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A staggering $3.2 billion. That was The City College of New York’s economic impact on 10 counties in the New York region in fiscal year 2021-22, according to the latest study by labor analytics firm Lightcast. The figure almost doubles the FY 2017-18 tally of $1.9 billion numerated by Lightcast (formerly EMSI) four years ago. The study measures the economic impact of The City College -- the founding college of the largest urban university system in the United States -- on the business community and the benefits it generates in return for the investments made by its key stakeholder groups

Hailed as eerily timely by the New York Times on its theatrical release last summer, “ The Five Demands,” a riveting story about the 1969 student strike at The City College of New York that changed the face of higher education forever, premiers nationally on PBS on Sept. 6. “In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision that rejected affirmative action, the film feels eerily timely,” Claire Schaffer wrote in the Times in July 2023. “The Five Demands” could serve as a blueprint for how to take action…it’s a real thriller,” noted the blog Talking Pictures. The documentary is the latest work

A $146,500 gift to the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York will support the establishment of three funds to aid the school’s must vulnerable students and to support faculty mentorship of student research. The donor, who prefers to remain anonymous, is a long-time Colin Powell School professor moved by the School’s mission and by its success in serving disadvantaged students. For its pilot academic year, 2024-25, the gift has three elements: the $50,000 Precarious Student Support Fund to provide grants to economically precarious students

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Office of Experiential Learning at The City College of New York have been awarded a three-year, nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the pipeline of minority psychology researchers. The $986,270 grant program, CUNY Advancement in Undergraduate STEM Education (CAUSE) is an initiative of the City College of New York and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Focused on the field of clinical and translational psychology, CAUSE aims to increase the number of Hispanic, low-income, and other

The City College of New York-based CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System Institute (CUNY CREST) and the International Institute for Security and Safety Management (IISSM) are establishing a mutually beneficial research and educational collaboration and cultural exchange initiative aimed at driving innovation and impact across CUNY and in India. The two institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at CCNY to launch the initiative. “The collaboration with CUNY CREST represents a major step forward in our efforts to build resilient and sustainable communities,” said Ravindra Kishore Sinha

The City College of New York celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Harlem Week: Celebrate the Journey at the New York Road Runners’ Percy Sutton Harlem 5K where Team CCNY will take on the streets and hills of Harlem on Aug. 10. In partnership with the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Harlem Week began in 1974 and is an annual celebration of the best of Harlem taking place from Aug. 3-18. The events promote the neighborhood’s history in arts, culture, religion, entertainment and sports. The 5K race honors the late Percy Sutton, who was the Manhattan borough president in the 1970s and who

Frank J. Sciame B Arch ‘74 is the new board chair of the Foundation for City College, Inc. at The City College of New York, as of July 1. He succeeds Martin Cohen ’70, D.Sc. (hon.) ’13, chairman and co-founder of investment firm Cohen & Steers, Inc. Sciame founded F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc. in 1975. One of the tri-state's leading construction management firms, Sciame Construction’s current projects are valued at more than $1 billion. They include the Frick Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, the addition to the New Museum, the repositioning of 22 Vanderbilt, the Christian Dior

Dr. Robert R. Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York and one of the world’s pre-eminent researchers in the field, is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society’s (IPS) 2024 Laser Instrumentation Award. The honor is for Alfano’s “discovery of supercontinuum light source as an enabling technology for diverse applications and tunable Cr4 and Cr3 lasers," IPS said. He’ll receive the award at the 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference, Nov. 10-14, in Rome, Italy. Karen A. Mergner, the Society’s senior governance and awards administrator, said the Laser

The Seaside Institute has bestowed the 2025 Seaside Prize upon The City College of New York’s architect and Professor June Williamson and her writing and research partner Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones. Williamson is director of Graduate Architecture at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Dunham-Jones is director of the master’s in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The Seaside Institute’s award attests to the tremendous impact the duo have had on the built environment via their books and teachings. Co-authors of the groundbreaking “Retrofitting

Professor Laura Wainer, of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is to participate in the newly created Urban Design Forum Global Exchange. The fellowship, themed “Big Swings,” will build bridges between leaders in New York and other cities taking “big swings” at their housing crises. Born in Argentina, Wainer is known for her academic work on the intersection between housing policy, design politics, and urban governance. She concentrates on housing inequality among migrants in NYC and the nine-month Fellowship dovetails perfectly with her work. She is