“Open the doors to all — let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.” — Townsend Harris, founder c u n y.edu/news THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS T H E F R E E A C A D E M Y N OV E M B E R 2 0 0 5 New Investment Plan Will Fund Master Plan I n s i d e

PA G E ing the state, the city Students Flee Katrina, Taxpayer support for public and the University. 2 Come to CUNY colleges has been falling sharply The state and city in recent years, not only in New would effectively Scores of students York but around the country, commit to supporting whose colleges and this has lately been causing the new Master Plan, were ravaged by a great deal of concern among which lays out plans Hurricane Katrina many administra t o r s. for growth over the are now at CUNY The trend has also led to next several years. c a m p u s e s. T h e y j o l t i n g , unpredictable tuition The University, i n worry about friends i n c r e a s e s. t u r n , would commit left behind but are But CUNY has developed to supporting the adjusting to life as students here. a long-term plan that could plan through contin- become a national model for ued private fund-ra i s- PA G E CLIP Teaches English the funding of public colleges i n g ; productivity and 6 and keep the University on its C. Peter Magrath (right), president of NA S U L G C, discusses Chancellor c o s t - s aving initiatives the Hard Way current upward course, i n c r e a s- Mathew Goldstein’s proposal to finance the CUNY Master Plan. (see page 5); g r o w t h Now in its 10th ing enrollment and expanding in student population; y e a r, the CUNY academic offerings. effort to secure its passage.” and “very modest” tuition increases av e ra g- Language Immersion It is called “Investing in Futures: The Chancellor's proposal to fin a n c e ing $50 a semester. P r o g ram (CLIP) Financing the CUNY Master Plan” and it the Master Plan was commended by C. For the public, the University has put offers a way to “ s e l f - l e v e ra g e ” t h e Peter Magra t h , the president of the together “ Ten Reasons to Support the works with thou- U n i v e r s i t y ’s budget, by using private dona- National Association of State Universities CUNY Budget Investment Plan.” ( Vi s i t sands of immigra n t s tions along with public funding. The plan and Land-Grant Colleges, the nation's old- w w w. c u n y. e d u / 1 0 r e a s o n s ) . Among the top a year. Surveys show will allow the University to continue est higher education association. reasons are: that the state needs a well- English profic i e n c y adding full-time faculty — about 200 in "The relatively generous funding public t rained workforce to compete in an increas- at the University is up dra m a t i c a l l y. fis c a l year 2007 — while paying for need- colleges and universities enjoyed, s a y, t e n ingly global economy, and that CUNY ed new academic initiatives and keeping or twenty years ago, will not return," he should be rewarded for its record of boost- PA G E An Overlooked Issue of tuition increases to a minimum. s a i d . "Our mission is challenged---unless ing student enrollment and performance. 9 the Sandw i ch Generation “New Yorkers must begin to see an we adapt and adjust our thinking. " C U N Y o f fici als stress that a key goal of investment in higher education that will The plan is benefitting from the very the plan is to control excessive tuition A Brooklyn College assure that these institutions are healthy positive attention the University has been increases causing drops in enrollment. professor writes a and vibra n t , and can meet the state’s criti- r e c e i v i n g , from Nobel Prize-winning alum- In his recent remarks, the Chancellor book about boomers cal need for a quality system,” C h a n c e l l o r ni to growing numbers of high school s a i d , “If this proposal is adopted, CUNY stu- caring for elderly par- Matthew Goldstein said in remarks pre- seniors choosing CUNY colleges over Ivy dents will not face huge and unexpected e n t s, even when those pared for a recent meeting with budget League colleges. tuition increases like those of the past . . . parents were neglect- o f ficials from the campuses. An October editorial in the New Yo r k The last four senior college tuition increases ful or abusive. I t ’s a “ We cannot meet New Yorkers’ demand Po s t s a i d , “City University was once known h ave av e raged 31.3 percent. Under the pro- question of ethics. for quality without investment,” t h e as the poor man’s Harvard - but at the ra t e posed plan, the av e rage increase over the Chancellor continued. “ We also cannot just i t ’s going, H a r vard may soon be known as next four years will be 2.5 percent.” PA G E sit by and wait for something to happen. the rich man’s CUNY.” According to Ernesto Malav e, Vi c e China is Destination of We must be prepared to lead and to pro- The CUNY Investment Plan, e n d o r s e d Chancellor for Budget and Finance, t h e 1 0 Study Abroad Programs pose innovative solutions. I believe our plan by the Board of Trustees Committee on Master Plan envisions adding 800 full-time Every year, many hundreds of University is a bold one and I am prepared to lead the Fiscal A f f a i r s, envisions a “ c o m p a c t ” i n v o l v - faculty by 2010. students travel overseas to study. M o r e and more are hearing the siren call of $1.2 Billion Campaign is Already Past Half-Way Mark C h i n a .

After graduating from City College in November marked the first anniversary 1960 with a bachelor’s in chemical engi- of the landmark “Invest in CUNY” c a m- n e e r i n g , he earned his Ph.D. from the p a i g n , which seeks to raise money from University of California at Berkeley. H e

p r i vate sources, especially alumni who later was a founder of Intel Corpora t i o n , PA G E want The University to retain the greatness the pioneering semiconductor company, Growing Interest in that has produced a dozen Nobel Prize that helped usher in the Internet revolu- 1 2 Women’s Studies w i n n e r s. t i o n . LaGuardia Community Chancellor Matthew Goldstein says the A couple of months ago Grove visited campaign has been going exceedingly well. the CCNY campus and ran into Dav i d C o l l e g e, H u n t e r “I can tell you that we have raised more B a u e r, winner of the 2005 Intel Science C o l l e g e, than $650 million toward our $1.2 billion Talent Search, A m e r i c a ’s oldest and most B r o o k l y n g o a l ,” he said in remarks prepared for a prestigious high school science competi- C o l l e g e November (CUNY Month) event. t i o n . B a u e r, who could have had his pick of and others “I have been deeply gra t i fied by the Ivy League colleges, took his $100,000 look into generosity of our friends and alumni.” scholarship and chose CCNY. i s s u e s The Chancellor paid special attention to In another notable donation, t h e a f f e c t i n g D r. Andrew Grove, a City College alumnus, G raduate School of Journalism received $4 w o m e n . who gave a record donation of $26 million million recently from Marian Heiskell, The Univer- Intel founder Dr. Andrew Grove, who donated to the college’s School of Engineering. Ruth Holmberg and Dr. Judith Sulzberger, sity publishes $26 million to City College, with David Born in Hungary, Grove fled Soviet sisters of retired New York Ti m e s p u b l i s h e r B a u e r, CCNY student and winner of presti- repression in 1956 and came to the United Arthur Ochs “ P u n c h ” S u l z b e r g e r. The new a special gious Intel science competition. States at the age of 20. journalism school will open in fall, 2 0 0 6 . “ Wo m e n ’s Leadership Calendar.” FROM THE C H A N C E L L O R ’ S D E S K On Academic Fr e e d o m Campuses Welcome Scores of

Earlier this year, the first annual Global the need to partici- 14 CUNY campuses enrolled in online Colloquium of University Presidents wa s pate in an ongoing When Hurricane Katrina tore through courses another hundred students c o n v e n e d , bringing together academic d e b a t e, r e s p o n d i n g Louisiana in Au g u s t , Ta-Shana Leach, a displaced from Louisiana. That was done leaders from around the world to explore to strongly sophomore at Nicholls State University in with the help of the Sloan Consortium. i n t e rnational public-policy concerns. A expressed opin- T h i b o d a u x , didn’t know how or when she “I am proud to point out that CUNY d i s t i nguished group of 15 presidents signed i o n s. As part of the continuing dialogue, t h e was going to complete her college education. faculty members who have signed up are a statement supporting academic freedom University supports the right of administra- S h e, along with some 75 other displaced volunteering their time and the University is and invited other university presidents to tors to take an opposing viewpoint, so long s t u d e n t s, learned how — and where — as absorbing other costs,” Chancellor Matthew endorse the statement. I have asked that my as their stance does not imply punitive a result of a concerted effort by the col- Goldstein said. “I think all of us can really name be included as a signatory because of action or retribution. The office of a chan- leges of the City University of New Yo r k . feel a sense of privilege and honor by the my deep belief in the importance of aca- c e l l o r, p r e s i d e n t , or other administrator can- L e a c h , a nursing student, enrolled at way the entire community at this University demic freedom around the world and here not be used to compromise the academic Kingsborough Community College, w h i c h has responded with vigor and close attention at The City University of New Yo r k . freedom of other members of the provided her with free books and one-on- to detail. Many lives have been improved by The principle of academic freedom is so University community. Nor can free one counseling. Although she confesses their extraordinary effort.” essential to colleges and universities that it e x c h a n g e, so important to the existence of a that she misses home, she says that the As part of that effort, C U N Y, in part- could be said to be part of the genetic u n i v e r s i t y, lead to the creation of a hostile college has gone out of its way to make nership with New York City and the Red code of higher education institutions. environment for students or other partici- her South-to-North transition easy. C r o s s, opened a disaster-assistance service I n d e e d , it is a self-evident truth of a uni- pants in the academic community. “ I t ’s a different culture,” she said. “ I ’ m center at City College that has processed v e r s i t y ’s constitution. As Thomas Je f f e r s o n Over the years, the term “academic free- studying with people from, l i t e ra l l y, a l l more than 1,200 Katrina students. M e d g a r once said of the University of Vi r g i n i a , d o m ” has been applied to contentious over the world. I really like it.” Evers collected canned goods and school “[H]ere we are not afraid to follow truth opposition of all kinds. But disagreement K i n g s b o r o u g h , along with a number of supplies for elementary school students wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error alone does not necessarily threaten academ- other CUNY colleges, waived application displaced by the hurricane, and Burger so long as reason is left free to combat it.” ic freedom; on the contra r y, it is often and late registration fees for Leach and the King sponsored a three-on-three basketball At CUNY, our commitment to academ- indicative of an active, and free, exchange of other Katrina students. In addition to that, tournament at one of the other colleges to ic freedom is well established and fir m l y i d e a s. Of course, the University takes seri- h e l d . As a university that prides itself on ously such dissent, as it often coalesces diversity and access to opportunity, w e around issues of great concern to the acade- hold in the highest regard policies and m y, and we must ensure that thoughtful principles that guarantee an open and tol- opinions on these issues can flo u r i s h . e rant academic exchange. That exchange is The term “academic freedom” has also vigorously protected and defended. been applied to various procedura l Academic freedom informs the entire demands by faculty unions. Although a academic community. A condition of basic level of procedural fairness is neces- mutual respect enables the existence of a sary to protect academic freedom, it does many-faceted scholarly discourse. not follow that colleges and universities As the chairman of CUNY’s Board of must implement every demand for Tr u s t e e s, Benno C. S c h m i d t , J r. , has so elo- increased procedural safeguards, many of quently explained, “…[T]he university, which have more to do with job security true to its academic ideals, must treat each than to the right of free expression in member of the community as a unique t e a c h i n g , r e s e a r c h , writing or political individual worthy of respect, to be judged a c t i v i t i e s. I believe such matters of labor solely by his or her actions, i n t e l l e c t , a n d relations are best dealt with through the c h a ra c t e r. A university does not stereotype process of collective bargaining. its members; it does not permit them to be On previous occasions, I have reinforced in categories based on suspicion, i g n o ra n c e the University’s commitment to fin d i n g or prejudice; it does not deny to any of its ways for all of us to work together in a members the full rights of academic p r o d u c t i v e, h a r m o n i o u s, and mutually sup- freedom and engagement.” portive manner. To d a y, as then, I believe The University encourages informed dis- that it is our insistence on academic free- cussion and expects its faculty members to dom that makes possible our ability to pursue rigorous thinking and debate with- work together toward our most diffic u l t out restra i n t . Such an expectation exists for and important task: the creation and dis- other members of the University communi- semination of knowledge. Given the t y, as well. As faculty express their views, e x t raordinary talent and dedication of students and administrators must, as well. C U N Y ’s faculty, a d m i n i s t ra t o r s, s t a f f, a n d The former president of the University of s t u d e n t s, I have every confidence in the Dillard University in New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. E.J. Williams, who attend C h i c a g o, Robert Maynard Hutchins, o f f e r e d continued success of our endeav o r s. students helped by CUNY. He now attends City College, where he is pictured at left. this description: “Education is a kind of con- tinuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.” A d m i n i s t rators are often confronted with Aumann Wins Nobel Prize, t h e

c l u b,” he remembered. Call them the Distinguished Dozen. Aumann noted that some very promi- Board of Trustees When he won the Nobel Prize for nent mathematicians have come out of The City University of New York Economic Sciences this fall, P r o f e s s o r City College. He named a few: Ja c k Chancellor Robert J. Aumann became the twelfth S c h wartz of Dunford-Schwartz fame, L e o n Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Matthew Goldstein CUNY alumnus to receive the awa r d , t h e E h r e n p r e i s, Alan Shields, Leo Flatto, Chairman Secretary of the Board of Trustees and most prestigious of international honors. Martin Dav i s, D. J. N e w m a n . " Valerie L. B e a l Randy M. M a s t r o Vice Chancellor for University Relations Jay Hershenson R e flecting on his years as a City College After graduating from City in 1950, John S. B o n n i c i Hugo M. M o ra l e s student more than half a century ago, Aumann went to the Massachusetts University Director for Media Relations John J. C a l a n d ra Kathleen M. Pe s i l e Aumann said in an interview after the Institute of Te c h n o l o g y, where he earned Michael Arena Wellington Z. C h e n Carol Robles-Román a n n o u n c e m e n t , “Some very prominent his doctorate in algebraic topology in 1955. Editor Ron Howell Kenneth Cook Nilda Soto Ruiz mathematicians came out of there.” To d a y, at 75, he teaches at the Center Writers Gary Schmidgall, Rita Rodin He added that during his student years For Rationality, Hebrew University of Rita DiMartino Marc V. S h aw Photographer André Beckles “there was a very active group of mathe- Je r u s a l e m . Joseph J. L h o t a Jeffrey Wi e s e n f e l d Graphic Design Gotham Design, NYC matics students” at the college, and that Sharing the Nobel Prize with Au m a n n the young whizzes had their own table in was Thomas C. S c h e l l i n g , a Professor Carlos Sierra S u s a n O’M a l l e y Articles in this and previous issues are ava i l a b l e at cuny.edu/news. Letters or suggestions for future the cafeteria, which they called the mathe- Emeritus at the University of Maryland. C h a i r p e r s o n , C h a i r p e r s o n , stories may be sent to the Editor by email to Student Senate Faculty Senate M e d i a r e l a t i o n s@m a i l . c u n y. e d u. Changes of address matics table. They were cited "for having enhanced our should be made through your campus personnel office. “ We ran our own seminars, had a math understanding of conflict and coopera t i o n

2 CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 Katrina Was a Wa r n i n g , Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina Bronx Experts Say

raise funds. Some student leaders went to Randolph High With gasoline prices sky-high and with New Orleans in conjunction with Habitat School [in global warming fueling city-shattering hur- for Humanity, where they assisted in the Manhattan] when ricanes like Katrina, it is imperative that rebuilding efforts. the World Tra d e the country develop and embrace alterna- All the help from CUNY has made the Center wa s tive fuel technologies quickly, according to struggle easier, Leach says. a t t a c k e d . Now I wa s a recent daylong conference organized by “In Louisiana, you pay approximately a senior in college Bronx Community College’s Center for $400 per month for rent,” she said. “ H e r e, when this Sustainable Energy. I’m paying $1,200 for an apartment in Bay h a p p e n e d . T h e “A Road to Energy Independence: N e w R i d g e. My landlady is very motherly, b u t whole thing is just York City’s Alternative Tra n s p o r t a t i o n I’m worried about the rent. I haven’t been m i n d - b l o w i n g. I t F u t u r e,” drew more than 200 people, w h o able to find a job.” hasn’t sunk in yet.” listened to panelists and looked under the Earning a living in the Big Easy was a And while Floyd hoods of 16 alternative-energy vehicles lot easier than it is in the Big A p p l e. is quite comfortable that were parked on the Bronx campus. “I worked as a bartender [back in living back with her The conference “made it very clear that L o u i s i a n a ] ,” she said. “But I can’t get a job family in their the elevated levels of carbon [released by here doing that because here you have to Upper West Side burning coal, oil and natural gas] in the h ave a license. What I did part-time as a a p a r t m e n t , she is atmosphere are resulting in more intense s t u d e n t , people do here as a career, so it’s contemplating a Romel Brumley-Kerr, displaced from the University of New Orleans violent weather incidents … such as exces- c o m p e t i t i v e.” return to Xavier to by Hurricane Katrina, gives operatic performance at Queens College, sive rainfall in some areas, e x c e s s i v e Edgar J. Wi l l i a m s, an engineering major complete her degree which he now attends, to raise money for hurricane victims. drought in others and violent weather inci- who was evacuated from Dillard University when the school dents such as hurricanes,” says Dr. J i m in New Orleans, is ensconced in his old reopens in Ja n u a r y. and asked repeatedly how they could ease Q u i g l e y, director of the center. bedroom in Brooklyn, where he grew up. She says that while she has been “ g r e e t e d the difficulties he faced. In an interview after the conference, Wi l l i a m s, w h o with open arms” at Hunter, where the At Queens College, another displaced Quigley said that lessons must be learned is enrolled at City chairperson of the psychology department music student from Louisiana, R o m e l from the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. H e C o l l e g e, said he is was especially gracious toward her, s h e B r u m l e y - Ke r r, is sometimes just glad that said that a solar-powered emergency com- impressed with misses the Southern, s m a l l e r-town environ- h e ’s alive, aware that he escaped a disaster munications system — like the one on the facilities at ment she was forced to fle e. that took the lives of hundreds of others. Bronx Community College’s campus — his new college, Christopher Guccione, a sophomore at When Katrina struck, B r u m l e y - Ke r r, a could have perhaps saved hundreds of especially the Loyola University in New Orleans, i s native of Costa Rica and a vocal opera l i v e s, by maintaining police and fire depart- w e l l - s u p p l i e d enrolled now at City College. m a j o r, was hoping to ride it out. “I was in computer labs, A native of the Gentilly neighborhood, the dorm as the storm was hitting that and grateful for Guccione had relocated to Baton Rouge w e e k e n d ,” he recalled. “Everyone wa s t h e m . with his parents to wait out the hurricane. running away from the dorm and I had no “ C e r t a i n l y Andrea Floyd Their home was destroyed by the wa t e r, place to go.” the frequency of aberra n t was a psychology which had risen to the roof. After hearing Through a friend, he eventually found m a j o r / p u b l i c about opportunities at CUNY, and making safety and lodging in Greenville, Te x a s. weather patterns is up,” health minor at the right connections, he decided to come T h a t ’s where he began surfing the Internet says Dr. James Quigley, X avier University h e r e. for another school and discovered that director of Bronx Community in Gra m b l i n g , A drummer and jazz studies major, he is Queens College had a strong music pro- L a . , and now now staying in Park Slope with friends. H e g ra m . He contacted his aunt in Ja m a i c a , C o l l e g e ’s Center attends Hunter says his experience at City College has Q u e e n s, who sent him a plane ticket. for Sustainable Energy C o l l e g e. been so positive that he’s thought about B r u m l e y - Ke r r, who was on full scholar- A native of staying there. ship in New Orleans, is enrolled at Queens M a n h a t t a n ’s Even so, he admits he is painfully draw n College tuition-free thanks to the Harlem commu- to the place where his family remains and P r e s i d e n t ’s Scholarship Fund at the college. ment communication after power outages n i t y, she feels the where they must deal with the aftermath Like the other eva c u e e s, B r u m l e y - Ke r r disrupted local phone service and cut pain of two of Katrina. is especially impressed with the ethnic and emergency workers off from each other. t ragedies in the “ T h a t ’s where I was born and ra i s e d , c u l t u ral diversity of his new college. Each solar system — a 40-watt solar last four years. and I want to go back and help and see my “I like the openness toward anything p a n e l , a cellular antenna and a battery “I was thinking, family as well,” he said. d i f f e r e n t ,” he said. backup system — powers phones during ‘Every senior year He says with a kind of mistiness that A n d , like a true denizen of New Orleans, the day; and it charges batteries for night- something like fellow students at City College have been he particularly appreciates that music is tak- time and cloudy-day use. This is done as this happens,’ ” s h e kind to him, almost beyond expectation. en seriously at Queens College. “The music part of the Million Solar Roofs Project, s a i d . “I was a A ware that he had to register late for class- curriculum is very intense, and I really need funded by the U. S. Department of Energy. d Dillard, is among scores of senior at A . P h i l i p e s, the students offered him their notes, a university that can provide me that.” The project aims to install hundreds of s o l a r-electric panels on New York City rooftops in the next decade. Quigley said he wants to get the word 12th CUNY Grad So Honored out that accelerating levels of carbon are upsetting the Earth’s delicate chemistry. through game-theory analysis.” Game the- prior to Aumann) are: “Certainly the frequency of aberra n t ory explains the choices that competitors • D r. Arthur Ko r n b e r g , City College, weather patterns is up,” he said. make in situations that require stra t e g i c Class of 1937, 1959 award in medicine. The National Science Foundation has t h i n k i n g. • D r. Robert Hofstadter, City College, awarded Bronx Community College Au m a n n , born in Fra n k f u r t , Germany in Class of 1935, 1961 award in physics. $900,000 to develop an Energy Services 1 9 3 0 , has commented that game theory is • D r. Julius A x e l r o d , City College, Technology program establishing an A . A . S. “ethically neutra l .” Class of 1933, 1970 award in medicine. degree and continuing-education courses. “Game theory says nothing about • D r. Kenneth A r r o w, City College, “ To work with the new alternative whether the ‘ rational’ way is morally or ethi- Class of 1940, 1972 award in economics. r e n e wable energy sources, the world will cally right,” he said. “It just says what ra t i o- • D r. Rosalyn Ya l o w, Hunter College, need specialists familiar with the technolo- nal — self-interested — entities will do; n o t Class of 1941, 1977 award in medicine. gy that is coming online . . . ” said Dr. R e i d what they 'should' do, ethically speaking.” • D r. Arno A . Pe n z i a s, City College, S t r i e b y, one of the designers and co-direc- In addition to the 12 Nobel winning Class of 1954, 1978 award in physics. tors of the program who will be working a l u m n i , there is a CUNY professor who • D r. Herbert A . H a u p t m a n , City College, Professor Robert J. Au m a n n with chemistry professor Dr. Neal Phillip. received the awa r d . That was Baruch Class of 1937, 1985 award in chemistry. “The grant will allow BCC to become College Distinguished Professor, E m e r i t u s, • D r. Jerome Karle, City College, • D r. Gertrude Elion, Hunter College, one of the leading institutions in the devel- Harry Markowitz, a 1990 Nobel Laureate in Class of 1937, 1985 award in chemistry. Class of 1937, 1988 award in medicine. o p m e n t , education and training of energy- E c o n o m i c s. • D r. Stanley Cohen, Brooklyn College, • D r. Leon M. L e d e r m a n , City College, service technicians,” Strieby said. C U N Y ’s Nobel winning alumni (named Class of 1943, 1986 award in medicine. Class of 1943, 1988 award in physics.

CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 3 FA C U LT Y / S TAFF HONORS String Theory Answers Age-Old Questions About Ti m e New Use for Laser Pointer Roman Ke z e r a s h v i l i of City Tech won p r o f e s s o r, weighed in on the first place at an annual competition of There is the timeless question: time travel question in a the American Association of Physics If you travel back to the past recent article in Physics To d a y, Te a c h e r s, held recently at the University and shoot your father before pointing out that in a 1905 of Utah. The award was for Ke z e ra s h v i l i ’s you are born, will you ever paper Einstein could hav e development of a new use for laser make it to the future? b e n e fited from time trav e l . p o i n t e r s. During this, the centennial of Einstein wrote that because of The physics professor showed that a E i n s t e i n ’s theory of relativity, the Earth’s rotation, c l o c k s laser penlight can be used to observe which came wrapped up with a would run slower at the d i f f raction and polarization of light — and new concept of time, s c i e n t i s t s Equator than at the Po l e s. can be used also to produce hologra m s, are still puzzling over the That turned out to be wrong like the images on credit cards. a n s w e r, probing the para d o x e s — but Einstein wouldn’t Ke z e rashvili is the posed by questions like this one. know it until a decade later author of four text- While Newton saw time as an when general relativity would b o o k s, E x p e r i m e n t s unerring straight-ahead arrow, prove that clocks run slower in Physics, Einstein viewed it as a meander- the more deeply they sit in a Experiments in ing river and Goedel likened it g ravitational fie l d . College Physics, to a circling whirlpool. Roy Ke r r While Greenberger and C o m p u t e r - b a s e d introduced the spinning black Kaku disagree on how the Experiments in hole theory that led to hundreds present can alter the future, College Physics a n d of A l i c e - i n - t h e - L o o k i n g - G l a s s they concur that no one will Problems in Physics wormhole solutions. know for sure until a time and Mathematics. P r o f e s s o r To d a y, string theory, w h i c h machine is built. The professor’s Ke z a r a s h v i l i connects quantum theory to And that isn’t going to award-winning entry g ravity and maintains that happen any time soon, t h e y — for the National A p p a ra t u s everything in the universe is s a y. “A very advanced civiliza- Competition of the physics teachers asso- composed of tiny vibra t i n g tion may build a time ciation — was titled “A d vanced Optics strings of energy, has become m a c h i n e,” Kaku said. “ To do it, with Laser Pointer and Metersticks.” one of the hotter topics in time you would need the energy of t ravel research. a star or a black hole to pow- Watkins Elected Fellow Few in the country — indeed, er it, and you would need to p e r h a p s, the world — have been prove that the machine is sta- Charles B. Watkins has been elected a more sought after and quoted on Professor Dan Greenberger of City College. ble and will not destroy itself. Fellow of the American Association for the subject than Michio Kaku. So far, although the biggest the A d vancement of Science (AAAS). “String theory is the leading theory of that interfere with each other. The interfer- minds on the planet are working on string Professor Wa t k i n s, Professor of e v e r y t h i n g , which must be solved before ence effects cancel each other out, and only t h e o r y, no one is smart enough to solve the Mechanical Engineering at City College time travel can be proven possible or not,” one path is going to be taken. In other string equations. String theory, which wa s and the former Dean of Engineering at the said Kaku, the Henry Semat Professor of w o r d s, once the future has happened, y o u discovered back in 1968, is so adva n c e d c o l l e g e, was selected by his peers for his Physics at City College. He is a co-founder aren’t going to change it. This is different mathematically that some physicists “distinguished leadership in science and of string field theory and author of from the classical model, which says that believe that we were not supposed to dis- engineering education and research, f o s t e r- Hyperspace and Parallel Wo r l d s. when you leave a footprint in the past, cover it for the next hundred years. T h e r e ing technological innova t i o n , and increas- “Einstein chased after this for 30 years y o u ’ve changed the future. That is, if you is no proof that string theory is correct. I ing participation of underrepresented — from 1925 to 1955,” the professor shoot your father, you wouldn’t be born. think it’s correct, but it will be difficult to groups in science and engineering careers.” a d d e d , “because he said he wanted to read This is why most people believe time trav e l p r o v e.” Watkins is currently director of City G o d ’s thoughts. The theory of everything, is impossible. But the new theory makes it Which means, in essence, that the future C o l l e g e ’s Center for Mesoscopic Einstein hoped, would explain everything self-consistent with quantum mechanics.” of time travel resides, w e l l , in the future. Modeling and Simulation, whose work from the Big Bang to the present era .” Alex Harvey, a retired Queens College involves the study of physical properties Quantum mechanics opens up the idea on a minute scale. of parallel universes, which solves, K a k u Off to Portugal on a Fulbright s a y s, the paradox of what happens if you Elizabeth Murray’s Works at MoMA kill your parents before you are born. of Murra y ’s career, focusing on the large- Manfred Philipp, chair and professor “If you kill your father, you will hav e s c a l e, multi-paneled canvases for which she of chemistry at Lehman College, wa s killed someone genetically identical to The work of Elizabeth Murra y, p r o f e s- is known. The show includes more than recently selected to receive a Fulbright your father in every way but not actually sor of art at Brooklyn College, is on display seventy paintings and works on paper. Scholar A wa r d . your father. Your own past cannot be at the Museum of Modern Art in MoMA is publishing Elizabeth Murray, As a recipient of the Fulbright, P h i l i p p c h a n g e d . You have merely changed the Manhattan through January 9, 2 0 0 6 . a lavishly illustra t e d , 220-page catalog of will spend the spring 2006 academic future of an alternate quantum universe, i n This is only the fourth time that the the artist’s work. semester — February through May — in which a twin of your father has just died. Museum of Modern Art has staged a major M u r ray teaches studio classes in paint- Po r t o, Po r t u g a l , at the School of Biotech- “I see time as a forked river that opens career retrospective of a living female artist. ing in Brooklyn College’s prestigious n o l o g y, Catholic University of Po r t u g a l . up alternative universes and para l l e l The exhibit showcases the entire span Master of Fine Arts progra m . Philipp will bring his expertise in the w o r l d s,” he said. “ Your universe’s future field of bioinformatics to the academic will be the same, but in the parallel uni- community of Po r t o. Bioinformatics is a v e r s e s, you were never born. We think new branch of science that organizes there are an infinite number of para l l e l and interprets data on living organisms. u n i v e r s e s.” City College physics Professor Dan King for a Day at Queens Greenberger and Professor Karl Szovil of He ’s a Queens College mainstay, s o the Technical University of Vienna recently highly regarded that Borough President offered a different quantum mechanical Helen Marshall declared last June 2 — view of time travel by inventing a mathe- commencement day — to be “ Jo s e p h matical model that goes into the past as Brostek Day.” well as the future. Brostek was recently appointed Their answer to the paradoxical shoot- Executive Director of Events at the col- f a t h e r, kill-yourself question? l e g e. A 1955 Queens gra d , he had previ- “If you go back with the gun,” s a i d ously served as director of alumni affairs. G r e e n b e r g e r, “you won’t shoot your father In 2004 Newsday named him a because the future path has already been “Hometown Hero” for his extensive d e t e r m i n e d , so you won’t have changed volunteer work. Brostek has directed 18 the future. There is only one predetermined Elizabeth Murray at work. M u r r ay ’s piece “Do the Dance.” commencements at Queens College. p a t h , but there are other possible paths

4 CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 NOTEDAND Honored for Cutting QUOTED C o s t s, Boosting Services New Device May Change Medgar Evers Building Open for Treatment of Ear Infections Imelda Redito, Director of Human Business (School) Resources at Hostos Community College, Thousands of children will have their has won the 2005 Senior Vice Chancellor’s hearing restored natura l l y, and without key part of the expansion of Medgar Evers College has been completed with Productivity Achievement A wa r d . A i n vasive procedures or drugs, thanks to a the fall opening of the newly constructed, brick-and-glass School of Business and Redito was cited for implementing new device called the Ear Po p p e r, i n v e n t e d Student Support Services Building. Hostos’ Electronic Personnel Action Request by a Brooklyn College professor. The three-story, 44,950-square foot structure consolidates business faculty offic e s System (E-PA R S ) , a computerized workflo w The device, developed by Brooklyn and classrooms, a system that gives administrators and man- College Professor Shlomo Silman w o r k i n g new lecture hall, agers timely information necessary for with Dr. Daniel A r i c k , has been proven and Student informed decisions on employment, r e s o u r c e effective in tests. Affairs services, allocation and program development. After seven weeks of in-home treatment including the reg- Prior to E-PARS the personnel process with the Ear Po p p e r, nearly three-quarters i s t ra r, a d m i s s i o n s was less efficient and prone to inaccura t e of a group of 94 children using the Ear and recruitment, data and excess paperwork. The system Popper tested in the normal range for hear- t e s t i n g , h e a l t h cuts personnel action processing time, a s i n g. (All of the children involved in the services and the well as labor, paper and other costs. study had been suffering hearing loss due b u r s a r. The achievement award recognizes out- to persistent middle-ear effusion.) A ribbon-cut- standing performances that are in line with Only 26.7 percent of the control group, ting ceremony the CUNY Productivity Initiative, a two- who relied on the wait-and-see approach, attended by city, y e a r-old effort developed by Senior Vi c e regained their hearing. At the conclusion s t a t e, CUNY and Chancellor and Chief Operating Offic e r of the study, the control group was invited business leaders Allan Dobrin to reduce costs and increase to use the device, and 80 percent of the was held Oct. 2 1 . r e v e n u e s. children regained their normal hearing. The 18-month S avings are plowed back into the cam- Up to now, problems with middle-ear project was a puses so they can hire more faculty and sup- fluid — second only to the common cold c o l l a b o ra t i o n port staff, and so they can increase student in bringing children to a pediatrician’s between the City The new Medgar Evers building is home of the business school. T h e services and enhance academic progra m s. o f fice — have been treated with University and college is planning further expansions of its central Brooklyn campus. More than $24 million has been rein- a n t i b i o t i c s, by surgically inserting small the Dormitory vested under the Productivity Initiative. tubes in the ears to drain the flu i d , or by Authority of the State of New Yo r k . Productivity Commendations were also adopting the wait-and-see approach. The building, designed by the architectural firm Gruzen Samton, L L P, is located awarded to colleges with exemplary profes- The battery-powered Ear Popper is an at 1637 Bedford Av e. between Crown and Carroll Streets in Brooklyn. It is the latest sional development programs — LaGuardia updated variation of the Po l i t z e r symbol of the college’s growth and its ambitions to serve the central Brooklyn com- Community College’s Staff Development M a n e u v e r, a century-old technique that m u n i t y, which is largely of African descent. and Training Program and Baruch College’s pushes a puff of air up the Eustachian The next phase of Medgar Evers’ campus expansion will establish a fiv e - s t o r y Business Manager’s Network. t u b e s. The procedure clears and ventilates Academic Complex for the Sciences, which will house the School of Science, H e a l t h the middle ear. and Te c h n o l o g y. Located on Crown Street, that complex will also feature a two- Law Prof Considered for In 2001 Silman traveled to São Pa u l o, story glass pavilion-dining hall that will seat 500 and provide alternative space for B ra z i l , with a bag full of hearing aids, g i v- High Court in South A f r i c a l e c t u r e s, c o n c e r t s, social functions and meetings. ing them out to poor, h a r d - o f - h e a r i n g The two buildings will add 238,950 gross square feet to the Medgar Evers cam- B ra z i l i a n s. Twenty people were fitted with p u s, a 76 percent increase over the current space. They will enable the College to t was disclosed in November that haring aids that changed their lives. S o m e I increase enrollment by a projected 41 percent. The state and city provided funding Professor Penelope A n d r e w s , a native of wept openly at hearing their children’s for both projects, which cost a total of $155 million. Cape Town and voices for the first time; others won back a CUNY Law jobs that they had lost due to severe hear- School professor Trib Building is New Home ing problems. since 1993, wa s l e g e s, the Research Foundation handles Silman's research on brain plasticity and among six candi- of Research Foundation details of everything from compliance to d e p r i vation as related to hearing has dates short-listed p a y r o l l s, so that grant recipients can con- earned him several awa r d s. for a position on The CUNY Research Foundation — c e n t rate on the programmatic aspects of "Shlomo's many roles—as teacher, South A f r i c a n ’s driven from its home at 30 West Broadwa y their awa r d s. i n v e n t o r, and mentor—have changed the highest court. by the events of September 11, 2001 — The City University recognizes the lives of people at Brooklyn College and in " P r o f e s s o r has moved into permanent new headquar- importance of basic research that delves into the community," said Christoph M. A n d r e w s ' t e r s, in the building that once housed the the major questions of our time. The Univer- K i m m i c h , president of Brooklyn College. remarkable legal old New York Herald Tr i b u n e. sity believes it has an obligation to put that “[W]e recognize the enormous value of and scholarly Professor Pe n e l o p e The Research Foundation occupies knowledge to the service of mankind. his work and his commitment to his fie l d .” a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s A n d r e w s three floors of the 20-story structure, are only matched located in the Times Square area. T h e by her extraordinary commitment to building will also be the home of the new Solomon Ends Career as CUNY Lawye r human rights," said Mary Lu Bilek, I n t e r i m CUNY Graduate School of Jo u r n a l i s m . Dean of the law school. "She is a tireless A priva t e, n o t - f o r- p r o fit educational cor- who was unsurpassed in his knowledge and advocate for and protector of justice. T h e p o ration chartered by the State of New Mi chael D. S o l o m o n , A s s o c i a t e understanding of The City University. … people of South Africa would be fortunate York in 1963, the Research Foundation uses G e n e ral Counsel for Fa c u l t y, S t a f f, a n d He was a fantastic colleague who shared to have her on their court." the latest technology to meet requirements Student Relations, has retired after a 35- his knowledge in an open and generous Although by mid-November it was dis- of thousands of awards granted to profes- year career at The City way and will be missed tremen- closed Andrews was no longer in the run- sors and other professional staff annually. U n i v e r s i t y. He was the d o u s l y.” n i n g , her colleagues said the law school wa s After leaving its old West Broadwa y senior attorney in a fiv e - Ronald Spalter, C U N Y ’s honored that she was such a serious candi- headquarters in the aftermath of the l awyer unit responsible Deputy Chief Operating Offic e r, date for the post. Andrews received her World Trade Center attacks, t h e for all legal matters, first met Solomon during the stu- B. A . and LL.B. degrees from the University Foundation took up temporary residence including labor, p e r s o n- dent demonstrations of the 1970s. of Natal in Durban and a LL.M. d e g r e e in leased quarters at 555 W. 57th Street. nel and student issues. “I was working at City College and from Columbia University. Last year, s h e Not long afterwa r d s, it concluded that its A 1966 graduate of a group of students protesting was selected to be a resident at the long-term interests would be served best Queens College, tuition had seized the A d m i n i s t ra - Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy where by purchasing a building that would pro- Solomon earned his Ju r i s tion Building, shutting down regis- she developed a manuscript on women's vide a permanent address. Doctor degree at NYU t ra t i o n ,” recalled Spalter. human rights law. She is a contributing co- The Research Foundation purchased the School of Law in 1969 Solomon stood in front of its author of The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: building last year for $60 million and views and joined CUNY as an chained doors and used a bullhorn R e flections on South A f r i c a ’s Basic Law. it as an asset that will increase in value over Assistant Counsel in Michael J. S o l o m o n to read an injunction to the stu- Prior to CUNY, Andrews worked at the t i m e. The New York Ti m e s is building its 1 9 7 0 . dents barricaded inside. Legal Resources Centre in Jo h a n n e s b u r g new headquarters right next door. Katherine Raymond, a colleague who “He respected the process and did what and at the NAACP Legal Defense and With awards last year exceeding $300 succeeded him as Associate Genera l was necessary to ensure it was carried out Educational Fund in New Yo r k . million at the senior and community col- C o u n s e l , s a i d , “Mike was a great law y e r according to the law,” Spalter said

CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 5 In CUNY Language Immersion Program, S t u d e n t s

c o u r s e, and when one is learning can remain in the program for as long as a contact hours Annie Lun, 2 0 , set out five years ago something useful with it. y e a r. i n v o l v e d , the level of from Hong Kong and settled in with rela- “ I t ’s the philosophy of the whole pro- Valery Fo r t u n e, 2 9 , is another of i n t e n s i t y,” said Hamid tives in a place she’s come to love and call g ra m ,” said Leslee Oppenheim, director of A r g o d a l e ’s students. He came to New Yo r k K h e r i e f, who directs h o m e : B r o o k l y n , New Yo r k . l i t e racy programs for the University. “ Yo u from Haiti in May of 2001 and began the CLIP and ESL Wasting no time, she enrolled at local learn your English language skills through working odd jobs. “I find diffic u l t i e s,” h e p r o g rams at Yo r k public schools and in short order gra d u a t- a study of the content that you’re likely to s a i d . “After two-three years I decided to C o l l e g e. ed from John Dewey High. be exposed to in college.” learn something better, because this coun- In addition to class These days Lun smiles the smile of ambi- On the day she was interviewed, a few try offers many opportunities and I don’t l e c t u r e s, d i s c u s s i o n s t i o n , as if knowing she will one day have the months ago, Lun and 21 other students want to miss them. But when you’re in a and writing assign- thing she really wants — a college degree were in a classroom at New York City country and they speak a different m e n t s, CLIP students that will lead to a job as an accountant. College of Te c h n o l o g y, following the l a n g u a g e, i t ’s not easy.” spend several hours a One big hurdle stands in the wa y : S h e instructions of Paul A r g o d a l e, a CLIP Fortune works up to 40 hours a week week in a computer still doesn’t have a strong command of t e a c h e r. at a security job. He spends another 25 l a b, Kherief explained. E n g l i s h . Argodale was using the study of hours in his CLIP class, and countless more “Besides word process- Lun is thus like tens of thousands of dinosaurs as his teaching tool for the hours studying and practicing English. ing skills, they do a lot i m m i g rants in this town who are stymied in s e m e s t e r, and his students were reading “Sometimes I feel very tired,” he said. of research, b e c a u s e their desire to speak and read English profi- Jurassic Pa r k.At this moment, the students Fortune is optimistic he’ll soon be ready we want them to c i e n t l y. But Lun is different from most of were taking turns at the blackboard, fil l i n g to pass the so-called ACT reading and become autonomous t h e m , and in a sense she is very privileged. in blanks under various categories. Fo r writing tests and then go on to take cours- l e a r n e r s, so that they Lun is enrolled in the CUNY Language e x a m p l e, under “A c t i o n s,” they described es toward his associate’s degree and then will be able to com- Immersion Progra m , or CLIP, which admin- things that happened in the part of the b a c h e l o r ’s degree at City Te c h . “Before I pete in the world,” i s t rators boast is one of the best bargains in book they read the night before. “After the could have an idea but I could not know Kherief said. higher education, with students paying power went back on Muldoon was repair- how to write it in English. But . . . Now I In one of their most $180 — or even less, depending on fin a n c i a l ing the fences…” one of the students wrote. understand much better.” ambitious writing pro- circumstances — for a semester of immer- Then Argodale spoke to the class as a CLIP began operating 10 years ago in the j e c t s, students in the sion into the study of English. S t u d e n t s g r o u p, introducing them to new phrases as Theresa Hotel, the Harlem building that spring of 2004 pub- receive instruction for five hours a day, fiv e he commented on the book. “ H ave you Fidel Castro made famous in 1960, when he lished a 60-page book: days a week, with some of the most talent- ever heard of Murphy’s Law ? ” he asked. “ I f stayed there accompanied by live chickens. MoMA at El Museo in ed and caring college instructors to be something can possibly go wrong, it will.” “I was a teacher in the program the very fir s t C L I P : Writing in found this side of the bachelor’s degree. T h e n , he gave them their next writing night of operation at the Te r e s a ,” H e l l m a n , Response to Latin “This is one of the best educational va l u e s a s s i g n m e n t . “What would happen if they now a CLIP administra t o r, wrote in an email American and in the city,” said David Hellman, the profes- were so engineered they could talk? W h a t r e c e n t l y. “I liked to imagine that I was teach- Caribbean A r t.T h e sional development coordinator for CLIP. would the dinosaurs say?” ing in the Castro Suite!” students wrote the Petite and easy with a smile, Lun said Almost automatically, the students hud- The CLIP program expanded steadily, essays after viewing she appreciates New York and the oppor- dled together in little study groups of from 663 students at six colleges in 1996, paintings that were tunities it has given her. “I love it because three and four and began to clarify their to more than 3,000 a year at nine colleges owned by the it is more free than Hong Kong and I can i d e a s, sharing with each other — in t o d a y. Museum of Modern learn this language and have more E n g l i s h , please! — before doing the writing There are currently CLIP programs at: Art and exhibited at friends…Here is better.” a s s i g n m e n t . • the Borough of Manhattan Community El Museo del Barrio. CLIP students invest a lot — in effort, C o l l e g e “It has made for A p p r o a ch is ‘ c o n t e n t - b a s e d ’ if not in money — during their quest for • Bronx Community College some of the most CLIP administrators say their progra m English profic i e n c y. They were admitted to • the College of Staten Island exciting learning in is deeply “ c o n t e n t - b a s e d ,” meaning it uses the program after getting low scores on the • Hostos Community College the history of the pro- facts and ideas from disciplines ra n g i n g CUNY reading and writing profic i e n c y • Kingsborough Community College g ra m . And some of the from history to literature to anthropology t e s t s. Their goal is to learn enough English • LaGuardia Community College most delightful writ- and the physical sciences. They believe a so they can enter more advanced ESL • The New York City College of i n g , t o o,” H e l l m a n , t h e person learns English best when she or he (English as a Second Language) classes or Te c h n o l o g y CLIP project coordi- is immersed in it, through books and dis- an introductory composition course. T h e y • Queensborough Community College n a t o r, wrote in a pref- • York College. ace to the book. Valery Fortune, a French The language CLIP has a distin- Kong, are CLIP students immersion progra m guished group of Students Produce Book of Essays on Pa i n t i n g s technically falls under instructors who have a special combination the broad umbrella of of education, talent and personality to Last year, CLIP students wrote essays about E S L , meaning it is for work with English language learners. T h e y paintings they had seen at El Museo del English Language hold at least a master’s degree in language B a r r i o. Dozens of the essays were included in L e a r n e r s. instruction or a related area, and they hav e a 60-page book titled Writing in Response to B u t , at CUNY, E S L broad exposure to different cultures. Latin American and Caribbean A r t. B e l o w is very different from O p p e n h e i m , the program director, s a i d , “ I n are excerpts from two essays on "Listening to C L I P. While – like g e n e ra l , most ESL teachers have an affin i t y the Living," by Roberto Sebastian A n t o n i o CLIP – it is for foreign for other cultures. Traditionally they are Matta Echaurren in 1941. language students who people who have a great deal of empathy, Nancy Bravo, York College fail the ACT tests, a great deal of compassion.” This whirlwind evokes fury, c o n f u s i o n , a n d it is actually more One afternoon several months ago f e a r. It makes me think that our world is in a d va n c e d . ESL classes found Tasha Darbes teaching her CLIP constant chaos…The off-whites in the are credit-bearing class at Hostos Community College, h e l p- painting reflect the polluted gases in our courses that meet ing the students understand the human a t m o s p h e r e. This scary situation infuriates s e v e ral hours a week. side of the global economy. She is doing so me and I can see… that this painting C L I P, though non because she believes the global economy is “Listening to Living” is a warning sign. c r e d i t - b e a r i n g , is like a the key to understanding the global envi- Matta and other surrealist artists intended Listening to the Living fulltime job, with stu- r o n m e n t , which was the overall theme of to shock us and make us reflect about the Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, 1941 dents spending 25 her class for the semester. consequences of our actions against Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art hours a week in the If a word had to be chosen to describe n a t u r e … c l a s s r o o m , in addition Darbes’ teaching method, perhaps it … It is a shame that our language is so went to the ocean in my country… My father and I sat to homework. would be Socra t i c. l i m i t e d . Sometimes words are not enough there to admire the view. We remained there quietly listen- “The work that “Is it better for you to export to to express what we perceive. ing to the waves and the whistling of the whales in the CLIP does cannot be Ecuador or to the United States?” D a r b e s Sandra Juare z , York College o c e a n . … We could listen to the different echoes from the undertaken in any oth- asked her class. This artwork reminds me of when I fir s t o c e a n , which gave us a sense of peace inside our minds… er progra m , because of “The United States,” a student answered. the sheer number of “ W h y ? ” Darbes inquired.

6 CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 Learn English the Right Wa y, the Hard Wa y

Dramatic Advances in English Profic i e n c y Trends in English Proficiency New Yo r k is an immigra n t t o w n , and it p r o b a b l y a l ways will be. But statisti- cians hav e noticed some- thing interest- ing about i m m i g rant stu- dents coming to CUNY in recent years: Their English p r o ficiency on av e rage is much stronger. “The (immi- (Numbers show, for given years, the percentage of first-time senior col- g rant students lege freshmen who report their most comfortable language is English, from foreign or that they are equally comfortable in English and another language.) l a n g u a g e h o u s e h o l d s ) are coming to us with stronger English skills than in the past,” said David Crook, t h e University Dean for Institutional Research and A s s e s s m e n t . The apparent reason, say Crook and others, is that there are increasing numbers of i m m i g rants who came to New York at a young age and went to schools here in their pre-teen and teenage years. Sociologists call them “the 1.5 (one-point-five) genera t i o n .” According to University surveys: in 1995, 81.1 percent of senior college freshmen said English was their language of comfort; in 2004, following steady increases, t h e figure was 92.5 percent. I n d e e d , Crook and others say that CLIP and other ESL programs deserve much of the credit. They say that, across the country, there has been a stronger focus on the teaching of English to foreign language-speaking students, using tough approaches like the immersion method of CLIP. Hamid Khereif, director of the CLIP and ESL programs at York College, agreed that a key factor in the increasing English proficiency is emergence of the “1.5 genera t i o n .” Crook said it was important to note that the number of immigrants coming to CUNY continues to rise. Even as comfort levels in English went from 81.1 percent to 92.5 percent, the number of freshmen from foreign language-speaking households went from 53.8 percent to 59.1, Crook said. “ We ’re still able to attract immigrants but they’ve become more comfortable with the English language over time,” Crook said.

nd Creole-speaking immigrant from Haiti, and Annie Lun, a Cantonese speaker from Hong Kong, They are in class 25 hours a week in a quest to use English well and, one day, earn a college degree. about their own deeply held dreams. A n n y lady answered, “Be optimistic in what’s Hernandez offered an answer right awa y, coming later.” “Because they pay in dollars,” a n o t h e r to impart the psychic underpinnings of loudly and clearly. “ To become a doctor,” Optimism surely counts for a lot; but as r e p l i e d . s u c c e s s. said Hernandez, who emigrated from the Liss’ students know, it takes a lot of hard Other questions and answers followed, Tiptoeing into a class — not far from Dominican Republic about a year ago. work — and step-by-step planning — to some of them laced with bitter humor, s u c h the one where Tasha Darbes was teaching Liss believes her students have great reach one’s goal in life. Surely a reader of as when students referred to corruption — a visitor heard the pleasantly hypnotiz- p o t e n t i a l . She said she knows from their The A l c h e m i s t knows that. “ You can’t leap they said was rampant in their homelands. ing voice of CLIP instructor Rhoda Liss. homework that they are bursting with up and get there,” Liss told her class of After an hour or so, Darbes told the Liss was reading from a book considered e n e r g y, the kind that makes dreams come voyagers to the American dream. “ Yo u class to “write a para g raph about the spe- by many to be a font of Zen-like wisdom: t r u e. When Liss asked the class about the h ave to prepare yourself each step. Yo u c i fic situation in your country.” She exhort- Paulo Coehlo’s The A l c h e m i s t. key ingredients in dream making, a young need to be focused.” ed them “to group together for a few Liss read from the text, then comment- m i n u t e s ” to collect their thoughts before ed a bit, then asked questions. beginning to their essays. “Don’t forget that everything you do is Programs That Teach English to English Language Learners (ELL’s) Tasha Darbes is a 1993 graduate of only one thing, and nothing else,” L i s s Brown University where she majored in i n t o n e d . “ You have to prepare yourself CLIP — an intensive English language program for admitted freshman who need help c o m p a rative litera t u r e. She speaks Russian each step. You need to be focused… A n d with their academic reading, writing and oral communication skills. CLIP uses an and Spanish, and she holds a master’s above all don’t forget to follow your per- “ i m m e r s i o n ” approach requiring students to work on language skills 25 hours a week. degree in anthropology and writing from sonal legend through to its conclusion.” The program is low cost, and students can stay up to a year. New School University. Prior to working Liss is a graduate of Oberlin and holds a with CLIP, she taught in Continuing m a s t e r ’s degree in ESL from Lehman. A s ESL (English as a Second Language) — t raditional non-credit and credit classes for Education classes and at other English as a with other CLIP instructors, she has inter- strengthening the language skills of admitted freshmen. ESL classes generally meet Second Language progra m s. She loves esting life experiences as well. Liss wa s fewer hours per week than CLIP and have a range of instructional emphases. E S L CLIP and its content-based approach. once an opera singer. She lived in Holland classes are part of a student's program of study and regular tuition applies. “The best way for me to improve their for 12 years. And she just completed a writing is to improve their knowledge of book titled Effective Academic W r i t i n g, Bi-lingual — In the bi-lingual approach, students read, write and speak their native the world,” Darbes says. which will be published next year by language as they learn English. Proponents say that if students learn to use their first CLIP teachers are driven by the very Oxford University Press. language well, they will learn English more effectively. Hostos Community College is dreams that motivate their students. S o m e With The A l c h e m i s t still in her hand, the only bi-lingual public college in the region. of them seem all but ingenious as they try Liss asked the young men and women

CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 7 STUDENT HONORS University and Daily News Jointly Sponsor Prize for A r chitectural Design ‘Dollars for Scholars’ Phone Call-in Jeff Carnell of City College has won fir s t prize for architectural design — the high- caller gra d u a t e d est individual design award — in the pres- Nearly 140 CUNY financial aid from high school tigious American Institute of A r c h i t e c t s experts — including aid counselors, a d m i s- in Ja m a i c a , in the 2005 National Student A wa r d s. sions officers and City University offic i a l s C a r i b b e a n . Carnell also led his team to the high- — manned banks of phones for a week in S c h o l a r est award given to a group of students O c t o b e r, in a groundbreaking effort to Dollars — from a college working on a project. help New Yorkers make college more believed to be This is the third year in a row that a affordable for their families. the fir s t - e v e r CCNY student has taken the top awa r d . The first-ever Scholar Dollars hotline, weeklong hotline Carnell is currently in the last year of co-sponsored with the Daily News, fie l d e d devoted to fin a n- the five-year Bachelor of A r c h i t e c t u r e questions from more than 2,600 callers cial aid — was a degree program at the School of trying to understand, access and nav i g a t e clear hit with the A r c h i t e c t u r e, Urban Design and the financial aid system. 2,627 apprecia- Landscape Architecture at CCNY. In a mezzanine-level room at the N e w s’ tive New Yo r k e r s Student President’s Odyssey headquarters on W. 33rd Street, C U N Y who had their c o u n s e l o r s, led by the University’s nation- calls picked up in The odyssey of ally prominent financial aid director, an av e rage of 10 Carlos Sierra has George Chin, took phone calls from Oct. seconds and been from the 2 4 - 2 9 , from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p. m . Most of advice dispensed D o m i n i c a n the calls came from parents — even par- within about fiv e Republic to ents of very young children — trying to m i n u t e s. “ T h e K a n s a s, t o figure out how to finance their children’s people calling in N e b ra s k a , a n d college educations amid escalating costs, were very nice,” finally to T h e changes in federal aid formulas and uncer- said A l i c e City University tain times. M u r p h e y, of New Yo r k , Carlos Sierra “Often the questions were, ‘How do I C U N Y ’s assistant where he wa s access the system? I have a kid who’s a director of fin a n- CUNY Financial advisors answered phones at the Daily News. More recently elected chair of the University junior or a senior in high school. How do I cial aid systems than 2,600 people called with questions about financing their own, or Student Senate. apply for aid?’” said William Mack, m a n a g e m e n t . their childrens’, college education. The Lehman College senior is a dou- C U N Y ’s assistant director of financial aid, “They went on ble major in photography and political as he worked along with two dozen other and on about s c i e n c e. advisors on the call-in’s last day. Yo u n g e r how appreciative they were that there wa s e n c e,” said Chin. Added Murphey, “ T h e S i e r ra said his mission as new parents inquired about tax-exempt “ 5 2 9 ” someone to answer their call.” Daily News was very supportive. They fed Student Senate chair is to “reach out to college savings progra m s ; u n d o c u m e n t e d But the CUNY experts on the other us well, made sure we had supplies and elected officials and the public to i m m i g ran ts sought avenues to higher edu- end of the 25 phone lines — 21 for g ave us papers every day.” explain CUNY’s importance so we can cation here; still other callers asked for E n g l i s h , four for Spanish — also got a kick Scholar Dollars is the second public get more support.” help with debt, defaulted loans or nav i g a t- out of their moment in the spotlight. service-oriented CUNY-Daily News c o l l a b- After working in the A m e r i c a n ing the application system. The Daily News covered Scholar o ra t i o n . Citizenship Now — the jointly h e a r t l a n d , S i e r ra settled in New Yo r k The CUNY advisors, armed with the Dollars throughout the week, running sev- s p o n s o r e d , and very popular, s p r i n g t i m e C i t y, receiving an associate’s degree Federal Student Aid Handbook and many e ral pages of the advisors’ photos and bios call-in hotline dispensing free advice on from Bronx Community College. H e decades of collective experience, w e r e in the Sunday paper and then re-running i m m i g ration problems — is going into its served as an intern in CUNY’s Wa s h i n g - ready for the questions, though the answers them on the particular day they were fourth year. t o n , D. C. p r o g ra m , in Congessman Jo s é weren’t always what callers wanted to hear. scheduled to man the phones. The City University’s commitment to S e r ra n o ’s offic e ; he participated in the Monique Fra n c i s, assistant to the director of “I had one caller who asked for me making higher education affordable for all C U N Y M o d e l S t a t e Senate Progra m i n Citizenship and Immigra t i o n , was tapped b e c a u s e, in my bio, it said I specialized in regardless of economic circumstance A l b a n y ; and he was editor-in-chief of for an immigration-related question during f e d e ral work-study progra m s,” s a i d inspired the Scholar Dollars effort, a l o n g Bronx Community College’s student one of the call-in shifts. The caller, w h o Shannon Cammara n o, a supervisor of the with a new, C U N Y-Daily News w e b s i t e, n e w s p a p e r, The Communicator. i d e n t i fied herself as an undocumented one-stop student service center — T h e Meeting College Costs. The site, a t S i e r ra replaces Lauren Fasano of City i m m i g ra n t , asked whether there was a wa y Hub — at the College of Staten Island, w w w. c u n y. e d u / c o l l e g e c o s t s, is a virtual C o l l e g e. Fasano said of her experience, “ I she could either obtain a student (F-1) visa from which she graduated in 1997. resource center with links to all things hav- got to see the University’s internal work- or attend a CUNY school while paying in- “One guy asked for me because he liked ing to do with financial aid, from federa l ings and the legislative process, and my state tuition fees. my picture,” noted William Mack. “ H e and state loan programs to scholarships. input was heard at the highest levels.” “The answer was ‘no’ to both,” Fra n c i s thought I looked like a young Orson Chin will continue to dispense advice s a i d . The undocumented are eligible for in- We l l e s. I didn’t know whether it was a through “Ask George,” a website feature Award for BCC Student state tuition rates only if they gra d u a t e d compliment or not.” focused on how students and families can from a New York State high school or “The people who handled the phones access the more than $140 billion in gov- few years ago, Luiz Camilo wa s A received a GED in New York State; t h e had a good time and enjoyed the experi- ernment and private aid available annually. living in Bogota Colombia, d r i f t i n g through life. This September, he received the Iraq War Vets Gather at Campuses, as CUNY Official Pledges Help Leaders of Promise Scholarship from Phi Theta Kappa, the international hon- homage to those fallen servicemen. served in Ira q . or society for two-year colleges. C a m i l o e t e rans of the Iraq conflict gathered at Rosa praised Brooklyn College’s One of them, Raul Wo o d c o c k , a Marine is one of only 29 students from commu- V various campuses for Ve t e rans Day cele- Ve t e rans Students’ Organization, saying its Corps reservist, said in an interview that nity colleges across the country to b ra t i o n s, as the University committed itself p r o g rams for vets were an example that he especially enjoys the camaraderie of receive the $1,000 scholarship that will to offering a network of services to the “we hope to replicate throughout CUNY.” other Baruch students who shared his be applied toward his associate’s degree. young men and women, to ease their tra n- The organization’s president, A r i e l experiences in the zone of confli c t . Two of An accounting student, he works sition to student life. L u n a , who returned earlier this year from them in particular are among his best full-time in a restaura n t . As an active Christopher Rosa, CUNY Director of service in Ira q , spoke of his initial shock friends at the college, he said. member and treasurer of Phi T h e t a Disability and Ve t e rans Services, told vet- when his reserve unit was called for duty Woodcock said his time tra n s p o r t i n g K a p p a , he has worked with sick chil- e rans gathered at Brooklyn College that he over there. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. P OW ’s and injured U. S. troops in Ira q dren and promoted college blood drives. and others are working “ m e t h o d i c a l l y ” t o But he survived a year of the confli c t made him a stronger person. Phi Theta Kappa has more than 1.5 “rebuild a comprehensive network of holis- and now hopes to help others make a “I did what I had to do over there and million members and 1,200 chapters in tic services” for them. healthy transition from active military ser- when I came back, almost immediately I the United States, U. S. t e r r i t o r i e s, It is estimated that hundreds of CUNY vice to student life. started in school,” Woodcock said. C a n a d a , and Germany. students have served, or are now serving, i n At Baruch College — on the same day, Woodcock is a senior who hopes to “I feel like I’m not only improving my I ra q . At least four have been killed in Ira q , N o v. 1 0 , that Brooklyn College held its g raduate with a degree in finance this life but the lives of other, as well, in a wa y and the Brooklyn College veterans who event — President Kathleen Waldron met s p r i n g , and then find a job and apply to I never thought was possible,” he said. gathered with CUNY o f ficial Rosa paid with a number of Baruch vets who had g raduate schools.

8 CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 BOOK TALK OF THECITY Caring for an Aging Parent with Baggage Why Americans Don’t Vo t e A disturbing fact about A m e r i c a n By Gary Sch m i d g a l l mother was 86.” In the following five years got me instead; hence I am Roberta.” politics led Ronald Hayduk to write S a t o w, as the primary caregiver among Working from her own personal experi- Gatekeepers to the Fr a n c h i s e : S h a p i n g three siblings, watched her mother slip ence and extensive interviews with about Election Administration in New Yo r k, p u b- A perfect demographic storm is brew- g radually deeper into senile dementia. A t 50 caregivers, Satow has written a book lished this year by Northern Illinois ing on the gerontological front. the same time she had to deal with her designed to help caregivers identify and University Press. F i r s t , people 85 or older are the fastest memories of a mother who “never kissed overcome old, often destructive patterns The fact is this: T h e growing segment of the population: 3 8 me…never put her arms around me.” “ M y that may undermine or complicate their number of United percent between 1990 and 2000 (cente- c h i l d h o o d ,” Satow recalls, “ was spent in efforts for their parents in the here and States citizens who vote narians increased 35 percent). S e c o n d , fear of her, hiding from her, avoiding her n o w. Many pages in the book are devoted is distressingly low. medical advances are increasing life critical gaze.” Satow also notes that not to fascinating recreations (with names Barely half of the eligi- expectancy and transforming many acute only was the pregnancy that produced her changed) of her informants’ caregiving ble electorate cast bal- illnesses into chronic ones. T h i r d , l o n g - u n p l a n n e d , but that “my parents wished e x p e r i e n c e s. lots in presidential term declines in fertility mean fewer sib- for a Robert, b u t Part I, titled “The Internal Struggle,” e l e c t i o n s, and even few- lings available to care for elderly offers chapters on setting limits, g e t t i n g er do so in state and p a r e n t s. And fourth, there has angry and getting over it, and feeling guilty local contests. Po o r, been a recent trend towa r d and forgiving yourself. Part II, “ R e l a t i o n - m i n o r i t y, and urban communities report removing all but the most depen- ships that Offer Support or Create turnout rates that are even lower, c a l l i n g dent from nursing homes (those C o n fli c t ,” contains a chapter each on spous- into question the reality of A m e r i c a n 85 or older in nursing homes es and siblings. Particularly apropos for d e m o c ra c y, Hayduk says. declined from 25 to 18 percent C U N Y, the multicultural University, Pa r t Political scientist Hayduk, who teaches between 1990 and 2000). I I I , “Ethnicity and Gender,” offers three at the Borough of Manhattan Community At the heart in more than one chapters on cultural scripts for caregivers, C o l l e g e, assesses the impact of electora l sense of this gathering storm is the d a u g h t e r s, and sons that explore how care- rules on voter participation and electora l c a r e g i v e r, of which the National giving scenarios are affected by differences outcomes over the past 130 years. Family Caregivers Association esti- in ethnicity and gender (Satow is also the He looks at registration procedures mates there are about 25 million in author of Gender and Social Life) . and on-the-ground operations of New the U. S. That number will soon rise Satow ends her book on the note of York's state and city election boards. as the huge baby boomer genera t i o n p e a c e. F i r s t , making “peace with the reality confronts the challenge of caring for that our parent is going to die.” T h e n , f o r Law Enforcement Encycl o p e d i a aging parents. It is no short walk in the caregiver, “ Peace may come from the the park, e i t h e r : half of all caregivers satisfaction that you can have those con- Although there are other multivolume are on duty between one and four versations with your own children before books on criminal justice, the E n c y c l o p e d i a y e a r s, while about a fifth provide care your life is ending, even if you could not of Law Enforcement is special because it for more than five years. h ave them with your par- has an emphasis on the “ p ractice and These sobering statistics are offered e n t s. Peace may come from t h e o r y ” of policing. by Roberta Satow, chair of the understanding the historical The three-volume set, with over 550 Sociology Department at Brooklyn and intergenerational con- entries by more than 300 scholars and College and a practicing psychoanalyst text of our parents’ way of p ra c t i t i o n e r s, is a production of the Jo h n in New York City, in the opening pages treating us. Peace may come Jay College of Criminal Ju s t i c e, w i t h of Doing the Right T h i n g : Taking Care of from knowing and accepting Associate Dean and Chief Librarian Larry Your Elderly Parents Even If They Didn’t that you are E . S u l l i van as editor- i n - c h i e f. Take Care of Yo u ( Ta r c h e r / Pe n g u i n ) , w h i c h Roberta Satow, Brooklyn s e p a ra t e.” The E n c y c l o p e d i a’s scope ranges from will be of keen interest to certain unhappy College professor and author articles on police procedure to civilian campers who are thrust into caregiving of Doing the Right Thing i n v o l v e m e n t . It also discusses investiga- r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s. tive techniques, crime statistics, p o l i c i n g Even in the very s t rategies and minority issues. best of times, when a A particular strength of the E n c y c l o - lifetime of fond nur- Case Histories from the Caregiver Generation p e d i a is its international covera g e. T h e turing is eagerly attention to that area might surprise returned by a gra t e f u l PAU LA is 54 and must care for her elderly parents. This task is weightier than one some experts, since books on criminal son or daughter at a might think. justice tend to confine themselves to time of parental need, Pa u l a ’s father is an alcoholic who, years ago, used the belt too quickly when his chil- domestic issues. caregiving is a stressful, dren upset him. Pa u l a ’s mother carries some baggage also. Mom is oversexed, even today — adapted from Against the Grain, a exhausting responsibil- in her eighties. She has a history of extramarital affairs. C h a r l e s t o n , S. C.-based periodical for i t y. But what must it A modest dresser and practicing Catholic, Paula is conflicted about her parents. O n l i b rar ians and book publishers. be like when the par- the one hand, she believes that caring for them — making sure they take their medicine, spending quality Dialogue Overcomes Hatred ent and child bring time with them, putting up with their selfish demands — is the right thing to do. On the other hand, s h e f e s t e r i n g , d e c a d e s - o l d feels depressed, a n g r y, and resentful. he Holocaust was not something “ i s s u e s ” ( f av o r i t i s m , In Doing the Right T h i n g, author Satow offers a number of real life stories like Pa u l a ’s – stories that pre- T English professor Sondra Perl planned to a b u s e, v i o l e n c e, e t h n i c sent ethical quandaries painful enough to, l i t e ra l l y, send a person into thera p y. discuss with the Austrians whom she wa s c u s t o m , or mere differ- Paula does in fact enter thera p y, and finds ways to reduce her anger. She continues as caregiver to her par- sent to teach in 1996, but as a Jew in the ences in personality) to ents — accepting the fact that her siblings don’t help — but she also decides to put distance between herself land of Hitler’s youth, she had many what Satow chooses to and her parents sometimes, giving herself much needed breaks from the hours she spends with them. questions to pose. call this “new stage of S A L LY is 41, divorced and the mother of four children, one of whom has cere- On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I was life”? Human nature b ral palsy. She also cares for her mother, a diabetic amputee who must be on dialysis Taught to Hate (SUNY Press, 2005) grew being as it is, the num- three days a week and, w h a t ’s more, has dementia. out of this discourse between Pe r l , a pro- ber of parent-child S a l l y ’s mom did not show nearly as much dedication when Sally was growing up. fessor of English at Lehman College and caregiving relationships In fact, her mother allowed Sally and her sister to be sexually abused by their father. at the CUNY Graduate Center, and her that are deeply con- And her mother never lifted a finger to help Sally in the raising of Sally’s children. Austrian students. flicted as a result of N e v e r t h e l e s s, Sally spends her days working a full-time job, studying to get her Perl believes that her book is a manual family history must be degree in nursing, and preparing meals for her children — all in addition to the time on how to engage in dialogue when its in the millions, and it she devotes to her mother. Acknowledging she feels burdened by all she does, S a l l y issues are, to say the is to this potentially nonetheless believes she has grown spiritually. “I think my character has improved,” she tells Satow. l e a s t , e m o t i o n a l l y large group that Satow While not being harshly judgmental, Satow wonders in print whether Sally is making all the right c h a r g e d . has addressed D o i n g c h o i c e s. She suggests Sally’s children might suffer in their emotional development because Sally is divert- Clearly the profes- the Right T h i n g. ing so much attention from them. sor found value in the She begins her pref- Satow notes that Sally is an African-American and writes that African-Americans have a “culture of car- e n d e av o r, because she a c e, “This book is per- i n g ” for their elderly parents. She points out that in an Ohio study, 62 percent of black nursing home resi- has visited Au s t r i a s o n a l ,” and indeed it is. dents lived with their children before going into homecare. For others, the figure was 23.2 percent. twelve times since that “I began this book first trip. when I was 54 and my

CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 9 Early College High School Program Reaches a Milestone

for five years, beginning in the ninth gra d e. For Marcia Glick, a n M e d i c i n e. Perez Vi l l a , w h o When she came to America from her The best part? They didn’t have to pay associate professor in com- now has her green card, i s native Colombia, International High a dime in college tuition. The CUNY Early munications skills at mulling offers from severa l School student Angela Perez Villa yearned College High School Program is funded L a G u a r d i a , working with universities and hopes to for a college education but never thought from a $7 million grand from the Bill & high school students like start classes in Ja n u a r y. “ I she would be able to afford one. Melinda Gates Fo u n d a t i o n . Torres and Perez Villa has was the first person in my “I was an undocumented alien, so I Currently six CUNY colleges are been “an incredible teach- family to graduate from col- couldn’t get any financial aid,” said the 19- involved with Early College high schools. ing experience. They rise l e g e,” she said. “ I ’d like to y e a r-old Perez Vi l l a . In addition to LaGuardia Community to the occasion, and they major in international poli- M o n e y, s p e c i fica lly saving money, was on C o l l e g e, they are: Hostos Community do their work. Two of the tics and literary studies Middle College High School student C o l l e g e, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Middle College students because I have a passion for Jeremias Torres’ mind when the 18-year- o l d City College and Queens College. even took on leadership writing and for politics.” was thinking about furthering his education. Those campuses work with several hun- roles in a group project we Torres also has set his While they were working toward their dred Early College High School students were doing.” Angela Perez Villa was sights high. “My great-gra n d- high school diplomas, Torres and Pe r e z c i t y w i d e. Torres and Perez Vi l l a among first CUNY E a r l y mother had A l z h e i m e r ’s,” h e Villa found a way to earn the college “This was a tremendous accomplish- say that the transition from College High School grads, s a i d , “and it hurt me a lot to degrees that will mold their futures: ment for our students and proved that high school student to col- receiving associate’s degree see her suffer. My life’s goal Through The City University of New Yo r k , they can succeed at high levels,” said A a r o n lege students was not as from LaGuardia. is find a cure.” they and a select group of others from L i s t h a u s, principal of Middle College High d i f ficult as they had Perez Villa said of the their two high schools enrolled in the fir s t S c h o o l . “ For 30 years, our students and t h o u g h t . Early College High School class of the CUNY Early College High International High students could take “There was always somebody there to p r o g ra m , “I keep recommending it to oth- School progra m . LaGuardia courses, but this is the first time help me,” Perez Villa said. “In the seminars, e r s, and I hope it expands throughout the This fall they and six other students they could do it and also earn a degree they guided me through the process.” n a t i o n .” were the very first graduates of the pro- while they were still in high school.” The Early College High School experi- E x t r aordinary high school teachers hav e g ra m , walking away with a diploma from Teachers at LaGuardia and at the two e n c e, she said, made her a better high been attracted to the Early College progra m . their respective high schools — and an high schools say more students are school student and turned her into a disci- The May 2005 issue of CUNY Matters fea- a s s o c i a t e ’s degree from LaGuardia. enrolling each year. “Early College High plined college student. “The college profes- tured a Brooklyn College/ Harvard Medical While at their high schools they had School has motivated kids who wouldn’t sors were very strict and really criticized School gra d , D r. Philip Je f f e r y, who wa s also been taking courses at LaGuardia, necessarily go to college,” says Debby my work, and I could apply this to my teaching at Science, Technology and which is the innovative idea of the Early Fr e e d m a n , an English teacher at Middle high school work.” Research (STAR) High School, based at College High School Progra m . College High School and an Early College Torres is a junior at City College E rasmus High School in Brooklyn. Ty p i c a l l y, a student will be in the progra m High School adviser. “Some have been real majoring in biochemistry and has his eye S TAR Early College High School has success stories.” on the University of Florida College of been partnered with Brooklyn College. More and More Students Visit China, to Study a Country

But increasing numbers of college Students say they benefit greatly from China gave us is friends,” Belmonti said. “ I The New York Ti m e s began a recent s t u d e n t s, t o o, are looking at the changing their experiences. “ I ’ve been traveling all met students from Germany, Ko r e a , Fra n c e article about China with a four- w o r d world landscape and are trying to find a my life and China is completely different and Russia in the dorm. The members of s e n t e n c e : Move over, New Yo r k . place for themselves in it. from any other country I’ve been to,” s a i d our own group bonded, and we still get The story introduced readers to the Across the University, during the 2004- Valeria Belmonti, a recent College of together once a week. You help each other b u s t l i n g , s k y s c raping city of Shanghai, 2005 academic year, a total of 740 students Staten Island graduate who was in express yourself. You become a better which has come to represent the explosive went abroad in various for-credit progra m s, Shanghai this past summer. human being.” growth of the Chinese economy. A m e r i c a n according to James M. C h e r r y, C U N Y ’s “The people of our age have different Students say they learned more than scholars and business leaders are very Coordinator for International Education. habits and goals. They are very work- enough Chinese to get by. “I now have a much aware of that growth, and of the Italy has been, over the years, the most o r i e n t e d . They respect the rules a lot.” basic knowledge of the Chinese language, need to understand nations and cultures of popular destination, because of its linguistic Belmonti and other CUNY students I can talk with the Chinese and buy things the new global economy. and artistic importance to the We s t e r n stayed in the foreign student dorm at by myself,” said Taiwo A . O l a s u p o, a native w o r l d , but “China is definitely becoming Shanghai University, where they met other of Nigeria, who is working on a master’s more and more popular,” Cherry said. young men and women from colleges degree in business management at the Photo of The College of Staten Island, f o r around the world. College of Staten Island. Shanghai, o n e, has been taking long strides The College of Staten Island also has a Olasupo added, “I wrote a paper on the proud old t o ward exposing students to the regular semester progra m , which is held at rapid growth of China’s economy creating city of a new languages and history China. Nanjing University. Students there study a demand for steel there. Shanghai is the China. “China is a hot country because it not only Mandarin Chinese but also intro- economic powerhouse of the world. It is is the biggest economy in the world, ductory courses in history, g e o g ra p h y, developing quickly. Someone like me and it’s growing ra p i d l y,” said A n n l i t e ra t u r e, political science and the culture could get a job in a bank or any of the H e l m , director of the Center for and society of China. financial institutions.” International Service at the College “One of the most beautiful things Of course, international study, e s p e c i a l l y of Staten Island, which man- ages CUNY’s China progra m . “Modern China is attra c t- Directory of Overseas Programs for Students and Fa c u l t y ing a lot of attention from stu- dents and the press. We know The University offers a broad range of overseas programs for students, and faculty as well. a lot about ancient China, b u t For students, Study Abroad programs may be year- l o n g , s e m e s t e r-long or short-term (mean- we have very little knowledge ing a summer or a winter inter- s e s s i o n ) . of contemporary China.” Students normally pay tuition through the sponsoring CUNY college, and financial assis- The college opened a t a n c e, such as federal student loans and Pell gra n t s, may be ava i l a b l e. Financial aid officers can p r o g ram in the bustling city help determine which loans or grants may be suitable. of Shanghai in 2001. In that With money from the Wallace Fo u n d a t i o n , CUNY has been operating the STO C S p r o g ra m , held during summer p r o g ra m , which stands for Study/Travel Opportunities for CUNY Students. S TOCS offers and winter intercessions, s t u- scholarships to eligible CUNY students for short-term study abroad progra m s. dents take courses in Chinese Anyone interested in overseas programs should visit the International Programs web language and business. T h e y d i r e c t o r y. It can be reached by going to the CUNY home page (w w w. c u n y. e d u) , then clicking can earn up to six college “Colleges & Academic Progra m s,” and then going to the “Study A b r o a d ” l i n k . credits in a variety of courses Those interested also can call the University’s office of International Programs at (212) taught by faculty and staff at 7 9 4 - 5 6 6 6 . Shanghai University.

10 CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 NYCCT Dental Te ch Students Are Among Top 10 in Country

that City Tech was “a perfect fit ” f o r R e d a - S z y wa l a , who now resides in the Master Dental Technician designation. When the Journal of Dental Te c h n o l - B a r t h o l d , who had earned a bachelor’s Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, o v e r c a m e While continuing her educational pur- o g y, the official voice of the dental technol- degree in liberal arts and has a background language and cultura l s u i t s, R e d a - S z y wala hopes ogy industry, went looking for the top ten in printing, c a r p e n t r y, cabinet making, p o t- barriers to eventually to receive as much experi- students in the more than 40 correspond- t e r y, painting and draw i n g. enroll in City Te c h ’s ence as possible by work- ing educational programs nationwide, i t One of his City Tech instructors, R e n a t a dental laboratory tech- ing in a dental labora t o r y. found two of those students enrolled in B u d n y, told the publication that Barthold nology progra m . W h i l e According to dental the dental laboratory technology progra m “has already mastered many requirements also working in a den- l a b o ratory technology at New York City College of Te c h n o l o g y. of the dental technology profession, t i s t ’s offic e, she main- Chair Nicholas Manos, From the flood of nominations from the including manual dexterity, design ability, tained a 3.84 gra d e Barthold and Reda- 40-plus schools, the Jo u r n a l culled the list molding and sculpting. Students such as point av e ra g e, was an S z y wala “are among the to those 10 students who stood above the D avid Barthold “don’t come around often,” honor student and best and the brightest stu- crowd because of their dedication to their Budny added, “but when they do, t h e y member of both the dents produced by the City chosen profession, their outstanding make a lasting impression on everyone — C o l l e g e ’s Honors Tech program in my years g ra d e s, and their determination never to s t u d e n t s, faculty and school offic i a l s.” Scholars Program and h e r e. They will make an settle for “good enough.” Barthold has a 4.0 grade point av e ra g e its chapter of the impressive mark on the According to the Ju n e / July 2005 issue and will graduate in spring 2006. He hopes National Society of dental technology fie l d .” of the Jo u r n a l, D avid Barthold, a resident to work as an in-house technician for a Collegiate Scholars Established in 1947, of Park Slope in Brooklyn, found himself d e n t i s t , assisting with patients, g a i n i n g before graduating in the City Tech program in f r u s t rated by the difficulties of earning a experience quickly, and seeing the human June 2005. dental laboratory technol- decent living from his pottery business, results of his efforts. “Beata is the type of David Barthold, who began dental ogy is considered to be despite the fact that he had been produc- Beata Reda-Szywala grew up in student that likes chal- t e c h n o l o gy studies after experiencing the oldest, the first of its ing work for some of A m e r i c a ’s top decora- Communist Po l a n d , where her ambition wa s lenges and is willing to d i f ficulties in his pottery business. kind and the largest in the t o r s. During his search for a new and more to become a dentist, according to the Jo u r n a l take extra responsibili- c o u n t r y. It is the fir s t l u c rative career, he eventually found him- a r t i c l e. But after finishing high school, s h e t y,” Budny told the school of dental lab tech- self bitten by the dental technology bug. was unable to obtain one of the limited spots Jo u r n a l , “not only toward her education nician training accredited by the A m e r i c a n “Dental technology is fascinating to in a dental school. Instead she became a but also toward helping other students, o u r Dental Association and the National m e,” Barthold told the Jo u r n a l,“because it midwife and took psychology courses before department and even needy neighbors.” Association of Dental Labs. It is the only i n t e g rates a great variety of technical and eventually relocating to the United States. Now that Reda-Szywala has gra d u a t e d , d e g r e e - g ran ting program of its kind in the artistic knowledge. There is a great deal yet “When I moved to the U. S. ,” she told she plans to earn the Certified Dental r e g i o n , and recent donations of equipment for me to learn, but I don’t think I’ll ever the publication, “I decided to do Technician designation in crown and from industry leaders make its educational grow tired of it. something with dentistry because that wa s b r i d g e. She then wants to go on to earn a labs among the finest in A m e r i c a . The Jo u r n a l article went on to report a l ways my dream.” on the Rise, and to Learn about a New Emerging Wo r l d

to China, comes with a language through price tag. i m m e r s i o n , but I Fa c u l t y, To o, Have Much to Learn From China Shuming Lu, c o o r d i n a- acquired an insatiable tor of Brooklyn College’s curiosity about other This year, CUNY students weren’t the only ones who got a chance to take a cra s h BC-Study Abroad Progra m c u l t u r e s,” said Maya course in China’s culture. in China, said a month- T s e n k e n i s, During Ju l y, 19 faculty members visited Beijing, S h a n g h a i , S u z h o u , N a n j i n g , X i a n long course of study and a pre-law student at and Hong Kong under CUNY’s new China faculty familiarization progra m . T h e r e, t h e y t ravel costs $2,298. Tu i t i o n , Hunter College, a met Chinese students and educators from Shanghai University, Nanjing University and amounting to about $500 S TOCS scholarship the City University of Hong Ko n g. They visited with government officials and represen- for three credits, is on top recipient who recently tatives of business and industry. of that. studied at Mar del “It was an eye-opening experience,” said David Jo h n s o n , assistant director of GEAR UP But the program offers P l a t a , A r g e n t i n a . at LaGuardia Community College, who also teaches courses in human services. i m m e a s u rable opportuni- Tsenkenis spoke those He elabora t e d , “In China, the faculty members not only teach the courses of study, ties for personal and intel- words at the Gra d u a t e they teach character and moral development of students.” lectual growth. Center in October, a s David Gordon, an associate professor in the history department at Bronx One of the popular University administra- Community College and at The Graduate Center, said that the faculty China courses in his progra m , L u tors gathered to cele- program was set up to make faculty more knowledgeable about China and its impor- s a i d , is “Comparison of As a CUNY Honors b rate the tenth tance as an emerging world powerhouse. Chinese and Islamic College/Baruch College student, anniversary of STO C S. “China is not simply another foreign country to study,” said Gordon, one of the C u l t u r e s,” which takes Darya Kerzhner went to China ( S TOCS is funded group leaders on the trip. “It is THE foreign country to study. And this program intro- a d vantage of the signific a n t through the STOCS program. by the Wa l l a c e duced the faculty to the dynamic Chinese economy of the 21st Century.” Muslim presence in Fo u n d a t i o n . ) As for Jo h n s o n , he said he made many friends during the trip, and he hopes to keep Chinese society. “Students can take as Based on their experiences, a number of in touch with the scholars he met, and perhaps set up collaborative projects between many as six credits in that one month, t ravel-abroad students were offered jobs the two countries. “I hope this will lead to other kinds of exchanges.” because it’s intensive,” Lu said. soon after returning to the States. S o m e For his part, Joyce said he can’t wait to share his experiences with his students. For those students strapped for cash, received offers while still in China. there is good news. One thing Lu likes to “I was actually offered a job teaching make clear is that $2,298 is a bargain, c o n- kids English in a Chinese school because I sidering that it includes room and board, a s expressed my intention of staying in China. Osama bin Laden.” But after being togeth- w o r s t . Yet what he commented on wa s well as travel to various cities and places of I never started, t h o u g h , because I got (a job er and talking, “we (Americans) managed to how can we all be of one nation yet look interest and other related costs. offer from CUNY) right before I was to go befriend that kid…and hopefully we so different from one another, and he wa s But there are also various scholarships to work,” said Belmonti, now assistant turned that hate into something more pos- dumbfounded that A s i a n - A m e r i c a n s and programs for very low-income students. director of the Modern Languages Media i t i v e,” said Ke r z h n e r, a student at CUNY identify with the U. S. as their homeland.” Students may use their Pell and TAP money Center at the College of Staten Island. Honors College at Baruch College. That encounter showed that study for overseas study. A n d , there are progra m s While students learn about the cultures of Some CUNY students said they felt, i n abroad is not a way way affair, that CUNY like STO C S, which stands for Study/Trav e l the cities they visit, they also learn much a profound wa y, the e pluribus unum students and their hosts, in fact, learn from Opportunities for CUNY Students. It pro- from students from other countries who nature of the U. S. A . each other. vides up to $1,500 for undergraduates with t ravel and live with them. The power of such Sevi Ko n i o s s i s, a graduate student in For her part, Ke r z h n e r, who gra d u a t e d family incomes below $65,000. Over the c u l t u ral exchanges can be life-tra n s f o r m i n g. education at Brooklyn College, s a i d : from Baruch and works now for A m E x , past decade, 1,500 CUNY students hav e Darya Ke r z h n e r, who traveled to China “While in Beijing sightseeing, one man said she has traveled abroad a number of t raveled through the progra m . on a STOCS scholarship, said she met a asked that I sit next to him. As a typical t i m e s, and has grown intellectually with “Not only did I pick up another foreign student who was “a proponent of New Yo r k e r, I immediately thought the each trip.

CUNY MATTERS — November 2005 11 E v e ry Day An Event for the Active Mind. Put One–or Several–on Your Calendar. D e c e m b e r Colleges Focus on Wo m e n ’s Issues SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Graduate 1 2 3 s h i p.The conference, calendar and website C e n t e r Q u e e n s b o ro u g h L e h m a n omen comprised 63 percent of received support from JPMorgan Chase, An hour’s visit to C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e W the Eighteenth C U N Y ’s graduating class this past Ju n e, b u t The New York Times Knowledge College C a r i b b e a n C e n t u ry Reading Poko Puppet’s Music Legend D r. Gail O. Mellow sees the University not N e t w o r k , the New York City Department Room. Jack Frost Maxi Priest only as a leading educator of women, b u t of Cultural A f f a i r s, and T I A A - C R E F. R e s e rve early Holiday Revue 8 PM $15, as a front-line educator of women leaders. Amid strong interest in women’s issues 2-3 PM Fre e Dec 2-4 $ 2 5 On Oct. 1 4 , the LaGuardia Community on CUNY campuses, the Wo m e n ’s 11 AM $10 College president saw some of her vision Leadership Initiative, led by President 4 5 6 7 8 B o rough of 9 1 0 realized with the Wo m e n ’s Leadership M e l l o w, continues this spring with a tra i n- Queens College G r a d u a t e York College College of New York City M a n h a t t a n C o m m u n i t y C o n f e r e n c e, the kickoff to a series of ing program for women student leaders at Ki-Sui-An C e n t e r Film & Staten Island College of Shakuhachi I n t e rn a t i o n a l / D i s c u s s i o n : Holiday Stre s s College KAPOOT CUNY initiatives highlighting women, L a G u a r d i a . Te c h n o l o g y Dojo World Theatre : Pollock S u rvival 2005 Live & Clown Theatre their challenges, achievements and issues. A policy institute, headed by Hunter Traditional Arab Oedipus 12:00 PM 10:30 AM Silent Auction 12/9-10:30 AM M e l l o w, who conceived of the confer- College President Jennifer Raab, is also Japanese Music 6:30 PM F re e 6 PM $25 1 2 / 10-1:30 PM 1 PM, Free F re e $15 Adults/ ence and co-chaired a key part of the pro- p l a n n e d , to provide information on how $10 Childre n g ram — the CUNY such issues are Wo m e n ’s addressed by 1 1 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 Leadership Pa n e l the city, s t a t e York College Graduate College of ‘ C H O S E N ’ Center Staten Island Graduate Center — called it “a day and federal gov- A New Gospel The Joy of R e c i t a l : M e x i c a n for inspiration for e r n m e n t s. I n P l a y I m p rov The CSI Guitar Folkloric Ballet both our speakers a d d i t i o n , a new 6 PM 6:30-9 PM E n s e m b l e of New York 7 PM and our CUNY intern- $25 advance $ 2 5 7:30 PM $30 at the door $ 5 $15; free with s t u d e n t s … We all ship progra m CUNY ID laughed and will give stu- 1 8 2 1 2 2 2 4 learned of the chal- dents the Q u e e n s b o ro u g h Graduate Center Christmas Eve lenges women lead- opportunity to Community Gentle Yoga ers confront.” work on wom- College Classes start , Gail Collins, en-related top- Oratorio t h rough 12/26 editorial page edi- ics in the offic e s Society of 6-7:30 PM tor of The New of elected offi- Queens 4 PM $90; $20; $18 $70 GC students York Ti m e s and the New Wo m en’s Leadership Calendar can be cials and wom- first woman to hold found at www. c u n y. e d u / w o m e n s l e a d e r s h i p. e n ’s rights 2 5 2 6 2 7 2 8 29 30 31 the post, k e y n o t e d o r g a n i z a t i o n s. Christmas K w a n z a a N e w the daylong conference, which attra c t e d At Brooklyn C o l l e g e, m e a n w h i l e, a $2 D a y begins Ye a r’s some 300 CUNY student leaders, f a c u l t y million gift from an anonymous donor E v e H a n u k k a h and staff to New York Academy of promises to significantly boost the college’s First day of begins H a n u k k a h Medicine Conference Center on Fifth Av e. 3 1 - y e a r-old Wo m e n ’s Studies Progra m . at sundown at 103rd Street in Manhattan. C o l l i n s Under the gift’s terms, $1.5 million will recalled the tough political and profession- fund the first endowed professorship in al struggles American women have wa g e d , w o m e n ’s studies in City University history, and exhorted her audience to “seize the which will actually be parceled into a year- moment and seize the day” as they work to long visiting professorship for distinguished open doors for future genera t i o n s. scholars from outside the college, and two- J a n u a r y SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY The city and state government offic i a l s year appointments to the Wo m e n ’s Studies 1 2 5 6 7 and businesswomen featured at the confer- P r o g ram for Brooklyn faculty tempora r i l y B o rough of New Ye a r’s Day Kwanzaa ends M a n h a t t a n Medgar Evers ence advised listeners about skills they will on leave from their departments. T h e C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e need as they aim for leadership roles. remainder of the donation supports the H a n u k k a h C o l l e g e Basketball vs. There were three panels: Women Leaders Shirley Chisholm Center for the Study of e n d s K l e i n s i n g e r ' s Staten Island Shaping New York City Government, Wo m e n , the research affiliate of the Highlights Women - 5 PM in Jazz Men - 7:15 PM Women Leaders Shaping New York State Wo m e n ’s Studies Progra m . 8 PM $30; F re e G o v e r n m e n t , and Women in Business: The identity of the donor remains a $27.50 Students Challenges and Opportunities. mystery to program organizers, who hav e 8 B a ruch 9 1 0 Graduate 1 1 The theme was stressed right up to the been arranging the gift since early 2004 College C e n t e r end of the day, when the CUNY/New Yo r k through the benefactor’s representatives. Ten Ideas in The Yo u n g Ti m e s Knowledge Network 2006 Wo m e n ’s “ We don’t even know whether the donor Twenty Minutes: M o z a rt: violin What They Might & piano Leadership Calendar — spotlighting tra i l- is a man or a woman,” said A s s o c i a t e Mean for Yo u 7:30 PM blazing women and watershed moments in Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences and for F re e the history of women’s suffrage — wa s Patricia A n t o n i e l l o, director of the $ P h i l a n t h ro p y d i s t r i b u t e d . The calendar, featuring photos Chisholm center. 5 PM Fre e from the archives of the Ti m e s, C U N Y “Whoever it is, we are completely 1 5 $1 6 1 7 1 9 Lehman Graduate colleges and other sources, has a compan- t h a n k f u l .” College $M a rtin Center ion website, w w w. c u n y. e d u / w o m e n s l e a d e r- B.B. King Luther Talking Gre e n : p e rf o rms a Tr i b u t e King, Jr. G re e n to Dr. Martin Luther D a y Education King! 7 PM $100, ( o b s e rv e d ) 7 PM $20; $50, $45, $35 $10 students Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTA G E 22 Graduate 25 2 7 28 The City University of New Yo r k Center Q u e e n s b o ro u g h P A I D Belly Dance for O f fice of University Relations UTICA, NY C o m m u n i t y Body and Spirit: 535 East 80th St. Permit No. 79 College T h rough 3/1 L a t i n New Yo r k , NY 10021 5:30-6:45 PM Legends of $90; Comedy $70 students; 8 PM $17 per class $35, $32, $29 29 30 3 1

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