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Ru Freeman, the Sri Lankan-born novelist, journalist and activist, whose work has been translated into numerous languages, is the latest high profile visiting professor in The City College of New York’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. The noted author of “ On Sal Mal Lane,” a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book, is teaching a course entitled “Turning the Personal into Fiction.” “We are lucky to have Freeman on board to inspire our MFA students this semester,” said Emily Raboteau, CCNY professor of English. “She's a fierce, award-winning writer and literary activist whose creative work engages

The City College of New York’s Marco J. Castaldi, associate professor of chemical engineering and director of the Earth Engineering Center, presents "Sustainable Waste Management: Impacts of Our Trash on Society." Castaldi’s presentation is part of the Conversations in Engaged Scholarship series. The forum features City College faculty members sharing their research and creative scholarship that impact public policy, reform, and the civic, social, political or environmental landscape. Castaldi will discuss the impact of the waste or garbage, estimated at nearly four pounds per person

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York partners with CetraRuddy, an award-winning architecture, planning and design firm for the development of a newly sponsored architectural studio for students in the Master of Architecture Program. The new initiative, titled “CetraRuddy Design Studio in Housing: Exploring New and Established Modes of Living and the Meanings of Home,” will focus on designs for sustainable, multifamily housing. Master’s students will research the history and contemporary field of housing design, which will help them propose

Yet again, The City College of New York is named one of the nation’s outstanding colleges for the high-value return it offers students on their investment in higher education, according to the 2017 edition of The Princeton Review’s Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck. According to the Princeton Review, City College offers students a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price. “City College stands out not only for its outstanding academics but also for its affordability via comparatively low sticker prices and

As winter session comes to an end, City College of New York’s finest are gearing up for the spring. From policy issues to technical courses on coding, City College students have an abundance of new and unique courses to choose from. A select list of spring courses follows: The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture offers advanced studios, like Broadway: A Kind of Animated Mirror , to their M Arch II, third-year M Arch, and fourth- and fifth- year B Arch students. Immigration and the 2d Generation and Migration and the Law, from The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership

This year’s City College of New York Black History Month celebration includes a film festival with a question and answer portion, live entertainment, music and speakers, workshops as well as an ancestral history event. The events are presented by the Black History Month Committee. The Ava Duvernay Film Festival begins on Tuesday, January 31 in NAC 4/149 from 12-2 p.m. and will explore topics from “This Is the Life.” The Black History Month Kickoff begins on Tuesday, February 2 in the NAC Ballroom from 12-2 p.m. and will feature a panel discussion moderated by Jeffery Craft, cartoonist

A current New York Times report ranks CCNY Number 1 in the nation among 369 select public colleges for economic mobility: we have the highest percentage of graduates who move two or more quintiles up the income ladder. In fact, 36% of CCNY students who come from families whose income is in the bottom fifth rise to the top fifth as adults! Read more from this, and other associated reports, about the transformative power of a City College education.

The City College of New York’s BIC Program, in association with the Office of Continuing and Professional Studies, welcomed students from the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires to partake in the inaugural BIC Mini Intensive, a 56-hour international certificate course. Seven Spanish-speaking students spent one and a half weeks in New York City soaking up branding, advertising and design. “This course is interesting, and it was a great opportunity to go to New York again. It’s professionally oriented and more hands on; it’s very different from courses in Argentina that are more theoretical, “

As the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon oversaw major reforms on peacekeeping, pushed for action on global warming and tackled the Darfur conflict. Soon scholars, students and policy-makers studying his legacy will have access to his official papers on these and other actions, thanks to The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Jean Krasno, lecturer in the Colin Powell School, leads the project with colleague Jacques Fomerand, a former UN official, to organize, select and catalogue the collected papers of Ban. This will

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York is embarking on another ground breaking digital project. A $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will fund the first online study regarding the history of Dominican music in the United States. CUNY DSI Director Ramona Hernández, professor of sociology in City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, heads the project. "This is a collective effort that brings together young researchers at CUNY DSI: John Bimbiras (music), Ruth Lizardi (art) and Jhensen Ortiz (librarian), along