The official blog of The CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary StudiesPosts RSS Comments RSS

Archive for the 'Graduate School' Category

2008 CUNY Graduate Fair

Attend this Graduate Fair to speak with graduate admissions representatives from all of the CUNY graduate & professional schools. All are welcome. To register, visit: cuny.edu/graduatestudies.

November 20, 2008

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Baruch College, 55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street)
Manhattan - Newman Vertical Campus, Auxiliary Gymnasium

(646) 660-6750

http://www.cuny.edu/graduatestudies

No responses yet

Graduate and Professional School Fair Nov 11

Graduate & Professional School Fair at Hunter College

November 11, 2008, West Lobby, Hunter College  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

http://ww5.hunter.cuny.edu/studentservices/gsa/schools

One response so far

New CUNY M.A. Degree in Disability Studies

The John F. Kennedy Jr., Institute at CUNY has developed a new Master’s of Arts in Disability Studies program, which will begin in the spring semester of 2009.  The 30-credit Master’s in Disability Studies was created in partnership with, and is offered through, CUNY’s School of Professional Studies.

The Master’s in Disability Studies is designed for human service professionals, advocates, researchers, scholars and policy makers who are interested in an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach to the exploration of disability as a social construct, social phenomenon, and culture. 

For details and an application, go to http://jfkjrinstitute.cuny.edu/programs/DS_master’s.html

No responses yet

Paul and Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowships for New Americans

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Offers Support for

Graduate Education: Grants of up to $20,000 plus one-half the tuition cost of a U.S. graduate program will be awarded to recent immigrants and their children pursuing a degree in the humanities and sciences or any professional field….

Deadline: November 1, 2008

More information can be found at http://www.pdsoros.org/

No responses yet

2008 Survey for Graduating Students (not attending Commencement)

Upcoming graduates who are not attending the CUNY BA commencement should please complete and return the answers to these questions by June 15, 2008 to Beth Kneller, bkneller@gc.cuny.edu - by email or fax to 212-817-1512.

NAME (please print) __________________________ DAYTIME PHONE (___)_________________

EMAIL _______________________________________________________

I. AWARD INFORMATION: List up to five recent awards, scholarships, prizes, or honors that you have received.  Include the full information — do not abbreviate any title. Specify which college gave the award, if applicable.  Make the information as clear and readily understood as possible.  TYPE OR PRINT NEATLY, PLEASE.

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

II. GRADUATE SCHOOL. If you are applying to or have been accepted to a graduate program, please tell us.  Include the name of the school, degree you will be seeking, and any special fellowship or awards you have received.  Indicate clearly which schools have already accepted you, which you are still waiting to hear from.  (If you get accepted after you submit this form, please email the updated information to bkneller@gc.cuny.edu)

SCHOOL & PROGRAM APPLIED TO:                     IS ACCEPTANCE MADE OR PENDING?:

________________________________________________________________________

 ________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

III. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES. If you earned a new position, promotion or raise as a result of earning the degree please tell us here:

________________________________________________________________________

 ________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

IV. STUDY ABROAD. If you did a Study Abroad program while in CUNY BA, did you go:

Full year _____     One Semester _____    Summer _____    Winter Intercession _____

If you did a Study Abroad program for summer or winter OR if you did not do a Study Abroad program at all, would you have done a full semester or a full year if funding had been available?

Yes___       No___

Thank you!

Beth G. Kneller, Deputy Director

 

No responses yet

CUNY Graduate Center Recruitment Fair

Learn how to apply and how to seek funding-and learn what the CUNY Graduate Center has to offer you.

Keynote Speaker
O. Hugo Benavides, Ph.D.
(Former CUNY Undergraduate and Graduate Student)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Fordham University
&
Roundtable Luncheon with CUNY Graduate Students & Faculty who can answer all of your questions…

10AM-3:00 PM Friday, March 28, 2008
Concourse Level, Room C201-203
CUNY Graduate Center
Fifth Avenue and 34th Street

Register by 3/25/08 at 212.817.7540 or oeodpmail@gc.cuny.edu. When registering, please indicate discipline/program, campus & level

Sponsored by the CUNY Black Male Initiative (BMI) Program and the Office of Educational Opportunity and Diversity (OEODP) Programs*

* All programs and activities of the Black Male Initiative are open to all academically eligible students, without regard to race, gender, national origin or other characteristic.

No responses yet

Corrected CUNY BA CEEB Code for GRE

The Program was recently given the wrong code from the College Board for CUNY BA students to use when taking the GRE exam and applying online to Graduate Schools.

The correct code to use is 2479.

No responses yet

Bank Street College Open House

Graduate School of Education Open House
Thursday, October 11, 2007
* Sign-in and Refreshments: 5:15 to 5:30 pm
* Information Session: 5:30 to 7:30 pm
* Bank Street College Lobby and Auditorium
* 610 West 112th Street, New York, NY


At the Open House, you will have a chance to learn about our exciting degree programs, gain insight into the application process, ask questions, and meet with faculty members from various programs. There will also be a tour of the Bank Street School for Children.


To RSVP to the Open House, please e-mail (akherdekar@bankstreet.edu) with your name and program of interest, if known, or call 212-875-4404.

No responses yet

Recent Graduate School Acceptances

Monica Agrest, Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, CUNY Graduate Center, with a Tuition Fellowship, University Fellowship, and Teaching Assistantship *
Andrea Artz, M.F.A., History of Art and Cultural Studies, School of Fine Arts, University of Leeds / UK
Tabitha Berry, Ph.D. Program in English, Rutgers University/New Brunswick
Alejandra Cunningham, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, with a Dean K. Harrison Tuition Fellowship and stipend*
Lisa J. Davis, M.F.A., Department of Media, SUNY Buffalo, with a full tuition scholarship, Dean’s Fellowship, and Schomburg Minority Fellowship*
Kristen De Joseph, M.Phil. Research Masters Program in Linguistics at the Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands*
Adam Faulkner, M.A., Linguistics, Georgetown University*
Michelle Goguen, M.A., Art Education, City College/CUNY
Elise Gornish, Ph.D. Program in Ecology, Florida State University, with a Teaching Assistantship
Michelle Grasberg, M.S., Teaching Literacy, St. John’s University*
John Hague, New York Law School
Mahmud Hasan, M.A. Program in South Asian Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Tennessee Jones, M.F.A., Fiction Writing, Hunter College/CUNY
Laura Ligouri, M.A., Women’s Studies and Anthropology, Brandeis University, with a full scholarship
Denise Osborne, M.A., Applied Linguistics, Teachers College/Columbia University*
Marie Penny, Masters of Library Science, Queens College/CUNY*
Roman Palitsky, Harvard Divinity School
Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya, M.A., Teaching Program, Childhood Education, Queens College/CUNY
Kim Smith, Master’s, Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, City College/CUNY
Tina Suszynski, M.A., Arts in Education, Harvard University
Farzana Umar, M.A., Islamic Studies, Columbia University
Noe Venable, M.A. Program in Religion and Secondary Education, Harvard Divinity School*
Kerton Victory, Ph.D. Program in Biosciences, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, with a full tuition scholarship and $23,000 stipend*
Sybil White, M.A., English, Brooklyn College/CUNY

*Recipients of CUNY BA/BS Alumni Scholarships

No responses yet