Dear CCNY Sustainability Alumni and Friends, As we mark the tenth year of the interdisciplinary Sustainability in the Urban Environment master’s program, we hope this newsletter will sustain your ongoing engagement with CCNY and our Sustainability Program. Our plan is to hold a celebratory reunion event at the end of spring semester 2020 commemorating our first decade and we anticipate a great alumni turnout. Additionally, we are excited to announce that this year, CCNY’s president, Vincent Boudreau, has launched a college-wide initiative focused on sustainability and climate justice. Our reunion will be calendared along with multiple other sustainability- and climate-themed …
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A Message from Former Program Manager George Smith
About nine years ago, after a decade of academic administration work at other colleges, I became an administrative assistant to the first Director of CCNY’s brand newSustainability in the Urban Environment program. I thought of the position as temporary, and had plans to return soon to freelance writing—something I’d done years earlier. But the program started to grow, one thing led to another, and a full-time Program Manager position emerged. Looking back, I’m glad I’ve been able to helpa series of program Directors (Latif Jiji, David Rumschitzki,Alan Feigenberg, and now of course Hillary Brown) to ensure that a farsighted new …
