City University Of New York Research Articles

Eanes Leads York College into the Future

Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes, president of York College (City University of New York), embraces creating and sustaining supportive networks, noting that succeeding in academic leadership requires like‐minded people who share your goals.

Student affairs career path leads to college presidency

Berenecea Johnson Eanes, Ph.D., President of York College (City University of New York), embraces creating and sustaining supportive networks, noting that succeeding in academic leadership requires like‐ minded people who share your goals. There's a distinct support system among the presidents of CUNY institutions, said Eanes, who's also a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She attended a summit with a group of AKA college presidents. Eanes keeps the flyer with everyone's email addresses and phone numbers close at hand. “As women presidents, we tend to check on and look out for each other,” Eanes says.

Judge rules in favor of former employee

Case name: Baptiste v. The City University of New York, et al., No. 22‐CV‐2785 (S.D. N.Y. 06/29/23).

Eanes leads York College into the future

Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes, President of York College (City University of New York), embraces creating and sustaining supportive networks, noting that succeeding in academic leadership requires like‐minded people who share your goals.

Judge rules in favor of former employee

Case name: Baptiste v. The City University of New York, et al., No. 22‐CV‐2785 (S.D. N.Y. 06/29/23).

Judge rules in favor of former employee

Case name: Baptiste v. The City University of New York, et al., No. 22‐CV‐2785 (S.D. N.Y. 06/29/23).

Thermal properties of green, white and other building roof materials and solar insolation: A case study in New York City

This report presents results from a case study of surface temperatures of an urban green roof, a white roof, and other roof surfaces, at Hunter College, of the City University of New York. The analysis includes manual as well as automated observations between 2012 and 2016. The cooling effect, defined as the surface temperature differences between the green and white surfaces compared to a black surface, are often greater than 20 °C, and sometimes greater than 30 °C for both green and white roofs. Solar insolation is found to be the best predictor of the cooling effect, explaining over 72% and 77% of the variance for green and white roofs (respectively), with a 2-3 °C enhanced cooling effect for every 100 W/m2 increase in solar insolation. The response times of both green and white roofs to solar insolation is estimated to be 20 min (±10 min). Green roofs are found to have a slight cooling advantage (∼1.7 °C) over white roofs at higher solar insolation (∼1000 W/m2) and higher surface temperatures (∼45 °C). Key components of the surface energy balance are considered to help explain the observed thermal behavior of the green and white roofs. Manual observations, instrument maintenance, as well as data transcription and quality control, were performed largely by undergraduate students, demonstrating that green infrastructure can provide valuable learning experiences that may be difficult to otherwise provide in urban environments.

CUNY case serves as reminder for colleges, universities to ensure accessibility of course content

The U.S. Department of Justice, through the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has reached a voluntary compliance agreement with the City University of New York. The agreement requires CUNY to prepare and implement systemwide policies to ensure improved accessibility of educational content, proper training of staff and facility, and effective modifications and auxiliary aids and services (bit.ly/3OD3icq).

Judge rules in favor of former employee

Case name: Baptiste v. The City University of New York, et al., No. 22‐CV‐2785 (S.D. N.Y. 06/29/23).

The Advertising On-Ramp … and Destinations and Off-Ramps: An Interview with Belle Frank

Abstract: This article captures a conversation between Belle Frank, the Chief Strategy Officer of VLMY&R Group Health Practice, and Nancy R. Tag, former creative director and professor and director of the Branding and Integrated Communication (BIC) Program at the City College of New York. The discussion covers the multifaceted landscape of the advertising industry, drawing from Frank's rich career and the insights encapsulated in her 2013 book The Advertising On-Ramp: Getting Your First Advertising Job . The conversation traverses the nuances of crafting strategic resumes that narrate a compelling story, honing interview skills, and the underestimated value of diverse backgrounds and transferable skills in advertising. Frank underscores the symbiotic relationship between advertising and culture, emphasizing the essential role of diverse perspectives in fostering creativity and innovation in the sector. She also envisages necessary updates to her book, highlighting many digital shifts impacting job searches. Frank and Tag envision an industry propelled by discerning professionals, balancing business imperatives with moral integrity. They accentuate the cruciality of adaptability, persistence, and choosing the right team in building a fulfilling career while fostering a culture of diversity and sustainable practices for a future generation of advertisers.

The Sky and The Storm

The article is the result of a joint reflection by two artist-researchers on artistic-pedagogical practices of compassion and poetics of care in academia. Through two socially engaged art projects carried out in two different universities - at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York (CUNY-QCC) - the article proposes a reflection on art as a collective practice of well-being and peaceful resistance. Through meditation, and somatic and artistic alternatives, the article invites us to contemplate the blue sky beyond the dense clouds it carries - that is, it invites us into the imagination of other possible worlds.

To Communicate or Not? Interfirm Communication in Collaborative Projects

Interfirm innovation projects often require tight collaboration among firms with complementary skills and resources. The success of such projects depends on all firms generating high-quality outputs, which can be difficult to attain for aspects of quality that are not easily observable or contractible. We consider a setting with a focal firm and its collaborating firm (henceforth, the collaborator) engaging in a joint project, in which they make their quality decisions over time, respectively, and study the firm’s decision to communicate its quality output progress to its collaborator voluntarily. We first develop normative predictions using game-theoretic models by analyzing a reporting (respectively, revealing) case, in which the firm can report a not necessarily truthful quality (the truthful quality) to the collaborator. We find that the firm should be indifferent between reporting and not reporting for all project values and should be indifferent between revealing and not revealing (prefer revealing) for high (low) project values. To test this prediction, we run an experiment following a 2 × 3 design, varying the project value (high and low) and the form of communication (no communication, reporting, and revealing). We find that the quality provision is significantly lower than the normative prediction in all treatments. When the project value is high, the decision to report is beneficial to the firm (regardless of the reported quality) because the decision signals the firm’s intention to contribute high quality. The decision to reveal is also beneficial for a firm; however, a different mechanism is at play in this case. The decision itself does not directly affect the quality provisions, but the revealed quality does as the collaborator waits to observe the truthful revealed quality and incorporates this information in choosing a quality later. By contrast, when the project value is low, neither reporting nor revealing are beneficial for a firm. In particular, the decision to report no longer acts as a positive signal as it is used by firms trying to deceive the collaborator and get an advantage. This paper was accepted by Vishal Gaur, operations management. Funding: The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Dallas. Support for this project was provided by a PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by the Professional Staff Congress and the City University of New York. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.03180 .

Examining some of the challenges students face in learning about rearrangement reactions in organic chemistry

Organic chemistry course is considered one of the most difficult courses students have to take as part of their academic science and engineering requirements. The purpose of this research project is to examine students’ perceptions about the challenges they face in learning about rearrangement reactions and their approaches to improve their learning and performance in the concepts while learning organic chemistry. The research investigation took place at the City College of New York, a minority serving, commuter institute in an urban environment. The research participants were students who have completed at least one course of organic chemistry. The research instrument used in this investigation consisted of a questionnaire that was made up of Likert-scale and open-ended questions. The Likert-type questions were on a five-point scale that were converted into numerical, and the averages of the students’ responses were taken. For the open-ended, the data was coded and compiled based on categories and similarities, converted into percentages and used to create bar charts. Our research findings suggest that students face challenges in learning about rearrangement reactions and their mechanisms and that relying on memorization and rote learning to solve them hinders the development of conceptual understanding. The data seem to suggest that students do not understand the significance of energy as a driving force in the transformations and pathways from reactants to products. Lastly, the data reveal that students lack the ability to apply the correct knowledge to solve problems involving rearrangement reactions and mechanisms, which inhibits their meaningful learning and conceptual understanding development.

News from the European Journal of Therapeutics: A new issue and a new editorial board

News from the European Journal of Therapeutics: A new issue and a new editorial board

Monica Black. A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany.

Journal Article Monica Black. A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany. Get access Monica Black. A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. Pp. 332. Cloth $29.99. Andreas Killen Andreas Killen City College, the City University of New York, US Email: akillen@ccny.cuny.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 1015–1016, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad237 Published: 22 June 2023

Aston Gonzalez. Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century.

Journal Article Aston Gonzalez. Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Get access Aston Gonzalez. Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 307. Paper $32.50. Joshua Brown Joshua Brown City University of New York, US Email: jbrown@gc.cuny.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 999–1000, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad147 Published: 22 June 2023

Paige Gray. Cub Reporters: American Children’s Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age.

Journal Article Paige Gray. Cub Reporters: American Children’s Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age. Get access Paige Gray. Cub Reporters: American Children’s Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019. Pp. xxxviii, 131. Paper $28.95. Vincent DiGirolamo Vincent DiGirolamo Baruch College, City University of New York, US Email: vdg1800@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 1000–1001, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad214 Published: 22 June 2023

CUNY Settles Claim of Student with Vision Impairment

The U.S. Department of Justice, through the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has reached a voluntary compliance agreement with the City University of New York. This agreement requires CUNY to prepare and implement systemwide policies to ensure improved accessibility of educational content, proper training of staff and facility, and effective modifications and auxiliary aids and services (https://bit.ly/3OD3icq).

Judge rules in favor of former professor

Case name: Miller‐Sethi v. City University of New York, et al., No. 21‐CV‐8591 (S.D. N.Y. 01/26/23).

Vaccines in the Time of COVID‐19: Using Vaccine Mandates to Teach About the Legal and Ethical Regulation of Business

Journal of Legal Studies EducationVolume 40, Issue 1 p. 53-84 Original Article Vaccines in the Time of COVID-19: Using Vaccine Mandates to Teach About the Legal and Ethical Regulation of Business Debbie Kaminer, Corresponding Author Debbie Kaminer [email protected] Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, New York Debbie Kaminer is a Professor in the Department of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College (CUNY). She received her B.A., cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. Correspondence Debbie Kaminer, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, New York. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Debbie Kaminer, Corresponding Author Debbie Kaminer [email protected] Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, New York Debbie Kaminer is a Professor in the Department of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College (CUNY). She received her B.A., cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. Correspondence Debbie Kaminer, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, New York. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 31 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.12130 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume40, Issue1Winter 2023Pages 53-84 RelatedInformation