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Salute to Scholars Final Revised Lr A PUBLICATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FALL 2011 1961: The Birth Of a Modern University Page 27 MMaakkiinngg OOnnlliinnee LLeeaarrnniinngg WWoorr kk Page 12 More CUNY Awar d Winners Than Ever! 4 RHODES SCHOLARS in 6 YEARS 8 GOLDWATER SCHOLARS in 3 YEARS 7 TRUMAN SCHOLARS in 6 YEARS 7 NSF GRADUATE FELLOWS in 2011 UJAJA TAUQEER, CUNY’S 20 11 RHODES SCHOLAR, is exceptional but not the exception. CUNY students are winning more highly competitive awards Zand scholarships than at any time in our history. The City University of New York is attracting an ever-growing number of outstanding students. Our Macaulay Honors College is home to many of this year’s winners. Assisted by a Matthew Goldstein Chancellor world-class faculty, they achieved their success studying at the nation’s leading urban public university. They are exceptional but not the exception. ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Zujaja Tauqeer , Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College , Rhodes 20 11; David L.V. Bauer , Macaulay Honors College at CCNY , Rhodes 2009, Truman 2008, Goldwater 2007; Eugene Shenderov , Brooklyn College , Rhodes 2005; Lev Sviridov , CCNY , Rhodes 2005, Goldwater 2004; Ayodele Oti , Macaulay Honors College at CCNY , Truman 2011; Gareth Rhodes , CUNY Baccalaureate at CCNY , Truman 20 11; Anthony Pang , CCNY , NSF Fellow 20 11; Jamar Whaley , Queens College , Goldwater 2009; Christine Curella , Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College , Truman 2007; Celine Joiris , Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College , Goldwater 20 11; Claudio Simpkins , Macaulay Honors College at CCNY , Truman 2005; Ryan Merola , Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College , Truman 2006; Don Gomez , CCNY , Truman 2009; Lina Mercedes Gonzalez , Hunter College , NSF Fellow 20 11. Visit cuny.edu/awardwinners A PUBLICATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK CONTENTS FALL 2011 THE FIRST WORD GREAT GRADUATES Chancellor’s Column Olympian Gail Marquis 2 36 Queens College WWW.CUNY.EDU HISTORY LESSON 3Stable Funding Plan 38 John F. Kennedy Jr. SCHOOL TIES Michio Kaku FIELD STUDY Stories Page 8 Digging Into Ancient Cultures 4From Around 40 Lehman College The Colleges NEW ON CAMPUS Mitchell B. Wallerstein PROFILE Baruch College President PAGE TURNERS Futurologist Michio Kaku 22 Biographer Gail Levin . City College’s wry sage Baruch College 8brings wonders of science 42 to popular culture Poet Nicole Cooley HEAD OF THE CLASS Queens College NEW JOURNALISM Fitness Guru Jane Katz John Jay College of Criminal Justice BOOKS-AT-A-GLANCE All the News 24 Recent Books That’s Fit to Blog 10 44 By CUNY Authors MENTOR COVER STORY Maria Riggs CROSSWORD PUZZLE Students’ ‘Guardian Angel’ By the Numbers Online Learning 26 LaGuardia Community College What clicks with today’s students? How many CUNY grads 1 2 45 have won the Nobel Prize? MILESTONES & MEMORIES Do you have a clue? The Birth PHOTO FINISH TOP OF THE CLASS Of a Modern University Rhodes Scholar 27 Cabbies Hail Taxi Yoga 21 Zujaja Tauqueer 46 LaGuardia Community College Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College CAMPUS TOUR Location, Location, Vocation 48 Kingsborough Community College Online workshops are becoming more common at CUNY. Page 12 THE FIRST WORD Key Milestones, United Goals IFTY YEARS AGO , a group of colleges in New York City — City College, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College sal ute to schola rs and Queensborough Community College — officially became a Jay Hershenson • Senior Vice Chancellor new system: The City University of New York. In 1961, with a for University Relations and Secretary to Fstroke of his pen, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller established the CUNY system and the Board of Trustees added doctoral programs to its degree offerings, effectively creating the Michael Arena • University Director Graduate School and University Center. of Communications & Marketing Though the genesis of CUNY is traced back to the founding of The Free Kristen Kelch • Managing Editor Academy (later City College) in 1847, the creation of an integrated public sys - Rich Sheinaus • Director of Design tem in New York City, one that offers the highest academic degree, is an Barbara Shea • Deputy Editor important milestone. CUNY epitomizes the fundamental purpose of public Neill S. Rosenfeld • Writer higher education, offering opportunities to access advanced education at Cathy Rainone • Writer every level through the 24 colleges and schools that now comprise the University. Miriam Smith • Designer Of course, developing an integrated system requires much more than sign - Stan Wolfson • Photo Editor ing a bill. Bringing together distinct colleges, each with its own traditions and Charles DeCicco • Copy Editor character, requires the effort and determination of the entire University community to create something greater than the sum of its parts — namely, a richer experience for the system’s students. Prior to my appointment as Chancellor in 1999, a mayoral task force on the University issued its report, “The City University of New York: An Institution Adrift.” Among its many recommendations — including the creation of clear standards, assessment methods and accountability policies — the task force pointedly advised: “CUNY must strive to become a unified, coherent, integrated public university sys - tem, for the first time in its history.” Over the past decade, the CUNY community has compre - hensively responded to the need to embrace clearly defined, Matthew Goldstein nationally normed academic and operational standards. And CHANCELLOR today, we continue our work to become a “unified, coherent, integrated public university system.” The Pathways to Degree Completion initiative to improve general education and transfer across the University is a major step toward true integration, as it brings together the entire CUNY community to align curricula to rigorous learning objectives, encourage students’ intellectual exploration and clarify the trans - fer process. The more cohesively the University can operate, the more we can help students fully engage with the learning process and their academic goals. Likewise, we continue to take steps to increase the University’s research capacity through an integrated approach. We are leveraging the strength of the entire University to encourage cutting-edge research throughout the colleges by increasing funding to Ph.D. students, upgrading laboratories across our ON THE COVER: Since the first online courses were campuses, intensifying our faculty recruiting efforts — particularly through taught at CUNY in the late 1990s, online education the Chancellor’s Faculty Fund — and building or modernizing facilities, has evolved through several waves of technology, including the Advanced Science Research Center now under construction. branching out widely from the sedate “distance It is the talent and dedication of our faculty and students that will always learning” model that began nationwide two decades drive the CUNY system “to encourage excellence and efficiency,” as the task ago. Today’s online instruction comprises a dynamic force put it 12 years ago. The articles about online learning at CUNY in this array of approaches including “live” virtual issue of Salute to Scholars reflect one important manifestation of that endur - classrooms that use Web tools like GoToMeeting, ing commitment. Every day, your work to place serious academic inquiry and Skype or Elluminate. Students can leave comments intellectual reflection at the center of the CUNY experience advances the in text, audio or video files and many can work from mission of the integrated University and the possibilities for the future. I their smartphones as well as their laptops. “If thank you for that vital commitment. students are constantly looking at their (mobile) devices, why aren’t we putting educational content on them?” says Adam S. Wandt, an instructor and deputy chair of academic technology of the Department of Public Management at John Jay — Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor College of Criminal Justice. 2 FALL 2011 www.cuny. edu State Approves Stable Funding Policy, Compact For Future APPING the University’s decade-long drive for a tuition in each of the next five years for undergraduates stable tuition policy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the from New York State, it builds in an offset for students Cstate Legislature authorized modest, predictable who receive full aid under the Tuition Assistance Program tuition increases while protecting needy students who re - (TAP). Those who receive less than the full TAP allocation ceive Tuition Assistance Program aid and guaranteeing will receive partial offsets, according to a formula that has that New York’s financial support of CUNY won’t diminish yet to be devised. in the next five years unless a fiscal emergency is declared. In a significant break from past practice, the state is The agreement in June came as the Board of Trustees allowing the University to keep all revenues from the new took steps to make sure that students who transfer within tuition, rather than shunting most of it to state coffers. CUNY will get credit for courses they have taken on any of New transfer policies and a new general education its campuses. These changes are expected to improve framework — unanimously approved by the Board of graduation rates, help more students earn their degrees on Trustees in June — will ensure that students who transfer time and save money for students and the University — all within CUNY will get credit for courses they’ve taken on while raising academic quality. any of its campuses. CUNY The tuition policy, which covers both CUNY and SUNY, The 42-credit general education framework will places the state at the vanguard of innovative financing to include a 30-credit “Common Core” for all campuses and At a Glance sustain and grow public higher education. Known as the 12 “College Option” credits that each campus with bac - he City University calaureate programs will designate. Currently, general CUNY Compact, the policy was conceived by Chancellor of New York is the education requirements vary by campus from 39 to 63 Matthew Goldstein early in the decade, and with the help Tnation’s leading credits, with an average of 51 credits.
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