A key goal at Lehman is to
ensure that our students have access to the technologies and
resources they need in a world that is increasingly fast-paced,
mobile and hyper-connected. We are pleased to share several
planned technology initiatives as Lehman's spring semester gets
underway. These projects reflect a collaborative effort across
campus departments to enhance student success:
1) Our Mobile Printing pilot is now
available to all students. This initiative allows students to
launch a print...
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On this day, the nation remembers one of its greatest
visionaries and champions of justice, Dr. Martin Luther King.
Regular occasions on which the nation can remember Dr. King, his
struggle for justice, and his vision of a better world, are
important. The historical experience has demonstrated that there is
no “resting place” in the quest for civil rights. Civil rights are
secured and preserved only through the sustained effort of each
generation. With human nature being what it is, faded...
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With its roaring winds, battering waves, and sweeping surge,
Sandy reminded New Yorkers that hurricanes are not a rarity in the
New York Metropolitan Area. Whether Sandy will officially be
classified as a hurricane at landfall or a powerful post-tropical
cyclone in the final analysis is a technical issue that changes
little. The risk of tropical cyclone impacts is real.
Since 1800, New Jersey, New York, and/or Connecticut have
experienced 19 hurricanes (Category 1 or stronger winds). Seven...
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For winter's rains and ruins are
over,
And all the season of snows, and
sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that
wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring
begins.
(excerpt from Chorus of
"Atalanta in Calydon" by Swinburne, Project Gutenberg, public
domain)
The now somewhat infamous tree outside the window of my office
in Shuster Hall...
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Welcome to Jean Geiger's blog about people and places at Lehman
College! I want to share with you the sights and sounds here
on campus. I may write about the people I meet or
the things I see. Each post will be a little taste
of what Lehman is like. I hope they will entice
you to visit our historic campus or, if you are already part of the
Lehman community, to see it with fresh eyes.
So I will start very simply. The first thing I look at
each morning when I arrive at my office in Shuster Hall...
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