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  • CCNY Center for Worker Education Re-Launches Web Site

    New York, March 23, 2006 — Discovering what the Center for Worker Education (CWE) of The City College of New York (CCNY) has to offer is now even easier with its newly redesigned education web site.  New features of the web site include student and alumni profiles, CWE news and events, staff and faculty profiles and directory, as well as CWE history and fun facts. Prospective and current students as well as alumni can visit the web site at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe.

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  • FROM TRIBECA TO THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT

    NEW YORK, March 13, 2006 – The CCNY Center for Worker Education (CWE) announced today that it will relocate its facilities in August from Tribeca to the Financial District in Lower Manhattan.  The new location at 25 Broadway is directly across from the famous bronze “Charging Bull” sculpture at Bowling Green, the city's oldest park, and convenient to 15 subways lines as well as other mass transit lines.

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  • HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATE GIVEN KACHEPA TO LECTURE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AT CCNY CENTER FOR WORKER EDUCATION

    NEW YORK, March 13, 2006 — It is hard to imagine that slavery still exists in America, but it does.  The U.S. government estimates that each year between 14,500 and 17,500 people are brought into the United States to be used as slaves.  This is real slavery, people forced to work against their will under violence or threat of violence and being paid nothing.

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  • CCNY BIOLOGY PROFESSORS SALLY HOSKINS AND ROSS NEHM NAMED EDUCATION FELLOWS BY NATIONAL ACADEMIES

    NEW YORK, March 10, 2006 – Sally Hoskins, Professor of Biology at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Ross H. Nehm, Assistant Professor of Biology and Education, this week were named Education Fellows in the Life Sciences by the National Academies.  The titles were conferred upon the two CCNY professors for having completed a summer institute sponsored by the Academies aimed at fostering innovative approaches to teaching undergraduate biology.

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  • CWE ANNOUNCES THE FRANCES S. PATAI FUND LECTURE SERIES “OTHER VOICES: SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT”

    NEW YORK, March 7, 2006 – The Center for Worker Education (CWE) of The City College of New York (CCNY) is pleased to announce the return of the Frances S. Patai Fund Lecture Series for the Spring 2006 semester.  Four programs are to be presented:

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  • ALUMNI YVETTE AND LARRY GRALLA PLEDGE $7 MILLION TO CCNY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS TO GRADS OF TOP NYC HIGH SCHOOLS

    NEW YORK, March 2, 2006 – Yvette and Larry Gralla have pledged to donate $7 million to The City College of New York (CCNY) to expand a scholarship program now operating in partnership with two selective New York City public high schools to as many as 11 additional schools, it was announced today.  With this donation, which brings the Grallas’ total giving to The College to $10 million, CCNY’s Capital Campaign has surpassed its announced $150 million goal.

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  • CCNY MUSIC PROFESSOR JONATHAN PIESLAK TO RECEIVE FELLOWSHIP FROM AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS

    NEW YORK, March 2, 2006 – Jonathan Pieslak, Assistant Professor of Music at The City College of New York (CCNY), was chosen as one of two recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Goddard Lieberson Fellowship for 2006.  The Fellowship is presented to “mid-career composers of exceptional gifts” and carries a $15,000 stipend.  It is one of 18 music awards announced by the Academy to be presented at its annual Ceremonial in May.

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  • CCNY HOSTS “ABRAHAM LINCOLN” TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS

    NEW YORK, March 1, 2006 – Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation, a traveling exhibition touring the United States, is now on display at The City College of New York’s Cohen Library.  The showing, which runs through April 7, is the exhibition’s only stop in the New York metropolitan area.

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  • COLOMBIAN LEADER, URBAN DEVELOPMENT EXPERT ENRIQUE PENALOSA TO DELIVER CCNY ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL’S THIRD ANNUAL LEWIS MUMFORD LECTURE

    NEW YORK, March 1, 2006 – Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia and an internationally recognized expert on urban development and administration, will present the Third Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at The City College of New York (CCNY), 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2006. 

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  • 23 Films To Premiere At “Docworks-NYC,” CUNY’s First Festival For Student Documentaries, March 3 At Graduate Center

    NEW YORK, February 28, 2006 – The New York Polar Bear Club swimming in freezing water off Coney Island, an ex-con who killed the man who raped his daughter, the resurrection of a 1926 Japanese avant-garde film, a Jamaican family struggling to survive in Brooklyn: these are just four of the 23 stories making their screen debuts at “Docworks-NYC,” the first annual festival of student documentary work from The City University of New York.

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  • CCNY NAMES JOSEPH FANTOZZI DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS

    NEW YORK, February 15, 2006 – The City College of New York has appointed Joseph A. Fantozzi, an administrator with extensive student recruitment and counseling experience in The City University of New York (CUNY) system, Director of Admissions, CCNY Provost Zeev Dagan announced today.

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