TRANSFER STUDENTS are streaming into the University's four-year baccalaureate colleges at unprecedented rates — expanding diversity as a CUNY redefined by a decade of improved academics, record-breaki...

HAVE YOU HEARD? What community college was named one of the nation's top four, earning it a $100,000 prize? And which University college is the latest to add doctorate degrees? Or what you'll find a...

When Neighborhood Trust financial adviser Adalberto Jaimes first met Ruben Felix in September 2011, Felix was drowning in nearly $17,000 in debt, living paycheck to paycheck and feeling overwhelmed by...

Rosa McCauley Parks finally got postal justice back on February 4, when the Postal Service issued her stamp (the day was her centennial). That honor was bound to come, for after Parks died in 2005 at ...

In the spring of 1963, the civil rights movement was in the thick of a tumultuous and pivotal period. The campaign had come to Birmingham, Ala., engulfing one of the South’s most virulently segregatio...

Outstanding Teachers: BILL WILLIAMS jokes that what led him to collaborate with Sandra Clarkson was the constant refrain at cocktail parties: "Oh, you teach statistics? I hated statistics!"...

Outstanding Teachers: KIMORA – SHE USES only one name – has taken on what may seem a quixotic mission: to encourage students who intend to become police, corrections or probation officers to be ethica...

Outstanding Teachers: As a teenager on the brink of college, Jennifer Basil faced a big decision – theater or biology. At 17 she'd apprenticed at the New York State School of Performing Arts at the Ci...

Outstanding Teachers: ANTHONY CARPI, professor of environmental toxicology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, hasn't been teaching much since he was tapped to be the Interim Associate Provost fo...

Outstanding Teachers: TOM OFFERS TO SELL HIS JACKET to Sally for $50. Simple, right? But what if Ellen offers Tom more after Sally says OK? What if Tom changes his mind? Does it matter that nothing is...

Outstanding Teachers: DARA BYRNE, an associate professor of communication and theatre arts at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says her "favorite place is in a class with freshmen, because I enjo...

THE UNIVERSITY is now in the book business with the launch of the CUNY Journalism Press. The academic press housed at the Graduate School of Journalism will use a new publishing model to produce books...

Outstanding Teachers: When she was just 4 years old, Queens College associate professor Susan Croll announced that she would be a medical researcher. As a youngster, she was fascinated by her father's...

ARTIST and York College professor of painting Nina Buxenbaum grew up in a multiracial, politically active family in Brooklyn. Early on, her work centered on black collectible imagery — Aunt Jemima, Un...

Nearly Killed at 15 by a Bullet That Tore Through Her Brain, Vada Turns Experience Into Art...

NEW YORKERs are famous for being unflappable, but in the fall of 2011 William Fritz was worried that the city had taken Hurricane Irene a little too much in stride. Like other climate concerned scient...

AS A STUDENT during her undergraduate days, Elana Cooper struggled academically. Today she's a first-year Ph.D. student at one of the top engineering schools in the country, and she is more surprised ...

OLIVER HOUSER would be the first to admit that his childhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan wasn't exactly conventional. How else to explain the home videos of Houser at 6 years old, playing the ...

AS A COLLEGE PRESIDENT, Scott Evenbeck is far from alone when it comes to being "new on campus." His school, its students, faculty and staff are all new as well, participants in a bold experiment in e...

Outstanding Teachers: TEAM GRANOLA'S GAME was preparing for Hurricane Rees, soon to whip through town with terrifying force. The object: Move around the board, gathering the essentials — food, fuel, m...