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�� / en U.S. News & World Report ranks Grove School among top graduate schools /news/us-news-world-report-ranks-grove-school-among-top-graduate-schools Rated among the nation’s elite engineering programs annually, ��’s Grove School of Engineering is listed #120 by U.S. News & World Report in its 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings.  Grove is #113 in the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs category for schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. U.S. News' rankings compare schools on their research activity, faculty resources, academic achievements of entering students, and assessments by other engineering schools and employers. Click here for the complete methodology used to rank the best engineering schools. The only public school of engineering in the New York metropolitan area, Grove’s national standing is buoyed by the quality of its offerings. They are ranked as follows by U.S. News: #53 - Best Chemical Engineering Programs; #78 - Best Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering Programs;  #101 in Best Electrical / Electronic / Communications Engineering Programs;  #101 in Best Mechanical Engineering Programs; and #108 in Best Civil Engineering Programs. In addition, U.S. News ranks five other outstanding CCNY graduate programs: #64 - Best Fine Arts Programs (Division of Humanities and Arts); #91 - Clinical Psychology (Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership); #124 - Psychology (Colin Powell School); #149 - Earth Sciences (Division of Science); and #159 - Physician Assistant (Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education). The City College’s best ranking is at #10 in Top Performers on Social Mobility, a traditional CCNY forte. The College is #61 in the Top Public Schools category; #79 in Best Colleges for Veterans, #117 among Best Value Schools, and #198 in economics.  Overall, CCNY is ranked #121 out of 436 National Universities. In this category, U.S. News rates schools according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Read more here.   Globally, CCNY is #833 among Best Global Universities, #336 in physics, and #1128 in engineering. Thirteen indicators were used to calculate these global rankings. Click here for the methodology.   Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:50:51 -0400 Clarence Mwamba /news/us-news-world-report-ranks-grove-school-among-top-graduate-schools NY Gov. Hochul awards $14.4M in education workforce training support; CCNY a recipient /news/y-gov-hochul-awards-144m-education-workforce-training-support-ccny-recipient In a move to expand opportunities for New Yorkers interested in becoming educators in critical shortage areas, Governor Kathy Hochul has announced $14.4 million in Workforce Development awards to several colleges and universities – private and public – including ��. Part of the State’s Education Workforce Investment, the grants will be distributed through the Upskilling Paraprofessionals Program and the Alternative Teacher Certification Program. “Every student deserves a great teacher, and every aspiring educator deserves a clear, supported path into the classroom,” Governor Hochul said. “By investing $14.4 million into training programs at SUNY, CUNY and private institutions, we’re expanding opportunity, addressing teacher shortages, and building a stronger, more equitable education system for all New Yorkers.” CCNY is one of four institutions that will share $9.9 million earmarked for the Alternative Teacher Certification Program. Bank Street Graduate School of Education, Adelphi University and the University at Buffalo, SUNY, are the other recipients.  The Alternative Teacher Certification Program is a pathway to the teaching profession that may help reduce time and cost barriers for candidates interested in a teaching career. The program provides funding to expand existing alternative teacher certification programs or develop and implement new high-quality, research-based, graduate-level alternative teacher certification programs. In addition to this, two other schools -- SUNY New Paltz and Queens College, CUNY – will receive $4.5 million under the Upskilling Paraprofessionals Program. This program is for teaching assistants and paraprofessionals who are an essential part of the teacher pipeline given their prior classroom experience and strong connections to the communities they serve.  “CUNY is proud to build and strengthen New York’s teaching workforce and remains grateful to Governor Hochul for investing in this critical industry,” said CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodriguez. “This new support will help Queens College and City College expand pathways for talented, dedicated educators to enter the profession and uplift the communities we serve.” CUNY Board of Trustees Chairperson William C. Thompson, Jr.  applauded Governor Hochul for this substantial investment in CUNY and New York City Public Schools.  “CUNY has always played a significant role in producing the most talented and passionate educators in the New York City school system,” said Thompson. “Governor Hochul’s Workforce Development Award grants will expand access to more CUNY students who are interested in the teaching profession, and will enable us to address the workforce shortages in our public schools. This program will be incredibly important to our future teachers and students in New York City.”  CCNY President Vincent G. Boudreau said: “I am deeply gratified by Governor Hochul's visionary investment in City College's workforce development programs, especially as we position them to respond to the rapid changes in our economy. CCNY must be nimble enough to seize every opportunity to help develop the labor force, and the ongoing revitalization of America’s infrastructure represents a remarkable such opportunity. The Rangel Infrastructure and Workforce  Development Initiative represents a tremendous step forward for the college and for New York’s workforce and this grant is key to insuring its success."   Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:58:12 -0400 Clarence Mwamba /news/y-gov-hochul-awards-144m-education-workforce-training-support-ccny-recipient The Princeton Review names CCNY one of the nation's Best Colleges for 2026 /news/princeton-review-names-ccny-one-nations-best-colleges-2026 �� is one of the nation's academically best undergraduate institutions according to the education services company The Princeton Review®.  The company profiles CCNY in the 2026 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 391 Colleges (Penguin Random House) and its website feature about the project.  Only about 15% of America’s nearly 2,400 four-year colleges are included in The Princeton Review guidebook. The company chose the colleges for the book based on its surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. The company also surveyed students attending the colleges in the book who rated their own schools on dozens of topics and reported on their campus experiences at them. In The Princeton Review profile on CCNY, the company's editors praise the school for its “quality and challenging education” and quote students they surveyed for the project who described the college as “rigorous,” offering a broad curriculum, and boasting an engineering school that is “one of the best public schools.”  "The City College has outstanding academic programs and the feedback we received from its students we surveyed was very impressive," said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review's Editor-in-Chief and lead author of The Best 391 Colleges. "We are delighted to name City College one of our Best Colleges for 2026 and to recommend it to students searching for their ‘best-fit’ college,”  The Princeton Review does not rank the schools in The Best 391 Colleges hierarchically from 1 to 391.  The Best 391 Colleges has 50 categories of ranking lists: each list names the top 25 schools (of those in the book) in a particular category. The rankings are entirely based on the company's surveys of students attending the 391 profiled schools. Surveys of 170,000 students (about 435 per school on average) were tallied for the rankings in The Best 391 Colleges.  CCNY appears on the following ranking lists in The Best 391 Colleges:  Best Value Colleges Best Northeast Green Colleges The Best 391 Colleges, and Top 20 Best Schools for Making an Impact (Public Schools) at #13. Information on the methodology for the rankings and the student survey is on The Princeton Review’s website here.  The Princeton Review tallies rating scores (from 60 to 99) for the schools in The Best 391 Colleges in eight categories. The ratings are primarily based on institutional survey data. A few rating scores also factor in student survey data.  The rating scores are published in the profiles of the schools in the book as well as in the website profiles.   CCNY received the following rating scores in these categories:  Academics -- 75/99; Admissions Selectivity -- 81/99; Financial Aid -- 84/99; Fire Safety -- 90/99; Quality of Life -- 84/99; Green -- 81/99; ROI – 88/99; Professors Interesting -- 83/99; and  Professors Accessible -- 86/99. Information on The Princeton Review college ratings may be found here. Details about The Princeton Review Best Colleges for 2026 project—the school names, profiles, ranking lists, and rating scores—are posted on PrincetonReview.com. The Best 391 Colleges is one of more than 150 Princeton Review books in a line published by Penguin Random House. The book and its annual rankings have been featured on NBC TODAY more than two dozen times over the years and referenced by media from NPR to The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education.  The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com), founded in 1981, is an education services company known for its tutoring, test-prep, admission services, school rankings, books, and other resources. Headquartered in New York, NY, it is not affiliated with Princeton University, and it is not a magazine.   Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:19:38 -0400 Clarence Mwamba /news/princeton-review-names-ccny-one-nations-best-colleges-2026 Four CCNY faculty earn CUNY Distinguished Professorships for excellence /news/four-ccny-faculty-earn-cuny-distinguished-professorships-excellence City College of New York faculty members Kevin H. Gardner, Rosario Gennaro, Andreas Killen and Jennifer Roberts are the institution’s latest CUNY Distinguished Professors. Conferred by the City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees, Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of exceptional performance by national and international standards of excellence in their profession. The title is the highest academic honor that CUNY can offer its faculty. Following are brief bios of The City College’s latest CUNY Distinguished Professors: Kevin H. Gardner: An international leader in the field of structural biology, Gardner’s research thrust has entailed using combined structural biology methods to probe how proteins perceive and react to changes in their environment. In addition to providing insights into fundamental biological processes, this has laid the foundation for a new targeted cancer therapy and novel biotechnology tools. Gardner has received over $40M in funding for his work and holds six patents. His honors include the Stein and Moore Award presented by the The Protein Society, and the Biophysics of Health and Disease Award from the Biophysical Society. In addition to his faculty position at CCNY, he’s the founding director of The Structural Biology Initiative in the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, that is located on the City College campus. Click here to read more about Gardner. Rosario Gennaro: Director of CCNY’s Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS), Gennaro has earned renown for his research on cryptography and network security, as well as theoretical computer science. CAISS is one of the world’s leading institutions in those fields. Gennaro is also the co-founder and co-director of CCNY’s Master’s Program in Cybersecurity. His most recent work addresses security and scalability of blockchain protocols, the security of the cloud computing infrastructure, and issues of privacy and anonymity in electronic communication. He also focuses on proactive security to minimize the effects of system break-ins. He’s been recognized widely with accolades such as the Outstanding Innovator Award by IBM Research, and Fellow of the International Association of Cryptologic Research. Click here for more. Andreas Killen: A noted historian and author, Killen has written widely on German history, the history of psychiatry and brain science, and film history. His publications include Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nervousness, and German Modernity, Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany, and, most recently, Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War. He is currently working on a book that draws on the correspondence of Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, to explore the relations between mainstream and fringe science in the 1950s. Killen’s honors include fellowships at the UCLA Humanities Center, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and NYU’s Remarque Institute. He was awarded the Stuart Katz Professorship in the Humanities at CCNY in 2023. He also teaches at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Click here for more. Jennifer T. Roberts: Pre-eminent in the humanities, Roberts served for six years as President of the Association of Ancient Historians, from which she received a distinguished service award in 2024. She has served on the faculty of CCNY and the Graduate Center, CUNY, since 1992, teaching courses ranging from Latin and Greek grammar and literature to warfare in antiquity and women’s studies. Her publications include two books on Athenian democracy, volumes on Herodotus and Thucydides in Oxford’s Very Short Introductions series, and The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece. Most recently she has published a cultural history of Greece, Out of One Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture. She is also the co-editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Herodotus and Thucydides and a co-author of Oxford’s best-selling Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, now in its fourth edition. Click here for more. Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:25:00 -0400 Clarence Mwamba /news/four-ccny-faculty-earn-cuny-distinguished-professorships-excellence CCNY team discovers potential chemo-induced cognitive changes in cancer survivors /news/ccny-team-discovers-potential-chemo-induced-cognitive-changes-cancer-survivors Researchers at �� have linked chemotherapy treatment to lasting cognitive changes in rats – potentially shedding light, for the first time, on cognitive problems some cancer survivors experience long after treatment ends. Entitled “Chemotherapy treatment alters DNA methylation patterns in the prefrontal cortex of female rat brain,” the study appears in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports. “Our study explored how chemotherapy affects the brain at the molecular level using an animal model,” said Karen Hubbard, professor of biology in CCNY’s Division of Science, who co-led the study. “We found that chemotherapy doesn’t just target cancer cells — it also disrupts how genes are regulated in the brain, specifically in the prefrontal cortex, the area responsible for decision-making and executive function.” For the first time, the team showed that a commonly used chemotherapy combination — doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide — significantly increases the expression of DNMT3a, a gene involved in adding methylation marks to DNA. This change was linked to altered DNA methylation patterns in key brain regions, which may help explain why many cancer patients experience long-term cognitive issues after treatment, often referred to as “chemo brain.” The study, Hubbard added, offers a biological explanation for these cognitive problems that many cancer survivors, especially breast cancer patients, report long after treatment ends. This may help to identify patients who are most vulnerable to cognitive side effects, and guide the development of targeted epigenetic therapies, such as DNMT or HDAC inhibitors, to prevent or even reverse chemotherapy-induced cognitive decline. The research continues at CCNY with focus on investigating the role of RNA-binding proteins, which are known to be involved in brain aging, in both the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of the team’s chemotherapy-treated animal model. “This work aims to further uncover how chemotherapy disrupts molecular pathways linked to cognitive decline.” Other members of Hubbard’s team include (all CCNY unless indicated): Shami Chakrabarti, Chanchal Wagh, Ciara Bagnall-Moreau (CCNY/Institute of Molecular Medicine, The Feinstein Institute of Medical Research), Fathema Uddin, Joshua Reiser, Kaliris Salas-Ramirez (CUNY School of Medicine), and Tim Ahles (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center). Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:44:38 -0400 /news/ccny-team-discovers-potential-chemo-induced-cognitive-changes-cancer-survivors CCNY part of $20M NSF award to accelerate AI development /news/ccny-part-20m-nsf-award-accelerate-development-ai Zhigang Zhu, the Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science in ��’s Grove School of Engineering, is a co-principal investigator for a new National Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute, which has been awarded a five-year, $20 million investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF AI-MI, as it is known, will accelerate and transform the discovery of next-generation materials by integrating human scientific expertise with AI methods. Eun-Ah Kim, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics at Cornell University, serves as principal investigator. “Artificial intelligence is key to strengthening our workforce and boosting U.S. competitiveness,” said Brian Stone, who is performing the duties of the NSF director. “Through the National AI Research Institutes, we are turning cutting-edge ideas and research into real-world solutions and preparing Americans to lead in the technologies and jobs of the future.” NSF AI-MI brings together computer scientists, materials researchers, and data scientists to tackle knowledge- and data-centric challenges to advance AI and materials science. The Institute will integrate data generation, AI analysis and rapid experimental feedback to reduce the time it takes to discover new materials from months to days, and to establish reproducible, reusable workflows for the broader research community. To support this work, AI-MI plans to create the AI Materials Science Ecosystem, or AIMS-EC, an open, cloud-based portal that integrates a science-ready large language model with data from experiments, simulations, images and scientific literature. “As a researcher in AI and computer vision for various applications, I would work with my student and the AI-MI team to implement the key algorithms in the integration of LLMs and computer vision for material designs, especially on AI applications for assistive human-machine interaction with advanced smart materials,” said Zhu. “As the Broader Impacts for Students Lead of AI-MI, my goal is to get our more talented students in computer science, data science and material sciences from CCNY and other institutions involved in the activities of this exciting cross-disciplinary AI Institute.” Zhu directs the CUNY Computational Vision and Convergence Laboratory and co-directs CCNY’s master's degree program in data science and engineering. He is also on the faculty of the doctoral program in computer science and the M.S. program in cognitive neuroscience at the CUNY Graduate Center.  In addition to Cornell and CCNY, researchers from the Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY, Princeton University, and Boston University are involved in the effort. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:55:21 -0400 /news/ccny-part-20m-nsf-award-accelerate-development-ai CCNY Spitzer School competition yields insights into design-build /news/ccny-spitzer-school-competition-yields-insights-design-build A $51,000 grant to ��’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture created a competition, in the form of a course, that provided select fourth- and fifth-year architecture students the unique opportunity to see a design project from conception through construction. The competition, “The Beauty of Block,” was sponsored by: Concrete Masonry Checkoff, the industry-funded association of block producers across the United States, which gave $36,000; Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1 NY & Long Island & Labor Management Committee, which gave $10,000; and Associated Brick Mason Contractors of Greater New York, which gave $5,000. The course, “The Artefactory Lab – Green Wall: Design-Build Concrete Masonry Investigation,” was designed to educate and expose young student architects to concrete masonry and the benefits of designing with it. It was co-taught by Associate Professor Christian Volkmann, the project’s manager, and Adjunct Professor Steve Preston. Design-build, as this method is known, delivers a project under a single entity, instead of awarding separate contracts for design and construction. “I start with a quote from the Austrian architect Adolf Loos: ‘The architect is a mason who has learned Latin,’” said Volkmann. “Latin is, of course, aesthetics and design. But an architect cannot do aesthetics and design without knowing about the craft. So, what we are trying to do here is reconnecting the rules of the craft with the rules of design.” Throughout the semester, the students followed a curriculum model of a design-build studio involving masonry construction. The fourteen students enrolled in the course started by working individually to develop prototypes of concrete block green-wall systems, documenting them with construction drawings. Each project was reviewed for constructability by contractors, masons and architects, and revised according to their recommendations. After six weeks, the most promising proposals were selected by a jury of masons and architects. Then, larger teams of no more than six students each refined the system, producing drawings and mockups for proof of concept. The top two projects were then realized, as the last step of the competition, before the jury decided that it was a tie. “Both of them are winners, because both designs are very special and they are beautifully executed,” said Volkmann. Concurrent to the competition, the entire class designed and helped to create the 15-foot by 15-foot display pad for which the final walls are constructed on top. Working side-by-side with Local #1 members throughout the semester, the students became more familiar with masonry construction techniques and methods. This knowledge informed their design work throughout the semester, allowing them “to take more control and responsibility in the construction of their projects, which we think is super important for the practicing architect and for student architects-in-training,” said Preston. The completed masonry wall designs are currently on exhibit just south of the Spitzer School. “It's extremely important for the Checkoff, and Glenwood Mason Supply being the local producer here in New York City, to be involved with promoting concrete masonry to the young designers,” said Jeff Hansen, Glenwood’s vice president of architectural sales and marketing. "It is really cool to see the students’ designs and how they're creating a project of building out of concrete masonry, and how they're utilizing and learning more about it.” “These collaborations are important because not only do I get to learn from [the students], but I also get to give my insight of how, as a contractor, we do things,” said Anthony Argilla, a Giaquinto Masonry project manager and estimator for 29 years, and a third-generation bricklayer. “That way, we can work with architects so that it all comes together as a finished product.” Juan Giraldo, B Arch ’25, was a fifth-year student on one of the winning teams. He credits the course for deepening what he called his “understanding of how things are put together.” He added that the course was important for fourth- and fifth-year students, such as himself, as they pursue career opportunities in design-build. “Second and third year [architecture] students are still learning how to do drawings,” he said. “This reflects real life.” Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:51:16 -0400 /news/ccny-spitzer-school-competition-yields-insights-design-build Money Mag lists CCNY again as a best value school /news/money-mag-lists-ccny-again-best-value-school Recognized perennially for its tradition of quality, affordability and outstanding student outcomes, �� is once again listed among the nation’s Best Value Schools by Money Magazine. Money’s annual Best Colleges list showcases the country’s top values, based on graduation rates, cost of attendance, financial aid, alumni salaries and more. There isn’t one “best” college for every student, but a star rating on more than 700 colleges that can help prospective students build a list of standout schools that fit their budget.  CCNY is ranked highly on Money’s 2025 list with four and half stars in two categories: Best Public Colleges and Best Colleges in the Northeast. To create the of Best Colleges, the magazine weighed dozens of data points related to quality, affordability and student outcomes. Data collection and analysis for the ratings were led by Money’s rankings partner, Witlytic. Money’s editorial staff, however, was solely responsible for the final ratings decisions. Methodology Behind 2025 Rankings Money started with all of the four-year public and private nonprofit colleges in the country, a group that totals more than 2,400. To make its initial cut, a college had to: Have at least 500 undergraduate students or 150 freshmen; Have sufficient, reliable data to be analyzed; Not be in financial distress;  Have a graduation rate that was at or above the median for its institutional category (public, private or historically black college or university), or have a high “value-added” graduation rate (in other words: score in the top 25% of graduation rates after accounting for the student body). A total of 732 schools met the requirements in Money’s initial cut. It ranked them on 25 factors in three categories: Quality of education (30% of weighting);   Affordability (40% of weighting);   Outcomes (30% of weighting),  Click here for a more detailed description of the methodology.  This is the latest recognition of the Grove School’s quality by a ranking body. Earlier this summer, The Princeton Review ranked CCNY one of its 209 Best Value Colleges for 2025.   Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:34:48 -0400 Clarence Mwamba /news/money-mag-lists-ccny-again-best-value-school Two CCNY engineers part of $2M NSF award to monitor drinking water /news/two-ccny-engineers-part-2m-nsf-award-monitor-drinking-water Krish Ramalingam and Alex Rosenthal of the Department of Civil Engineering in ��’s Grove School of Engineering are co-principal investigators of a team awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a device to detect so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water. The three-year project, “NSF Convergence Accelerator Real-World Chemical Sensing Applications: Engineered Microbial Sensors for Monitoring Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Drinking Water,” is a cooperative agreement between CCNY and Columbia University that commenced on July 1, 2025. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, are a large, complex group of synthetic chemicals that have been used in consumer products around the world since about the 1950s, according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. These chemicals do not degrade easily in the environment. This award is to fund Phase II of the project. In Phase I, the initial one-year grant, the team developed the project’s idea and concept, conducted market research to determine the need for such a product, and constructed a marketable prototype. Phase II will involve testing the prototype in the lab before deploying it at sites around the country where an immediate need to obtain PFAS data exists. Currently, the fastest analysis for PFAS compounds can take up to two months, and can cost between $200 and $400 per sample. “We intend to cut the time to real time or a few hours, and to reduce the cost to approximately $60,” said Ramalingam. “Also, by using a combination of synthetic biology (with yeast as the base), microprocessor technology, and artificial intelligence, coupled with machine learning techniques, we aim to make this product ubiquitous in the industry. This will be a game changer.” Virginia W. Cornish, the Helena Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry at Columbia, is the project’s principal investigator. Launched in 2019, the NSF Convergence Accelerator builds upon basic research and discovery to accelerate solutions toward real-world impact. The program funds teams to solve complex challenges through convergence research and innovation. To enhance its impact, the Accelerator also places teams together in cohorts, synergizing their work through facilitated collaboration. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:02:56 -0400 /news/two-ccny-engineers-part-2m-nsf-award-monitor-drinking-water Reinhardt Family Foundation Trust makes additional commitment to CCNY /news/reinhardt-family-foundation-trust-makes-additional-commitment-ccny In late 2024, the Reinhardt Family Foundation Trust established an annual fellowship program to support a high-achieving, first-generation City College of New York student who demonstrated a commitment to social justice. Six months later, the Trust increased its commitment. The initial Reinhardt Family Fellowship provides the recipients with full tuition plus expenses for a total of $42,000 over three years. The latest pledge will provide a second grant of $42,000 over three years. The Reinhardt Foundation has made donations to a variety of institutions that serve those in need of financial assistance to continue their academic careers. “I was impressed with the mission of CCNY, which seems to me to be attempting to reach people who might have difficulties attending school,” said its chairman, Mark Reinhardt, adding that he was able to attend college and law school through room, board and tuition scholarships. “I never would have done any of that without scholarships. I did well and there is not much reason to wait until I'm dead to pass it along to help others.” Reinhardt, who grew up in Rutherford, N.J., did not attend CCNY, but he remembers seeing subway advertisements for the College. “I always was impressed that they were trying to reach people who were riding the subways,” he said. “You don't see many ads there for Ivy League schools or schools that I went to, so it seems to me that's the demographic that we’re trying to help.” “We are deeply grateful to the Reinhardt family for establishing this scholarship, which was inspired by their recognition of our economic impact and mission, leading them to choose CCNY as the recipient of their generous support,” said Annika Lüdke, Director of Corporate Relations and Foundation Grants at The Foundation for City College. “The generosity and enthusiasm of people such as Mark Reinhardt are not just greatly appreciated, but stand as testaments to College’s ongoing commitment to ensure that cost is not a barrier to education,” said Senior Vice President of the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications and External Relations, Executive Director of the Foundation for City College, and Senior Advisor to the President Dee Dee Mozeleski. “This new gift is especially gratifying in that Mark is not an alumnus, but he found CCNY to be worthy of his support.” The first scholarships will be awarded for the Fall 2025 semester. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:38:30 -0400 /news/reinhardt-family-foundation-trust-makes-additional-commitment-ccny