Seven Lehman Spring '13 Tech Initiatives

Friday, February 8, 2013 by Ron Bergmann

imageA 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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Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King

Monday, January 21, 2013 by DONALD SUTHERLAND

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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Sandy's Impact Shows Region's Hurricane Risk

Monday, November 5, 2012 by DONALD SUTHERLAND

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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Blossom by blossom the spring begins!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by Jean Geiger

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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Looking at Lehman

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 by Jean Geiger
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...Read More » »