Resources for You Scholarship Opportunity: Be a Baruch Climate Scholar The Baruch Climate Scholars Program is recruiting 12 juniors and seniors to explore a wide range of cross-disciplinary climate issues, including mitigation, impacts, and resiliency within the fields of the natural sciences, psychology, business, economics, public policy, migration, and communication. Learn more and apply. Deadline: Friday, Apr. 16. Read the Guide to Surviving and Thriving at CUNY Prepared for CUNY students by CUNY students, in collaboration with faculty and staff of Healthy CUNY, this guide offers a one-stop resource for health, academic, financial, and basic-needs services at CUNY. Access the guide here. FAFSA: The Guide Get every financial aid dollar you deserve. Understanding FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) can be a huge help to students and their families. This CUNY webpage will help you save time, money, and stress with FAQs, myths, contacts, and more. Services from the Counseling Center Baruch College’s Counseling Center offers students free and confidential individual and group counseling and support sessions and Black Mental Health Matters (BMHM) Support Sessions. - Individual counseling: Please visit the Counseling Center’s website or email [log in to unmask]
- Group counseling: Are you struggling, feeling lonely, wanting to make new connections, or having trouble in your relationships? The center offers two sessions of Relationship to Self and Others, which meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1–2 pm, on Zoom. To participate on Tuesday, email [log in to unmask]; to participate on Thursday, email [log in to unmask].
- Black Mental Health Matters (BMHM) Support Sessions: In light of the recent events of racial violence and injustice toward Blacks and the outcry for support, the center offers sessions aimed at fostering and supporting the growth, networking, collaboration, success, and well-being of Black students. BMHM is led by psychologists Jael Amador, PhD, and Gary Dillon, PhD, who work from a social justice and multicultural framework. On Wednesdays, 2–3 pm, via Zoom. To participate, send an email to [log in to unmask] from your Baruch student email account.
Crisis Text Line: Connect with Counselors 24/7 No reason to go it alone. Crisis Text Line provides students with immediate access to free, confidential counseling 24/7 via text. Learn more. Things to Do Workplace and Workforce Flexibility in Times of Covid Monday, Mar. 22, 2–3:30 pm. This webinar from the Small Business Development Center at Baruch addresses such topics as rehiring, vaccination, and strategic planning for the future. Learn more and register. Refusing to Be Silenced: An Open Mic Night Tuesday, Mar. 23, 6–8:30 pm. Artists and creators from all disciplines, have your voices heard and showcase your creativity and sense of community. Learn more and register to participate here. Sign up to attend here. Entrepreneurial Lunch & Learn: Career Development for New Entrepreneurs Thursday, Mar. 25, 12:30–1:30 pm. Learn practical and actionable skills to network like an entrepreneur. See the full list of event topics and register here. You’re Charging the Wrong Price! A Webinar from the Small Business Development Center at Baruch Thursday, Mar. 25, 4–6 pm. Learn how to correctly set prices and avoid the most-common pricing mistakes. Learn more and register. Baruch Leadership Panel Thursday, Mar. 25, 6–7:30 pm. A panel featuring women leaders from Baruch share their experiences and professional journeys. Register here. Sales Summit: Spring 2021 Tuesday, Apr. 6, 6–8 pm. Join a roundtable of business leaders from around the sales and the sales management world to discuss current trends and tips for pursuing a career in sales. Find the guest speakers and register here. Big Tech Platforms: Bastions of Free Speech or Self-Appointed Censors? Thursday, Apr. 8, 6–7 pm. The Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics presents a panel of industry experts who explore the potentially intractable issues as well as tradeoffs surrounding platform competition, misinformation, and free speech. Moderated by Nizan Geslevich Packin, associate professor of law. Learn more and register. Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm: Film Screening and Discussion Thursday, Apr. 8, 6–7:30 pm. The Mishkin Gallery presents a new series, Critical Ecology on Film. For the first event in the series, join Rojo Robles, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and lecturer in the Department of Black and Latino Studies, in conversation with Yarimar Bonilla, author and professor at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Learn more. Zicklin Talks Business: Leadership and Technological Innovation During and After the Pandemic Tuesday, Apr. 13, 11 am. Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist at graphic design platform Canva, speaks with Lawrence Zicklin ('57) and Scott Newbert, Lawrence N. Field Chair in Entrepreneurship and academic director of the Lawrence N. Field Programs in Entrepreneurship, about his career and views on entrepreneurship and innovation. Learn more and register. Art in the Age of Covid-19: Solo Exhibition from the New Media Art Space and Wasserman Jewish Studies Center Prajakta Potnis: The Slow Burn presents an interactive online exhibition with eerily prescient parallels to the pandemic. Passing Strange: A Film by Harman Writer-in-Residence Stew Spike Lee’s 2009 adaptation of Stew’s comedy-drama rock musical about a young African American man’s artistic journey of self-discovery. Available free from the Newman Library Digital Archives with a Baruch username login. Find it here. |