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CiPASS-ExL, an interdisciplinary program at The City College of New York focusing on experiential learning, is the recipient of a $3 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to boost the number of Hispanic and low-income graduates leaving CCNY with work-ready skills and connections to employers. Harlem-based CCNY is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution of Higher Education by the DOE. The acronym for “City College initiative to Promote the Academic Success of Students - Experiential Learning,” CiPASS-ExL is the creation of four CCNY units: the Grove School of

Scoring high on campus diversity, The City College of New York places eighth out of the top 797 schools nationally for Environment in the 2021 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education Best College Rankings. The category reflects four elements that are fortes for an institution with a student body representing more than 150 nationalities. Following is a breakdown of the WSJ/THE Environment scoring for CCNY. Student diversity, 94.5 points; Faculty diversity, 92.9; Student inclusion, 91.6; International students, 59.7. CCNY placed in the first decile for Environment and #8 nationally. In other

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York is pleased to announce the appointment of healthcare executive and CCNY alumnus Richard J. Henley to its Board of Visitors. He joins twenty-nine other distinguished Board Members. Henley is President and CEO at Healthcare Strategic Solutions, LLC, an advisory firm focused on optimizing enterprise value for health systems, private equity firms, portfolio companies, and other business entities through strategy, leadership and business development. He has spent more than thirty years in senior leadership

Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial muscles for a broad array of applications. These are the new possibilities with the creation by an international team of researchers, led by The City College of New York’s Xi Chen and his co-authors at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, of shape-changing crystals that enable energy transfer from evaporation to mechanical motion. Entitled: “ Mechanistic insights of evaporation-induced actuation in supramolecular crystals,” the study appears in the journal “Nature Materials.”

The City College of New York has jumped 52 places from last year in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings published today. Top performances in several categories including social mobility (#17) and undergraduate teaching (#61) have earned City College a joint #176 spot overall among an elite pool of 389 institutions that made the final cut in the 2021 rankings. The following is how CCNY fares in the annual evaluation of America’s top degree-granting schools: #17 in Social Mobility - National Universities (tie); #61 in Undergraduate Teaching - National Universities (tie);

The Department of Student Life and Leadership Development at The City College of New York kicks off Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with a virtual celebration, including a discussion about each of the Latinx/a/o Heritage Month honorees. The kickoff takes place on Tues., September 15 from 12:30-2 p.m.; to RSVP, please click here. The honorees will be featured on a virtual and on-site honoree wall, and three individuals from each of the 21 Latin American countries were chosen to be featured. There is also a separate subpage for each country, which will display the honorees. The subpage will showcase

The City College of New York’s long tradition of quality, affordability and outstanding student outcomes continues to gain national recognition. In its 2020 Best Colleges for Your Money rankings, Money Magazine lists CCNY in the top 15%. And it’s only one of two schools in New York State on the University Headquarters rankings of most affordable four-year colleges and universities by State. CCNY ranked #113 out of 739 four-year schools that met Money’s benchmark for successfully combining quality and affordability. MIT, Stanford University and Princeton ranked first, second and third, in that

“ A Field Guide to a Happy Life - 53 Brief Lessons for Living,” by renowned City College of New York philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, rolls off the presses on Sept. 15, reimagining Stoicism for the modern age, according to publisher, Basic Books. “Pigliucci offers a renewed Stoicism that reflects modern science and sensibilities,” notes Basic Books. Publishers Weekly hails the 160-page guide by City College’s K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy in the Division of Humanities and the Arts as “a shrewd take on Stoic philosophy that's one-part inspiration and one-part manual for cultivating

The City University of New York is investing $400,000 in a new transportation and infrastructure training program at The City College of New York. The investment follows ongoing efforts to improve equity, representation and access to jobs in the transportation, infrastructure and construction sectors for residents of Harlem, Inwood, Upper Manhattan and the Northwest Bronx. U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat and his predecessor as Representative for New York’s 13th congressional district, Charles B. Rangel, applauded the CUNY move. “For generations, the communities of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx

Michelle Caines and Sheila Castillo bring to three the number of City College of New York undergraduates at its Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) awarded $10,000 Women’s Forum Education Fund fellowships in 2020. The awards are given to high-potential women, age 35 and over, whose education and lives have been disrupted by extreme adversity. They recognize extraordinary and often heroic efforts in overcoming adversity in restructuring lives for success. Sandra Serrano, a senior pursuing a BA degree with a concentration in urban studies and public