Dr. Harold Varmus, M.D., Director of the National Cancer Institute and a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the first Puerto Rican and Latina to hold a citywide elected position, Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court at the age of 26, Wynton Marsalis, the internationally acclaimed musician, composer, and Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dr. Cora B. Marrett, Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Mario Jose Molina-Pasqual Henriquez, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for discovering the link between chlorofluorocarbons and destruction of the ozone layer, Deborah Glick, Chair of the New York State Assembly’s Higher Education Committee, Marty Markowitz, the former three-term Brooklyn Borough President, Sheena Wright, the first woman to head the United Way of New York City, Leonard A. Lauder, businessman, philanthropist and patron of art, Edwidge Danticat, award-winning writer, filmmaker, educator, and activist, Richard Sandor, who created the foundation for the U.S. futures market and pioneered the field of environmental finance, Judge Edward Korman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, who helped bring about a $1.25 billion settlement on behalf of Holocaust survivors, Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, one of America’s top orthopedic surgeons, and Letitia James, New York City’s Public Advocate and the first African-American woman to be elected to citywide office, are among an impressive list of distinguished public servants, jurists, lawyers, scientists, educators, entrepreneurs, journalists, entertainers, scholars, award-winning authors and philanthropists who are the speakers and honorees for the 2014 commencement ceremonies at The City University of New York.
“The CUNY Class of 2014 is a source of great pride and satisfaction for our University, New York City and New York State,” said Interim Chancellor William P. Kelly. “I wish to offer special thanks to CUNY’s world-class faculty and staff who, together with the families of our graduates, alumni donors and college friends, have provided vitally important support that has helped make possible the success of our students and the joy of the coming commencement celebrations.”
At City College, Millard (Mickey) Drexler, Chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group, will receive an honorary doctorate along with award-winning actress/singerLillias White and Henry D. Perahia, former Deputy Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Transportation, while President Lisa S. Coico will deliver CCNY’s commencement address. Borough of Manhattan Community College will award the Presidential Medal to New York State Assembly Member Deborah Glick, Chair of the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee, and President Antonio Pérez will be the commencement speaker. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, the nationally-acclaimed writer, author, social commentator and host of “The Michael Eric Dyson Show” on NPR Radio will be the speaker at Medgar Evers College.
Dr. Valerie Capers, the distinguished jazz pianist and composer who received her early schooling at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, will receive an honorary doctorate from Lehman College, along with Dr. Michael Balick, a pioneer in ethnobotany who has studied the relationship between plants and people for more than three decades, and Bill Aguado, former Executive Director of the Bronx Council on the Arts. Richard Wald, former Senior Vice President and Consultant at ABC News, will be the speaker at the CUNY Baccalaureate Degree commencement ceremony.
May 16
CUNY School of Law: 11 a.m., Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Colden Auditorium, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Queens.
Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Laws: Sarah Weddington. In 1973, at the age of 26, Sarah Weddington successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court. She is believed to be the youngest person to ever win a case before the Court. Dr. Weddington was the first woman from Austin to serve in the Texas House of Representatives. She was the first female General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she was responsible for supervising more than 200 attorneys. She served as Assistant to President Carter, directing his Administration’s efforts on women’s issues. Dr. Weddington authored A Question of Choice, detailing with the landmark Roe v. Wade case. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is a frequent speaker at conferences focusing on women and leadership issues. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Laws: Steven B. Rosenfeld is Chairman Emeritus, CUNY Law Board of Visitors and member of the CUNY School of Law Foundation Board of Directors. Mr. Rosenfeld’s distinguished legal career with the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, placed an emphasis on securities, insurance and reinsurance, and complex trust and estate disputes. His pro bono practice has continuously revealed him as a fervent advocate to the underserved community CUNY Law strives to serve. Mr. Rosenfeld has represented Legal Aid cases, criminal appeals, and a Texas death penalty case. He has acted as deputy general counsel of the New York State Special Commission on Attica and served as chair of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board. Mr. Rosenfeld has taught at both Columbia Law School and CUNY School of Law.
Contact: Elizabeth Palombo, 718-340-4562
May 27
Baruch College: 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Theater at Madison Square Garden, 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York, NY.
Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters (11 a.m. ceremony): Trevor A. Edwards (’84, MBA ’89), President of Nike Brand at Nike, Inc. Mr. Edwards began his professional career at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., before joining Colgate-Palmolive Company to work in marketing. In 1992, he joined NIKE as a regional marketing manager. As President, Mr. Edwards provides long-term business vision for one of the world’s most iconic brands and leads NIKE’s deep understanding of consumers worldwide. Mr. Edwards has been widely recognized for his influence in sports and business in publications from Sports Illustrated to Fast Company. He has also served on the Board of Directors for Mattel, Inc. since 2012.
Speaker (3:30 p.m. ceremony): Cathy Avgiris (’80) is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Comcast Cable. A 21-year veteran of Comcast, she most recently served as executive vice president and general manager of communications and data services for Comcast’s Xfinity Internet, Xfinity Voice, and consumer wireless businesses. Under her leadership, Comcast has become the largest Internet service provider and one of the largest phone providers in the U.S. Ms. Avgiris was also responsible for launching the Verizon Wireless partnership, managing the operations for the company’s Internet Essentials program. In 2010, she was awarded the Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership for Cable Operations Management by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). She has been recognized as one of CableFAX’s Most Powerful Women in Cable every year since 2006. In 2007, she was recognized as a Wonder Woman by Multichannel News. Ms. Avgiris holds a BBA in accounting from Baruch College and is a certified public accountant in New York and Pennsylvania.
Contact: Mary Gorman, 646-312-3315
May 27
Hunter College: 2 p.m., Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan.
Speaker: Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed musician, composer, band leader, educator and Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center and Music Director for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters: Eleanor Clift, journalist, author. Eleanor Clift became one of the nation’s best known and best regarded political reporters during her 50-year career at Newsweek. Today, she covers politics for The Daily Beast and is widely recognized as the determined voice of reason on the combative political talk show The McLaughlin Group.
Contact: Peter Edidin, 212-396-6533
May 28
John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Two ceremonies, at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.,
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center North, W. 40th St. and Eleventh Ave., Manhattan.
Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Letters (10:30 a.m. ceremony): Dr. Charles Figley is a psychologist, family therapist and pioneer in the fields of post-traumatic stress and traumatology. He holds the Paul Henry Kurzweg, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health and is a School of Social Work Professor at Tulane University. His experience as a Vietnam War veteran and antiwar advocate set the stage for his distinguished career dedicated to alleviating human suffering. To help his fellow veterans, he founded the Consortium on Veteran Studies, and developed the diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Figley has applied his visionary scholarship to such specialized areas as combat stress, natural disasters, shootings and terrorist incidents. Following the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, he founded the Green Cross project, an international humanitarian organization that has provided consultation, training, counseling and other emergency traumatology service in response to events such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, among others. Dr. Figley is co-founder, along with his wife, Dr. Kathy Regan Figley, of the Figley Institute, which seeks to alleviate human suffering resulting from traumatic life experiences.
Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Sciences (3:30 p.m. ceremony): Dr. Mario Jose Molina-Pasqual Henriquez shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work linking the environmental release of chlorofluorocarbons to the destruction of the atmosphere’s ozone layer. Due in large part to Dr. Molina’s groundbreaking discoveries, the United States enacted a ban on aerosol-based CFCs in 1978 and led the effort to adopt a global ban on all CFCs in 1985. In 2013, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. As Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California-San Diego, he oversees a research group concerned with laboratory studies of atmospheric chemical processes, as well as science-policy issues related to urban and regional air pollution and to global change. Dr. Molina donated most of the money from his share of the Nobel Prize to scientists and science educators working in developing countries. He also created the Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy and the Environment, located in Mexico City, where important, cutting-edge research is conducted on complex environmental problems facing major cities, particularly in the developing world.
Contact: Doreen Viñas, 212-237-8645
May 28
Brooklyn College: Master’s Ceremony I: (1:45 p.m. ceremony) School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Science of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, and School of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts: Walt Whitman Theater, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn.
Keynote speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Letters: Edwidge Danticat, an award-winning writer, filmmaker, educator activist and author of over a dozen acclaimed literary works translated into several languages. The multilingual Danticat, who speaks Kreyòl, French, and English, emigrated from her native Haiti to Brooklyn and, by the age of 14, published her first work, “A Haitian-American Christmas: Kremace and Creole Theater,” in New Youth Connections. Ms. Danticat received her Bachelor of Arts in French literature from Barnard College and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Brown University. Her first novel—Breath, Eyes, Memory—was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 1998. She is a multiple National Book Award nominee for Krik? Krak! in 1995, which, at 26, made her the youngest nominee ever, and then for Brother, I’m Dying in 2007. She is also the winner of the 1995 Pushcart Prize for her short story “Between the Pool and the Gardenias”; the 1999 American Book Award for The Farming of Bones; the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I’m Dying; and the 2009 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius grant. Her latest novel, Claire of the Sea Light, a Publisher’s Weekly pick, was named “Editor’s Choice” and one of the “100 Notable Books of 2013” by The New York Times. An activist for the civil rights of Haitians in Haiti and in the diaspora, Danticat has been named to lists of influential people, including The New York Times’ “30 Under 30,” Harper’s Bazaar’s “One in 20 People in Their Twenties Who Will Make a Difference,” and Jane magazine’s “15 Gutsiest Women of the Year.” She was the writer and narrator of the 2009 documentary film Poto Mitan (a Kreyòl term roughly translated as “the moral or spiritual center of the universe”), which examines the historical and contemporary impact of colonization and globalization on Haitian society through the eyes of five working-class, native Haitian women.
Contact: Jason Carey, 718-951-5882
May 28
Brooklyn College: Master’s Ceremony II. (6:45 p.m ceremony). School of Business and School of Education, Walt Whitman Theater, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn.
Keynote Speaker and Distinguished Alumnus Award: Dr.Richard L. Sandor ’62, is being honored for creating the foundation for the U.S. futures market, and for pioneering the field of environmental finance. A businessman, economist, and entrepreneur, his work in developing the first interest rate futures contract in the 1970s earned him the title “father of financial futures.” In the 1990s, Dr. Sandor, helped push for and won federal cap-and-trade legislation that would put a hard cap on emissions and set up a trading system among industries. In 2003, he founded the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the world’s first exchange to facilitate the reduction and trading of greenhouse gases. CCX would become part of a larger Climate Exchange network that would include the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange and exchanges throughout Europe, and the first emissions exchange in China. Dr. Sandor received his B.A. in economics from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. He served as vice president and chief economist of the Chicago Board of Trade. Dr. Sandor is the chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products, LLC, which specializes in inventing, designing, and developing new financial markets. He is a lecturer in law and economics at the University of Chicago Law School; a Visiting Fellow with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford; and a member of the TERI School of Management Advisory Committee in India. He is the author of Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation, and is the main author of Environmental Markets: A New Asset Class. In 2007 he was named by Time magazine as one of its “Heroes for the Planet” and the magazine also named him one of the “Heroes of the Environment.” Dr. Sandor received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2004. In 2012 he was presented with the World Federation of Exchanges Award for Excellence. In 2013, Dr. Sandor was named Chevalier dans l´ordre de la Légion d´Honneur (Knight in the French National Order of the Legion of Honor), the highest decoration granted by the French government, for his accomplishments in the field of environmental finance and carbon trading.
Contact: Jason Carey, 718-951-5882
May 29
Queens College: 9 a.m., Queens College Quadrangle, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Queens.
Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science: Carol Fredericks Jantzen, a top researcher with the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) on weapons-grade nuclear waste disposal. Jantzen completed a BA and MS in geology at Queens College, with a focus on geochemistry. She earned a PhD in materials science at the State University of New York/Stony Brook, and then pursued postdoctoral work at Aberdeen University, Scotland. For the past thirty years, Jantzen has been affiliated with the SRNL, working on both the theory and the practice of high-level nuclear waste disposal. She developed the control system for the world’s largest high-level waste vitrification facility based on thermodynamic geochemical models, and led the team that closed the nuclear cycle. With 300 publications and eleven patents to her credit, Jantzen was the first woman elected president of the American Ceramic Society. Last year, she was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Board on Nuclear and Radiation Studies. At SRNL, Jantzen achieved the highest grade a scientist can hold there, a level reserved for only two scientists at any one time. Jantzen received the George Westinghouse Corporate Gold Award of Excellence for outstanding scientist three times, the only person to be so honored. She recently received the SRNL Orth Award for Technical Excellence and the Wendell Weart Lifetime Achievement Award in Waste Management from Sandia Labs. Other awards include Distinguished Life Membership in the American Ceramic Society, the Alfred Victor Bleininger Award of Excellence, the D.T. Rankin Award from the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division of the American Ceramic Society, and the Distinguished Scientist Award from Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness.
Contact: Maria Matteo, 718-997-5593
Brooklyn College: Baccalaureate Ceremony: 9:30 a.m., Central Quadrangle, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn.
Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters: Judge Edward R. Korman ’63, who serves on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, is being honored for his invaluable contributions to the American legal system and the resolution of landmark cases with far-reaching impact. Prior to his appointment as a U.S. district judge by President Reagan in 1985, Judge Korman served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1966, and a Master of Laws from New York University in 1971. Since his appointment to the bench, he has presided over milestone cases. In 1989, he ordered the extradition of a member of the Abu Nidal Organization to Israel to stand trial for a terrorist attack on a bus traveling between the West Bank and Tel Aviv that killed the driver and injured one passenger. He rejected the argument that the crime fell within the political offense exception to extradition, observing: “Providing refuge for those who seek political change is one thing, making the United States a haven for those who engage in conduct that ‘violates our own notions of civil strife’ is quite another matter.” Judge Korman played a critical role in bringing about the $1.25 billion settlement in the class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of Holocaust survivors and their families against Swiss banks who had refused to return assets secretly deposited after the Nazis came to power. In 2013, he delivered the landmark ruling that enables women of all ages to have access without a prescription to an emergency contraceptive known as a morning-after pill. Judge Korman has been awarded the Federal Bar Council’s Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence and the New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Edward Weinfeld Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Administration of Justice. Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science: Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei ’76, professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and Emeritus Chief of the Scoliosis Service at its affiliated Hospital for Special Surgery, is one of the country’s top orthopedic surgeons. He has donated his services to underserved children around the world. Dr. Boachie-Adjei, who grew up in Kumasi, Ghana, came to New York City in 1972 with twelve dollars in his pocket, enrolled in Brooklyn College, earned minimum wage as a factory machinist, and took both day and night classes while working as a tutor to supplement his income. He graduated summa cum laude and earned his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1980. Dr. Boachie-Adjei has specialized in the treatment of spine deformities in both adult and pediatric patients. He has raised more than $16 million for the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine, an organization he founded to provide orthopedic care to underserved populations in Ghana and throughout West Africa. His honors include the Humanitarian Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Blount Humanitarian Award from the Scoliosis Research Society, the Hospital for Special Surgery Lifetime Achievement Award and, in 2003, the Distinguished Alumni Medal from Brooklyn College. Speaker and Presidential Medal Recipient: Marty Markowitz, a 1970 graduate of Brooklyn College and former New York State Senator and three-term Borough President of Brooklyn, will be honored for his outstanding career in public service, his dedication to Brooklyn, and his support for alma mater. A native of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, he moved with his family to public housing in Sheepshead Bay after his father passed away. He attended Brooklyn College for nine years, taking night courses so he could work during the day to support his mother and two younger sisters. A year after graduating, Markowitz became a co-founder of the Flatbush Tenants Council, now known as Brooklyn Housing and Family Services, one of the largest advocacy groups of its kind in the state. He founded the Senior Citizens League of Flatbush in 1972 and was elected to the New York State Senate in 1978. During 23 years as a state senator, Markowitz led the fight for tenants’ rights and protecting those living in rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments. In 2001, he was elected Brooklyn Borough President, serving for three terms. As BP, he continued to focus on housing, neighborhood preservation, and community development, while working tirelessly to nurture and diversify Brooklyn’s economy. Markowitz influenced major initiatives, including construction of affordable housing; the restoration of the Loew’s King Theater; and the revitalization of Coney Island. He was instrumental in the construction of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, homeport for the Queen Mary 2, and in founding the Brooklyn Book Festival; and created the two largest free concert series in city history: the Seaside Summer Concert series, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert series. He played a major role in developing Atlantic Yards in Prospect Heights, which includes Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team and soon, the New York Islanders hockey team. Two Brooklyn schools—Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance and the High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media—were created under the purview of his office. Mr. Markowitz has accepted the new post of Vice President for Borough Promotion and Engagement by the city’s tourism bureau, NYC & Company.
Contact: Jason Carey, 718-951-5882
May 29
College of Staten Island: 10 a.m. Great Lawn, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island. Additional School of Business, School of Education, and departmental exercises immediately to follow.
President’s Medal: Dr. Sylvia Kahan, Professor of Music, Department of Performing and Creative Arts at CSI and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Dr. Kahan teaches historical musicology, piano, and a wide variety of theory, literature, and performance-related courses. As a pianist, she has performed throughout North America and Europe as concert soloist, recitalist, and collaborative musician. A sought-after speaker, Dr. Kahan has presented her research at scholarly conferences and in pre-concert lectures throughout the world. President’s Medal: Dr. Thomas Tellefsen, Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Department of Marketing in the School of Business. Dr. Tellefsen has pursued his interest in business for the past 35 years as a manager, researcher, and teacher. His research interests include business-to-business marketing, sales management, and international marketing. Dr. Tellefsen’s research has appeared in a variety of journals throughout the world and he has presented his work at numerous academic conferences and served as a reviewer for several journals. Dr. Tellefsen currently serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing. In 2011, he received the CSI Dolphin Award for Outstanding Service by a member of the full-time faculty.
Contact: Ken Bach, 718-982-2200.
May 29
Lehman College: 10 a.m., South Field, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, N.Y.
Speaker: Letitia James is a Lehman College alumna and Public Advocate for the City of New York. She is the first African-American woman to be elected to citywide office, succeeding Mayor Bill De Blasio in the Office of Public Advocate. Ms. James graduated from Lehman College in 1982 with a degree in psychology. A native of Brooklyn, she attended law school at Howard University. She served as Counsel and Chief of Staff to several members of the New York State Assembly and as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society. She was later appointed the first Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Brooklyn Regional Office. In 2003, Ms. James was elected to the New York City Council on the Working Families Party’s ballot line – the first member of the party elected to office in the state. In the 2013 General Election, Ms. James won the most votes of anyone running for office in New York, making her the fourth Public Advocate for the City of New York. She is also founder of the Urban Network, a coalition of minority professional organizations that raises money and distributes college scholarships to inner city youth. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Music: Dr. Valerie Capers was born in the Bronx and received her early schooling at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School of Music, served on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, and was chair of the Department of Music and Art at Bronx Community College/CUNY, where she is now professor emeritus. Susquehanna University awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts in 1996, and Doane College (Crete, Nebraska) and Bloomfield (New Jersey) College both awarded her honorary doctorates in 2004. Among the awards and commissions she has received are the National Endowment for the Arts, including a special-projects grant to present a jazz series at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Meet the Composer, the CUNY Research Foundation, the Smithsonian, and The Fund for Artists of Arts International. Dr. Capers has recorded five albums: “Portrait of Soul” (Atlantic, 1966), “Affirmation” (KMA Arts, 1982), “Come On Home” (Columbia/Sony, 1995), “Wagner Takes the ‘A’ Train” (Elysium, 1999), and her most recent, “Limited Edition” (VALCAP Records, 2001). Her book of intermediate-level piano pieces, Portraits in Jazz, was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science: Dr. Michael Balick is a specialist in the field of ethnobotany, working with indigenous cultures to document their plant knowledge, understand the environmental effects of their traditional management systems, and develop sustainable utilization systems while ensuring that the benefits of such work are always shared with local communities. Dr. Balick is an expert on the palm family, an economically important family of plants in the tropics. He has conducted 56 international expeditions to carry out fieldwork in numerous countries including, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Columbia, Costa Rica and Egypt. Dr. Balick is the author of more than 16 scientific and general interest books and monographs, has published more than 90 scientific papers and contributed to nearly 30 horticultural and general interest publications. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, New York University, Yale University, and The City University of New York. He is an active mentor to postdoctoral, masters, and international fellowship students. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Arts: Bill Aguado, who served as Executive Director of the Bronx Council on the Arts from 1981 to 2009. Mr. Aguado was an influential force behind many of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ more successful and noteworthy programs, including: Longwood Art Gallery, BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own), Culture Venture Fund, Bronx Culture Trolley, Urban Artist Initiative, of which Aguado is a co-founder, Arthandlers Training Program, Artisans Initiative, Bronx Cultural Card, and Creative Bronx! Black Book. Mr. Aguado received his undergraduate degree at Hunter College and his master of arts from Fordham University.
Contact: Alex Burnett, 718-960-4992; Joseph Tirella, 718-960-8013
May 30
City College of New York: 9 a.m., 135th Street at Convent Avenue, Manhattan.
Speaker: Dr. Lisa S. Coico, who became 12th President of City College in 2010, is the first CUNY alumna to lead CCNY. She has overseen a resurgence in academic excellence, student engagement and faculty enhancement for the benefit of its diverse student population. President Coico has significantly upgraded the quality of the academic experience and student life as a whole at CCNY. The success of her programs has been reflected in many ways including the recognition of CCNY as one of the “Best Colleges in the U.S.” by the Princeton Review, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report, and one of the “Best Value Colleges” as measured by the Princeton Review. President Coico is a nationally prominent educator and researcher in microbiology and immunology. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Fine Arts: Lillias White is an award-winning actress and singer. The 1978 CCNY alumna made her Broadway debut in the musical “Barnum” in 1981. Her list of Broadway performances includes “Cats,” “Rock ‘N Roll! The First 5000 Years,” “Chicago” and “Hair.” In 1997, she won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for her performances in “The Life.” In 2010, Ms. White earned a Tony nomination for her performance in the Broadway musical “FELA!” Her other honors include a Drama League Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, for her role in “Dreamgirls” (1987), and an off-Broadway role in William Finn’s “Romance in Hard Times” that won her an Obie Award. Ms. White is immensely dedicated to New York City and the Harlem community where she has touched many lives, and frequently performed and taught at City College where she was in the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program as an undergraduate. The CCNY Alumni Association awarded her a Townsend Harris Medal in 1999 for outstanding postgraduate achievement. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters: Millard (Mickey) Drexlerhas been Chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group, Inc. since January 2003. Under his leadership, J.Crew has become a leading global specialty retailer, renowned for its dedication to quality, design, innovation and customer service. Currently the company operates over 400 retail stores and an e-commerce business, which now ships globally to over 100 countries. Prior to joining J.Crew, Mr. Drexler spent eighteen years at Gap, Inc. where he was named president in 1987 and CEO in 1995. During this time, he created Old Navy and Gap Kids. Mr. Drexler served as president and CEO of Ann Taylor from 1980-1983. He currently serves as a director on the boards of Apple Inc., Warby Parker, and Teach for America, a non-profit organization for educational opportunity. He attended City College before transferring to SUNY Buffalo and, later, Boston University. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Science: Henry D. Perahia served as Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) until January 2014. Mr. Perahia was responsible for the planning and administration of design, construction and maintenance of 788 city-owned bridges and tunnels. An engineering graduate of CCNY (’71ME, ’73MME), his public service career began in 1983 when he left the private sector to work for the NYC Department of Sanitation as Director of Engineering for the Bureau of Waste Disposal. In 1989, Mr. Perahia joined the DOT as Director of Engineering Management for the Bureau of Transit Operations. He rose to become the Department’s Chief Engineer and Chief Bridge Officer. Mr. Perahia’s distinguished service to New York City was demonstrated after the unprecedented damage to the city’s infrastructure on September 11, 2001. He initiated rescue efforts at Ground Zero by dispatching the first ironworkers and electricians there. He spent months on-site personally supervising work. In 2011, he was a recipient of the Fund for the City of New York’s Sloan Public Service Award for distinguished service to New York City. In 2012, the White House named Commissioner Perahia a “Champion of Change” for his oversight of the $175 million rehabilitation of the St. George Ferry Terminal.
Contact: Jay Mwamba, 212-650-7580
May 30
York College: 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. TBA.
May 30
Bronx Community College: 10 a.m., Ohio Field, Bronx Community College. 2155 University
Ave., Bronx, N.Y.
Speaker: Cid Wilson is an Equity Research Financial Analyst at Princeton Securities Group who was ranked #1 equity financial analyst in his field in 2006 by Forbes in its annual ranking of the nation’s Best Wall Street Financial Analysts. In September 2009, President Obama appointed him to serve on the National Museum of the American Latino Study Commission with the mission of presenting a plan to the President and Congress on the proposed creation and construction of a new Smithsonian Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the 500 years of history of Latinos in the U.S. In November 2012, he was named Board Chairman of Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino. Mr. Wilson has served on the Advisory Boards for two Fortune 500 companies, PepsiCo and Verizon Communications. He also serves on the Boards of some of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations, including LatinoJustice PRLDEF (formerly the Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). He is a “Gold Life Member” of the NAACP. As a national Dominican Afro-Latino activist he is a regular speaker at national conferences around the U.S. discussing issues that impact Latinos of African ancestry. He has served as National President of the Dominican American National Roundtable and served on the board of Dominicans On Wall Street. In 2012, he was selected as a Young Leaders Fellow by the U.S.-Spain Council to travel to Madrid to strengthen bilateral corporate and governmental relations. Mr. Wilson is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Bergen Community College, serves on the state board of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges and is a member of the National Board of Directors of the Association of Community College Trustees, where he serves as Chairman of the Diversity Committee. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University.
Contact: Carmen Vásquez, 718-289-5318
May 30
Queensborough Community College: 10 a.m., Queensborough campus athletic field, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, N.Y.
Speaker: TBA
Contact: Stephen Di Dio, 718-631-6044
May 30
Borough of Manhattan Community College: 11:30 a.m., The Theater at Madison Square Garden, 33rd Street & Seventh Avenue.
Speaker: BMCC President Antonio Pérez. Presidential Medal: Deborah Glick, New York State Assemblymember, Assembly District 66, and Chair of the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee. Now serving her 11th term in the Assembly, Deborah Glick has focused on civil rights, reproductive freedom, health care, lesbian and gay rights, the environment, housing, higher education, social justice and funding for the arts. A graduate of Queens College/CUNY, she received a Master of Business Administration degree from Fordham University and is the first openly lesbian or gay member of the New York State Legislature. Her legislative victories include passage of the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), Hospital Visitation Bill and the Women’s Health and Wellness Act. She won renewal of the Loft Law, which brings formerly commercial buildings up to residential code and prevents eviction of current tenants, many of them artists. She is also sponsor of legislation to provide a tax credit to renters, and has sponsored legislation promoting pedestrian and driver safety, as well as a phase-out of diesel buses to improve air quality in New York City.
Contact: Barry Rosen, 212-220-1238
May 31
Medgar Evers College: 10 a.m., Barclays Center,620 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, nationally-acclaimed writer, author and radio host, currently a professor of sociology at Georgetown Universityin Washington, D.C. and a commentator on many national news programs. His books, lectures, and hour-long talk show on NPR, “The Michael Eric Dyson Show,” have received national praise. His best-selling books provide some of the most significant commentary on modern social issues, to date. His works also reflect issues surrounding cultural criticism, race theory, religion, philosophical reflection, and gender studies. Notable works include: Making Malcolm X; I May Not Get There with You; Holler if You Hear Me; Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye; Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?; Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster; and the recent Can You Hear Me Now? The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson. His books deeply probe social themes and cultural politics.
Contact: Jamilah Fraser, 718-270-6911
June 2
CUNY School of Public Health: 5:30 p.m. The Kaye Playhouse, East 68th Street, between Lexington and Park Avenues, Manhattan.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Adewale Troutman, Immediate Past President of the American Public Health Association. A graduate of Lehman College and Bronx Community College, Dr. Troutman has devoted his career to the principles of social justice, human rights and health equity. Raised in the South Bronx and trained as a family physician, he has long been dedicated to finding ways to eliminate inequities in the nation’s health care system. Dr. Troutman was dean of the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health; held special consultancies with the World Health Organization; and served as director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, where he is credited with passing one of the strongest anti-smoking laws in the nation. Dr. Troutman has an MD from New Jersey Medical School, a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, Masters in Black Studies from the State University of New York in Albany.
Contact: Ohemaa Boahemaa, 212-396-7729.
June 3
CUNY Baccalaureate Individualized Degree: 10 a.m., the Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th St. at Third Avenue, Manhattan.
Speakers: Keynote: Richard Wald, Fred Friendly Professor of Professional Practice in Media and Society, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Until his retirement in 1998, Mr. Wald served as the top executive in charge of ethical and quality issues in his role as Senior Vice President and Consultant of ABC News. He is a former managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune and was Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the Times Mirror Co. before joining ABC News in 1978 to run the day-to-day operations of the news division. Mr. Wald serves as a Member of the Advisory Board at the Center for Communications. Faculty Speaker: Dr. David Grubbs, Associate Professor of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory. Dr. Grubbs’ areas of experience are in sound art and experimental music, critical theory, popular music and technology, contemporary art, and poetry. He has released 12 full-length solo albums and appeared on more than 150 recordings. His most recent releases are “The Plain Where the Palace Stood” (Drag City, 2013) and “Frolic Architecture” (Blue Chopsticks, 2011), a collaboration with the poet Susan Howe. His music can be heard in films by, among others, Doug Aitken and Thierry Jousse, and he is featured in Augusto Contento’s documentary film “Parallax Sounds.” He was a 2005-06 grant recipient in music/sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Contact: Beth Kneller, 212-817-8238
June 3
Hostos Community College: (10:30 a.m. ceremony), Main Theater of Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, N.Y.
Speaker: New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the first Puerto Rican and Latina to hold a citywide elected position. She represents the 8th District, which includes El Barrio/East Harlem and the South Bronx. Speaker Mark-Viverito was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She worked for over a decade in local activism, nonprofit organizations and labor before being elected to the City Council in 2005, as the first Puerto Rican woman and Latina to represent her district in the Council. In 2009, she was elected to her second term in the City Council, during which she served as Chair of the Committee on Parks and Recreation, the founding Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus and as a member of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus. In 2011, she was one of four Council Members to pioneer the first-ever Participatory Budgeting process in New York City. She is a graduate of Columbia College at Columbia University and Baruch College/CUNY, where she studied Public Administration through the National Urban Fellows Program.
Hostos Community College: (3:30 p.m. ceremony), Main Theater of Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, N.Y.
Speaker: Sheena Wright, President and CEO of United Way of New York City (UWNYC). She was named President and CEO of UWNYC in October 2012, the first woman to lead the organization in its 75 year history. UWNYC is a non-profit, community service organization with a long and rich history of helping people build more self-sufficient lives. As one of the best-known nonprofits and part of the worldwide United Way brand, UWNYC mobilizes our communities to eradicate barriers and create opportunities that improve the lives of low-income New Yorkers for the benefit of all. Prior to joining United Way, she served as President and CEO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC), where she was responsible for leading and managing one of the nation’s premiere community and economic development organizations. Ms. Wright is a graduate of Columbia University, which she entered at age 16, received her law degree from Columbia Law School, and is a member of the New York State Bar. She was born and raised in the South Bronx and now lives in Harlem with her three sons.
Contact: Soldanela Rivera-Lopez, 718-518-6872
June 3
New York City College of Technology: 10:30a.m., The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Two Pennsylvania Avenue, New York, N.Y.
Speaker: Dr. Cora B. Marrett, Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation. Until January 2009, Dr. Marrett was the NSF’s Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources (EHR). As EHR, she led NSF’s mission to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels, in both formal and informal settings. As the first Assistant Director for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate, Dr. Marrett earned NSF’s Distinguished Service Award for her groundbreaking leadership. From 2001 to 2007, she was the University of Wisconsin System’s Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. She also served concurrently as Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the University of Wisconsin, she was the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Marrett holds a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Union University, a Master of Arts and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all in Sociology. She received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University in 1996, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996. In May 2011, Virginia Union University awarded Dr. Marrett an honorary degree as a distinguished alumna.
Contact: Stephen Soiffer, 718-260-5992
June 3
CUNY Graduate Center: 5 p.m., Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
Columbus Avenue and 65th Street, Manhattan.
Speaker: Distinguished Professor Uday Singh Mehta (Ph.D. program in Political Science), a renowned political theorist, whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions and issues, including the relationship between freedom and imagination, liberalism’s complex link with colonialism and empire, and, more recently, war, peace, and nonviolence. He is the author of two books, The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke (1992) and Liberalism and Empire: Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought (2000), which won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association in 2002 for the best book in history and theory. In 2002, he was one of ten recipients of the “Carnegie Scholars” prize awarded to “scholars of exceptional creativity.” He is currently completing a book on M. K. Gandhi’s critique of political rationality. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters: Eugene Goodheart, a prolific scholar, an acclaimed personal essayist, and a public intellectual. While Brandeis University was his academic home from 1983 until his retirement in 2006, Professor Goodheart also taught at Bard College, the University of Chicago, MIT, and, the Baruch Business School (now Zicklin School of Business), while doing graduate work at Columbia. He earned his BA from Columbia College, his master’s from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he worked with Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzun. He has written extensively for both academic and general audiences, both in periodicals and in over a dozen books. Professor Goodheart’s scholarship has been recognized with fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Program. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters: Leonard A. Lauder, a businessman, philanthropist and patron of art. While building the cosmetics business founded by his mother, in 1958, into a global empire, he has also generously supported research in medicine, education and science, and enriched New York’s cultural life. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, he is a trustee there and co-founder of its Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies. He is also a trustee and chairman emeritus of The Aspen Institute, the educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lauder created renowned private art collections, much of which he has now donated to museums. A life-long New Yorker, Mr. Lauder was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and served on the Council on Foreign Relations. With the Lauder family, he was the recipient of the 2011 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in recognition of their longstanding commitment to philanthropy and public service. Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters: Ján T. Vilček,a biomedical scientist, educator, inventor and philanthropist who is a professor of microbiology at New York University’s School of Medicine. He is also president of the Vilček Foundation, which he founded in 2000 with his wife, Marica. A native of Slovakia, Dr. Vilček received his medical training and Ph.D. there before immigrating to the U.S. in 1965, and settling in New York City. Dr. Vilček has devoted his research to regulators of the immune system, specifically interferon. His research led to the development of a potent anti-inflammatory agent, which in turn created a drug widely used in the treatment of various inflammatory autoimmune diseases. Through the Vilček Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Vilček celebrate and support the contributions of immigrants to the sciences, arts and culture in the United States. President’s Distinguished Alumni Medal: Carol J. Oja, Ph.D. (Music, 1985),a leading musicologist specializing in American composers of the 20th century. She earned her Ph.D. in 1985, and taught at both the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. program in Music and at Brooklyn College’s Conservatory of Music. Dr. Oja is currently the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. Beginning in July, she will serve as chair of Harvard’s Department of Music. In 2013, Professor Oja served on the Pulitzer Prize committee for Music and also became the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic. Her writing and lectures have deepened our understanding of Bernstein, to be further enhanced with the publication, in August, 2014, of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Oxford University Press). Professor Oja is the author of Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (1990, Smithsonian Institution Press), which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Book Award in 1991. In 2000, she published Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (Oxford University Press), which won both the Lowens Book Award from the Society of American Music, and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Book Award.
Contact: Tanya Domi, 212-817-7283
June 5
LaGuardia Community College: 10 a.m., Jacob K. Javits Convention Center North, W. 40th St. and Eleventh Ave., NYC.
Keynote Speaker: Ray Suarez, an American broadcast journalist and host of “Inside Story” on Al Jazeera America. Before joining Al Jazeera, Mr. Suarez was with PBS’ “NewsHour” from 1999 to 2013, most recently as its chief national correspondent. He hosted National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” for six years before joining PBS. He also spent seven years reporting for Chicago’s NBC-owned station WMAQ-TV. He began his career as a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, a producer for the ABC Radio Network in New York and a reporter for CBS Radio in Rome. For his achievements in journalism, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2010 inducted him into the organization’s Hall of Fame. He was the recipient of two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards for NPR’s on-site coverage of the first multi-racial elections in South Africa and of the first 100 days of the 104th Congress. Mr. Suarez is the author of the critically acclaimed “Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped the Nation,” the companion book to the six-hour PBS series documentary series of the same name that was published in 2013. The news correspondent earned a BA in African History from New York University and a MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.
Commencement Speaker: Thomas E. Perez, the United States secretary of labor. Nominated by President Barack Obama and sworn in on July 23, 2013, Thomas E. Perez is the nation’s 26th secretary of labor. Most recently, Perez was assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, leading the same division where he worked for a decade as a career federal employee beginning in the late 1980s. From 2002 until 2006, he was a member of the Montgomery County Council. He was later appointed secretary of Maryland’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. He was a law professor for six years at the University of Maryland School of Law and was a part-time professor at the George Washington School of Public Health. He received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1983 and, in 1987, received both a master’s of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University. He has committed to the promise of opportunity for all, giving every working family a chance to get ahead, and putting a middle-class life within reach of everyone willing to work for it. Perez’s priorities for the department include ensuring a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work; connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jobs through skills programs like Registered Apprenticeship and on-the-job training; promoting gender equality in the workplace; ensuring that people with disabilities and veterans have access to equal employment opportunity; and insisting on a safe and level playing field for all American workers. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Ann Marie Staudenmaier, and their three children.
Contact: Charles Elias, 718-482-5052
June 5
CUNY School of Professional Studies, 6 p.m., Starr Theatre, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Broadway at 65th Street, New York, NY
Keynote Speaker: Rossana Rosado, former Publisher and CEO, El Diario-La Prensa
Rossana Rosado is the former Publisher and CEO of El Diario-La Prensa, the nation’s oldest Spanish-language newspaper. Rosado’s 30-year media career included 18 years with El Diario-La Prensa, where she was Editor in Chief prior to serving as Publisher and CEO for 14 years. She retired after leading the newspaper to its centennial and solidifying its role as a Latino thought leader. During her distinguished career she has won an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award, among other honors. She also served in the mayoral administrations of David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani as Vice President for Public Affairs of New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Rosado has an extensive background in working on behalf of formerly incarcerated men and women, as a volunteer, consultant and advocate. She has served on the advisory board of The Fortune Society and on Gov. David Paterson’s Task Force on Juvenile Justice. She also serves on the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and on the John Jay College Foundation Board of Trustees.
She is the recipient of several prestigious awards including an Emmy, The New York State Broadcaster’s Award, and The Folio Award for programming geared to the Long Island community. She has recently been named a Distinguished Lecturer in John Jay College’s Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies. Ms. Rosado received a B.A. in Journalism from Pace University.
Contact: Timothy Stevens, 646-664-8661
June 6
Macaulay Honors College: 3 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Broadway at 65th Street, New York, N.Y.
Keynote Speaker and Honorary Degree: Doctor of Humane Letters: Dr. Harold Varmus, M.D. a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, who became Director of the National Cancer Institute in 2010, after 10 years as President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and six years as Director of the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and is involved in several initiatives to promote science and health in developing countries. The author of over 350 scientific papers and five books, including a recent memoir titled The Art and Politics of Science, he was a co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, was a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Public Library of Science, and chaired the Scientific Board of the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health.
Contact: Grace Rapkin, 212-729-2913
June 13
Kingsborough Community College: 11 a.m., 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York, Marine Academic Center Plaza tent.
Speaker: Dr. Stuart Suss, Interim President of Kingsborough Community College.
Contact: Ruby Ryles, 718-368-5543
August 27
Guttman Community College: 7 p.m., Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College, 524 W. 59th Street, New York, N.Y.
Speaker: President Scott E. Evenbeck.
Contact: Linda Merians, 646-313-8023
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