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QUEENS CHRONICLE

March 28, 2024: New career center to open at LaGuardia Community College.

DIGITAL CHEW

March 27, 2024: The historic $116.2 million donation to LaGuardia Community College by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation might well go down in history as a transformative moment for community colleges and a lifeline for diverse students looking to

QNS

March 26, 2024: Council Member Won and LaGuardia Community College co-hosts ‘Celebrating the Women of Queens’

CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY

March 25, 2024: LaGuardia Community College Scores $116.2 Million From the Owners of the New York Mets.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

March 23, 2024: Editorial: Cohens’ community college home run: A huge gift for LaGuardia will help thousands every year.

NEW YORK TIMES

March 22, 2024: A $116 million grant to LaGuardia Community College.

OBSERVER

March 22, 2024: Billionaires Steve Cohen and Alexandra Cohen are giving a staggering $116.2 million to LaGuardia Community College, a public institution in Long Island City, Queens.

LA VOCE DI NEW YORK

March 22, 2024: Another mega-donation for a New York college. After the record-breaking $1 billion check written by his widow Ruth Gottesman at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, this time it was the turn of a

NEWS 12

March 22, 2024: Visually Impaired Students Take Part in Basketball Workshop with LaGuardia Community College Team.

CITY & STATE NEW YORK

March 22, 2024: LaGuardia Community College received a $116.2 million donation from Steve and Alex Cohen.

INSIDE HIGHER ED

March 21, 2024: LaGuardia Community College has been awarded a $116.2 million grant to develop a state-of-the art workforce training center. The gift comes from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation, led by philanthropist Alex Cohen.

AM NEW YORK/ MSN

March 21, 2024: Mets owners award more than $116M to LaGuardia Community College to establish Cohen Career Collective on the LIC campus.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

March 21, 2024: Steve and Alex Cohen donate $116M to LaGuardia Community College — largest gift in CUNY history.

FORBES

March 20, 2024: LaGuardia Community College receives a record $116 million gift.

QNS

March 20, 2024: Mets owners award more than $116M to LaGuardia Community College to establish Cohen Career Collective on LIC campus.

LIC POST

March 20, 2024: The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a grant of $116.2 million to LaGuardia Community College to create a new state-of-the-art workforce training center at its Long Island City campus.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE DAILY

March 20, 2024: LaGuardia Community College lands $116M gift for workforce training center from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, led by philanthropist and New York Mets owner Alexandra Cohen. It is the largest gift ever to a community college.

YAHOO! FINANCE/ PR NEWSWIRE

March 20, 2024: Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation awards $116 Million to LaGuardia Community College to create the Cohen Career Collective, a 160,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art workforce training center.

CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS/ BLOOMBERG NEWS

March 20, 2024: Steve Cohen’s Foundation Gives $116 Million to LaGuardia Community College in Queens to create a vocational training center, the largest-ever gift to a US community college.

THE CHIEF

March 20, 2024: On Rikers Island, LaGuardia Community College students teach and learn. Program led by Cory Rowe, an associate professor of Criminal Justice at LaGuardia.

CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS

March 14, 2024: LaGuardia President Kenneth Adams and Con Edison Chairman and CEO Tim Cawley are co-authors of an op-ed about forging alliances to train New York’s diverse clean energy workforce.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE DAILY

March 11, 2024: LaGuardia is one of four organizations awarded more than $4M from Con Edison to train over 1,200 participants from underserved communities for careers in clean energy and technology fields over the next three years. In addition, LaGuardia

CITY & STATE NEW YORK

March 11, 2024: City & State’s 2024 Queens Power list includes LaGuardia President Kenneth Adams, who has helped the college focus on its strengths in technology and business since stepping into the leadership role four years ago.

PATCH

March 11, 2024: The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s 2024 Rough Draft Festival, March 4-23, celebrates emerging artists.

JUS NOW

March 7, 2024: The NCLEX-Registered Nurse ELL program at the Center for Immigrant Education and Training (CIET) at LaGuardia Community College prepares internationally trained nurses to work as Registered Nurses in New York State.

ALBANY TIMES UNION

March 6, 2024: LaGuardia Professor Reem Jaafar co-writes an op-ed with State Senator Andrew Gounardes of Brooklyn (D26), advocating for more New York State funding to help students with disabilities achieve college success.

LaGuardia Community College Hosts “Meet Mayor LaGuardia” Event, April 4

LaGuardia Community College Hosts “Meet Mayor LaGuardia” Event, April 4 LONG ISLAND CITY, NY (March 6, 2024) — LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY is hosting an event highlighting the history, achievements, and personality of the college’s namesake –

JAMAICA OBSERVER

March 4, 2024: Shayy Soprano, who holds an associate degree in Theatre from LaGuardia and a bachelors in Music and Business Administration from York College, launched her recording career in 2021. She recently released her latest single, El Numero Uno.

INSIDE HIGHER ED

March 4, 2024: Success Program Launch: LaGuardia Community College is linking President’s Society alumni.

LaGuardia in the Headlines: March 2024

AM NEW YORK March 29, 2024: In an op-ed, CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez calls the $116.2 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to LaGuardia Community College a testament to the value of CUNY’s community colleges

PIX11 NEWS

February 29, 2024: On her Facebook show (beginning around 12:55), reporter Monica Morales speaks with Dr. Rhonda Mouton, director of LaGuardia CARES, a program at LaGuardia Community College that helps get students the resources they need.

CNN/ MSN NEWS

February 28, 2024: Jayashree Kamblé, an English professor at LaGuardia Community College and president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, on the relatively new genre ‘romantasy’ has captured readers’ imagination.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

February 25, 2024: Dr. Joni Schwartz-Chaney, professor at LaGuardia Community College, writes about why she teaches critical race theory.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/ MSN NEWS

February 24, 2024: Onaje J. Muid, adjunct assistant professor at LaGuardia, spoke about how community healing groups can help people heal from racial wounds together and strengthen each other, during a panel discussion on the importance of reparations and healing

QUEENS LATINO

February 23, 2024: LaGuardia Launches 36th Year of Summer Youth Employment Program.

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