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  • Build leaders for the common good
  • Promote civic engagement at City College and beyond
  • Strengthen connections between campus and communities
General Colin. L. Powell
“Building a culture of service and inspiring young people with a sense of public purpose, vision, and responsibility is our goal—and my priority.”

— Colin L. Powell
Founder, Chair, and Distinguished Scholar

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CCNY celebrates the inauguration of the Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership

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On Thursday, May 2, CCNY celebrated the establishment of the Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. The school will encompass the CCNY Division of Social Science—anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology—along with pathbreaking programs such as the Skadden Arps Honors Program in Legal Studies. 

The ceremony included remarks by CCNY President Lisa S. Coico; CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein; Linda Powell, General Powell's daughter and Colin Powell Center advisory council member; Tom Brokaw, also a Colin Powell Center advisory council member; and General Powell himself. At the ceremony, Chancellor's Goldstein presented General Powell with the CUNY Chancellor's medal. 

The Colin Powell School's broad offerings of instruction, research, and public discussion in the Social Sciences engages CCNY's core and historic mission to prepare students from all backgrounds to become successful and fully engaged citizens of the world.  

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News and Announcements

Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Issues a Challenge Grant for the Colin L. Powell School

Stavros Spyros NiarchosThe Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership has received a $220,000 challenge grant from the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.

 

Conversations in Leadership to Feature Eisenhower Fellows
Eisenhower fellowJoin us on Thursday, May 2 at 12:30 for a panel discussion with mid-career international leaders, participants of the 2013 Eisenhower Fellowships.
 

Faculty Fellowship Applications Now Being Accepted
John krinsky_thumbnail_image Faculty Fellowship applications are now being accepted. Deadline to apply for fellowships for Community-Based Participatory Research: May 10, 2013; for Public Scholarship and Service-Learning: May 31 2013.  More 

Korean Issues and Insights: Spring 2013 Events
Liberty in North Korea logoJoin us on March 14 for a screening and panel discussion of The People's Crisis, part of an ongoing series of events and lectures on contemporary Korean politics and culture. RSVP now
 

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Walter Russell Mead. Photo by Joshua Kristal.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Inaugural Anne and Bernard Spitzer Lecture

With North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un, playing hard at nuclear brinksmanship, the question is not only to what end, but also what are the potential long-term destabilizing impacts in the region. These are among the issues Walter Russell Mead addressed on Monday, April 15, 2013, during the first annual Anne and Bernard Spitzer Lecture, “America’s ‘Asia Pivot’ at a Time of Upheaval: The Pacific Isn’t Looking Pacifistic.” Speaking at the Spitzer Gallery in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, Mead, the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, outlined reasons for America’s recent “Asia Pivot" and future scenarios for the region.

Read more on our blog, Neighborhoods and Nations.

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