State of the Campus

STATE OF THE CAMPUS

FALL 2006 The Brooklyn Campus is distinguished by… dynamic curricula reflecting the great urban community it serves. Distinctive programs encompass the arts and media, natural sciences, business, social policy, urban education, the health professions and pharmacy, and include the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, the Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics, the D.P.T. in Physical Therapy and the Pharm.D. in Pharmacy. A vibrant urban oasis in downtown Brooklyn, this diverse and thriving campus offers academic excellence, personalized attention, small class size and flexible course schedules. In 2005, the Campus opened a new performing arts complex, which includes the 320-seat Kumble Theater, and in 2006, a $45 million Wellness, Recreation and Athletic Center, both of which serve the Campus and the community. Dear Campus Community & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and for the and Friends: Brooklyn Campus respectively, they joined Long Island University with different backgrounds and goals but with a similar core of purpose. Welcome to a new and promising academic Our outstanding students also include two juniors at our Richard L. year at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who won the 2006 Jeannette Campus. Many momentous events and K. Watson Fellowships, the prestigious award that provides outstanding important achievements made the past year a undergraduates paid summer internships, mentoring and enhanced memorable one, and 2006-2007 promises to be educational opportunities. Rony Enriquez is a political science major with a even more remarkable. With the anticipation minor in Latin American Studies and a member of our Higher Education of extraordinary days ahead, I want to share Opportunity and University Honors programs. Jonathan Kuhr is a member highlights of our recent successes and also tell of the University Honors Program majoring in political science and jazz you about some challenging and exciting studies and also a jazz pianist, composer and D.J. for the Campus radio enterprises already under way. station. At the heart of these efforts is our enduring purpose, our purpose as a Among many other notable students is Christine Gans, named as a center for urban education with a deep commitment to its students and 2005-2006 Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Georgiy to its community. All of us, faculty and staff alike, appreciate that most Teverovskiy presented his paper, “Jonathan Swift's Critique of The Royal students pursue an education here in the face of financial hardship, family Society,” at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, which obligations and other constraints simply because they wish to make a will be published in the conference's proceedings. Kris Angelo Natividad better life for themselves and those whose lives they touch. We have presented his paper, “Feminist Ideas in the American Nun and Shaker dedicated ourselves to providing outstanding and meaningful educational Communities,” at the Alpha Chi regional conference. opportunities to each of these hardworking individuals who have selected Ilana Koyfman, Michael Bershadsky and Julia Levin presented their work the Brooklyn Campus as their path to an educated life. We aim to ensure on the Honors Freshman Sequence at the National Collegiate Honors that the new generation of students is globally competitive and, equally Council Conference. Koyfman, Bershadsy and another Honors Program important, fully engaged in a purpose of solidarity with the community and with the world. Such is the aim of an education at the Brooklyn Campus: to inspire in our students a purpose whose meaning rises beyond themselves, to encourage them to expand their horizons and to equip them to build a new and better world. With this in mind, let me share with you some of our achievements this past year in three areas of Campus life–scholarship, campus development and community service. Scholarship and a Purposeful Life

A life of purpose is fueled by openness to new ideas and new experiences while relishing the best of what the world has to offer. It is fostered, for our students, through our dedicated faculty and staff and educational experiences that cultivate the spirit of compassion as well as scholarship. Student Achievements

Laurie Ng and Christopher D. Thompson are two shining examples of the ideal of a purposeful education. The 2006 valedictorians for the Arnold participant, Lindsay McMahon, conducted a roundtable discussion on the y Commencement 2006 c a impact of slavery on the economic development of New York City at the r T

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The American Advertising Federation honored three of our students students need models of achieve - J from the School of Business, Public Administration and Information ment and dedication, and our Sciences, naming them to its 2006 Most Promising Minority Students commencement honorees superbly Program. Stayton Dennis and Nikeita Simmons were chosen for the Honor fill that bill. Exemplary figures Roll and Gerald Debe was selected as a finalist. Our nursing students had a from the worlds of media, law, 100 percent success rate on the National Council Licensure music and journalism lent their Examination for the first quarter of 2006. At the College of presence at our 76th Brooklyn Pharmacy, 48 students were inducted into Rho Chi and 14 Campus Commencement Exercises students were inducted into Phi Lambda Sigma, the national on May 11, when University pharmacy student leadership society. President David J. Steinberg Christopher D. Thompson

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Our student athletes certainly scored big in arenas h Delivering the keynote o beyond the athletic one. Some 63 Blackbirds were address was Richard D. J named Northeast Conference scholar-athletes, and Parsons, Time Warner Inc. our 215 student-athletes maintained a 3.05 grade chairman and chief execu - point average overall. tive officer and philanthro - In early June, the Blackbirds claimed the pist, who received an hon - women’s Northeast Conference Commissioner’s orary doctorate, as did civil Cup award for the first time in school history. Our rights attorney Lani Guinier, sensational year included NEC championships in musician Richie Havens, and four sports – women’s volleyball, women’s indoor journalist Juan Williams. Laurie Ng track, women’s outdoor track and softball – the most Professor Alfred J. DiMaio received the Chancellor’s Award for his won by the Blackbirds in a single season in the history of invaluable dedication and service to the University. the Commissioner’s Cup (dating back to 1986-87). Of the On May 12, Dr. Steinberg conferred degrees on 254 students 10 women’s sports, seven teams finished in either first or graduating from the College of Pharmacy, with 176 Doctor of second place. Women’s volleyball captured its second Pharmacy degrees, 76 Master of Science degrees and two Ph.D. straight NEC tournament crown, earning a second con - degrees in pharmaceutics. The commencement address was secutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, and this sum - delivered by John A. Gans, executive vice president and chief mer won honors from the American Volleyball Coaches executive officer of the American Pharmacists Association, who received an Association for the team’s 3.55 cumulative GPA. honorary degree, as did Joe Graedon, the best-selling author, nationally syn - Our coaches fared well too, with the Northeast dicated columnist and co-host of “The People’s Pharmacy.” Conference bestowing Coach of the Year honors on four occasions to LIU coaches: Julia Sandiford in both Faculty Achievements women’s indoor and women’s outdoor track and field, Toby Rens for volleyball and Asi Phillips – in his first sea - Also setting fine examples for our students are members of our talented son as head coach – was tabbed NEC Women’s Tennis faculty. On April 27, at a special awards ceremony at the Brooklyn Campus, Coach of the Year. the 27th Biennial Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement and the David Newton Awards for Teaching Excellence honored some outstanding members. Professor of philosophy Kristana Arp was the Brooklyn Campus TASA winner, and Newton Awards were presented to Sealy Ann Gilles, associate professor of English, Aaron Lieberman, associate professor of counseling, and Warren Ratna, professor of pharmacology at the College of Pharmacy. Three faculty members won 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholar awards to support groundbreaking work in varied parts of the world. In China, adjunct journalism professor David Liu will teach media management and international reporting and aid the development of journalism curricula at sites chosen in coordination with the Chinese Government’s Ministry of Education. Patricia Stephens, associate English professor and director of the Writing Center, will work with South African academic colleagues to strengthen writing instruction for students at the University of South Africa in Johannesburg and in smaller cities around the country. Assistant English professor Rosamond S. King received her Fulbright award to travel to Gambia, West Africa, for her project, “Tracing Gambian Literature: Engaging Authors and Texts.” The School of Nursing marked its 50th anniversary last October 15 at a celebration attended by more than 175 alums, faculty and friends. Congratulations to everyone at the school on this milestone occasion. In other faculty and staff news, many thanks and kudos to Cecelia Traugh, who was named dean of the School of Education, effective September 1, following her service as acting dean over the past year. Dr. Traugh joined Long Island University in 2000 as associate dean for research and faculty development and the director for the Center for Urban Educators. Let me also take this opportunity to welcome James D. Bostic who joins us as the new dean of the School of Continuing Studies, which serves Program offers opportunities to study at its centers in Hangzhou, China, students with a wide range of career-enhancing programs. Dr. Bostic brings San Jose, Costa Rica, Kyoto, Japan, and Bangalore, India, as well as with a three decades of experience in higher education as an administrator, teacher comparative religion and culture program that takes students to China, and coach in southern and southwestern universities and colleges. Thailand, India and the Mediterranean. On March 24, we inaugurated an international scholarship program, Another unique offering is our new LIU@ABT program, an extraordi - the Bernice Braid Experiential Education Fund, with a special fundraising nary collaboration with American Ballet Theatre to help professional celebration to salute our University Honors Program and its retired director, dancers go to college. Through the program, Brooklyn Campus faculty Dr. Braid, who has worked tirelessly for the Brooklyn Campus for more members teach more than two dozen dancers at ABT’s Manhattan studios, than four decades. Irene Natividad, one of our most honored alumni and an effort that drew prominent coverage by The New York Times in May. president of the Global Summit of Women, emceed the event. This fund On the graduate level, a program innovation provides the opportunity for will support our Honors students in explorations of the world and its diverse visual and performance artists and other art professionals to learn cutting- cultures. edge media skills, leading to a Master’s of Fine Arts in New Media Art and Performance degree. The doctoral program in physical therapy graduated its New Programs first class this year, with 46 highly competent professionals prepared to be autonomous practitioners in this growing healthcare field. Another new One purpose of an institution of higher education is to broaden the graduate-level program, begun jointly with C.W. Post last year, produced its horizons of its students. Advancing that maxim, we welcomed the Friends first 10 graduates with Master of Social Work degrees from Brooklyn. The World Program, with its dean, Dr. N. Robert Glass, and his marvelous staff dual-campus program allows our students to take advantage of extensive to our Campus from its previous home at Southampton College. The resources, faculty experts and networking opportunities at both campuses. Notably, as well, Mrs. Arnold Schwartz presented $100,000 to establish The School of Nursing initiated its Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing an endowed scholarship fund in memory of her sister, Nelle Jane Education program, which prepares nurse educators in academic, clinical Macdonald. A gift to name the pharmacy Alumni Office was received from and community environments. Michael Fedida ’72 and to name the Office of Experiential Education from Thomas Sutherland, both members of the Council of Overseers. New Funding and Research Activities In May, in recognition of significant past support, we hosted a ceremony to name the Ralph J. Marino Memorial Lecture Hall, in the Zeckendorf Faculty research activities create invaluable learning opportunities for Health Sciences Center. The late Senator Marino, who served for 26 years our students who participate in projects that advance the welfare and in the New York Senate, including six years as majority leader, helped knowledge of the community. obtain critical funds for our $23.6 million Health Sciences Center, opened The National Cancer Institute is backing a partnership between Long in 1995 to greatly advance modernization of the Campus. Island University and Columbia University's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, in which six new projects will receive about $700,000 over Purpose and Campus Development two years. The partnership, now in its third year under Dean Carol Magai, has funded the hands-on research and training activities of about 50 ”The purpose of architecture,” Eero Saarinen once noted “is to shelter undergraduate and graduate students. and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, through its of his existence.” As part of a modern urban campus, we agree that our Minority Biomedical Research Support of Continuous Research Excellence environment should nurture and stimulate our students as well as program, has provided a grant of $1.8 million dollars. With the potential promote community life and cultural development. for more projects to be added, funding has been approved for three programs: “Service Utilization Among Older Schizophrenic Persons” led by psychology professor Paul Ramirez; “Oral Cavity/Pharynx Cancer Wellness, Recreation and Athletic Center Recovery in African Americans” by nursing professor Mary Jo Dropkin; and “Breath Control During Lifting Tasks” by physical therapy professor Our newest facility – and the largest building project in Campus Marshall Hagins. history – had a victorious start on February 27. The official opening of the Susanne Flower earned a grant from the Jonas Foundation to develop a Wellness, Recreation and Athletic Center included the “Battle of cooperative program with the Brooklyn Hospital Center to develop place - Brooklyn” basketball game between our Blackbirds and rivals, the St. ments for nurses with post-master’s certification from the School of Nursing. Francis College Terriers. The Blackbirds delivered a come-from-behind The National Endowment for the Arts awarded music professor and chorus victory, 67-64, for a cheering throng that included crowds of students and director Gloria Cooper an “Access to Artistic Excellence” grant for a jazz such dignitaries as University President David J. Steinberg, Congressman workshop series for high-school student musicians. For the second year, Edolphus Towns, Board of Trustees Chairman Edward Travaglianti, Target has granted support for our “Afternoons at LIU” dance concert series. Chancellor Msgr. Thomas Hartman, former Board Chairmen Don Elliott, Several pharmacy professors have won grants for their research: Sidhartha Eugene Luntey and state Regent Roger Tilles, and Senior Advisor and Ray from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and AdvoCare International, Treasurer Emerita Mary Lai. Michalakis Savva from the National Institutes of Health, Grazia Stagni The generosity of our alumni, and trustees – Michael Bivona ’60, Mark from Transport Pharmaceuticals, and David Taft from Onconova Bloom ’73, Carl Figliola ’66, Harriet Heilbrunn ’32, Moon Kyung Kim ’77, Therapeutics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Genzyme Oncology. Pauline Modica ’35, Terry Semel ’64, Sharon Sternheim and Richard With interest in the pharmacy profession still strong among many Ullmann ’67 – helped make this center a thrilling reality. students from families with modest or low incomes, several new endow - Since its launch, the WRAC has been living up to its promise to ments for pharmacy scholarships were most welcome. They include the enhance Campus experiences for our students and the community. I am Harvey and Renee Maldow Scholarship, Thelma Lee Ruffin SNPhA delighted to tell you that our Center was the site of the Fifth World Scholarship, Gypsy Memorial Endowed Scholarship and Ron Del Gaudio University Karate Championships, held August 3 to 6. Some 500 athletes ’79 Scholarship/Kings Pharmacy Scholarship. Maimonides Medical Center, representing more than 40 nations competed in the new arena, turning which has contributed over $1 million in the past, donated an $80,000 the Campus into an Olympic-like village as international crowds mingled grant to support pharmacy scholarships. on the courtyard as well as on the competition courts. The prestigious tournament drew prominent coverage on FOX 5’s “Good Day New York,” the Amsterdam News, New York Daily News, WNYC-FM and other media, showing off our Campus to New York City and the world. Also this summer, the $45 million, 112,000 square-foot complex debuted its state-of-the-art fitness center and recently opened its beautiful NCAA-regulation-size swimming pool for stu - dents and faculty and staff members. This year will see the first full Blackbirds basketball and vol - leyball seasons in the stunning 3,000-seat sports arena. More progress in construction and development work in the months ahead will lead to the start of the Center’s community Wellness programs. This important component will offer vital screening, diagnostic and preven - tive health care services for area residents, with a special focus on children and urban ills such as asthma and lead poisoning. Additionally, it will include the first academic nursing center in Brooklyn, operated by the School of Nursing and named for its generous supporter Harriet Heilbrunn ’32. At the same time, the wellness programs will provide our 3,000 stu - dents in health-related fields with invaluable opportunities for hands-on experience while they serve those in need. Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts

The educator-philosopher Maxine Greene said that the visual and performing arts fuel our imaginations and help us develop “the capacity to see things as if they could be otherwise.” Through Campus cultural programs, our audiences – members of the student body, faculty and staff, neighborhood residents and school children – exercise their imaginations and creativity and develop appreciation for the differences and similarities that make up humanity. Since its debut last year, the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts and the surrounding arts complex has helped us energize our cultural programming and intensify our bonds with artists in neighboring communities. We hosted an extraordinarily moving fundraiser the residence hall. In collaboration with the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, we are adding indigenous and other plants along with new paving and seating areas, grassy lawns and dramatic fountains. We hope these shared gardens and relaxing spaces will foster reflection and harmony and a strengthened sense of community, especially for our many commuter students. This fall, the Media Arts Department is scheduled to move to new quar - ters in the second floor of the Humanities Building, where it will be joined by the M.F.A. program in new media art and performance. The School of Continuing Studies, as mentioned earlier, moved to Hanover Square, and we are renovating its former space in Metcalfe Hall for the Department of Building and Grounds.

for New Orleans artists displaced to New York, who shared their talents and stories on the first anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Through a partnership with 651 ARTS, known for its roster of exciting African-American artists, the Kumble hosted jazz greats Randy Weston and Jason Moran and other electrifying performances such as the South African hit, Amajuba. Last season also presented area artists such as the Urban Bush Women, Brooklyn Ballet and the Opera Company of Brooklyn. The glass-enclosed Humanities Building Gallery exquisitely showcased the works of glass-painting Senegalese artist Ibou Ndoye, the jazz photographs of Hank O’Neal and the celebrity pho - tographs of veteran Daily News photographer Richard Corkery as well as the Enterprise Resource Planning mixed-media projects of our senior art students. Meeting Campus Needs In addition to the physical development of the Campus, we are in the midst of one of the most significant administrative initiatives ever undertaken by our University. Enterprise Resource Planning, known as Demand continues to run high for student housing. In response, we ERP, will support the way that thousands of students, employees and have leased and renovated five floors of an eight-story building on 1 Hoyt administration work together. This advanced software will eventually allow Street to accommodate approximately 160 students. This off-campus each member of our Campus to have more immediate access to critical housing, intended for upperclassmen and graduate students, will include information and the tools necessary to manage our particular responsibilities apartment-style and suite configurations as well as single rooms. and needs: academic/student, human resources/payroll, financial and infor - A landscaping effort, begun this summer, will transform the outdoor mation systems. The system will provide, for example, personalized access space on our 11-acre campus. The first phase is rejuvenating the area to payroll information, such as vacation time accrued or tax withholding bounded by the Triangle Theater, Humanities Building, the bookstore and status and, for students, easy retrieval of grades and course schedules. By transforming the way we operate, ERP will allow us to better fulfill munity development. Earlier in the academic year, over 150 tax professionals our mission of access and excellence from an educational and a business and students attended the school’s highly successful Fifth Annual IRS perspective. Seminar for Tax Professionals. Both events were open to the public at no charge. Purpose and Community Service The College of Pharmacy hosted the 26th Annual Arnold Schwartz Memorial Symposium on “Drug Importation and Counterfeiting” on By supporting student volunteer work and by the direct example of November 20 and the first New York City Regional Pharmacy Residency faculty and staff members, the Brooklyn Campus seeks to help our Conference on June 16. Also last fall, the School of Education sponsored a neighbors and also imbue the student experience with the sense of conference on poverty, public policy and the life-worlds of children. Dr. purpose that comes with service to others. Valerie Polakow, a professor of education at Eastern Michigan University, was the keynote speaker. In the second year of a successful partnership with Campus Activities Williamsburg Prep, the city high school supported by the New Visions Foundation, the School of Education continued to provide programs and Over the past year, we had a series of blood drives to help ease the services for both students and teachers. region’s blood shortage, and students led Campus contributions totaling Williamsburg Prep participated for the first time, along with Uprose, 646 pints of donated blood. In our Common Ground program, our under - Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization, in our annual graduate and graduate social work students combined volunteer work with Discovery Day showcase of research and service work by the Campus academic learning to contribute 23,438 hours of service to the community community. Open to all on April 26, Discovery Day boasted close to 200 at agencies such as Hale House and the Institute for Community Living. presentations, the largest number of poster entries in the history of the Pharmacy and health event. Faculty and staff submitted nearly 100 books and articles, and we professions students had our first-ever undergraduate student research panel. To top it off, we raised money for the were happy to include publications by University President David Steinberg victims of Hurricane and Academic Vice President Jeffrey Kane. Katrina, and pharmacy students also devised a Special Events plan to educate the elderly about the new Besides the World University Karate Championships, the Campus and complicated presented other internationally as well as nationally themed events, all Medicare Prescription adding to the rich variety and scope of our offerings this year. Drug Program. The struggles of refugees from Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia and Sierra Campus depart - Leone in New York City was the focus of “Empowerment and the Refugee ments, schools Experience,” a panel sponsored by the Social Work department on April 10. and administrative With films, panels and performances, we hosted a conference on “The divisions also supported Haitian Crisis in the Dominican Republic,” organized by the Haitian many valuable Student Association in collaboration with the Foreign Languages community programs. Department, the Brooklyn-based Haitian Information and Documentation In May, the business Center and Haiti 2004 Initiative. school, with its Media Arts and African Voices magazine sponsored the annual Reel Maxwell Lehman Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and Lecture Series, March 10-12, Lecture, honored exploring the legacy of folklorist/writer Zora Neale Hurston and showcased Public Service Week by an international array of impressive films directed by women. On February hosting Deputy Mayor 15, before Brazil’s Carnival celebrations, Conolly College brought the festiv - Dennis Walcott for a ities home with a conference, “Brazil Transplanted: Carnival in New York.” discussion of challenges Earlier in the academic year, Conolly’s Dance, Art, Music, Media Arts, in education and com - English and Foreign Languages and Literature departments also sponsored Communications

With so much wonderful work accomplished by our students and faculty the Campus’s first Middle Eastern Diaspora Conference, “Turkey at the and staff, it becomes essential to expand communications for the Campus. Crossroads.” In November, the Social Work Department’s Common Some of our new ways of communicating include electronic information Ground program organized a conference, “Overcoming Obstacles to boards outside at the entrance to Metcalfe Hall and on the walkway under Successful Reentry: Challenges Facing Formerly Incarcerated Women.” the Library Learning Center, plasma screens located in the Metcalfe Hall This year’s Spring Honors Conference, held on March 29 and entitled, lobby and near the Student Activities Office, to promote Campus events “Slavery: From Abolition to Freedom,” examined the emergence of the and share important information. abolition movement in the United States and England and post-Civil War To foster a sense of community among incoming students, we hosted conditions. three orientations over the summer, culminating with a Convocation Long Island University, with the efforts of a Brooklyn Campus-based program with alumni Joel Press as the inspiring and energetic keynote committee, sponsors one of the most prestigious honors in journalism, the speaker. George Polk Awards. This year, on April 18, the annual George Polk Your talents and contributions made these marvelous achievements possi - Awards Seminar was devoted to “The Human Rights Beat,” moderated by ble, and together, we will advance the purpose and success of the Brooklyn Frank Rich of The New York Times, winner of the award for commentary. Campus in the year ahead. The following day, the University presented awards to journalists for work With much gratitude that included exposés of United States-sponsored torture, heroic reporting from war zones and scenes of natural disaster, and revelations concerning potentially hazardous clinical trials and medical devices. Gale Stevens Haynes Provost

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