CMSpring15 v3_Layout 1 5/5/15 12:50 PM Page 1 he experiment is to be tried… whether the children of the people, ‘Tthe children of the whole people, can be educated; whether an institution of learning, of the highest grade, can be successfully controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few, but by the privileged many.” — Horace Webster Founding Principal, The Free Academy CUNYcuny.edu/news • THE CITY UNIVERSITYMatters OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 JUNE 2015 CUNY students and Call-In volunteers Juan Parra, Kasandra Dorce, Guadalupe Muller, Monica Sibri and Jennifer Fernandez GRANTS&HONORS with Gov. Cuomo and Citizenship NOW! Director Allan Wernick Recognizing Faculty Achievement Savage he University’s renowned faculty members Tcontinually win professional-achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from August government agencies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research projects start here and Barabino continue inside. Carin Savage of Bronx Community College has received a $1,246,161 grant from the NYS Education Department for “Institutional Chua Improvement.” The NYS Education Department has CUOMO: CITIZENSHIP NOW! awarded a $981,525 grant to Bonne August of New York City College of Technology for ‘A BEAUTIFUL TESTAMENT TO WHAT CUNY IS ALL ABOUT’ “Perkins IV.” Gilda Barabino of City College has won a EAFFIRMING the University’s the Citizenship Now! Call-In launch schools and would become New York’s Quash $225,000 grant from the longstanding commitment to pro- held at Guttman Community College. 52nd governor. National Science Foundation viding public service and assisting “It’s about higher education, it’s about "Immigration is a good thing, immi- R for “Minority Faculty immigrant communities, Gov. Andrew teaching, learning, but it’s also about gration brings in new people with new Development Workshop M. Cuomo joined CUNY administra- making a difference and a spirit of talents, new cultures, and they add to (MFDW) Engineering tors, students, faculty, community lead- activism and involvement and that is society, they bring a new asset to socie- Enterprise and Innovation.” A ers, state and local officials and 350 exactly what CUNY is doing today.” ty, they don’t detract, look at New research project titled volunteers at the 13th annual New York Cuomo also remarked on public edu- York,” Governor Cuomo said. “We Hills “Cognitive and Neural Bases Daily News/CUNY Citizenship NOW! cation’s important role in educating made New York the greatest state on of Memory Confidence and Call-In, where thousands of New York- immigrants and transforming them the planet by welcoming people and Accuracy,” under the direction ers received help with immigration is- into great leaders. He noted how his using their strengths and we are still of Elizabeth Chua of Brooklyn sues. grandfather, Andrea Cuomo, immigrat- doing it aggressively, that’s the message College, has received “This is a beautiful testament to ed from Italy and raised a son named ‰ $157,000 in grant support what CUNY is all about,” said Cuomo at Mario who was educated in public Continued on page 2 Sergile from the National Institutes of Health. INSIDE LaGuardia Community Non-Profit Org PAGE College President Gail O. CUNYMatters U.S. Postage New Provost Awaits Mellow joined President Office of University Relations PAID 2 ‘Opportunity of a Lifetime’ Barack Obama, First Lady Permit # 153 205 East 42nd St. Michelle Obama and Vice New Haven, CT Morabia New York, NY 10017 PAGE CUNY Goes to Bat President Joseph Biden at the White House College 5 for International Opportunity Summit, which Student Athletes brought together representatives of colleges PAGE Model UN Students and universities, business leaders, nonprofits and others 8 Honored Tsenova committed to supporting more college opportunities for students across the country. PAGE Insuring Diversity “Quest for Energy,” a 10 for the Public Page 5 documentary film produced Good by Ryoya Terao of New York Terao Continued on page 2‰ CMSpring15 v3_Layout 1 5/5/15 12:50 PM Page 2 GRANTS&HONORS Continued from page 1 City College of Technology and directed by Vinit Pamar of Brooklyn College, has won the New Provost: Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic Prize at the IFF Ekotopfilm Festival -- the 41st International Job Is Opportunity of a Lifetime Festival of Sustainable Development Films. The film has been screened at more than 20 R. VITA CARULLI RABINOWITZ, a Describing herself as “humbled and Her appointment is effective July 1. She film festivals worldwide and won five other distinguished and highly regarded honored” by the appointment, Rabinowitz succeeds Dr. Julia Wrigley, who served as awards. DHunter College educator, administra- told the gathering, “Everything I love Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Ann Jacobs of John Jay College is the tor and scholar, has been named CUNY’s about Hunter — the inspiring mission, the University Provost since 2014. Milliken recipient of two grants, totaling $4,800,000, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic striving students and the faculty and expressed appreciation to Wrigley for her from the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity Affairs and University Provost, an appoint- administrators who are attracted to that outstanding service. ($2,800,000) and the NYC Young Men’s ment she called “the opportunity of a life- mission and those students — is what I As Executive Vice Chancellor and Initiative ($2,000,000) for “The New York City time.” love about CUNY. University Provost, Rabinowitz will lead Justice Corps.” The NYS Education Department Rabinowitz, Hunter’s Provost and Vice “CUNY’s reach, impact and prospects the planning, development and implemen- has awarded $984,898 to Elizabeth Sergile of President for Academic Affairs since 2007, are unparalleled,” she said. “The opportu- tation of University policies and initiatives Kingsborough Community College for “Perkins.” was appointed by the Executive Commit- nity to set the academic vision. and to be regarding academic programs, research, Robert Hills of LaGuardia Community College tee of the Board of Trustees on April 6. the academic voice of the indispensable instructional technology, global engage- has won a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Chancellor James B. Milliken, who rec- institution of the greatest city in the world ment, student development and enroll- Education Department/Office of Special ommended her after a national search, is the opportunity of a lifetime for any aca- ment management. She will report to Education and Rehabilitative Services for an said, “Doctor Rabinowitz’ exemplary demic leader anywhere, and the fact that Milliken, provide strategic academic lead- “Interpreter Education Program.” administrative experience, together with you found me just a few subway stops away ership for CUNY and work with the execu- her distinguished scholarly accomplish- is thrilling. This will surely be the pinnacle tive vice chancellor and chief operating Sanjoy Banerjee of City College has been ments, a strong commitment to students of my life’s work.” officer to develop operating and capital awarded $1,208,986 from LANZATECH for and a deep belief in the mission of CUNY, A distinguished social psychologist and budgets that reflect CUNY’s academic pri- “Natural Gas Conversion thru Bioreactor D.” make her an outstanding choice as the author whose scholarship has focused on orities. “Overcoming Barriers and Moving Up: The University’s chief academic officer.” women and achievement; gender and Rabinowitz will also be engaged in Sophomore Year Initiative,” a project directed “We’ve been very fortunate to find the health; theoretical and methodological budget planning, resource development by Jose Magdaleno of Lehman College, has best candidate from within the issues in the study of gender; and dilem- and assessment of student learning. The received a $643,472 grant from the U.S. University,” Milliken said at the April 6 mas of helping and coping with adverse Office of Academic Affairs oversees Department of Education. board meeting. “I am impressed by her outcomes, Rabinowitz has been a member University policies governing the academic The National Institute for ideas, sophistication and enthusiasm. I’m of Hunter’s psychology department, which programs of CUNY’s colleges and more Occupational Safety and confident she will be an outstanding part- she chaired from 1999 to 2005, since 1978, than 100 research centers. Health has awarded ner in the academic leadership of the and of the doctoral program in psychology Rabinowitz received her master’s and $489,654 to Alfredo University.” at the Graduate Center since 1989. doctoral degrees in social psychology from Morabia of Queens College Magdaleno for “WTC-Heart: A Cohort Study of Heart Diseases in the World Trade Center Responders.” Liana gram. In response, the administration Tsenova of New York City College of Technology appealed the injunction, leading to an April has been awarded $181,195 in grant support CUOMO: CITIZENSHIP NOW! 17 hearing by a three-judge panel at the U.S. from the National Institutes of Health for ‘A BEAUTIFUL TESTAMENT TO WHAT CUNY IS ALL ABOUT’ 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New “Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program.” Orleans. It is unclear when the panel will tant example. The call-in will help issue a ruling. Mitchel B. Wallerstein of Baruch Continued from page 1 President thousands of newcomers navigate the “Our goal for the Citizenship NOW! call- College has been named a Fellow of the that you send nationwide today. That is how immigration maze on the path to U.S. citi- in is to empower immigrant New Yorkers,” American Association for the Advancement of we have made New York the greatest state zenship, consistent with CUNY’s longstand- said CUNY Citizenship NOW! Director and Science as part of the Section on Social, on the planet.” ing tradition of welcoming students who Baruch College law professor Allan Economic and Political Sciences for his The weeklong call-in campaign, which hail from countries throughout the world.