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Let College Kids Resolve Problems Themselves?

February 14, 2020

NY Times

Dr. Elizabeth Alsop, the academic director of the communication and liberal arts studies programs at CUNY SPS, offers her thoughts on a New York Times Opinion piece discussing whether parents should intervene in the lives of their college-age children.

Hunter College students protest campus Starbucks

January 27, 2020

NY Post

Students at the City University of New York school are protesting a Hunter proposal to install a Starbucks on their campus saying it doesn’t serve the needs of a public college. Leonard Blades, who is enrolled in the MS in Disability Services in Higher Education program at CUNY SPS, is quoted in the article.

It’s Fish vs. Dams, and the Dams Are Winning

January 27, 2020

NY Times

Dr. George Jackman, who teaches the general education course Nature of New York and is the senior habitat restoration manager for the environmental organization Riverkeeper, describes his efforts to remove dams to save fish in the Hudson River Estuary.