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City University of New York Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez has followed through on increasing faculty diversity. Nine new college presidents – including two Asian Americans, three African Americans and three women – were appointed in the past year. Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, CUNY established the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund with $1 million each from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation. This grew to more than $8 million by the fall and allowed CUNY to distribute emergency grants to more than 10,000 students.
2. Jim Malatras
SUNY Empire State College
Harriet Tubman Center hosts talk on STEM in Black communities Provided by Tubman Center Calvin Mackie was the second speaker of “The 3 Rs: The Road to Reparations and Reconciliation” series hosted by the Binghamton University Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity.
Calvin Mackie relayed his hope for STEM education as a form of reparations
April 19, 2021
After a year of hardship and uncertainty, Calvin Mackie spoke of the importance of never losing hope at his virtual talk hosted by Binghamton University’s Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity over Zoom on Wednesday.
Mackie is the managing partner at Channel ZerO Group, chair of the Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Boys and Men and president and founder of STEM NOLA, which stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in New Orleans, Louisiana and is a nonprofit community-based STEM program for children. This was the second event of the
Gov. Andrew Cuomo expands SNAP food initiative Food Pantry, Pipe Dream Archives In addition to the new Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility, students facing food insecurity can turn to the Binghamton University Food Pantry for healthy meals.
Part of pre-pandemic plan to combat student hunger, aims to combat food insecurity due to COVID-19
April 19, 2021
On Oct. 16, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) had been expanded to nearly 75,000 low-income college students.
SNAP supplements the food budget of low-income individuals and families so they can purchase healthy food. New York is also offering a shortened SNAP application for individuals on fixed incomes to encourage greater enrollment by older and disabled qualifying individuals. There is a permanent expansion of the program as well as a temporary expansion.
BU to build new park in Johnson City Sidney Slon/Photography Editor Binghamton University is developing a greenspace park within the BU Health Sciences Campus in Johnson City.
Amid gentrification concerns, University sees park as part of ongoing revitalization efforts
April 15, 2021
Binghamton University plans to develop a park in Downtown Johnson City amid concerns of gentrification and the impact on town residents.
On March 26, BU President Harvey Stenger announced over WNBF News Radio 1290 that the University is creating a greenspace within the BU Health Sciences Campus in Johnson City. Near the recently built campus for the Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the two-acre project will contain a park and a walkway between Corliss Avenue and Main Street with amenities, such as art installations, picnic tables and benches. The project will be exclusively funded through the Binghamton University Foundation, although designs of the park are being collabora
BU must do more to address racism on campus and locally Doris Turkel is an undeclared freshman.
As a predominantly white institution, BU has a responsibility to enforce strong consequences for racism on campus
April 15, 2021
During the second week of my sociology class this semester, our professor Joshua Price brought to the class’s attention a racial incident that had occurred in a discussion section. A student had said a string of slurs while referring to a teaching assistant (TA), who is a woman of color. My initial reaction was how horribly ironic it was that in a class devoted to the unpacking of patterns of oppression, a student would say such a disgusting and racially charged statement. I also wondered what consequences the student would face. Unfortunately, it is unknown whether the student has faced any consequences besides dropping the course.