Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. at City CollegeCollege: City College of New York - ccmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1979 About Center: Since 1979, Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. has been one of the nation’s leading organizations devoted to the creation and development of new works by performing artists of color; provides a valuable forum for culturally diverse artists, community-based performing arts organizations and regionally-significant arts groups and institutes important education programs for the metropolitan area. Africana Research CenterCollege: Brooklyn College - bcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1970 About Center: The Center's mission is to offer a multidisciplinary curriculum devoted to in-depth study of Blacks in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The Center' s goal also is to serve as a bridge between Brooklyn College and the diasporan community of New York through research, sponsored programs, and as community representatives. American Center on Science and Society (ACSS)College: Graduate Center - gcevCategory: Environment Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Center (ACSS) conducts multidisciplinary research to advance the integration of the natural and social sciences and public policymaking. American Social History Project / Center for Media and LearningCollege: Graduate Center - gcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1999 About Center: The Center aims to revitalize interest in history. Applied Sciences InstituteCollege: Brooklyn College - bcsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1987 About Center: The Applied Sciences Institute (ASI) comprises ten research institutes at the college. The institute’s purposes are to promote significant funded research in a broad range of applied sciences, to promote economic development through interaction with local and regional industry, and to create educational opportunities--including those for women and minorities--that help increase the technological and scientific work force needed for the economic health of the city. Archaeological Research CenterCollege: Brooklyn College - bcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1972 About Center: The center supports excavations in the Balkans, the Mediterranean area, and the Middle East on sites dating from early Neolithic to medieval times. The center also supports and directs excavations in New York. Evidence is recovered and studied from these and other digs in which members participate. The center publishes its findings. Asian-American and Asian Research InstituteCollege: Queens College - qcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 2001 About Center: The Institute is a university-wide scholarly research and resource center that focuses on policies and issues that affect Asians and Asian Americans. It covers four areas: Asian American Studies, East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies and Trade and Technology Studies. The City University of New York (CUNY) with twenty campuses city-wide, is rich in faculty who have expertise in Asian and Asian American studies. Each year CUNY enrolls over 24,000 Asian American students, who will soon emerge as a vital segment of New York City's workforce and leadership. Asian-American CenterCollege: Queens College - qcoCategory: Other Year Founded: 1987 About Center: he Asian/American Center (A/AC) at Queens College of the City University of New York was founded in 1987, and is dedicated to the development of community-oriented research to analyze the multicultural diaspora experience of Asians in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research & DocumentationCollege: Graduate Center - gcmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1967 About Center: The Brook Center is a scholarly facility associated with the doctoral program in music at The City University of New York Graduate Center. Baruch Performing Arts CenterCollege: Baruch College - bmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: The mission of Baruch Performing Arts Center is to serve the Baruch College community by introducing the performing arts into all aspects of Baruch College life, including the interests of the students, faculty, staff and Alumni. As part of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, the center achieves this goal through performing arts programming and allied activities that support and enrich the educational curriculum through out the college, as well as, by opening new areas of interest to promote growth of the students as individuals educated for life as well as work, while encouraging the faculty, staff, alumni and general public to become engaged as audience and supporters. Baruch Survey Research UnitCollege: Baruch College - boCategory: Other Year Founded: 1995 About Center: The SRU in the School of Public Affairs designs and conducts surveys for government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other partners on a wide range of public affairs topics. A state-of-the-art telephone center supports careful objective survey research on policy-relevant issues at both the local and national levels. Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical HydrodynamicsCollege: City College of New York - ccsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1979 About Center: The broad aim of the Institute has been to investigate key problems in physico-chemical hydrodynamics, which refers to phenomena governed by the interaction of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions, from a fundamental and multifaceted perspective. Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere StudiesCollege: Graduate Center - gcisCategory: International Studies Year Founded: 1982 About Center: The Bildner Center focuses on policy issues in democratic governance and human rights, development models and social policy, integration and globalization, the role of knowledge in social change and development, and relations between the United States and Latin America. BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts CenterCollege: Borough of Manhattan Community College - bmccmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1983 About Center: Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, AKA BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is committed to offering high caliber educational and culturally diverse arts programming to BMCC, the Downtown business and residential communities, and audiences from the greater New York Metropolitan area. Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and LongevityCollege: Hunter College - hcheCategory: Health Year Founded: 1974 About Center: Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity of Hunter College is a multi-disciplinary center of excellence dedicated to the advancement of successful aging and longevity through research, education, and evaluation of evidence-based models of practice and policy. Brookdale Center on AgingCollege: - hhuCategory: Humanities Year Founded: 1974 About Center: Brookdale was founded by Dr. Rose Dobrof of the Hunter College School of Social Work in 1974 as one of the country’s first multi-disciplinary academic gerontology centers. In this role, Brookdale serves as a critical bridge between gerontological education, research, policy, practice and advocacy. For the past three decades, the Center has taken the lead in identifying the needs of older New Yorkers, developing programs to make New York a better place to grow old, training professionals and paraprofessionals who serve the elderly, and championing both the elderly and policies to promote successful aging. Brooklyn Center for the Performing ArtsCollege: Brooklyn College - bcmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: Founded in 1954, the mission of Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts is to present outstanding performing arts and arts education programs, reflective of Brooklyn's diverse communities, at affordable prices. Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts welcomes over 70,000 people to the 2,400 seat Walt Whitman Theatre each season, and boasts one of the largest arts education programs in the borough, serving schoolchildren from over 225 schools annually. The Center's cultural programs are designed to represent the many population that comprise Brooklyn's 2.4 million residents, including African, African-American, Asian, Caribbean, Hispanic, Jewish, multi-ethnic youth, Russian, and senior communities. Brooklyn Center's annual programs in Walt Whitman Theatre include six series, the World of Dance, World Stages, Special Events, FamilyFun, SchoolTime, and the new Theater and Arts in the Afternoon series, along with special events such as U.S. Military Academy Band. Caribbean Research CenterCollege: Medgar Evers College - mecoCategory: Other Year Founded: 1985 About Center: The Caribbean Research Center is an integral academic component of Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York. Since its establishment in 1985, it has been funded by annual appropriations from the New York State legislature, to address the concerns, problems and needs of the rapidly growing Caribbean segment of the metropolitan New York State population. CCNY Performing Arts CenterCollege: City College of New York - ccmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: The City College Performing Arts Center provides facilities for Aaron Davis Hall on the south campus at 135th street and Convent Avenue, adjacent to the stunning new home of the Spitzer School of Architecture. The Performing Arts Center houses 3 theatres, the 750 seat Marian Anderson Theatre, a 175 seat flexible black box experimental theatre, and a 75 seat rehearsal studio theatre. All theatres are fully equipped with state of the art lights and sound systems. This modern facility has been a focal point of the performing arts in Harlem since 1979. The City College Performing Arts Center is the only cultural facility of its kind between Lincoln Center and Harlem. It schedules a year round calendar of multicultural performance by professionals, community groups, and students, all open to the public. The CCPAC performances include classical, jazz, Latin music, dance, theatre, literary readings, film festivals, Hip Hop and solo performance. The facility hosts fully-staged productions, large-scale musicals, and smaller productions by the theatre and music departments, as well as, readings of original works, and intimate performances. We have a long history of community outreach and making our spaces available for community events. Rentals are considered upon request. Center for Advanced Engineering Design and DevelopmentCollege: City College of New York - ccsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1999 About Center: The Center's mission is to conduct, coordinate, and promote design-oriented, applied research and development for industry. It fosters interdisciplinary engineering design and manufacturing education by the academic departments in the School of Engineering. Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE)College: Graduate Center - gcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1975 About Center: The Center (CASE) was established to conduct basic and applied research concerned with improving and upgrading the quality of education in urban areas. Center for Advanced Technology in Photonics ApplicationsCollege: City College of New York - ccsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1982 About Center: The New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Photonics Applications (CAT) at the City University of New York (CUNY) develops and disseminates knowledge in photonics technology in order to promote New York economic development for the medical, biological, industrial and military sectors. Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS)College: City College of New York - ccsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1999 About Center: CAISS is an international association of researchers in mathematics, computer science, engineering and technology, which hosts and supports a wide range of projects. These projects bridge the gap between concept and application, and include ongoing studies in computational algebra, symbolic mathematics, statistics, computational biology and scientific computation. Center for Analysis of Structures and InterfacesCollege: City College of New York - ccsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1988 About Center: CASI has two goals: to conduct exemplary research and to increase the number of minority scientists trained to conduct high-level scientific research. Center for Biomedical EngineeringCollege: City College of New York - ccsCategory: Science Year Founded: 2002 About Center: The Department of Biomedical Engineering grew out of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering (NYCBE) at the CCNY, a consortium of New York City medical institutions established in 1994 to serve as a focal center for collaborative biomedical engineering research in the New York metropolitan area. Center for Black LiteratureCollege: Medgar Evers College - mecoCategory: Other Year Founded: 2003 About Center: Research activities for The Center focus on mid to late 20th century and contemporary black writing within and outside of the United States -- by African Americans, Caribbeans, Latin Americans, Africans and other peoples of African ancestry. The Center is designed to expand, broaden, and enrich the public's knowledge and aesthetic appreciation of the value of Black literature. Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek StudiesCollege: Queens College - qcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1974 About Center: The impetus for the center's creation was provided by the growing interest of students in the language, history, institutions, and culture of the Greek people from the late Byzantine times to the present, and by the needs of the Greek American community. The moving force behind the creation of the Center has been Professor Harry J. Psomiades who was Director of the Center from its inception in 1974 until he retired in 2003. Center for Child and Adult DevelopmentCollege: Brooklyn College - bcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1972 About Center: The center is sponsored by the M.S. in education and advanced certificate for school psychologists programs of the School of Education. The center serves the community and professionals in the fields of education and psychology by providing, through conferences and symposia, information on mental health practices and recent research relevant to child and adult development. Center for Community and Urban HealthCollege: Hunter College - hcheCategory: Health Year Founded: 1988 About Center: The Hunter College Center for Community and Urban Health (formerly the Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health) was founded in 1988 to respond to the growing public health crises that were devastating New York City’s low-income communities, especially AIDS (the advanced stage of HIV infection) and problematic substance use. Center for Computer MusicCollege: Brooklyn College - bcmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1977 About Center: The Center for Computer Music, part of the Conservatory of Music, promotes musical and interdisciplinary projects using a variety of computer platforms and software applications. Its recording studio is equipped with sixteen-track digital recording, with mixdown capabilities. A variety of high-quality microphones, mixers, tape recorders, and signal processors is available. The center’s control room is linked to a medium-sized room for solo and chamber music recordings and to a fully equipped 500-seat theater for larger ensembles. The conservatory also offers courses in recording technology. Center for Corporate IntegrityCollege: Baruch College - bbCategory: Business Year Founded: 2002 About Center: The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity (CCI), formerly the Center for Financial Integrity, was established in 2002 to keep an informed spotlight on the changing issues of governance and financial reporting confronting U.S. corporations and capital markets. Center for Developmental Neurosciences and Developmental DisabilitiesCollege: College of Staten Island - csisCategory: Science Year Founded: 2001 About Center: The Center for Developmental Neuroscience and Developmental Disabilities (CDN) is supported jointly with the New York State Institute for Basic Research (IBR). The Center conducts, promotes, and sponsors research, education, and training in the developmental neurosciences with special emphasis on research and educational programs in the specific field of developmental disabilities. Center for Diopian Inquiry and Research on Ed. as Culture Transmission (DIRECT)College: Medgar Evers College - mecoCategory: Other Year Founded: 1998 About Center: The DIRECT Center is named after Cheikh Anta Diop, the Senegalese scholar. The mission is to contribute to recovering, reclaiming and reconstructing the "profound cultural unity still alive beneath the deceptive appearance of cultural heterogeneity" among African people on the African continent and throughout the African Diaspora. Center for Diversity and Multicultural StudiesCollege: Brooklyn College - bcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1996 About Center: The center promotes and supports a dynamic multicultural academic environment. Policy initiatives and curriculum and faculty development are promoted through the Multicultural Studies Council and the Multicultural Assembly; students are empowered through participation in the Multicultural Action Committee and community-service learning programs. Center for Diversity in the Legal ProfessionCollege: City University School of Law - lawcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 2008 About Center: The main purpose of the Center is to be a clearinghouse for data on the participation of people of color in the law, as well as to conduct original research, according to the Center's newly named director, Professor Pamela Edwards. The Center also will publish an e-newsletter on issues that affect the careers of people of color in the law. In addition, the Center will collaborate with other organizations that have activities designed to increase participation in the legal profession by people of color as well as by members of other communities historically under-represented in the legal profession. Center for Environmental ScienceCollege: College of Staten Island - csievCategory: Environment Year Founded: 1987 About Center: The Center for Environmental Science, established in 1987, provides support for research and policy recommendations concerning environmental problems. One of the major purposes of the Center is to define and solve environmental problems on Staten Island and its environsthrough research that includes studies of respiratory diseases, toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in the air, and the population at risk of lung cancer. Center for Health PromotionCollege: Brooklyn College - bcheCategory: Health Year Founded: 1983 About Center: The Center for Health Promotion develops, coordinates, and centralizes a variety of outreach programs initiated by faculty members. The center organizes workshops, seminars, and conferences on health and nutrition topics. It serves as an information resource for health professionals, students, and community residents. It provides opportunities for students to learn through volunteer work and to serve the community through field work and independent studies on health promotion. Center for Human EnvironmentsCollege: Graduate Center - gcevCategory: Environment Year Founded: 1976 About Center: The Center is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization of social scientists, environmental designers, planners and educators whose research addresses the relationship between people and their physical settings. Center for Human RelationsCollege: Brooklyn College - bchuCategory: Humanities Year Founded: 1973 About Center: It is the mission of the center to initiate and encourage empirical scientific research and community education concerning current social issues in the area of human and intergroup relations. The work of the center focuses on intergroup conflict, perceived injustice, sexual harassment, sexual objectification, and authentic communication and living skills. Center for Information Networking and TelecommunicationCollege: City College of New York - ccteCategory: Technology About Center: Telecommunication and Information Networking Group (TING) conducts research and development in the fields of high-speed, multi-media, multi-service, integrated wired/wireless networks, mobility in IP and ATM networks, secure communications, and information distribution networks. We also offer courses and labs in these areas to train undergraduate and graduate students to be the leaders of this information era. These research and educational activities have been funded by government agencies and industries including: US Army (ARL, CECOM, ARO), NSF, Telcordia (formerly Bellcore), Panasonic, NY State, NYDOT, and AT and T. Center for Innovation and Leadership in GovernmentCollege: Baruch College - bpoCategory: Politics Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Center for Innovation and Leadership in Government was created to preserve continuity and institutional memory in municipal government by preparing prospective and newly elected or appointed government officials for effective public service. Center for International Human RightsCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 2001 About Center: The Center studies the main challenges to the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights norms; analyze and assess the intersections between human rights violations and international crimes, and investigate genocide historically and in the contemporary world. Center for International ServiceCollege: College of Staten Island - csiedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2001 About Center: The program hosts visiting scholars from various countries to the College of Staten Island and builds sustainable exchange and study abroad programs both for faculty and students. Center for Italian American StudiesCollege: Brooklyn College - bcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1973 About Center: The center was established to stimulate interest in Italian American life and explore the social and political attitudes and behavior patterns of Italian Americans. Graduate and undergraduate students may participate in the center’s research projects. The center sponsors conferences and cultural events. Counseling and training workshops are among the services offered. Center for Jewish StudiesCollege: Graduate Center - gcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1980 About Center: The Center encourages research on Jewish life, particularly in the modern period, and brings that research to the Jewish and academic communities through conferences, publications, symposia, and lectures. Center for Jewish StudiesCollege: Queens College - qcesCategory: Ethnic Studies About Center: Led by the Director of the Jewish Studies Program and an energetic lay advisory board, the Center for Jewish Studies is an outreach and research agent that serves as a bridge between the academic Program and the community. Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino StudiesCollege: Graduate Center - gcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The mission of the Center is to stimulate and help coordinate the study of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the U.S. in the CUNY doctoral programs making use of the various specialists across the disciplines at CUNY's colleges. Center for Latino StudiesCollege: Brooklyn College - bcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1969 About Center: The center is an adjunct of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. It serves students, faculty, and the community by stimulating interest in Puerto Rican and Latino affairs. It provides opportunities to sponsor conferences, workshops, lectures, seminars, internships, and noncredit courses. It encourages curricular development and research on topics related to the Latino experience and fosters educational exhibits as well as artistic and cultural expression. The center maintains a facility for special collections, publications, and research. Center for Law and Social JusticeCollege: Medgar Evers College - mecoCategory: Other Year Founded: 1985 About Center: The Center is a focal point for progressive activity through its unique combination of research, public policy, advocacy, and litigation from a community-based perspective. The Center is a community based education, research, and legal organization. It provides quality advocacy, training and expert legal services in a personal manner to people of African descent and the disenfranchised. Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)College: Graduate Center - gclgsCategory: Lesbian and Gay Studies Year Founded: 1992 About Center: The Center is the first and only university-based research center in the USA dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and communities. Center for Molecular and Cellular BiologyCollege: Queens College - qcsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1997 About Center: The Center's mission is to promote basic and applied research in molecular and cellular biology; cancer biology; genomics and bioinformatics. Center for Nuclear TheoryCollege: Brooklyn College - bcsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1972 About Center: Research in theoretical nuclear physics is supported by the center, whose members serve as mentors for graduate students in the area of nuclear theory. Research at the center is supported by grants from external agencies. Center for Occupational and Environmental HealthCollege: - hheCategory: Health Year Founded: 1986 About Center: Since 1986, the Hunter College Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), formerly called the Hunter-Montefiore Health and Safety Training Program, has conducted research as well as designed and carried out training programs in occupational and environmental health. In that time, Hunter COEH has worked with international, national and local labor unions, private employers, municipal and state agencies, and community organizations promoting better understanding, access to information and improved skills in addressing workplace and environmental concerns. Center for Place, Culture and PoliticsCollege: Graduate Center - gcpoCategory: Politics Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Center is an interdisciplinary center providing an exciting intellectual forum for the discussion of a wide range of vital contemporary issues. Center for Science and MathematicsCollege: York College - ycedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1992 About Center: This Center offers science and mathematics programs for school children. Center for Study of Gene Structure and FunctionCollege: - hsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1985 About Center: At the heart of the Gene Center’s mission is an imperative to build unique collaborations among biologists, chemists, biopsychologists, biophysicists, and bioanthropologists; to recruit and equip outstanding faculty; to develop and share core research facilities; and to implement strategies for scientific networking. Center for Sustainable EnergyCollege: Bronx Community College - bccbCategory: Business Year Founded: 2003 About Center: The Center, funded with a Congressional appropriation administered through the U.S. Department of Energy, seeks to promote a stronger economy and a healthier environment through education, training and community involvement in Sustainable Energy Technology. Center for the Biology of Natural SystemsCollege: Queens College - qcsCategory: Science Year Founded: 1966 About Center: CBNS is a research organization with considerable experience in the analysis of environmental, energy and resource problems and their economic implications. Established in 1966 at Washington University, St. Louis, CBNS moved to Queens College in 1981, where it is organized as a research institute of the City University of New York. Over a period of 30 years CBNS has become known for an extensive series of pioneering studies on environmental issues such as trash disposal, agricultural sources of pollution, and environmental carcinogens; on energy issues such as conservation, cogeneration and solar energy; on resource issues such as organic farming and waste reduction; and on the relation of such issues to economic factors and social welfare. Center for the HumanitiesCollege: Graduate Center - gchuCategory: Humanities Year Founded: 1993 About Center: Founded in 1993, The Center provides a forum for CUNY students and faculty to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue with other scholars as well as prominent journalists, artists and civic leaders. Center for the Improvement of EducationCollege: Queens College - qcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1980 About Center: The Center forges linkages between public schools and Queens College that will allow staff from each to perform their primary functions more effectively. Center for the New American WorkforceCollege: Queens College - qcusCategory: Urban Studies Year Founded: 1992 About Center: The Center was created by the Queens College Corporate Advisory Board to serve American business as an information and advisory resource on issues concerning the nation's diversifying workforce. Center for the Study of BrooklynCollege: Brooklyn College - bcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 2005 About Center: The Center, founded in February 2005, is an academic research center devoted excusively to the study of public policy in Brooklyn. The purpose is to serve Brooklyn by giving it a much needed voice -- backed by research -- in the arena of public policy. Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and WorkCollege: Graduate Center - gcteCategory: Technology Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Center considers, both structurally and historically, with issues relating to knowledge and the forms of knowledge, such as scientific method, emergent discourses, and interrelationships among high, mass, popular, and everyday cultures. Center for the Study of Family PolicyCollege: - hheCategory: Health Year Founded: 1992 About Center: The Center promotes research, dialogue, and action focused upon changing family needs and emerging family policies in the United States. The Center is committed to an inclusive definition of the family that recognizes its central position in society and its diverse forms. The Centner seeks interdisciplinary research projects and focused educational programs that contribute to the development of a viable family policy. Center for the Study of Staten Island: Staten Island Project (SIP)College: College of Staten Island - csiusCategory: Urban Studies Year Founded: 2005 About Center: The Center for the Study of Staten Island is designed to integrate the work of the College with the public affairs concerns of the people of Staten Island. To that end, it mediates and facilitates the collaboration of the College's faculty, students, and staff with government, civic organizations, and businesses in order to identify and assist in finding solutions to theborough's pressing public issues. Center for the Study of Women & SocietyCollege: Graduate Center - gcwsCategory: Women's Studies Year Founded: 1976 About Center: The Center promotes interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. The Center's research agenda is the study of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and nation in relationship to the experiences of women and men in societies everywhere. Center for the Study of World TelevisionCollege: Brooklyn College - bcisCategory: International Studies Year Founded: 1996 About Center: The Center is affiliated with the Dept of Television and Radio. The goal is to develop a better understanding of the use of national and international policy for the constructive application of television and related media to the social, cultural, political, and economic needs of various countries and regions. Center for Urban Education PolicyCollege: Graduate Center - gcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1993 About Center: The Center was organized to provide a mechanism for systematic study and analysis of policy issues confronting urban education. Center for Urban ResearchCollege: Graduate Center - gcusCategory: Urban Studies Year Founded: 1994 About Center: The Center organizes research on the critical issues that face NY and other large cities in the U.S. and abroad, collaborates with public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other partners, and holds forums about urban research. Center for Virtual EnterpriseCollege: Kingsborough Community College - kccedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2002 About Center: IVE/CUNY's mission is to enhance student engagement and success by building awareness in Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Environmental Preservation within a context of Sustainable Development. Center for Water Resources and Environmental ResearchCollege: City College of New York - ccevCategory: Environment About Center: The Center conducts research on a considerable variety of topics in the water resources/environmental area including natural hazards, pollution movement, surface water and groundwater cleanup, wetland preservation, reservoir protection, watershed management, the hydraulics and hydrology of natural flow systems, non-point source pollution, ecology preservation, and other related subjects. Both the technical and sociopolitical issues arising from these studies are addressed. Center for Women's DevelopmentCollege: Medgar Evers College - mecoCategory: Other Year Founded: 1982 About Center: The Center supports the self-actualization of students by providing services and programs of support needed by women, particularly the student/parent, in pursuit of higher education. The Center promotes equal access to higher education for women through institutionalized support, including counseling and referrals, development and implementation of forums and events, and publication of materials on women, families, and gender issues. Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community HealthCollege: - hheCategory: Health Year Founded: 1987 About Center: The Hunter College Center for Community and Urban Health is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of individuals, families, organizations and populations to address and resolve contemporary community and urban health issues and concerns. Center on Crime Prevention ControlCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 2004 About Center: The Center engages practitioners in jurisdictions around the country in the development of a portfolio of strategies aimed at preventing and controlling crime in communities. These strategies and their implementation are assessed and researched in partnership with local jurisdicitons. Center on Philanthropy and Civil SocietyCollege: Graduate Center - gcphCategory: Philanthropy Year Founded: 1986 About Center: The Center fosters interdisciplinary research on the role of giving and voluntarism in the United States and overseas. Center on Race, Crime and JusticeCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 2005 About Center: The Center aims to provide a systematic means for better understanding the linkages between race, crime, and justice, and for the development of sound policies to diminish racial bias in the criminal justice system. Center on TerrorismCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 2002 About Center: The goal of the Center is to study the causes, purposes and methods of terrorism while searching for concrete ways of making that knowledge contribute to public safety. Centro de Estudios PuertorriquenosCollege: - hesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1973 About Center: The Centro is a research center dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. We are committed to making this research available and useful to those in community organizations, public policy, and academia. The Centro is also the world's only repository of archival and library materials dedicated exclusively to the Puerto Rican diaspora. Children's Studies CenterCollege: Brooklyn College - bcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1997 About Center: The center aims to promote a unified approach to the study and teaching of children and youth across the disciplines in the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, medicine, and law. It is the mission of the center to participate in national and international research efforts on behalf of children and youth; to help governmental and advocacy agencies, as well as community-based organizations, formulate implementation strategies for helping children and youth; to initiate interdisciplinary symposia, concerts, broadcasts, exhibitions, and films in partnership with arts institutions; and to develop resource and information materials for assisting undergraduate students in the exploration of careers related to children and youth services College of Staten Island Center for the ArtsCollege: College of Staten Island - csimtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: The CSI Center provides arts and cultural programming to the Staten Island community on a nonprofit basis. As Staten Island’s premier performing arts venue, The CSI Center for the Performing Arts includes five theatres under one roof. Consortium for Real Estate and Metropolitan DevelopmentCollege: New York City College of Technology - nycbCategory: Business About Center: ... Criminal Justice CenterCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1975 About Center: The Center serves criminal justice agencies by providing a variety of seminars, workshops and training programs and by conducting evaluations and studies of criminal justice operations and issues. Criminal Justice Research CenterCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1975 About Center: The Center is an applied research organization established so that members of the academic community can respond to the needs of criminal justice practitioners. The Center assists public and private agencies by conducting research and evaluation studies of crime prevention strategies, positive youth development projects, and criminal justice issues and operations. CUNY Aviation Institute at York CollegeCollege: York College - ycedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2002 About Center: The CUNY Aviation Institute at York College is the first CUNY institute to focus specifically on aviation studies. As an initiative funded by a major grant from The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Institute is dedicated to providing educational opportunities for faculty, students and aviation professionals that will help develop their careers in the aviation and allied industries. CUNY Dispute Resolution ConsortiumCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1993 About Center: It is a University based academic center which serves as a comprehensive coordinating mechanism to advance research and innovative program development throughout the City University as well as the New York City metropolitan area. CUNY Institute for Demographic ResearchCollege: Baruch College - Graduate Center - Hunter College - Queens College - bgchcqcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2009 About Center: The CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) was established by the City University of New York in 2007 as part of a significant commitment to launch New York’s first demographic research and training program, thereby producing an intellectually vibrant community of scholars in that field. It is comprised of affiliates from over seven of the 23 CUNY campuses. CUNY Institute for Health EquityCollege: Lehman College - lcheCategory: Health Year Founded: 2009 About Center: The Institute will work directly with fourteen community organizations in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, including Mothers on the Move, African Hope Committee, and Brooklyn Young Mothers Collective. It has three core objectives: building the capacity of non-profit and community-based organizations to address health problems in their communities; providing learning opportunities for students to work toward health equity; and strengthening multidisciplinary cooperation and research on health equity issues both within and beyond CUNY. CUNY Institute for Software Design &Development (CISDD)College: Graduate Center - gcteCategory: Technology Year Founded: 1999 About Center: The Institute is a CUNY Consortium which aims to spur the development and commercialization of advanced software technologies and software engineering methods and toto help the NY software industry compete effectively with non-NYS regions in developing, incorporating, and bringing to market technological innovations in software functionality, performance, ease of development and maintenance. CUNY Institute for Urban SystemsCollege: City College of New York - ccusCategory: Urban Studies About Center: The CUNY Institute for Urban Systems (CIUS) seeks to help urban regions shape and adapt to their changing infrastructure needs through research, education, policy advisement, and advancing the state of professional practice. CIUS actively works to bridge the professional and academic realms in its efforts to identify innovative solutions to the problems of aging infrastructure. It draws its strength and depth from the City University of New York's distinguished faculty in engineering, architecture, economics, urban planning, law and management. CUNY Urban ConsortiumCollege: Baruch College - bbCategory: Business Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Consortium, sponsored and housed at the Newman Real Estate Institute, brings together the extraordinary resources of CUNY's various schools and departments that focus on urban issues. Members participate in an exchange of information about planning and design issues that affect the future of the city and of the metropolitan region. Dominican InstituteCollege: City College of New York - ccesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1994 About Center: The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute is an interdisciplinary research unit of the City University of New York at City College devoted to the production, gathering, and dissemination of knowledge on Dominicans in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere. Equity Studies Research CenterCollege: Queens College - qcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2005 About Center: The Center seeks to promote interest in math and science careers for young women from urban environments. Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the HumanitiesCollege: Brooklyn College - bchuCategory: Humanities Year Founded: 1976 About Center: The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities supports excellence in research, publication, teaching, and all forms of academic discourse on the campus of Brooklyn College. The Institute sponsors a varied series of lectures, seminars, colloquia, conferences, and study groups, often in collaboration with other academic programs and organizations, with the aim of keeping public conversation at Brooklyn College in touch with advances in the humanities and social sciences. The Wolfe Institute sponsors several faculty fellowships each year for research in the humanities. The Institute also works closely with the students and faculty of the Brooklyn College Honors Academy. European Union Studies CenterCollege: Graduate Center - gcisCategory: International Studies Year Founded: 1993 About Center: The EUSC is dedicated to promoting research and debate on the diverse issues and challenges facing the European Union. The European Union Studies Center (EUSC) was established in 1993. Fire Science InstituteCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1974 About Center: Through its educational and training programs, the Fire Science Institute serves the needs of researchers and educators as well as professionals in the firefighting field. Forensic Psychology Research InstituteCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1996 About Center: The purpose is to create and foster research opportunities. Academic and intellectual relationships between students and faculty are strengthened through the work of the Institute. Frank Stanton/Andrew Heiskell Center for Public Policy in Telecommunications and Information SystemsCollege: Graduate Center - gcteCategory: Technology Year Founded: 1987 About Center: The Center provides a forum that brings the private and non-profit sectors together with the education community to study the impact of technology on teaching and learning in the school, the workplace, the home and the community, and its effect on school organization and change. Gerald W. Lynch Theater and John Jay CollegeCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1988 About Center: Since opening its doors in 1988, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater has been an invaluable cultural resource for John Jay College and the larger New York City community. The Theater is dedicated to the creation and presentation of performing arts programming of all disciplines with a special focus on how the artistic imagination can shed light on the many perceptions of justice in our society. Gotham Center for New York City HistoryCollege: Graduate Center - gcusCategory: Urban Studies Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Center's goal is to boost the visibility-for citizens, tourists and students-of New York's badly under-appreciated and under-developed historical assets. Henri Peyre French InstituteCollege: Graduate Center - gchuCategory: Humanities Year Founded: 1982 About Center: The Institute sponsors a variety of conferences, seminars, and lectures that relate to the arts and humanities in French and Francophone culture, including exhibits, poetry readings, and artistic performances. Essentially, part of French Dept. Hostos Center for the Arts and CultureCollege: Hostos Community College - hccmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: The centerpiece of the new campus at Hostos Community College of The City University of New York, the Hostos Center for the Arts andF Culture consists of a museum-grade art gallery, a 367-seat theater, and a 907-seat concert hall. The Hostos Center presents artists of national and international renown. It also presents emerging and established local artists, and it offers workshops in drama, folk arts, and dance to community residents. Howard Samuels State Management and Policy CenterCollege: Graduate Center - gcpoCategory: Politics Year Founded: 1987 About Center: The Center's mission is to advance democracy by focusing on those areas of research and public policy that increase access and participation to the political process, and foster equity and quality of services for marginalized groups. Infant Study CenterCollege: Brooklyn College - bcheCategory: Health Year Founded: 1976 About Center: The center conducts grant-supported research studies on visual and perceptual development in infants and young children. Aspects of both normal and abnormal development are studied. A major interest of the center is the development of new methods of assessing visual functioning in infants and young children. Graduate and undergraduate students assist in research. Institute for Business Trends AnalysisCollege: Borough of Manhattan Community College - bmccbCategory: Business Year Founded: 1997 About Center: IBTA is a focal point for business intelligence and workforce development activities. IBTA conducts and publishes research on workforce development and school-to-work issues; serves as a business intelligence resource. The Institute forges relationships with businesses and organizations for the benefit of the college and students. Three conferences on technology have been hosted over the past three years, the most recent being "Health Tech New York" in January 2005, to explore the emerging technologies that are affecting the organization and delivery of healthcare. Institute for Criminal Justice EthicsCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1981 About Center: The Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, the only nonprofit, university-based center of its kind in the United States, was established to foster greater concern for ethical issues among practitioners and scholars in the criminal justice field. Through its diverse programs it serves both as a national clearinghouse for information and as a stimulus to research and publication. It seeks to encourage increased sensitivity to the demands of ethical behavior among those who administer and enforce our system of criminal justice, a more focused treatment of moral issues in the education of criminal justice professionals, and a new dialogue among scholars and practitioners on specific topics in criminal justice ethics. Institute for Irish-American StudiesCollege: Lehman College - lcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Institute serves as a clearinghouse for research opportunities in Irish-American Studies for students, staff, and faculty on all of the campuses of the City University of New York. Institute for Literacy StudiesCollege: Lehman College - lcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1984 About Center: Our mission-reforming and improving urban education-has deep significance in our home borough of the Bronx as well as throughout New York City and the nation. We understand "urban education" in its broadest, most inclusive meaning to comprise the complex web of systems, settings and relationships that foster learning in our cities. Our mission, therefore, includes teaching and learning in schools, colleges, community-based and adult education settings, and in homes. Institute for Macromolecular AssembliesCollege: College of Staten Island - csisCategory: Science Year Founded: 2003 About Center: The Institute for Macromolecular Assemblies, established in 2003, builds on the research strength of campus-based faculty in Chemistry, Biology, andallied fields; on the collaborative research alliances the College has made with other institutions; and on our unique laboratory capabilities. The Institute coordinates existing and new research investigations for both natural and engineered macromolecular assemblies of biological andmedical importance, and integrates and expands graduate and undergraduate educational programs in these areas across CUNY. Institute for Municipal Waste ResearchCollege: City College of New York - ccevCategory: Environment Year Founded: 1991 About Center: The Institute was formed to mobilize the intellectual resources of the university to assist New York City and other urban communities across the nation in finding and implementing solutions to the problems of municipal waste. It conducts research on the generation, treatment, processing, recycling, and disposal of municipal waste, as well as on other related topics. Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)College: Graduate Center - gcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1994 About Center: IRADAC is a major research institute concerned with the study of the history, culture, conditions, and development of people of African descent, with special attention being given to the African American and African Caribbean experience. IRADAC is a CUNY-wide Institute also associated with City College Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)College: City College of New York - ccesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1994 About Center: IRADAC'S mission is to foster understanding and critical interpretation of the history, development, conditions, status, and cultures of the diverse peoples of African descent living in the various societies of the Western Hemisphere. However, the Institute's primary focus on the black experience in Canada and the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean does not preclude any region of the African Diaspora from the scope of its multidisciplinary scholarship and public programs. Institute for Research on the City EnvironmentCollege: Queens College - qcsCategory: Science Year Founded: 2004 About Center: The Institute will build on the strength of campus-based faculty in many disciplines. The mission is to raise and enourage public awareness of the challenges of living in the densely populated environment of NY while maintaining the quality of life and preserving the integrity of hte environment. Institute for Transportation SystemsCollege: City College of New York - ccteCategory: Technology Year Founded: 1985 About Center: The CUNY Institute for Transportation Systems is a multi-disciplinary inter-college effort which addresses transportation issues affecting the economic and social life of the city, state, and region. Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and LasersCollege: City College of New York - ccsCategory: Science About Center: ... Institute on Alcohol and Substance AbuseCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1980 About Center: The mission of the Institute is to promote and facilitate research, education, and training in the field of substance abuse, including prevention, treatment, and enforcement. Institutes for Studies in American MusicCollege: Brooklyn College - bcmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1971 About Center: The Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College is an internationally recognized center for the study and presentation of American music. ISAM enriches the educational experience of Brooklyn College students, faculty, and members of the Brooklyn community through its regular programming of annual conferences, lectures, conferences, and artist residencies. Jackie Robinson Center for Physical CultureCollege: Medgar Evers College - mecoCategory: Other Year Founded: 1985 About Center: The Center provides school support services for students 8 - 18 through a holistic youth development approach. Students engage in athletic and cultural activities, learn how to excel academically and learn to be community activists and leaders. The Center has been recognized as one of the ten best prevention programs in the USA by the GAO in Washington DC and as one of the 30 best development programs in the world by the International Youth Foundation. John D. Calandra Italian American InstituteCollege: Queens College - qcesCategory: Ethnic Studies Year Founded: 1995 About Center: The overall purpose of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is basic to the central mission of The City University of New York. Italian-Americans represent the largest European ancestral group in New York State, New York City and at CUNY. Thus, the primary purpose of the Institute is to foster higher education among Italian-Americans. John F. Kennedy, Jr. Institute for Worker EducationCollege: School of Professional Studies - spsedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2000 About Center: Supports workforce development initiatives in health, education and human services fields; develops collaborative, career-ladder, worker education programs including undergraduate and graduate certificates; conducts research related to the frontline workforce; sponsors demonstration projects to improve education and employment outcomes of underserved populations. Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor StudiesCollege: School of Professional Studies - spsedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2005 About Center: Part of the School of Professional Studies. Promotes worker education. Develops certificate programs and work with colleges to expand educational opportunities for union members within CUNY. Encompasses the Labor Resource Center (est. 1992) formerly at Queens College, which provides labor related resources and educational services to academia, the public, and the labor community. Labor Resource CenterCollege: Queens College - qcedCategory: Education About Center: The Labor Resource Center was established to provide labor related resources and educational services to academia, the public, and the labor community. The Center's staff conducts research, develops educational materials, sponsors forums, organizes conferences, and edits and distributes publications in order to promote discourse within the labor movement and the general public. LaGuardia Performing Arts CenterCollege: LaGuardia Community College - lgmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC), at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, is committed to presenting culturally and ethnically diverse programming of the highest quality for the College community, the residents of Queens and the tri-state area. With technical features that rival those of many theaters in Manhattan, and a location, which makes it easily accessible from Midtown, LPAC-the largest theater of its kind in Western Queens-has quickly found its place within the city’s rich array of cultural resources. Latin American Writers InstituteCollege: Hostos Community College - hccbCategory: Business Year Founded: 1987 Revived: 2003 About Center: LAWI is an organization devoted to promoting the work of Latino Writers in United States and Latin American Writers abroad. Lawrence N. Field Center for EntrepreneurshipCollege: Baruch College - bbCategory: Business Year Founded: 1993 About Center: The Center brings together the extensive resources of the Zicklin School, Small Business Development Center Business Advisors, and expertise from major corporations and alumni to support the entrepreneurial endeavors of students, start-ups and small businesses. The Center provides educational programs, a networking environment, and counseling help to business from all over New York City. Lehman Center for School and College CollaborativesCollege: Lehman College - lcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1984 About Center: As a community resource, the Institute is committed to act in cooperation with other academic institutions, community groups, and organizations to develop joint projects especially those that enrich regional and national attention regarding the educational needs of Latinos who constitute the largest group of students in the Bronx Schools. Lehman Center for the Performing ArtsCollege: Lehman College - lcmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: Lehman Center for the Performing Arts at Lehman College seats 2310 people and hosts 100,000 guests at its performances every year. Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts CenterCollege: Kingsborough Community College - kccmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: A dance, theater, music, and lecture space that seats 643 people and hosts 50 events per year. Martin E. Segal Theatre CenterCollege: Graduate Center - gcmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1979 About Center: The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, is a non-profit center for theatre, dance, and film affiliated with CUNY's Ph.D. Program in Theatre. Originally founded in 1979 as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA), it was renamed in March of 1999 to recognize Martin E. Segal, one of New York City's outstanding leaders of the arts. Middle East and Middle Eastern American CenterCollege: Graduate Center - gcisCategory: International Studies Year Founded: 2001 About Center: MEMEAC's mission is to promote the study of the Middle East and Middle Eastern Americans. Established in 2001, it is the only center in the country that incorporates the Middle Eastern American experience into Middle East Studies. National Center for Educational AlliancesCollege: Bronx Community College - bccbCategory: Business Year Founded: 1988 About Center: The Center works to expand higher education opportunities for disadvantaged student in the US and abroad by promoting collaboration among schools, colleges, and other organizations dedicated to fundamental long-term educational reform. National Center for Educational Restructuring and Inclusion (NCERI)College: Graduate Center - gcedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1993 About Center: The National Center has been established to promote and support educational programs where all students are served effectively in inclusive settings. National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the ProfessionsCollege: - hedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1972 About Center: The Center serves as a clearinghouse and forum for those engaged in the study and practice of collective bargaining (and the related processes of grievance and administration and arbitration) in colleges and universities and in other professions such as medicine and journalism. The NCSCBHEP provides labor and management practitioners and scholars with the finest research about collective bargaining. Neuroscience Research CenterCollege: Queens College - qcsCategory: Science Year Founded: 2004 About Center: The Center seeks to promote multidisciplinary participation in the investigation of problems in the general area of neuroscience. NYS Regional Community Policing InstituteCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 1997 About Center: The Institute seeks to engage police and and community in active collaboration to reduce crime, help maintain order and improve the quality of life throughout NYS. The institute draws on the collective talents of law enforcement to strengthen the ability of a democratic society to police itself. Queensborough Performing Arts CenterCollege: Queensborough Community College - qccmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: The Professional Performing Arts Series at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center was created to bring a higher level of live entertainment that is affordable to people living in the community from all walks of life. The Professional Performing Arts Series makes the arts a central part of life, is accessible to everyone, and is a creative and motivating force for the culturally underserved. The Queensborough Performing Arts Center is a hub for multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-denominational entertainment. Through our programs our diverse community can experience the richness of each other’s cultures and traditions. Ralph Bunche Institute for International StudiesCollege: Graduate Center - gcisCategory: International Studies Year Founded: 1973 About Center: The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies serves as a research consortium for objective research and study of issues of concern to the global community, multilateral institutions, and world interdependence. Remanufacturing Center at York CollegeCollege: York College - ycedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2002 About Center: This program operates in partnership with the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery and The Association of Minority Enterprises of NY to offer free courses in business operation. Research Center for Music Iconography (RCMI)College: Graduate Center - gcmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1972 About Center: The Center (RCMI) was established in 1972 by Barry S. Brook with an assistance of Emanuel Winternitz, to conduct research into musical subject matter represented in artworks. Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS)College: Graduate Center - gcusCategory: Urban Studies Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Institute conducts research on language, literacy, and bilingualism and their development and acquisition in an urban society. The mission is to investigate research questions at the nexus between language and the NYC urban environment. Selma and Max Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing ArtsCollege: Queens College - qcmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 2006 About Center: Mission: to create and maintain a unified yet multifaceted identity for the arts partners housed under the umbrella of the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, and to promote the excellence of the arts at Queens College to students, faculty, alumni, the Queens community, and beyond. Small Business Development CenterCollege: York College - ycedCategory: Education Year Founded: 1988 About Center: The Center offers courses in how to start a small business. Smith Cyber Center for CrimesCollege: John Jay College of Criminal Justice - jjcjCategory: Criminal Justice Year Founded: 2002 About Center: The Stephen E. Smith Center for Cyber Crime brings together financial, corporate, law enforcement, and academic institutions to create a team with the goal of understanding, preventing, detecting and responding to electronic criminal conduct. The Bronx InstituteCollege: Lehman College - lcoCategory: Other Year Founded: 1984 About Center: The mission of the Institute is to foster faculty research and leadership relevant to the improvement of education and the quality of life in the Bronx; to provide a forum to seek potential solutions to contemporary educational, social, political, cultural and economic challenges facing the Bronx and other urban areas and to disseminate research information. As a community resource, the Institute is committed to act in cooperation with other academic institutions, community groups, and organizations to develop joint projects especially those that enrich regional and national attention regarding the educational needs of Latinos, the largest group of students in the Bronx Schools. The Center for Educational LeadershipCollege: Baruch College - bedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2000 About Center: The Center For Educational Leadership conducts policy research on issues pertinent to principals and other school leaders. This research serves as the basis for technical assistance to New York City public schools, policy monographs written for guidance of policy makers, practioners and researchers, and for developing the curriculum of the Baruch School of Public Affairs programs for preservice and in service training of principals and other school leaders. The Center for Study of Business and GovernmentCollege: Baruch College - bbCategory: Business Year Founded: 1978 About Center: The Center for the Study of Business and Government is a research-based think tank in the School of Public Affairs of Baruch College. Its goal is to sharpen and inform public decision making on an array of social and economic issues. The CUNY Institute for Sustainable CitiesCollege: Hunter College - hcevCategory: Environment Year Founded: 2006 About Center: The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities seeks to create awareness and understanding of the connections between the everyday lives of urban citizens and their natural world, leading to the discovery and use of cities like New York as a learning laboratory to create a sustainable future for cities worldwide. The Discovery InstituteCollege: College of Staten Island - csiedCategory: Education Year Founded: 2001 About Center: The Institute develops programs using an interdisciplinary theme to engage students in learning more actively, and works collaboratively with local schools on professional development of teachers. The Frederick Loewe TheatreCollege: Hunter College - hcmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: The Frederick Loewe Theatre is a 50' x 54' black box performance space where most of the Department's productions are rehearsed, built, and staged. Located on the first floor of the landmark building named for Thomas Hunter, it was beautifully renovated in 1998 and is extremely flexible and intimate, with modular seating accommodating 116 spectators in proscenium, thrust or arena arrangements. It has fully equipped men's and women's dressing rooms with showers, a state-of-the-art DAT/CD/tape sound system, a 96-channel computerized light board, and a full component of lighting instruments. The Kaye PlayhouseCollege: Hunter College - hcmtCategory: Music and Theatre Year Founded: 1942 About Center: Each season The Kaye Playhouse hosts over 200 performances in the fields of dance, music, theatre, film and children’s programs. Bringing an eclectic mix of performing arts events to over 100,000 theatergoers annually, it has become the "East Side center for all the performing arts." The Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social ChangeCollege: Queens College - qcpoCategory: Politics Year Founded: 1990 About Center: The Center exists to promote public, democratic discussion of social issues, to advocate for social change and to work in partnerships with others to build a more just, equitable and democratic society. The Center is concerned with the employment, education, health and community needs of the economically disadvantaged. The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the HumanitiesCollege: City College of New York - cchuCategory: Humanities Year Founded: 1986 About Center: The primary goal of the Center is to promote cultural activities in the Humanities connected with the College. It does so in a variety of ways, including support for faculty research, the organization and sponsorship of special events of various kinds, high school outreach programs, and the support of a number of publications associated with the College. The Steven L. Newman Real Estate InstituteCollege: Baruch College - bbCategory: Business Year Founded: 1995 About Center: The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute provides education, conferences and research for both current practitioners and the region's next generation of real estate professionals. Created in 1995, the Newman Institute continues to be chaired by William Newman with an Advisory Board, including other nationally recognized leaders of New York's real estate community. Weissman Center for International BusinessCollege: Baruch College - bbCategory: Business Year Founded: 1994 About Center: The Weissman Center for International Business is designed to enable Baruch College to respond to the global economy with programs appropriate to a preeminent school of business. Guided by an advisory council of distinguished executives, the Center’s activities enrich Baruch Student’s preparation for careers in global work-place by building bridges between the worlds of academia and international business. York College Performing Arts CenterCollege: York College - ycmtCategory: Music and Theatre About Center: One of the Finest State-of-the-Art facilities in New York City, the York College Performing Arts Center is the perfect setting for productions of any size or scope. The College features a 1437 seat Main Stage theater and a 152 seat Little Theater. Our performance venues and expert production staff can accommodate the most challenging of productions as well as the most intimate. If you are part of the CUNY Faculty or Staff and you see a Center or Institute that is not listed on this page, please email, web80@mail.cuny.edu. |
