From City to the World
At CCNY, research and scholarship advance every day on issues of crucial importance to people throughout New York City and across the world. In this series hosted by City College President Vincent Boudreau, meet faculty, hear firsthand about their research and, in conversation with outside experts, discover how that research is forging new solutions to real-world issues like poverty, homelessness, mental health challenges, affordable housing and disparities in health care.
For live radio listeners, From City to the World is presented by CCNY's community radio station - WHCR-90.3 FM, The Voice of Harlem - on the third Wednesday of each month at 3 PM.
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Saluting the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Harlem Neighbor, National Treasure, Essential Resource for CCNY Scholars
February 21, 2020
With 11 million items illuminating the richness of global black history, arts and culture, the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a powerful archive and epicenter of research and learning about people of African descent throughout the world. As the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance is being celebrated, and as the Schomburg Center itself nears the hundred-year mark, look inside City College’s 135th St. neighbor institution and discover living history around Harlem in honor of Black History Month.
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Laurie Woodard, Assistant Professor of History and Black Studies at CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Dean Schomburg, veteran broadcast journalist and grandson of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, for whom the Schomburg Center is named.
Recorded: February 19, 2020
Producing Leaders for Change: How CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Guides Young People from Potential to Power
December 20, 2019
The next generation of leaders are finding their power -- and personifying hope for an inclusive, renewed American democracy - at one of the nation’s most diverse colleges, The City College of New York. Look inside CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and learn how this laboratory is empowering students with real-world learning, public service, and political experience.
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Andrew Rich, Dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership; Mohammed Tazbir Alam, CCNY Class of 2012, Colin Powell School graduate, 2nd Vice President of the Young Democrats of America, and a member of the Democratic National Committee Youth Council
Recorded: December 18, 2019
October 31, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Dee Dee Mozeleski, Executive Director of the Foundation for City College and Senior Adviser to the President; Deborah C. Harte, Student Life Manager for the Single Stop program at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College
Recorded: October 30, 2019
September 25, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Gilda A. Barabino, Daniel and Frances Berg Professor and Dean of CCNY's Grove School of Engineering; Curtis Archer, President of the Harlem Community Development Corporation
Recorded: September 25, 2019
Environmental Justice: Growing Urban Sustainability, Equity and Health, from Fresh Food to Waste Management
August 01, 2019
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Marco Castaldi, Director of the CCNY Earth Engineering Center and Professor of Chemical Engineering; Cheryl Huber, Assistant Director of Greenmarket at GrowNYC.
Recorded: July 31, 2019
