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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

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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. Wernick. “Immigrants can’t wait for scholarly contributions in the fields of was first held in 2004, provides free and We are proud to contribute through this Congress and the courts to find them a path international peace and security, human rights confidential citizenship and immigration vital program to the betterment of our city, to citizenship. They need help now.” and trade security policy, and for leadership in information to thousands of New York City state and nation.” Wernick said callers who may qualify for higher education. residents. To date, nearly 136,000 callers Citizenship NOW! organizers and immi- deferred action will be directed to a city- have received information from the hot line City College has received $3,015,750 from gration advocates predicted that this year’s wide event scheduled for May 16 to prepare as they navigate the often complicated path the National Oceanic and Atmospheric hot line would be one of the busiest because potential applicants and screen them for to citizenship. Administration for of recent actions threatening to stop the other immigration benefits. Organizers “Great public universities such as CUNY “Financial Assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or estimate that more than 500 people will be are deeply committed to providing public Establish Five NOAA DACA program, which seeks to shield up to assisted on that day alone. service that improves the quality of life of Cooperative Science 5 million people from deportation. Chairperson of the CUNY Board of our people,” said Chancellor James B. Centers at Minority In February, a federal court judge tem- Trustees Benno Schmidt said: “Our week- Milliken. “Our enduring partnership with Serving Institutions,” porarily halted President Barack Obama’s long telephone outreach campaign is con- the New York Daily News and all of the co- under the direction of executive order to expand the DACA pro- sistent with our mission of serving sponsors of the annual call-in is an impor- Reza Khanbilvardi. Nur-E-Kamal immigrants, migrants and the sons and Mohsin Patwary and daughters of newcomers to our country. Alam Nur-E-Kamal of Medgar Evers College CUNY’s effort also includes campus and have been awarded a $450,767 grant from the BOARDOFTRUSTEES neighborhood-based Citizenship NOW! National Institutes of Health for “Research The City University of New York CUNYMatters outreach to immigrants. Last year, our out- Initiative for Scientific Enhancement-RISE.” Benno Schmidt Philip Alfonso Berry James B. Milliken Jay Hershenson reach operations served more than 12,000 Nancy Romer of Brooklyn College has received Chairperson Vice Chairperson Chancellor Secretary of the Board of Trustees and future American citizens in addition to the $309,226 in grant funding from the NYS Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations almost 13,000 who joined the call-in. Department of Education for the project Valerie L. Beal Hugo M. Morales Michael Arena “We make this inclusive commitment to University Director for Communications and Marketing “Extended Day: School Day.” Wellington Z. Chen Brian D. Obergfell citizenship because it is the morally right Rita DiMartino Peter Pantaleo Kristen Kelch Managing Editor thing for a public university to do. In addi- has The College of Staten Island Freida D. Foster Carol Robles-Román Charles DeCicco, Margaret Ramirez, Neill S. Rosenfeld Writers tion, it acknowledges the reality of The City received $356,134 from the National Science Judah Gribetz Barry F. Schwartz Miriam Smith Issue Designer University of New York’s student body – an Foundation for “REU Site: Research Experience Joseph J. Lhota Charles A. Shorter André Beckles Photographer impressive group of more than 274,000 for Undergraduate in Computational Methods degree students and 218,000 adult, continu- in High Performance Computing with Articles in this and previous issues are available at cuny.edu/news. Letters or suggestions for future stories may be sent to the Editor by email ing- and professional-education students Applications to Computer Science,” under the Joseph Awadjie Terrence F. Martell to [email protected]. Changes of address should be made through your campus personnel office. who hail from more than 205 countries.” direction of Louis Petingi and Xiaowen Zhang. Chairperson, Chairperson, Citizenship NOW!, the largest program Continued on Page 4 ‰ University Student Senate University Faculty Senate of its kind in the nation, was established in

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New University Provost helped advance women in these areas. from major funding agencies like the Vita Carulli Rabinowitz She led institutional efforts for college- National Science Foundation and the wide accreditation and performance man- National Institutes of Health, and her aca- agement reviews in consultation with demic and professional honors include the Hunter colleagues and emphasized strong Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Award for academic leadership at all levels. Outstanding Italian American Women in Her initiatives included creation of col- Higher Education in New York State, and laborative scholarly opportunities via Arts the Kurt Lewin Award for Outstanding Across the Curriculum; at Roosevelt Achievement in Social Psychology from House Public Policy Institute; in the the New York State Psychological Clinical Translation Science Center in Association. which Hunter partners with Weill Cornell Before being appointed Hunter’s acting Medical College and Memorial Sloan provost in 2005 and named provost in Kettering Cancer Center; and Hunter’s 2007, Rabinowitz was acting program head Academic Center for Excellence in of CUNY’s Social/Personality doctoral Research and Teaching, which supports subprogram, chairperson of the innovations in pedagogy and student Department of Psychology and acting assessment. associate provost. Before becoming an Since June 2002, Rabinowitz has co- administrator, Rabinowitz taught and directed Hunter’s Gender Equity Project mentored thousands of undergraduate, (GEP), which seeks to advance women master’s and doctoral students in psychol- faculty in the natural and social sciences ogy and was undergraduate adviser for Northwestern University. After serving as his life, he was proud of having had the and to promote excellence and equity psychology majors for nearly 10 years. a research assistant at Princeton chance to go to the great City College.” throughout the sciences. The GEP has Hunter College President Jennifer University, she began her academic career As Hunter’s longest-serving provost, been partially funded by $4.5 million in Raab said: “Vita Rabinowitz’ leadership on the faculty of Hunter’s Department of Rabinowitz’ priorities included re-envi- National Science Foundation awards. has been integral to the great success of Psychology in 1978. sioning the general education program; Rabinowitz is a social psychologist who Hunter College over the past decade. Her But, she noted at the executive commit- building a culture of assessment of student has published many influential papers and commitment to high academic standards, tee meeting, her family’s connection to learning; enhancing graduate and profes- articles relating to the study of women and faculty well-being and student success, as CUNY goes back to a much earlier time. sional education; strengthening Hunter’s achievement, theoretical and methodolog- well as her integrity and tireless devotion “My father, Vito Carulli, was admitted to research infrastructure; and supporting ical issues in the study of gender, and to our institution, made her a remarkable City College in 1940,” she said, yet “the Hunter’s faculty. She has promoted gender dilemmas of helping and coping. partner. While I -- and all of Hunter -- will opportunity costs of even a free education equity in the workplace, including acade- Her co-authored textbook, Engendering deeply miss Vita, we celebrate CUNY’s at one of the nation’s finest colleges proved mia, and has researched why women have Psychology, Women and Gender Revisited, good fortune in gaining a dynamic provost too great for his struggling family, and he not progressed to the top levels of science, is in its second edition. She has received a with an extraordinary passion for CUNY’s left within a year. But for the remainder of academia and the professions and has number of prestigious grants and awards mission.”

1997 to address the growing need for free citizenship and immigration services among CUNY’s foreign-born students, fac- TheDream.US Awards $5 Million to Students ulty and staff. Responding to high demand for these ORE THAN 200 immigrant students of The City Arrivals, or DACA, status, or may also qualify under scholarship applications submitted nationwide were services in other communities, Citizenship University of New York have been awarded Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. from CUNY students. In December, TheDream.US NOW! soon expanded to serve all New Mscholarships by TheDream.US, valued at more “Every year I encounter DREAMers who are eager to announced that 242 scholarships – 50 percent of Yorkers. Under the leadership of Wernick, than $5 million. It is the largest amount received by go to college, serve their community and our country,” those awarded nationwide – went to students from who is also a New York Daily News colum- any university in the United States. says Donald Graham, founder of TheDream.US. “We CUNY. In early 2015, 231 students accepted their nist, the organization has grown into the The nation’s largest scholarship program for believe it is the right thing to do to allow DREAMers to scholarship awards. country’s largest university-based citizen- undocumented immigrant youth, TheDream.US, is get a college degree – but more important it makes Kirssy Martinez, a student at Bronx Community ship and immigration law service provider providing aid to 231 students at CUNY colleges in the our country stronger and our values firmer.” College, is one of the more than 200 CUNY students with nine centers throughout the five bor- five boroughs, more than half of the $10 million in aid CUNY began its partnership with TheDream.US in awarded TheDream.US scholarship. oughs of New York City. the foundation awarded nationally to over 500 fall 2013 when 30 students received scholarships to At 14, she immigrated to New York from the The call- in campaign began in 2004 students. attend three community colleges. Dominican Republic and hasn’t seen her parents or with a vision shared by CUNY Senior Vice The program, the first college scholarship fund Last year, Chancellor James B. Milliken made it a siblings in 13 years. After graduating from high Chancellor for University Relations Jay created for undocumented immigrant youth, known as University-wide priority to expand the scholarship school, she spent eight years working as a waitress Hershenson and former New York Daily DREAMers, awards up to $25,000 for tuition and fees opportunity to immigrant students in 19 CUNY and babysitter to save money for college. News editor Martin Dunn. Together, they to high school graduates who are first-time college colleges – 12 senior colleges and seven community After one semester at Bronx Community College, approached Wernick to organize the effort. students or community college graduates who seek to colleges. she was on the verge of dropping out until she learned This year’s weeklong hot line operated complete their bachelor’s degrees. In October 2014, 41 percent of the nearly 1,700 about TheDream.US scholarship. Martinez was also from April 27 through May 1, from 9 a.m. to Students must have Deferred Action for Childhood recently named valedictorian. 7 p.m., with more than 350 volunteer “Our current immigration status shouldn’t be an lawyers, community leaders, CUNY indication of our future success,” she says. “This is students, faculty and staff answering not the time to be ashamed of being undocumented. phones and providing confidential informa- This is just the beginning. You’ve all heard the old tion to thousands of callers. saying, ‘The sky is the limit.’ I would add to that, At Guttman Community College, two ‘Education is the vehicle.’” classrooms were converted into call-in Grace Couch, another CUNY Dream Scholar, moved centers. Calls were answered in English to the United States from South Korea when she was and Spanish, as well as numerous other 8. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School, one of languages, including; Mandarin, the best public high schools in New York City, but Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Italian, when it was time to apply to colleges, she found she Haitian Creole, Bengali, Polish, French, was not eligible for financial aid or student loans Yiddish and Arabic. because of her status. Although the event started modestly, the After working and saving some money, she enrolled call-in has evolved into a high-profile New at Queensborough Community College and applied for York event that draws notable figures. This DACA status. With her scholarship, Couch is pursuing year, some of the leaders who visited her bachelor’s of science in nursing at Hunter College. included U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and “From a scared undocumented student living in the Kirsten Gillibrand, New York City Council shadows, I became a confident registered nurse with Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and New Dream scholarship winners Kirssy Martinez, with daughter Haley, Bronx Community College and Grace so many opportunities,” she says. York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Couch, Queensborough Community College

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Continued from page 2 Mondell Sealy and Jonathan Quash of York AVE YOU HEARD? English doctoral student Gregory Pardlo is awarded the Thirty-seven CUNY students from the College have been awarded a $300,000 HPulitzer Prize for poetry…CCNY alum Flavio Alves wins Grand Jury prize class of 2015 have joined Teach For grant from the Carroll and Milton Petrie for ‘Tom in America’ at 7th annual CUNY Film Festival…Big Apple Job & America – a national, nonprofit organiza- Foundation for “Financial Assistance to Internship Fair connects graduating students with recruiters, high-profile tion that places graduates in high-need schools across the country. While the Students Facing Unforeseen Emergencies firms and government agencies and Catastrophic Events that May Disrupt majority of their College Education.” “Chemical Probes CUNY’s new Targeting Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 teachers will Gene Repression,” a project under the remain in New direction of Guillermo Gerona-Navarro of York City, others have been assigned to Brooklyn College, has received $157,000 in Miami, Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas and grant funding from the National Institutes of Washington D.C. Hunter College has the Health. most students committed to the program – 9 – followed by City College, 7, John Jay The U.S. Department of Justice – College of Criminal Justice, 5, Brooklyn Office of Justice Programs awarded College 4, Lehman College and Queens $4,750,000 to David Kennedy of John Jay College, 3, and York College and College of College for “National Center for Building Staten Island and Baruch, 2. Staten Island Community Trust and Justice.” Loretta Taras also has one graduate student joining the of Kingsborough Community College has corps. received a $577,634 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Research in Bio to Promote Success STEM.” LaGuardia Community Eynon College has received $400,382 from the U.S. Education Department/Office of Postsecondary Education for the “Making Transfer Connections Project,” Big Apple Job Fair Draws Hundreds Seeking Employment, Internships directed by Bret Eynon. Goral UNDREDS OF STUDENTS connect- at the Jackson Heights Public Library. CCNY of Lehman Mira Goral ed with recruiters in hopes of launch- “New York needs more young people in Alum’s College has won a Hing their careers at the 27th annual the workforce,” Ferreras said. The Big $310,268 grant from the National Institutes CUNY Big Apple Job & Internship Fair. Apple Job Fair began 27 years ago at the Provocative of Health for the project “Efficacy of The annual event, held April 17 at the World Trade Center, with the objective of ‘Tom in America’ Wins Top Honors Language Treatment in Monolingual Chronic Jacob Javits Center, drew notable firms bringing graduating students and recent At CUNY Film Festival Aphasia.” and government agencies including Apple alumni together with private- and public- FILM ABOUT the secret desires computers, Yelp, Sesame Street, Bright sector organizations seeking qualified John Hunt of LaGuardia Community within the marriage of an elderly cou- Horizons Child Care & Early Education, employees. In later years, the fair expand- College has been awarded two grants: Aple, written and directed by a City Northwestern Mutual, and the New York ed to include opportunities for currently $392,211 from the Office of Adult Career and College MFA alumnus, won the Grand State Assembly. At a breakfast reception to enrolled students to gain internships with Continuing Education Services for the Jury prize at the 2015 CUNY Film Festival kick off the fair, Senior Vice Chancellor Jay work experience to feature on their “Workforce Investment Act”; and $251,468 at Macaulay Honors College. Flavio Alves’ Hershenson and CUNY Trustee Freida resumés. The Big Apple Job Fair also from the NYC Office of the Mayor for an “Tom in America” explores the relation- Foster expressed gratitude to recruiters includes a graduate and professional pro- “Adult Literacy Program.” The NY State ship of Michael and Betty — played by the for participating in the event. Keynote grams fair, providing students and some- Education Department has awarded veteran actors Burt Young and Sally speaker for the reception, City Council times recruiters from participating Kirkland — a Long Island couple who have $300,000 in grant funding to Eileen Member Julissa Ferreras (D-Queens), organizations with information on been married 50 years. While rummaging Donoghue, Judit Kerekes, Irina Lyublinskay, recalled memories of landing her first job advanced degrees. through trash in search of things to sell at Jane Coffee and Ken Gold of the College of Staten Island for “Professional Development the local flea market, Michael finds a in Mathematics and Mathematics “Tom of Finland” doll that triggers a long- Education.” New York City College of Gregory Pardlo, poems in Digest ignored impulse. Tom of Finland dolls are Technology has received a $253,810 grant a doctoral student take their inspi- inspired by the homoerotic fetish art of from RFSUNY for “New York State Small in English at the ration from Touko Laaksonen, a Finnish artist best Business Development Center,” under the Graduate Center, Pardlo’s neigh- known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland. CUNY has a creative and diverse stu- direction of Robert Peichota. was awarded the borhood, the Pulitizer Prize for Bedford- dent body, and the films shown at the fes- Nathan Lents of John Jay College has poetry for his Stuyvesant tival reflect their unique perspectives, been awarded a $474,809 grant from the book, Digest. section of says Macaulay New Media Lab director National Science Foundation for “The John The judges cited Brooklyn, or tap Robert Small. Jay Forensic Science and Computer Science Pardlo’s “clear- into his sense of “We have so much talent here, and it Scholarship Program.” Kingsborough voiced poems that identity,” The would be counterintuitive not to have a Community College has received $384,000 in bring readers the New York place where students could display their grant funding from the National Aeronautics news from 21st Times reported. work,” says Small, an Emmy-award win- and Space Administration for the project Century America, Pardlo’s first ning television producer and film director “Modal Mineralogy of Carbonaceous rich with thought, book, Totem, who organized the festival with students Chondrites (bulk & separates) by Position ideas, and histo- received the from the media lab. The Macaulay New Sensitive Detector Xray Diffraction: Low,” ries public and American Media Lab is a club where students learn directed by Kieren Howard. “Accounting for private.” In a Poetry Review/ about filming, video editing and social Water Structure and Thermo Dynamics in recent review, The New York Times Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems media marketing strategies. Computer Aided Drug Design,” a project described Digest as “a brainy, compas- have appeared in American Poetry directed by Thomas Kurtzman of Lehman sionate book that uses a pleasingly Review, Boston Review, The Nation, Get Daily Newswire reports at College, has been awarded $118,269 from large stylistic palette to paint a por- Ploughshares and Tin House, as well cuny.edu/newswire. To download the free app the University of San Diego. trait of fatherhood, racial politics and as in anthologies including Angles of for your mobile device, search The following awards are from the Brooklyn before it became a place to Ascent, the Norton Anthology of The City University of New York at National Science Foundation: $911,750 to buy $30 glasses of bourbon.” Contemporary African American Poetry the Apple or Android online Written in a breezy vernacular style and two editions of Best American stores. Or snap the nearby box Continued on page 8 ‰ with a lively streetwise inflection, the Poetry. with your smartphone to sub- scribe to Newswire.

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thrown away by this subjective rule.” David Campilongo, 22, a student at Bronx Community College from Venezuela, played basketball and aged out under the rule. “That’s my only sport, and I’m pretty good at it,” says Campilongo, CUNY Goes to Bat who plans to study computer science. “I didn’t know what to do. Now I’m pretty excited because I’ll be able to play again in October.” for International Student Athletes Zak Ivkovic, commissioner of the Athletic Conference, said that foreign- born athletes are especially deserving ELVIN ARHIRE-THOMAS, a agreed to drop the new rule in January. because they are among the most dedicat- Nigerian-born student who aspires to The NJCAA — the country’s second ed students, not only at the university but K become a pediatrician, loved playing largest intercollegiate sports association, nationwide. According to the Office of defense on Kingsborough Community with 525 members nationwide and 41 in International Students, more than 90 per- College’s soccer team and running the New York State — says it instituted the cent of the university’s foreign students 800-meter event for its track and field rule because of concerns that the open earn undergraduate degrees within four squad. Sports, he says, “brings me feelings admissions policies of most junior colleges years. Nationwide, only 19 percent of pub- of ambition to excel in life.” were allowing foreign students with pro- lic university students complete their But Arhire-Thomas was crushed last fessional athletic experience to compete degrees in four years. summer when he learned that he was no against “true amateurs” at the college lev- “We fought this for the last three years longer eligible to compete on either team— el. “The NJCAA and many of its member because we wanted to make sure our inter- disqualified by a rule adopted in 2012 by colleges do not have the resources to national student athletes can get all the the National Junior College Athletic research the competitive backgrounds of opportunities they can be Association (NJCAA) that barred commu- all student athletes,” says Mary Ellen afforded just like the nity college athletes who were over 21 and Leicht, the NJCAA’s executive director. rest of our students,” didn’t attend high school in the United The new regulation was adopted “in an Ivkovic says. “It’s States for at least three years. Arhire- attempt to level the playing field.” really rewarding to Thomas went to high school in Nigeria and But the Attorney General’s Civil Rights turn our frustration turned 22 last July. Bureau brought CUNY’s opposition to the understand the impact it would have. into a victory for The rule was meant to weed out older NJCAA by pointing out that the rule was Community colleges are the main entry student athletes in international students with professional inconsistent with the athletic association’s point for people who come to America for the entire United athletic experience in their home coun- own mission statement—especially in its the first time; one of the reasons is finan- States.” tries, but it was so broad that it disquali- effect on a highly diverse public university cial. The entire nation of community col- fied untold numbers of college-age such as CUNY. According to the mission leges benefits from it. We should be proud students who had not competed profes- statement, the NJCAA seeks “to foster a to be the ones who fought for what was sionally. At Kingsborough, a college with a national program of athletic participation right and won.” high percentage of international students, in an environment that supports equitable “I’m just pleased that all eligible stu- 31 athletes were disqualified by the new opportunities consistent with the educa- dents will now have an opportunity,” rule in the two academic years after it was tional objectives of member colleges.” Belfiore says. enacted. “The rule had a particularly negative “I was really impressed by how hard “Some were angry, some were sad. impact upon urban junior college systems both of Some stopped going to school because they that serve a large number of immigrant them had were frustrated,” says Keith Heron, students,” the Attorney General’s office been Kingsborough’s assistant athletic director. said in a statement, noting that 7.2 percent working to “For some of them, sports is what kept of the university’s first-time junior college overturn it,” says Marcia Isaacson, a mem- them interested in college; they had extra- freshmen in the fall of 2013 attended high ber of CUNY’s legal department. “Their curricular activities and friends.” school outside the passion was inspiring. Too often change But this winter, the NJCAA agreed to United States. seems to take forever. Not this time.” rescind the rule after a long campaign In January, Arhire-Thomas instigated by Heron and Michael Belfiore, the NJCAA’s expressed the relief of director of athletics at Bronx Community Eligibility students who College, and led by the Athletic Committee can go Conference. Taking up the fight, CUNY’s voted to legal department brought the issue to the rescind the state attorney general’s office last fall. The rule, and the back to office lodged an official challenge, raising organization competing. “I’m state and local anti-discrimination laws, entered into a set- so excited because that and the NJCAA’s eligibility committee tlement agreeing to was my dream,” he says. “It was a harsh allow the rule.” New York A biology major, Arhire-Thomas emi- attorney gen- grated from his native Nigeria and entered eral to review any future Kingsborough in the fall of 2013. He played eligibility rules concern- on the soccer team and ran track that Clockwise from ing students’ national school year but was told he was not eligible left: Michael origins. for this year after he turned 22 last sum- Belfiore of Bronx Community Heron noted that any mer. College with institution that receives In a letter to the NJCAA last August, he Venezuelan federal funding is also said the organization was discriminating student David prohibited from discrim- against him based on age, nationality and Campilongo; inating based on age. ethnicity. “. . . Being involved in the athlet- Kingsborough’s “Belfiore and I spoke ic program helped me make friends and Keith Heron with many times about this adjust to this country and Kingsborough a Nigerian-born rule, because we were lot more successfully than if I had to take Kelvin Ahire- very upset by it,” he says. this journey alone,” he wrote. “I ask for Thomas, (above) “We were always looking these regulations to be reconsidered so playing soccer. into how we could fix it. that young athletes like me will not have A lot of people didn’t their dreams and ambitions merely

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K EVIN GARDNER, the director of the structural biology initiative of the newly opened Charles Vörösmarty, a renowned authority on global water issues and other areas of environmental sciences, joined CUNY as director of the Advanced Science Research Center, likes to explain his work to the uninitiated by breaking it down ASRC Environmental CrossRoads initiative while the building was still in the planning stages. Rein Ulijn, a pioneering nanochemist with seven to a few simple but extraordinary pieces of information about how we live on the molecular level. patents for new materials that have unique “adaptive” properties inspired by biology, was recruited from Scotland’s University of Within each cell of our bodies, Gardner says, is a mechanism that allows the cell to perceive Strathclyde to direct the ASRC nanoscience initiative. Gardner, a molecu- lar biophysicist and biochemist, arrived at the ASRC and CUNY from the and react to its environment with staggering proficiency. Every one of our red blood cells, for University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with an international reputation for innovative thinking. instance, has 280 million hemoglobin molecules that are constantly sensing where that cell is “We are actually creating new types of chemistry,” Ulijn said during an event last month that unofficially introduced the ASRC and its innova- in the body and what it needs to be doing. tive concept—“Transcending Scientific Boundaries,” as the event’s title neatly summed it up—to members of the New York science community. K“It’s a machine that’s smart enough to know, ‘Hey, I’m in the lungs, I them and cultivating a highly collaborative research culture. Flanked by his fellow ASRC scientists on the stage of the center’s audito- need to pick up oxygen’ or ‘I’m in the periphery of the leg, I need to dump After nearly a decade from conception to completion, the University- rium, Ulijn discussed the ways in which his work might be advanced both oxygen,” Gardner says. “What we’re trying to figure out is how nature has wide science center, at the south campus of City College, is up and run- by the center’s interdisciplinary approach and its shared core facilities, evolved those machines to work as well as they do. And if we’re lucky ning with founding directors of three of its five initiatives in place. which feature some of the most advanced research equipment in New enough to get answers to how those machines are broken by disease”— Chancellor James B. Milliken said, “Building on the University’s rich York. cancer, for instance—“then we’ll have insights into how to fix them.” legacy of world-class science and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s commitment Ulijn’s nanoscience is distinctive in its “systems” approach—its Gardner’s field of structural biology sits at the crossroads of three to economic development and investment, the CUNY Advanced Science focus on mimicking the complex collections of interacting components scientific disciplines, tackling questions inspired by biology, drawing on Research Center brings to New York a new research enterprise that focus- that function as a whole in biological and ecological environments. The perspectives of chemistry and using the tools of physics to take on a es on some of global science’s most dynamic disciplines and important approach is aimed at creating new materials that have the ability to wide range of biomedical challenges. That made it a natural choice to be challenges. It positions the University at the vanguard of 21st-century actually change their properties to adapt to circumstances, potentially one of the five research initiatives of the long-planned ASRC—a exploration.” yielding applications for everything from biomedicine to energy produc- research center conceived to bring together scientists from distinct but The ASRC’s three founding directors are all leaders in their fields who tion. interrelated disciplines, breaking down the traditional walls between were recruited after international searches. Vörösmarty says the world’s increasing—and increasingly complex—

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from across CUNY will be encouraged to use, whether to collaborate with Rein Ulijn, other faculty or to use the shared core facilities to expand the scale and director of the scope of their work. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and even nanoscience undergraduates from throughout the University will have opportunities to initiative, holds work on research projects at the center. seven patents The ASRC is at the center of an expanding constellation of CUNY sci- for new materials that ence initiatives and centers—from the CUNY Energy Institute at the other mimic biology. end of the City College campus to the Center for Advanced Technology, known as the CUNY CAT, and the Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Hub and CUNY CAT were created to foster commer- cialization of faculty discoveries for the economic benefit of the University, the city and state. CUNY CAT, which is now located within the ASRC, pro- motes collaborative research between CUNY scientists and industry, while the Hub is an incubator of emerging technologies that gives faculty scien- tists the knowledge and tools they need to start spinoff companies in partnership with CUNY. The Hub was recently named and funded as an “innovation hot spot” by a major new state initiative that aims to grow New York’s technology economy. It follows a $3.74 million grant from the National Science Foundation to a consortium of CUNY, Columbia and New York University, led by Vice Chancellor Small, to create a kind of business boot camp to help academic researchers and talented students transform their discov- eries into marketable business ideas. Called the New York City Regional Innovation Node, it’s part of CUNY’s commitment to elevating the “STEM” fields—science, technology, engineering and math—and to energizing of Collaboration the city’s drive to become a new leader in the global science and technol- f Collaboration ogy economy. That effort is concentrated in the ASRC’s neighborhood. The new center and the other CUNY research entities are part of a blossoming science corridor in Upper Manhattan. A block away is a consortium that includes environmental challenges can’t be viewed in isolation. “If you look at the Conceived as an incubator of innovation, the ASRC features some of CUNY called the New York Structural Biology Center. And opening later this population of the earth, we’re heading toward 11 or 12 billion by some the most sophisticated research equipment in New York. Chief among the year just a few blocks southwest will be Columbia University’s new Jerome estimates. We’re adding eight New York Cities every year for the next 20 shared facilities is the ASRC’s NanoFabrication Facility. Open to faculty L. Greene Science Center, a research center that CUNY science leaders see years, and we’re living in a rapidly changing environment. There are 95 and staff researchers and students, as well as government and industrial not competitively but cooperatively — a potential partner. For instance, million catalogued chemicals that are being synthesized by human partners, the NanoFabrication Facility offers researchers the world’s most the ASRC and the Columbia building are being outfitted with an eye beings, and in the time it took me to say that sentence there specialized instruments for fabrication and characteriza- toward avoiding the duplication of specialized and expensive equipment. was a new chemical catalogued. That’s about 10 million a year tion of materials at the micro and nanoscales. It is CUNY’s There will be arrangements between the two that allow researchers from and it’s exponentially growing.” first cleanroom and one of the most advanced on the East each institution to use the other’s labs and encourage collaboration. Though it might seem that his field has little to do with the Coast. “What we’ve been building, and what the launch of the ASRC really other ASRC disciplines, Vörösmarty says there’s no question “Science is becoming much more interdisciplinary, and gets in motion at a high level, is an integrated, University-wide research that it can benefit from research and discoveries in their fields scientists need to understand the capacity of the other network that brings faculty discoveries to the marketplace for the public of his colleagues. For example, “How can you combine new fields to leverage their own,” said Gillian Small, vice chan- good,” said Vice Chancellor Small. “We’ve added the innovation support kinds of chemistry that Rein will be working on to create cities cellor for research and the ASRC’s executive director. “This centers—CUNY CAT and the Hub—to help our researchers get the fund- that revitalize themselves without the environmental impact isn’t a standard science building with a biology floor and a ing and knowledge necessary to create startups. That’s what we’re trying that we see today?” chemistry floor and a physics floor, each in its own world to do as much as possible—link everything together to make us a more entrepreneurial university. As a public university using public money, we With the arrival of its first wave of newly recruited world- Charles Vörösmarty and scientists who want to work alone for years. The idea class scientists, the launch of the ASRC and its sister building, the is to populate the building with dynamic people who want to have an obligation to put the advances that come out of our labs to prac- City College Center for Innovation and Discovery, is a landmark moment in work across disciplines and put them together in a very open-plan build- tical benefit to society.” the University’s decade-long, multibillion-dollar drive to become a leading ing, with plenty of common areas, so that their ideas can really bounce off This includes both scientific and economic benefits. So there is a center of visionary scientific research with real-world impact. The new City each other. That’s how innovation happens.” focus on discoveries that faculty researchers can turn into startup compa- College research building, a 200,000-square-foot facility for key interdis- Each of the ASRC directors has a faculty appointment at one of nies, in partnership with CUNY, that can both generate new revenue ciplinary fields, will be another magnet for regional, national and interna- CUNY’s senior colleges—Vörösmarty and Gardner at City College, Ulijn at sources for the University and contribute to job growth and economic tional researchers and an academic hub of learning for students and Hunter. In addition to running their own labs, each will oversee new facul- development for the city and state. college faculty. ty researchers who will in turn build labs within their disciplines. “At the typical institution or in a typical research building, Rein and I Combined, these two research centers are poised to become both a Searches for the directors of the ASRC’s photonics and neuroscience ini- would probably never encounter each other, let alone work together,” said jewel of CUNY science and a centerpiece of the state’s rapidly expanding tiatives are in progress, and once all five floors are fully operational, the Gardner. “The ASRC will get people together in a way that becomes a real technology sector—a key element of Gov. Cuomo’s economic development ASRC will be home to 20 teams of researchers, four in each initiative. driver of innovation and way to truly unlock problems. It’s an exciting initiatives. The ASRC has also long been planned as a center that researchers opportunity to do great science and have a real impact on the world.”

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Continued from page 4 Ranajeet Ghose of City College for “Conformational Dynamics and Regulatory Interactions in a Bacteriophage RNA Polymerase Complex;” $484,560 to Michael Mirkin of Free at L Queens College for research concerning “Electrochemistry on the Nanoscale;” and $269,124 By Gary Schmidgall to Elizabeth Alter of York FEW YEARS AFTER I began edit- College for the project ing CUNY Matters, in the spring Strengthen Our Nation’s 1996 issue, I ran my first book fea- Workforce and Promoting a ture, an excerpt from Steinway & Scientifically Literate Mirkin Sons by the director of the Populace.” ALaGuardia and Wagner Archives (the piano- Anthony Carpi and Nathan Lents of John maker’s papers are housed there). I liked my Jay College have received a $766,720 grant title: “A Fine Way.” Since then I have curated from the U.S. Department of Education for more than 100 features on books by CUNY- “Creating Hispanic Scientists: A Model affiliated authors — most of them by faculty Articulation Program between Hispanic Serving but also a few by alumni and students. Institutions;” while Carpi and Kate Szur have Sometimes I published excerpts. received two grants from the U.S. Department of Occasionally I interviewed an author: 91- Education: $641,539 for “Title V: Success year-old Joe Machlis, the Queens musicolo- through Engagement: gist and author of the famous Music 1 text Development of a The Enjoyment of Music, for example, or Comprehensive Program to Blanche Wiesen Cook, the eminent John Promote Undergraduate Jay College biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt Research and First Year ... hey, Blanche, my patient wait for the third Transition Toward Members of Hunter’s award-winning Model UN Team and final volume must end now! Mostly I Increasing Persistence and Szur aimed at capturing authorial purposes and Graduation Rates of pointing out the most arresting highlights or Hispanic Students;” and insights of a book under view. $615,080 for “A Success Pipeline for Hispanic CUNY Students Honored But this will be my valedictory book fea- Students: Expanding a Model Transfer ture. In his late poem “A Clear Midnight” Articulation Program by Supporting Cohort Walt Whitman fantasized about a "flight Identity, Academic Progress, and Learner- As Models of Diplomacy into the wordless,/Away from books, away Centered Curriculum.” from art, the day erased, the lesson done.” Nearing retirement, I’m feeling the same TUDENTS from three CUNY City College also attended the Model Distinguished Professor Domna C. way. This gig has been almost entirely a campuses took the seats of UN conference. The Queens delegation Stanton of The Graduate Center has been pleasure and a wonderful learning experi- world leaders, debated vexing represented Algeria, and City College appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve on the ence, but this feels like a good time to global issues and won top prizes represented Uruguay. Both teams won Commission on Human Rights, a city agency vamoose. I have published a few books of for excellence in diplomacy at Distinguished Delegation awards. that investigates and prosecutes complaints my own during my CUNY Matters tenure, from residents whose rights might have been Slast month’s 25th National Model “Model U.N. taught me to articulate and BookTalk has quite properly ignored United Nations Conference. my thoughts,” says John-David violated and that educates the public and them. But now, as I leave the building, I The 28-member Hunter College Noguera, the Hunter team’s co-head encourages positive community relations. A have decided to throw editorial modesty to Model U.N. team won an Outstanding delegate and a junior studying interna- renowned scholar of 17th-century and early- the winds and feature my own new book. Delegation award, competing against tional relations. “. . . I learned how cru- modern French studies, she was a board Before I get down to tooting my own horn, 2,500 students from 200 colleges. cial it is to listen during negotiations member of Human Rights Watch and is active however, let me cast a look back and say Representing Brazil and Russia, Hunter and ensure that all parties are in agree- in the organization’s Women’s Rights Division something about how I chose from the sev- students also won nine individual ment, not just when debating interna- and the Policy Committee. eral hundred books by authors in the awards for Outstanding Position Paper tional issues but also in everyday CUNY family over the last two decades. Deborah Balk of Baruch College has been and debates and con- I’ve always called my articles features awarded a $1-million grant from the National Outstanding flicts.” rather than reviews because it is impolite Science Foundation to conduct research on the Delegate in “I participated in model U.N. in high “I participated in to dis “family” in public. I have never kaku- distribution and dynamics of the world’s Committee. model U.N. in high tanied an author (Gore Vidal coined that population, including the modeling of Students school. I continue because I want to school. I continue verb in honor of The New York Times’ urbanization in the United States, Mexico and debated topics because I want to sit often ferocious reviewer Michiko India. The New York City Human Resources such as terror- sit in one of these seats eventually.” in one of these seats Kakutani). “If you can’t say something nice Administration has awarded Marie Mandera of ism and disar- eventually,” says — Janiky Santana ...” has been my motto; books that I have Kingsborough Community College $475,700 for mament, Janiky Santana, a Queens College freshman been tempted to throw at the wall — and the project “College Opportunity to Prepare for racial and reli- Queens College I’m happy to say there were just a couple — Employment.” Robin Hizme of Queens College gious discrim- freshman who I wrapped in silence. In one case, I slipped has received $436,922 from the NYC ination and violence against women. To hopes her experience representing up and flashed my canines a few times. Department of Education for the “Townsend tackle these complex geopolitical and Algeria in the mock UN will help her When an email arrived from the author Harris High School Collaboration.” William cultural issues, the Hunter students become part of the American delega- afterward, I opened it with dread — only to Latimer of Lehman College has received a prepared with a two-semester course tion one day. be stunned by a compliment on my careful, $374,327 grant from the National Institutes of taught by Pamela Falk, a Distinguished U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki- fair reading of the book. By the way, this Health for research concerning “Four-Arm RCT Lecturer in American government and moon spoke at the conference’s closing was the sole instance of an author commu- of Brief MI vs. Couples-Based HIV/STI Prevention international law and the team’s faculty ceremony to announce the launch of nicating with me after a feature appeared, in South Africa.” Ivonne Barreras of New York advisor. #YouthNow, a social media campaign so I guess I succeeded in going for benign. City College of Technology has been awarded “The class and the competition give to encourage young people to share Many a scholarly tome is written by spe- $169,122 in grant support from the NYS the students the knowledge of interna- their ideas on global development cialists for other specialists, and more pow- Education Department for a “Science and tional relations, diplomacy, and negoti- issues much like the ones debated at er to such studies. But, as George Bernard Technology Entry Program.” ation, as well as the expertise in public the Model U.N. conference. Shaw said, every profession is a conspiracy speaking and debate, all of which serve “You do not have to be a diplomat or Michael Mandiberg of the College of against the laity, and when I could see no them well in any career track they a politician to advance our work,” Ban Staten Island was named one of the “100 ready access to a book for the literate lay- choose,” says Falk, who is also a foreign said. “Everyone with a phone can be a Leading Global Thinkers of 2014” by Foreign man, I passed over it. I was also chary of the affairs analyst for CBS News and a human-rights monitor. Everyone with Policy magazine for his work on Art+Feminism, hard sciences, but I did tackle Grad Center member of the Council on Foreign a screen name can mobilize their an initiative focused on bolstering a more physicist Michio Kaku’s Physics of the balanced presentation of art, feminism, gender Relations. friends. All of you can shape the studies and LGBTQ issues on Wikipedia. Students from Queens College and future.”

8 CUNY MATTERS — June 2015 CMSpring15 v3_Layout 1 5/5/15 12:51 PM Page 9 t Last! — From Conning Leaves haven’t changed, so what better way to bring down my curtain than to direct atten- tion to the latest of my Whitman books: Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman and the British Literary Tradition. (This book reunites me, after nearly four decades, with the publisher of my youth, Oxford University Press.) Whitman himself inspired this chutz- pah. Just after his first edition of Leaves of Grass appeared in 1855, he published an unsigned rave review of it in which he shamelessly flattered his book and himself: His face, he said, was one “that absorbs sunshine. . . face of undying friendship and indulgence.” In a second anonymous puff piece, he declared, “No sniveller, or tea- drinking poet, no puny clawback or prude, is this Walt Whitman.” I’m not up to such brazen cheek, so I will just say that I had some real trepidation — but finally much fun — writing a book that really should not exist. For Whitman was, in his salad days, a vociferous advocate for a literature of America’s own, released from the leaden influence of Britain (“feudal” he liked to call its most famous poets). In that anonymous pat on his own back, he declared he would make "no allusions" to other writers or their books — “their spirits do not seem to have touched him.” My challenge was not only to burrow Gary Schmidgall, with bronze bust of poet Walt Whitman at Bronx Community College’s Hall of Fame of Great Americans into the ways Whitman dealt with the “anxiety of influence” that Harold Bloom Impossible; though he is known as layman- cating screed Higher Education? (note the pleasurably reigned, hastening me into made so famous—but also to burrow into friendly, it still hurt my very soft-sciences question mark) by Andrew Hacker and many books that might otherwise have his published and unpublished comments head. On the other hand, a godsend for us Claudia Dreifus. I was also pleased to run a escaped my notice: the biographies of such on five major authors: Shakespeare, laypeople was Massimo Pigliucci’s droll series of short articles on scholarly journals various celebrities as Rosa Parks, the mur- Milton, Blake, Burns and Wordsworth. My Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from sponsored by CUNY colleges. derers Leopold and Loeb, Alice Herz- conceit was to try to imagine what Bunk. Maybe because I am not much of a Many of my choices, sadly, will remain Sommer (a 106-year-old concert pianist Whitman — who never crossed the Atlantic reader of fiction, I pretty much avoided apropos for a long time: The Encyclopedia and Holocaust survivor), the Marquis de — would have thought when standing in creative writing — maybe my successor(s) of Racism in the United States (it will need Sade, Lee Krasner (the artist and widow of Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey, where will be braver. an update for Ferguson, Mo.), the book Jackson Pollock), and Bruce Springsteen. these five are honored. Given my readership, I gravitated to about taking care of one’s parents (espe- At such a literary smorgasbord, obvi- Would Walt be miffed at my subversive- New York-centric titles. The monumental cially when parent-child relations have ously some dishes were especially enter- ly blowing his all-“American” cover? Pulitzer-winning Gotham: A History of New been strained), or the book from John Jay taining — reading, after all, is just a matter Possibly. But this student of Whitman will York City to 1898 by Mike Wallace and on the forensic and legal uses of DNA evi- of taste: N. John Hall’s telling of the defend himself by quoting “Song of Myself” Edwin Burrows was a no-brainer, as was a dence, and Hunter sociologist Marnia cheeky life of Max Beerbohm was one and back at him: “I am the teacher of athletes ... book on the place of Brooklyn in film histo- Lazreg’s Questioning the Veil, which inter- Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln: The Biography of a He most honors my style who learns under ry or Irene Dash’s Shakespeare and the rogated the Muslim custom of the veil and Writer. Then there was James Saslow’s it to destroy the teacher.” American Musical or Unearthing Gotham, a views on women. Pictures and Passions: A History of Speaking of students, we folks at CUNY fascinating survey of archaeology in the OK, I will admit to every now and then Homosexuality in the Visual Arts, and Matters are always eager to tout the city. I broke my usual rule of limiting fea- playing favorites. I was delighted to cover Lillian Schlissel’s edition of three plays by University’s graduates. So let me plug a tures to one book per author because our the Trees of New York Field Guide because, Mae West, my favorite bon mot of hers feisty former student, Brendan O’Neill, city loomed so large in David Nasaw’s aside from being a tree-hugger, I was being “I was Snow White, but I drifted.” whose first course with me was “Whitman Carnegie and Hearst biographies. delighted that my English professor col- More recently, I was tickled by Lehman and Wilde: The Art of Subversion.” I Also easy to favor were CUNY-centric league Trudy Smoke did its splendid poet Billy Collins’ recent collection of new emphasized his “temerity” — a defining books. Improbable Warriors was a study of botanical illustrations, and I was happy to and selected poems, Aimless Love. quality of Whitman and Wilde — in the several women scientists in World War II hoist a flag for Why Milton Matters by my Now, about my book. Uh oh, I haven’t recommendations I wrote for him. He is a and featured the founding Grad Center friend and former Grad Center EO in left much space. savvy young acquisitions editor at Oxford, president, Mina Rees. I was eager to get my English, Joseph Wittreich. One of his stu- I am quite aware in BookTalk I have and I am particularly pleased to say he hands on Ricky Riccardi’s What a dents, Miltonist Lynne Greenberg, often ridden my hobbyhorse, which for the shrewdly shepherded my manuscript Wonderful World about Louis Armstrong, became a colleague, and she wrote a pow- last nearly 20 years has been Walt through the outside readers process and to since he worked at the trumpeter’s Queens erful memoir, The Body Broken, about a Whitman (prior to that Shakespeare and a contract. College Armstrong Archives. I also gleeful- harrowing years-long ordeal with back Oscar Wilde were in my stable). When I ly published excerpts from a memoir of the pain caused by the flareup of an injury said “So Long!”— the title of a famous great novelist Henry Roth that described from a car accident in college; I couldn’t Whitman poem — to the editorship of how he learned to be a writer while a stu- resist. I know Ovid was Shakespeare’s CUNY Matters in 2004 and headed for full- dent at City College. favorite classical poet, so I was eager to time teaching at Hunter, I admitted that Other titles focusing on issues in higher spread the word on a new translation of allusions to Walt were like the little Nina CUNY Matters welcomes information about education were obvious CUNY Matters his Metamorphoses by Bronx Community the Times Broadway artist Al Hirschfeld new books that have been written or edited fodder: Louis Menand’s anthology The College’s Charles Martin. hid in plain sight in every caricature to by faculty and members of the university Future of Academic Freedom and the corus- I would say that otherwise serendipity amuse his daughter. Ten years on, and I community. Contact [email protected].

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FORYOURBENEFIT DIVERSITY AND THE CHALLENGES OF DOING MORE

By Barbara Fischkin

HE UNIVERSITY’S second bi- ennial Faculty Diversity & Inclu- sion conference was a candid daylong discussion of its ongo- ing efforts to ensure that equity Tand inclusion are key components of CUNY life and recognized as crucial to the public good. The conference, held in March at the Graduate Center and attended by 270 faculty and 50 administrators, featured panels, presentations, talks and interac- tive demonstrations on virtually every aspect of diversity—from race and ethnic- ity, sexuality and gender, age, disability, language and religion to topics such as cultural competency, pedagogy for ESL students, and economic status and unconscious bias. Although successes in eradicating biases, at CUNY and elsewhere, were Diversity conference keynote appropriately applauded, challenges were speaker Kenji Yoshino with also openly discussed, both formally and Jennifer Rubain, university dean informally. “Yes, we’re very proud of our of recruitment and diversity. diversity at CUNY. But if we’re really seri- ous about inclusion, we need a healthy dose of self-reflection in order to chal- emphasized that she was “so pleased” by appointment in June 2014, observed: both locally and nationally—were a focal lenge our own assumptions,” said its “ever-growing impact,” and said its “Three out of four university students point of the conference. Faculty members Jennifer Rubain, university dean of “overall success was due to the dedication belong to underrepresented groups and related the distressed reactions of stu- recruitment and diversity and the confer- and hard work of the planning commit- 57 per cent today are women. We are dents following the death of Eric Garner ence’s organizer. “That means listening tee. They made sure the event addressed clearly outpacing national statistics on on Staten Island after he was put in a carefully to those we work with and dis- topics that most energize and engage the diversity and inclusion but that is the way chokehold by police last July. Willie covering their strengths, talents, and faculty.” it should be. . . . We have come a long way. Tolliver, an associate professor in Hunter aspirations.” Chancellor James B. Milliken, enthusi- We lead the nation. But we still have College’s Silberman School of Social Looking back at reactions to the con- astically attending the first university- much to do.” Work who participated in a panel about ference several weeks later, Rubain wide diversity conference since his Race relations—so much in the news classroom conversations about race,

ATYOUR MTA Hikes and Updating WageWorks S EVERYONE who uses public transportation in New York City and its suburbs probably knows by now, there was a Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare hike in March. But life is more complicated SERVICE Athan it was in the days of subway tokens and yellow paper transfers. Consequently, some of us feel we need a quick primer on how the hike affects different payment options. At CUNY, employees also need to know how this affects their WageWorks transit flex-spend account. June Professional Well, here it is. Development & Learning • The cost of a subway, local bus, and MTA Staten Island Railway fare rose from $2.50 to $2.75. • The cost of a 7-Day Unlimited Ride MetroCard rose from $30 to $31.00. Management (PDLM) • The cost of a 30-Day Unlimited Ride MetroCard rose from $112 to $116.50. Technology Courses for • The cost of an Express Bus Fare rose from $6 to $6.50. Employees For details on the fare hikes for LIRR, Metro-North, and Bridges and Tunnels Tolls, search.cuny.edu “Fare Hikes.” HINK AHEAD. To see what PDLM is courses were REMINDER: The MTA charges a $1 “new card fee” for each new MetroCard purchased offering in June to help you to designed in at a MetroCard vending machine, station booth or commuter rail station. By refilling Tmaximize your usage of “desktop response to and reusing your current MetroCard, you will avoid this additional fee. Also, the pre- technology” at work — visit here: cuny.edu feedback from tax limit for the Commuter Card Unrestricted and the Transit Pass (including Access-A-Ride) plans for the “Desktop technology.” Included are participants in our regular MS courses. We calendar year 2015 remains at $130 per month. customized courses in PowerPoint, Excel and asked them to identify the tasks they As for WageWorks: If you wish to change your monthly transit deduction amount, please complete the Word. The courses are free, and applications performed most using MS software and we Transit Form. For those unfamiliar with the program: When you sign up, you receive a personal commuter must be received in the PDLM office at least designed these courses based on their account funded on a pre-tax basis through payroll deductions from your pay. Because the deductions 10 days before a course begins. Dates are responses. We’ve deferred offering general MS reduce your payroll withholding taxes and provide you with tax-free funds to pay your expenses, you can subject to change. According to Rhonnye software courses for now because these save as much as 40 percent off the cost of your commute through the program. But with the fare hikes, it Ricks, PDLM’s director: “The current June customized courses are so popular.” needs to be updated. Any questions, please contact your college’s human resources office.

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recalled students walking out of classes in news anchor. (More) protest after a grand jury decided not to Drawing on data from a study he did indict the police officer in Garner’s death. with the Deloitte management consulting On the Web at cuny.edu “What the students said over and over firm, Yoshino demonstrated that covering was that we need you to help us under- has a significant negative impact both on stand race and racism in the United individuals and the organizations for FREE MICROSOFT FOR ALL CUNY.EDU/MICROSOFT States,” Tolliver said. which they work. Advocating a culture of In addition to faculty and administra- greater authenticity, he recalled that as a tors, the conference drew on the experi- gay man early in his career he was told to ences and perspectives of students, avoid writing about gay themes. He said he including three from John Jay College of tried to take the advice for a while but real- Criminal Justice who were part of a panel ized he had cut himself off from his pas- discussion of Muslim awareness initiatives sion. He ultimately rejected the demand to at CUNY colleges. The students—Nafij cover, he said, and received tenure unani- Ahmed, Yellda Balouch and Sana Nawaz— mously. He shared this story, he said, to have compiled an anthology called underscore that while the melting pot ide- “Finding Islam in Tomorrow.” Their pres- al suggests that advancement is related to entation described efforts on several cam- assimilation, it may be just as true that puses “aimed at chipping away at the advancement is related to authenticity. widespread negative stereotypes and The nuances involved in the faculty Microsoft’s Richard J. Langford, Kathryn Wylde, Partnership for New York City, Chancellor James images of Muslims as a monolithic group hiring process were reviewed in an inter- B. Milliken, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Baruch student Christopher Wong. of extremists outside of mainstream active presentation called It Depends On EARLY HALF A MILLION CUNY students will get The partnership is part of an initiative announced American society.” the Lens: Unconscious Bias in the Faculty Nfree Microsoft Office software thanks to a new earlier this year by City Council Speaker Melissa Four Graduate Center doctoral candi- Search Process by Cornell University’s public-private partnership. Students will be able Mark-Viverito to make sure New York City students dates also presented posters of their Interactive Theater Ensemble. The group to download up to five copies of the software fea- have access to software that will help them in research on themes related to the confer- uses video, live actors and audience partic- turing programs like Excel, PowerPoint and Word. college and prepare them for the workforce. ence. One, by Michael Dorsch, was an ipation to address unconscious gender, age analysis of the racial and ethnic socio- bias and other biases in faculty hiring. demographics of the communities closest A midday panel on “Women and CUNY.EDU/PUBLICATIONS to CUNY campuses. Leadership: Empowering the Next CUNY CROSSWORD COMPENDIUM Generation in Higher Education,” moder- PUZZLE The conference’s keynote speech was COLLECTION of ated by Vice Chancellor for Human CROSSWORD delivered by Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Apuzzles that will Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Resources Management Gloriana B. A Brief History of CUNY Hunter-in-the Bronx challenge and By Miriam Smith & Ronald73. 1968 E. Roel is named ______-time Col- gov- Law at NYU School of Law. He addressed Waters, offered strategies for Across lege for the four The ______Acad- ernor. 1. 1847 entertain you with a emy is founded, ratified thru 74. Architect I. M. ___ a statewide referendum. 75. Plagiarizes______Commu- 1870 The ______ork College is es- 79. 1969 inclusion and equity through the perspec- advancement. Framed by the fact that only 4. nity College is founded, of the City of New Y tablished, a free college for named for the 19th cen- treasury of facts about ury Puerto Rican educator. women. t 82. 1970 Medgar _____ Col- tive of “covering”— a term that describes one in four college presidents in the 10. Big bangWilliam maker Hallett lege, named for the, isslain 11. 1884 Greene becomes the first civil-rights leader the people, unique founded. ______graduate of City College. 84. Improvise The Normal CollegeCol- pressure that racial and sexual minorities United States are women, the panel fea- 16. 1914 ______85. Representation is renamed 90. Secretly watch CUNY history and modern- lege, after its first presi- 91. Long, long time dent, an Irish immigrant. 92. Evergreen holly shrub 1919 CCNY’s School of 96. 1970 The ______Ad- feel to continue to mute or downplay their tured nationally recognized thought lead- 18. missions Policy is imple- Business and Civic Admin- day life of the nation’s istration opens in the origi- mented. nal Free Academy building. 97. Tease CROSSWORD It would eventually become 98. 1976 With the NYC fiscal “outsider” identities long after they have ers such as Joyce Brown, president of the ______College. crisis, CUNY begins charging ______, a leading urban 21. Like some transfers fraction of that at other 22. Russian drinking vessel Solutions 1930 In Brooklyn, the an- private and public colleges. on Last 23. COMPENDIUM Pages 1983 The CUNY School of been accepted by the mainstream of society. Fashion Institute of Technology; nexes of CCNY and Hunter 99. A collection of puzzles that will challenge and entertain you erge to form ______is founded. m with a treasury of facts about the people, unique history and public university College. 101. Makes flush ______College modern-day117. Hollow life of the nation’s leading urban public university 25. 1937 104. ___-Pei (dog) Yoshino, author of Covering: The Chancellor Nancy Cantor of Rutgers- opens, founded through 105. Annex 123. 7-grain cereal the merger of the Queens 107. Size of small shot 94. Freako finish 124. Glorify 108. Candor 95. Bucker conclusion 129. “I’m Thinking Of You,” branches of CCNY and text-wise Hunter. 110. Poet Pound 30. Elbow 97. Aches commencement All-male CCNY 98. Requirements for some de- 131. After PM 26. 1951 112. Lewdness 33. Absentee Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights Newark; Abigail Stewart of the University 116. Higher ___ first ______Bac- 34. National merit scholarship grees 132. South African zebra , gave a School of Liberal Arts be- gins admitting ______. 118. 1999 A mayoral task calaureate Degree Abbr. 100. Children’s card game 134. 76th most common Chi- force, chaired by Benno through the School of 101. Opening run nese surname 27. Before dependent 36. Bit Schmidt, proposes an Professional Studies. 102. Supports, in a way 136. Pond fish 28. Degree after BA 38. “Nowhere Like Home,” All-female Hunter- ______to reverse the text-wise 103. Maori mint, New Zealand 137. Shenanigans for short range of examples: Margaret Thatcher, of Michigan; and the Graduate Center’s 1951 152. Once aThe day ______29. plant in-the-Bronx opens to downward .trends at the 153. 2011 40. Aye’s opposite 138. Hebrew evening university Community College at 104. Discharged 139. Mr. ______and extends The University, led , the University’s 42. Coffee order: Abbr. -year program. 1999 , CUNY 106. Lah-dee-___ 140. Acid to a four 119. 45. ___ Diaby by a new chancellor first new college in more 107. “Twelfth Night” part 141. ___ Dirty Bastard who was instructed to go to a voice coach president, Chase F. Robinson. The pan- 31. “Jabberwocky” start 46. Hawaiin light ______Island Matthew ______, than four decades is ap- 108. One direction onlyCUNY.EDU/PODCASTS143. China country code WHAT WE EAT AND 32. 1956WHY WE EAT IT47. Boring person Community College, the amends its open admis- proved by Gov. Andrew 50. Religious text of Islam 109. French possessive 144. Big pooch first two-year Board of sions policy, and makes Cuomo. 51. Chile (country code) 110. Clairvoyance, e.g. 145. Wore away Higher Education college, other critical changes, 154. Mediterranean capital 52. ET carrier 111. ___ Vivipara (lizard) 146. Short order, for short to lower her voice so she would be elists highlighted aspects of their own including a focus on sci- 54. Red Sea coast city 112. Chop (off) 149. Either is created and opens. 155. Cinematographer Nykvist ence, creation of new 113. Before univ. 150. Yiddish “Sooo?” 35. Between Q and T 57. Doozies professional schools, Down 114. Opener 151. Atop 37. Prefix meaning “not” 1. After so 59. Tinker Bell, for one and an innovative Uni- 60. ___ Vey 115. Shant end 39. The Emerald Isle versity funding strategy. 2. Nigerian Ukpet-___ lan- careers and offered practical advice for the 1957 ______Commu- guage 61. Writer Ephron perceived as having more gravitas; 41. nity College opens. 120. Lamb’s mother 3. Space telescope for UV as- 62. “___ la la!” 121. Not so good tronomy 64. Yoko 43. ABC’s . 44. Handlelexandra roughly 122. Elbow Logue,4. Advanceda behavioral degree? 66. 17th Hebrew letterscientist and CUNY’s former President Obama, who was told that he next generation, not the least of which 48. Between AL and SC 125. Diplomatic, Abbr 5. Anglo-Saxon Abbr. 67. Start of a break-in 126. Lending institution 68. Trans. Med. 49. Opposite______NW Commu- 6. Train Abbr. 50. 1958 127. “___, young man!” 7. Abridged Abbr. 69. Small military car nityvice College opens. chancellor128. Curbside call for8. ___-tzu academic71. Start of man affairs, discusses the newly ______is formed, could not win national office with two eth- was: Love what you do. A51. 1961 130. Ate 9. First President of Indonesia 72. Bet. NE and OK uniting the seven colleges. 133. Divorced spouse 74. Severe brain damage Abbr. The CUNY ______10. ___ d’Hiver 53. 1962 135. Circular 11. Very dry 76. Think tank products releasedCenter starts offering doc-fourth136. Prepare to proposeedition12. “Camelot” of composer The77. PsychologyOnline journal of Eating and toral programs. 140. Forfeited______Honors 13. Lend ___ 78. Transgression nic names; and Julie Chen, who was pres- Ann Kirschner, dean of Macaulay B fore mind or member 142 2001 launched, T ansfer Hi Hop 80 Native American tent sured to have eyelid Honors College, delivered the closing Drinking. Her book explores the scientific research of every surgery to become a CBS remarks of the conference by sharing her aspect of food behaviors, disorders, nutrition and weight— personal experiences as someone who has and separates real science from pop science. felt like an outsider—“the other,” as she put it—at various times in her life. Kirschner grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, the daughter of a woman who sur- WE REMEMBER CUNY.EDU/MU/WE-REMEMBER Anthem’s vived a Nazi concentration camp and Cyberattack “learned English when I did.” After Victor H. Gotbaum, 93, Brooklyn College, head of the nation’s largest municipal employees’ union for attending SUNY Buffalo, she went to grad- two decades. As executive director of District Council 37 he played a major role in saving New York City S YOU MAY uate school at Princeton, earning her from bankruptcy in 1975. Working with other city labor leaders, they worked out a deal involving HAVE HEARD: Ph.D. in English and teaching Victorian pension funds that helped prevent bankruptcy and saved many workers from layoffs . April 5 AAnthem, Inc., literature as a lecturer. Later, she shifted the parent company gears to become an entrepreneur in media Marine biologist Eugenia Clark, 92, a pioneer in marine of Empire Blue and technology, launching satellite and conservation and the study of shark behavior. Her Cross/Blue shield internet businesses for the National research helped the public understand and appreciate that provides hospital benefits Football League. She said she certainly felt the much-maligned species and earned her the to many university employees, was recently like an outsider during that part of her nickname, “Shark Lady.” Clark graduated from Hunter hit by a cyberattack. Like so many other career. College, where she majored in zoology, and went on to similar attacks, this compromised security. “The flip side of this is that being 'the earn a master’s and a doctorate degree from New York The good news is that Anthem is offering other' and having a different point of view University. She died in Sarasota, Fla. on Feb. 25, 2015. Credit Repair Services for CUNY’s gives you certain advantages,” Kirschner Lisa Simon, 64, a 20-time Emmy Award-winning director and producer for Sesame Street died in New employees – as well as former employees – said. “I see difference as an asset.” At the York City, April 4, 2015. Simon earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Hunter College and who may have been affected. These NFL, she said, “I think I saw new opportu- worked on the PBS children’s show from its start in 1969 through its current 45th season. services will be available gratis for two nities faster because I didn’t have the rev- years to those who have participated in an erence not to start something new.” Tonya Gonnella Frichner, 67, a lawyer and professor who was an advocate for Native American rights. Empire plan dating back to 2004. She added, “You can make the moral Frichner earned her undergraduate degree from St. John’s University and graduated from the City Search.cuny.edu “Message from Anthem” and philosophical case for diversity. But University of New York School of Law. She later taught American Indian history and law, anthropology you can also make the economic case. It’s and human rights at the City College of New York and Hunter College. University. She died Feb. 14, the practical thing to do.” 2015 in Union City, N.J.

CUNY MATTERS — June 2015 11 LECTURES/PANELS Bad Ideas About the THEATER/FILM MUSIC/DANCE SPECIAL EVENTS Economy As part of the Public Square May 29 May 27 June 1 book series at the Graduate CUNY Asian American Film New York Andalus Ensemble Update on the Cuban Center, economist Paul Festival Spring Concert Economy and U.S.-Cuba The University The Graduate Center Krugman talks with Jeff Relations 6 p.m.-8 p.m. 7 p.m.-9 p.m. The Graduate Center Madrick, author of the new $13 ($10 students) 9 a.m. book, Seven Bad Ideas: How >>Go to search.cuny.edu In the World & on the Web Mainstream Economists Have June 4 Damaged America and the Sidra Bell Dance New York ART/EXHIBITS Unidentifiable; Bodies Bassett Focuses World. A contributing editor Policy on Advancing Baruch College for Harper’s Magazine, 8 p.m.–10 p.m. Health Equity Madrick details how the Tickets $20, Students and Dr. Mary Bassett, the economics profession, with a Seniors, $10. Mystery Writer commissioner of the New York handful of exceptions, did not Walter Mosley on City Department of Health and heed the warning signs of the Creativity Mental Hygiene, spoke at the Great Recession and, once the Graduate Center about her Best-selling mystery writer crisis did occur, could not efforts to transform public agree on a response. and City College alum policy through the pursuit of May 26 Ken Burns, Walter Mosley talks about health-equity strategies. Cuba and the World, Geoffrey Ward the creative process, major For more than 30 years, 1995-2015 At Roosevelt House influences in his life, and a The Graduate Center Bassett has dedicated her Filmmaker Ken Burns June 4 myriad of other topics, with 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Student Activities career to advancing explains what drew him to Terrance McKnight, host of Association Open Meetings health equity, domestically May 27 the lives of Franklin, Eleanor WQXR’s Evening Music. May 30 Queensborough Community and across the globe. As deputy Best Selling Author Series: Curious George and Theodore Roosevelt and Mosley, best known for his Joseph Finder College health commissioner, Dr. Borough of Manhattan why their stories are so crime fiction featuring Through May 21 Hunter College 11 a.m. Bassett has directed initiatives Community College relevant today. “We found black private investigator The Future of Justice 7 p.m.-9 p.m. 1:30 p.m. such as bans on smoking and that they were so Easy Rawlins, inspired Exhibition -- Student $25 Expressions of Justice trans fats in restaurants and June 1 contemporary. They speak to creation of the City College John Jay College of Criminal since becoming commissioner, The Power of Legacy: the central questions of our Letty Cottin Pogrebin in June 5 Publishing Certificate Justice NYC Classical Guitar has emphasized policies aimed Conversation with Marcia time,” including notions of Program (PCP) and was 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Society presents Pablo at reducing health disparities Ann Gillespie human rights, fairness and honored at the 2014 Sáinz Villegas, guitar through targeting neighbor- The Graduate Center public service. Burns was Baruch College Langston Hughes Festival. 6:30 p.m. hoods with the highest needs. joined by Geoffrey Ward, co- 8 p.m.-10 p.m. June 7 Looting the Cradle creator of the acclaimed PBS $27.50 The St. Louis Passengers Of Civilization seven-part documentary, and the Holocaust June 11 Recent satellite images “The Roosevelts: An Intimate Jazz Past & Present Queensborough Community History.” Borough of Manhattan College document the scale of Community College 1 p.m. destruction from organized June 10 8 p.m. looting to thousands of vital Re-Designing Women $45 June 9 June 11 archaeological sites in the Baruch College Get the Writing Done: Beyond Sacred: Unthinking 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Completing Your Paper, Muslim Identity region known as the “cradle of June 22 $30. Julian Elvira, Thesis or Dissertation LaGuardia Community civilization.” During a lecture 2014 Composer’s The Graduate Center College at Baruch College, “Looting El Conde Y La Condesa Commission Premiere 6:30 p.m. 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. the Past, Destroying the Lehman College The Graduate Center Future: Revolution, Terrorism, 7 p.m. 7 p.m.-9 p.m. $40 July 9 and Archaeology in Egypt and Innovation & Syria,” Baruch College June 25 Entrepreneurship in STEM archaeology professor Anna Willy Wonka Jr. Education Conference Boozer and John Jay College of Baruch College Baruch College Criminal Justice art crime 7 p.m. -9 p.m. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. professor Erin Thompson $25 Adults ($30 at door) Through June 30 $20 Children 12 & under Ravi Shankar: discuss the extent of the ($25 at door) Connections through Music damage and the significant $20 Group rate for 12 or The City College impact it will have on the more of New York cultural heritage for future 11 a.m. – 7 p.m generations. 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