FROM IDEAS TO ACTION Susan Fuhrman has made °Ő°ä’s history of “getting things done” — applying its ideas in the real world — a key point of pride. (Illustration by James Steinberg)
Since 2006, TC has hired scores of new faculty members, conducted an historic Campaign, modernized its campus and dramatically increased student aid and research funding. Above all, the College has “connected the dots,” uniting minds across disciplines to address society’s most pressing challenges.
2006
- Alumna and the first woman to hold the job. A noted education policy scholar, Fuhrman was previously Dean and George & Diane Weiss Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She founded and leads the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE).
- from the U.S. DepartÂment of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to establish the National Center for Postsecondary Research, which measures the effectiveness of programs to help students transition to college and master basic skills for a degree.
2007
- Provost and Dean Thomas James creates to support multidisciplinary faculty work.
- The new (OSCP), led by Nancy Streim, gives New York City schools a single point of access to °Ő°ä’s resources.
- °Ő°ä’s “,” about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, is distributed free to 30,000 teachers nationwide.
- declaring, “Our legacy demands that, like our predecessors, we will assure that our work always addresses the most important questions. By emphasizing health and psychology along with education, we must represent the interdisciplinary approaches that educational problems inherently demand.”
BEGINNINGS Fuhrman at her inauguration in 2007 with TC Board Co-Chairs Jack Hyland (left) and Bill Rueckert. She urged TC to “draw on our legacy of asking fundamental questions.”
2008
- , previously General Counsel, becomes °Ő°ä’s inaugural Vice President for .
- of the (NAEd).
- assist Jordan’s Ministry of Education and Queen Rania Teacher Academy in redesigning the nation’s public school system.
2009
- S. Secretary of Education on Education & Policy, praising TC but calling for a “sea change” in most teacher preparation programs. , a TC alumna, serves on °Ő°ä’s President’s Advisory Council.
- The to support OSCP and ¶¶Ňőapp’s Partnership Schools Network (Harlem public schools serving students at risk of dropping out).
Friends from Jordan Jordanian teachers visited TC in 2008 as a prelude to the College’s collaboration with Jordan’s Ministry of Education and Queen Rania Teacher Academy.
2010
- At , TC presents its inaugural President’s Medal of Excellence to Prime Minister Nahas Angula of Namibia (M.Ed. ’79) and Ulysses Byas (M.A. ’52), who fought for better resources for Jim Crow-era Southern black public schools.
- TC honors Trustee Joyce B. Cowin (M.A. ’52) by .
- , a master’s degree program backed by a secured by faculty member A. Lin Goodwin, apprentices residents with experienced teachers at high-needs schools.
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“Our legacy will also be in global terms. Increasing education and skill levels makes the world more interdependent and competitive.”
— Susan Fuhrman, President, ¶¶Ňőapp
2011
- The College a new
- The convenes for professional development to improve opportunities for special-needs students.
- A new , funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences and housed and led by °Ő°ä’s , examines long-term employment and earning outcomes for postsecÂondary students.
- °Ő°ä’s launches a 45-credit, year-long E.
- Professor , FoundÂing Director of the TC Reading & Writing Project, co-authors , with Mary Ehrenworth and Christopher Lehman.
“I came to ¶¶Ňőapp to learn to understand the issues surrounding education so I could challenge the theories of apartheid. I am happy that going back to independent Namibia I was leading the team. We dismantled the racial education system.”
— Nahas Angula (M.Ed. ’79) Former Namibian Prime Minister; Recipient of °Ő°ä’s President’s Medal of Excellence
2012
- ¶¶Ňőapp and Singapore’s National Institute of Education establish a , part of a U.S.-Singapore educational collaboration.
- Psychologist Lisa Miller launches °Ő°ä’s , the nation’s first Ivy League master’s degree concentration in spirituality and psychology.
- and Miriam Baigorri, faculty members in Speech/Language Pathology, and President Fuhrman and Provost James . TC students annually provide free services for Ghanaians with communication disorders and development for Ghanaian professionals.
- Led by President Fuhrman and Deborah Ball, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan (U-M), TC and, based at U-M, host a on connecting advances in learning research to teacher practice.
- The , launched in 2011, at Morningside Avenue and 127th Street.
- Science Education faculty member and rapper GZA launch the for New York City high school students.
- Faculty members, Celia Genishi and receive ato prepare dual certified teachers in early childhood education and early childhood special education.
- A report led by faculty member and cost parameters for providing the country’s neediest children with improved educational resources and wraparound services. Rebell debates his recommendations with New York Education Commissioner John King (Ed.D. ’08) and other policymakers.
- The devotes a to faculty member ’s documentation of the disproportionate impact of health disparities on low-income minority youth’s academic achievement.
- TC sets records for applications, new student enrollment and selectivity. Applications are up 26 perÂcent since 2007.
Big Day on TC Way Balloons were in order as New York City proclaimed September 3rd, 2013, as TC Day and co-named West 120th Street as “¶¶Ňőapp Way.”
2013
- TC launches a marking the 125th anniversary of its founding.
- The New-York Historical Society launches the exhibit “¶¶Ňőapp: Pioneering Education through Innovation.” On opening night, the College salutes member of its founding families: the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the Macys, the Milbanks and the Dodges, including TC Board Co-Chair William Dodge Rueckert.
- unites the TC community worldwide.
- September 3rd, 2013 is proclaimed “TC Day” by Mayor Bloomberg, and New York City co-names Manhattan’s West 120th Street as
- A gala evening at Harlem’s Apollo Theater concludes °Ő°ä’s 125th anniversary celebration and launches Where the Future Comes First, the largest-ever campaign for a graduate school of education. TC honors Trustees James Comer and Laurie Tisch, GE Chairman Jeffrey Immelt and the wife-husband team of educator Susan Benedetto (M.A. ’98) and singer Tony Bennett, and announces the Emanuel & Barbra Streisand Fund, the entertainer’s scholarship tribute to her late father, who attended TC.
- (Raising Educational Achievement Coalition of Harlem), a partnership with six Harlem public schools.
- The, funded by Trustee Joyce B. Cowin, prepares 50 New York City high school teachers to incorporate financial education into their classes.
LUCK OF THE DRAWING Students in a class in °Ő°ä’s Creative Technologies program, taught by Richard Jochum, roll these multi-sided dice to set parameters for new artworks they create.
- Board Vice Chair. Half the gift, made outright, seeds new capital initiatives and establishes °Ő°ä’s , led by faculty member . The balance is a call to action to the Board to revamp °Ő°ä’s technology and infrastructure.
- The Tisch Food Center’s includes Newark Mayor and TC Trustee Cory Booker; New York City Council President Christine Quinn; Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer; and Kevin Concannon, U.S. Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services.
- °Ő°ä’s wins a $12 million U.S. Department of Education grant for its STEM Early College Expansion Partnership — °Ő°ä’s largest-ever federal grant and first through the federal Investing in Innovation (i3) program.
“Our alumni are the best representation of TC — our ambassadors, our primary product. We are enormously proud of them.”
— Susan Fuhrman, President, ¶¶Ňőapp
LUCK OF THE DRAWING Students in a class in °Ő°ä’s Creative Technologies program, taught by Richard Jochum, roll these multi-sided dice to set parameters for new artworks they create.
2014
- TC mourns , 96, and , 77.
- °Ő°ä’s Art & Art Education program launches a .
- , a teacher prep program to improve student STEM achievement.
- A $10 million federal grant to °Ő°ä’s Community College Research Center creates the, which evaluates new remedial assessment, placement and instruction approaches.
- TC and the Tyler Clementi Foundation create °Ő°ä’s .
- A study by TC neuroscientist , published in , links poverty to children’s brain development. Nature also spotlights TC psychologist Peter Coleman’s to the study of intractable conflict and publishes findings by Lecturer Joey Lee and doctoral student Jason S. Wu that .
- Faculty members Lori Custodero and Hal Abeles launch the TC Teaching Artist Certificate program, supported by the Morse, Greenberg and Nelson families.
“TC has historically played a key role in art education. So we felt a responsibility to grapple with the rapidly expanding influence of technology in every aspect of the arts.”
— Judith Burton, Macy Professor of Education
- A $1 million gift from David and Maureen O’Connor establishes the , directed by clinical psychologist . The Center pairs groundbreaking research on human emotional resilience with clinical training of students to assist veterans and their families.
- The College launches a for educators, researchers, practitioners, administrators and activists.
- TC launches a — New York’s only culturally appropriate training program in delivering mental health services in Spanish to Latinas/os.
- , Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins publish .
- Led by, TC launches its first fully online doctoral program, which enables nurses with master’s degrees to become nurse educators in academic or staff settings; and an online certificate program in Nursing Education.
- The College its Center for African Education as .
- Led by Pearl Rock Kane, °Ő°ä’s , launches accelerated dual-degree programs in private school leaderÂship and business administration.
- °Ő°ä’s launches a in Teacher EduÂcation — an emerging field focused on those who teach teachers and conduct related research.
“To create a climate of respect, “the numbers come first. Because you have to be around people of other backgrounds to respect and understand them.” — Susan Fuhrman, President, ¶¶Ňőapp
MONEY PLAYERS In April 2016, football great Justin Tuck and his wife, Lauran, joined with Trustee Joyce Cowin and faculty member Anand Marri to celebrate the online expansion of °Ő°ä’s Cowin Financial Literacy Program.
2016
- President Fuhrman launches a , citing the nation’s rising racial tensions and violence, polarized electorate, susceptibility to fake news and declining rates of voting and political participation.
- TC a four-day summer institute, . Led by education sociologist , Reimagining Education unites faculty in helping America’s predominantly white teaching force engage an increasingly diverse student population.
- The Middle States Commission on Higher Education emphatically and affirms its efforts to lead the shaping of 21st-century approaches to teaching and learning.
- The conferencehowcases °Ő°ä’s psychology research on the linking of science and practice, social justice/advocacy, local relevance/global reach, and learning and cognition.
- Jack Hyland, Co-Chair of °Ő°ä’s Board of Trustees, . Hyland’s 29-year service on the Board spans two presidents and two record-setting campaigns.
Broader Discourse Alumni of °Ő°ä’s Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship — including technology professor Lalitha Vasudevan — celebrated the program’s 20th anniversary in 2016.
- With the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology announces an online continuing education training program for school counselors, focusing on college advisement.
- Former New York Giants foot- ball great Justin Tuck and his wife, Lauran, founders of Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy, . The Program is taught online to 126 Cowin Fellows, funded by Trustee Joyce B. Cowin.
- , a new journal edited by faculty member Noah D. Drezner, publishes its first issue.
- Faculty member hosts the 25th Anniversary international RO-MAN conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, on robot and human interactive communication.
- °Ő°ä’s program . Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad speaks on relations of power and equity in the academy.
- Faculty member authors .
- TC introduces a , leading to triple certification in initial childhood education, bilingual education and special education. The program is funded by New York City’s DepartÂment of Education.
- , co-author of , receives the .
- °Ő°ä’s Civic Participation Project, created by professors, and , conducts a forum on the mass incarceration of U.S. minority youth.
- At the of °Ő°ä’s , educators who promote young people’s spiritual development and schools’ spiritual character form a new National
- Council on Spirituality and EducaÂtion, housed at TC. .
- The publisher Heinemann introduces the — books for grades K-8 selected by the nation’s leading provider of literacy profesÂsional development for teachers.
- Early childhood education faculty member and Instructor Jessica Martell receive the for
- °Ő°ä’s Community College Re-search Center . U.S. Second Lady, a full-time community college professor, calls for continÂuation of efforts to improve and expand access, graduation rates and job placements of community college students.
- A study by °Ő°ä’sin the Journal of EduÂcational Psychology finds that high school students improved their science grades by learning about the personal struggles and failed experiments of scientists such as .
- Science educator publishes .
- Psychologist reÂceives the for .
“We’re interested in ensuring that education technology is effective —helping the world design things that actually improve teaching and learning.” — Susan Fuhrman, President, ¶¶Ňőapp
BUILDING ON STRENGTH Erica Walker, Professor of Mathematics Education, is the new Director of °Ő°ä’s Institute of Urban and Minority Education, founded by her mentor, psychologist Edmund Gordon.
2017
- At °Ő°ä’s , themed “From Ferguson to Flint: Multicultural Competencies for Community-Based Trauma,” TC psychologist receives the conference’s annual Janet E. Helms Award for contributions to the field.
- °Ő°ä’s Gottesman Libraries opens its new Smith Learning Theater funded by an $8 million grant from TC Trustee Camilla Smith (M.A. ’72) and her husband, George.
- TC convenes “”, a symposium on the future of public education.
- The College .
- In New York, the Guggenheim Museum mounts a, while the Studio Museum of Harlem exhibits works by Alma Thomas (M.A. ’34). Georgia O’Keeffe, a TC student prior to World War I, is the focus at the Tate Modern in London.
- President Fuhrman announces a college-wide initiative to improve the quality of education technology. TC launches an in which student teams, mentored by faculty and industry experts, develop research-based concepts and prototypes for educational tools.
- Psychology professor emeritus , a pioneer in the fields of conflict resolution, cooperative learning and social justice, passes away at 97.
- TC faculty members are elected to head three leading professional societies: ; Regina Cortina, as President-elect of the ; and Barbara Tversky, as President-elect of the.
- , Professor of Mathematics Education, is , (IUME) founded by her mentor, Professor Emeritus Edmund W. Gordon. At a forum co-sponsored by Save the Children, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Pearson Education company, TC faculty member outlining strategies to improve teaching for refugee children.
HI-TECH TRIO Danielle Llaneza (M.A. ’18), Rebecca Kwee (M.A. ’18) and Asha Owens (M.A. ’18) won °Ő°ä’s first student EdTech Innovation Competition for Best Fit, an app that helps high school students learn about college life.
- The World Health Organization globally authored by TC psychologist Lena Verdeli, guiding non-specialÂists in using an evidence-based psychotherapy shown to alleviate debilitating depression in refugee populations.
- , an advanced placement seminar on the forced dispersal of African people worldwide, pilots in New York City and Huntsville, Alabama. The course was developed largely at °Ő°ä’s .
- and build a case aimed at persuadÂing the U.S. Supreme Court to establish a Constitutional right to a quality education, based on the need for civic preparation.
- °Ő°ä’s Campaign, Where the Future Comes First, breaks the $300 million mark.
2018
- A paper published in Clinical Psychology Review by doctoral student Meaghan Mobbs and psychologist finds that military veterans are more of returning to civilian life than by post-traumatic stress syndrome. They call for a paradigm shift in research and treatment.
- directed by , Professor of Cognitive Studies, and presents its inaugural EPIC Achievement Award to businessman and philanthropist Dr. . EPIC, which will study failure across disciplines as a catalyst for innovation and success, is funded by ; the Alvin I. & Peggy S. Brown Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.; the ; and the .
- TC formally launches the , one of the nation’s largest, most prestigious and most competitive private teaching fellowship programs. Funded by a $10 million gift from the late ¶¶Ňőapp Trustee Emerita Abby M. O’Neill, the Fellowships support outstanding TC students committed to teaching in New York City schools. Each Fellow receives $40,000 in tuition assistance.
- Teacher educator and researcher is named the next , effective September 1, succeeding Pearl Rock Kane, who has led the Center since 1980.
“IUME ... was one of the very first university initiatives of its kind to address issues in urban education and advocate for underserved people. That focus, created by Dr. Gordon, was such an important innovation, and we want to carry it forward into the 21st century — especially in the current political climate.”
— Erica Walker, Professor of Mathematics Education
- Pearl Rock Kane receives .
- , °Ő°ä’s George & Abby O’Neill Professor of Economics & Education, is , beginning his duties on July 1st. Bailey founded °Ő°ä’s .
°Ő°ä’s Bilingual Latina/o Mental Health Concentration prepares bicultural/bilingual counselors and counseling psychologists to serve Latina/o clients in Spanish. It is the only such program in the New York area and one of just a handful in the nation. From left: Katherine Ramirez, Mariel Buque, Pierluigi Bellini and Danisha Baro, students in °Ő°ä’s Latina/o Mental Health concentration.