CUNY Radio Podcasts: Episodes
Public meeting of the Board of Trustees, April 29, 2013
Nostalgia buffs tend to romanticize it, but for generations of immigrants who were forced to live in its jam-packed tenements, the Lower East Side was a place to leave as soon as possible, according to Mark Russ Federman. “Today you have hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants — it’s a vibrant place,” ...
Executive Committee Meeting of the Board of Trustees, April 23, 2013.
Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez gained international fame for her eloquent and outspoken opinions on Cuba in her blog, Generación Y, translated into 20 languages. In her visit to City College in March, Sánchez praised blogs and social media as “vital” journalistic tools, and described her dreams ...
Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs, February 4, 2013.
Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Fiscal Affairs, April 8, 2013.
Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, April 8, 2013.
Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Academic, Policy, Program, and Research, April 8, 2013.
Meeting of the Board of Trustees, Subcommittee on Audit, April 1, 2012.
For physicists, it’s like hitting the mega millions jackpot over and over. “After decades of thinking and searching, it seems that one of the major building-blocks of our understanding of what the world is made of has fallen into place,” says Neal Weiner, professor of physics at New York University, ...
To write a good song you have to find a connection between what you know and what the audience knows, according to three-time Grammy award winner Steve Earle. “Early on, I wrote a song called “Little Rock on the Road” — about my then 3-year-old son — while I was on the road,” said Earle, [...]
Graduate Center history professor James Oakes shatters a widespread belief that the Civil War was first a war to restore the Union and, only gradually, when it became a military necessity, a war to end slavery. “Liberty and union, now and forever, were one and inseparable,” says Oakes. “That is ...
Former New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau reiterated his longtime commitment to the rights of undocumented immigrants, while urging lawmakers to pass a comprehensive reform policy. “It’s extremely shortsighted to lock them up,” said Morgenthau, who has called for changes in the immigration ...
There’s a myth about Rosa Parks - a pivotal figure in the American civil rights movement who refused to give her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus to a white passenger. The myth is that Parks was a quiet, humble woman until that historic moment. But, in the revealing new book, “The Rebellious Life ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor hopes that telling her own story won’t just paint a picture of her personal life, but of the experiences that can help us all to overcome what divides us. “If you speak a different language, if you have a different color skin, if you come from a background ...
Following President Obama’s mention of the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) initiative during the 2013 State of The Union, a collaborative partnership between The City University of New York, IBM, and New York City Department of Education, Chancellor Goldstein highlights the ...
Public meeting of the Board of Trustees, February 25, 2013
Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General, used his post as a “bully pulpit” to draw world attention to issues such as human rights, poverty and child soldiers, says Jean E. Krasno, a political science lecturer at City College, who led a six-year project to organize and publish Annan’s collected ...
Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Academic, Policy, Program, and Research, February 4, 2013.
While President Obama’s deferred-action program will grant thousands of undocumented immigrants a temporary reprieve from deportation, it leaves thousands more, who are ineligible, in legal limbo. “This is just the beginning of our fight,” says Sofia Campos, board chair of the United We Dream Network, ...