A major story in The New York Times
reports on the work of Hunter College scientists at the Center for the Analysis and Research of Spatial Information (CARSI) as they analyze laser-based data from frequent flyovers of Ground Zero and produce three-dimensional topographic maps of the site. Prof. Sean C. Ahearn (Geography), director of the Center, provides the maps to firefighters and rescue workers to help them detect unstable terrain. The CARSI lab also produces thermal maps to monitor where fires are still smoldering.
The Oregonian, Toledo Blade, and regional editions of California's Sunday Times pick up the Times story. The Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, FOX,
KTVU in San Francisco, Reuters Video, the BBC, Voice of America (including its online site) and Civil Engineering magazine also feature CARSI.
POST-WTC: WORDS HEAL BROKEN HEARTS
Salon.com reports on President Raab's quick response and outreach to students as they cope with the World Trade Center tragedy. Nassar, an
American-born Islamic Yementi student, says: "The week of the attack, Raab called the leaders of the Arab and Islamic groups and invited us to meet with her; she wanted to learn and then have us
teach other students to understand our perspective." The Daily News
interviews Assistant Provost Eija Ayravainen, who tells of surging student interest in politics and discussion as members of the diverse student body reach out to one another.
2002 COLLEGE GUIDES RATE HUNTER
Princeton Review's The Best 331 Colleges
writes: "With a solid reputation in the natural sciences, health sciences, social work, and English, Hunter offers not only a college degree but also one well regarded in academic circles, all at a price that's relatively easy on the bank account." U.S. News & World Report
Best Graduate Schools ranks Hunter's social work program 17th
in the nation. And Hunter's academic reputation score is the second-highest of 45 colleges in its category (Tier 2-North, Universities-Masters), as reported in U.S. News & World Report
America's Best Colleges.
CENTRO IN THE NEWS
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education writes extensively on the dynamic mission of The Center for Puerto
Rican Studies (Centro). Established in 1973, Centro is the only institute in the U. S. devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the Puerto Rican experience and is the largest repository of
Puerto Rican-Latino materials in the Northeast. Director Felix Matos-Rodriguez calls the archive "a national treasure," and reports that the library was used by more than 5,000 researchers
and 12,000 people for general purposes last year.
CENTRO AUTHORS PUBLISH NEW BOOK
The Orlando Sentinel and its online edition, as well as El Diario and El
Vocero, two high-circulation Spanish-language papers, carry news of the publication of Pioneros: Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1896-1948. The bilingual book by Centro Director
Felix Matos-Rodreiguez and Centro Archivist Pedro Juan Hernandez is the first photo-history of its kind. WADO-AM, a popular bilingual station, broadcasts an interview with Prof.
Matos-Rodriguez about Pioneros.
LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education features The Leadership Alliance and notes Hunter's
participation. A consortium of 28 institutions of higher education, The Leadership Alliance improves underrepresented populations' access to graduate degrees.
BUDGET TRAINING
In a pilot program financed in part by a $50,000 grant from the Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, Hunter faculty from the School of Education and other CUNY schools teach assistant principals
budgeting and financial management skills, reports The New York Times.
Edith Everett, former vice chairwoman of CUNY's Board of Trustees, helped develop the program, which was designed to free principals to focus on academic issues.
FOR SENIORS ONLY
Newsday reports on The Brookdale Center on Aging's cultural Elderhostel courses and the Daily News writes about the Center's money management
programs for seniors.
HIGHER STANDARDS AND ENROLLMENT
Despite CUNY's more rigorous entry requirements for its senior colleges, new freshman enrollment at Hunter rises by
5.6%. CUNY's total enrollment climbs 1.3% and undergraduate and graduate enrollment combined rises by 1.4%, reports The New York Times. The article concludes that these results
confirm CUNY officials' strategy: make schools more selective and enrollment grows. Officials believe that access to the colleges has not been compromised.
NEW TEST BRINGS PROMISING RESULTS
The New York Times prints promising results from a new CUNY system-wide test that determines whether community college students will graduate and
progress to CUNY senior colleges. 95.5% of the 506 Hunter students tested, passed. System-wide, 3,595 students were tested and 90 percent passed. The test measures mastery of
basic college material.
HIGH SCHOOL DEBATES IN MONGOLIA
Nine students of the Hunter College High School debate team travel to Mongolia to develop a high school debate program,
reports The New York Times. The debate question, whether Mongolia should find economic alternatives to animal husbandry, is argued in English, with Mongolian secondary and university
students.
NOSTALGIC VISIT FOR PRESIDENT RAAB
Hunter College President Jennifer Raab visits her former elementary school, P.S. 173 in Washington Heights, and gives an encouraging talk
to 180 graduating fifth-graders about to enter middle school, Education Update reports. President Raab graduated from P.S. 173's sixth grade as Class Valedictorian.
