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The year was 1967, and the Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration—known then informally as “City College Downtown”—was at a crossroads. The City College Board of Higher Education had voted to convert Baruch into an upper-division, two-year business school.
The dog days of summer were far from lethargic at Baruch, as the College received news of its #1 ranking for social mobility among four-year public institutions, courtesy of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2018 Almanac of Higher Education.
Four Weissman School faculty members have been recognized with prestigious fellowships and awards for 2018–19.
Last February Chimaechi Ekekeugbor (’18) finished his basketball playing days at Baruch College with 2,000 career points.
New York State Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow has served the 89th District of the assembly ever since, representing Mount Vernon and Yonkers in a career spanning more than 26 years and countless pieces of legislation—though it’s a career he never planned on pursuing.
Two hundred 17 Lex Society members and their guests experienced deep-sea adventures in the heart of Times Square on Wednesday, Oct. 10.
She’s received numerous professional awards and accolades—from Fortune, The Hollywood Reporter, and more— but Jacqueline Hernandez (MBA ’98) keeps the focus on others.
When his five-year-old son asked Enrique Desmond Arias, PhD, the new Marxe Chair in Western Hemisphere Affairs, about a product whose label was in both English and French, he little realized that he was tapping into his father’s area of expertise. “The United States has long, often positive, sometimes complicated relationships with its Western Hemisphere … Continue reading Western Hemisphere Expert Expands Marxe School’s Depth
Purchasing textbooks is hardly a favorite memory for the many Baruch graduates who struggled to cover the cost of tuition, fees, and other college-related expenses. Reducing that burden is one of the goals behind the University-wide initiative to create Zero Textbook Courses (i.e., Z sections). Supported by a grant from CUNY, Baruch’s faculty—working with the … Continue reading A Textbook Transformation
The Baruch student chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) this year celebrates its 40th anniversary at the College. NABA is the first professional organization of and for accountants of color. The Baruch-NABA connection runs deep. Double alumnus William Aiken (’63, MBA ’70), CPA, along with eight other African American accountant-activists in the … Continue reading Four-Decade Milestone for Student Accountants
