MORNING SESSION
“From first day to last I felt privileged to be a student at City. I experienced City first with awe, then with pleasure, and finally with love.” Vivian Gornick, CCNY 1957
Its dazzling list of alumni includes playwrights and poets, politicians and journalists, engineers, scientists, teachers, and Nobel Prize winners. The City College of New York was established to provide children of working class and immigrant families access to a tuition-free, merit-based higher education. For many years, its student body was largely Jewish and for most it was “City College or nothing” at a time when quotas and cost kept Jews out of more prestigious institutions.
Program schedule:
10:30am - Welcome "The Rank and File of Sturdy Sons and Eventually Daughters" with Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, CCNY 1971
11:15am - "An Engine of Transformation" CCNY alumni panel discussion with: Joseph Berger, CCNY 1966, Ralph Blumenthal, CCNY 1963, Sid Davidoff, CCNY 1960, Vivian Gornick, CCNY 1957
12:30pm - Dr. Lev Sviridov, CCNY 2005, Assistant Professor Chemistry/Director, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College;
"Stories from Our Past, Dreams of Our Future" with Dr. Vincent Boudreau. President, The City College of New York
AFTERNOON SESSION
“From first day to last I felt privileged to be a student at City. I experienced City first with awe, then with pleasure, and finally with love.” Vivian Gornick, CCNY 1957
Its dazzling list of alumni includes playwrights and poets, politicians and journalists, engineers, scientists, teachers, and Nobel Prize winners. The City College of New York was established to provide children of working class and immigrant families access to a tuition-free, merit-based higher education. For many years, its student body was largely Jewish and for most it was “City College or nothing” at a time when quotas and cost kept Jews out of more prestigious institutions.
2:00pm "Arguing the World" film screening and talkback with filmmaker Joseph Dorman, Princeton Professor David Bell, University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor, Ronnie Grinberg. Moderated by Barry Gewen.