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CUNYcast
by The City University of New York
Smart voices, good stories and thought provoking conversation from the City University of New York.
Episodes
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CUNY’s Transformation SWAT Team
A conversation about CUNY's ambitions for the coming years with Rachel Stephenson and Cathy N. Davidson of the new Office of Transformation.
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The Emergence of Sidik Fofana
Sidik Fofana, a high school teacher who earned his masters in education at City College, wrote fiction on the side for a decade. He finally got his first book published -- and was awarded a prestigious Whiting Award for Emerging Writers.
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Ryan Martin’s got game. And he’s putting CUNY adaptive sports on the map.
Ryan Martin, CUNY's first director of inclusive and adaptive sports, has quickly built a nationally recognized wheelchair basketball program. His focus is on bringing athletes with disabilities to CUNY, but he says it's ultimately not about the game.
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Behind the Closed Doors of a Queens Family Story
Queens College alum Nira Burstein talks about making "Charm Circle," her intensely persona, award-winning documentary about the fractured emotional landscape of her parents' lives in the house in Flushing where Burstein grew up.
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Illuminating the Nazis’ Vast System of Genocide
An immersive new exhibition at Queensborough Community College's renowned Kupferberg Holocaust Center documents the vastness of the Nazi's system of genocide. The center's Laura Cohen and Cary Lane discuss the exhibit and the emotional toll of creating it.
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A Backpack at 75: Ciro Scala’s Long Quest for a CCNY Degree
Nearly six decades after he dropped out, Ciro Scala went back to City College, earned two degrees and started a workshop program to help first-generation college students navigate some of the same kinds of challenges that sidetracked his hopes for a college degree.
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Bringing Authenticity to Artistry in Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’
Brooklyn College professor emerita Virginia Sánchez Korrol talks about her role as historical consultant for Steven Spielberg's reimagined "West Side Story" and how she helped portray New York’s Puerto Rican community of the 1950s with more authenticity and nuance.
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A CUNY Professor’s Quest to Rescue Her ‘Literary Family’ from the Taliban
Zohra Saed, a distinguished lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, and Mayha Ghouri, a CUNY Law School alumna, have mounted a high-stakes campaign to help an imperiled Afghan writer and his family flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
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Imagine That: How John Mogulescu Became the Dean of New Things
As he prepares to retire after a prodigious career spanning nearly 50 years, a conversation with the founding father of many of CUNY's most innovative and consequential programs of this century.
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Convincing America to Vax Up
CUNY's School of Public Health has launched CONVINCE USA, part of a global project to reduce ungrounded fears and misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines and persuade the resistant that the shot is safe, effective--and necessary to end the pandemic. Dr. Scott Ratzan talks about the challenges...
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Smart voices, good stories and thought provoking conversation from the City University of New York.
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