College of Staten Island
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| The College of Staten Island | |
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| Established: | 1976 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Dr. Tomás D. Morales |
| Location: | Staten Island, New York, USA |
| Mascot: | Dolphin |
| Affiliations: | City University of New York |
| Website: | www.csi.cuny.edu |
The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a four-year, senior college of The City University of New York and is one of the 11 senior colleges of The City University of New York (CUNY). Programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional studies lead to bachelor's and associate's degrees. The master's degree is awarded in 13 professional and liberal arts and sciences fields of study. The College participates in doctoral programs of The City University Graduate School and University Center in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics, and Psychology.
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[edit] History
It was established in 1976 from the merger of Richmond College (opened in 1965) and Staten Island Community College (opened 1956). Richmond College had been threatened with closure because of New York City's financial crisis, while the older school, because of its status as a community college, received state support. The merger was particularly logical since the community college offered two year degrees, while Richmond College was an "upper divisional" college (the third in the nation) that offered degrees to those in their third and fourth years of schooling.
The College of Staten Island has been located on the grounds of the former Willowbrook State School since 1993. It is the largest campus, in terms of physical size, in New York City. Before the relocation to Willowbrook, the college had a split campus, located at the former Staten Island Community College (in Sunnyside, on Todt Hill) and Richmond College (in St. George).
The first president of the college, Dr. Edmond Volpe, retired in 1994, and was succeeded by Dr. Marlene Springer, as the second president of the college. She retired in August of 2007 and was succeeded by Dr. Tomás D. Morales, as the third president of the college.
[edit] The Campus
Completed in 1994, the 204-acre (0.83 km²) campus of CSI/CUNY is the largest site for a college in New York City. Set in a park-like landscape, the campus is centrally located on Staten Island. Mature trees and woodlands, flowering trees and ornamental plantings, fields and outdoor athletic facilities, the great lawn, sculpture, and seating areas create a rural oasis in an urban setting. In 2005 a vacant building on the campus was converted into the CSI High School for International Studies, the first senior class to graduate from the high school will do so in 2009.
Fourteen renovated neo-Georgian buildings serve as classrooms, laboratories, and offices. The academic buildings house 300 classrooms, laboratories and instructional spaces, study lounges, department and program offices, and faculty offices.
North and South Academic Quadrangles are connected by the Alumni Walk, with the Library and Campus Center as focal points. The Center for the Arts is located midway between the Quadrangles at the fountain plaza. The Sports and Recreation Center and the athletic fields are located near the main entrance to the campus.
Sixteen works of art, a permanent collection of works either commissioned or purchased through the Art Acquisitions Program of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, are installed throughout the campus. The artists and their free-standing sculptures and reliefs are: Vincenzo Amato, Body of Hector/Glaucus; Miriam Bloom, Shooliloo; Fritz Bultman, Garden at Nightfall (extended loan); Chryssa, Untitled; Lucille Friedland, Big Stride (gift of the artist); Red Grooms, Marathon; Sarah Haviland, Staten Island Arch; Jon Isherwood, Borromini's Task; Zero Higashida, Maquette for a Small Universe; Valerie Jaudon, Untitled; Niki Ketchman, Red Inside; Win Knowlton, Ellipse; Mark Mennin, Torak; Don Porcaro, Moon Marker; and Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Stele in the Wind.
[edit] Astrophysical Observatory
The 16-foot (4.9 m) dome astrophysical observatory was completed in 1996. In addition to serving students in astronomy courses, the facility is used for faculty and student research projects, environment monitoring projects, and community programs.
[edit] Biological Sciences/Chemical Sciences Building
An ultramodern facility, the building contains classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, research facilities for faculty and students, the Center for Environmental Science, and the Center for Developmental Neuroscience and Developmental Disabilities.
[edit] Campus Center
The Campus Center provides facilities for a complete student life including offices for student organizations, food services, health services, a study lounge, chapel, game room, screening room, bookstore, and the studios of WSIA-FM, the student-operated radio station.
[edit] Center for the Arts
Entered from the Great Lawn and from the Alumni Walk, the Center houses two academic wings for programs in the arts as well as superb public spaces: the 440-seat Clara and Arleigh B. Williamson Theatre, the 900-seat Marlene Springer Concert Hall, a recital hall, an experimental theater, lecture halls, an art gallery, and a small conference center.
[edit] Library
Designed with inviting reading rooms, open shelves, and study carrels, the Library research and study facilities are enhanced by computer data-based operations available to all students. The Library Media Services make accessible pedagogical multimedia materials to distant classrooms and laboratories by means of the campus fiber-optic network.
[edit] Sports and Recreation Center
This 77,000-square-foot (7,200 m²) multipurpose facility and surrounding athletic fields serve the intercollegiate and intramural sports and recreation programs for students. On a membership basis, faculty, staff, alumni, and the general public also have access to the facilities.
[edit] Special Programs
New students are welcomed through a unique orientation program called CLUE, the College Life Unit Experience. In addition to helping new students make a smooth transition to college life, CLUE gives new students the opportunity to have meaningful exchanges with faculty, staff, and current students.
- Baccalaureate Program for first-year students meeting senior college admissions standards.
- CUNY Teacher Academy
- Macaulay Honors College
- Departmental Honors Program
- Verrazano School Program for high achieving students.
- Study-Abroad programs through the Center for International Service.
- University Skills Immersion Program provides academic preparation for first-year students. Tutoring through the Academic Support Center for students with deficiencies in the academic skills and subject matter.
- Adults Returning to the Classroom (ARC), introductory courses at off-campus locations.
- Internships with government agencies and in the private sector.
[edit] Trivia
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- CSI's 204-acre (0.83 km²) campus is the largest in New York City.
- CSI students can choose study-abroad programs in more than 20 nations, including year-round programs in China, Ecuador, Greece,and Italy.
- CSI has a growing international reputation in the fields of polymer and biopolymer chemistry research.
- The on-campus Discovery Institute provides professional development for area teachers.
- On-campus research centers include the Center for Environmental Science and the Center for Developmental Research Neuroscience and Developmental Disabilities.
- Facilities in the Department of Performing and Creative Arts include an experimental black-box theater, editing studios, a screening room, and a graphic design and desktop publishing laboratory.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Justin Brannan, radio announcer, musician, Indecision / Most Precious Blood (attended, no degree)
- Noam Germain, Businessman, Strategist
[edit] Student Life Organizations/Publications
| Third Rail | |
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| Executive Editors | Jeff McGraham Neil Schuldiner |
| Categories | political arts magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Circulation | 3,000 per |
| First issue | Fall 1994 |
| Company | College of Staten Island |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.thirdrailmag.com |
[edit] The Third Rail
The Third Rail is the literary political arts magazine of the College of Staten Island (CSI) and publishes semesterly. Fully embracing W.E.B. DuBois' notion that "art is propaganda," and in the tradition of “FIRE!” the groundbreaking political arts magazine founded and destroyed during the Harlem Renaissance
The Third Rail features Poetry • Political Commentaries • Philosophy • Photography Arts • Fiction • Non-Fiction • Drawings • Social Commentaries, Plays & everything in the nature of the political arts
- Third Rail has won the Independent Press Associations (IPA) 2003 Journalism Award for Best Reporting.
- Third Rail has been placed on The Nations “One of Our Favorite College Papers” list.
- The spring 2007 issue of Third Rail which focused on student apathy featured a cover shot of two nude students, one male, and one female. As a result of this cover the issue has constantly been stolen from school racks and dumped in trash cans. This has prompted the first ever second printing of a single issue. The ongoing story of the battle over censorship has been covered by the Student Press Law Center and Staten Island Advance.
[edit] WSIA
In the mid 1970s, a group of students interested in radio gathered in a broom closet in the C Building of The College of Staten Island. They ran some wire to the cafeteria and started spinning records. These students worked with the College and applied for an FM license. They were granted a construction permit. Not much progress was made until the late 1970s when a new group of students applied to the Student Government and Association for money to start construction. In 1980, a General Manager was hired to get the station on the air. It took a year to work out an agreement for an antenna site on Todt Hill (the tallest point on the East Coast south of Maine), install phone lines to the site for the transmitter, and to complete construction of the studios in the basement of E building on the Sunnyside campus.
On August 31, 1981, WSIA began regularly scheduled programming. Since then, a great number of students have been trained to become staff members. Some have gone on to careers in radio. Others look back on WSIA as an important part of their student life.
For the next 12 years, WSIA-FM languished somewhat invisibly in the E-building basement below the cafeteria at the Sunnyside campus. Few people at the college even knew the E-building had a basement or that CSI had a radio station. However, many people from outside the immediate College community had come to realize just what WSIA was doing. With the format in place, WSIA began gaining a reputation for playing music that nobody else on the overcrowded New York radio dial was. The audience soon grew into other parts of the City, and then Northern New Jersey as well.
A number of changes have happened since 1981. The station's offices and studios have been enlarged and improved. Its operating budget has increased from $8,800 to $100,000 per year. In 1985, the College showed its commitment by picking up the salary of the General Manager. Previously, this had been paid out of student fees. The programming has also undergone a number of changes.
In 1993, The College of Staten Island moved its entire campus to a new, bigger location, giving WSIA completely new state-of- the-art facilities. WSIA now uses brand new equipment making it one of the most technologically impressive radio stations in the entire country. From its fully digital signal to its 64 track recording studios, WSIA has become a staple for new, uncommercial music in the New York City area. WSIA is run by an all-student board of directors and also employs a full-time general manager and full-time Chief Engineer, John Ladley. It is licensed by the FCC and transmits to all of Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan and New Jersey. The station also introduces many local and unsigned bands. The new studios are equipped with the capacity to bring bands in to perform live on-the-air. WSIA also has an eclectic music format, sports talk shows, news programming and public affair discussions. The Sports Department also brings the Staten Island community many local sporting events such as college basketball, and high school football.
Membership at WSIA is open to any student of The College of Staten Island, part-time or full-time. The studios are located in the Campus Center, in Room 106.
Famous Aluminist: John Thomas Campione. Campione was on the show the regular world.
[edit] NYPIRG
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| Type | Non-Profit |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Headquarters | New York State, United States |
| Key people | Rebecca Weber, Gene Russianoff |
| Industry | Non-Profit & Activism |
| Website | NYPIRG |
The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is a New York State-wide student activism and training organization. It has existed since 1973. Its current executive director is Rebecca Weber and its founding director was Donald K. Ross. Blair Horner had been its Legislative Director for many years. [1]
NYPIRG is New York's largest consumer protection and good government organization. [2] [3] [4]
NYPIRG is controlled by a student board of directors. Any issue that NYPIRG works on, or stance it takes, must be approved by its student board of directors. [5] In the 28 years that NYPIRG has been at the College of Staten Island, students organizing with NYPIRG have been successful in many local and statewide campaigns, including:
Closing the Fresh Kills Landfill; Stopping cuts to the TAP financial aid program and fighting tuition increases; Securing money for the State Superfund program to clean up toxic waste sites statewide, including nine in Staten Island; Creating an online book exchange where students can sell their books for more, and buy their books for less money; Passing legislation in the NYC City Council to protect children from the debilitating effects of lead paint poisoning; Lobbying the MTA to start a bus line, the S93, which runs from Brooklyn to the College of Staten Island; Increasing the New York State minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.15 an hour.
Ben DeAngelis, Project Coordinator City University of New York Campus Center 1C- Rm. 219 2800 Victory Blvd. Staten Island, NY 10314 (718) 982-3109
for more information see:
- NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign - NYPIRG's Transit Advocacy Section
- NYPIRG's list of achievements
- CyberStreetSmart.org - NYPIRG's anti-online scam site
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