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: 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 So You Want to Talk About Race Book Talk Thursday, April 1, noon–1 pm. Read and join the discussion about So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Even if you haven’t read the book, please feel free to join! Discussion moderated by Elizabeth Merrick and co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Compliance, and Equity Initiatives & CURB. Zoom link 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 learn about their backgrounds, discuss current trends, and share tips for pursuing a career in sales. Register for the session here. Land Policy Reform and the Chinese Real Estate Market Wednesday, Apr. 7, 7 pm. The New York Confucius Institute for Global Finance at Baruch hosts Zhang Xiaoyu, PhD, of Shanghai International Studies University, who will review the real estate market’s policy reform and development, explore the features of the boom in the early 2000s, and describe how government, households, and firms engage in the market today. Learn more. Zoom pre-registration required. 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. Art Speaks Justice: Art Now: Luxury or Necessity? Thursday, Apr. 8, 6 pm. This multimedia experience, including two music videos, showcases Harman Writer-in-Residence Stew Steward with an introduction by Gisele Regatao, assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions. 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. Register here. Learn more about the upcoming events in the series. 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. How the NCAA No Pay Rules Affect Female Athletes Wednesday, Apr. 14, 12:30–1:45 pm. The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity hosts a discussion with a panel of national experts on how this rule uniquely affects female athletes and its impact on the future of women’s sports. Learn more and register here. Fireside Chat: Leadership and Diversity in Higher Education Wednesday, Apr. 14, 5:30–6:30 pm. The Higher Education Administration Club speaks with NASPA Vice President of Research and Policy Amelia Parnell, PhD, on address key issues in diversity and how to skillfully and successfully navigate the industry. Learn more and register. Fireside Chat: Meet the President of NASPA! Tuesday, Apr. 20, 5–6 pm. The Higher Education Administration Club speaks with NASPA’s President Kevin Kruger, PhD, on key issues being addressed through NASPA as we come out of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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. |
