A Record Seven CUNY Community College Students Receive Highly Competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
Recipients Hail from Countries Including Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and China
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Professor Kevin Hom Spends Spring as Fulbright Scholar at University of Bologna
City Tech Associate Professor of Architecture and former Dean of the College’s School of Technology and Design, Kevin Hom, has been spending the spring as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bologna in Italy. As a Fulbright grantee, Professor Hom has been teaching a graduate level design studio and lecturing on Architectural Theory and … Read more
NYC schools to pilot Asian American studies curriculum
New York City is piloting a curriculum on Asian American history this fall, with a wider rollout planned for 2024, officials announced Thursday.
Request for Proposals – CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI)
In March 2022, the Chancellor established a Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative Council as a formal University-wide body. The Council’s first focus has been forging a University-wide community that will, for the first time, bring together the many faculty and students, centers and institutes engaged in the study of race and ethnicity throughout our system. A … Read more
Writing the History of Greater New York Fellowship (Gotham Center)
One yearlong grant of $40,000 will be awarded to a scholar with a book manuscript substantially near completion that explores 1) the history of the “outer boroughs” (Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx), 2) Long Island’s historical contributions to the development of the metropolitan region, or 3) scholarship that integrates the history of Long … Read more
Elderly Asian-Americans face the most hate in the U.S., per new AARP, Stop AAPI Hate study
The study comes amid AAPI History Month, and during a period of heightened AAPI hate over the last two-plus years.