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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • CAMPUS • • • • • • NEWS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Helping Teachers Helps Their Students, Study Shows 4 A new initiative of the New York City Mathematics Project—a program of the Lehman-based CUNY Institute for Literacy Studies—has shown dramatic results in improving student math skills. The five-year initiative, called “Teacher Leaders for Mathematics Success” (TL=MS), was funded by the National Science Foundation and evaluated in a longitudinal study by the Academy for Educational Development, a national educational assessment organization. TL=MS involved 280 K–8 teachers in over 20 low-income schools throughout the Bronx, who received ongoing professional development that improved their understanding of math and how to teach it. The program, in turn, had a positive impact on students, with almost 90 percent showing increases in math performance, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity or English-language skills. “It’s possible,” concludes Marcie Wolfe, the Institute’s Executive Director, “to increase children’s opportunities for success in mathematics if their teachers expand their content knowledge, develop more enthusiasm for teaching math, and use a range of instructional strategies that are both engaging and rigorous.” ◆ Theatre Legends Drop By Carman Hall For ‘Conversations’ with Professor Bill Hoffman When award-winning playwright Edward Albee last visited Lehman College, as a guest professor in an English drama course, his hair was considerably longer, and TV cameras weren't rolling. This time around, his appearance not only was captured for television but it was also part of an ongoing series of “Conversations” being held at Lehman with theatre legends. Creator and host of the program is Lehman Professor William M. Hoffman, well-known in the theatre world in his own right. Winner of a Drama Desk Award and an Obie for his 1985 Broadway play As Is, as well as Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize nominations, he has also won both a Writers Guild award and an Emmy nomination for his work in television. In his interview on “Conversations,” Albee fondly recounted the numerous odd jobs he held in Manhattan in his youth, including work as a Western Union messenger. He also discussed why each one of his plays is unique. Perhaps best known for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—the play that won him the Tony Award in 1962—Albee also won the Pulitzer Prize for A Delicate Balance (1966), Seascape (1975) and Three Tall Women (1994). His play The Zoo Story first placed him in the public eye in 1959 and is credited with giving birth to American absurdist drama. Among other recent guests on “Conversations” have been Metropolitan Opera star Regina Resnik, caberet legend Barbara Cook, composer and librettist Mark Adamo, theatre critic Michael Feingold and playwright Lanford Wilson—and coming up this spring, famed playwright, novelist and screenwriter Arthur Laurents. Professor Hoffman has also brought his own original works to the Lehman campus, including this spring's debut of “The Stench of Art.” This is his third play in a series that has turned into a trilogy of comic/tragic works critically examining current American life. The first play, “Chico De Jazzzz,” examined the excesses of our criminal justice system, while Edward Albee on his first visit to Lehman (left) and appearing on the “Conversations” series (above), which is taped before a live audience in Room C-14 of Carman Hall (below). the second, “Cyberian Nights,” looked at how the Internet has impacted our lonely, isolated existences. The third play, he says, “will discuss how the arts have come to replace other spiritual values in America. We have come to literally worship art and artists, building museum after museum that contain wildly overpriced works that mystify the masses. Artists often feel under no obligation to communicate with their audiences. “In ‘The Stench of Art’ I raise the question if it is right to worship Art, as the ancient Israelites worshipped the Golden Calf, before being brought back to their senses by Moses.” ◆ Coming to Lehman This Spring Friday, May 6, 8 pm ALL -STAR LATIN JAZZ TRIBUTE TO TITO PUENTE (in Lehman Center for the Performing Arts) Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, 8 pm LA BOHÈME (in the Lovinger Theatre) Saturday, May 21, 12 pm ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTION LUNCHEON Sunday, May 22, 2 pm DRAGONS, DRUMS AND DAGGERS: ARTS OF IMPERIAL CHINA (in Lehman Center for the Performing Arts)
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • CAMPUS • • • • • • NEWS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Bronx SBDC Partners With William Jefferson Clinton Foundation For more than four years, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Lehman College has helped thousands of clients start or expand their businesses—all for free. To date, the Center has counseled over 3,000 people, saved and created over 1,200 jobs and helped identify over $28 million in financing for small business owners. Now the SBDC has taken its services one step further with help from the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Foundation. Last spring, former President Clinton announced the expansion of the initial Harlem Small Business Initiative to include the Bronx and Brooklyn. The goal is to help small businesses compete in the growing marketplace. Lehman, along with NYU's Stern School of Business and other organizations, is leading the effort. The program provides hands-on project direction for small business start-ups and a maintenance plan for participating businesses. It is also enabling the SBDC to hire 10 Lehman students as paid interns in the Center for a two-year commitment. Past interns have gone on to work for companies like Citibank and Sony. Some of the businesses that have thrived with the help of the SBDC include the popular Cynergy Spa on 135th Street in Harlem and Sola Salon Systems in the Bronx, which has been featured in Crain’s New York Business. “We're targeting those who have difficulty obtaining financial and technical assistance from traditional sources,” says Clarence Stanley, director of the SBDC. Workshops Help Students Get Smart About Credit Thanks to a new initiative, Lehman students are getting free professional advice on managing their credit. Lehman is one of six colleges in the CreditSmart program, funded by Freddie Mac and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. “Indebtedness related to the cost of education could be compounded in a very negative way by the poor judgments people may make about consumer credit,” says Jose Magdaleno, vice president for Student Affairs at Lehman. “We want to help our students understand these processes and make sure they have the information to make the best possible personal decisions.” More and more employers, he adds, are factoring credit scores into the hiring process. Workshops cover topics such as debt management, understanding credit cards and credit scores, banking practices and avoiding credit traps. “The old saying, ‘banks lend money to people who don’t need it,’ holds true today,” says Stanley. “Our strength is the ability to help clients get bank-ready and put together professionalpresentations.” Rather than provide direct financial assistance, the Center helps businesses identify resources Clarence Stanley. and present their businesses in a way that will increase their chances of receiving private funding. The SBDC has helped clients from a broad range of businesses, such as retail, construction and agriculture, and from all walks of life, including veterans and Welfare to Work participants. “Due to the scarcity of jobs and because veterans have a work ethic that could be easy to adapt to entrepreneurship, the Veterans’ Business Outreach Program was launched to give veterans another option—entrepreneurship or employment,” says Alzie Glickstein, the SBDC’s business advisor, who is working on outreach to veterans throughout New York City. “Targeted business training and counseling,” she adds, “are necessary to assist the veterans over the obstacles that can stand between them and a successful business.” So far, the Center has aided over 100 veterans. ◆ “They showed a skit about a teen who got a credit card and went crazy buying stuff she didn’t need,” says one junior. “I took the course because I was that girl who went crazy buying everything.” The student, who had at least ten credit cards when she started the workshop, has successfully paid off three of them already. According to Vice President Magdaleno, “The whole issue of consumer credit and money management is a critical one for young people. “For the first time, they're becoming exposed to processes like credit card use and the extent to which banks and other lenders offer credit fairly easily to college students. If they handle these choices wisely, it can really help set the stage for financial success later on.” Workshops are also open to alumni. Call 718- 960-8366. ◆ Students and Alums Embark on Job Search Hundreds of students and alumni packed their resumes and interviewing skills for this spring's Career Expo. Over 40 employers from all over the tristate area were on hand for the annual event, sponsored by the College's Career Services Center. According to the director of the center, Nancy Cintrón, about 30 percent of the participants usually receive interviews. “This is a great opportunity for our students and alumni to network and learn about the different organizations that are out there,” she says. “The Expo is also a good source for students seeking internships.” ◆ 2004 graduate Hermes Guzman speaks to a U.S. Secret Service representative about employment possibilities. With a degree in accounting, he is looking for work in the business sector. Making a connection with the representative from the Social Security Administration is sociology major Monique Haley, who’s “looking for a company to jump start my career and give me a foot in the door.” Her long-term goal is to work in health care administration. 5
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