In the News

CUNY SPS Online Business Programs Professor Dr. Diane Merians Penaloza offers expert insight into the consumer backlash and the high-profile 40-day boycott following Target’s rollback of DEI initiatives in a recent Retail Brew article. Dr. Penaloza emphasizes that such moves can undermine consumer trust and brand loyalty, particularly among younger and more diverse shoppers, ultimately posing long-term risks to a company’s bottom line.

In this CUNY SPS blog post, Dr. Arthur O’Connor, who leads the generative AI, data science, and information science programs at CUNY SPS, discusses his new book "Organizing for Generative AI and the Productivity Revolution." Dr. O'Connor shows how generative AI will lead to a major increase in worker productivity; however, the book also focuses on how technologies like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek are forcing companies to reckon with how to deploy this technology while also balancing concerns about job displacement and the erosion of critical thinking skills.

The CUNY SPS Youth Studies Program co-hosted the State of the Sector of Youth Development Conference on March 6, 2025 at St. Francis College. This CUNY SPS blog post, written by CUNY SPS Youth Studies student Courtney Jae Renee, details Renee's thoughts and takeaways on the conference.

In a recent Indoor Voices podcast, Professor Valerie Paley, who developed the MA Program in Museum Studies at CUNY SPS in conjunction with The New York Historical, joins a discussion with Elaina Battista-Parsons, a student from the MA program. The conversation explores the program's origins, its mission, and how the degree program addresses the need to make museums’ audiences more expansive, diverse, and accessible. The episode also reviews the importance of cultural spaces.

CUNY SPS Nursing Professor Dr. Jan Oosting writes a thoughtful op-ed for Bay Area Reporter, America's longest continuously-published and highest circulation LGBTQIA+ newspaper. In this article, Dr. Oosting discusses the role of healthcare providers, namely nurses, in addressing some of the rollbacks, fears, and uncertainty surrounding LGBTQIA+ healthcare rights amidst Trump's second term.