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The City College of New York presents the James Baldwin Centennial Celebration, an homage to the enduring legacy of Harlem-bred writer and activist James Baldwin. Spanning fall 2024, the celebration will encompass film screenings, panels, performances, live music, a writing contest and a Harlem community walk centered on the legacy of James Baldwin, our hometown giant. Born in 1924, James Baldwin's extensive body of work, which includes essays, speeches, plays, poetry, short stories, and novels, fearlessly tackles racial and social issues, offering profound insights into the Black American

Justis Fiduccia, MFA Film student at The City College of New York, was accepted into NBCU Academy’s new Original Voices Accelerator Fellowship six-month program. Fiduccia, Class of 2025, is a documentary filmmaker with autism. The program is for U.S.-based student filmmakers and film critics interested in documentary film, journalism and inclusion The Original Voices Accelerator is a pipeline to launch the generation of diverse creatives behind the camera and in the bylines with an annual convergence at the nation’s oldest journalism school and leading independent documentary film festival

A new $2,500,000 five-year gift by the Friedman family to The City College of New York has established a fund to support the Colin Powell Career Fellows program and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership’s new Social Mobility Lab. The Colin Powell Career Fellows program, established in 2022, provides students with stipends for unpaid and underpaid internships as well as with workshops, training, career coaching, and professional development in order to prepare them for internships. Each internship stipend provides support of up to $5,500 for a Colin Powell student. Internship

Aaron Rand, an alumnus of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, gifted the college $30,000 to help students in Spitzer School’s Bachelor of Architecture Program. A total of $25,000 of the gift is used to establish The Elan Ganeles Endowed Scholarship Fund, and $5,000 will be used as an annual award for a student to receive The Elan Ganeles Annual Scholarship Award. Both the fund and award are in memory of Rand’s late grandson, Elan Ganeles. Ganeles was born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut and double majored in sustainable development and

Boukary Sawadogo, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Black Studies in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, is The City College of New York’s 2024-2025 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to CCNY by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. A highlight of Sawadogo’s new appointment will be the Katz Lecture that he will deliver on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at CCNY’s Advanced Science Research Center Auditorium. Entitled “Of Here and Afar: The World in Me," his talk begins at 4:30 p.m. The event is

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York presents the fall 2024 Sciame Lecture Series, Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisited, examining innovative solutions to the global housing crisis. All lectures are in-person, free, and held at 5:30 pm on Thursdays at the Spitzer School of Architecture in Room 107, the Sciame Auditorium, 141 Convent Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10031. The series situates the contemporary dilemma in the powerful arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the late 1800s. In his revolutionary text, “The Housing Question,” Engels

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the noted astrophysicist and bestselling author, is the 2024 John H. Finley Award recipient. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of The City College of New York for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York. Click here for details and registration information. In addition, the association is honoring seven CCNY alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They’ll receive the Townsend Harris Medal at the 144th Annual Alumni Gala, at 6 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, at CCNY. The Townsend Harris recipients are: Victor

Within 11 months of hiring Professor Jervette R. Ward to lead the Black Studies Department at The City College of New York, the goal of reestablishing the program as a department has been accomplished. That is just one in a long list of goals that under her leadership have been met and exceeded. After a national search at CCNY, Ward was appointed as director of the Black Studies Program in August 2023 in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and she now serves as the chair of the new Department. Black Studies organized and led the 45th Annual Langston Hughes Festival honoring Colson

Faculty from The City College of New York have published a range of new books. The titles are diverse non-fiction books about film, Spanish culture, immigration, bilingual languages, as well as memoirs that are poignant, instructive, and humorous. The list is as follows: Martin Woessner, a professor of history and society in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, recently released "Terrence Malick and the Examined Life." The book is the most comprehensive account of celebrated filmmaker Terrence Malick’s (“Days of Heaven,” “Thin Red Line,” “A Hidden Life”

The City College of New York’s excellence for social mobility continues to earn recognition nationally. In the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings published today, CCNY is ranked #10 for social mobility in the National Universities category. Overall, CCNY is ranked #121 out of 436 National Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Click here to read how U.S. News ranks schools. CCNY earned multiple spots on the badge-eligible list of 2025 Best Colleges because of its other high rankings: • Top