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Michael Mulgrew, President of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), is the recipient of the 2025 John H. Finley Award from The Alumni Association of The City College of New York. In addition, the Association will honor seven CCNY alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They’ll receive the Townsend Harris Medal at CCNY’s 145th Annual Alumni Gala at 7 p.m. on Nov. 13. The event, in CCNY’s Great Hall, Shepard Hall, located at 160 Convent Ave in Manhattan, will be both in-person and virtual. Click here to register. The Finley award is given out for exemplary and dedicated service to

In recent years, Dee Dee Mozeleski’s outstanding work in philanthropy, advertising, marketing and public relations has earned her top honors from Crain’s New York Business and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The accolades continue for The City College of New York’s senior vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications and External Relations (OIACER), who also serves as executive director of the Foundation for City College, Inc., and as senior advisor to the CCNY President. Mozeleski has been named to City & State’s 2025 Trailblazers in

PoliticsNY & amNY are proud to present the annual Power Players in Education list. The 2025 Power Players in Education list looks to honor the dedicated leaders across New York’s vast education system. From presidents of educational institutions to directors of nonprofits to policymakers, the 2025 Power Players in Education are at the forefront of shaping New York’s education landscape and guiding students towards a bright future. Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, The City College of New York’s 13th President, is one of the leaders recognized as a Power Player. Boudreau has worked at The City College

The City College of New York’s School of Education (SoE) is the recipient of a $2.4 million grant from New York state to expand its existing New York City Teaching Fellows (NYCTF) alternative certification program. The expanded program, Education Workforce Investment, aims to address current teacher shortages in New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) by training and placing these new teachers in high-need subject areas and in high-need NYCPS classrooms. The grant will also provide increased financial aid academic support for those students to ease their entry into full-time teaching careers, and

In October 1992, Columbia University doctoral student Glen Milstein transcribed some of his recent ideas in a notebook for possible inclusion in his dissertation. Those 20 minutes of erudite scribblings became the foundation of his work for the next third of a century, culminating in the publication of “COPE: Community Outreach & Professional Engagement – a framework to bridge public mental health services with religious organizations,” a paper of which he is the lead author, in Frontiers in Psychiatry in August. Now an associate professor of psychology at The City College of New York’s Colin

The Princeton Review®, known for its education services and resources for college-bound students, features The City College of New York in its online resource, The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition (October 21, 2025). The Guide, which is accessible for free at www.princetonreview.com/green-guide, profiles 388 colleges that foster a culture of environmental responsibility and demonstrate a commitment to sustainability, The Princeton Review chose the colleges based on a survey the company conducted in 2024–2025 of administrators at 401 colleges about their institutions'

AI-powered products that offer early wildfire smoke and air quality predictions, and track tenant and landlord leases were among the winners in the inaugural “BYTE Hacks,” a 24-hour hackathon at The City College of New York. More than 100 students from schools in the Metropolitan area, including New York University, Fordham, Rutgers Honors College, Stony Brook and Hunter College, participated in the event sponsored by Google Labs, Vercel, and Red Bull. Organized by BYTE (Build Your Technical Experience), a CCNY student club, the hackathon offered $5,000 in prizes. Project themes were

The City College of New York’s Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing’s annual Chai and Chat Reading Series kicks off with author and Professor Salar Abdoh ( A Nearby Country Called Love) in conversation with writer Irvin Weathersby, Jr. on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 6:30p.m. in the Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316. Weathersby is the CCNY Bernard Mendik Guest Professor and will read from his work. The event is free and open to the public. Prospective MFA candidates will have an opportunity to meet Program Director Michelle Valladares at the event. Weathersby is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New

Throughout high school, Eli Akselrod, B.M. ’24 was a music enthusiast who wanted to make a career in music production. Then came time to choose a college major. “As much as I enjoy playing music, I wanted to be behind the board,” she said, which is how she came to The City College of New York to enroll in the Division of Humanities and The Arts’ four-year Bachelor of Music (B.M.) degree with a major in sonic arts. “I wanted to do audio engineering and the Sonic Arts Center was the perfect place to do it.” “This is a pre-professional program,” explained Paul Kozol, the Center’s founding

Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, President of The City College of New York, is the recipient of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York’s (BCTC) 2025 Building Futures Award. The honor, which recognizes labor, contractor, and government dignitaries who have made significant contributions to building a more inclusive and equitable construction industry, was presented to Boudreau, The City College’s 13th president, by BCTC President Gary LaBarbera. "Without President Boudreau's understanding and support of the family-sustaining career opportunities the union construction industry