City University of New York

Time is running out for the kids in Melanie Gathers' English 3 class. The Dr. Phillips High students grew up speaking Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Portuguese and Arabic. And they have only one year left to demonstrate mastery on tests given entirely...

In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...

It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...

Chang Xu has been appointed to platform leader of polymer encapsulation at Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s Tidewood facility. Xu holds a doctorate from City University of New York as well as a bachelor of science degree from the University of...

HARC, Inc., an organization serving people with intellectual and related disabilities, celebrates the transformational 36-year tenure of President/CEO, Dr. Stephen Becker, who has announced that he will retire July 12. Dr. Becker, who began his career at...

Chandler Howard, Chairman of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce, announced that Dr. Elsa M. Nunez, president, Eastern Connecticut State University, will serve as guest speaker at the Chamber's Business & Education Partnership Member Breakfast...

David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. NEW HUNT FOR CULPRIT IN RICIN CASE Officials searched another man's house after officials dropped charges of sending poison-filled letters...

André Aciman's entertaining and moving new novel, "Harvard Square," begins in the present, with the fraught ritual of the college tour. In this case, it is complicated by the father's status as a graduate. As his son ricochets between hope and scorn,...

Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...

Los cubanos que a diario corren el riesgo de ser encarcelados por intentar transmitir una imagen certera de la vida en Cuba—a través de blogs, Facebook, Twitter—han tenido una cara ante el mundo, indudablemente, en Yoani Sánchez. Gracias a...

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...