The Colin Powell Center announces the selection of its largest group of scholars and fellows. A record 21 new undergraduate and graduate students will join the Center’s Leadership and Policy Program for the 2008-2009 academic year.
09/19/08 - 08/20/11

01/15/08 - 12/16/09

On November 15, the Powell Center hosted Project Become, an all-day session of workshops for new members of CCNY’s Harlem Mentoring Association. The Association is a student-led group who mentor local youth to foster college access.
11/20/08 - 11/20/09

The Colin Powell Center announces the selection of eight new Edward I. Koch Scholars, who include five freshmen and three juniors. The Edward I. Koch Scholarship in Public Service awards $5,000 of financial support to students who show an ongoing commitment to service.
11/11/08 - 11/20/09

To launch the 2008-2009 academic year, the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies co-sponsored a roundtable discussion at which five former U.S. Secretaries of State considered what the foreign policy agenda should be for the new President.
09/22/08 - 11/16/09

The Colin Powell Center welcomes its first class of 13 fellows and scholars under the New York Life Endowment for Emerging African-American Issues. The endowment, established in December 2006, supports students who demonstrate an interest in public policy issues and come from populations traditionally underrepresented among policymakers.
09/12/07 - 10/14/09

The Colin Powell Center has awarded Professor Marina Fernando one of its first two Service Learning Faculty Awards. The other City College instructor who received the new annual award this past spring is Ethan Cohen, formerly an assistant professor of architecture at CCNY.
10/01/07 - 10/01/09

The Colin Powell Center has taken the lead in building a regional network with neighboring universities and colleges to promote service learning. The Metro Area Regional Network for Service Learning includes City College, New York University, Marymount Manhattan College, Wagner College in Staten Island, and Lehman College in the Bronx.
10/01/07 - 10/01/09

For Justine Fleischner, 22, a senior majoring in international studies, receiving one of this year’s Community Engagement Fellowships has meant having the resources to fight human trafficking. “It’s the modern equivalent of slavery,” Justine says.
10/01/07 - 10/01/09

Members of the Sakima village in eastern Sierra Leone were gathered around a bonfire for a “forgiveness ceremony” when an ex-combatant of the country’s brutal 11-year civil war came forward. “He confessed to having executed several people in a nearby village,” recalls Mario Patino, a Powell Center scholar who is interning in Sierra Leone this semester.
03/03/08 - 10/01/09

This academic year, Reverend Euguene Callender joins the Colin Powell Center as its first annual Leader-in-Residence, a program generously funded through the New York Life Endowment for Emerging African-American Issues. Rev. Callender is collaborating with the Center to nurture student-led research efforts, host policy speakers, and develop programming for CCNY students.
10/01/07 - 10/01/09

Last month, Melissa Frakman found herself at the White Oak Plantation 30 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida, listening to bluegrass music, eating barbecue, and comfortably arguing monetary policy with several other guests. That’s when the City College junior realized how far she had come in a few short months.
10/01/07 - 10/01/09

A year ago, Joel Thomas had just finished basic and technical training for the Naval Reserves when he saw an announcement for a VISTA fellowship at the Powell Center. Knowing that he could be called to active duty at any moment, the 27-year-old community organizer had resolved to take his life one year at a time. The 12-month fellowship seemed ideal.
02/01/08 - 09/04/09

Ángela Pérez Villa wasn’t sure what to expect when she was invited to participate in the Ditchley Foundation’s conference on “How Young People Form Political Opinions,” in Oxfordshire, England, with Center Director Vince Boudreau and Justine Fleischner, one of the Center’s Community Engagement Fellows. Ángela knew that Ditchley is the world’s premier foundation focused on U.S.-Anglo relations, and she figured the accommodations would be comfortable. Still, the grandeur and rarified atmosphere of the 18th-century Ditchley Park estate, and the accomplishments and polish of her fellow participants nearly overwhelmed her.
12/03/07 - 09/02/09

Following an extended program of student involvement in a research workshop series, the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies has published a selection of articles addressing questions of democracy assistance policy in an era of deepening security concerns in the journal, Democratization.
10/01/07 - 09/01/09

On December 4, 2007, Dr. Derrick A. Bell Jr., one of the nation’s leading civil rights scholars, and Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr., former senior minister of Riverside Church and president and founder of the Healing the Nations Foundation, spoke at the Colin Powell Center’s inaugural New York Life Colloquium. The event, entitled “The Courts, the Churches, and African Americans: Legacy and Contemporary Challenges,” is the first of a twice-annual series of lectures made possible by the New York Life Endowment for Emerging African American Issues.
12/21/07 - 08/31/09

Scholars spent the 2008 summer helping to research, craft, and implement policy. To see just how their internships enabled them to see policy work in action, the Center checked in with Renee Rolston, Roy Levy, Andrea Patterson, and Kadian Johnson. 08/14/08 - 08/14/09

A team of CCNY mechanical engineering students is adapting a single-cylinder Listeroid engine so that it will efficiently use the world’s most promising new biofuel—jatropha oil. Amir Nosrat, a community engagement fellow at the Powell Center, developed and now leads the team as his Center-supported project.  08/14/08 - 08/14/09

To launch the 2008-2009 academic year, the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies is co-sponsoring a roundtable discussion at which five former U.S. Secretaries of State will consider what the foreign policy agenda should be for the new President. Thirty Colin Powell Leadership Scholars and Fellows, CCNY students working at the Powell Center, will attend the roundtable.

08/14/08 - 08/14/09

Never underestimate the power of a role model. This is one of the lessons Melissa Ochoa, a pre-med biology major at City College, learned during a unique service-learning course this summer. The course, Chemistry Education Practicum, took Melissa and five other CCNY science majors, all female, to Tanzania for a month, where they helped to lead two weeklong science camps for girls. 
08/14/08 - 08/14/09

On August 4, Charlotta Chung, a 2008 graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, joined the Colin Powell Center as its coordinator for student-directed service initiatives. Ms. Chung, 21, is a Truman Scholar who received her bachelor’s of arts in government and sociology in May.
08/14/08 - 08/14/09

This past semester, the Colin Powell Center awarded its first “Engaged Department” grant to the Media and Communication Arts Department’s Ad/PR Program. The $11,000 planning grant is the initial component of a new phase of the Center’s service-learning efforts on campus.

09/18/08 - 08/14/09

Professor Jean Krasno, of CCNY and Yale, has initiated a multi-year effort to collect, analyze and catalogue the official papers of the former Secretary General Kofi Annan. The Kofi Annan Project aims to provide a historic record of Annan’s tenure from 1997 through the end of 2006. The collected papers will be published both in a five-volume set through Lynn Rienner Publishers.
01/01/08 - 08/04/09

For a group of kids in Harlem, there's a world of difference between reciting the common wisdom about the value of college and taking the necessary steps to get there. The Harlem 40 Mentoring Program is designed to bridge this gap.  05/15/08 - 05/15/09

Ten Colin Powell leadership fellows met with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Monday, May 5, 2008 in his New York City office. The meeting provided an opportunity for Center fellows to question Dr. Kissinger, a Powell Center advisory council member, on issues of leadership and foreign policy.
05/01/08 - 05/01/09

Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, presented a discussion on the role of corporate philanthropy and on current efforts to harness business assets in light of the country's economic downturn.
04/17/08 - 04/17/09

This past November, seven Colin Powell fellows attended a performance of the Off-Broadway political thriller, The Overwhelming, at the Roundabout Theater by special invitation of Linda Powell, who costarred in the drama. Ms. Powell is a member of the advisory council of the Powell Center.
12/20/07 - 04/08/09

By the end of his life, Martin Luther King had grown far beyond his “I Have a Dream” speech, and each generation of Americans must rediscover his true legacy. This is the essence of the message that Dr. Vincent Harding delivered at City College on February 21. Dr. Harding, a professor emeritus at the Illiff School of Theology at the University of Denver, worked very closely with Dr. King.
04/02/08 - 04/02/09

The Powell Center is currently accepting applications for service-learning faculty fellowships and grants from individuals and academic programs and departments for 2008-2009. More
10/06/08 - 03/20/09

On March 14, 2008, the Colin Powell Center and the New York Campus Compact presented a service-learning roundtable at CCNY. About 50 faculty members, staff, and representatives of community organizations attended the event. Their focus: the strong partnerships between community-based organizations and institutions of higher education. 03/14/08 - 03/16/09

On February 5, 2009, the Powell Center will host an immigration conference that will bring together advocates, policy makers and other players to discuss the challenges and successes of immigration policy at the state and local level. The conference is free and open to the public. More
11/24/08 - 03/05/09

Center Scholars joined fellows from the Center for Strategic and International Studies for a session with the former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft. 01/22/08 - 01/22/09

Center Advisory Council Member Charles Wang Provided scholars with an opportunity to spend the evening with him and General Powell.  01/21/08 - 01/21/09

Some 200 participants attended the Center’s November 15 conference, “Strengthening Global Cities: An Urban Leadership Forum.” The event was co-sponsored by the Eisenhower Fellowships, a nonprofit organization that engages global emerging leaders.
11/15/07 - 01/15/09

Announcements for Science Teacher candidates

11/25/08 - 12/31/08

Freshman Zach Frater and sophomores Daniel Levine and Brent Baltzell were named the division's Schott Scholars for 2008-09. 10/09/08 - 12/18/08