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AT THE REQUEST of JohnJay College of CriminalJustice’s Faculty Senate, theUniversity is moving towardstoughening its sexual harass-

ment rules to prohibit — rather than“strongly discourage” as at present — con-sensual intimate relationships betweenfaculty or staff and students over whomthey have professional responsibility.

The consideration ofchanges in University policybegan when professor KarenKaplowitz, president of theFaculty Senate at John JayCollege of Criminal Justice,wrote to the Chancellor in lateNovember and shared theSenate’s resolution. He immedi-ately asked Frederick Schaffer,the University’s general counseland senior vice chancellor for legalaffairs, to coordinate a policyreview in consultation with theOffice of Human ResourcesManagement.

The Chancellor asked students,faculty and staff to comment on theproposals via their governance organi-zations or unions by May 1, in order toallow for consideration by the Board atits June meeting.

Kaplowitz wrote, in part: “The mainrationale for our recommendation thatthere be a prohibition on these relation-ships is the inherent institutional powerimbalance between students and thosewith pedagogical and/or supervisoryresponsibilities over them, a power imbal-ance that precludes any truly consensualrelationship.

“In addition,” she wrote, “such relation-ships, if known to others in the collegecommunity, may lead to an inhospitablelearning environment which may damagethe integrity of the learning process

through conflicts ofinterest and other entanglements. Suchrelationships may also generate the per-ception that students in sexual relation-ships with employees of the college whohave a power relationship over them havean unfair advantage over other students ingrading and other discretionary matters.”

Chancellor Goldstein wrote as he sentthe proposals to the University communityin early March: “At The City University ofNew York, we are deeply committed to

maintaining learning and work environ-ments in which members of theUniversity community may pursue theirgoals and objectives in an atmosphere ofrespect, sensitivity and tolerance.”

The University’s proposal follows thespirit of John Jay’s Faculty Senate.CUNY’s proposal states that “amorous,dating or sexual relationships” betweenfaculty members or employees and stu-dents, “even when apparently consensu-al … necessarily involve issues ofstudent vulnerability and have thepotential for coercion. In addition,conflicts of interest or perceived con-flicts of interest may arise when a fac-ulty member or employee is requiredto evaluate the work or make person-nel or academic decisions withrespect to a student with whom heor she is having an intimate rela-tionship. Finally, if the relationshipends in a way that is not amicable,the relationship may lead tocharges of and possible liabilityfor sexual harassment.”

CUNY’s proposal is in linewith a national trend instrengthening sexual harass-ment policies to protect stu-dents, faculty and employees.Other universities that have

toughened language governingconsensual relationships between stu-dents, faculty and staff include YaleUniversity; the Universities of California,Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, SouthernMississippi, Iowa and Michigan; theCollege of William and Mary; and PaceUniversity. Scandal prompted some ofthose institutions to tighten the rules, as atWilliam and Mary and Pittsburgh.

Yale’s changes came amid an investiga-tion last year by the U.S. Department ofCivil Rights into student-to-student sexual

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The New York CityDepartment of HomelessServices has awarded $871,009in grant funding to DebraHairston-Parker of John JayCollege for “Peace OfficerTraining Classes/Programs.”Paul Arcario of LaGuardiaCommunity College has receiveda $571,036 grant from the U.S.Department of Education (Title V)for “Project Rise: Re-InvigoratingSecond-Year Education.” MarzieJafari of Lehman College hasreceived two grants totaling$381,685 from Sung ShinUniversity, located in SouthKorea, and HealthPro NursingSolutions, for “RN to BSN Korea”and “RN Completion ProgramKorea.” The New York StateEducation Department hasawarded Medgar Evers College$178,948 for the “CollegiateScience Technology EntryProgram,” directed by Edward J.Catapane.

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Faculty members and staff “are prohibited from engaging in intimate relationships

with students for whomthey have professional responsibility.”

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…Faculty members and staff “should be awarethat any romantic or sexual involvement with a stu-dent or employee for whom they have such a respon-sibility may raise questions as to the mutuality of the

relationship and may lead to charges of sexualharassment. For the reasons stated above, such

relationships are strongly discouraged.”

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Updated language wouldincrease protection.

Leading Educators Endorse

PATHWAYS

Distinguished educators from around the country, includingthese three, commend Pathways. Carnegie Corp. of New Yorkpresident Vartan Gregorian, left, called the plan a “well-rea-soned approach”; American Council on Education presidentMolly Corbett Broad, center, praised it as “an innovative andforward-looking model”; Hunter College Distinguished Prof.Elizabeth Nunez noted “every college was represented.”

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harassment, but by then the university hadalready centralized authority for handlingsexual misconduct cases and launched itsown probe. In February 2012, Yale reportedthat 52 sexual harassment complaints of alltypes were lodged in the last half of 2011(some dating from two years earlier); amongthem were eight allegations where studentscomplained about faculty and three wherestudents complained about staff.

Statistics like Yale’s belie the severityof the problem of sexual harassment andsexual violence, which on campusesoccurs primarily among students.According to the U.S. Justice Department,20 percent of female college students willbe victims of a sexual assault, as will 6 per-cent of men. Yet less than 5 percent ofthose assaults will be reported.

There aren’t good statistics available onconsensual relationships involvingstudents and faculty or staff, but onetragedy stands out. Last year, at theUniversity of Idaho campus in Moscow,graduate student Kathryn Benoit was shotand killed by her former lover, ErnestoBustamante, whom the university had justforced to resign as an assistant professor.Bustamante – who had a reputation fordating students as well as for displayingguns – then killed himself. Not long before,Benoit had filed a three-page complaintagainst him with the university, chargingsexual harassment and detailing threethreats of violence against her. The lasttime he put a gun to her head, hercomplaint says.

In the wake of the murder and a unani-mous vote by Idaho’s Faculty Senate, theuniversity adopted a stricter policy thatbans consensual relationships at its 70locations statewide. Previously, as atCUNY, consensual relationships werestrongly discouraged. The Chronicle ofHigher Education notes that Idaho’s newpolicy “is similar to those on many othercampuses and to the recommendations ofthe American Association of UniversityProfessors.”

In a related change involving staff, theUniversity would continue to strongly dis-courage intimate relationships betweensupervisors and non-student employees.But it would impose a new requirementthat supervisors disclose any intimate rela-tionship to their superiors in order to avoidor mitigate conflicts of interest over thesupervision and evaluation of employees.

Anyone violating these rules could facedisciplinary action, including the possibili-ties of suspension or firing. There alsomight be corrective action, such as trans-ferring a student or employee. However,the proposal envisions that in most cases,students would not be disciplined.

FURTHER DETAILSThe full text of the proposal for stricter

language on consensual relationships canbe found by visitingsearch.cuny.edu and enter-ing “proposed harassmentpolicy” or snapping thecode at right.

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ANYONEwho calls one of CUNY’scommunity colleges home knowsthat these campuses are some ofthe busiest places in the city. The

six colleges — soon to be seven, with theopening of the New Community College inthe fall — serve more than 96,000 students,an increase of almost 20,000 students injust the last five years. In addition, theywelcome nearly 130,000 students in contin-uing education programs.

All of the campuses — Borough ofManhattan, Bronx, Hostos, Kingsborough,LaGuardia, and Queensborough — areengaged in creative work to advance stu-dent success. Our colleges offer targetedprograms to meet every need, from two-year degrees to job training to professional-development certificates. Each programrequires skilled faculty and professionalstaff, individualized advising and counsel-ing, updated information technology, andmodern facilities. As our enrollment hasgrown, so has the demand for theseservices.

That’s why the passage of a 2012-2013New York State budget that includesincreased funding for community collegesis significant. Over the last four fiscal years,our community colleges have sustainedreductions in state funding of $553 per full-time-equivalent student (FTE) — a 20 per-cent cut.

This year, a $150-per-FTE increase —creating a $12.2 million total increase inbase aid — will help the University addressthe growing needs of our community col-leges. Funds will be used to create aCommunity College Investment Programto support new faculty, academic and stu-dent services, libraries, the implementationof the Pathways initiative, and other keyareas at the six colleges.

The Community College InvestmentProgram will be modeled after a programimplemented at CUNY in 2003. Thosefunds enabled colleges to target areas criti-cal to improving students’ educationalexperience and success.

Also, a recent $20 million federal grant— the only one received in New YorkState—will enable CUNY to assist out-of-work adult New Yorkers who are changingcareers. The grant was awarded to a consor-tium of our six community colleges, alongwith the College of Staten Island and NewYork City College of Technology.

Other programs facilitate progress forstudents at all stages of college readiness.For students with minimal remedial needs,we are expanding the Accelerated Study inAssociate Programs, or ASAP initiative.

ASAP students have expe-rienced a graduation ratethat is double that of a comparison group.Students with needs in reading, writing andmathematics can defer matriculation andenroll in CUNY Start, an immersionprogram that accelerate preparedness forcollege-level courses and preserves financialaid. The majority of CUNY Start studentstest out of at least one area of remediation,and all make significant progress in meetingremedial needs.

These and many other programs are help-ing students advance their academic profi-ciency. In fact, the number of studentstransferring from associate degree programsto baccalaureate degree programs increasedby 71 percent from 2001 through 2010.

The state budget also includes almost $58million in mandatory needs funding for thesenior colleges, including adjunct healthinsurance, as advocated by the University. Iam particularly pleased that $1 million wasincluded for the CUNY LEADS program(Linking Employment, Academics, andDisability Services), which focuses onimproving academic success and employ-ment opportunities for students with dis-abilities. To date, students who are job-readyhave a 72 percent employment rate, com-pared to the 56 percent nationalemployment rate for people with disabilities.

In addition, $544,000 for CUNY’s child-care centers was restored to the budget.CUNY has 19 campus-based child-care cen-ters enrolling about 1,350 children of CUNYstudent parents. All offer first-rate early careand education programs, helping parentsbalance demands of family, work and school.

The state budget also reflects continuedsupport for CUNY’s capital program, includ-ing our University-wide criticalmaintenance initiative. The majority of our27 million square feet of campus space ismore than 30 years old, and the averagebuilding is more than 50 years old. Growingenrollment has increased the wear and tearon our campuses, which are open seven daysa week, with classes scheduled throughoutthe day — so we must be vigilant in address-ing critical maintenance issues across theUniversity.

I am very grateful for the determinedefforts of the University community, espe-cially our faculty and students, to advocatefor appropriate funding for CUNY. Together,we will continue to strengthen the high-quality education students expect at theUniversity.

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UNIVERSITY Student SenateChairperson Kafui Kouakouintends to do something nov-el in November: cast his firstvote as a newly minted

American citizen. Coming from Togo — a country that has

seen coups, political murders and arrests,political parties banned and the constitu-tion suspended during its tumultuous 50-plus years of independence — he knows howvaluable the right to vote is. “Where I comefrom, we had a president who took the pow-er, and even if he got the vote in a so-calledfair election [in 2010], people got into fightsand got killed. Here you actually put thepeople in power. That’s a big difference

compared to a place where you can vote, butthe outcome of the election is preset.”

“Students made registration a priorityafter the Legislature authorized a tuitionincrease last year,” said Kouakou, a master'sstudent in economics at Brooklyn College.He anticipates completing his Americancitizenship process in September — just intime to register to vote in the presidentialelection. “By voting, students will send astrong message to our elected officials thatthey have to listen to our needs,” he said.

“Nothing gets to the heart of being anAmerican more than voting,” ChancellorMatthew Goldstein agreed. “Voter partici-pation and civic involvement are essentialto a strong, vibrant democracy. If you are

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Professor Karen Kaplowitz, president ofJohn Jay College's Faculty Senate, initiated recommendations.

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Kafui Kouakou Sandi E. CooperChairperson, Chairperson,University Student Senate University Faculty Senate

Philip Alfonso BerryVice Chairperson

Peter PantaleoKathleen M. PesileCarol Robles-RománCharles A. ShorterSolomon A. SuttonJeffrey Wiesenfeld

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Articles in this and previous issues are available at cuny.edu/news.Letters or suggestions for future stories may be sent to the Editor by e-mail [email protected]. Changes of address should be madethrough your campus personnel office.

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Queensborough CommunityCollege has received $1,697,962 from theU.S. Department of Labor for “CUNY CareerPath,” under the direction of Denise Ward. TheMassachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center(MassCEC) has awarded Richard Veit of theCollege of Staten Island $330,000 for “FieldSurveys for Offshore Wind.” Monica Dean ofBaruch College has received $125,000 from theNew York City Economic DevelopmentCorporation (NYCEDC) for “Consulting Servicesfor Immigrant Entrepreneurs SupportCompetition.” Constantin Cranganu of BrooklynCollege has received $106,597 from theDepartment of Energy for a research project enti-tled “Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity: Texturalor Compositional Controls.” Sloan-KetteringInstitute for Cancer Research/DOE has awarded$100,000 to Lynn Francesconi of Hunter Collegefor an “Integrated Manhattan Project forExcellence in Radiochemistry.”

Ruth Stark, Distinguished Professor ofChemistry and acting dean of science at CityCollege, has received a 2012 Sloan PublicService Award, which includes a $10,000 prize,for her contributions in bringing together talent-ed scientists from complementary fields, for herexcellence in mentoring and for being a rolemodel to a generation of young women and menfrom diverse backgrounds. The Graduate Schooland University Center has been awarded

$2,654,264 in grant supportfrom the New York CityHuman ResourcesAdministration Office ofChild Support Enforcementfor “The CUNY School ofProfessional Studies to docu-ment procedures and developlearning programs,” under

the direction of John Mogulescu, seniorUniversity dean for academic affairs and dean ofthe CUNY School of Professional Studies. SpiroAlexandratos of Hunter College has received a$363,716 grant from Battelle Energy Alliance,LLC/United States Department of Energy forresearch concerning “Recovery of Uranium fromSeawater: Preparation & Development ofPolymer-Supported Extractants.”

Kingsborough Community Collegehas received $1,151,463 from the New YorkState Education Department for “Carl D. PerkinsCareer and Technical Education,” directed byLawrence Pero. Michael Pappas of the Collegeof Staten Island has received $259,277 in grantsupport from the U.S. Department of Educationfor “Project Discovery Builds a School Pyramidfor College Success (GEAR UP).” Richard Jonesof Medgar Evers College has received $100,000from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation for“The Petrie Foundation Emergency Fund.”

Hostos Community College hasreceived two grants, totaling nearly $2,900,000,from the Department of Health and HumanServices and the New York State EducationDepartment for a “Health Profession OpportunityGrant to Serve TANFRecipients: Allied HealthCareer Pipeline,” and a“Vocational EducationProgram,” both directed byCarlos Molina. The NationalInstitutes of Health —Eunice Kennedy ShriverNational Institute of ChildHealth and Human Development has awarded a$512,756 grant to Cathy Widom of John JayCollege for “Continuation of a Longitudinal

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not yet a registered voter, nowis the time to complete anapplication and make sure thatyour voice is heard in theupcoming elections.”

The University StudentSenate is cooperating in abroad campaign by theUniversity, launched in Marchand called March Forward andVote. The goal is to encouragestudents, faculty and staff toregister and vote in theupcoming federal and stateelections. Besides registrationactivities, there will be wide-ranging discussions of issueson CUNY campuses in an elec-tion season that will see threeNew York primaries — for theRepublican presidential nomi-nation, seats in the House ofRepresentatives and the stateLegislature — as well as thegeneral election in November, when thenext president will be chosen.

CUNY has made registering easy. TheCUNY Votes website (www.cuny.edu/vote)has a downloadable New York State VoterRegistration Form that can be printed andmailed to the New York City Board ofElections, along with a how-to guide anddeadlines for registration. In addition, free,high-quality and confidential citizenshipand immigration law services to help immi-grants on their path to U.S. citizenship areavailable at www.cuny.edu/citizenship.

The University also joined an advisoryboard organized by the New York CityCampaign Finance Board, a nonpartisanagency that strives to enhance the role of cityresidents in elections. Also joining are voterregistration and civic engagement groups likeRock the Vote and Voto Latino.

If all CUNY students registered and vot-ed, they would form a potentially formidablebloc. The University has the highest studentenrollment in its history, with more than271,000 degree credit students at the start ofthe academic year and almost 270,000 adultand continuing education students.

This year, New York State will have threeprimary elections and the general election,and each has its own registration deadlinefor new voters:·March 30 was the last day to register forthe presidential primary election that takesplace April 24.·June 1 is the last day to register for thefederal primary election that takes place onJune 26.·Aug. 17 is the last day to register for thestate primary election that takes place onSept. 11.

MORE high-achieving stu-dents have applied to andhave been accepted atThe City University ofNew York for fall 2012

than ever before, with Macaulay HonorsCollege leading the way. At Macaulay, thenumber of applicants rose by 36 percent to5,529 from 4,077; they are an exemplarygroup, having a mean SAT score of 1269 anda mean academic average of 91.4 percent.

The upward trend in academically strongapplicants has risen once again. As of theend of February, the University had alreadyadmitted more than 17,000 freshmen withacademic averages of over 85, compared toabout 15,000 at this point a year ago.

Much of this increase was driven by theunprecedented increase in applications toMacaulay Honors College, according toSenior University Dean Robert Ptachik. Onefactor that has made the honors collegemore attractive is that students can nowapply to Macaulay at up to six participatingsenior colleges; previously, they could applyto Macaulay at only one college. He addedthat another factor in the pace ofacceptance is faster action by the University

Application Processing Center.CUNY’s rising academic and economic

value is also reflected by an increase intransfer applications from outside institu-tions. So far CUNY colleges have accepted2,233 external transfer students, 24.1 per-cent more than last year’s 1,799 at this time.

Baruch College had admitted 582 transferstudents by the end of February, far ahead ofthe 262 at the same time last year. “Thecompetitiveness of the institution and itsranking have gone up precipitously,” saidBen Corpus, Baruch’s vice president of stu-dent affairs. Accolades have caught students’attention, such as U.S. News and WorldReport placing Baruch at 21 this year amongthe top regional universities in the north(only two public universities ranked higher).

Even though the economy is slowlyimproving, he said, “I don’t think we’ve seenstudents gravitating back to the privates. IfBaruch was among their top-choice collegescoming out of high school, they’re cominghere because of our quality and affordability.”

The other facet of the transferphenomenon is students transferring tosenior colleges primarily from CUNY’scommunity colleges. To date, senior col-

leges have admitted 3,376 CUNY transferstudents, or 113.3 percent more than lastyear’s 1,583.

Vincent J. Angrisani, Queens College’sexecutive director of enrollment manage-ment and admissions, noted that “Queensbumped up the minimum SAT score, somany students who wanted to come herewere not eligible a year or two ago and wentto a community college.

But now they have 30 credits or an associ-ate degree, they’ve improved their math pro-ficiency, they have the skills and they’reknocking on our door.” The college also seesa noticeable number of students who areseeking a second bachelor’s degree in fieldslike accounting, finance and speech patholo-gy. “They’re seeking to re-engineer theirlives,” Angrisani said.

Overall, CUNY has admitted more than48,000 freshmen, an increase of more than13 percent over February 2011. “While theincreases are substantial at our baccalaure-ate colleges (more than 10 percent), thelargest increases are once again at our com-munity colleges, up more than 27 percentcompared to this time last year,” DeanPtachik said.

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Student Senate Chairperson and Board Trustee Kafui Kouakou, right, discusses voting campaign with studentKimberly Blake and recent graduate Robert Agymang. Kouakou is leading voter registration efforts.

·Oct. 12 is the last day to register for thegeneral and presidential election that takesplace on Nov. 6.

March Forward and Vote continues theUniversity’s long-standing, nonpartisan edu-cational mission to equip students to beactive citizens, and to participate in civicactivities to improve life in New York City.Students who are interested in other civicopportunities — such as community service,citywide volunteer activities and culturalevents — can take advantage of “CitizenCUNY,” the University's online entry to stu-dent services, which they can access throughthe CUNY portal (www.cuny.edu/portal).

This intranet service connects to manyother University benefits, as well, includingjob banks and career counseling, veterans’services, financial-aid advice and muchmore.


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FOR MORE than a quarter of acentury award-winning land-scape painter Daniel Haubenhas set up his easel under ele-vated subway trains, at street

corners and on overpasses, capturing thelife of the Bronx on canvas and paper.

In the last two years, however, Hauben,55, has stayed inside, working in hisRiverdale studio to create monumental artpieces for the new, $102-million, three-sto-ry North Hall and Library complex at BronxCommunity College.

Twenty-two paintings that BCC associateprofessor of art Mary Jo Mazzella Ben-Nundescribed as “glorious panoramas of theBronx” will be unveiled when the 98,600-square-foot building developed by NewYork architect Robert A.M. Stern, is dedi-cated in the fall.

Working in oil on two 10-by-5-foot and20 5-by-1½-foot canvases, Hauben paintedbrilliant scenes from across the borough.

There are depictions of campus life withstudents reading or walking; a vendor sell-ing mangoes under an elevated train sta-tion; scenes from buildings and subwaytrain elevators; and views of the Harlem,Hudson and East River bridges, the BronxRiver Parkway, Yankee Stadium and theBurnside subway station with its platformbetween the uptown and downtown tracks.

“I tried to include a real range of oururban landscape,” Hauben says.

The two major panels will be hung onlandings in the library’s stairwell and the

smaller pieces along a balcony overlookingthe main reading room.

“I think of them as glorious panoramas ofthe Bronx,” says Ben-Nun, who is also direc-tor of the Hall of Fame Art Gallery at thecollege. She saw the paintings in Hauben’sstudio.

“I think they bring out the heart, the pos-itive historic and vital essence of the Bronx,Ben-Nun says. “He’s not the first but thefirst in a long time toreally highlight thebeauty of thissometimes malignedborough. He reallyshows the vitality andthe color and the excite-ment of the borough.The Bronx gets a badrap, but it’s really a ter-rific place, very vital andthriving.”

In addition to thelibrary — formerlyhoused in a basement — the new buildingwill contain classrooms, offices for faculty,administration and staff, and a café. With anenrollment of 11,500 and “the digital ageupon us, we needed to expand,” says Ben-Nun.

Hauben won a $219,000 state-sponsoredcommission to do the work for the library ina 2008 competition with 18 other contes-tants. David Taylor, Dean of administrationand finance, headed an art committee thatselected him as the finalist.

“The committee felt his work best identi-fied with our population and best spoke tothe Bronx as a community,” Taylor says.The paintings are bright and uplifting, hesays, and “will be a tremendous uplift to thelearning environment.”

Commenting on Hauben’s art for thelibrary, another committee member, RuthBass, head of BCC’s Art and MusicDepartment, says she was “taken by his

work right away. He takesthings you and I might notthink interesting and makesus look at how exciting theworld is right around us.”

In his proposal for the com-mission, Hauben says he triedto “give a sense of location tothe people who would seethese paintings: the students,faculty and staff who study,teach and work in the school.My paintings are about theunique landscape of that part

of the Bronx, to give people a better sense ofwhere they are.”

Born and raised in the Bronx, Haubenhas focused much of his work on the bor-ough’s urban landscape. “I consider myself alandscape painter, and the landscape I’mmost familiar with is the Bronx,” he says. “Ithink it’s rich with potential for being areflection of how the world is changing.”

Hauben knew early that art was his call-ing. He remembers painting his first“cityscape” on his bedroom wall when he

was 8. He attended Music and Art HighSchool (now LaGuardia High School) for ayear and dropped out.

He earned a GED diploma, attended TheSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts inBoston, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Artsdegree from the School of Visual Arts inNew York, paying his way there with schol-arships, work study, and loans.

In 1988, Hauben had a solo show at BronxMuseum of the Arts. His paintings are in col-lections at the Museum of the City of NewYork, the New York Historical Society, theNew York Public Library and the Library ofCongress. In March he received the PoeAward for Literary and Artistic Excellencefrom the Bronx Historical Society. He travelsand paints around the United States and incountries worldwide.

For the past eight years, as an adjunctinstructor, Hauben has taught a four-hourclass in drawing in the architecture programat City College. He also taught drawing at theCUNY Graduate Center when it first opened.

“It’s been a very positive experience forme,” he says. “They let me teach what I havea strong feeling for. So I greatly appreciatehaving gotten this commission from CUNYand the State. They let me do my thing.Between the teaching and the commissionCUNY has played a big role in my life thelast couple of years.”

Visitors to his website:www.danielhauben.com can get a peek atsome of the panels that will be displayed inthe library.

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Landscape painter DanielHauben at work in his Riverdalestudio on murals for BCC.

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the unique landscape of

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give people a better sense

of where they are.’— Daniel Hauben

‘Glorious Panoramas’ of an Unsung BoroughAn award-winning local artist is creating monumental urban landscapes for the new Bronx Community College complex.


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Elementary-school classical-music students in theHarmony Program shared the stage with legendarytenor Plácido Domingo, who conducted them in

Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” at a recent fundraiser.The performers — all low-income fourth-, fifth- and

sixth-graders from P.S. 129 in Harlem and P.S. 152 nearBrooklyn College — were among 80 in the Harmony’s foursites. They get free instruments and two hours of dailyinstruction after school.

“When I finish school and play that first note, it makesme smile,” said P.S. 152 fifth-grader Julian Deshommes.

Their teachers are students and alumni of musicperformance and music education programs at collegesincluding Brooklyn, City and Queens. CUNY and theGraduate Center’s Department of Music are amongHarmony’s sponsors.

“It’s so wonderful to see them already loving to … [prac-tice] every day,” Domingo told PBS journalist JohnMerrow. Besides having sung an unprecedented 134 oper-atic roles, Domingo has conducted more than 450 operaticand symphonic performances.

“The big percentage of these kids are going to be profes-sional musicians,” he predicted, “because their discipline isso extraordinary” and because many Venezuelan childrenin a similar program have made music their career.

Harmony founder Anne Fitzgibbon, the director of oper-ations in CUNY’s Office of Academic Affairs, spent aFulbright Fellowship working with “El Sistema,”Venezuela’s national youth orchestra system. Launched in1975 to emphasize social development, “'El Sistema' is firstabout the child and second about the music,” she said.“Music develops in children valuable skills they can applyto so many areas of their lives.”

Arecord 16 CUNY students — 15 of whom earned undergraduatedegrees at the University — have won coveted National ScienceFoundation Graduate Research Fellowships for work toward

their master’s or doctoral degrees.Other CUNY students have also won prestigious awards including

a Clarendon Fund Scholarship of the University of Oxford, aGoldwater Scholarship and a New York City Urban Fellowship.

“CUNY students are com-peting at the highest levels forthe most prominent awards;they are winning funding fortheir educational advancement,building on the support of theworld-class faculty,” saidChancellor Matthew Goldstein.

“The Decade of Science,launched in 2005, is a $2 billionproject for programs and facili-ties aimed at catapulting CityUniversity of New York into thetop echelons of scienceresearch and education.”

The NSF winners get threeyears of support worth up to$121,500 for advanced,research-based study inmathematics, engineering andthe physical, behavioral andcertain social sciences.

Here are the CUNY winnersand their tentative academicplans:Jimena Santillan (Hunter

College, 2012) will study brain development and underlying effectivelearning at the neural level at the University of Oregon, Eugene;Deborah Opeyemi Ayeni (City College, 2011) is studying pharma-cology and experimental pathology at Yale University; VivienneFrancesca Baldassare (Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College,2012) is heading to Yale University to study astronomy and astro-physics; Theresa Lynn Carranza-Fulmer (City College, 2011) isstudying magetospheric physics, a branch of geosciences, at theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Charlie Corredor (City College,2009) is studying chemical engineering at the University ofWashington.

Zvi Hershel Fishman (City College, 2010) is studyingneurosciences at Columbia University; Andrew Goldklank Fulmer,now working toward a doctorate in comparative cognition at theCUNY Graduate Center; Belen Carolina Guerra-Carrillo (BaruchCollege, 2010) is studying cognitive neuroscience at the Universityof California-Berkeley; Jaeseung Hahn (Macaulay Honors Collegeat City College, 2012) is headed to the University of California-SanDiego to study biomedical engineering; Kirk Donald

Haltaufderhyde (York College, 2011) isstudying biomedical engineering atBrown University; Christopher DonaldHue (Macaulay Honors College at CityCollege, 2008) is studying biomedicalengineering at Columbia University.Jemila Caplan Kester (City College,

2010) is studying microbiology at HarvardUniversity; Stephen Ma (MacaulayHonors College at City College, 2011) isstudying chemical engineering at theUniversity of Delaware; CarolinaSalguero (Hunter College, 2011) is study-ing structural biology at HarvardUniversity; Jimena Santillan (HunterCollege, 2012) is heading to theUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, to studycognitive neuroscience; Christie AnneSukhdeo (City College, 2011) is studyingecology at SUNY-Stony Brook; VincentXue (Macaulay Honors College at HunterCollege, 2012) is headed to HarvardUniversity to study genomics; CarolinaSalguero (Hunter 2011) is to study struc-tural biology in her doctoral program atHarvard University.

Other CUNY students receiving prestigious awards include:Ellen Leitman (Hunter College, 2010) received a highly selective

Clarendon Fund Scholarship of the University of Oxford; BenjaminRudshteyn (Macaulay College at Brooklyn College, 2013) received aBarry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the highly competitive, premierfederally funded program for undergraduates intending to pursueadvanced degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, andDavid Weinberger (Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College,2012) was picked for the highly selective New York City UrbanFellows Program.

Record 16 CUNY Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships


Brooklyn College Distinguished Professor LisetteNieves, who as a BC student in 1992 became thecollege's first Rhodes Scholar — as well as thefirst Puerto Rican woman ever to win the award —recently was given the CUNY EducationalLeadership Award by New York State ComptrollerThomas P. DiNapoli. The award was presented at aspecial luncheon program that was part of the 16thAnnual CUNY/SUNY New York State Model Senate inAlbany. As the Belle Zeller Distinguished VisitingProfessor of Public Policy and Administration for2011-2013, Nieves teaches an undergraduate classon the Brooklyn College campus and a graduate-level course at the Graduate Center for WorkerEducation in Manhattan.

Baruch ‘Quants’ AceInternational Contest

TWO TEAMS OF STUDENTS in BaruchCollege’s master’s in financialengineering (M.F.E.) program won first

and fourth places in the prestigious 2012Rotman International Trading Competitionat the University of Toronto, besting 48 oth-er teams from 44 academic institutions onfour continents. Competitors engage in sim-ulated trading cases that closely mimic real-world financial markets.

The students – dubbed “quants” for theirpractice of financial quantitative analysis –bested teams from such top schools as theUniversity of Chicago, MIT and Columbia.

“Our students formed a real team,helping each other trade better and focusingon the overall P&L [profit and loss] and thesuccess as a team, not on individualperformance or the relative standing of thetwo teams,” said associate professor DanStefanica, director of Baruch’s M.F.E.program.

Baruch’s competitors were AndrewChan, Victor Chen, Alex Hawat, Gama LeBouder, Yike Lu, Tom Maloney, AlexeiSmirnov and Zhechao Zhou. Yike Lu andAlexei Smirnov were members of theBaruch team that placed third last year. Thiswas the third consecutive first-place finishfor Gama Le Bouder, who won in the twoprevious competitions while representingMIT.

The team was prepared over manymonths by Eugene Krel (Macaulay HonorsCollege at Baruch 2008, Baruch M.F.E.,2009). He and associate professor RadosRadoicic led the team in Toronto.

Young classical-music studentsproudly shared the stage with iconPlacido Domingo at HarmonyProgram concert.

A Medley of Young Musicians

NSF fellowship winner Vincent Xue (Macaulay Honors Collegeat Hunter College, 2012) is headed to Harvard University tostudy genomics.


professors and leaders of national education associations areincluded in a 12-page University document, Pathways Ahead:Reform & Rigor. The booklet explains the new general educa-tion framework, which includes establishment of a 30-to-42-credit general education curriculum to be required of CUNYstudents starting in fall 2013, as well as new mechanisms toensure courses are rigorous and meet defined learning out-comes, and that students who take courses approved for theirmajors receive credit for them at any CUNY college.

“The City University’s new common core curriculum isnothing less than a triumph for higher education in theUnited States,” declared one of the educators, sociologistJonathan R. Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor atColumbia University and its former provost and dean of fac-ulties. Cole, known for his work on the sociology of scienceand on problems facing great universities, said that the “rigor-ous” Common Core would “permit a much easier flow of stu-dents from one tier in the system to another – from thecommunity colleges ultimately to the flagship colleges in thesystem.”

“It combines what most well informed educators in largepublic universities have been striving to achieve for decades: acombination of access, opportunity for social mobilitythrough the ability to transfer credit from one college in thesystem to another, and academic excellence,” Cole wrote.

Distinguished Professor of Sociology Paul Attewell, deputyexecutive officer of the sociology doctoral program at theCUNY Graduate Center and a member of the Pathways taskforce that developed the Common Core, called the generaleducation reform “totally consistent with best practicesaround the country. It will make the transfer process clearand dependable for students. I expect we shall see improve-ments in transfer rates and in degree completion rates across

our university.”The University’s insistence that courses accepted for the

core meet measurable learning outcomes was commended byWilliam G. Bowen, president emeritus of The Andrew W.Mellon Foundation, former Princeton president and found-ing chairman of Ithaka/JSTOR. The “system-wide emphasison both fundamentals and flexible areas defined by rigorouslearning outcomes marks Pathways as a truly momentousstep forward for CUNY’s dual missions of access and excel-lence,” Bowen said.

Carnegie Corporation of New York President VartanGregorian called the Pathways plan a “logical and well-rea-soned approach” that would “improve and smooth the trans-fer of credits among the CUNY institutions, addressing fromthe outset the issue of the content and quality of the coursesthat will count for credit . . . rather than solely focusing on thetechnical articulation between community and seniorcolleges.”

“Students will understand the core courses they need fortheir education, and they will be able to transfer those cours-es readily within the system,” said Hunter R. Rawlings III,president of the Association of American Universities andformer president of Cornell University. He added thatPathways would promote “better educational outcomes pro-duced in a more efficient way.”

Other prominent academics represented in the documentare Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Councilon Education, who praised CUNY “for developing an innova-tive and forward-looking model” of general education;Interim University of Oregon President Robert Berdahl, for-mer president of the Association of American Universitiesand former chancellor of the University of California atBerkeley, who said Pathways promotes “access and quality”;

and Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow,who said the plan “creates a solid integrated approach to cre-ating educational success across a very broad demographic.”

Additional endorsements came from CUNY DistinguishedProfessor of History Laird Bergad, director of the Center forLatin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies, who cited the

N ARRAY of nationally renowned leaders in higher education resoundingly

endorsed the University’s Pathways reform of general education and credit-trans-

fer policies, praising the work as an innovative national model that will promote

academic excellence, improve graduation rates and create a more accessible,

clear and efficient system of transferring course credits among CUNY colleges.

Twelve strong endorsements of Pathways from prominent academics includ-

ing former presidents of Yale, Princeton, Brown and Cornell Universities, distinguished CUNY

PATHWAYSA


“an innovativeand forward-looking model”

— MollyCorbett Broad

President, AmericanCouncil onEducation

“a welcome andpotentially powerfulapproach to ensuring stronggeneral education”

— Hunter R.Rawlings III

President, Association ofAmerican Universities

President, CornellUniversity, 1995-2003

“fundamentals and flexi-ble areas defined by rigor-ous learning outcomes”

— William G. BowenPresident Emeritus, The Andrew

W. Mellon FoundationPresident, Princeton University,

1972-1988Founding Chairman,

Ithaka/JSTOR

“a commonsenseplan that will benefit studentlearning andincrease the rate ofdegree completion”

— VartanGregorian

President, CarnegieCorporation of New York

“an excellent model providing bothaccess and quality”— Robert Berdahl

Interim President,University of Oregon

President, Association ofAmerican Universities,

2006-2011Chancellor, University of

California, Berkeley,1997-2004

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“criticallyimportant forregional andnational socio-economic success”— Michael M.

CrowPresident, Arizona

State University

“a triumph forhigher education inthe United States”

— Jonathan R. Cole

John Mitchell MasonProfessor of the

University Provost &Dean of Faculties,

1989-2003Columbia University

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need to provide a quality education andimprove the “unwieldy” transfer process;Hunter Distinguished Professor ofEnglish Elizabeth Nunez, who noted that“every college was represented” in thedevelopment of the Common Core; andCUNY Graduate Center PresidentWilliam P. Kelly, who called CUNY’s revi-sion of its core curriculum “an engage-ment with a national rethinking ofgeneral education” that enhances “therange and the depth of a student’s intel-lectual experience.”

CUNY Board of Trustees ChairpersonBenno Schmidt declared the Trustees’“full support” of Pathways, saying theinitiative will help students “remainengaged in meaningful, rigorous study”and “complete all of their degree require-ments in a sensible and timely manner.”

The reforms, launched by ExecutiveVice Chancellor Lexa Logue atChancellor Matthew Goldstein’s request,were approved last June 27 by the Boardof Trustees.

The initiative aims to enhance the aca-demic quality, consistency and efficiencyof general education across theUniversity and to reform confusing poli-cies that have led to transfer students’credits being rejected at their receivingcolleges, forcing many to take excesscredits, increasing their cost and time tograduate. Pathways streamlines all CUNYcolleges’ core requirements – which haveranged up to 63 credits at some seniorcolleges – to 30 at the community col-leges and 36 to 42 at senior colleges,bringing the University in line withnational norms.

The first phase of the generaleducation reform, development of the30-credit Common Core of courses to betaken by all students in specific thematicareas, was carried out by the 54-memberPathways to Degree Completion taskforce, chaired by CUNY School of LawDean Michelle Anderson and comprisedoverwhelmingly of faculty, from everycampus. The work of this task forcespanned five months and includednumerous, sometimes contentious,meetings as well as commentopportunities, review of the commentsand revisions.

The first 30 credits of the newCommon Core consists of 10 three-cred-it courses that can be combined or sup-plemented in a variety of ways byindividual campuses so as to provide thecampuses with flexibility in the design oftheir cores. The 30 credits consist of a12-credit “required core”: six credits ofEnglish Composition; three ofMathematical and QuantitativeReasoning; and three of Life andPhysical Sciences.

It also includes an 18-credit “flexiblecore” of six three-credit liberal artscourses including at least one connectedwith each of these thematic areas: WorldCultures and Global Issues; U.S.Experience in its Diversity; CreativeExpression; Individual and Society; andScientific World. For each of these the-matic areas, a set of expected learningoutcomes — aimed at teaching concepts,

as well as critical thinking, research, communication, writing,speaking and other skills — was delineated by the task force.The six to 12 additional “College Option” credits required forthe baccalaureate programs will be decided entirely by thoseinstitutions.

A 128-member faculty Common Core Course Review

Committee, led by Professor PhilipKasinitz, who until recently headedthe sociology Ph.D. program at theGraduate Center and teaches under-graduates at Hunter College, hasbegun the process of evaluating thecourses to be submitted by each col-lege for inclusion in the core. Thecommittee is divided into eight sub-committees, each focusing on onethematic area of the core.

Associate University Provost JuliaWrigley said that the colleges willchoose the courses for the core,specify how they meet the requiredlearning outcomes, and then submitthem for evaluation and approval bythe committee via a customizedMicrosoft SharePoint online system.

Wrigley noted that each college’slargely faculty-led governance sys-tem will review the proposed corecourses before submitting them tothe Course Review Committee.Following the committee’s approval,the courses must be approved by theBoard of Trustees. Because the newgeneral education framework beginsin fall 2013, and thus will be offeredto students for registration in spring2013, “everything has to be ready byJanuary of 2013,” Wrigley said.

When the Board of Trusteesapproved the Pathways initiative lastJune, it exercised its authority underNew York State Education Law tomake academic policy, including cur-riculum, at CUNY. Some facultyhave challenged the Trustees’authority; leaders of the ProfessionalStaff Congress and the UniversityFaculty Senate sued March 20 inManhattan Supreme Court to blockthe Pathways reforms. UniversityGeneral Counsel and Senior ViceChancellor for Legal AffairsFrederick Schaffer responded thatthe suit lacked legal merit and that amotion to dismiss it would be filed.

Presenting its final Common Coreproposal in December 2011, thePathways task force said the newframework would “develop a broadrange of knowledge and skills, and …build a solid intellectual foundationupon which students can engage inmore sophisticated study and analy-sis at successively higher levels asthey complete their degrees.”

Two other University committeeshave begun to prepare for the fall2013 Pathways implementation. TheImplementation AdvisoryCommittee, which includes repre-sentatives from each campus, willwork to ensure that campus admin-istrative offices and the UniversityCentral Office work together tosmoothly enact the changes.

The CUNY Pathways TransferMajors Committee, chaired byGraduate Center President WilliamKelly, will determine University-wide course pathways for CUNY’smost popular transfer majors, to make the credit-transferprocess clearer and more transparent and efficient. Facultyfrom CUNY’s senior colleges and community colleges havebeen meeting together in subcommittees focused on particu-lar disciplines, to identify three to six early courses in majorsthat will be recommended for all students entering thosemajors. The courses will be made available at all collegesoffering those majors.

The transfer majors committees are to recommend the

courses to the Office of Academic Affairs by May 1. “Initialrecommendations have now been submitted by the facultycommittees for seven majors: biology, business, criminal jus-tice, English, nursing, psychology, and teacher education,”Kelly said in a letter to the University community. The draftrecommendations are posted online at cuny.edu/pathways.Kelly said comments were welcome until April 18 and couldbe submitted by sending an email to [email protected].

“The Settlement Agreement was contingent upon the CUNY Board’s approving aresolution recognizing and reaffirming among other things that CUNY’s faculty,

through the Faculty Senate and College Senates, would remain responsible for ‘theformulation of policy relating to the admission and retention of students,’…”

PSC/UFS LAWSUIT SAYS

S


“totally consistent withbest practicesaround the country”— Paul Attewell

DistinguishedProfessor of Sociology

CUNY GraduateCenter

. . .

PSC/UFS OMISSION

“The settlement agreement resolved a case then pending before the New York StateCourt of Appeals. It required the City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY

Board of Trustees (the CUNY Board) to adopt a resolution recognizing and reaffirmingthat CUNY’s faculty though the University Faculty Senate and college faculty senates andcouncils, (collectively Faculty), would be responsible for ‘the formulation of policy relatingto the admission and retention of students including health and scholarship standardscurriculum, awarding of college credit and granting of degrees.’”


“CUNY Bylaw #8.6, which was reaffirmed by the Settlement Agreement provides that the ‘faculty shall be responsible…for the formulation of policy’…”


“The settlement agreement resolved a case then pending before the New York StateCourt of Appeals. It required The City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY

Board of Trustees (CUNY Board) to adopt a resolution recognizing and reaffirming thatCUNY’s faculty through the University Faculty Senate and college faculty senates andcouncils, (collectively faculty) would be responsible, subject to guidelines, if any,established by the Board for ‘the formulation of policy relating to the admissionand retention of students including health and scholarship standards… curriculum,awarding of college credit, and awarding of degrees’…”

“The Settlement Agreement was contingent upon the CUNY Board’s approving aresolution recognizing and reaffirming among other things that CUNY’s faculty through

the Faculty Senate and the College Senates, would ‘remain responsiblesubject to the guidelines, if any, established by the Board, for theformulation of policy relating to the admission and retention of students,’…”

PSC/UFS OMISSION

“CUNY Bylaw #8.6, which was reaffirmed by the Settlement Agreement, provides thatthe ‘faculty shall be responsible subject to guidelines, if any, established

by the Board for the formulation of policy’…”

PSC/UFS OMISSION

In a lawsuit filed by the Professional Staff Congress and theUniversity Faculty Senate against the City University of NewYork and the Board of Trustees in March, in the SupremeCourt of the State of New York, the PSC/UFS claim that CUNYbreached a 1997 agreement regarding the role of faculty informulating policy by establishing a new core curriculum.The lawsuit, however, omits some important language:

FAIR ORFRIVOLOUS?



with a lot of well-paying jobs,” said IrisWeinshall, vice chancellor for facilities plan-ning, construction and management. “Wehad some informal talks with people in theindustry and they said these programs workbest when they’re affiliated with a workinghotel. So the idea is for CUNY to lease or sellthe land to a major hotel developer to buildthe hotel and manage it — they would puttheir flag on it, and CUNY would use it for ahotel-management school.”

The proposal is the latest example of aninitiative by the University to be moreentrepreneurial and seek partnerships withthe private sector that can generate new rev-enues for expanding and upgrading facilities.With all public universities confronting a 20-year trend of sharp cuts in state funding,Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has been anoutspoken advocate of the need to find cre-ative and unconventional ways of closing therevenue gap. One of the boldest steps over

the past few years hasbeen to tap and maxi-mize the value ofCUNY’s real estate bypursuing opportuni-ties for public-privatepartnerships.

It’s a strategystrongly endorsed byCUNY TrusteeCharles A. Shorter, anexpert in real estatetransactions whoheaded the public-private partnerships

practice for the accounting firm Ernst &Young. “Treating the institution’s real estateas a portfolio of valuable assets is somethingthat private universities embraced long ago,”says Shorter. “Cuts in state funding are thenew norm for public institutions, and theopportunistic, rational use of land and build-ings is a way to use what you have to yieldnew revenues and facilities.”

Besides the potential hotel project in LongIsland City, CUNY is actively pursuing a pub-lic-private partnership to create a permanenthome for its new community college inManhattan. The University's 24th campus,The New Community College at CUNY, willopen next fall in temporary quarters on West40th Street. To build a permanent facilityfrom scratch would cost some $400 million,says Weinshall, so the University has a better

New York City College ofTechnology has long beenknown for its degrees in hos-pitality management — topfour- and two-year programs

with a distinguished professional faculty andstudents who compete for national culinaryawards, and have been going on to successfulcareers in the hotel, restaurant and tourismindustries in New York and beyond since theearly 1950s.

Another of CUNY’s Brooklyn campuses,Kingsborough Community College, featuresa thriving department of tourism and hospi-tality whose graduates can be found workingeverywhere from elite restaurants to cruiseships. And in Queens, LaGuardia CommunityCollege has an associate degree program intravel, tourism and hospitality management.

These CUNY programs have modern facil-ities and strong faculties, but the one thingthey don’t have — something consideredintegral for college-level hospitality manage-ment programs thesedays — is a working,top-flight hotel toensure the most pro-fessional-quality train-ing for their students.

But that may soonchange: The Universityis pursuing a public-private partnership tobuild and operate ahotel on a site that isnow a parking lot in theshadows of theQueensborough Bridge in Long Island City.

Parking Lot A at LaGuardia is among thelargest but perhaps least distinguished ofCUNY’s 292 properties around the city. Butto University officials, the humbly utilitariansite may be a diamond in the rough: They areabout to select a hotel industry consultant toevaluate the possibilities for striking a dealwith a hotel company to develop the 91,000-square-foot property on Skillman Avenue. Ahotel complex there would give theUniversity both a home for its hospitality andculinary programs — perhaps even a newCUNY-wide School of HospitalityManagement — and a source of revenue.

“We’ve talked with our colleges with hos-pitality programs and there’s a lot of interestin creating a full-blown program becausehotels are such a huge industry in New York,

idea — to make use of a property it alreadyowns: North Hall at John Jay College ofCriminal Justice, which is being vacated by thecollege’s move into a new academic building.

CUNY hopes to partner with a private devel-oper to raze the existing building and constructa new, larger one that they could share — theUniversity using roughly half for the new col-lege, the developer taking the other half for amix of residential units and commercial space.Such a partnership would allow CUNY tofinance a portion of the new college’s facilitywith proceeds from the sale, without relying onthe state for the full appropriation. The projectis expected to draw significant interest fromcommercial developers.

The University is pursuing these projectswith some significant public-private experienceunder its belt. Last fall, it opened a gleamingnew home in East Harlem for the SilbermanSchool of Social Work and the CUNY School ofPublic Health, both of Hunter College. Pullingoff a major capital project in these times of con-stricted state budgets would be reason enoughfor a public university to celebrate. But whatmade it most unusual — and perhaps even pos-sible — was the intricate and imaginativearrangement the University brokered with thestate and three private entities: a commercialdeveloper and two philanthropic foundations.

In 2007, the New York City CommunityTrust, which owned the building on East 79thStreet that housed the School of Social Work,informed CUNY that it planned to put theproperty on the market. Because the Universitywas only a third of the way through its rent-free100-year lease, the Community Trust stipulat-ed that the University would receive two-thirdsof the proceeds of the sale to help relocate thesocial work school. But the University took it astep further, asking the trust to help find a newhome for the School of Social Work that couldalso house CUNY’s new School of PublicHealth. The University ultimately received $30million from the sale of the property to TheBrodsky Organization, the state appropriatedthe remaining $95 million for a new buildingand Brodsky agreed to construct it for areduced management fee.

The New York Times called it “a multipartyreal estate deal of byzantine complexity” but itwent up in record time and $20 million underbudget. And while the deal may have been com-plex, says Shorter, “it showed that a public uni-versity can be as savvy with its assets as privateinstitutions are.”

Iconic views of Manhattan with Long Island City in the foreground will be one attraction of a hotel/educational complex planned near LaGuardia Community College.

INNspired Partnerships

CREATIVECONSTRUCTION

Continued from page 3Study.” The U.S. Department of Education hasawarded $170,779 to Heather Brown ofKingsborough Community College for “ExpandingAges Served and Hours Open at Kingsborough CC’sChild Development Center.”

Samuel Farrell and John Chiarkas ofLaGuardia Community College have received$1,020,000 from the New York City Department ofProbation for a “Young Adults Justice Program.” TheNew York State Environment Facilities Corporationhas awarded Arthur Perkins of QueensboroughCommunity College $1,000,000 for the“Queensborough Community College StormwaterManagement PermeablePavement Project.” BaruchCollege has been awarded$109,222 from the U.S.Department of Education for the“North American StudentMobility Program,” directed byDavid Birdsell.

LaGuardia CommunityCollege has received $2,535,319 from theGoldman Sachs Foundation for the “Goldman Sachs10,000 Small Business Initiative," directed by JaneE. Schulman. The National Science Foundation hasawarded a grant totaling $649,962 to Eric Delsonof Lehman College for a research project entitled“IGERT — Integrative Evolutionary Primatology.”Ivonne Barreras of New York City College ofTechnology has received two grants from the NewYork State Department of Education, totaling$358,734 for a “Teacher Leadership QualityPartnership Program,” and the “Vatea III-CareerPathways-Tech Prep” project.

“Fostering African-American Student Talent,” aproject directed by Panayiotis Meleties of YorkCollege, has received $2,400,000 in grant fundingfrom the U.S. Department of Education. City Collegehas received $593,434 from the New York StateEducation Department for the “Liberty PartnershipsProgram,” directed by Yuri A. Job. The NationalEndowment for the Humanities has awardedJennifer Adams of Brooklyn College $202,466 forthe “Brooklyn College Teacher Academy NoyceScholars.” The New York City Department of Health& Mental Hygiene awarded $271,618 to IreneChung of Hunter College for “Training in IntensiveCase Management.”

Sandra M. Watson of LaGuardia CommunityCollege has been awarded a $1,499,925 grant fromthe U.S. Department of Labor-Employment andTraining Administration (ETA) for “TAACCT (TheTrade Adjustment Assistance Community College &Career Training).” The “Global Scholars Program” atHostos Community College has received grant sup-port totaling more than $908,000 from ColumbiaUniversity, the U.S. Department of State, and theU.S. Department of Defense-Office of NavalResearch, under the direction ofEsther Rodriguez-Chardavoyne.“Enhancing Fathers’ Ability toSupport their Preschool Child,” aproject directed by Anil Chackoof Queens College, has receiveda $236,525 grant from theCenters for Disease Control.

Hunter College hasreceived a grant totaling $1,616,311 fromHHS/Administration for Children and Families for a“National Resource Center for Permanency & FamilyConnections: A Service of U.S. HHS/ACF Children’sBureau,” directed by Gerald Mallon. The U.S.Department of Education has awarded $186,911 toLorraine Mondesir and Charlene Kohler-Britton ofBrooklyn College for “Strengthening Access andAcademic Success of Brooklyn College Low-IncomeStudent Parents through the Provision on Child CareFee Subsidies and Parent Support.”

GRANTS&HONORS

'We’ve talked with our colleges with

hospitality programs and there’s a lot

of interest in creating a full-blown

program because hotels are such a

huge industry in New York. . . .'— Iris Weinshall, vice chancellor for facili-ties planning, construction and management

Chacko

Birdsell


A 19th CenturyFeminist IconCould John JayCollege Englishprofessor JohnMatteson’s widelypraised The Lives of

Margaret Fuller (W.W. Norton &Co.) follow Eden’s Outcasts andwin him a second Pulitzer Prize?The subject of Matteson’s latestbiography not only was the firstforeign correspondent for anAmerican newspaper, she reportedon the fighting (for Italian inde-pendence) while nursing thewounded within range of enemycannons. In addition, she wrotewhat has been called the first greatwork of American feminism:Woman in the Nineteenth Century.

Why Is HaitiStill Adrift?Tectonic Shifts:Haiti Since theEarthquake(Kumarian Press),edited by York

College assistant professor ofAfrican American Studies andAnthropology Mark Schuller andLatin America specialist PabloMorales, compiles analyses byscholars, journalists, health profes-sionals, activists as well as Haitiansstill on the island or in the diaspo-ra. It portrays an out-of-touch aidcommunity that set the stage forthe 2010 quake’s epic 250,000death toll and a current homelesspopulation still twice that number.

An EmotionalFamilyChronicleNancy K. Miller,DistinguishedProfessor ofEnglish and

Comparative Literature at theCUNY Graduate Center, won TheJewish Journal Book Prize thisyear for What They Saved: Pieces ofa Jewish Past (University ofNebraska Press). Reviewers havecalled it “a rich and accomplishedfamily chronicle, full of fascinatingincidents and turbulent emotions”and “an unusual, intellectual per-spective on an often-told story."

NY’s FinancialRoller CoasterIn Modern NewYork: The Life andEconomics of a City(PalgraveMacmillan), Greg

David explains the often far-reach-ing effects of the Big Apple’s finan-cial highs and lows since the 1960s.David, director of the Business andEconomics Reporting Program atthe CUNY Graduate School ofJournalism, discusses topics fromreal estate development to the roleof immigration and introducesbusiness and political movers andshakers along with average peoplewho benefit from — or are thecasualties of — our capriciouseconomy.

Reading and ReviewingItalian AmericansAmong sevenvolumes in thenew BordigheraPress series dedi-

cated to critical studies of theItalian diaspora are The Art ofReading Italian Americana (col-lected reviews and review essaysby Fred Gardaphé covering theperiod 1995-2005) and RE-VIEW-ING ITALIAN AMERICANA:Generalities and Specificities onCinema, by Anthony JulianTamburri, which decodes the dra-matic interplay between Italy andItalian America.

VIEWS DIFFER about FrancesFox Piven, the legendary rab-ble-rouser and DistinguishedProfessor of Political Scienceand Sociology at the Graduate

Center. Glenn Beck, for example, despisesher (“enemy of the Constitution”), attackedher dozens of times on the Fox network’sGlenn Beck Show, and seems to welcomevisitors to his website, The Blaze, who aregiven to ominous violent threats that flirtwith Gabrielle Giffords territory.

On the other hand is The Nation, forwhich Piven has been a long-time contribu-tor, which has called her “the embodiment ofthe best of American democracy.”

She wears her Fox-y persona non gratastatus like a badge of honor, as you can tellfrom the latest of her numerous books, justout from The New Press. It’s called Who’sAfraid of Frances Fox Piven, and the subtitleis The Essential Writings of the ProfessorGlenn Beck Loves to Hate. It is an invigo-rating stroll down memory lane forthe longtime go-to academic for vari-ous progressive social and politicalcauses — notably welfare, voting,poverty, and labor rights. She self-identifies as a “radical democrat.”

This memory lane is very long!Raised in Jackson Heights, Queens,Piven was just 15 when the University ofChicago admitted her (sheearned three degrees there).She is now 79, and there’snothing about “emeritus” inthe book’s bio. The 10 essayscollected here range over 47years, from the classic 1963essay on “Low-IncomePeople and the PoliticalProcess” to a Nation editorialin January 2011 on“Mobilizing the Jobless.”

Each one begins with ahelpful contextual preface.The first seven essays werethe joint work of Piven andher longtime fellow sociolo-gist, collaborator and hus-band Richard Cloward, whodied in 2001. (A particularbête noir for Beck was a nefar-

ious left-wing plot he referred to as “theCloward-Piven strategy.”) An interview giv-en last spring to the social philosopherCornel West serves as an afterword. “Thefuture of this country,” he ventures to tellher, “depends on how it responds to the lega-cy of Francis Fox Piven.”

What especially got Beck’s goat was that2011 editorial in The Nation, which amount-ed to a clear invitation for “Occupy WallStreet” to spring to life and spread nation-wide. In fact, one caneasily view the contentsof Who’s Afraid asdecades-long preparationfor the Occupymovement that commenced on Sept. 17, 2011in Zuccotti Park (the last essay predates thisby just eight months). Already in 1963, Pivenwas advocating disruption through “the peri-odic collective refusal to cooperate in theregular institutional relationships that con-stitute society.” The slogan “We are the 99percent” is thoroughly in keeping with theCloward-Piven strategy, and in a Nation

essay of December 2011 shegave Occupy a big cheer:“This is a big and wel-come step… . A proudand angry poor couldhelp to remakeAmerica.”Occupy was a gleam

in Piven’seye in the

essay on “Low-income People and thePolitical Process” of 1963. It ends: “If ouranalysis is correct, disruptive and irregulartactics are the only resource, short ofviolence, available to low-income groupsseeking to influence public policy.” The nextessay, “The Weight of the Poor” (1966), urgesmassive recruitment of the poor onto welfarerolls; then as now, many of them are eligiblefor welfare but do not access it. Again Pivenurges something like Occupy — “a publicly

visible disruption in some institu-tional sphere.”

“Economic Collapse, MassUnemployment, and the Rise ofDisorder” (1971) occasions a deft

synopsis of the fatal initial mistakes madeafter the 1929 stock market crash. The mainone: Hoover’s failure to mount major gov-ernment stimulus programs. These daysNobel laureate Paul Krugman fumes regular-ly about this same folly on The New YorkTimes op-ed page, and Piven herself referredin 2010 to the Congress’s “Alice inWonderland policy of deficit reduction bytax and spending cuts.”

Other essays occasion insights that alsoremind us eerily of 2012. In “The Structuringof Protest” (1977), Piven notes that “thereare in fact two systems of power, one basedon wealth and one based on votes.” Onethinks immediately of how calamitously thediscreteness of the two systems has beendestroyed by the Supreme Court’s CitizensUnited decision, which has created a huge

sinkhole of money under the2012 presidential campaign

Two essays focus on a topicthat the City University has longled the fight for: increased andmore citizen-friendly voter reg-istration. In “Toward a Class-Based Realignment of AmericanPolitics” (1983), Piven zeros inon the stubborn “predominanceof lower-income people in thenon-voting pool” and on “whypeople don’t vote.” The lastPiven-Cloward performance,“Does Voting Matter” (2000),puzzles over why the U.S. “ranksat the bottom in turnout com-pared with other major democ-racies” and comes to the gloomyconclusion that “the electorate

[does] not represent the public.” A case inpoint: the 1994 election that gave us SpeakerGingrich. Democrats lost with just 47 per-cent of the vote, but a study is cited thatrevealed 58 percent of non-voters favoredthe Democratic Party — enough to haveswung the election. These two essays shouldbe required reading, given the recentepidemic of state legislation to “improve” therolls with onerous voting restrictions.

Inching up to the eruption in ZuccottiPark is “The Nature of Disruptive Power”(2006), in which Piven boldly asserts, “Thegreat moments of equalizing reform inAmerican political history have beenresponses to the threatened or actual exer-cise of this disruptive power.” Disruption shecarefully defines as a “power strategy thatrests on withdrawing cooperation in socialrelations.” That it can become “noisy, disor-derly, or violent” she grants, but this is“entirely contingent.” She notes that Boston“was never more still and calm” than on thenight of that first Tea Party. No danger ofthat with the current Tea Party.

In “Obama Needs a Protest Movement”(2008), Piven exulted in his election as“hugely inspirational to the American left”and approved of the comparison betweenFDR’s first election and 2008 (and the vigor-ous oratory of both winners). But she warnsthat the socially progressive victories of the’30s were won in substantial part by the“radical agitators” and “unruly protests” shehas argued for in the last half-century. Fortrue activists the job is never done. In spite ofObama’s victory, she says, “America is, infact, still divided by race, by party, by class.”She has no “blueprint for the future,” but shestill believes it “will depend on whether wetap our usually hidden source of power, ourability to refuse to cooperate on the termsimposed from above.”


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Piven was advocating disruptionthrough “the periodic collective refusalto cooperate in the regular institutionalrelationships that constitute society.”

By Gary Schmidgall

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By Frances Fox Piven The New Press

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Back to the Future of Occupy Wall Street

Piven, a legendary rabble-rouser, is a Distinguished Professorof Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center.


Jazzmine Clarke-Glover has aninteresting job as a CUNY GraduateCenter human resources specialist,but she also wants to start a busi-ness as she continues to work for the

University. “One of my goals is to be anentrepreneur. To have companies thatempower women,” she said recently, awhite flower regally decorating her darkhair. She’s starting with a website — whichshe hopes to use as aspringboard to developwellness seminars forblack women on issuesrelated to their health andwell-being.

Clarke-Glover wasamong 42 CUNY womenwho work in a wide rangeof positions and are in dif-ferent stages of their lives.They all attended a March workshop called“She’s Got It: A Woman’s Guide to Savingand Investing.” It was organized for CUNYby TIAA-CREF, the well-known financialservices organization and held at its corpo-rate offices in Manhattan — a Women’sHistory Month offering that spoke to thefuture of women.

Similar TIAA-CREF workshops — somegeared to women, others for all employees

— are also conducted periodically on theUniversity’s campuses. An April 3 women’ssession was scheduled at the New YorkCollege of Technology in Brooklyn.Sessions with an individual TIAA-CREFcounselor can also be arranged throughcampus human resources offices or by call-ing 800-732-8353.

Helena Gaffney, a client services consul-tant, led the TIAA-CREF seminar attend-

ed by Clarke-Glover. Byway of introduction,Gaffney spoke about herfirst experience with finan-cial planning – as an 11-year-old babysitter.

“My mother had medivide my money intothree piles,” she explained.“A ‘save,’ pile, a ‘gift’ pileand a ‘keep’ pile. She knew

how important it was to save a little bitfrom what you earn. And how important itis to also make sure you give a little tothose less fortunate. It was also importantto have fun. That was my ‘keep’ pile. . . .Make sure to pay yourself!” Ultimatelysome of Gaffney’s early savings helped herto pay the down payment on a house. “I dida lot of babysitting,” she joked.

Gaffney also detailed the hard facts that

underscore why women must plan.“I don’t want to get everyone hot under

the collar,” she said. “. . . But for every dol-lar a man earns, a woman will earn 75 cents.So you need to work longer, save more andallocate your investments wisely.”

A TIAA-CREF workbook distributed toparticipants noted a similar earnings dis-parity. It also said that women on averagelive three years longer than men and needto plan for that. Women also spend an

average of 11.5 years out of the workforceduring their adult lifetime. Ninety percentof them make less than $50,000 a year. Theaverage retirement income among womenin 2009 was $14,429; for men it was$25,344. The workbook helped the atten-dees to determine their “financial person-ality types,” a tool to use to help them plan.

Along with Clarke-Glover from theGraduate Center, the workshop was alsoattended by women from seven CUNY


Some said they were still

not sure whether they

would have children.

Others were grandmothers.

FORYOURBENEFIT

UNDER the Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act (PPACA), federallegislation allows the extension of

dependent health coverage for childrenunder the age of 26.

Additionally, under New York StateLaw (referred to as the “Age 29” law),employees have the opportunity to con-tinue health benefits coverage throughthe City of New York. Following areCUNY’s requirements for employees andtheir young adults:·The parent must be covered under aCUNY group policy·The young adult must be unmarried·The young adult must be 29 years of

age or under·The young adult must not be insuredby, or eligible for, comprehensive (i.e. medical andhospital) health insurance through his or her ownemployer·The young adult must live, work or reside in New

York State or the health insurance company’s servicearea·The young adult must not be covered under Medicare

To be covered, employees must enroll their youngadults during the CUNY annual transfer period or, if aqualified change in family status occurs mid-planyear, within 60 days of the event.

One CUNY employee interviewed recently said hewas happy to have this benefit for his 21-year-oldson, who had just graduated from college and hadnot been able to find a job. He was also undergoingtests for a recently diagnosed medical condition andin order to have comparable medical coverage on hisown he would have to pay for COBRA — which wouldhave cost him about $400 a month.

Under the Federal Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act, the CUNY employee was able tokeep his son on his coverage without paying anythingadditional since the son was already enrolled in familycoverage. This benefit was applicable to welfare fundcoverage as well, which meant that he would not haveto pay for costly prescription drugs either.

Legislation Allows Extended Health Coverage for Young Adults

MONEYMATTERSFinancial planning workshops providepractical advice and also inspire dreams.

College Savings Program:Flexible, ConvenientAnd Low-Cost

CUNY employees are eligible to participate inNew York’s 529 College Savings ProgramDirect Plan. This program provides a flexible,

convenient and low-cost way to save for qualifiedhigher education expenses.

Employees can save for a child, grandchild,other relative, friend, or even for themselves,through payroll deductions. An account can beopened for as little as $25 ($15 if contributing bypayroll deduction).

For further information, consult your collegeHuman Resources Office or New York’s 529 CollegeSavings Program at www.ny529atwork.com.

ATYOURSERVICE


C C N Y A R T I S T S H O W C A S E D — T O M T H AY E R I N W H I T N E Y B I E N N I A L

TOM THAYER, who teaches undergraduate and graduate studio art classes at City College, is one of 51American artists participating in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The biannual exhibition, which runs at

the Whitney Museum of American Art through May 27, gauges thecurrent state of contemporary art in the United States. “Everyone inthe art world knows this is a very big deal, and we are all veryproud of Tom for this wonderful accomplishment and honor,” saidprofessor Ina Saltz, chair of the CCNY art department. His exhibitis installed in a museum room with a video monitor that playsanimations which activate the exhibit. In addi-tion, there is space for performance art projectshe has scheduled for May.

search.cuny.edu “Artist Tom Thayer”senior colleges, three community collegesand other University offices. Participantsincluded University vice presidents,administrative assistants and events coor-dinators, among others.

Some said they were still not surewhether they would have children. Otherswere grandmothers. They all sharedstrategies. One woman, for example, notedthat she was charging rent to her grownchildren who live with her – but putting it

aside for them to use in the future.Workshop leader Gaffney also suggested

saving for retirement rather than for col-lege tuition since loans and scholarshipsare often available. She added that the par-ticipants might want to keep putting asidethe money they had been saving for car andother loans even when those loans are paidoff, in order to build up a savings — and toincrease contributions to savings andretirement plans. “You could do this whenyou get a raise, but again make sure to keepsome for yourself,” she said.

Emphasizing that every bit helps,Gaffney noted that buying bottledwater instead of using filtered waterfrom home can cost as much as $800 ayear — money that could be used else-where.Early in the session Gaffney asked each

participant to introduce herself to a wom-an or two and discuss their own financialconcerns and strategies. In one group ofthree, a woman said she did not want towind up like the older women she knewwho had no savings. Another woman spokeabout her pregnancy and the financial wor-ries any new mother would have. The thirdwoman in the group was DorothyEisenpress, who attended as the wife of aUniversity systems programmer. She saidthat she put her pension in TIAA-CREFand now works as a fitness instructor andmassage therapist.

At the end, the women lingered to net-work. Jazzmine Clarke-Glover was amongmany to hand out cards for both their workat CUNY and their other endeavors. Herssaid: “Making YOU the #1 Priority.”


‘IF THERE IS A TIPPING POINT, a moment of epiphany inhis productive life, it may have been his year at City

College, where he commanded the ramparts in the fight for‘open admissions’ and Black and Latino studies,” wrote oneeulogist about author/musician/teacher/activist Louis ReyesRivera, who died March 2 in New York City. Rivera is alsoremembered for instilling in his students a similarresolve during years of teaching at numerouscolleges including Hunter and LaGuardia.

W E R E M E M B E R — LOUIS RIVERA

LIKE THE PRIVATE SECTOR, public universities are facing major budget constraints, andstudent services, among other departments, are forced to do more with a lot less.

“Student affairs and student service systems mustbe designed to enhance the quality but also therelevancy of today’s college degree,” said Frank D.Sanchez, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, in alecture, “An Evolving Vision for Student Affairsat CUNY,” at Hunter College. “We have tobecome much more entrepreneurial and nimbleto be responsive to the needs of our nation,” hesaid in discussing the challenges ahead.

E V O LV I N G V I S I O N F O R D I V I S I O N O F S T U D E N T A F F A I R S

THE HEFTY NEW “2 Bridges Review” (191 pages in print, 98online) distinguishes itself by its high-profile contributors,

including former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins and poetsLorna Goodison, Colette Inez, Sandra M. Gilbert, Kwame Dawes,Mervyn Taylor, and Willie Perdomo. “Our journal aims to beinternational in scope …,” explains editor-in-chief Kate Falvey,assistant professor of English, who co-foundedthe journal with colleague Monique Ferrell, anassociate professor and poet.

N E W L I T E R A R Y J O U R N A L — FOUNDED BY TWO C ITY TECH FACULTY

search.cuny.edu “Evolving Vision”

search.cuny.edu “Remembrances”

search.cuny.edu “Literary Journal”

(More)On the Web at cuny.edu

Updating Beneficiaries Can Be Very Important

AT THE TIAA-CREF workshop,expert Helena Gaffneyspoke about women in the

midst of divorce proceedings andsuggested they consider whetherit is wise to give up retirementbenefits in order to keep theirhouse. What if you can’t afford tostay in the house?” she asked.

In a related offering of advice,she then emphasized that, whenappropriate, it could be veryimportant to update beneficia-ries.

This is good advice for men,as well, of course.

If you have experienced anychange in your family status —including marriage, the birth oradoption of a child, a divorce or adeath in the family — since yourinitial job appointment, youshould contact your collegeHuman Resources office as wellas your retirement plan regardingupdating your beneficiary-designation forms.

Women learning money-management tips at recentseminar include Jazzmine Clarke-Glover, above.

PreparingFor NaturalDisasters

We all hopethere areno disas-

ters in our future. But hurricanes close tohome and other natural calamities world-wide have made us wary. The University,through its Work/Life Program organized byCorporate Consulting Associates, can helpyou and your family make some prepara-tions — just in case. “Getting PreparedBefore a Disaster Strikes,” a 60-minutewebinar available gratis to CUNY employees,will be online April 17 at noon, 2 p.m. and 4p.m. To view it — and learn steps to helpyou cope with a disaster as well as see thecareful preparation of an action plan — youmust register. Just go towww.myccaonline.com and type in the code:CUNY. All employees can feel free to sign up— there’s no space limitation.


Through April 21Notations: The Cage EffectTodayHunter CollegeHours varyFree

Through April 27Unfolding History:Environm

ental CollectionsCollege of Staten IslandHours varyFree

Through April 30Windows into Turkey Exhibit:

Interwoven Worlds

Queens CollegeHours vary Free

Through April 3Photography Club ExhibitCollege of Staten IslandHours varyFree

April 4-May 2

Portraits of Remem

brance:Paintings by Diana KurzKingsborough Com

munity

CollegeHours varyFree

March 24

Between the LinesProductions presentsPlatanos y Collard Greens byDavid Lam

bBaruch College8 p.m

.$58.50-$63.50

March 25

The AltruistsBrooklyn College7:30 p.m

. $6

March 29-

April 1Baruch Perform

ingArts Center presentsDUEL by Sidra BellBaruch College8 p.m

.$25; $10 students withID; $15 2 students withIDMarch 25

Paper Bag Players’LAUGH, LAUGH, LAUGH!KingsboroughCom

munity College

3 p.m. $12

April 10Jazz It UpFilm

retrospective of leg-endary jazz perform

ersBM

CC7:30 p.m

.Free

April 11-14Windows into Turkey Play:

For RentQueens College7:30 p.m

.$10; $5 students with ID

April 26-29Marisol

Brooklyn CollegeHours vary$12; $10 seniors; $6 students

March 22

The FDNY Pipe and DrumBandLehm

an College12:30 p.m

.Free

April 323rd BiannualInternational

Electroacoustic Music

FestivalBrooklyn College7 p.m

.Free

April 13The Brooklyn W

omen’s

ChorusBorough of M

anhattanCom

munity College

8 p.m.

$15

April 15Moscow Festival Ballet's

"Giselle"Brooklyn College2 p.m

.$36, $45

April 23, April 27Baruch Perform

ing ArtsCenter presents The M

usicof Bartok by the AlexanderString QuartetBaruch College7:30 p.m

.$25; $15 seniors; free withCUNY ID

April 28The Platters and TheMarvelettes

College of Staten Island8 p.m

.$30-$40

April 4Contem

plative Law Reunionand a Rem

embrance of Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and

his Teachings on JusticeCUNY School of Law6:30 p.m

.Free

April 531st Annual Literary ArtsFestival with Junot DiazNew York City College ofTechnology5:30 p.m

.Free

April 18Foreign W

orkers andIsraeli-Jewishness Dilem

ma

York College4 p.m

.Free

April 20Friday Forum

: Poetry inPublic Space —

A Readingby South African PoetLaureate KeorapetseKgositsile and conversationwith Distinguished ProfessorMeena Alexander

The Graduate Center4 p.m

.Free

April 21Irish W

omen W

ritersLehm

an College12:30 p.m

.Free

April 24Best-Selling Author SeriesSusan IsaacsHunter College7 p.m

.Free

April 25An Evening with RebeccaGoldsteinBaruch College6 p.m

.Free

Dan Barry’s‘This Land’ StoryFor New York Tim

es columnist

Dan Barry, the confluence oftwo critical events —

a per-sonal battle with cancer, fol-lowed by the heartbreak of9/11 —

changed him person-

ally and professionally. “Icam

e to understand, more

acutely, the preciousness oflife…

” he told a HunterCollege audience. Hear m

ore.Search.cuny.edu“Dan Barry”

Haiti Since the QuakeBillions of dollars in foreign aidand private donations havepoured into Haiti since thecatastrophic 2010 earthquakebut m

uch has been wasted byinept nongovernm

ental organi-zations, says M

ark Schuller,assistant professor at YorkCollege and co-editor of a newHaiti anthology. Hear details.

Search.cuny.edu“Haiti Foreign Aid”

Wall Street’s Disparities

Although the financial sector inNew York is becom

ing more

racially diverse, white males

remain far ahead in com

pensa-tion, according to a report byCUNY’s Center for UrbanResearch. “W

hite men still dom

i-nate when it com

es to the eco-nom

ic rewards,” says actingdirector Richard Alba.

Search.cuny.edu“Wall Street Diversity”

Helping Families

Move ForwardInitiatives com

bining liberaland conservative ideas couldhelp the m

illions of Americans

who are out of work, saysRobert Cherry, co-author ofMoving Working Fam

iliesForward: Third Way Policies ThatCan Work.One proposal: “…governm

ent buy up a million

housing units and turn theminto subsidized housing.”

Search.cuny.edu“Working Fam

ilies”

A Once-Decent JobIs Being Sold OutStephanie Luce of CUNY’sM

urphy Institute, lead author ofthe study “Discounted Jobs:How Retailers Sell WorkersShort,” discusses findings —including that m

ost retail work-ers in New York earn a m

edian$9.50 an hour, work tem

poraryor part-tim

e hours and don’treceive health insurancethrough their jobs.

Search.cuny.edu“Once-Decent Job”

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BookstoresUnder E-Siege“The e-book is here to stay,and Am

azon is the big bully onthe block,” says literary agentEric Sim

onoff, who joined arecent gathering at the CUNYGraduate Center to considerthe future of neighborhoodbookstores, once fixturesthroughout the city.

Search.cuny.edu“E-books Podcast”

Political Directions,Left and RightProgressives tend to see theGreat Recession as the resultof the untram

meled free m

ar-ket. Tea Party conservativesargue that governm

ent gonewild is the real story. Editorsof the conservative NationalReview and the liberal blogTalkingPointsM

emo.com

weigh in.Search.cuny.edu“Political Directions”

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cuny.edu/radio • cuny.edu/youtube •cuny.edu/events

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Through April 17Free Tax Services forStudentsBronx Com

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Through April 17Free Tax PreparationYork College10 a.m

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April 9Disability Studies Program

sInform

ation SessionSchool of ProfessionalStudies6 p.m

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April 28First Annual RoboticsTournam

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