The selection of Jennifer J. Raab as Hunter's new president makes headlines in media including The New York Times and Daily News. Ms.
Raab, who most recently served as chairwoman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, attended Hunter College High School and earned degrees from Cornell University, Princeton
University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Harvard Law School.ART AND SCIENCE OF MAPPING
An exhibit in the Leubsdorf Art Gallery featuring
the NYCMap—a project of the Geography Department's Center for the Analysis and Research of Spatial Information—sparks a lengthy feature on the Metro Section's front page in The New York Times
about the map's sophisticated computer images. NY1 cites The New York Times article in its feature, "In the Papers," and the Daily News runs an announcement of the show.
WORDS OF WISDOM
The Daily News profiles Winter Commencement speaker Bel Kaufman, author of the best-selling classic, Up the Down Staircase. The article captures
Ms. Kaufman's sense of humor and her reflections on social issues.
MAYOR'S AWARD TO BARGONETTI
Prof. Jill Bargonetti (Biology) is among six New York City science professors who
received a Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology in a ceremony at Gracie Mansion, reports The New York Times. Dr. Bargonetti's award and photo also appear in such
community papers as Carib News, New Voice of New York, New York Beacon, and Caribbean Life.
SCIENCE PARK PLANNED
A collaboration among Hunter College, New York
University's School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration will lead to the building of the East River Science Park on First Avenue
between 28th and 30th Streets, reports The New York Times.TESTING GIFTED CHILDREN
WNBC-TV
interviews Prof. Courtland C. Lee (Dean, School of Education) and Elementary School principal Patricia Lambert on the admissions process facing gifted children who wish to enter Hunter College
Elementary School. In an interview for WNBC's "Live at 5," Dean Lee comments on the privatization of public schools.
ABZUG LECTURER
An article runs in the
Riverdale Press on Dr. Nicholasa Mohr, a prolific Puerto Rican author who was the guest speaker at the Annual Bella Abzug lecture.
BROOKDALE PUBLICATIONS
The Nassau County Edition of Senior News Long Island recommends several useful publications offered by the Brookdale Center on Aging, and prints the center's web site address.
SOCIAL JUSTICE JOURNALISM AWARDS
An announcement of Juan Gonzalez's selection for a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism—presented in a ceremony at Hunter—appears in the
Daily News, where Gonzalez is a columnist. In related coverage, KPFK-FM's "Beneath the Surface" interviews Ellen Schultz of the Wall Street Journal,
who also won an Aronson Award for exposing corporate "pension-paring" that deprived retired workers of their full benefits. The awards are given annually by the Dept. of Film and Media Studies.
TEACHING FELLOWS AT HUNTER
An orientation for New York City Teaching Fellows at Hunter College is photographed by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The caption describes how
Fellows are recruited from pools of working professionals to work in under-served city schools.
CUNY HONORS PROGRAM
The New York Times
describes the CUNY Honors Program and its effort to draw high achievers with full tuition, a free laptop computer and other privileges. Hunter is cited as one of five senior colleges offering the program.
BIG APPLE POLL ON VOUCHERS, ECONOMY
When the Big Apple Poll posed a question about school vouchers in two different ways to New Yorkers, their answers were dramatically different,
reports the New York Post. Support for the vouchers dropped when the specter of public expense was raised. The Daily News
also quotes the poll, saying New Yorkers' outlook on their economic condition had worsened in the past year.
AVOIDING SCHOLARSHIP SCAMS
ABC's Eyewitness News covers a press
conference at which Kevin McGowan (Director of Financial Aid); C. Adrienne Rhodes of the New York State Consumer Protection Board; and Peter Keitel of the Higher Education Services Corporation
showed how students and parents can avoid scams when applying for scholarships.
ROOSEVELT HOUSE RAISES FUNDS
The Hunter College Foundation raised $2.5 million toward the restoration
of Roosevelt House, reports Our Town. The six-story 1908 townhouse was once home to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1943, the property was offered to Hunter College.
PUERTO RICAN SPEAKERS
Newsday carries an announcement of two book presentations by authors Maria Perez y Gonzalez and Carmen Whalen, hosted by the college's Center for Puerto Rican
Studies.
HUNTER'S CAMPUS SCHOOLS
Hunter's search for a principal and director of its Campus Schools is focusing on candidates experienced with the intellectually gifted, says an
article in the Daily News. Interim President Evangelos Gizis notes, "There are not too many [such candidates]." An article in Flatbush Life (Brooklyn) about the Center
for Intellectually Gifted Students also mentions the Hunter College Campus Schools and its collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University/The Center for Talented Youth, and District 22.
PARTNERSHIP FOR ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS
An Our Town
article discusses a new partnership between the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and Group Activities and Respite Program of Brookdale Center on Aging, to provide expanded adult daycare services for Alzheimer's disease patients.
