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Stephen Brookfield, Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis presents a workshop focusing on ideas and techniques beneficial for becoming a critically reflective teacher. The workshop takes place March 14, 2006 as part of the Baruch College Master Teacher series for faculty development and includes questions and comments from the audience.

Baruch College recognizes and celebrates the 2005 scholarly achievements of faculty in an award ceremony held March 16, 2006 at the William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus.

The event is introduced by Baruch College President Kathleen Waldron and by Provost and Vice President David Dannenbring. The event's keynote address is given by Carl Rollyson, Baruch College professor of English.

Awards are presented by Arthur Downing, Assistant Vice President and Chief Librarian at the William and Anita Newman Library; David Birdsell, Interim Dean of the School of Public Affairs; Myrna Chase, Dean of the Mildred and George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; and by John Elliott, Dean and Vice President of the Zicklin School of Business.

Honorees include:

From the William and Anita Newman Library: Lewis Liu; Sandra Roff; and Katherine Shelfer.

From the School of Public Affairs: Stan Altman; Neil G. Bennett; Greg Chen; Lizabeth N. Gewirtzman; Diane M. Gibson; John Goering; David C. Hoffman; Sanders D. Korenman; James A. Krauskopf; Thomas J. Main; Hahlia Remler; E.S. Savas; Helen A. Scharff; Robert C. Smith; Ryan Alan Smith; Shoshanna Sofaer; and Lynne A. Weikart.

From the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences: John Andreassi; Arthur W. Apter; Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni; Carol Berkin; A. Suresh Canagarajah; Mitchell Cohen; Yochi Cohen-Charash; Hector Cordero-Guzman; Vicent DiGirolamo; Wayne H. Finke; Christopher Hallowell; Theodore Henken; Gail Levin; Karen S. Lyness; John Maciuika; Eugene Marlow; Anita Mayo; C.J. Moreno; Jaihyun Park; Alfonso W. Quiroz; Charles A. Riley; Carl Rollyson; Barbara Katz Rothman; Murray Rubinstein; Zoe Sheehan Saldana; Ora F. Saloman; Charles A. Scherbaum; Michael E. Staub; Anne Swartz; Edward Tucker; Ping Xu; and Franco Zangrilli.

From the Zicklin School of Business: Turan G. Bali; Moshe Banai; Kapil Bawa; Raquel Ben bunan-Fich; Lauren G. Block; Jean Boddewyn; Archisman Chakraborty; Jay Dahya; Masako Darrough; Ajay Das; T.K. Das; Matthew E. Edwards; Hammou El Barmi; Nermin Eyuboglu; Aloke Ghosh; Christos Giannikos; Shulamith Gross; Arie Harel; Gioia Harpaz; Susan Ji; Matthew Johnson; Peter Joos; Ted Joyce; Debbie Kaminer; Mary Kern; Marios Koufaris; Shyam Kumar; Karl Lang; Myung-Soo Lee; Steven Lilien; David Luna; Steven Melnik; Terrence Martell; Lilach Nachum; June O'Neill; David Opderbeck; Mehmet Ozbilgin; Lin Peng; Edward Rogoff; Hannah Rothstein; Bharat Sarath; Donald Schepers; Robert Schwartz; S. Prakash Sethi; Isak Taksa; Gloria Thomas; Cynthia Thompson; Ana Valenzuela; Roumen Vragov; Ko Wang; Avner Wolf; Clifford Wymbs; Rui Yao; and Paschalina Ziamou.

Tips for customizing and enhancing Blackboard course management software are presented to CUNY Blackboard administrators by Jim Russell, Director for Instructional Technology at Baruch College and Instructional Designer Madeline Fix of the Baruch Computing and Technology Center.

The training session takes place March 12, 2006 at the Baruch College Computing and Technology Center.

A panel of distinguished executives in the field of finance discuss their individual career paths and describe some of the skills and qualifications necessary to find a job and build a successful career.

Panelists include Joseph Leone, Vice Chairman and CFO, CIT Group Inc.; Gerald Rothstein, (former) Managing Director, CIBC Capital Partners; and Lawrence Simon, President, Ivy Asset Management Corporation.

A question and answer session follows.

The event takes place on February 28, 2006 as part of Baruch College's Executives on Campus Program (EOC) at the Vertical Campus.

JetBlue Airways founder, chairman and CEO David Neeleman delivers the second annual Burton Kossoff Business Leadership Lecture in the form of a directed conversation lead by Vice President and Dean of the Zicklin School of Business, Dr. John A. Elliott.

Topics covered include Neeleman's multiple entrepreneurial successes leading up to the his founding JetBlue as well as some of the current obstacles facing JetBlue and the airline industry as a whole.

Kathleen Waldron, President of Baruch College makes opening remarks and introduces the speakers.

The 2006 Burton Kossoff Business Leadership Lecture takes place March 7, 2006 at the Vertical Campus as part of Baruch College Executives on Campus program.

Slavery in New York City from the 17th to the 19th century is discussed by a panel of three prominent scholars. The event takes place as part of the Black History Month program of Baruch College.

The panel is introduced by Dr. Clarence Taylor of the Black and Hispanic Studies department. Panelists include: Dr. Graham Hodges, the George Dorland Landon Jr. Professor of History at Colgate University; Dr. Craig Steven Wilder, Professor of History at Dartmouth College; and Dr. Sherrill Wilson, Urban Anthropologist and Lecturer.

The event takes place February 15, 2006 and is sponsored by Baruch's Black and Hispanic Studies department, the History department and by the dean's office at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences.

Baruch College benefactors Michael Roth'67 and Max Berger '68 are honored with the dedication of two state-of-the-art Vertical Campus smart classrooms in their names.

Baruch College President Kathleen Waldron hosts the informal celebration recognizing both Mr. Roth and Mr. Berger's generosity and commitment to Baruch.

Both benefactors: Michael Roth, Chairman and CEO, the MONY Group and Max Berger, partner of Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger and Grossman speak briefly about their experiences at Baruch.

Vice President for College Advancement Chris Cloud and Baruch College Student Jakub Popadiuk demonstrate some features of the classroom.

The event takes place February 16, 2006 at the Michael Roth & Max Berger Classrooms (VC 12-130 and 12-135) in the Vertical Campus building.

David Cay Johnston of The New York Times will discussses his new, best-selling book, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else.

Larry Zicklin, chairman of the board at Neuberger Berman, and trustee of The Baruch College Fund, discusses the recently drafted Student Guide to Academic Integrity at Baruch College and the relationship between ethical behavior in the academic and business worlds.

A public forum presenting the candidates running in the January 4, 2006 election for the office of New York City Council Speaker. Candidates introduce themselves and express their views on a wide range of topics including housing, jobs, taxes, health care education and the environment.

The event is introduced by David Birdsell, Dean of the School of Public Affairs; Marcia Bystryn, Executive Director, New York City League of Conservation Voters; Dick Dadey, Executive Director, Citizens Union of the City of New York. The event is moderated by Douglas Muzzio, professor of public affairs at Baruch College.

The speaker candidates featured are: Leroy Comrie, Bill deBlasio, Lewis Fidler, Melinda Katz, Christine Quinn, Joel Rivera and David Weprin.

The event is co-sponsored by Baruch College School of Public Affairs, the Citizens Union of the City of New York and the New York League of Conservation Voters. It takes place on November 17, 2005 in Vertical Campus room 14-220.