Archive - 2008 - Wagner News Item

    If you ever want to know the status of campus facilities, class schedules or activities when winter weather hits, there are several ways you can find out:
    The easiest and most direct is the SNOW LINE on the college Web site, www.wagner.edu. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the large snowflake, which will take you to a page that will tell you the current status of the campus — either open or closed.

    DEC. 18, 2008 — Wagner College has been awarded the Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, school officials learned yesterday.
    Wagner is the only college or university in New York City to be so designated by the foundation.

You can now view online videos of three lectures offered over the past year on the Wagner College campus:

LINK HERE. MacArthur "genius" scholar Danielle S. Allen spoke at the college on Nov. 5, 2008. Her lecture was entitled, "Stranger, Neighbor, Citizen, Friend: What is Citizenship in the 21st Century?"

    Public Safety Director Anthony Martinesi has recently been invited to join the editorial board of Campus Security Report, the only trade newsletter published for campus security officers at colleges and universities in the United States.
    Martinesi described the 12-page monthly newsletter as “a great training tool — very timely, and right on the money. It’s ground zero for the best information available in our field.”

On Tuesday, Dec. 2, the Wagner College faculty met for its annual awards dinner. Awards were given in teaching, scholarship and service, along with citations from the Diversity Action Council and a new award for teaching with technology. This year's award-winning faculty members are:

A new research paper from the Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform at Wagner College details how New York’s public authorities became a mechanism for unrestrained spending, why previous reform efforts failed, and what needs to be done to regain control.

The paper is entitled “New York’s Secret Government: Public Authorities Are Out of Control and Threatening the State’s Fiscal Health.”

    An innovative, community-driven effort managed by Vision for Staten Island is taking shape and offering a new approach to planning Staten Island’s future. This newly created organization has initiated a “visioning” project using a process pioneered by ACP Visioning+Planning that will bring the Staten Island community together with public and private leaders to create an inclusive and comprehensive vision for the future.

Published in the Wednesday, Nov. 12 issue of the Staten Island Advance.

By LESLIE PALMA-SIMONCEK
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
Friday, November 07, 2008

    STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — “Becoming a Spiritual Synagogue in a Post-Ethnic Era” will be the topic of a lecture by Rabbi Dr. Lawrence Hoffman at 8 p.m. Nov. 18 in Wagner College’s Spiro Hall.
    The lecture is part of the Grymes Hill college’s Jewish Culture Series, which is co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island. The lecture is free and open to the public.

By JAY PRICE
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
Tuesday, November 04, 2008

    STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On game days in the fall, the campus drive that separates the Wagner College football stadium from the parking lot, across the street from the main campus, is abuzz with pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and the energy of college football.