. Colleges; and the CUNY Graduate Center. Go to http://www.cuny.edu/libraries/services.html#ask Funding for the cen - • When pre- ter originally began with programmed I can an allocation to CUNY’s respond to • I am wirele ss Borough of Manhattan more than and can Community College, 108 drugs. operate that which has been provid - way for about four hours. ing simulation training on a smaller scale for 15 search.cuny.edu “Library Services” • I cost about years. Participants in $66,000; the simulation will other models include Langone can cost less • I can bleed Medical students and or more. from my SCHOLARSHIP— LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROFESSOR SUE LIVINGSTON BMCC nursing students arteries — plus those in the Allied or my veins. Health Science I can make N TEACHING DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING to deaf students for many years in LaGuardia’s Program for it look like I Deaf Adults, Sue Livingston found that students who can read, and then write about what they programs for have a small I paramedics and respira - cut. Or an read, become markedly better, more confident, writers. She has embodied her successful approach in tion therapy. There are amputated Working Text: Teaching Deaf and Second-Language Students to be Better Writers , published by also plans to include leg. Gallaudet University Press. In this instructional book, with companion student public and community workbook, she explains why her method of using carefully crafted, pro - based first responders gressive reading and writing exercises works with throughout the city, I’m SimMan-3G . any students who need to improve their writing including firefighters, I am a plastic mannequin, although as a “human simulator” I am technological - ability. www1.cuny.edu/mu/scholar - emergency manage- ly very complicated. I can act like a real patient. The company that makes me, ship/2011/08/23/working-text/ ment workers from a Laerdal, started in 1940 as a Norwegian manufacturer of greeting cards, chil - variety of city agencies, dren’s books and wooden toys. Laerdal is historically famous for making Resusci Lower Manhattan com - Annie, a training mannequin used for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. search.cuny.edu “Special Education” munity groups and busi - My website: ness and volunteer http://www.laerdal.com/ us/doc/85/SimMan-3G ambulance services. New York Downtown Hospital will use the those involved to learn from their mistakes. — PERKS FOR PART-TIME EMPLOYEES center for decontamination training and The wrong decision or action could result in FOR YOUR BENEFIT other emergency training exercises. a mannequin’s decline or “death.” As Dr. Kathryn Brinsfield, Deputy Chief Scott Arnold, a Laerdal regional manager HE UNIVERSITY offers a variety of benefits for part-timers. Medical Officer for the United States Depart- in attendance at the opening ceremony, TDepending on an employee’s job and personal circumstances, ment of Homeland Security, reminded those explained that the mannequin technology benefits could include health and retirement plans. Some part-timers at the opening day ceremony: “Homeland makes use of compressed air. “We use air to also are eligible to join voluntary, self-pay long-term care insurance security begins with Hometown security.” do a lot of what your body does for you,” he and catastrophic major medical plans as well as a tax-deferred Ballinger, the architectural firm, said, adding that if the correct medical pro - annuity, although various restrictions may apply. designed the center. Laerdal, an cedures are used a mannequin’s condition For specifics on what may be available to you, international company based in Norway — will improve. The center also uses more start with the Human Resources office at your which specializes in the use of technology in than a hundred cameras to record training college. Go to http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/ohrm- medical training —manufactures the man - sessions, so that students can study them benefits/2011/04/18/benefits-for-part-time- nequins and their accompanying software, afterwards to view their successes as well. employees/ controlled by technicians using laptops. On the day the center opened — along Mannequins can be programmed according with treating the Tropical Storm Irene search.cuny.edu “Staff Benefits” to a particular script for an illness or an “patients,” a male mannequin was brought injury and the simulation rooms have com - back from respiratory distress and a female puter screens and wireless monitors show - mannequin had an emergency C-section, ing vital signs and other medical data. But if delivering a mannequin baby. a student or professional makes an error, The baby not only survived. To provide WE REMEMBER — JENNIFER FASULO the technology will not correct it, enabling reassurance that all was fine, it also cried. ROM LEHMAN COLLEGE , where she was coordinator of SEEK Supplemental Instruction and Tutoring, Taking part in the recent Fto LaGuardia Community College, where she previously taught writing, friends and colleagues still ribbon cutting for the New speak of the passion and commitment of Jennifer Fasulo. Her causes spanned York Simulation Center for education and political activism, feminism and filmmaking. She built educa - the Health Sciences, from tional programs and relished the advocate’s role whether she was support - left: Dr. Thomas Riles, ing students or fighting for the rights of marginalized groups. “She was one Simulation Center Director; of those people the world is going to be missing,” Iris Weinshall, CUNY Vice Chancellor for Facilities SEEK program Director Annette Hernandez said of Planning, Construction and Fasulo, 43, who died suddenly in a car crash, just prior Management; Howard to the start of the 2010-2011 academic year. Wolfson, Deputy Mayor; Sheldon Silver, NY State Assembly Speaker; search.cuny.edu “Remembrances” Matthew Goldstein, CUNY Chancellor.

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