Since 2003 the number of “stop and frisk” encounters by the New York City Police Department has more than tripled, from roughly 161,000 to 576,000 in 2009, but only about 12 percent of those people were charged with criminal activity, >>
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Dr. Scott E. Evenbeck, a professor of psychology and dean of University College at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, has been appointed the Founding President of The City University of New York's new community college, which opens in 2012 as an innovative model for improving student performance and graduation rates, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein announced.
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Not only are blacks and Latinos disproportionately charged with marijuana possession in New York City, the tactics used by the police are questionable, says Harry Levine, a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center. In his report, “Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police Policy in New York City,” Levine found that between 1997 and 2009 nearly nine out of ten people charged with possessing marijuana came from the two groups, the majority being African Americans, even though national surveys show whites to be the heaviest users. Levine points out that possession of seven-eighths of an ounce, or less, of the drug in New York is a violation, not a crime. “But if that marijuana is open to the public view--meaning someone had been told by the police to take it out of their pocket--then it becomes a crime. The cops are allowed to trick people.”
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Peter Carey, the executive director of Hunter’s MFA program in creative writing, is already a member of one of the most exclusive clubs in the world – one of only three writers who have won the Man Booker Prize twice. He now could become the only person to win one of the most prestigious awards in the English-language literary world three times. His latest novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, is one of 13 books nominated for this year’s prize.
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The City University of New York will offer a two-part early retirement incentive to full-time faculty and staff at both senior and community colleges this summer and fall. The Board of Trustees approved the incentive at its monthly meeting on June 28.
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The City University of New York Board of Trustees has approved a new policy to assist and protect student victims of sexual assault, stalking and domestic and intimate partner violence.
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Experimental Geography, a traveling exhibition that explores the intersection of geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, comes to the James Gallery from June 24 through August 27. Curated by Nato Thompson and organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, the exhibition will be on view Tuesday–Saturday, 12-6 p.m., on the first floor of the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th & 35th Streets).
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Lehman College's new mutimedia center -- which will provide a new home for New York filmmakers, digital artists, producers and musicians -- features an all-digital newsroom where students will produce an online newspaper; an editing suite for sound, graphic and audio productions; graphic workstations and classrooms for Lehman's digital-art program; a broadcasting studio; and a music-recording control room with a digital soundboard and separate isolation booth for overdubbing. In the fall, Emmy award-winning composer Michael Bacon will join the faculty to teach film composition.
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The CUNY-New York Daily News Citizenship Now! weeklong April call-in fielded more than 14,000 calls from people with immigration questions, helping 377 of them resolve their immigration status. The University's Citizenship Now! Project, headed by Baruch College professor Allan Wernick, provided 422 trained volunteers -- including 154 from CUNY -- speaking 48 languages from Creole to Urdu, to staff the phones. Many city and state leaders, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, stopped by during the call-in. The hotline has fielded calls from more than 84,000 people since its inception seven years ago.
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Understand why the economy tanked. Learn how noted female scientists such as physicist Marie Curie, who discovered radium, were able to make enormous contributions in a male-dominated field. Get new insights into Quentin Tarantino's films. Read a Manhattan-centered novel. These wide-ranging volumes are among new books by University faculty.
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After four qualifying online rounds plus a seven-question, in-person final exam, Brooklyn College math major Stan Kats emerged as the grand prize winner among 164 contestants in the second annual CUNY Math Challenge. Click here to match wits with the winners....
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Neo-tropical woodland birds – motmots - have family ties among all nine species and one sub-species. Their relationships became clear when Sam Glickman, a senior biology major in the Macaulay Honors College at City College, sequenced their ND5 mitochondrial genes. Glickman presented his work at a joint meeting of the American Ornithologists Union, Cooper Ornithological Society and Society of Canadian Ornithologists. After Glickman graduates this year, he hopes to attend veterinary school....
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Each year, only 278 Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to college sophomores and juniors across the country. This year, Hendia Raisa Edmund, a biochemistry major at Hunter College, snagged one of the scholarships awarded by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. She intends to pursue a doctorate to explore quorum sensing. Joseph Eastman, a senior at Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, is one of 25 New York City Urban Fellows for 2010-2011. The award provides a full-time position in city government, special seminars, a speaker series with prominent officials, and $25,000....
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Author Carol Berkin has written a new book about three 19th century women married to notable men of the Civil War: Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant. Berkin’s biographies of the wives of Theodore Weld (a leading abolitionist orator), Jefferson Davis (first and last president of the Confederacy) and Ulysses S. Grant (Union general and two-term president) bring to life more detail about the rousing times they lived in. Berkin has taught for 25 years at the Graduate Center and at Baruch College where she is now Presidential Professor of History....
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In the mid-1960s, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy took a trip to South Africa to speak out for equal rights and justice. It was a time when South Africa was experiencing some of the harshest years of apartheid. A new documentary by two Hunter College professors explores this trip in "RFK In the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope."
The professors combined archival footage with new interviews in South Africa and in the United States. The film follows Kennedy from his "Ripple of Hope" speech at Cape Town University to his meeting with the banned president of the African National Congress, Chief Albert Lutuli....
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Some Hunter College students will be able to hear first-hand what it was like during the rough and tumble negotiations over the federal health care bill. This spring, John E. McDonough, who was a senior adviser to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, becomes the first Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health. Although Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who had made health care reform his life's work, died before the bill passed, his influence was felt. " Even without him, his spirit had been an animating force throughout," says McDonough.
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The University was well represented at the Oscars this year. "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" was nominated for best documentary short. Ming Xia, political science professor at The College of Staten Island, and Peter Kwong, professor of Asian American studies at Hunter College, collaborated on the film with producers from HBO.
And Diana Reiss, professor of cognitive psychology at Hunter College helped on research for the winning documentary feature, "The Cove."
Both films highlight tragedy: "China's Unnatural Disaster" is about parents of children who died in the 2008 earthquake that killed 87,000. "The Cove" showed dolphins slaughtered in Japan....
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It's been nearly 10 years since the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists, which means today's middle and high school students have no strong memories of it.
Jack Zevin and Michael Krasner, professors at the Taft Institute for Government at Queens College, have written the September 11th Education Program, the first comprehensive educational plan of its kind in the nation, to teach students about the attacks.
The curriculum was supported by the World Trade Center United Family Group.
"The curriculum is much more vibrant than a statue and it needs to be taught because the event is slipping away from our memory,' says Zevin.
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Queens College is partnering with the Wucailu Rehabilitation & Research Center to help improve special-education services for autistic children and their families.
Peishi Wang, assistant professor in special education, and her colleagues are helping the center evaluate its programs and conducting online staff training to personnel at the center's three sites in Beijing. Queens College students will have internships there and some center teachers will study at Queens. "We can take our students to China so they can think globally," says Wang. "It's universally beneficial."
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You don't have to be a millionaire to give back to your college. Ameena Hakin, an immigrant from Guyana and the mother of three, because a registered nurse in August. Out of her first paycheck of about $200, she made a donation to Queensborough Community College. She trained to become a nurse there and now she's a residential program nurse for United Cerebral Palsy of New York City. "I'm here because of Queensborough," she says. "The professors were wonderful. They encouraged me to do everything."
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At CUNY, you don't have to go far to find a place to publish your poems and prose.
There is a variety of paper and online journals ranging from the revered Fiction out of City College to the more topic-focused J, from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. There is also the Ozone Park Journal, an online publication from Queens College. Ozone Park is a student-driven journal. In Fiction, students compete for space with some of the country's mot prominent authors. Raymond Strom, who attended the MFA program at City College, had his first published piece in Fiction, which also contained a story by author Joyce Carol Oates....
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Peter Carey, two-time Booker Prize winner, received a special honor from his native Australia this year - his face on a stamp.
Actually he's on two. One is of him in his younger days and the other depicts a more recent image. Carey is one of six authors that Australian postal officials have printed "to honor our individuals who have made a lifetime contribution to the development of our national identity and character." Carey, who lives in New York City, said it was an honor to receive the recognition....
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Not enough time for an MFA? The CUNY Writers' Institute, headquartered at The Graduate Center, is a one-year, $11,000 certificate program for students who want to break into the publishing industry and are ready to learn from some of the city's best editors. In this program, it's editors, not professors or other writers, who do the teaching. And you don't have to be a kid to participate. New writers don't necessarily mean young writers, says Andre Aciman, program director. His ideal student: "You have experience. You know a lot. But you also know you have to tweak your style so as to reach the maximum number of readers."...
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For artist Jennifer McCoy, modern technology is the medium for her installation art.
McCoy, MFA program director in the art department at Brooklyn College, partners with her husband Kevin on many projects. Their work has been shown worldwide, including at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. What does she think about installation art versus traditional? "All of it is moving in the same direction," she says. "The most important thing today is that you are working with the idea first and not necessarily any one technique."
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Last fall, Brooklyn College welcomed its ninth president and the first woman to lead the school in its 80-year history. Karen L. Gould, an expert on French-Canadian literature is the former provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at California State University, Long Beach. As Brooklyn's president, her expanded responsibilities will include overseeing the spike in applications: Freshman applications are up 40 percent over last year and transfer applications saw a 120 percent jump. And in the fall, the college's first residence hall will open with 240 beds....
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The glamour of a hit Broadway play is a long way from the campus of Queens College, but that's where Danny Burstein's thoughts often are. Burstein, the Tony-nominated actor who plays Luther Billis in "South Pacific," graduated from the school in 1986. "City University is in my blood," he says. "My dad teaches philosophy at Queens College. My mother went to Queens College and got her master's at Brooklyn. Both my brothers went to Queens College." Burstein has carved out an enviable life as a New York actor, landing roles in films, television and Broadway, and has been nominated for a Tony two times.
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Lehman College teacher Marjorie Rosen took a trip to Bentonville, Ark., a few years ago and came back with a book idea. Etz Chaim, a small synagogue, was sprouting in Bentonville - the first to be built in the homogeneously white Protestant town in 50 years. And that's not all. There were Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Hispanics and more Marshall Islanders than in The Marshall Islands. Mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Tyson Foods were the catalysts for the growing change. The book is Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community.
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When Gustavo Agosto-DaFonseca headed off to Iraq with his Army Reserve unit a few years ago, he wanted to keep up with his studies at Baruch College. Associate Prof. Ted Henken was eager to help. He sent Agosto classic works of sociology by Emil Durkheim and Max Weber to keep him on track to his degree. Henken, "encouraged me to continue my undergraduate studies," says Agosto. "and he kept in close contact with my experiences." To his students at Baruch, where Henken is the chair of the Black and Hispanic Studies Department, the book deliveries were hardly surprising. He is known for being a good mentor and for helping however he can, to push students to graduation and beyond.
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The College of Staten Island, the city's largest college campus, has a new master plan calling for an estimated $257 million in building projects including a new Interdisciplinary High Performance Computational Center, library expansion, new housing, mixed-use research and academic buildings and other enhancements. The plan is the first major CSI revision in more than 20 years, designed to address anticipated growth over the next decade. It was developed during a three-year process involving University facilities planning offices as well as CSI faculty, students and staff.
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