From City to the World looks at climate change from the skies to the streets: In this episode, hosted by CCNY President Vincent Boudreau, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Prof. Kyle C. McDonald outlines his collaboration with NASA through research and the…
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Meeting of Minds and Mobilization: WEACT.org for Environmental Justice and NISAR, A NASA/India Collaboration
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From City to the World looks at climate change from the skies to the streets: In this episode, hosted by CCNY President Vincent Boudreau, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Prof. Kyle C. McDonald outlines his collaboration with NASA through research and the new NISAR satellite mission's revolutionary capabilities. Since NISAR findings on climate effect…
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Opening the Doors: Libraries and Public Art as Inclusive Spaces in a Book-Banning Era
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As 2023 nears its close, challenges to book titles are tracking up from 2022, a year that saw a more than ten-fold increase since 2020 in attempts to restrict access to library books and materials, the American Library Association has reported. In an atmosphere where freedom of expression is threatened and, increasingly, attempts are made to suppre…
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Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop: From NYC Voices to Cultural Force
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The first Afro-Latina Hip Hop DJ, Gail Windley, and Rev. Conrad Tillard reflect on five decades of this essential cultural movement. With The City College of New York President Vincent Boudreau as host, hear Windley's experience as a pioneer, in the Bronx of the 1970s, in this emerging musical youth culture. In recent years, she has combined religi…
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Learning and Leading in Harlem: Expert Educators Share Insights on K-12 and Higher Education
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For Harlem-based experts in educational leadership, imbuing local students of all ages with an understanding of the importance of living, learning, and thriving at the very center of Black life in America is one of the most important lessons of all. Teacher education, postmortems on the pandemic's effects, and curriculum development may look differ…
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Jane Chu on Leadership in Ambiguity: A Celebration of Immigrant Stories
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How does one lead in an atmosphere of uncertainty? As leaders, where do we go when no one has ever gone there before? When information is incomplete or ambiguous? When objectives may differ across perspectives and cultures? For Dr. Jane Chu, there are leadership lessons in the experiences of individuals who have immigrated to the United States. The…
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Celebrating Lynn Nottage: CCNY Honors the Playwright's Art and Activism at 44th Langston Hughes Festival
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On February 9, The City College of New York holds its 44th Langston Hughes Festival and awards its Langston Hughes Medal to a highly distinguished writer of the African diaspora: Lynn Nottage. With a mission to celebrate and expand upon the legacy of Harlem Renaissance icon and "poet laureate of Harlem" Langston Hughes, the Festival awarded its fir…
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Prioritizing Wellness in Our Community: CCNY and Partners Mobilize to "Leave No One Behind"
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Health, wellness, and food security in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and economic environment are paramount concerns globally, as they are in New York City's minoritized communities. At The City College of New York, where efforts to combat food insecurity are underway year-round, World Food Day is an annual fall observance dedicated to raising awar…
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Churches as Incubators for Economic Empowerment: Building Partnerships to Help Jump-Start a More Inclusive and Equitable Economy
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A historic moment for economic development is here: Government is investing in strategic sectors like infrastructure and the green economy. It has never been more pressing, City College of New York (CCNY) President Vincent G. Boudreau argues, to rebuild our communities along with our infrastructure and to gather allies and collaborators in this eff…
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Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Noted Documentarian Stanley Nelson Address 2022 CCNY Graduates
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Historic remarks on COVID, health disparities, social mobility, education and present-day politics and culture by CCNY 2022 honorary degree recipients Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and leading documentarian of the African American experience Stanley Nelson are captured in this special Commencement episode. City College President Vincent Boudreau introduces …
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ROTC of Tomorrow: How DEI and Civilian-Inspired US Army Talent Management Create Change and Opportunity for CCNY Cadets
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The City College ROTC Program, where the late Gen. Colin L. Powell got his start more than 60 years ago, will yield 16 cadet commissions into the U.S. Army this June. Of this cohort of 2022 graduates from across CUNY, more than 50% were born abroad and became U.S. citizens, enabling them to serve in the nation’s military. Hear from Lt. Col. LaShell…
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Heralding Opportunity for Harlem and the Nation: The Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative at CCNY
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Modernizing urban infrastructure and bringing high-quality career training and jobs to underserved communities are shared goals of the new Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative (RIWI) at The City College of New York. The brainchild of former U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who served Harlem and surrounding areas for 46 years in Congres…
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Celebrating the Arts' Impact in Harlem: New Heritage Theatre Group and CCNY
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In 2020, a long friendship was formalized between The City College of New York and Harlem's New Heritage Theatre Group (NHTG), making NHTG CCNY's theater company in residence. It is the oldest Black nonprofit theater company in New York City. In conversation with CCNY President Vincent Boudreau, NHTG executive producer Voza Rivers recounts the hist…
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Diverse by design, CCNY was founded in 1847 with a mission to educate the "children of the whole people" and introduce public education to New York City. Fast forward to 1969, when the disparity between the small numbers of Black and Puerto Rican students — compared with Harlem's population and the city as a whole — gave rise to historic campus pro…
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Educating the Healers and Leaders Remaking Medicine
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The data are stark on health disparities in America's under-resourced communities, but the prognosis for a better, fairer healthcare future is strong at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York. Newly installed dean Dr. Carmen Renee' Green, a nationally known pain physician and expert on health policy and social determinants of h…
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A giant on the world stage, Gen. Colin L. Powell found his calling in the ROTC program as an undergraduate at The City College of New York. Powell led the Cadet Corps on the Harlem campus, and upon graduating with a Geology degree in 1958, received his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. The first Black American appointed to a serie…
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Connecting with Harlem: Public Mission Aligns Public College with Community
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In a special guest appearance on WBAI's The Harlem Connection, City College President Vincent Boudreau joins host Ade Williams for "The Harlem Connection Gets Academic." Excerpted here as an installment of CCNY's From City to the World podcast, the conversation covers the college's essential connection with its Harlem neighborhood. President Boudre…
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Vaccinating NYC: The Progress, the Plateau, and the Urgent Work of Science and Governance to Safeguard the City As It Reopens
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The U.S. city hardest hit economically by the COVID-19 pandemic, New York is now racing to recover and reopen. Can vaccination keep pace to ensure an equitable and safe new semblance of normal? In conversation with City College President Vincent Boudreau, CCNY Dean of Science Susan Perkins explains vaccine safety and outlines risks of virus variant…
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Infrastructure and Opportunity: How the Biden Administration's $2 Trillion Plan Can Advance Equity and Economic Development By Investing in Public Transportation
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In a nation that ranks only 13th globally for infrastructure quality, the new focus in Washington on infrastructure investment has the potential to be transformative. For public transportation specifically--so vital to New York City and New York state, and drastically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic--significant new funding stands to multiply the…
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Educating for Diversity and Recovery: CCNY's School of Education Embraces Its Next 100 Years
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As it celebrates its centennial, The City College of New York's School of Education is engaged not just in educating young people but in constructing a more fair and just society. From the Spanish flu era to today's COVID-19 pandemic, the School of Education has been preparing educators to teach and nurture an increasingly diverse and multilingual …
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The Future of Black History: Equity After COVID
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As Black History Month closes, Silicon Harlem CEO Clayton Banks and Executive Director Bobby Derival of The City College of New York's MPA program join CCNY President Vincent Boudreau to discuss systemic inequities, racial justice after the killing of George Floyd and their personal experiences working within communities toward solutions. After a p…
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Supporting the College and Community During COVID-19: How Philanthropy and Partnerships Are Taking on Today's Unique Challenges
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The City College of New York President Vincent Boudreau convenes a conversation on how philanthropy is being mobilized across and beyond campus to address the economic and health crisis of COVID-19. Amid the pandemic's devastation and inequities, hear what has been learned and what the CCNY support ecosystem is achieving in this discussion with CCN…
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Celebrating Visionary Black Writers: CCNY's Langston Hughes Festival Marks Its 42nd Anniversary With Conversations More Urgent Than Ever
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Every year, The City College of New York holds its Langston Hughes Festival and awards its Langston Hughes Medal to a highly distinguished writer of the African diaspora. With a mission to celebrate and expand upon the legacy of Harlem Renaissance icon and "poet laureate of Harlem" Langston Hughes, the Festival awarded its first medal, in 1978, to …
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Hacking the Election: 2020 Cybersecurity Threats, from COVID Tracking App Exploitation to Electronic Voting Machines
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How vulnerable is U.S. democracy as we approach the Nov. 3 general election? Politics aside, technology presents its own highly sophisticated threats to an accurate result in the race for President and other consequential seats. Far beyond the grasp of many laypeople and lawmakers, complex cybersecurity risks to election integrity are explained in …
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Athletes and Activism: Advocating for Racial Justice Using the Powerful Platform of Sports
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Amid nationwide protests and anti-racist solidarity sparked by George Floyd's violent death, more US athletes are using their platforms to call for racial justice. In this episode, a former professional football player and an academic expert on the intersection of race, sports, and identity provide personal and historic insight on past and current …
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Coping with COVID-19: Staying Safe, Sane and Entertained
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The public health imperative to stay home has introduced new challenges on a wide scale for mental health, maintaining cybersecurity in our virtual world, and for those with extra time, occupying oneself with home entertainment. In a program dedicated to some of the practical realities of this period, learn key steps to keep your computer and ident…
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The idea that we're all in this together takes on powerful and multidimensional meanings in Harlem, City College's historic home base. In partnership with the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC), City College, and its community radio station, WHCR-90.3 "The Voice of Harlem," are currently presenting a series of COVID-19 public service broadca…
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Saluting the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Harlem Neighbor, National Treasure, Essential Resource for CCNY Scholars
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With 11 million items illuminating the richness of global black history, arts and culture, the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a powerful archive and epicenter of research and learning about people of African descent throughout the world. As the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance is being celebrated, an…
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Producing Leaders for Change: How CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Guides Young People from Potential to Power
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The next generation of leaders are finding their power -- and personifying hope for an inclusive, renewed American democracy - at one of the nation’s most diverse colleges, The City College of New York. Look inside CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and learn how this laboratory is empowering students with real-world learnin…
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Fighting Hunger on Campus: How Food Pantries Support the Whole Student at CUNY Colleges
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Dee Dee Mozeleski, Executive Director of the Foundation for City College and Senior Adviser to the President; Deborah C. Harte, Student Life Manager for the Single Stop program at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeRecorded: October 30, 2019By Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:25:56 -0400
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Building NYC: Celebrating a Century of Engineering and Engagement at CCNY
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Gilda A. Barabino, Daniel and Frances Berg Professor and Dean of CCNY's Grove School of Engineering; Curtis Archer, President of the Harlem Community Development Corporation Recorded: September 25, 2019By Wed, 25 Sep 2019 19:27:00 -0400
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Environmental Justice: Growing Urban Sustainability, Equity and Health, from Fresh Food to Waste Management
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Marco Castaldi, Director of the CCNY Earth Engineering Center and Professor of Chemical Engineering; Cheryl Huber, Assistant Director of Greenmarket at GrowNYC.Recorded: July 31, 2019By Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:09:58 -0400
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Jazz as Political Tradition: Exploring Democracy in Harlem and Around the World
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Host: CCNY President Vincent BoudreauGuests: Steve Wilson, Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Tracy Hyter-Suffern, Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem; Loren Schoenberg, Senior Scholar at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.Recorded: June 26, 2019…
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CCNY on Screen: Activism and the Legacy of America’s First Documentary Film School
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Host: CCNY President Vincent BoudreauGuests: Jerry Carlson, Professor of Media and Communication Arts and Program Director, Cinema Studies, and Dave Davidson, Professor of Media and Communication Arts, at CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts; Stanley Nelson, director, founder of Firelight Films and Firelight Media, CCNY Class of 1976.Recorded…
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Why Black Mothers and Babies Are Dying at More than Twice the Rate for Whites, and an Essential Intervention to Implement Now
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Host: Vincent Boudreau Guests: Linda Villarosa, CCNY Journalism Program Director, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Arts, and New York Times Magazine contributing writer; Chanel L. Porchia-Albert, Founding Executive Director, Ancient Song Doula Services Recorded April 18, 2018By Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:00:23 -0400
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Rewriting the Global Narrative: Women’s Prison Reform and Transition
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Host: CCNY President Vincent BoudreauGuests: Asale Angel-Ajani, Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at City College; Sharon White-Harrigan, Clinical Director of Hopper Home, a transitional shelter for formerly incarcerated women, under the auspices of the Women's Prison Association.Recorded: March 27, 2019…
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A Salute to Black History Month: Celebrating Learning, Advocacy and Anniversaries at the CCNY Black Studies Program and the NAACP
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Vanessa K. Valdés, Director of the Black Studies Program and Associate Professor at City College; Geoffrey Eaton, President of the NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch Recorded: February 27, 2019By Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:00:33 -0500
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Mobilizing the Greater Harlem Community: Responses to the Opioid Epidemic
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Dr. Howard Greller, Director of Research and Medical Toxicology, Emergency Department, at St. Barnabas Hospital Health Systems and a Medical Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the CUNY School of Medicine at City College; Nancy Sohler, Associate Medical Professor at the CUNY School of Me…
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Service to the Community: Beyond the Season of Giving
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Anthony Laperuta, CCNY Assistant Director of Public Safety; Reginald Mitchell and Henry Porcher of Brothers in Recovery. Recorded: November 28, 2018By Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:42:59 -0500
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Democratizing the Outdoors: Recovering the Diverse History of Wilderness Adventure
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Dee Dee Mozeleski, Interim Executive Director of the Combined Foundations for City College and Vice Chair of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s New York/Northern New Jersey Chapter; Justin Bailey, Program Manager at the Appalachian Mountain Club, CCNY Class of 2011. Recorded: August 29, 2018…
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From Our Campus to Our Borders: Advocating for Immigrants and Their Families
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Tatyana Kleyn, Associate Professor of Teaching, Learning and Culture and Program Director, Bilingual Education and TESOL Programs, CCNY School of Education and CCNY Dream Team Advisor; Angela Fernandez, Esq., Executive Director and Supervising Attorney, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights.…
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Navigating the Online Privacy Crisis: A Cryptographer’s Perspective on Internet and Cloud Security
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Host: Vincent Boudreau Guest: Rosario Gennaro, Professor of Computer Science at CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering and Director of CCNY Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software Recorded May 29, 2018By Wed, 30 May 2018 16:00:45 -0400
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The J. Max Bond Legacy: Building Collaboration and Urban Futures in Upper Manhattan
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Host: Vincent Boudreau Guests: Shawn Rickenbacker, Director of CCNY's J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures; Hon. Padmore John, Chairperson of Community Board 9; April Tyler, Co-Chairperson of the Housing, Land Use and Zoning Committee of Community Board 9By Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:00:04 -0400
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Making Sure That We're a Voice: Detroit, Self-Determination, and Storytelling in Black America
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Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Herb Boyd, CCNY adjunct professor of Black Studies, journalist, and author of Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor-in-chief, New York Amsterdam News Recorded: February 28, 2018By Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:32:33 -0500
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Hi, this is Vince Boudreau, President of The City College of New York, and I want to tell you about a new show I'll be hosting the last Wednesday of every month. It's called From City to the World, and it's about how the work that we're doing at City College matters to people across the city and throughout the world. We'll discuss the practical app…
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