Results

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.

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.

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 in 2024.

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 to abolish nuclear weapons and promote the rights of hibakusha—survivors

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

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

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 green jobs in order to fill growing employer need

November 28, 2024: Jasmine Edwards, a professor at LaGuardia Community College and certified therapeutic recreation specialist, serves on the board of Arts For All, an arts organization dedicated to bringing artistic opportunities to students in New York City.

November 27, 2024: The LaGuardia Community College Foundation is seeking donations on Giving Tuesday, December 3, to support students. Additionally, LaGuardia CARES is requesting donations of non-perishable food, winter clothing, and toiletries to assist students during the upcoming holiday season,

November 21, 2024: LaGuardia Community College is ranked No. 5 among U.S. two-year colleges in economic mobility—moving low-income people to the middle class and beyond—in a Stanford University study. LaGuardia is ranked as the top school for RN and LPN

November 19, 2024: LaGuardia Community College is a training site of a program helping prepare international nurses to enter the New York workforce and combat the nursing shortage.

November 14, 2024: LAGCC’s Theater Program Presents Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad, November 19–23.

November 7, 2024: LaGuardia is granted $5.8 million from the New York State Education Department to help students with disabilities. The award is the largest ever presented to a single CUNY college in support of students with disabilities.

November 7, 2024: LaGuardia Community College hosts grand opening of Finca La Florecita (Little Flower Farm), a new urban farm and research center on campus.

November 7, 2024: LaGuardia Community College Opens New Urban Farm, Finca La Florecita.

November 7, 2024: The CUNY Dance Initiative was formed as a pilot program in 2013 at four campuses of the City University of New York: Queens College, LaGuardia Community College, City College, and Kingsborough Community College.

November 4, 2024: LaGuardia Community College awarded $5.8M to boost career support for students with disabilities.

November 1, 2024: LaGuardia Community College opens “Finca La Florecita,” new urban farm and research center.

NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS November 28, 2024: Jasmine Edwards, a professor at LaGuardia Community College and certified therapeutic recreation specialist, serves on the board of Arts For All, an arts organization dedicated to bringing artistic opportunities to students in New

October 31, 2024: LaGuardia Community College expands support for non-citizen students with new $1.5 million Friedman Fund.

October 30, 2024: With a new urban farm, Finca La Florecita, on the LaGuardia Community College campus, the college is offering a new major in Sustainable Urban Agriculture.

October 29, 2024: October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. LaGuardia Provost Dr. Billie Gastic Rosado, who serves on the board of directors for the Domestic Violence Crisis Center in Stamford, CT, writes about the public health epidemic of domestic

October 25, 2024: LaGuardia Community College students can intern with the Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. This is one of many examples of schools and outside organizations working to provide opportunities to community college students who lack experiential

October 24, 2024: Rosa Figueroa, director of the Small Business Development Center at LaGuardia Community College, gives advice on starting a small business (starts at 16:28).

October 23, 2024: LaGuardia Community College announces new President’s Society cohort.

October 21, 2024: How Rhonda Mouton, Ed.D., director of LaGuardia CARES, steps up for college students facing challenges.

October 20, 2024: “Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,” a graphic memoir published by Ari Richter [professor of fine arts at LAGCC], embeds his grandparents’ stories of escape within his own of assimilation and privilege in the United States.