governmental agencies in which they
work,” Crookendale said. “To this end,
public affairs and administration is very
important to me.”
He said the MPA in public affairs and
administration is 30 years old, and is
the oldest graduate program at MCNY.
New York State gave permission to offer
it in 1988.
The dean said the inaugural enrollment
saw a total of six students register,
with only two graduating.
Since then, he said there have been
times in which over 120 full-time students
registered in the program.
“By the standards of the Network of
Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and
Administration (NASPAA), we would
be a medium to large program,” Crookendale
said. “This is a remarkable feat,
given our very humble beginnings.”
The dean said his greatest success is
in witnessing graduates of the school
go on to occupy significant roles of
responsibility in New York City and its
metropolitan area.
He said there are alumni who are
deputy commissioners of city agencies;
an alumna currently serves as a
deputy borough president; and alumni
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are managers in a host of city and
not-for-profit agencies in the tri-state
area.
“There can be no greater sense of
affirmation than to see and witness
graduates who have taken the mantle
of leadership and done so with skill
and professionalism,” Dean Crookendale
said.
In the Network of Schools of Public
Policy, Affairs and Administration
(NASPAA) community, he said he is
one of a few persons of color who are in
positions of leadership.
“Ironically, by definition, schools of
public affairs and administration are
charged with graduating students who
will be policy makers of one kind or
another in major cities across the USA,”
he said.
“Many of our major cities have significant
numbers of citizens who are
of a minority status,” he added. “That
there would be a distinct few deans of
color speaks volumes to the entrenched
forces of race, even within academic
institutions.”
On a more positive note, however,
he said he has used his status as “a
beacon” both to his students and the
larger community “to encourage and
remind students who look like me that
anything is possible.”
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Justices Michelle Weston, Sylvia Hinds-Radix, Sylvia Ash, and Wavny Toussaint with Dean Humphrey Crookendale.
Coutesy of Justice Sylvia Hinds-Radix
Humphrey
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Surgeons perform an estimated 300,000 to 400,000
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That is why doctors from all over the country
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Dr. Melinda Keller, who treats serious back
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an unexpected result of space travel: Astronauts that
left with back pain would come back without it. After
investigated this now phenomenon here’s what they
found: During the anti-gravity state of the mission there
were decompressive forces on the intervertebral discs
and back pain was relieved. How? When you travel
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and you are in a weightless state. All the pressure is
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