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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May 27, 2020
The public health imperative to stay home has introduced new challenges on a wide scale for mental health, maintaining cybersecurity in our virtual world, and for those with extra time, occupying oneself with home entertainment. In a program dedicated to some of the practical realities of this period, learn key steps to keep your computer and identity safe, discover support systems like the practical application of Eastern and Western philosophy, and consider how world cinema can counter isolation, and isolationism, by connecting us with others and ourselves.
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau
Guests: Jerry Carlson, Professor of Media and Communication Arts in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Louis Marinoff, Professor of Philosophy in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Tarek N. Saadawi, Professor of Electrical Engineering in CCNY's Grove School of Engineering, director of CCNY's Center for Information Networking and Telecommunications, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of CCNY's new Cybersecurity master's program.
Recorded: May 22, 2020
Online resources mentioned during this episode:
Cybersecurity
- CCNY MS in Cybersecurity: https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cybersecurity
- Internet Infrastructure Security: Interview with Prof. Saadawi: http://foreignpolicyconcepts.com/tarek-saadawi-on-internet-infrastructure-security/
- Top agencies warn cyber criminals are using coronavirus to step up hacking efforts: https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/491747-top-agencies-warn-cyber-criminals-are-using-coronavirus-to-step-up
Philosophy
- American Philosophical Practitioners Association: https://appa.edu
World Cinema
- CUNY TV: https://tv.cuny.edu/about.php
- The British Film Institute polls and surveys: www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys
- JustWatch streaming guide: https://www.justwatch.com/
- The Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/
April 30, 2020
The idea that we're all in this together takes on powerful and multidimensional meanings in Harlem, City College's historic home base. In partnership with the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC), City College, and its community radio station, WHCR-90.3 "The Voice of Harlem," are currently presenting a series of COVID-19 public service broadcasting. In this episode, hear how CCNY and organizations like tech leader Silicon Harlem and the GHCC are working individually and together -- both on the ground and in vision planning for what's next -- on a crisis that disproportionately devastates communities like Harlem and its neighbors in northern Manhattan and the Bronx.
Host: Imhotep Gary Byrd
Guests: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau; Lloyd A. Williams, President and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce; Clayton Banks, co-founder and CEO of Silicon Harlem.
Recorded: April 20, 2020
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
