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Queens College announces new business and arts schools
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Queens College President Frank Wu
will delivered his fi rst virtual State of the
College address on Wednesday, March 10,
during which he announced plans for the
creation of a new business and arts school,
building on current faculty expertise and
new collaborations with community and
corporate partners.
Th e new Queens College School of Arts
will off er undergraduate and graduate
degrees in art, music, drama, theatre, and
dance. Th e school will partner with key
Queens College CUNY faculty and institutions
such as the Kupferberg Center for
the Arts, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum,
Louis Armstrong House and Museum, and
the CUNY Dance Initiative. Community
partners will include Flushing Town Hall,
Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning,
Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
Museum, and Rubin Museum of Art.
Similarly, the new Queens College
School of Business will enhance the
advantages of studying in the world’s pertinent
fi nancial, business, and
arts capital.Undergraduate
and graduate students
will select from several
paths to degrees in
fi nance, business, business
administration,
international business,
accounting, economics,
quantitative economics,
actuarial studies, risk
management, and business
and the liberal arts.
New degrees in taxation
and in business and
policy analysis
will be introduced
in 2022.
The new
School of
Business will
emphasize critical
and technological
skills at
Queens College President Frank Wu
the forefront of evolving business and
management practices.
Together with Queens College Provost
Elizabeth Hendrey, Dean of the School of
Arts and Humanities William
McClure and Interim
Dean of the School of
Social Sciences Ekaterina
Pechenkina are working
with Queens College faculty
from across many
disciplines on the curricular
off erings.
During his address, Wu
highlighted the experience
of a year shaped by
COVID-19 — including
adjustments by faculty
and students
to distance
learning,
the lessons
of his own fi rst
year in offi ce as
president, and
plans for the
college going
forward.
Courtesy of Queens College
Wu paid tribute to those who have
worked on campus over the past year
to keep its facilities, services and core
operation running. Th rough their eff orts,
Queens College has been able to persevere
despite this past challenging year.
“At this time, it is crucial that we
acknowledge the staff members among
us who have worked to keep our beautiful
campus open,” Wu said, adding that
the campus community owes them a debt
of gratitude. “Th ough 99 percent of our
courses are online, there is still a physical
campus that must be maintained and kept
ready for use according to safety protocols.
It is through the dedication of members of
our staff that this has been made possible.”
A major part of Wu’s vision is “coming
together,” he said.
A broadly based and highly inclusive
strategic planning process is underway
involving faculty, staff , students, alumni,
and members of the Queens College
Foundation.
Wu’s address touched on how the new
schools tie the college even more closely
to both the needs of its diverse student
body and the learning and career potential
off ered by working with community
partners. Additionally, Wu said the work
of refl ecting on the pandemic and moving
forward has just begun.
Applications open to Queens artists for
annual Art in the Parks competition
Photo courtesy of NYC Parks
Karl Orozco’s “Hospicio Cabañas (Playable Stage for Thunder Hawk)” art installation and event in 2019.
BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO
aacevedo@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
Artists can now apply for the third
annual “Art in the Parks: Alliance
for Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Grant” competition, with a theme of
“Looking Back, Looking Forward.”
Th e Alliance for Flushing Meadows
Corona Park, in partnership with
NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program,
recently opened the applications in
February. Two Queens-based artists
will each be awarded $5,000 to create
and install their proposed temporary
artwork at designated locations within
Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Early- to mid-career artists are
encouraged to apply and to consider
site-specifi c plans, as well as related programming
and community engagement
for their projects. Possible locations
include but aren’t limited to Meridian
Road and Meadow Lake Road – West
Entrance, Roosevelt Avenue Entrance,
111th Street at 49th Avenue Entrance,
College Point Boulevard and 58th Road
Entrance, Corona Avenue and Horace
Harding Expressway Entrance, Lawns
around Meadow Lake, among others.
Grant recipients will be selected
through an open application process
and chosen by a committee of arts
professionals and Queens community
members, as well as NYC Parks and
Alliance representatives.
Proposals will be judged according
to artistic and creative merit,
response to the surrounding community,
the theme of “Looking Back,
Looking Forward,” and suitability to
the site.
“Now in its third year, the Art in the
Parks: Alliance for Flushing Meadows
Corona Park Grants celebrate the park’s
global heritage while supporting local
talent,” Alliance Executive Director
Janice Melnick said. “Th e locations
we’ve selected expand the reach of
the park’s cultural activities to include
entrances, lake areas and historic sites.
In this way, every surrounding neighborhood
becomes the heart of the park.”
Previous winners include Jeannine
Han and Dan Riley for “Another way
it could go,” which celebrated connections
between local and universal
communities in 2020; and Karl
Orozco for “Hospicio Cabañas
(Playable Stage for Th under Hawk),”
which interpreted Mexican archetypes,
traditional dance and a
Mexican video game hero into art and
performance on site in 2019.
Th e deadline for submissions is
Sunday, March 28. Grant recipients
will be announced in April 2021, and
artworks will be installed in the park
for one year starting this summer.
For more information or to apply,
visit nycgovparks.org.
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