Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Message Archive

Thursday, April 11, 2019

This email is being sent to all members of the Baruch College faculty.

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Coming next week to Baruch…

Saturday, April 13 – Thursday, April 18
7:30-8:30 PM (5 PM on 4/14), Baruch Performing Arts Center
Bound, Fresh Squeezed Opera, directed by Ashley Tata
Chamber opera inspired by a news headline: “Diane Tran, Honor Student at Texas High School, Jailed for Missing School” explores the experience of a Vietnamese immigrant family torn between the notion of the American dream and preserving their cultural heritage. Combining Eastern and Western instruments and musical techniques, Bound fluidly interweaves the past and the present as it explores the cultural conflicts immigrants face on a daily basis. To learn more about this event click here.
RSVP: to purchase tickets visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/1091/production/1000828.
Monday, April 15
12:30-2:15 PM, Newman Library Building, Room 750
Can the Market Fix the Market? Purpose Driven Movements in Latin America, Maria Emilia Correa, co-founder of Sistema B and director of Academia B
B Corporations are nonprofit organizations that developed in the United States and Canada in 2006 with the goal of redefining the meaning of success in business: to solve social and environmental problems through products and services, thus using business as a force for good. Join us as we welcome Maria Emilia Correa, a founder of Sistema B in Latin America. Maria will discuss Sistema B and B corporations as well as the purpose-driven movements taking place in Latin America. Sistema B’s proposal points to an economy that can create value for our civilization and our planet by promoting forms of economic organization that can be measured by the simultaneous well-being of people, societies and the Earth and with short and long-term considerations. This event is presented by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. To learn more click here. Lunch will be served.
RSVP: to register click here.
5:30-7:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Room 750
Ackerman Lecture: Building People Power to Win Change, Cristina Jimenez, Marxe School alumni and MacArthur Genius Fellow
Director and Co-Founder of United We Dream. Cristina Jiménez is a community organizer, strategist, and freedom fighter. She is the Executive Director & Co-founder of United We Dream (UWD), the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country. Born in Ecuador, Cristina came to the U.S. with her family at the age of 13. In New York, Cristina attended high school and college as an undocumented student. She has been organizing in immigrant communities for over a decade and was part of UWD’s campaign team that led to the historic victory of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012 that protected close to a million young immigrants from deportation. Under Cristina’s leadership, UWD has grown to a powerful network of over 100 groups and 400,000 members. For her work as a social justice organizer Cristina was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine, and was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/ackermanspring19
Tuesday, April 16
12:30-2:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Room 763
Human Perception of Climate Change: Evidence from Twitter for Shifting Baselines,  Professor Frances C. Moore, Department of Environment Science & Policy University of California, Davis, Director of Climate Analytics
Frances C. Moore, lead author of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examining over 2 billion Twitter posts to understand the public’s perception of climate change, and acceptance of extreme weather as normal. Prof. Moore uses econometric analysis and economic modeling to assess economic and social impacts of climate change and assesses adaptability to climate impacts.
RSVP: to register click here.
6:15-8:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220
Uniting for Impact: How Can We Integrate Sustainability, Resiliency, and Circularity Efforts to Achieve Shared Climate Goals, moderated by Kate Daly, Executive Director, Center for the Circular Economy @ Closed Loop Partners
In the face of floods and fire, heat and cold waves, cities and industry must redouble their efforts to face the consequences of climate change. How can professionals, municipalities and industries work together to unite efforts in these three areas to more effectively face the urgent challenges of climate change? For too long these issues have been addressed in silos. What are the social implications and human impacts of climate change that we can incorporate more fully into these disciplines? How would a Green New Deal link these efforts, as we rebuild our legacy infrastructure and systems? This event is presented by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. To learn more click here.
RSVP: to register click here.
7:30-8:00 PM, Baruch Performing Arts Center
Israeli Chamber Project
In Israeli Chamber Project’s 3rd year at BPAC, their program focuses on homages. Brahms’ C minor Piano Quartet is a deeply personal homage to his unattainable muse, Clara Schumann. Bartok’s is to two of the great virtuosos of the 20th century – jazz great Benny Goodman and Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti. Johann Anton Andrè pays homage to Mozart in his reimagining of a violin sonata for the unusual combination of string trio and clarinet. And finally, one of Israel’s most important contemporary voices, Yinam Leef, pays tribute to the great violist and composer Oedeon Partos in his Triptych. To learm more about this event click here.
RSVP: to purchase tickets visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/1091/production/996147?performanceId=10307912.
Thursday, April 18
12:30-2:00 PM, Newman Library, Rackow Conference Room, room 750
Robert C. Weaver Presidential Lecture Series: Leading from the Center, Ajay Nair (President, Arcadia University)
In celebration of our 50th anniversary, Baruch College proudly introduces the Robert C. Weaver Presidential Lecture Series. Robert C. Weaver, PhD, was Baruch’s first president and the first African American appointed to a U.S. cabinet position. In honor of his legacy, this lecture series will focus on diversity and leadership. The inaugural lecture, “Leading from the Center,” will be delivered by Arcadia University President Ajay Nair, PhD. Focusing on higher education’s mission in the 21st century and what it takes to be influential in the current context, attendees will come away inspired to take action. Dr. Nair is a nationally recognized expert in student affairs issues and an accomplished scholar of social justice, race, and ethnicity. He is the first person of color to be appointed president at Arcadia and is among the first college or university presidents of Indian-American descent in the U.S.
RSVP: to register please click here. Lunch will be provided.
12:30-2:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 14-270
Grantseeking Strategies for the Humanities and Art Workshop, Daniel Siepmann, Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support at the Research Foundation
SPAR’s featured workshop this semester will be conducted by the Research Foundation’s Office of Award & Pre-proposal Support. The workshop will focus on how to seek for funding opportunities in the Humanities and Arts.
RSVP: email Ana Alas Iglesias or call 646.312.2209
12:40-2:10 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 12-150
Manga Symposium #5: Untold History of Japanese Comics, Andrea Horbinski,  Anne Ishii
The Japanese program in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature cordially invites you to attend the 5th “Manga Symposium: Untold History of Japanese Comics.” In the 5th event of this series, we have invited two professionals who have been active in the field of manga studies and manga translation: Dr. Andrea Horbinski (scholar and historian) and Anne Ishii (writer, translator, and critic). Due to the limited space, everybody must register to secure their seats. If you bring your friends, register their names, emails, and affiliations, too. Non-Baruch participants need to bring an ID to pass the security desk at the entrance of Baruch College. For more information on this event click here.
RSVP: Click here to register by April 15.
1:00-2:00 PM, Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center
Baruch in Concert
The Spring 2019 edition of Baruch in Concert will feature Baruch students performing music of all sorts, from familiar classics to original songs, on the stage of our acoustical gem, the Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall in the Baruch Performing Arts Center (NVC level B2). Also appearing on the program will be our acclaimed a cappella group, the Blue Notes. Please join us! For more information, please contact Philip Lambert.

Looking forward…

Monday, April 29
1:00-2:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Room 750
What Makes A Great Entrepreneur, Jason Feifer, Editor-in-chief, Entrepreneur magazine
Jason Feifer, Editor-in-chief, Entrepreneur magazine, and host of the entrepreneur-focused podcast “Problem Solvers”, talks about the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs.
RSVP: is required. Click here to register.
Wednesday, May 1
12:30-2:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Room 763
Environmental Journalism and the Climate Crisis: The Stakes for Democracy,  Stacy Feldman, Co-Founder and Executive Editor, InsideClimate News
Stacy Feldman is co-founder and executive editor of InsideClimate News. In 2007, she helped launch the news organization. From 2008-2010, she was its energy reporter and foreign editor, reporting extensively on clean energy technologies, forestry issues and the United Nations climate change negotiations. InsideClimate News is a non-profit and non-partisan news organization, focusing on environmental journalism. The publication writes that it “covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped.” InsideClimate News won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
RSVP: to register click here.
Tuesday, May 7
12:30-2:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, Room 3-160
2019 Friedman Lecture: “‘Touching at a Distance’: A Meditation on Italian American Soundfulness”,  John Gennari
John Gennari is Associate Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at its African American Edge (2017) and Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and its Critics (2006), which received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism and the John Cawelti Award for the Best Book in American Culture. Gennari’s new work on Italian sonorities is an extension of his pioneering investigation of the interethnic dialogue and mutual influences between the Italian American and African American communities. For more information on this event click here or contact Vincent DiGirolamo.
Thursday, May 9
12:30-2:30PM, NVC Main Gym, Level 2B
Creative Inquiry Day
The Honors Program and the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute eagerly await this year’s Creative Inquiry Day! This spirited day of intellectual engagement and collegiality provides an invaluable opportunity for our students to participate in a community of ideas, articulate the exigency of their research in the world beyond the classroom, broaden their scholarly, professional, and personal communication skills, take risks, and have fun. Please encourage your students to register no later than May 5; all research and creative endeavors are welcome! We hope you’ll join us in celebrating undergraduate scholarship, creativity, and engagement. For more information, please visit https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/creativeinquiryday/.
RSVP: to register please click here.

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Vanessa Cano
Special Assistant to the Associate Provost
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
Vanessa.Cano@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: (646)660-6517 Fax: (646)660-6531