Frank J. Sciame B Arch ‘74 is the new board chair of the Foundation for City College, Inc. at The City College of New York, as of July 1. He succeeds Martin Cohen ’70, D.Sc. (hon.) ’13, chairman and co-founder of investment firm Cohen & Steers, Inc. Sciame founded F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc. in
The City College of New York’s newly established Office for Experiential Learning (OEL) has received a five-year grant of $2,999,599 from the U.S. Department of Education’s (DoE) Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program to support the Career Awareness and Pathways at City College (CAPACity) initiative and its associated activities. The Office for Experiential Learning will work
Welcome to the 2024-25 academic year! There is a lot to look forward to, and many ways to get involved! Spitzer School students, faculty, and staff convened in person for Convocation on August 29. View the presentation here. Dean Marta Gutman led the event and provided updates on community standards, facilities, and upcoming events. Chair
The fall 2024 Sciame lecture series, Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisited, examines innovative solutions to the global housing crisis. It situates our contemporary dilemma in the powerful arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the 1870s and 1880s. In his revolutionary text, The Housing Question, Engels argued that the dearth of adequate shelter was an
With the new academic year starting in a week, we are pleased to announce that Prof. Zihao Zhang has been named director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture! Prof. Zhang was previously interim program director and showed great potential. As director, he will initiate curricular and administrative innovations while continuing to teach, recruit new
The Seaside Institute has bestowed the 2025 Seaside Prize upon Prof. June Williamson and her writing and research partner Prof. Ellen Dunham-Jones. Williamson is director of Graduate Architecture at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Dunham-Jones is the director of the master’s in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.