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“Open the doors to all — let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.” — Townsend Harris, founder cuny.edu/news THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS THE FREE ACADEMY M AY 2006 Marshall, Truman and Goldwater Scholars are Named, Inside Continuing the String of Highly Prestigious Awards PAGE Online BA Steps onto Last year’s went to his friend Charles 3 the Stage Julia Rafal, a special-education teacher Claudio Simpkins of City College, who After years of offering online earning her master’s at Lehman College, has has been accepted to Harvard Law courses to students who want – a clear aim: to open the Bronx’s first all- School for this fall. no, need – them, the Univer- inclusive charter school. Merola is a vice chair for fiscal affairs sity is preparing to offer its Ryan Merola, a Brooklyn College junior of the University Student Senate. The first online bachelor’s enrolled in the Honors College, wants to Marine Park resident’s parents and one degrees. The Online become an assistant district attorney. of his grandmothers also studied at Baccalaureate makes And Rachel Schnur of Queens College Brooklyn College. That fact, combined its debut. sees her future in cancer research and a with his acceptance into CUNY’s university teaching position. Honors College program, made his As winners of three highly competitive decision to attend Brooklyn “a no-brain- PAGE national scholarships, the students recently er,” he said. Citizenship Now! took giant steps toward reaching their The highly competitive Honors 4 The University continued its part- respective goals. Rafal was named a College provides qualifying students nership with the New York Daily News, Marshall Scholar; Merola, a Truman with full tuition, an academic stipend, a setting aside weeklong sessions for Scholar; and Schnur, a Goldwater Scholar. laptop, and intensive advisement, experts to answer questions about “CUNY students are once again com- including essay-writing guidance and becoming naturalized. The sessions are peting successfully for the most prestigious interview practice for their scholarship among the most awards at the highest levels of academic applications. popular call-ins achievement,” said Chancellor Matthew Pictured, left to right, are award-winning students CUNY also had a repeat performance in the city’s Goldstein. “This is a tribute to the students Julia Rafal, Ryan Merola and Rachel Schnur. this year with the prestigious Goldwater history. and their families, our dedicated faculty, Scholarship. Named for Arizona Sen. and the reforms implemented at CUNY accepting differences, is on Rafal’s agenda. Barry Goldwater, the program recognizes PAGE Race Matters – Issues over the past several years.” Marshall Scholarships, founded by outstanding math, science and engineering Britain’s select Marshall Scholarship, Britain in 1953 as thanks for U.S. help for students, covering the cost of tuition, fees, 8 Raised and which counts U.S. Supreme Court Justice Europe after World War II, annually recog- books and room and board up to $7,500 Discussed Stephen Breyer among its alumni, was nize 40 high-achieving American scholars per year. With former Brooklyn awarded to Rafal and 42 others for 2006. who are likely to become leaders in their Last year’s Goldwater winner was College professor John As a Marshall Scholar, she will receive fields. The awards, named for George C. Philipa Njau, who graduates from City Hope Franklin as a fea- $60,000 to pursue her Ph.D. at the Marshall, whose Marshall Plan helped to College in 2007 and aspires to a career as a tured speaker, CUNY University of Cambridge, England, focusing rebuild Europe, pay for two years of gradu- research scientist. This year’s CUNY addresses the plight of on inclusive and comparative education. ate-level studies at a British university. awardee is biology major Rachel Schnur young black males. Race “Ultimately, my goal is to return to the Exceptional leadership potential is also of Hillcrest, Queens, a junior in Queens also became an issue in U.S. and design and implement charter recognized by the Truman Scholarships, College’s honors program in mathematics the case of a murdered schools nationwide based on the inclusion which are named for President Harry S and natural sciences. Hunter College student. models used in the U.K.,” said Rafal, who Truman and provide $30,000 for graduate Schnur wants to earn a doctorate in now teaches at Bronx PS 246 through study to college juniors committed to pub- molecular biology/genetics, and pursue can- PAGE Center Tracks Cancer in Teach for America. lic service careers. Ryan Merola, a Brooklyn cer research and university teaching. These 10 Nuclear Plant Workers Opening the Bronx’s first all-inclusive College political science-philosophy dou- days, though, she works with Queens Queens College’s Center for the Biology of charter school, an approach she believes ble major who aspires to graduate school College Professor Timothy Short, studying Natural Systems, headed by Dr. Steven will aid in erasing the special-education and law school, is the second CUNY stu- plants’ responses to their environment: “I'm Markowitz, has received stigma and help children learn while dent in two years to receive the Truman. in the lab all day long, and I love it.” $40 million to test workers exposed Board Appoints New Law Dean, New V.C. for Students to radiation and toxic rominent legal scholar Michelle J. Anderson to Mary Lu Bilek, who has served as Interim tenured faculty appointment in East Carolina P chemical was appointed Dean of the CUNY School of Dean since May 2005, for “her outstanding dedi- University’s School of Allied Health. His plants Law and Dr. Garrie W. Moore was named Vice cation and service.” appointment, like Anderson’s, is effective July around Chancellor for Student Development, in actions The new Vice Chancellor for Student 2006. the taken by the Board of Trustees at its April 24 Development, Dr. Moore, has been Associate Chancellor Goldstein said, “Dr. Moore has country. meeting. Provost and Vice Chancellor for Student Life at demonstrated an unwavering commitment to The Board also announced the retirement of East Carolina University since 2002. empowering students from diverse backgrounds Emma Espino Macari, the University’s Vice An administrator with a strong commitment to become productive college graduates. He PAGE Chancellor for Facilities Planning, Construction to helping students succeed, Dr. Moore holds a brings to the University an impressive range of MFA Program Gives and Management. The Interim Vice experiences aimed at strengthening the quality of 6 Birth to Theater Company Chancellor will be Eduardo N. del Valle. student life.” Using plans they developed as students in A member of the faculty of Villanova Dr. Moore holds a doctorate in education Brooklyn College’s MFA program in the- University School of Law since 1998, from North Carolina State University. From ater, two young men form a permanent Anderson has taught criminal law and modest beginnings as a teacher training school in theater company in Brooklyn feminist legal theory. She is a graduate of North Carolina, East Carolina University has and offer the borough Yale Law School, where she was Notes grown to become an emerging, national research a series of Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Editor university with an enrollment of more than class of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism. 23,000. acts. Chancellor Matthew Goldstein said, Speaking of Macari, the retiring Vice “Professor Anderson brings to the CUNY Chancellor for Facilities Planning, the Board not- School of Law an impeccable academic ed she has served since 1993 and has overseen background and an enduring commit- “an estimated $7.5 billion in planning, design and ment to the highest standards of schol- construction.” The new interim appointment, del arship and teaching.” New Law School Dean New Vice Chancellor for Student Valle, has been CUNY’s Director of Design, The Chancellor expressed thanks Michelle J. Anderson Development Garrie W. Moore Construction and Management. FROM THE CHANCELLOR’S DESK CUNY’s Decade of Science Online Courses Open Doors of Opportunity for Thousands Who Otherwise Could not ‘Attend’ College degree-granting Over a year ago, we designated the authority for some years 2005 to 2015 the “Decade of of our flagship When Casandra Kelting started col- Science” at CUNY, renewing the environment cam- lege more than 18 years ago in San University’s commitment to creating a puses, and expan- Francisco, she suffered a back injury and healthy pipeline to science, math, technolo- sion of master’s was suddenly forced to withdraw. After gy, and engineering fields by advancing sci- programs as feeders to the Ph.D. recovering from the injury, she began ence at the highest levels, training students Enrollment in CUNY’s math, science, working as a paralegal and spent the next to teach in these areas, and encouraging and engineering degree programs increased several years in various jobs and traveling. young people to study in these disciplines. by 26 percent over the last five years, com- Recently, however, the Staten Island res- Recent news at CUNY indicates that pared to total enrollment growth of 12 ident felt she was being turned down for the University is meeting these challenges. percent, and included more than 11,000 jobs because she didn’t have a bachelor’s As reported in this issue of CUNY undergraduate and graduate students in degree. It was time to finally get that Matters, the Center for the Biology of Fall 2005. degree, Kelting decided. The trick would Natural Systems of Queens College just In Fall 2006, CUNY’s Teacher Academy be to find a way to juggle a course sched- received a four-year $19.5 million award will welcome its first class at six campuses: ule around her two jobs.