LaGuardia in the Headlines: January 2025

OPEN CAMPUS January 31, 2025: LaGuardia Community College and Columbia University are the only two colleges currently teaching at Rikers Island. Criminal Justice Professor Cory Rowe directs an initiative, in […]

BRONXNET

December 31, 2024: Alexander Seki, Associate Director of Green Job Programs at LaGuardia Community College, discusses training programs for solar panel installation, offshore wind technician (wind turbine technician), and other […]

NEW YORK TIMES

December 23, 2024: Elimane Tambedou, a Senegalese migrant living in Queens, takes English classes at LaGuardia Community College.

LIC POST

December 20, 2024: LaGuardia Community College offers tuition-free program for immigrant nurses to join NYC healthcare workforce.

LANDMARK WEST

December 11, 2024: Dr. Richard Lieberman, Professor of History at LaGuardia, comments on the food scene in the Upper West Side in the late 1960s.

NEW YORK TIMES

December 11, 2024: Dr. Joshua Tan, a professor of physics and astronomy at LaGuardia Community College, commented on reports of unidentified drones flying over parts of New Jersey.

FORBES

December 8, 2024: The gift of $116 million to LaGuardia Community College from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation was one of the largest gifts to a higher education institution […]

NHK MEDIA

December 4, 2024: For nearly 40 years, Dr. Kyoko Toyama, College Discovery counselor and Japanese language professor at LaGuardia, has advocated for the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, supporting its mission […]

INSIDE HIGHER ED

December 2, 2024: English Professor Jason Hendrickson, a CUNY Career Success Leadership Fellow, explores the importance of faculty-student mentorship.

INSIDE HIGHER ED

December 2, 2024: How Dr. Milena Cuéllar and other LaGuardia Community College instructors make math relevant and exciting for students.