The Office of Communications & Marketing seeks to promote the achievements of the students, faculty and staff of the University, its colleges, institutes and various constituent groups by communicating the core mission of teaching, research and public service in furtherance of the University's role as New York City's public institution of higher learning.
The office provides strategic communications advice and integrated marketing and branding services; develops relationships with media; responds to requests for information, and coordinates news and information among the various colleges for external and internal audiences. The office manages content and design of www.cuny.edu, the University's Emmy award-winning web site which serves more than 250,000 unique visitors per month, and is a leader in developing integrated web-based communications technologies. These include: youtube.com/CUNY , the CUNY Channel on Youtube; Itunes University, which distributes free lectures and other programming via the Itunes store; audio and video pod casting; rss news and sports syndications; e-News, The Daily Brief, Life Learning, and other e-mail newsletters and alerts; video streaming, and a comprehensive University events listings at www.cuny.edu/events. Daily news and feature updates appear on "Today's News" at www.cuny.edu/news. The office manages CUNY Radio at www.cuny.edu/radio, the consolidated web site for the FCC licensed 10-watt stations at City College, the College of Station Island and Kingsborough Community College. CUNY Radio produces "The Faculty Lecture Series," and shows on immigration issues, sports and University news. The office publishes CUNY Matters, the University's newsmagazine, bimonthly, with a readership of more than 100,000 faculty, staff and friends of the University, and Salute to Scholars, a biannual magazine. News releases, advisories, brochures and other publications are created and disseminated by the office.
Media access and interviews with faculty experts are available through the CUExperts service. The office provides web and print design services and maintains an expanding digital archive of more than 12,000 images, many historic, available for use by the news media. The office convenes the Communications and Marketing Officers Council and sponsors University-wide student development programs: the Journalism, Broadcast and New Media Conference & Career Fair; the Summer CUNY/CBS TV Boot Camp; Joblog, a web-based internship/job referral service; and the Murray Kempton Awards and Internships in partnership with external news outlets.
University Office of Communications & Marketing
535 East 80 Street
New York, NY 10021
212.794.5685
MediaRelations@mail.cuny.edu
Jay Hershenson.
Senior Vice Chancellor of University Relations and Secretary of the Board of Trustees
Michael Arena
University Director of Communications and Marketing
212.794.5685
michael.arena@mail.cuny.edu
Rita Rodin
Office of Media Relations
212.794.5691
Rita.Rodin@mail.cuny.edu
Rene Ontal
Faculty Experts Service
212.794.5685
rene.ontal@mail.cuny.edu
CUNY Athletic Conference
Chris Gonzales
718.997.4273
chris.gonzales@mail.cuny.edu
Media information for the CUNY colleges, institutions and professional schools:
CUNY Graduate Center
David Manning
212.817.7177
dmanning@gc.cuny.edu
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Michael Arena
212.794.5685
Michael.Arena@mail.cuny.edu
CUNY School of Law
Michelle J. Anderson
718.340.4201
anderson@mail.law.cuny.edu
CUNY School of Professional Studies
Michael Arena
212.794.5685
Michael.Arena@mail.cuny.edu
Macaulay Honors College
Michael Arena
212.794.5685
Michael.Arena@mail.cuny.edu
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Ellis Simon
212.650.6460
esimon@ccny.cuny.edu
Senior Colleges:
Baruch College
Christina Latouf
646.660.6114
christina.latouf@baruch.cuny.edu
Brooklyn College
Ernesto Mora
718-951-5882
emora@brooklyn.cuny.edu
The City College
Mary Lou Edmondson
212.650.7808
edmondson@ccny.cuny.edu
College of Staten Island
Ken Bach
718.982.2200
ken.bach@csi.cuny.edu
Hunter College
Meredith Halpern
212.772.4068
meredith.halpern@hunter.cuny.edu
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Chris Godek
212-237-8628
cgodek@jjay.cuny.edu
Lehman College
Marge Rice
718.960.80211
margaret.rice@lehman.cuny.edu
Medgar Evers College
Christopher Hundley
718-270-6926
chundley@mec.cuny.edu
New York City College of Technology
Michele Forsten
718.260.5979
mforsten@citytech.cuny.edu
Queens College
Maria Terrone
718.997.5590
maria.terrone@qc.cuny.edu
York College
Nathaniel B. Moore
718.262.2354
nmoore@york.cuny.edu
Community Colleges:
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Barry Rosen
212.220.1238
brosen@bmcc.cuny.edu
Bronx Community College
Carol White
718.289.5151
carol.white@bcc.cuny.edu
Hostos Community College
Nestor Montilla
718-518-4355
nmontilla@hostos.cuny.edu
Kingsborough Community College
Ruby Ryles
718.368.5543
ruby.ryles@kbcc.cuny.edu
LaGuardia Community College
Susan Lyddon
718.482.5061
slyddon@lagcc.cuny.edu
Queensborough Community College
Rosemary Zins
718.281.5144
rzins@qcc.cuny.edu
