Baruch College and the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences are delighted to announce the creation of the Valentín Lizana y Parragué Chair in Latin American Studies. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Hedy Feit and in honor of her grandfather, this position will take an active role in expanding the footprint of the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies as well as the Latin American Studies program at the College. Hedy is a longtime friend of Baruch College and an adjunct professor within the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies.
Hedy and her late husband, Charles Feit BBA ’48, LHD ’87 generously created and endowed the Feit Interdisciplinary Seminars in the Humanities. These seminars speak to important themes and issues not ordinarily covered in the standard Weissman curriculum and reflect the special interests and research areas of Baruch faculty. This has been one of the most successful and enduring academic programs in the College, running form 1984 until the present. More recently, Hedy endowed the Paul André Feit Fund, which supports lectures and other activities of interest especially to the Latino community, and the Myrna Chase Seminars, for outstanding freshmen nominated by their first-semester Learning Community professors. Inaugurated in 2009, the Chase Seminars provide honors-level instruction to those who didn’t enter the College as Honors students.
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