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Faculty from The City College of New York are publishing new works and receiving popular and critical praise. The department of English and MFA Creative Writing program has a spate of new publications from faculty. Author Irvin Weatherby, Jr., the Bernard Mendik Visiting Professor, has a new book “ In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space.” The book was featured on ABC News Live Prime and has received favorable reviews, including The Philadelphia Tribune and a starred review by BookPage. Weatherby, Jr. will teach creative nonfiction for the MFA for two semesters

Dee Dee Mozeleski—senior vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications and External Relations (OIACER), executive director of the Foundation for City College, Inc. and senior advisor to the president of The City College of New York—has been named a 2025 Crain’s New York Business Notable Leader in Philanthropy. Mozeleski was selected for her commitment to advancing her industry and community. This is not the first time that Crain’s has recognized Mozeleski for her achievements. In 2023, she was a Crain’s Notable in Advertising, Marketing & PR. In 2021, the

The 12th edition of The Americas Film Festival New York opens on June 12 with the New York premiere of “Becoming Vera” directed by Sergio Vizuete at the Instituto Cervantes New York. TAFFNY closes on June 20 with its Short Film Awards Ceremony at the National Museum of the American Indian followed by the New York premiere of “So Surreal: Behind the Mask,” which was directed by Neil Diamond and Joanne Robertson. A cultural initiative of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, TAFFNY presents nine feature films and more than 25

Rafath Gnabode and Kristy Lee, both members of The City College of New York’s Class of 2025, and 2022 alumna Flora Lennihan, are recipients of Fulbright awards. Gnabode, who’s graduated from CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership with a BA in economics and a minor in international studies, is headed to France. She’ll pursue a master’s in economics at ENS Paris-Saclay through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The Harlem resident, who was born in Benin Republic, West Africa, plans a career as an international economic consultant working with governments, NGOs, and IGOs to

The family of retired Congressman Charles B. Rangel announces a series of activities to honor his remarkable life and legacy leading up to his funeral service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Congressman Rangel, a steadfast champion for Harlem and the nation, as well as a distinguished figure in American politics, will be memorialized in the coming days, with opportunities for the public to pay their respects. Public Activities: Lying in Repose St. Aloysius Church, 219 W 132nd St., New York, NY 10027 June 9 -10, 12:00 p.m. – 8 p.m. Congressman Rangel will lie in repose at St. Aloysius Church

Antonio Tibaldi, professor of film and video at The City College of New York, is the new 2025-26 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to the City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. It supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division of Humanities and the arts for an academic year. Tibaldi will receive $10,000 to support research and creative activity for the current academic year and up to two months of summer salary. An installation ceremony at which Tibaldi

Former United States Congressman Charles B. Rangel, who served 46 trail blazing years in the House of Representatives and then dedicated his life to addressing the lack of modern infrastructure jobs in his old congressional district through a program at The City College of New York, died on Memorial Day. He was 94. A founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus who then made history as the first African American member of Congress to lead the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Rangel represented what is now New York’s 13th Congressional District from 1971 to 2017. He then served as

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 172nd Commencement on May 30. He will address the Class of 2025, comprising more than 3,000 graduates, on CCNY’s South Campus Great Lawn in historic Harlem. The commencement exercises begin at 10 a.m. Other speakers include: City College President Vincent Boudreau; Class of 2025 Valedictorian Eilyn Zuniga Marquez, a Salvadoran immigrant who graduated summa cum laude in January with dual BA and MA degrees in psychology from the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership; and Salutatorian

With limited funds and an overwhelming desire to pursue a college education, Allen Taylor had few options outside The City College of New York with its free but highly competitive admission policy. Decades later, the Class of 1967 alumnus and Professor Emeritus of Nutrition, Ophthalmology, and Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology at Tufts University, is giving back to his alma mater in a big way. He’s funding CCNY’s new Allen Taylor Academic Promise Awards for Undergraduates and Ph.D.-student-Mentors of undergraduates in Chemistry & Biochemistry in the Division of Science. The Allen

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership’s Social Mobility Lab at The City College of New York has announced the 2025 recipients of its Social Mobility Lab research grants. These grants support interdisciplinary scholarship aimed at advancing understanding of, and strategies for promoting, social mobility in the United States. Launched last year, the Social Mobility Lab’s mission is to discover new ways to accelerate and expand opportunity for students and the communities they represent. Its approach is to learn more about what is driving social mobility, translate that