From City to the World
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs 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…
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Opening the Doors: Libraries and Public Art as Inclusive Spaces in a Book-Banning Era
November 29, 2023 21:20 - 55 minutes - 98.3 MBAs 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 suppress discovery and cultural representation, what are the challenges and roles of libraries today? And what part can public art play in redefining com...
Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop: From NYC Voices to Cultural Force
September 27, 2023 22:41 - 51 minutes - 73.5 MBThe 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 religion with Hip Hop on the radio and at Kurtis Blow's Hip Hop Church in Harlem. Rev. Conrad Tillard, who teaches classes on Hip Hop history and the civ...
Learning and Leading in Harlem: Expert Educators Share Insights on K-12 and Higher Education
April 26, 2023 19:55 - 50 minutes - 29.1 MBFor 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 different in neighborhoods that are some of the richest in culture yet most under-resourced in New York City. The stark politicization of education natio...
Jane Chu on Leadership in Ambiguity: A Celebration of Immigrant Stories
March 28, 2023 15:15 - 59 minutes - 66.2 MBHow 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 former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2014-2018, Chu is the daughter of Chinese immigrants, a practicing visual artist, a...
Celebrating Lynn Nottage: CCNY Honors the Playwright's Art and Activism at 44th Langston Hughes Festival
January 25, 2023 19:56 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBOn 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 first medal, in 1978, to James Baldwin, followed by an honor roll of the greatest Black writers of our time—among them Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, a...
Prioritizing Wellness in Our Community: CCNY and Partners Mobilize to "Leave No One Behind"
October 25, 2022 21:40 - 45 minutes - 46.6 MBHealth, 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 awareness, raising funds, and mobilizing campus and community partners. In keeping with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's 2022 Wor...
Churches as Incubators for Economic Empowerment: Building Partnerships to Help Jump-Start a More Inclusive and Equitable Economy
September 28, 2022 20:00 - 52 minutes - 49.1 MBA 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 effort. In neighborhoods like Harlem, the South Bronx and northern Manhattan, for example, houses of worship are vital resources for residents: a grow...
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Noted Documentarian Stanley Nelson Address 2022 CCNY Graduates
June 29, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBHistoric 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 the speeches, recorded live on the occasion of CCNY’s 175th anniversary, at the college’s first in-person Commencement since 2019. Also hear from t...
ROTC of Tomorrow: How DEI and Civilian-Inspired US Army Talent Management Create Change and Opportunity for CCNY Cadets
May 25, 2022 19:29 - 49 minutes - 39.8 MBThe 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 Y. Davis, Professor of Military Science at CCNY and director of the CUNY ROTC program, based at CCNY, about the importance of diversity, equity an...
Heralding Opportunity for Harlem and the Nation: The Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative at CCNY
April 27, 2022 19:48 - 1 hour - 69 MBModernizing 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 Congress, RIWI and new economic opportunities are now a reality for these communities, thanks to Federal support secured by Rangel’s successor, U.S. Rep. ...
Celebrating the Arts' Impact in Harlem: New Heritage Theatre Group and CCNY
March 16, 2022 13:23 - 54 minutes - 42.9 MBIn 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 history of theater in Harlem since the days of the Harlem Renaissance and the work of his organization, founded in 1964. From his unique experience ove...
Making Black History at CCNY
February 17, 2022 01:33 - 53 minutes - 51.9 MBDiverse 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 protests, occupation and a two-week strike. Open admissions followed for the next six years. In this episode, President Vincent Boudreau recounts this...
Educating the Healers and Leaders Remaking Medicine
November 17, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBThe 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 health, is building on CCNY's nearly 50-year tradition of educating diverse doctors to serve communities like their own. In conversation with CCNY P...
Remembering General Colin L. Powell
October 21, 2021 13:44 - 56 minutes - 31.5 MBA 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 series of U.S. government leadership roles culminating in Secretary of State, Powell also spent the last several decades of his life deeply involved wit...
Connecting with Harlem: Public Mission Aligns Public College with Community
October 06, 2021 20:00 - 19 minutes - 15.1 MBIn 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 Boudreau discusses how sharing CCNY expertise and resources such as research, testing, vaccination and blood drives has become even more important in the...
Vaccinating NYC: The Progress, the Plateau, and the Urgent Work of Science and Governance to Safeguard the City As It Reopens
May 24, 2021 14:55 - 57 minutes - 32.3 MBThe 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 variants and under-vaccination. City Council Member Mark Levine of northern Manhattan, chair of the Council's Health Committee, reports on vaccination act...
Infrastructure and Opportunity: How the Biden Administration's $2 Trillion Plan Can Advance Equity and Economic Development By Investing in Public Transportation
April 23, 2021 17:50 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MBIn 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 infrastructure investment with historic gains in equity of access, economic opportunity, and social justice for communities harmed by 20th-century...
Educating for Diversity and Recovery: CCNY's School of Education Embraces Its Next 100 Years
March 24, 2021 21:17 - 58 minutes - 50.8 MBAs 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 student body in urban schools. Hear from Interim Dean Edwin M. Lamboy and Professors of Education Beverly Falk and Catherine Franklin in conversati...
The Future of Black History: Equity After COVID
February 26, 2021 17:45 - 56 minutes - 33.1 MBAs 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 pandemic year that made widely visible the long-standing disparities suffered by communities of color, see how Harlem is educating the next generati...
Supporting the College and Community During COVID-19: How Philanthropy and Partnerships Are Taking on Today's Unique Challenges
January 27, 2021 21:59 - 54 minutes - 30.5 MBThe 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 CCNY advancement executive Dee Dee Mozeleski and Reverend Maurice Winley of Harlem's Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub, a CCNY community partner...
Celebrating Visionary Black Writers: CCNY's Langston Hughes Festival Marks Its 42nd Anniversary With Conversations More Urgent Than Ever
November 13, 2020 15:09 - 52 minutes - 45.9 MBEvery 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 James Baldwin, followed by an honor roll of the greatest Black writers of our time -- among them Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and Rita Dove. This ...
Hacking the Election: 2020 Cybersecurity Threats, from COVID Tracking App Exploitation to Electronic Voting Machines
October 22, 2020 19:09 - 51 minutes - 48.4 MBHow 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 an accessible manner in this conversation. Guests are a CCNY cryptography and network security expert and the author of a book questioning America'...
Athletes and Activism: Advocating for Racial Justice Using the Powerful Platform of Sports
September 30, 2020 20:00 - 53 minutes - 50 MBAmid 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 mobilization of activist athletes. Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Stanley Thangaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Gender S...
Coping with COVID-19: Staying Safe, Sane and Entertained
May 27, 2020 17:57 - 44 minutes - 29.9 MBThe 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 identity safe, discover support systems like the practical application of Eastern and Western philosophy, and consider how world cinema can counter isol...
Facing the Challenge of COVID-19
April 30, 2020 17:00 - 59 minutes - 59.8 MBThe 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 broadcasting. In this episode, hear how CCNY and organizations like tech leader Silicon Harlem and the GHCC are working individually and together -- both ...
Saluting the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Harlem Neighbor, National Treasure, Essential Resource for CCNY Scholars
February 21, 2020 20:08 - 51 minutes - 54.1 MBWith 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, and as the Schomburg Center itself nears the hundred-year mark, look inside City College’s 135th St. neighbor institution and discover living histor...
Producing Leaders for Change: How CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Guides Young People from Potential to Power
December 20, 2019 18:09 - 52 minutes - 70.5 MBThe 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 learning, public service, and political experience. Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Andrew Rich, Dean of the Colin Powell School for Civi...
Fighting Hunger on Campus: How Food Pantries Support the Whole Student at CUNY Colleges
October 31, 2019 19:25 - 53 minutes - 64.9 MBHost: 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 College Recorded: October 30, 2019
Building NYC: Celebrating a Century of Engineering and Engagement at CCNY
September 25, 2019 23:27 - 52 minutes - 51.8 MBHost: 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, 2019
Environmental Justice: Growing Urban Sustainability, Equity and Health, from Fresh Food to Waste Management
August 01, 2019 21:09 - 51 minutes - 65.3 MBHost: 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, 2019
Jazz as Political Tradition: Exploring Democracy in Harlem and Around the World
July 03, 2019 14:23 - 1 hour - 66 MBHost: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: 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
CCNY on Screen: Activism and the Legacy of America’s First Documentary Film School
June 06, 2019 19:09 - 54 minutes - 53.7 MBHost: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: 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: May 29, 2019
Why Black Mothers and Babies Are Dying at More than Twice the Rate for Whites, and an Essential Intervention to Implement Now
April 28, 2019 20:00 - 54 minutes - 69.1 MBHost: 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, 2018
Rewriting the Global Narrative: Women’s Prison Reform and Transition
March 29, 2019 16:00 - 48 minutes - 46.7 MBHost: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: 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
A Salute to Black History Month: Celebrating Learning, Advocacy and Anniversaries at the CCNY Black Studies Program and the NAACP
February 27, 2019 21:00 - 49 minutes - 47.5 MBHost: 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, 2019
Mobilizing the Greater Harlem Community: Responses to the Opioid Epidemic
January 30, 2019 15:59 - 48 minutes - 51.1 MBHost: 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 Medicine at City College; John Palmer, PhD, Director of Community Affairs and Diversity at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and Chair of...
Service to the Community: Beyond the Season of Giving
November 29, 2018 22:42 - 51 minutes - 49.9 MBHost: 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, 2018
Democratizing the Outdoors: Recovering the Diverse History of Wilderness Adventure
September 05, 2018 14:51 - 54 minutes - 61.9 MBHost: 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
From Our Campus to Our Borders: Advocating for Immigrants and Their Families
July 18, 2018 16:25 - 48 minutes - 55.3 MBHost: 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. Recorded: July 9, 2018
Navigating the Online Privacy Crisis: A Cryptographer’s Perspective on Internet and Cloud Security
May 30, 2018 20:00 - 57 minutes - 77.6 MBHost: 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, 2018
The J. Max Bond Legacy: Building Collaboration and Urban Futures in Upper Manhattan
March 28, 2018 20:00 - 42 minutes - 52.8 MBHost: 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 9
Making Sure That We're a Voice: Detroit, Self-Determination, and Storytelling in Black America
March 05, 2018 15:32 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBHost: 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, 2018
Welcome to From City to the World
February 06, 2018 15:32 - 56 seconds - 1.3 MBHi, 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 application of that research in solving real-world issues like poverty, homelessness, mental health challenges, affordable housing and disparities in ...