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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Investigates Financial Behavior

New York City’s 600,000-plus Dominicans are more likely than Latinos nationwide to have accounts at a bank or credit union. However, they continue to rely heavily on alternative financial institutions such as check-cashing businesses, and use costly financial instruments such as money orders and tax refund anticipation loans because the mainstream financial institutions are not meeting their needs.
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Korean Singer Gives CCNY’s Colin Powell Center $10,000

Kim In-soon, the acclaimed Korean R&B vocalist, came to The City College of New York (CCNY) Thursday, June 3, to visit with students and to present a $10,000 gift to the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. The gift will support the Center’s mission of developing new generations of leaders from populations previously underrepresented in public service and policy circles.
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City College Salutes First MPA Graduates

Fourteen students, some already in public service, are the first recipients of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) new Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA), designed to inspire and prepare City College students for leadership positions in public service.
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CUNY DSI Produces Special Edition of Prestigious Journal

At the invitation of the Instituto Franklin of the University of Alcalá, Spain, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) will produce a special issue of its prestigious journal, “Camino Real,” devoted to multidisciplinary monographs on Dominicans in the United States. CUNY DSI Director Dr. Ramona Hernández and Associate Director Anthony Stevens-Acevedo will edit the edition and conduct a national call for papers.
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Colin Powell to Speak at Korean Issues Conference, April 23

General Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State and distinguished CCNY alumnus, will convene a half-day conference on dynamic shifts affecting relations between North and South Korea and the implications of those relations for policymakers. The conference will take place Friday, April 23, at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan.
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Civil Rights Attorney to Discuss Controversial Affirmative Action Case

John Payton, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has been the lead counsel in some of the most significant civil rights cases in recent times. The list includes the affirmative action cases Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger.
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Transportation Infrastructure Expert Says Major Projects Lack Economic Scrutiny

Politicians and policymakers often tout the economic and social benefits of large-scale transportation infrastructure investments, but often the projects they promote are approved without the benefit of thorough economic analysis. So says Dr. Joseph Berechman, Professor and Chair of Economics at The City College of New York.
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Skadden, Arps Honors Program Enrolls First Cohort

At a time when minority enrollment in law school is declining, the new Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Honors Program at The City College of New York (CCNY) is working to reverse that trend. This fall, the first cohort of 26 Skadden, Arps Scholars enrolled in the intensive two-year program.
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CCNY Alum Stefanie Joshua’s “Bushwick Homecomings” Debuts on Cable TV

Two years ago, while working on her M.A. thesis about delinquency in Bushwick, Stefanie Joshua, a City College student with no filmmaking experience, decided that the socio-economic plight of her old neighborhood could make a good documentary. The sociology student, who completed her degree in 2005, took a filmmaking class and wrote, produced and directed “Bushwick Homecomings,” a 38-minute film about the Brooklyn neighborhood’s social and economic changes between 1970 and 2000.
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CCNY Appoints Marilyn Hoskin Dean Of Social Sciences

NEW YORK, July 20, 2009 - Dr. Marilyn Hoskin, a political scientist with 24 years of experience in academic leadership, will become Dean of Social Sciences at The City College of New York (CCNY), the College announced today. She will join the College September 1.
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Urban Youth Face Dire Situation, Participants In CCNY Workshop Warn

NEW YORK, April 21, 2009 – Urban youth face, particularly in Central Harlem, face a dire situation characterized by low high school graduation rates and high rates of unemployment, incarceration and homicide. These challenges were the topic of a one-day workshop held recently at The City College of New York (CCNY) organized by Dr. Jean Krasno, Lecturer in Political Science, and sponsored by the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service.
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Team Led By CCNY Neuroscientist Tony Ro Demonstrates Link Between Brainwave Activity And Visual Perception

NEW YORK, April 2, 2009 – Can we always see what is in front of us? According to Dr. Tony Ro, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at The City College of New York (CCNY), the answer is “no.” New research published in “The Journal of Neuroscience” by Professor Ro and colleagues from the University of Illinois demonstrates that the brain cannot detect images when brainwave activity is in a trough.
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Renowed Scholar K. Anthony Appiah To Deliver Second Annual President's Lecture At CCNY, Tuesday, March 10

NEW YORK, March 3, 2009 – World-renowned philosopher, scholar and author Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah will deliver the second annual City College of New York President’s Lecture at CCNY 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. He will address “Race and The New Genomics.”
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