Still reeling from the end of a lengthy blackout in western Queens, Consolidated Edison found itself grappling with a new power failure yesterday afternoon when 16,000 customers on Staten Island lost electricity for several hours.
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Archive - Jul 2006Wagner College Annual Report cited in CASE's "Currents" MagazineThe Wagner College Annual Report was recently cited in CASE's "Currents" Magazine for July/August 2006. Click here to view a copy of the Annual Report. 
Power Goes Out on Staten Island - NY Times Power Goes Out on Staten Island as Con Ed Patches Up Queens NetworkStill reeling from the end of a lengthy blackout in western Queens, Consolidated Edison found itself grappling with a new power failure yesterday afternoon when 16,000 customers on Staten Island lost electricity for several hours. July 13thJuly 11thWagner's Learn and Serve America Grant - S. I. Advance
At Wagner, new lessons in civic dutyAn innovative program will allow undergrads to become volunteers
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
By MICHELLE MASKALY
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE A federally funded program that taps the brains and brawn of Wagner College students will launch here this fall and could serve as a civic model for schools nationwide. July 10thRichmond County Savings Foundation Grants $500,000 for Media-Rich ClassroomsNEW YORK, N.Y. – When professor Alison Smith joined Wagner College’s faculty in 1992, much of her teaching relied on what she calls “intensely impressive textbooks.” That’s changed, thanks in part to media-rich classrooms that feature wireless internet connections, LCD projectors, motorized writing screens, and banks of white boards. In the course Urbanization, Civilization, and Collapse, a popular learning community for freshmen, professor Smith will project a picture of the lid of a bishop’s burial vault showing not the man in the prime of his life, but as a skeleton ravaged by the Black Death. |
