Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
NYU President Andrew Hamilton and Provost Katherine Fleming today named Angie Kamath, University Dean at the City University of New York (CUNY), as Dean of NYU’s School of Professional Studies, effective July 1, 2021.
A distinguished child psychologist, she presided over the school’s move to a landmark building in Manhattan and expanded its capacity for research.
The #StopAsianHate page collects exhibits, artifacts, archives, and more from across various Smithsonian museums’ collection on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Hisama was a professor at The Graduate Center and at Brooklyn College, where she was also the director of what is now the H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music. She is currently in her 16th year at Columbia University. A renowned scholar in music theory — a field that remains largely white … Read more
The City University of New York today launched #VaxUpCUNY, a multifaceted, multimedia campaign to encourage CUNY students, alumni, faculty and staff to get their COVID-19 vaccination as soon as they become eligible. The campaign will target communities of color to ease anxiety and hesitancy to the vaccine.
The CUNY Board of Trustees today voted to appoint Dr. Patricia Ramsey, an innovative educator with extensive experience as a leader at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), as the sixth president of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. The CUNY senior college, a Predominantly Black Institution and an Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution, was created in response … Read more