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Dr. Elizabeth Alsop, assistant professor and academic director of communication and media, is the recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend. The $6000 grant will support the writing of her book on the films of American director Elaine May, which is currently under contract with the University of Illinois Press.

Kate Moss, a doctoral lecturer in the general education and liberal studies programs at CUNY SPS, has been awarded a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fellowship and will participate in Applying a Scholarly Lens to Our Instructional Practice, a June CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy (CITA) Institute, along with 14 other SoTL Fellows from across various CUNY campuses. As part of the institute, Dr. Moss will be continuing her research on whether changes to discussion board assignments in the CUNY SPS class COM 110: Digital Literacy will increase student engagement.

In this episode of Urban Green Live, Urban Green Council CEO John Mandyck interviews Anthony Fiore, Deputy Commissioner for Energy Management at DCAS (Department of Citywide Administrative Services). At the 10:45 mark, Fiore discusses the CUNY SPS Office of Professional Education and Workplace Learning (PEWL)'s Energy Management Institute program, and how it is training staff to help New York City meet its goals of climate mitigation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This Spanish-language article published by Ahora News quotes Jorge Silva-Puras, interim dean of CUNY SPS, regarding CUNY’s partnership with Amazon to provide tuition assistance to its hourly workers.

CUNY SPS Dean Jorge Silva-Puras is quoted in this article by IBL News regarding the new CUNY Online initiative.