City University of New York

Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]

2013-05-15 15:01:00

In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...

Duke Ellington's music lives to be heard

2013-05-10 12:26:00

It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...

David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York

2013-04-24 14:14:00

David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...

The NRA's off-target plan

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...

2013 State of the Union: Full prepared transcript

2013-02-12 18:00:00

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...

A free-speech controversy grows in Brooklyn

2013-02-04 13:29:00

“That’s a nice college you’ve got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.” That’s not too far removed from the message being sent by some members of New York’s City Council to the president of Brooklyn...

The politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo' go beyond the film

2012-12-13 06:00:00

Amid the box-office figures, technological advances and critical hype, 2012 saw the film industry severely tested in one regard: Tragic events forced filmmakers to confront whether action should be taken when serious real-world repercussions might...

Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer

2012-11-06 00:00:00

Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...

Jennifer Jaff dies at 55; advocate for the chronically ill

2012-10-01 00:00:00

Jennifer Jaff was on the brink of attending law school when her doctor tried to stop her because she had a debilitating chronic illness. "I decided I couldn't stay in bed the rest of my life," she later said. "I had to live." Decades later she was a...

Elan Steinberg dies at 59; former head of World Jewish Congress

2012-04-11 00:00:00

The son of Holocaust survivors, Elan Steinberg preferred to keep his family history private. But the fierce strategist and former leader of the World Jewish Congress was clearly motivated by it, according to observers, as he relentlessly pushed to...

Monster Mash: Broad Museum at MSU; World Trade Center site

2011-12-09 16:32:59

Harry Pachon dies at 66; Latino scholar and activist

2011-11-09 00:00:00

Harry Pachon, a scholar-activist who helped focus national attention on the needs and traits of a growing Latino population, particularly in politics and education, has died. He was 66. Pachon, the longtime president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute,...

Former CIA director David Petraeus, here addressing a USC-sponsored event in March honoring the military, has accepted a teaching job at City University of New York.

2013-03-26 00:00:00

The former Secret Service agent won positive reviews during his attempt to unseat Sen. Ben Cardin. A native of New York, he earned bachelors and masters degrees from City University of New York while working as a New York police officer. While in the Secret Service, he got his MBA from Penn State.

2011-12-10 00:00:00

City University of New York students got into the spirit during the West Indian Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.

2005-09-05 00:00:00