Aspiring Oncologist’s Rx for Success: CUNY Aid x 4  Sinai Cuahutenco is on a mission to become an oncologist to honor her mother, who died of colon cancer at age 30 when Sinai was 13. And thanks to four CUNY programs that help talented but academically underprep...>>

Hostos to Honor a Patron’s Patron  In his four decades at Hostos Community College, Gerald Meyer has been a history professor whose personal history has been defined by his activism in behalf of political, social and educational causes — perhaps...>>

Honoring a Champion of Equality  The name: The Midnight March. The year: 1966, when the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans dominated the news and Puerto Ricans — then the city’s dominant Latino group — engaged in a parallel push f...>>

From Labyrinth to Pathways  The new Pathways plan for streamlining credit transfers within CUNY promises to improve academic quality and graduation rates plus save money for students and the University....>>

Ready to Serve  A number of University staffers are also U.S. military reservists, who must leave their jobs and families on short notice if called to active duty. ...>>

Citizen CUNY Portal Now Offers Even More Services  To welcome the largest number of students ever to enroll at The City University of New York this fall, the University has enhanced its online portal to student services, which is now called “Citizen CUNY, Your ...>>

Book Talk: A Wonderful Satch-urated World  Bernard Shaw was tetchy about his first name: “Don’t George me,” he warned. So was the beloved trumpeter known as Satchmo. When he was recording “Hello, Dolly!” for the first time and came to “Hello, Dolly, thi...>>

Key Encouragement  Gail Marquis is a successful financial manager, with an M.B.A. and licenses to sell stocks and bonds in fifteen states. She was a basketball champion, so good at the game that she is one of only four women — an...>>

The Birth Of a Modern University  City College's cathedral-scale Great Hall was the grand setting for historic CUNY events, including the 1963 inauguration of Chancellor Albert Hosmer Bowker. On a spring day 50 years ago, a “great gathering” of...>>

Rhodes Route for Family's Next Doctor  Zujaja Tauqeer, a senior at the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College, pinches herself every day to make certain she is among the 32 U.S. winners of a 2011 Rhodes Scholarship — the world’s most prestigiou...>>