WBCR 1090 FM (Brooklyn College)

WKRB 90.3 FM (Kingsborough Community College)

WMEC 91.5 FM on Sundays from 6pm to 8pm and Cablevision BCAT TV 70 daily from 1pm to 5pm  (Medgar Evers College)

WHCR 90.3 FM (City College)

http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/webradio/ (LaGuardia Community College)

If you hear it, let me know!  Thanks!

Beth Kneller, bkneller@gc.cuny.edu

For more information, visit http://macaulay.cuny.edu/conference or email    macaulayconference@mhc.cuny.edu

Students have, in fact, been formulating their degrees in sustainability through CUNY Baccalaureate (CUNY BA/BS) since the late 1990s. To help guide new and current students in this growing field, CUNY BA/BS is pleased to provide this new sub-portal to the degree’s main website.

According to the degree’s academic director, Dr. Kim J. Hartswick, “The field of sustainability is inherently interdisciplinary so it is appropriate that the first CUNY undergraduate students graduating with concentrations in this discipline earned their degrees through CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies. Since our first ‘sustainability graduate’ only two years ago we have now at least 35 others having completed or presently pursuing such degrees and this number is expected to grow. Our graduates are already making differences, for example, by pursuing ‘sustainable’ graduate degrees, working on renewable energies, and building water systems in Africa. It is through the education of such committed individuals that the challenges facing the sustainability of the world will be addressed and overcome.”

The website features news and announcements of interest to students and faculty in the field, as well as student and faculty profiles, a database of sustainability-related courses offered throughout the University, and links to other CUNY resources.

Stephen Paelet, a new CUNY BA/BS student as of fall 2009 (who had previously studied at UMass/Amherst, the New School, and Columbia University), says “CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies is the perfect place to study sustainability.” Paelet is planning his area of concentration in “Sustainable Development” and expects to take courses at City College, Hunter College, and Queens College.

NOW – New York State Annual Convention

Beyond Empowerment: Living and Surviving in a Sexist World

October 25, 2009

Crowne Plaza White Plains, 66 Hale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601

http://nownys.org/convention_agenda_2009.html

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  Location: Ballroom. “The Matriarch Within You: Having the Power to Change the World.”  We need every woman to join us in the fight for equality.  We need you to bring your unique talents, whether a different prospective from another culture or religion, or insight from your generation.  The power within you can be (re)awakened.   Join our speakers as they discuss ways for women to use their personal power to move mountains, relating their experience as veteran feminists, or using their tech skills as a young feminist.  Workshop Presenters: Zenaida Mendez, Jerin Alam

For free student registration, please send the following info in an email to huntersolar@gmail.com, with “New York City Solar Summit” as the subject:

Name

College, Expected Year of Graduation

Major

Email Address

The New York City Solar Summit is coordinated by the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE), Bronx Community College on behalf of the City University of New York (CUNY). CSE was established in 2003 with a mission to promote and implement the use of renewable and efficient energy technologies in urban communities through education, training, workforce development, research, and project facilitation.

Did you know? 50% of CUNY BA/BS graduates go on to graduate school!

“CUNY BA/BS enabled me to secure a research internship at Rutgers (my top-choice for grad school) which helped me gain acceptance to the graduate program and turn my internship into a long-term position.  So once again, many thanks to the program, as this route to completing my undergraduate studies and transitioning onward could not have worked out any better!”       -K. Daya Bill (Urban Sustainability), B.A., January 2009

Anika Altmann, M.S., Urban Affairs, Hunter College/CUNY

K. Daya Bill, M.C.R.P., City and Regional Planning, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University*

Arthur Coleman, Ph.D., Economics, CUNY Graduate Center

Ronda Collins, M.S., Clinical Psychology, Howard University

Maureen Durkin, M.S., Speech Language Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions

Gabriela Etzensberger, M.S., Speech Pathology, Lehman College/CUNY

Sam Friedman, M.S., Interactive Telecommunications, New York University, with a $20,000 scholarship

Kelly Gola, Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Univ. California at Santa Cruz, with a teaching assistantship and scholarship support ($40,000 of funding)

Julia Gomez, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, with a Tuition Scholarship, Beall Scholarship, Graduate Teaching Fellowship (over $33,000 of funding)

James Green, M.S., School Counseling, Brooklyn College/CUNY

Charles Greene, M.S.W., Hunter College School of Social Work*

Anthony Harper, M.P.H., Lehman College/CUNY

Kemile Jackson, Ph.D., History, CUNY Graduate Center

Frank J. Jefferson, M.P.H., Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health*

Aashish Jethra, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, with a merit scholarship.

Rebecca Journey, M.A., Oral History, Columbia University*

Tyleen Kelly, Master of Studies in English Literature, Oxford University, U.K. and Ph.D., English, UC Berkeley*

Sibongile Kenyatta, J.D., University of the West Indies

Rachel Klapper, M.A., Government and Counter-Terrorism, IDC (Interdisciplinary Center) Herzliya, Israel*

Salma Malik, M.S., Occupational Therapy, New York University

Erica Plass, M.A., English Literature, Queens College/CUNY

Azriel Relph, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism as a Sulzberger Scholar*

Michelle Sahli, Ph.D., Epidemiology, SUNY Buffalo

Cosim John Sayid, Ph.D., Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center

Vanessa Smarth, Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, Columbia University

Deidre Spahr, Waldorf Education Teacher Training, Micha-El Institute

Meredith Stockman, M.S., Negotiation and Conflict, Columbia University

David Wilson, M.F.A, Studio Art (Combined Media), HunterCollege/CUNY

 *Recipient of a CUNY BA/BS Alumni Fund Scholarship

CUNY BA/BS students:  Please make sure you let us know when you are accepted to graduate school. Thanks!

It was a joyous occasion in which each graduate was recognized by coming on stage to receive the degree. Several faculty mentors were on hand, as was the CUNY BA/BS staff and many campus coordinators.

Board of Trustees Member Wellington Z. Chen brought greetings on behalf CUNY; Vice Chancellor for Student Development, Garrie S. Moore, did the same.

Wellington Chen (Member, CUNY Board of Trustees)

Garrie W. Moore (Vice Chancellor for Student Development)

At the ceremony, the following students received awards and scholarships:

The Abby Stein Scholarship was awarded to B. Diane Gibson (Criminology). Diane started college in 1965 but only attended briefly. She returned to college – Baruch – in 1991, starting in remedial math. In 1993, she was accepted to CUNY Baccalaureate, and, taking one course every semester since (16 years!) she graduated this June. Her goal is to work as a case worker with young felons, ex-offenders in the mental health system or the developmentally disabled. Gibson will be the first college graduate in her family.

Diane Gibson (Criminology, June 2009 Graduate) receives the Abby Stein Award

The Dan Daley Journalism Award was presented to Azriel Relph (International Relations / Journalism). Four years ago, at the age of 25, Azriel decided to go to college and enrolled in Borough of Manhattan Community College, then CUNY Baccalaureate, where he discovered his passion for writing. He has been accepted to three Journalism graduate schools: Columbia, NYU, and CUNY. He chose the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism which he will attend as a Sulzberger Scholar, saying “it would have felt great to go to an Ivy League school but the cutting edge curriculum at CUNY Journalism, combined with my CUNY Baccalaureate degree, will take me much farther.” He is a Summa cum Laude graduate and the first CUNY BA/BS graduate accepted to CUNY’s new journalism school.

Azriel Relph (International Relations/Journalism, June 2009 Graduate) receives the Dan Daley Journalism Award

The Susan Palmer-Van Brackle Award was given to Rebecca Journey (International Affairs / Comparative Literature). Rebecca’s academic interests include human rights, oral history, trauma and memory, literary theory, linguistics, visual culture, modernist and postcolonial literature, and international law. She is an intern at UNICEF, where she recently had several articles on human rights published. Rebecca has been accepted to the Master’s program in Oral History at Columbia University, a highly competitive, selective program.

Rebeca Journey (International Affairs/Comparative Literature, June 2009 Graduate) receives the Susan Palmer-Van Brackle Award

The Nan Bauer-Maglin Prize in Literary Studies was awarded to Giuseppina Di Lena (Italian Language and Literature / 20th Century American Literature). Giuseppina, an immigrant from Italy, says her mother never learned to read and write, and her father never finished the fourth grade, yet on her own she became a voracious reader. After winning money on an Italian TV game show similar to Jeopardy, she moved to New York, and after her 40th birthday enrolled in college to study Italian and American Literature. She currently works for the NYC Department of Education. Her goal is to pursue a Master’s in Library Science and become a children’s librarian. She graduated Summa cum Laude.

Giuseppina Di Lena (Italian Language and Literature/20th Century American Literature, January 2009 Graduate) receives the Nan Bauer-Maglin Prize in Literary Studies

The Barbara Kneller Memorial Award was given to Katherine Daya Bill (Urban Sustainability).  Daya is interested in local policies that respond to the challenges of globalization and climate change to build healthier urban economies and environments. She has been accepted to Rutger University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

Katherine Daya Bill (Urban Sustainability, January 2009) receives the Barbara Kneller Award, presented by Beth Kneller (Deputy Director)

The four recipients of the CUNY Baccalaureate Alumni Awards were:

Charles Greene (Human Services: Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counseling), formerly incarcerated for 15 years under New York’s Rockefeller laws, Charles now a Case Worker in the Young Fathers Program at Claremont Neighborhood Centers. Charles, a Summa cum Laude graduate, has been accepted to Hunter’s School of Social Work.

Charles Greene (Human Services: Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counseling, January 2009)

Frank Jefferson (Public Policy) spent the last 14 years raising money in support of public health programs and returned to college to prepare to be a public health leader instead. Saying he owes his success to CUNY Baccalaureate, Frank’s undergraduate study included in-depth research into the health challenges of sexual minority communities. He will be continuing his work at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Frank Jefferson (Public Policy, June 2009; Student Member, University Committee) receives an Alumni Award

Tyleen Kelly (Literature / Theatre) attributes her academic success to working closely with a faculty mentor, being able to take courses at both Hunter and City, and having access to graduate-level education. Her significant work in the studies of science and theatre in Victorian literature led to her acceptance to the Master’s program at Oxford University (where she has already presented one paper), and the University of California-Berkeley for her Ph.D. in English.

Tyleen Kelly (Literature/Theatre, June 2009 Graduate; Student Member, University Committee)

Rachel Klapper (Journalism and International Affairs / Holocaust Representation), a student in the CUNY Macaulay Honors College, is a published writer and activist who says she has been “deeply affected by CUNY BA/BS’s interdisciplinary academic mission.” She has been accepted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she will pursue a Master’s in Society and Politics in Israel.

Rachel Klapper (Journalism and International Affairs/Holocaust Representation, June 2009 Graduate) receives and Alumni Award

The Keynote Commencement Speech was given by Journalist Mohamad Bazzi,  a 1997 graduate of CUNY Baccalaureate, is assistant professor of journalism at New York University.  He was the 2007-08 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; from 2003 until 2007 he was the Middle East bureau chief at Newsday, based in Beirut and responsible for covering the Arab world.  He was the lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath, setting up Newsday bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut.

You can listen to Mohamad’s speech here

Mohamad Bazzi (Journalist, CUNY BA Alumnus)

The Commencement Speech on Behalf of the Faculty Mentors was given by Professor Pamela S. Falk, Distinguished Lecturer of Political Science and International Law at Hunter College, where she teaches international relations and American foreign policy courses and is the faculty advisor for Hunter College’s Model U.N. Team.

You can listen to Prof. Falk’s speech here

Prof. Pamela S. Falk (Political Science, Hunter College)

The Commencement Speech on Behalf of the Graduates was given by Marlaina Powell, a June 2009 graduate (Area of Concentration: Performing Arts), and Broadway actor who hopes to go on to graduate school in Performance Studies.

You can listen to Marlaina’s speech here

Marliana Powell (Performing Arts, June 2009 Graduate)

For previous visitors, the basics of the site remain the same: the blue navigational menu provides one-click access to all information pages. These pages have been enhanced with

• a left-side menu based on visitor areas (e.g., Prospective Students, Faculty Mentors, Alumni)
• sidebars with selected recent posts and upcoming events

The home page now highlights

• several student profiles
• featured blog posts
• a sidebar of blog categories, where you’ll find the latest announcements on opportunities, events, deadlines, etc.

(Fans of the old blog can still access all posts at http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/blog.)

Our new community feed near the bottom of the home page aggregates external blog posts from students, faculty mentors, alumni, and staff of the program. You can subscribe to this feed separately at http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/community/feed.

We’re also working on a number of future upgrades to the site, including

• blog hosting for students and faculty mentors
• an enhanced media gallery with videos, podcasts, and more
• a backend social network where users can create groups, contact each other, post photos, etc.

Please send all feedback and suggestions related to the site to chris@chrisalensula.org.

CUNY BA/BS Students Will Be Busy This Summer!

Here is just a sampling of what some current CUNY BA/BS students plan to do this summer:

Diana Arevalo (Multi-Cultural Psychology): Arevalo will be a research assistant for the Queens College Preschool Project, studying the factors that predict Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder in some children.

Erica Bowen (Wellness Studies): Creating and teaching a yoga series and studying in Cuba for two weeks with the dance company “Contratiempo.”

Tennille De Freitas (Global Consciousness / Performing Arts):  Returning to Africa to build two new water wells with the organization she founded, EPIC.  See her website, http://www.epicthemovement.org/

Yedidya Flaquer (Anthropology and Modern Economic Development/Advertising and Public Relations Media Development):  Will be interning with the U.S Department of State in Italy.

Catherine Granton (At-Risk Female Youth and Environmental Studies): Continuing to work with Prof. Cumiskey (College of Staten Island), on a project with a Staten Island Office for Children and Family Services facility. Granton created a program using the “No Child Left Inside” Act as a model. She is taking groups of young women out of the facility to the local National Park (Gateway National Recreation Area) and creating cooperative events (i.e. birdwalks, planting, etc.) with one of the NPS rangers.  This program is the first of its kind with OCFS youth in NYC.  They are also planting a garden at the facility using organic methods.  One goal is to teach ecology while also “planting” some good seeds in the young women themselves for their future.

Pam Jusino (Drama/Religious Studies):  Along with one of her Queens College drama professors and a colleague of hers, playwright Robert Montgomery, Jusino is traveling to Athens, Greece to study Oedipus At Colonus in Mr. Montgomery’s new adaptation called The Rest of Oedipus. Read about this Drama Seminar in Greece here: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/studyabroad/2009Summer.html.  This is the second summer she is traveling abroad to do a Drama seminar.

Leslie Larson (Print Coverage of Business News):  Will be helping organize a fashion show for the New York City Coalition Against Hunger on June 12, “Fighting Hunger With Style,” to take place at 7 p.m. on 92nd and Park Avenue. Gilles Montezin, designer for Madonna and Sarah Jessica Parker (most notably in “Sex and the City”) will open the show with his couture pieces followed by a little black dress vintage collection produced by William Buster.  All proceeds benefit the 1 in 5 children of New York living in hunger insecurity.

Brittney Narcisse (Development Sociology):  Going on a study abroad program to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Robin Roberts (Astrophysics/Earth-Sun Connection):  Now a full-time staff member at the American Museum of Natural History Astrophysics  Department (after completing two internships there), Roberts has decided to pay her good fortune forward by offering a summer research opportunity to a sophomore at City College who showed great spark and enthusiasm in a class they had together, Descriptive Astronomy.  Roberts has introduced her to some colleagues and has secured several research projects for which she has been invited to participate; Roberts will also be a sub-advisor on one project with this student and two others who were selected for the nationally competitive National Science Foundation/Research Experiences for Undergraduates.

Jared Rodriguez (History of the Americas):   Spending the summer doing research in Brazil, partly funded by the Mellon Foundation as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. He will be researching Brazil’s first Black political party the Frente Negra Brasileira, the Brazilian Black Front which was formed in 1931, at the national archives and at several of the leading Brazilian research universities.   He will also continuing his work with Brazilian academics and activists pushing to implement and expand Affirmative Action reforms in higher education.  He will attend the Latin American Studies association conference in Rio de Janeiro, as well.

Jordan Rosenberg (Management/Market Analysis & Research):  Going on a study abroad trip to Shanghai where he will take classes in introductory mandarin and Chinese business.

Larissa Simpson (Women’s Perspectives in the Film Industry):  Her modeling agency (www.rocketgarage.net) is sending her to Tokyo for 2 months.

Marina Tsaplina (Puppetry/Time-Based Storytelling):  Will attend the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference in Connecticut, a two-week intensive workshop-conference for puppetry and puppeteers. ]]> http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-babs-students-making-the-best-uses-of-the-summer/feed/ 0