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 CUNYMatters Founding Principal, The Free Academy cuny.edu/news • THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS THE FREE ACADEMY SEPTEMBER 2012 View of GRANTS&HONORS Manhattan from interactive NYC Solar Map launched by Sustainable CUNY as part of the city’s Recognizing commitment Faculty to expedite installation of Achievement solar systems HE UNIVERSITY’S renowned faculty members continually that reduce LaBatto greenhouse Twin professional-achieve- gas emissions. ment awards from prestigious More than 800 organizations as well as research new sustainable grants from government agen- energy cies, farsighted foundations and initiatives will leading corporations. Pictured be launched at are just a few of the recent CUNY campuses Jang honorees. Brief summaries of by 2017. many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside. Queens College has been awarded $1,551,806 from the United States Department of Energy/Steel Workers Charitable and Educational Organization for Mangino “Medical Surveillance of Former Department of Energy Workers,” INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE under the direction of Steven Markowitz. A research project Inspired new Master Plan outlines University advances concerning the “Role of CD14 and Other Innate Immune expected over five years. Receptors in Severe Sepsis,” directed by Sanna Goyert of City Johnson ROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH emerging Regents as required under state Education Law, the 171-page College, has received $377,339 from advanced science laboratories. More facul- plan sees CUNY five years from now as a public university from the National Institutes of ty in classrooms, including 355 new full-time fulfilling its historic missions by more efficiently and cre- Health. Saul Katz, dean of con- hires in 2013 alone. Online and hybrid learning atively providing access to a high-quality education for tinuing education at Kingsborough Community choices for as many as one in five courses. increasing numbers of better-prepared students, and func- College, has been awarded a Rigorous academics empowering students to tioning as an “integrated university” as described since the $100,000 grant from the Mayor’s Gachieve — and graduate on time in record numbers. early days of the city’s public colleges. S. Katz Fund to Advance New York City Workforce training for professions that drive New York’s The plan builds on the remarkable accomplishments of a for the “SIF Young Adult economy. The University’s historic mission to promote dozen years, particularly CUNY’s redefined and strength- Program.” opportunity, expanded for the new century for returning vet- ened standards, the Decade of Science initiative and the Hunter College has erans, the disabled, immigrants, their children and others hard-fought, successful CUNY Compact funding strategy received $1,276,194 from the who seek a valued higher education for the challenges ahead. advocated by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein — which have De Beaumont Foundation for These are among the highlights of The City University of fueled the University’s renaissance, attracting record num- “Innovations in Monitoring New York envisaged by the 2012-2016 Master Plan. Titled bers of students seeking value for their education dollar. Population Health using Stewart Electronic Health Records,” “Investing in Our Future,” approved by the Board of It also reiterates its commitment to meet the challenge directed by Lorna Thorpe. Trustees this summer and submitted to the Board of Continued on page 6 ‰ “Synthetic and Biological Studies of Understudied Anti-Tubercular INSIDE Products,” a research project directed by Ryan Murelli of Non-Profit Org PAGE CUNYMatters U.S. Postage Hostos — and the Bronx Brooklyn College, has received Office of University Relations PAID 4 Laud ‘Mr. Arts and Culture’ $157,000 from the National 535 East 80th St. Permit # 153 Murelli Institutes of Health. The Robin New Haven, CT New York, NY 10075 PAGE Hood Foundation has awarded Have You Heard ... the Latest Christine Mangino of Hostos 5 News University-wide? Community College $114,934 for “At Home in College.” PAGE Developing John Jay College professor 8 New of physical education Jane Katz J. Katz received the Distinguished Political Educator Award from the City Voices College Education Alumni. Katz, who holds a bachelor’s degree PAGE Cultivating from CCNY, was honored for life- Model Senate alum Michelle 10 Campus time contributions to swimming, Quintero Williams, left, with co- Teamwork including her outstanding founder Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez achievements as a participant in And Spirit Friebel Continued on page 3‰ THECHANCELLOR’SDESK Fulbright Fellow Jordan What’s New This Year? A Lot! Stockdale will return from a AM DELIGHTED to welcome the gram. Funding from the year teaching entire CUNY community to the start of city and state is timely abroad to help a new academic year — one that brings and much appreciated. younger city a number of promising developments The many new facilities across the CUNY students “who across the University. colleges — whether those opening this year, look like me” I to succeed. In Manhattan, just across from Bryant those recently opened (including buildings Park, the first class of the New Community at John Jay and Medgar Evers), or those still College is already hard at work, engaged in in progress (such as the Advanced Science the innovative new curriculum. Guided by Research Center expected to open in 2014) the success of the ASAP initiative — a dou- — reflect the ambitious plans for continued bling of graduation rates — the New academic revitalization the University Community College is focused on support- detailed in its 2012-2016 Master Plan. ing student achievement through elements CUNY’s master plans, submitted to the such as a required summer bridge program, state every four years, outline the University’s a common first-year course of study, inten- academic priorities going forward. The 2012- Victor Calise, sive advising and a model that links learning 2016 plan builds on our tremendous progress who uses a wheelchair, to career experiences. The college, New York over the last decade. It acknowledges the works with City’s first new community college in more achievements and national prominence of Mayor than four decades, was awarded nearly $1 CUNY’s students and faculty and details how Michael million from the Bill & Melinda Gates the University will provide an environment Bloomberg as Foundation to document its launch and eval- that encourages sustained academic engage- head of the uate the effectiveness of its programs and ment. Anchored by four key elements of Mayor’s Office for People operating principles over a two-year period. CUNY’s historic mission — maintaining aca- With We will closely monitor students’ demic excellence, sustaining an integrated Disabilities. experiences over this first academic year. system, expanding access and remaining Elsewhere, new facilities opening this fall responsive to its urban setting — the plan at several CUNY campuses will transform looks ahead to ensure the University’s recep- the educational experience for other tiveness to the city’s changing demographics, students and faculty. In the Bronx, Lehman national and local economic conditions, the College will open its new science building, labor market, and new technologies and peda- the first of a three-phase facility to support gogies. The plan emphasizes expansion of the college’s strong work in plant science innovative academic programs, investment in teaching and research, while Bronx new, full-time faculty, student success at Community College will officially open its every level and the construction of 21st-cen- Outstanding North Instructional Building and Library, the tury facilities. These priorities will be further ANY GRADUATES are well Georgetown and Harvard law schools; and first new building constructed on the campus supported by our follow-up work to the acquainted with struggle and Einstein, Harvard and Mt. Sinai medical in more than 30 years. In Queens, students at CUNY Jobs Task Force report. adversity, but perhaps none like schools among them — calling this year “a the CUNY School of Law are now attending The Master Plan was developed under New York City’s newest commis- game-changer for this University.” classes in a modern, environmentally green the guidance of Executive Vice Chancellor sioner. Victor Calise, class of Umussahar "Sahar" Khatri (Macaulay building in Long Island City, complete with a and University Provost Alexandra Logue M 2012 with a master’s degree in urban affairs Honors College at Queens College, B.S., moot courtroom, new classroom spaces and and the Office of Academic Affairs, with from Queens College, was recently named mathematics) was just 5 when she and her smart technology. At Borough of Manhattan input from the colleges, the chancellery, the by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lead the mother left Pakistan to join her father in Community College, the new Fiterman Hall, Council of Presidents, the Council of Chief Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities. Queens. One of four CUNY students to win a with dramatic views of downtown Academic Officers, the University Faculty Calise responded with an ambitious pledge: Math for America Fellowship — which cov- Manhattan, will provide much-needed space Senate and the University Student Senate. “to make New York the most accessible city ers her math-education master’s at City for the college’s 24,000 students. My thanks to all of those whose ideas helped in the world to people of all abilities and College and carries a $100,000 stipend over Facilities projects at our community col- to shape this inspired plan. In June, CUNY’s ages.” five years — she has committed to teach in leges received an additional boost this spring Board of Trustees adopted the 2012-2016 Since injuring his spinal cord in a 1994 the city’s secondary schools and furthering in the city budget: $71 million in capital Master Plan, which is now under review by mountain bike accident, Commissioner ethnic, racial and religious understanding. “I funding over the next four years. Through a the State Education Department. The plan Calise has used a wheelchair. An avid athlete, am determined to not only be a teacher, but match with existing state allocations, this is available online: www.cuny.edu/ Calise competed with a USA Paralympic Sled also to be someone who inspires students to funding will help the colleges address critical masterplan2012-2016. Hockey team in the 1998 Winter Paralympic reach their full potential,” she says. maintenance issues, including urgent needs None of these auspicious advancements Games in Nagano, Japan (“We placed fifth Rhoda Smith (Lehman College, B.S., such as fire alarm upgrades, boiler and roof would be possible without the outstanding out of 16 and played better than we placed.”) nursing) was forced to quit Borough of replacements, and façade repair. Our com- work of our faculty, staff and alumni, day in At Mt. Sinai Medical Center, he helped Manhattan Community College in 1989 due munity colleges had a 48 percent enrollment and day out. I am enormously grateful for patients reconceive their lives after spinal to domestic abuse. Staring down the barrel increase from 2001 to 2011, and the resulting your contributions and look forward to work- cord injuries. At the United Spinal of a gun eight years later, she left her home increase in facilities usage has only exacer- ing closely with you to serve our students and Association, he expanded recreation oppor- and young daughter, lived on the streets and bated the need for maintenance, renovation our city in the 2012-2013 academic year. tunities for disabled veterans and coordinat- used drugs. By 2009, she had turned her life and repair. In addition, the University ed nationwide adaptive sports programs. around and entered Lehman. “I jumped in received baseline support from the city for And most recently at the Parks Department, headfirst, carrying 13.5 credits and working the Black Male Initiative, a crucial measure he made programs and services available to full time,” she says. “At 40 I was finally of financial stability for this important pro- New Yorkers of all abilities. developing.” Achievement, grit, perseverance and cre- Smith received awards and grants, ativity: These are the hallmarks of the Class interned at the Visiting Nurse Service of BOARDOFTRUSTEES of 2012, which earned a record 14,800 asso- New York and volunteered at Walter Reed The City University of New York ciate degrees, 21,500 bachelor’s degrees and Army Medical Center and in a Kenyan slum. CUNYMatters 11,000 graduate degrees. That total is 37.6 And she earned a 2012 summer internship Benno Schmidt Philip Alfonso Berry Matthew Goldstein Jay Hershenson percent higher than in 2001, when the at the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Chairperson Vice Chairperson Chancellor Secretary of the Board of Trustees and University took steps to increase academic Cancer Research in Maryland. She intends Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations quality, including raising senior college to pursue a master’s in public health or a Valerie L. Beal Hugo M. Morales Michael Arena University Director for Communications and Marketing admission standards. research-related field of nursing. She also Wellington Z. Chen Brian D. Obergfell “Those who were naysayers of this reform has full custody of her daughter, who this Barbara Shea Managing Editor Rita DiMartino Peter Pantaleo movement now have something to reflect year completed a medical assistant course at Freida D. Foster Kathleen M. Pesile Rich Sheinaus Director of Graphic Design upon, because we’ve never seen growth of Hostos Community College and is exploring Judah Gribetz Carol Robles-Román Charles DeCicco, Ruth Landa, Neill S. Rosenfeld Writers this magnitude — and we’re all delighted,” LPN programs. Joseph J. Lhota Charles A. Shorter Miriam Smith Issue Designer Chancellor Matthew Goldstein said at the Tony Wan faced two tours in Iraq before June Board of Trustees meeting. earning a B.S. in chemistry and becoming Jeffrey Wiesenfeld André Beckles Photographer He noted some of the prestigious gradu- York College’s 2012 valedictorian. Born in Articles in this and previous issues are available at cuny.edu/news. Kafui Kouakou Terrence F. Martell Letters or suggestions for future stories may be sent to the Editor by email to ate schools where students were heading — Belize to Chinese immigrants to that coun- Chairperson, Chairperson, [email protected]. Changes of address should be made Berkeley, Cambridge, Columbia, CUNY, try, an emigrant to the United States at 3, University Student Senate University Faculty Senate through your campus personnel office. Harvard and MIT doctoral programs; Duke, Wan joined the Marine Corps to fund his

2 CUNY MATTERS — September 2012 GRANTS&HONORS Math for America Fellow Umussahar Continued from page 1 “Sahar” Khatri aims to teach world-class competitions and as the author of in city schools several books. and also Hunter College further “ethnic, Distinguished Professor of racial and English Peter Carey, author religious understanding.” of 12 novels, has received the Bodley Medal Award from the University of Carey Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to literature, culture, science and communication. Mirian Detres-Hickey of Queens College has been awarded $213,180 from the U.S. Department of Education for “Student Support Services at Queens College.” Medgar Evers College has received $191,864 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “CUNY & GSFC Heliphysics Education Consor,” directed by Leon Johnson. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education has presented its national 2012 Circle of Excellence Award to "The CUNY Value" communications initiative. A multi-platform campaign, CUNY Value promotes the University's Some already are pursuing high high-quality, affordable academic programs, goals — such as expanding award-winning faculty and students, 21st century accessibility for the disabled and facilities and degrees leading to further academic advancement and real-world in-demand jobs. The inspiring tolerance along with campaign is overseen by Senior Vice Chancellor for scholarship in schoolchildren. University Relations and Secretary of the Board of 2012Grads Trustees Jay Hershenson and managed by University Director for Communications and education. After a close friend was killed, this notched record-breaking swimming perfor- and taught in East Harlem’s PS 57, “a high- Marketing Michael Arena. decorated Marine corporal promised “not to mances, making multiple NCAA Division needs school and a really good school. Being Erin Courtney, who teaches playwriting at let any more Marines die on my watch.” He III National Championship cut times and a minority male, I want to inspire younger Brooklyn College, won a 2012 Obie for her Off- crawled streets on hands and knees, looking setting school and ECAC records in the students who look like me to succeed.” He Broadway play “A Map of Virtue,” which The New for explosives before he’d let his convoy pass. 100-yard backstroke and his leg of the 400 won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English York Times praised as “a delicate gem.” Wan finished York’s physician assistant pro- medley relay, among other triumphs. He is in Spain for 2012-2013, but intends to return gram in three years and is studying for the interning with Apple this summer, hopes to to teaching in the city and earn a doctorate. The College of Staten Island has been MCAT medical-school test. He plans to pur- become an entrepreneur and may train for awarded $350,000 by the Hospital League, Local sue neurology so he can help veterans and the 2016 Olympics. Other Great Grads 1199 for the “1199 HC4 Program,” directed by others with neurological disorders. Jordan Stockdale (Hunter College M.A., For more exceptional Hugo J. Kijne. Queens College has received Grit also took different forms. Russian special education) grew up in Kansas City, members of the Class of 2012, $115,566 from the National Science Foundation immigrant Vladislav Romanov (College of but wanted to live and teach in New York. He go to cuny.edu/prideofthecity for an “Instability Analysis of Terrain Induced Staten Island, B.S., business management) joined the city Teaching Fellows Program Canopy Flows,” directed by Chuixiang Yi. Queens College pro- fessor of psychology Susan Croll, and Hunter College At KCC, One Cuomo Hails Grads and Two Cuomos Are Honored professor of economics Avi Liveson have been included HE NATION is aching for a change. … you will have to told graduates at Kingsborough Community College’s 47th com- in Princeton Review’s listing heighten efforts to do what must be done to encourage a mencement ceremony. of “The Best 300 ‘Tmore intelligent, constructive and reasonable acceptance “If we are able to do that,” she continued, “we will not only Professors.” Croll of our nation's unique diversity, through dialogue and hard work improve current conditions, we will have an opportunity to of Hunter and respect,” former New York first lady Matilda Raffa Cuomo make the kind of progress we have not seen since the Industrial Jean Callahan College has received $735,680 from the New York Revolution.” State Office of Children & Family Services for Noting her own family’s immigrant “Protective Services for Adults Training Resource roots, she said “immigrants have helped System.” The New York City Department of Youth build us into the most powerful nation in and Community Development has awarded two world history, blessed with the fruit of grants to Anne Rothstein of Lehman College, foreign cultures.” In recent years, she totaling $202,500, for “Out of School Time” and said, “the surge of discovery, innovation “Lehman College 9th Grade Transition Program.” and technology, and accelerating global- Brooklyn College has received $153,083 from the ization has opened new markets to Karlsruher Institute of Technology (European scores of new products and techniques — Commission) for research on “Peptide-Based and jobs for many more people. Diodes for Solar Cells,” directed by Brian R. Kingsborough has provided you with the Gibney. precious insights that will help you in approaching the global workplace. … a William Fritz and Dean Balsamini of the whole new world awaits building. ” College of Staten Island have been awarded Before the commencement address, $235,676 from the Research Foundation/ Kingsborough President Regina Peruggi SUNY/Small Business Administration for the presented the college’s highest honor — “SI Small Business Development Center.” Scott President’s Medals, designating a life- Atran of John Jay College has been awarded time of dedicated service — to Matilda $113,918 from the United States Army Research Cuomo and to her husband, former New Office, via Carnegie Mellon University, for a York Gov. Mario Cuomo, both pictured “Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative.” at left. Thomas Friebel of Kingsborough Community Continued on page 8 ‰

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series and a children’s performing arts series; Wally Edgecombe poses with art periodic festivals featuring different cultural installation by Antonio Martorell traditions, and works of the Hostos designed for floor display. Repertory Company. Individual artists are offered commissions and residencies. The Center has co-produced productions with such organizations as the Latin American Writers Institute and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Bill Aguado, retired executive director of the council, said Edgecombe “built bridges between the com- munity and the college using music. … He was able to empower various ethnic groups through that music. He had just about every major performer perform there and also younger people who got their first break because of him.” Elba Cabrera, who was on an advisory council formed to consider creation of the arts center, said Edgecombe did two jobs. “He was the college person writing wonder- ful press releases, and he was Mr. Arts and Culture. … His vision, his foresight made this possible for Hostos. … People just refer to him as Wally. You don’t have to say his last name. … his contribution will be forever,” said Cabrera, now secretary and a member of the board and chairperson of the Arts and Culture Committee of the center and college. Gerald Meyer, a retired Hostos history professor who arrived at the college a year before Edgecombe and currently mentors teachers, created a film series for the Center and was on the board for 15 years. Meyer said Edgecombe “… was the main leader at every Hostos --and the Bronx -- point. … Wally and the board had a deep com- mitment to the belief of culture as a very powerful force against demoralization and Laud ‘Mr. Arts and Culture’ for personal, individual and community acclamation. … We saw the community as a great resource that had a need, but it wasn’t HE SOUTH BRONX was burning College Foundation, comprising leaders in their heyday. like we were fixing anything. It’s really giving when Wallace “Wally” Edgecombe business, education, public policy and phi- In 1982, Edgecombe set up a committee of a chance for this culture to be expressed and arrived at Hostos Community College lanthropy, with an annual budget that “hov- faculty, staff, community and student leaders making it available.” in 1973. Gangs were active, drugs ers around $1 million,” Edgecombe said. to develop a plan “to serve the cultural needs The arts and culture program was a major Twere ubiquitous and many people In 2007, the center was one of eight in a of residents of the South Bronx and similar source of positive publicity for the college, lived in poverty. national project selected to receive a grant inner-city communities who do not have the Meyer said. “It was an invaluable piece of the “You could see the storm brewing,” from the Association of Performing Arts means or the inclination to attend arts college and a great resource for recruitment.” Edgecombe recently recalled as he reviewed Presenters and the Doris Duke Foundation events in midtown Manhattan.” Hostos President Félix V. Matos nearly 40 years of association with the col- to foster closer ties between college-based Undaunted by doubters, he organized Rodríguez — one of eight presidents with lege, which opened two years before he took arts centers and academic departments. The concerts in the gym, featuring professional whom Edgecombe served — said, “For the the position of assistant director of college grant was the stimulus for a study-abroad performers from the community as well as past four decades Wally Edgecombe has been relations. “Don’t ask me why I took the job,” program in which students travel to experi- such luminaries as Tito Puente and Celia a driving force in the cultural life of Hostos said Edgecombe, 66, speaking from behind ence the cultures of the Dominican Republic, Cruz, the Dance Theatre of Harlem and Community College and the population it the desk in his office, which showed signs of Puerto Rico and this year, Cuba. The center Ballet Hispanico. “Other Latino and African- serves. … but by maintaining the standards of being pared down this June as he prepared to also has received an award from the American arts groups emerged. It was sort of excellence he established we will ensure that retire. “I was just taken up by the issue of Municipal Art Society of New York for its a phenomenon,” Edgecombe said. “From the the center continues to be an invaluable cul- urban America and the people I met.” contributions to city cultural life. beginning we got full houses.” tural resource for the South Bronx and the That interest would make Wally Born in Havana, Cuba, where he lived A makeshift city as a whole.” Edgecombe a veritable household name in until he was 15, Edgecombe came to the gallery was set Admirers speak of him as a visionary and a Edgecombe said the area. He won the hearts of all who knew United States with his family in 1960. He did up in the cafete- he was leaving “with him for his work during more than three a year’s tour of duty in the U.S. Army during ria to exhibit trailblazer who empowered the area’s ethnic some butterflies and decades as director of the Center for the Arts the Vietnam War, earned a B.A. in history works by com- some doubts,” but & Culture he launched at Hostos, which and Latin American Studies from Columbia munity artists, groups through the center’s programs, which will complete pro- vitalized Hispanic and African-American life University, then a master’s degree from the and from that grams and projects in the South Bronx. Columbia School of Journalism after work- modest begin- last year served more than 108,000 patrons booked for the next When Flora Mancuso Edwards became ing for a year at CBS writing radio copy in the ning the center season “that’s unfair Hostos president in 1979, she floated the idea newsroom. has grown to – 15,000 of them children. to hand over to any- of a cultural center and turned to Edgecombe Because he was bilingual, “I got all the include a muse- body.” to make it a reality. Did he ever! stories in the Latino neighborhoods of the um-grade art He and his wife, Admirers speak of him as a visionary and a city, especially in the South Bronx. I was fas- gallery and two theaters (900 and 367 seats), Nydia, who met at the college (she is director trailblazer who empowered the area’s ethnic cinated by the Bronx: the gangs, the fires, the with a box office and full-time production of alumni affairs), live in Yonkers. He said groups through the center’s programs, which detox. I developed a lot of affection for peo- manager. there’ll be more time for bird-watching, last year served more than 108,000 patrons ple here. I wanted to get involved.” From the outset, patrons indeed have reading, being with his grandchildren and — 15,000 of them children. It hosts more At the time, Hostos was located in an old come from all over the metropolitan area, getting involved “with advocacy through than 300 events, including its own produc- tire factory and had a student population of making the center an arts institution of organizations like Common Cause.” tions as well as others from the college, com- about 1,800. In his public relations role, regional importance. A typical season Looking back over his years at Hostos, munity-based organizations, local schools Edgecombe was involved in struggles to includes music, dance, painting, sculpture, Edgecombe said, “I had the best job in the and independent producers. expand the campus and prevent Hostos’ drama and literary arts, from folk traditions college. … You get feedback right away. … Our “It’s a very busy place,” said Edgecombe, merger with Bronx Community College but to the avant-garde — attracting a lot of favor- cultures have a life of their own. All they who in its developing years supervised the he was also motivated by an activist’s spirit. able press. need is a little space and they flourish. They operations, did fundraising and public rela- Exposure to Afro-Caribbean culture in Cuba “Even though we don’t pay high fees a lot are so powerful and so rich I think anybody tions, and selected and scheduled program- prepared him for the cultural life of the of professionals want to participate, because in my position would be successful.” ming with members of the board — the South Bronx and he immersed himself in it the reputation is so high,” Edgecombe said. Hostos plans a major concert in Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community when salsa, Latin jazz and hip-hop were in Programming also includes a visual arts November dedicated to Edgecombe.

4 CUNY MATTERS — September 2012 NEWSWIRE CUNY AVE YOU HEARD? The Gates Foundation recently bestowed PHOTO Hgenerous praise and funding on CUNY’s New Community CHALLENGE College … Discoveries by University researchers could solve two major medical mysteries … Why streets in an Irish village are being named for Hunter College’s founder.

Brian D. Obergfell, a senior part- CUNY wants to become one of ner in the New York City law firm the country’s healthiest urban uni- Emmet, versities by 2016. According to a Marvin & recent poll by the International Martin, joined Food Information Council the Board of Foundation, adults are struggling Trustees in to consume the government-rec- June. Nomi- ommended four to five servings of nated by Gov. fruit and vegetables a day. CUNY, Andrew through its Campaign for Healthy Cuomo, the Food, has made it easier than ever Brooklyn resi- to eat healthy at campus cafeterias. dent has an , head of the new J. extensive background in banking, Toni L. Griffin Max Bond Center on Design for real estate and commercial finance

the Just City at City College, told DENIS GOSTEV and is the permanent trustee of Architectural Record about her the Heisman Trophy Trust. plans for the Harlem-based entity ‘WE DID IT!’ Denis Gostev, a Baruch College senior, won an iPad for this image in the 2012 Student Photo Challenge. It shows Iconic Support: The Bill & housed in the Spitzer School of the victory of the Staten Island Dolphins over the Baruch Bearcats in the 2011 CUNY Athletic Conference Baseball Championship. Melinda Gates Foundation has Architecture. The center, named Gostev intends to make a career in sports photography. The challenge resumes in September, with a winner picked each month awarded $1 million to the New after architect Max Bond, the through June. For details: search.cuny.edu “Photo Challenge” Community College, which Bill school’s dean from 1985 to 1992, is Gates called a breakthrough learn- designed to advance design Online vs. Classroom: Susan Tsang (Ph.D. in biology Luck o’ the Irish: Hunter ing model in post-secondary edu- through research, practice and Baruch and City College get expected from CUNY Graduate College has made a name for itself cation. education. “My long-term vision is prominent play in a new Center in 2014) to the in the Northern Ireland village of to create an academy that raises John study about online learn- Indonesian jungle to study Ardglass. A new housing develop- Ancient Mystery Solved: design awareness among youth of Jay assistant professor ing from Ithaka S + R, a the flying fox, a carrier of ment has the moniker Hunter’s Angelique color. As we devise interventions has discovered that a research nonprofit. infectious diseases; Way in honor of Ardglass native Corthals that move toward the ‘just city’ — 500-year-old frozen mummy had a “Interactive Learning Marcin Wisniewski Thomas Hunter, the college’s if we define the ‘just city’ as being bacterial lung infection at the time Online at Public (Hunter College M.A., founder. The winning naming inclusive and equally accessible — of death. Corthals, a forensic Universities: Evidence from 2012) to Switzerland to study entry was then architects must reflect that anthropologist, used proteomics — Randomized Trials” reports that sound therapy, a new treatment to submitted by approach,” she told the magazine. a method that decodes proteins the learning experiences of online heal the body. Cerys Milligan, students were just as good as or who hasn’t instead of DNA — to profile One of 20 Nationwide: Tara According to Nir Krakauer, an better than those of classroom graduated from immune system response from the Gildea, a senior at Queens College assistant professor of engineering students. The conclusion was any college, mummy of a 15-year-old Inca girl. Macaulay Honors College, is one at CUNY, and his brother, Jesse, an Corthals says the study “opens a of just 20 students in the United reached after studying the perfor- Hunter or other- endocrinologist at Middletown OF HUNTER COLLEGE ARCHIVES COURTESY mance of 605 students who were wise. She’s new door to solving some of histo- States to be awarded a $34,000 Medical Center in Middletown, taking the same introductory only 11, and ry’s biggest mysteries, such as the Beinecke Scholarship to do her N.Y., the Body Mass Index (BMI) statistics course. she learned reason the flu of 1918 was so devas- master’s degree in English litera- isn’t the best way to monitor about tating.” ture at Oxford University in 2013. weight and health. Instead, people Richard Fisher, an Iraq veter- Thomas who returned with the Purple should track A Body Shape Index an Hunter from a Heart Medal for wounds suffered (ABSI), which uses height, weight HISTORYLESSON local history buff. in combat, was City Tech’s vale- and waist circumference to deter- dictorian and also had the honor mine hazardous body shapes that, CUNY Is Now a Tobacco-Free of throwing out the ball at the in turn, predict the danger of pre- Zone: Effective Sept. 4, 2012, use Cyclones’ MCU Park Salute to mature death. Waist circumfer- of tobacco, chewing tobacco and e- Veterans night Aug. 1. With a B.S. ence, they say, is more likely than cigarettes (also known as electronic degree in technology education, the body-mass index to determine cigarettes, smokeless cigarettes, the Naval Reservist plans on fur- dangerous fat deposits around the vaporizer cigarettes, or vape) is pro- thering his dual career as an edu- organs. hibited on all grounds and facilities, cator and a military officer. indoor and outdoor, Eathan Janney, who is working including playing A dozen on a doctorate in neuroscience at Fulbright Travelers: fields; entrances CUNY students have won 2012 the Grad Center, is the founder and exits to Fulbright awards, the flagship of Dirt Works, which collects buildings; vehi- international educational food scraps for composting cles; and park- exchange program sponsored by from private homes in two pilot ing lots. Tobacco the U.S. Department of State's programs in Brooklyn. 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Continued from page 1 cuny.edu/masterplan2012-2016 — focuses on these key “missions” for development and faced by CUNY almost since its beginnings: to provide access to rising numbers of diverse investment: New Yorkers seeking a college education amid limited and stretched University resources. $295.1 million over the next four years, On this point, the plan spreads some good news. For the first time in its history, CUNY Mission One: Academic Excellence; including $191.5 million for full-time faculty; $72.3 million for Decade of Science initia- can enjoy predictable revenues feeding directly to its colleges for new faculty hiring, pro- tives, and $20 million for the new Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), a CUNY- grams, facilities and services. The $300-per-year tuition increases slated for the next four wide science hub to open at City College in 2014. years, approved by New York State last summer, not only ensure predictability and fund- “No university can achieve true excellence without a significant core of full-time facul- ing stability for CUNY but — in an unusual turn — will be plowed directly back into the ty,” the report said, but it noted that despite the hiring of hundreds of new faculty in recent University for investment to meet current and future needs. Individual CUNY colleges years “student enrollment growth has outstripped faculty hiring.” The University now has and institutions will evaluate their own needs and propose how to use their allocations. more than 7,100 full-time faculty. By 2017, it projects nearly 2,000 new full-time positions. Chancellor Matthew Goldstein praised the 2012-2016 Master Plan as “a comprehensive, The Advanced Science Research Center, to be operational in 2014, is central to CUNY’s forward-looking plan that reflects The City University of New York’s leadership role in pub- continued “Decade of Science” focus on world-class science education and research facili- lic higher education. It builds on the foundation of academic achievement and innovation ties. Five years from now, according to the Master Plan, CUNY will have hired that the University has strengthened over the last several years, and defines an ambitious distinguished faculty to direct each of the ASRC’s key research areas: photonics, framework for advancing the creative work of our students and faculty going forward. nanoscience, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental science, plus additional “I commend Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost Alexandra Logue for research faculty, technicians and other staff. “The ASRC will also facilitate the develop- leading a University-wide process to develop an inspired plan grounded in CUNY’s his- ment of integrated research collaborations both within CUNY and between CUNY and toric mission of expanding access to a high-quality education and serving New York’s peer institutions across New York State, and nationally.” communities,” the Chancellor said. “If access and excellence are core principles of the University’s mission, then online What will CUNY look like in five years? The Master Plan — which can be read at and hybrid learning are integral to that mission (with hybrid courses combining online and

6 CUNY MATTERS — September 2012 uture face-to-face instruction),” the report noted. Online and hybrid courses have been success- ful at CUNY and have “expanded the enrollment capacity of campuses and programs,” giving them an important role in reducing the impact of increasing enrollments. By 2016, online and hybrid courses are to comprise 20 percent of instruction at CUNY, the Master Plan stated. “In fall 2010, the percentage of instructional (student) Master FTEs [full-time equivalents] offered partially or totally online on each campus ranged from under 1 percent to over 25 percent (at BMCC). The goal for 2016 is to triple the 2010 mean—a target of about 20 percent of instruction (measured as FTEs) delivered online either fully or partially.” Plan Mission Two: Maintain Integrated System/Facilitate Articulation; $23.6 million, including $2.4 million to implement the Pathways to Degree Completion initiative transforming general education at CUNY and smoothing transfers; and $17.8 Highlights million for the expansion of the New Community College. The Pathways reform “will integrate the University as never before,” the plan said. Pathways strengthens and streamlines general education requirements CUNY-wide, and ensures that only high-quality faculty approved courses are accepted for a new “Common “High-end core facilities, such as the CUNY Core” of required courses, and that the courses transfer “seamlessly” among CUNY colleges. Advanced Science Research Center, will allow CUNY “The Pathways courses will be first offered in fall 2013. By 2016, the first associate- degree holders who have taken the entire Pathways Common Core will be transferring to scientists to expand the scope and scale of CUNY senior colleges. As a result, by 2016, CUNY’s undergraduate retention and gradua- research beginning in 2014.” tion rates should start to increase significantly,” the Master Plan stated. To improve those rates further, CUNY’s successful ASAP program to speed and improve P32 community college graduation rates will be expanded over the next three years to more than 4,000 enrolled by fall 2014. The New Community College at CUNY will open this fall as a model for enhancing academic achievement and “the timely attainment of degrees.” “The 2012-2013 budget request calls for 440 addi-

Mission Three: Expanding Access, which includes a total of $9.6 million for tional faculty positions for next year alone.” programs spanning college preparation, developmental education, SEEK and services P26 for veterans and students with disabilities. Just as CUNY is seeing an increase in better- prepared, higher achieving students, the number of poorly prepared students also is up, requiring continued attention to programs that improve student skills. In addition, “To “The goal for 2016 is a target of about 20 percent ensure that students can access and complete a college education that will support their advancement, CUNY will continue to take a lead in advocating for the availability of of instruction fully or partially delivered online.” robust state and federal financial aid.” The University’s safety net for students in need is P49 a national model, with nearly six of 10 full-time undergraduates qualifying for full finan- cial aid and paying no tuition. “Few public universities take money from their Mission Four: Remaining Responsive to the Urban Setting ; CUNY is an economic driver of the city and state, and over the next five years will expand operating budgets and dedicate it to financial aid that role. The Master Plan calls for an investment of $16.7 million in operating funds for for students; that CUNY does so reflects the values equipment at the campuses, for workforce training, and education for teaching, health care and other in-demand New York professions. The University will also establish the of its leadership.” CUNY Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to develop and commercialize its P68 cutting-edge research. CUNY “has built significant capacity in research, especially in science and engineer- ing, positioning the University as a major regional resource for economic development,” “The University will expand its burgeoning entrepre- the report noted. “During the period of this Master Plan, the University will expand on its burgeoning entrepreneurialism and increasing number of collaborations with busi- neurialism and increasing number of collaborations ness and industry through the establishment of a CUNY Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” with business and industry through the establish- A $2 million capital allocation from the New York City Council will fund this ment of a CUNY Center for Innovation and initiative, which will encourage development and commercialization of novel and cut- ting-edge research, and “fast-track new technologies from the laboratory into the mar- Entrepreneurship.” ketplace.” The center will occupy 6,000-10,000 square feet at an external site and P81 eventually house between 15 and 25 companies, science and non-science based. Faculty inventors will be trained in developing business plans, performing market research, launching spinoff companies, and applying for small business grants. “Fueled by record enrollments and lower construc- “The entire University will benefit from a flourishing culture of entrepreneurship,” attracting increased research funding from private companies and accomplished faculty tion costs, CUNY has about $2 billion of projects in interested in commercializing their inventions. “University-industry collaboration will also the pipeline, from state-of-the-art laboratories to encourage the creation of startup companies that will both generate a new source of rev- enue for CUNY and have a positive impact on local economies,” as well major renovations of historic buildings.” as provide internship, research and career opportunities for CUNY stu- P107 dents, according to the Master Plan. For a copy of the full, snap the nearby square with your smart phone or visit search.cuny.edu “master plan 2012-2016”

CUNY MATTERS — September 2012 7 GRANTS&HONORS GOVERNMENTFIRSTHAND

Continued from page 3 College has received $100,000 from Single Stop USA in support of the “Single Stop Center.” Jeffrey Parsons of Hunter College has received $620,400 from PHS/NIH/National Institute of Mental Health for “Compulsive Behaviors, Mental Health and HIV Risk.” The National Institutes of Health has awarded $168,071 to Mitchell B. Schaffler, the Wallace Coulter and Presidential Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City College, for research concerning “Diffuse Microdamage in Bone: Direct Repair without Remodeling.” New York City College of Technology has been awarded $211,217 from the U.S. Department of Education for “ChildCare Access Means Parents in Scores of young adults, most of them Latinos, recently attended the first alumni reunion of Model New York State Senate Session, founded by CUNY. School (CCAMPIS),” directed by Wendy Woods. “Health Workforce Re-Training Initiative,” directed by Michele Stewart of LaGuardia Community College, has received a $182,134 grant from the New York State Department of Health. “Beyond the Developing Political Voices Ring: Arranging and Describing the Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive, 1812-2007,” oberto Perez was already a self- to create opportunities that increase par- want to teach. I’m not sure I want to be directed by Anthony described “political junkie” when ticipation of the Puerto-Rican/Hispanic elected, but I want to speak for the disad- Cucchiara and Marianne he was introduced to state politics community in the public policy-making vantaged.” LaBatto of the Brooklyn through CUNY’s Model New York process. During the mock session, students Describing her 2010 Model Senate expe- College Library Archives, has State Senate. debate and vote on real legislation affecting rience, Lissette Altreche, a nursing student been awarded $155,532 by the Cucchiara R He produced and hosted a political radio New Yorkers, on issues from rent regula- at the College of Staten Island, comment- National Science Foundation. show while he was a liberal arts student at tion to hydrofracking. ed: “It’s very motivational; I gained a lot Carlos Molina of Hostos Community College has LaGuardia Community College. “Now I’m The Model Senate came about at the from it. I want to reach out to children. I been awarded two grants: $783,812 from the doing my own thing,” he said earlier this request of the New York State Assembly always had a passion to help people, but I USDOL/ETA for the “TAA CCT/Career Pathways” pro- month, referring to “The Perez Notes,” an and Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task just didn’t know how I was going to do it.” gram and $518,402 from the New York City Human online program he produces and hosts that Force, which sponsors Somos el Futuro. Alexandra Ruiz, who earned a master’s Resources Administration for “JOBS-PLUS.” The focuses on politics, entertainment and the Due to the growing representation of degree in history at Queens College, mod- National Science Foundation has awarded $600,000 arts. Latinos in New York City, the Model Senate erated the afternoon session. She said the for a three-year project titled “Numeracy Infusion Perez, 35, has interviewed scores of is viewed as an opportunity to foster lead- 2010 Model Senate was “a crash course” Course for Higher Education (NICHE): A Project of The elected officials for bilingual blogs he posts ership among Latinos and for young gradu- when she wanted to get into government City University of New York (CUNY) Quantitative at the website, which has received more ates to “participate in shaping the future,” “and gave me the perspective necessary to Reasoning (QR) Alliance,” led than 39,000 visitors from 120 countries according to Jay Hershenson, Senior Vice effect change.” Ruiz is the founder and by Esther I. Wilder of Lehman since its inception in 2009. Chancellor for University Relations, executive director of Immigration College, with Dene Hurley of He credits participation in the Model Secretary of the Board of Trustees and a Advocacy Matters, an organization that Lehman and Frank Wang of Senate for his success. “You learn about Model Senate founder. supports the immigrant community. LaGuardia Community College how government works at the state level,” “These 16 years have been a tremendous as co-directors. said Perez. “It helped me enormously to success,” Hershenson told the gathering. or Perez, who played the role of a achieve my goals.” “What motivated me has to do with the fact conservative upstate Republican Wang David Fletcher of Lehman Perez was among more than 120 young that I want CUNY students to have the senator dealing with legislation College has received two adults — most of them Latinos — gathered same public service opportunities as their affecting sexual predators and who grants from the New York State Office of Children at the Hunter College Silberman School of colleagues at Yale and Harvard. ” now talks and writes about policy, and Families, each worth $119,958, for “The Career F Social Work in East Harlem on July 14. About 60 Model Senate participants are his involvement “helped me understand Visions Institute: Advantage After School at High They were there for the first reunion of recruited each year by the Office of Student government,” he said. School for Teaching Professions and Discovery High alumni of the annual Model New York Affairs and Activities on CUNY campuses. Former Secretary of State Lorraine School” and “The Career Visions Institute: State Senate Session, which is in its 16th To be selected, students must have at least Cortés-Vázquez (a Model Senate co- Advantage After School at West Bronx Academy and year. 15 credits, be in good academic standing founder with Hershenson, former High School for Visual Art.” The all-day event provided an educa- and have demonstrated an interest in pub- Democratic State Assemblyman Roberto “A Project to Enhance Student Success in tional and networking opportunity for the lic service and leadership. Ramirez and the late Brooklyn College Criminal Justice Studies,” directed by David Barnet alumni, many of whom were meeting each Several of the project’s graduates are in political science professor Edward T. of John Jay College, has received $217,862 from the other for the first time. public service, including State Sen. Jose Rogowsky) elaborated on the Model U.S. Department of Education. The “NYC Connected Since its inception in 1997, the Model Peralta, D-Queens and the first Dominican Senate’s evolution. Communities Program,” directed by Sharon Senate has served nearly 1,000 students American elected to the State Senate, and “We knew the only way to get to be a Mackey-McGee of City College, has received from CUNY and the State University of State Sen. Gustavo Rivera, D-Bronx, who voice in government you needed to know $125,000 from the New York City Housing Authority. New York, giving them a chance to develop mentored many project participants. how to affect it from the outside,” Cortes- Tobias Schaefer of the College of Staten their leadership potential and understand “To have our grads serving in those lead- Vazquez told the alumni. “You have to get Island has received $148,899 from the National the importance of public service as they ership positions is terrific,” Hershenson to know people who are going to affect Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: learn what it might be like to walk in the remarked. what happens to you. This room alone can Mathematical and Computational Methods for shoes of legislators. change New York politics.” Stochastic Systems in Nonlinear Optics.” The In preparation to role-play as sitting ddressed by several speakers Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Graduate School and University Center has been senators, the students get four weeks of including political leaders during Jr., told the group, “You may not want to be awarded $139,956 from the NY-NJ-PA-CT Regional training that CUNY provides through the morning and afternoon sessions, an elected official but may want to be a Catastrophic Planning Team for “The CUNY School CUNY Edward T. Rogowsky Internship the alumni were also afforded doctor; all of that has to do with of Professional Studies to develop manuals and Program in Government and Public Affairs. Abreaks during which to socialize. governance and policy. If a bill being debat- tutorials to assist emergency managers in the They study democracy and legislative “It’s been great networking, seeing what ed in Albany has to do with Medicare, this metropolitan region,” under the direction of John representation, the demographics of state people are doing,” said Gloria Colon, a group should be represented.” Mogulescu, senior University dean for academic counties, and major public policy issues political science, public policy and sociolo- As to the Model Senate’s future, “Our affairs and dean of the CUNY School of Professional debated in Albany. Their training also gy major graduating this summer from goal is to keep the connections among Studies. involves legislative decision-making and LaGuardia Community College. She enters them going,” Anthony J. Maniscalco, direc- boosts their organizational, research and City College in the fall. A 2011 Model tor of the Edward T. Rogowsky Internship Zenobia Johnson of Hostos Community public speaking skills. Senate alumna, Colon played the role of the Program, said. College has received two grants: $155,378 from the The project culminates with a mock leg- Senate Majority Leader, discussing redis- He told the alumni, “We want to contin- New York State Education Department for the islative session on the Senate floor in tricting. ue to network, you with each other and “Workforce Investment Act” and $125,837 from the Albany during the annual Somos el Futuro “It was a great experience,” Colon said. with us. We want to reconvene with you on New York City Office of the Mayor, in support of an (We Are the Future) conference of “We got to sit in the seat of Senators, a regular basis so we can step into the “Adult Literacy Program.” Hispanic lawmakers. El Futuro’s mission is learned about demographics. Eventually I future with you.”

8 CUNY MATTERS — September 2012 BOOKTALK The Widow Pollock Becomes Lee Krasner

By Gary Schmidgall selection ... it was ferocious dedication to ERHAPS the most distinguished either Rosa Bonheur or Pollock’s legacy in her support- marriage of two American artists Mary Cassatt.” Her ing role of wife. Her wish for a was that of the abstract expression- most notable early catalogue raisonné of his works ists Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) idols were Matisse and was published (in four Pand Lee Krasner (1908-1984). It Mondrian. volumes) by Yale in 1978, and was brought vividly to the screen in the 2000 A running theme of she jealously guarded the film “Pollock.” The title says it all: For all her the book is the blunt Pollock estate, which he left married life and nearly 30 years of widow- expressiveness of this entirely to her. “I can say no hood, Krasner, a distinguished artist in her expressionist. Her very harshly,” she boasted. own right, was for mavens of the arts scene longtime friend Dealers growled that she inflat- merely Mrs. Jackson Pollock. A spousal foot- Edward Albee said she ed the Pollock market, and she note. had “a no-nonsense doled out his paintings happily Gail Levin has now given her a first biog- thing” and branded her only to museums. raphy, Lee Krasner (William Morrow), and its tongue “acid.” She her- Thanks to rocketing auction readers will savor the delicious irony of what self admitted, “I guess values for Pollock, Krasner’s happened at the Academy Awards that year. that I’m just a tough last years were financially com- Ed Harris, who played the title role in cookie.” In her mid-60s fortable. She left a $10 million Pollock, was nominated for best actor but did she summed up a life- estate, most of which funded not win it. Marcia Gay Harden was nominat- time of developing a the Pollock-Krasner Biographer Levin strikes ed for best supporting actor and took home thick skin: “The only Foundation to support “needy a Krasneresque pose near the statuette. The feminist gods must have thing I haven’t had and worthy” artists, and there the artist's self-portrait in chortled over Krasner finally coming out on against me was being is a Pollock-Krasner House and Pollock/Krasner home. top after decades of suffering the male chau- black. I was a woman, Study Center at SUNY-Stony vinism of the mid-20th century art world. Jewish, a widow, a Brook. The film zeros in on the real-life Pollock’s damn good painter, thank you, and a little too Levin makes it clear she has some skin in From its opening in 1929, Krasner moodiness and binge drinking; in 1956, aged independent.” the game she is telling. Back in 1977, she was harbored love-hate feelings about that male 44, he finally killed himself — and another Levin says Krasner first met Pollock in a young curator for the Whitney Museum bastion, the Museum of Modern Art: “You woman — while driving near their 1936 at an Artists Union dance; he was drunk and working on a show titled “Abstract attack it for everything, but finally it’s the studio/home in Springs, Long Island and asked her a very rude sexual question. A Expressionism: The Formative Years.” She source you have to make peace with.” One of (Krasner was in Paris at the time). But Levin, proper affair began in 1941, culminating in a was determined to include Krasner and her most cherished hopes was to get her own a Distinguished Professor of Art History at 1945 marriage. Levin manages to keep the drove out to her Springs studio near East retrospective at MoMA (she had never had the Graduate Center and the author of a black cloud hanging over Pollock’s twisted Hampton. They hit it off. There’s a photo of any retrospective in her entire career). At cache of books on Edward Hopper, devotes soul away from center-stage, while making her and Levin on the visit on page 389, which long last, one was planned that would open her attention mainly to giving a vivid sense of clear how being his “cheerleader, guardian, begins one of the happiest chapters in the on Oct. 17, 1983, her 75th birthday, at the the arc of Krasner’s develop- ————————————————— and secretary” sapped energy book, “The Feminist Decade, 1970-79.” If not Houston Museum of Fine Arts, then move to ing and changing easel style Lee Krasner from Krasner’s career. One a labor of love — Krasner was manifestly not San Francisco. It would then go to MoMA. and placing her in the con- By Gail Levin acquaintance wickedly called a lovable presence — this biography is cer- She made it to Houston with great delight, text of the New York arts William Morrow him shy, like “a clam without a tainly a labor of respect. but by the time it was at MoMA she was too scene over nearly half a cen- ————————————————— shell,” and he was filled with Krasner’s first-ever New York museum ill to attend. She had also missed getting her tury, which Krasner referred to once as “a self-doubt: when Life magazine asked, “Is He show was in 1973, and much of her belated first honorary degree, from Stony Brook, in nice nest of snakes.” the Greatest Living Painter in the U.S.?” he recognition was thanks to the first wave of person in May 1984. Scrupulously researched and footnoted, freaked out. Levin sums up the married feminism. Though she was genuinely grate- In June she was dead and lying near Levin’s book fills in the largely unknown years: “Krasner had her hands full.” ful for what feminism achieved in the arts, Jackson in a cemetery in Springs. Her grave years Before Pollock: the scraping by of her Thanks to Pollock we learn much about Krasner was never comfortable with the con- is oddly placed not next to but at the feet of family of Russian immigrants in Brownsville, the growing understanding of treatment for cept of “feminist” art, just as she always gri- the great artist, and her small gravestone is her early studies at Cooper Union and City alcoholism and the changing landscape of maced when experts blathered about overshadowed by Pollock’s much larger one. College (aiming for an art-teaching certifi- psychotherapy, but the main fun and inter- “American” art. She didn’t know what that But never mind: Gail Levin and Lee Krasner cate), and a longtime affair with another est of Lee Krasner is the art-historical gossip was either (and despised the Whitney for get the real last word. debonair Russian immigrant (his family of which Levin is a clear mistress, including being a “Museum of American Art”). Krasner objected to her being Jewish). Krasner sub- the feuding over surrealism, action painting gained some comfort in her own skin in the sisted through the Depression working for and expressionism, and the art-chat wars, ’70s, bluntly telling the Village Voice in 1977, CUNY Matters welcomes information about new the WPA, frequently getting arrested for with art gurus Harold Rosenberg and “I painted before Pollock, during Pollock, books that have been written or edited by facul- labor protests. She once booked herself into Clement Greenberg making numerous after Pollock.” ty and members of the University community. jail as Mary Cassatt: “I didn’t have a very big cameo appearances. 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CUNY MATTERS — September 2012 9 FORYOURBENEFIT CULTIVATING TEAMWORK —AND TEAM SPIRIT Training employees to guide students is one key to creating University-wide collaboration.

SK STACI COHEN of Queens planning. College about teamwork and “I chose a couple of guys who had good she smiles knowingly. Recently personalities and were very good with stu- she put together a team of work- dents,” says Cohen. “I gave them a design. I ers and gave them an unusual gave them the space to do the job they assignmentA — for New York City, anyway. needed to do. Collaboration was key… and Their mission: to guide and teach students there was a teaching lesson in it for the in the planting of a 50-tree orchard on students.” campus. The manager, it would seem, is a team- As project and work expert. Yet, energy manager for “Participants have indicated that they operating in tan- the Queens College dem with the Office of Buildings learn … how to ‘manage themselves’ as tenets propelling and Grounds, part of a team. …” this skill — that Cohen is — University Training Director one can always accustomed to Rhonnye L. Ricks learn more and it challenges. But she is crucial to share emphasizes that such endeavors are never what you know — Cohen attended a Management (OHRM). “Participants have was facilitated by Robert Kane, Senior the work of one person. For example, she CUNY-sponsored spring training session indicated that they learn the positive bene- Learning Partner at Training Unlimited, a credits supervisor Timothy Gibbons with on teamwork held after the orchard was fits of teamwork, how to ‘manage human resources consulting firm. training the employees who worked with planted. themselves’ as part of a team, and the Kane emphasized the importance of those students to plant the trees. It was one of a number of such sessions importance of communicating with all employees from different CUNY campuses “I think you’re only as good as the peo- offered by the University’s Office of team members, including their managers brainstorming with one another. “Collabora- ple around you,” Cohen says. “And, as pro- Professional Development and Learning and/or supervisors.” tion comes from seeing the big picture,” he ject manager at Queens College, I’m simply Management (PDLM). The May 21 session Cohen attended was noted. He added that sharing is also vital a team leader who coordinates the efforts “‘Maximizing Your Role on Your Team’ held in Manhattan and attended by and asked participants to think about how of our most valuable resource — people.” was introduced to CUNY audiences about employees who work in various positions many times they have heard that there is Cohen’s middle name is Hope and, as two years ago,” says Rhonnye L. Ricks, at Queens College — and at Bronx only one person who knows how to do a she will tell you herself, hope certainly University Training Director at PDLM, Community College, the Graduate Center, particular task. “What if that person wins propels her when building a team. As does part of the Office of Human Resources Lehman College and the Central Office. It the lotto tonight?” he asked, causing a

HR ATYOUR doing well when it CUNY Work/Life Program: A Reminder of All It Offers You comes to faculty diversity but must HE MAINSTAY of the CUNY Work/Life Program is as parenting, aging and balancing work and family. SERV ICE both maintain this a 24/7 toll-free HelpLine staffed by trained pro- More information can be found in the online publi- success and do more Tfessional counselors who provide free guidance cation “Lifelines: Information for your Life.” CCA Enhancing CUNY’s Faculty to increase it. and support to all CUNY employees. The program is emails this publication to human resources and Two individuals provided for CUNY and its employees by CCA — benefits contacts on each CUNY campus for distri- Diversity who have over the Corporate Counseling Associates. bution. UILDING on a Strong Foundation” was the years made signifi- If you need specific help, calling is best. A recent Lifelines article titled “Six Myths about theme of a recent, well-attended cant contributions to Employees have called about any number of issues Stress” dispelled several myths and explained that: ‘B University-wide reception on the impor- promote diversity and from babysitting and eldercare referrals to how to • What may be stressful for one person may not tance of faculty diversity in helping CUNY contin- inclusion were recog- relieve stress at home and at work — even to ask be stressful for another. ue to support talented, diverse students. nized at the reception: Professor Emeritus Don where to find a reliable kennel. However, if you prefer • Stress is not always bad for you. CUNY’s goal is “How can we get to the next Watkins for his pioneering work with affirmative to explore online • You can plan your life so that stress level. The discussion is about enhancing what we action and Nora Eisenberg, Professor Emerita, before making a does not overwhelm you. already have,” said Jennifer Rubain, University LaGuardia Community College, for her work as a phone call, you can Another article detailed methods on safe- Dean for Recruitment and Diversity. mentor. Also honored were awardees of the Diversity visit the CCA web- ly disposing of prescription medicine, dis- The reception — co-sponsored by the Office of Projects Development Fund and participants in the site (contact infor- cussed medicine take-back programs and Human Resources Management and the Office of Faculty Fellowship Publications Program. mation at end). suggested contacting city or county trash Recruitment and Diversity — was hosted by John Senior Vice Chancellor Jay Hershenson reminded Online visitors and recycling services, or pharmacists, for Jay College of Criminal Justice in tandem with the the audience that CUNY’s students hail from 205 will find information information on how different communities release of an extensive University report on the countries and that the new study will “help us to about the program handle this subject. subject, subtitled “a strategy for enhancing make sure we are as good as our students when it — and an array of For related support, information, or CUNY’s leadership in the areas of faculty diversity comes to diversity.” articles and webi- resources call 800-833-8707 or visit and inclusion.” The report concludes that CUNY is For details: www.cuny.edu/diversityactionplan. nars on topics such www.myccaonline.com.

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LSE HOLMELUND MINARIK, whose Little EBear picture-books have sold millions of Queens College project and copies over half a century and were the basis energy manager Staci Cohen of an animated TV series, has died at her visits campus orchard, home in North Carolina at 91. The first book where workers Gus Rosario, by Minarik, who studied psychology and art Robert Beebe and Charles at Queens College, Little Bear launched the Siebert (from left) are "I Can Read!" series. In 1997, The New checking recently planted York Times Book Review named Little Bear apple trees. — the story of an anthropomorphized cub’s forays into the wider world — one chuckle to ripple throughout the room. Services in the IT of the best children’s books of the previ- About these sessions Ricks has said: “It’s Department at Bronx Community College, ous half-century. Yet early on, she had to fight one of those courses where you have so noted: “With technology, as soon as you one editor's suggestion to change her bears much fun, you don’t realize how much you’re think you know it something else comes up into humans. search.cuny.edu “Remembrances” learning.” Indeed, at the May session partici- and you need teamwork to figure it out.” pants initiated, organized and completed a Rumors in the workplace, which can sab- spontaneous coffee and doughnut run. otage teamwork, was also on the agenda. “Good teamwork,” the facilitator agreed, Kane noted that rumors often “catch on WRESTLING WITH STEREOTYPES — EMBER SKYE KANE-LEE when after a break they returned with the fire… Try not to judge because you don’t refreshments. know the whole story. And what do you do ROOKLYN COLLEGE JUNIOR EMBER SKYE KANE-LEE, a sociology major, is also a former high Technology and teamwork was another when you don’t know the whole story? You school wrestler who often withstood violence and harassment from male opponents (only 2 issue discussed. make it up.” B percent of U.S. wrestlers are women). When she discovered “the topic of female wrestling is one Thelma Carmona, Manager of Computer Among the other employees at the ses- that has never been written about from a research sion was Sgt. Juan Velazquez, a Public Safety standpoint,” she sought — and won — a $5,000 grant Peace Officer at the Graduate Center. He from the Rosen Fellowship Program. The grant enabled chimed in many times, including during a her to travel to Colorado and interview tryouts discussion on how to quell rumors in the hoping to qualify for the Olympics — which workplace. He noted he does this by using a TIAA-CREF introduced women’s wrestling in 2004. She now law enforcement technique called roll call — is writing a research paper on the subject, which has been depicted on many a televi- which she hopes might turn into a book. sion program. For a few minutes before the start of a shift, his officers line up to hear about any situations occurring that day, search.cuny.edu “Ember Skye” New TIAA-CREF Website receive their “marching orders,” — and learn Adds Many Features about the stories going around the campus that simply are not true. INANCIAL EDUCATION web seminars and Velazquez’s role call protocol, Kane SCIENCEWIRE — FAT AND OTHER WEIGHTY MATTERS financial insights are a new feature of the added, epitomized teamwork. Fenhanced CUNY Retirement Plan website for Others in the room, where there was a TIAA-CREF members at www.tiaa-cref.org/cuny. healthy give- and-take, suggested that in BDOMINAL FAT has been linked to a number of health The site also has easier navigation and many offices it’s not possible to round up A conditions, including high cholesterol, insulin improved tools, an announcement area and everyone before the workday starts. They resistance and high blood pressure. Body Mass Index is assistance with investment choices. A quarterly discussed a roll call-like session held periodi- a widely used indicator of obesity, but a new City College one-on-one counseling calendar will note when cally instead of daily. Cohen offered a format: study suggests it may not be the best predictor of TIAA-CREF consultants will be on different “A quarterly leadership session to build whether your weight raises your risk of death. campuses. morale, discuss positives and negatives.” Researchers have developed a new Under a “needs help” feature, CUNY Participants also completed a number of measurement tool called a “body shape employees can find the name and office location exercises, including one on the core values index” that combines the Body Mass Index of their campus TIAA-CREF consultant and they look for in team players. “Integrity, and waist circumference. campus benefit officer. There will also be a link respect, courtesy, loyalty and dedication,” for making appointments. Cohen said. It was with those values in play that an search.cuny.edu “body shape index” orchard was planted at Queens College.

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