Students assist CUNY's Department of Facilities Planning, Construction and Management through the Career Development Internship Program.
Eight students from The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture have been awarded paid internships by CUNY’s Department of Facilities Planning, Construction and Management (FPCM). The new Career Development Internship Program hired the interns primarily to assist with a CUNY-Wide occupancy and utilization study, part of the CUNY Strategic Roadmap, but with the recent news that CCNY’s Master Plan will proceed, some opportunities exist for them to help with the Master Planning process as well. City College is the first CUNY campus for which the FPCM and the interns will implement the Master Plan together.
CUNY has 300 buildings located in all five boroughs of New York City comprising 29 million square feet of classrooms, research labs, computer centers, theaters, athletic and recreational facilities, administrative offices, and other spaces that support the CUNY mission. Maintaining and improving the University’s infrastructure through recapturing underutilized spaces, improving technology, and providing for campus expansions through upgrading the facilities portfolio ensures student success.
The Master Plan is a document and guide designed to help form a vision for the future and guides the College in decision making and planning processes for decades to come.
The students comprise four undergraduates:
• Wyatt Kuebler
• Juan Isaza
• Cemile Koseoglu
• Aliya Washwell
And four graduate students:
• Dehaan Rahman
• Diego Madera
• Angelica Morales Juarez
• Anshuman Khandelwal
In addition to performing space needs analyses, programming, and feasibility studies, they will manage and update the space inventory system, work with facilities lifecycle assessment, provide database and report development support for all FPCM departments through the updating and optimizing of space records and management in Archibus (Integrated Workplace Management System).
“Working with FPCM has revealed to me the 'Mechanical room' of CUNY, which only a few people are aware of, but is crucial for maintaining everything efficiently. I'm thrilled to see our group of architecture students working within this system, with the hope that the work we are doing here enables CUNY to continuously and dynamically adapt to the ever-changing needs of the many communities that make us who we are,” said Wyatt Kuebler, a student in his final year of the undergraduate program.
Interns may also this as an opportunity to gain credit in categories of NCARB’s Architectural Experience Program (AXP) program – a requirement in the process of achieving licensure as an architect.
About the City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Emsi (now Lightcast) puts at $1.9 billion CCNY’s annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the “for dollar” return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 15,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. This year, CCNY launched its most expansive fundraising campaign, ever. The campaign, titled “Doing Remarkable Things Together” seeks to bring the College’s Foundation to more than $1 billion in total assets in support of the College mission. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself. View CCNY Media Kit.
Thea Klapwald
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