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College of New Rochelle Talk Confronts Bullies
“Confronting Bullying: Turning Bystanders Into Upstanders,” an interactive lecture at the College of New Rochelle conducted by Richard Cardillo, education director of the National School Climate Center in Manhattan, will be presented at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the Sweeney Campus Center at the College of New Rochelle’s main campus.
Sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences Departments of Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Education and the Center for Education Policy and Practice, the presentation seeks to engage the community in taking an active stance to address bullying. Information: (914) 654-5853 or ameyers@cnr.edu.
Manhattan College Project Gets $10 Million Gift
Thomas D. O’Malley, a 1963 alumnus and a former chairman of the board of trustees at Manhattan College, has committed $10 million toward the building of the new Raymond W. Kelly ’63 Student Commons.
The gift, the largest in the college’s history, will advance the college’s campaign to build a state-of-the-art student commons, which is scheduled to break ground at the end of the year.
St. John’s Receives McNair Scholars Grant
St. John’s University will receive a grant of nearly $1.1 million throughout five years for its selection by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in the McNair Scholars Program. This is the third time since 1999 the university has been chosen to implement the program, named for Ronald E. McNair, the NASA astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
The program is designed to prepare first-generation, low-income and traditionally underrepresented students for graduate school. The grant will support the program throughout the next five years; 25 undergraduates will be selected annually to participate. Faculty mentors help students hone their research and presentation skills to prepare for graduate school. Participants receive a stipend to cover research expenses and travel to conferences.
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