Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter (May 1989)

Perspective is a newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter (September 1989)

Perspective is a newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter (January 1990)

Perspective is a newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter (April 1990)

Perspective is a newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter [1979]

A newsletter published monthly to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter [1975]

A newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College. Cover article: GOVERNOR CAREY APPOINTS PRESIDENT SHENKER TO HIGHER ED. TASK FORCE. Other entries include: COLLEGE'S FIRST MUSIC FESTIVAL TO HONOR CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO; WNET TV AUCTION; CHANNEL 9 TO SHOW CO-OP SPOTS.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter [1974]

A newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College Cover article: Senate Studies New Grading Policy.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter [1974}

A newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College. Cover article: LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SENATE PLAN APPROVED. Other entries: 2nd Annual Commencement Date Decided; Pan Appointed Head of Environmental Services;Students Form Choral Club, Accounting Club; Faculty and staff news.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter [1974]

A newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College Cover article: SEVEN DISTINGUISHED GUESTS TO ATTEND SYMPOSIUM ON LAGUARDIA & ETHNIC VOTE. Other entries: BHE ADOPTS TENURE GUIDELINES AND IMPLEMENTATION STEPS; OVERFLOW AUDIENCE ATTENDS POST VISIONS OF WAR SYMPOSIUM; LAGUARDIA FLYERS SEEK FIRST BASKETBALL WIN; DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION BEGINS 3RD YEAR WITH WINTER PROGRAM; TYPING FOR HANDICAPPED PROGRAM SEEKS ADDITIONAL STUDENTS.

Perspective: LaGuardia Community College Newsletter [1973]

A newsletter published periodically to keep the faculty, students, staff, and community informed about the activities taking place on the campus of LaGuardia Community College. Cover article: CUNY CHANCELLOR KIBBEE, WOMEN'S CITY CLUB SCHEDULE VISITS HERE.

Future Students, Future Revenues: Thriving in a Decade of Demographic Decline:

Over the past decade, universities were able to grow revenue primarily by growing enrollment and increasing net tuition per student. But demographic and economic changes will make it increasingly difficult for all but a handful of institutions to grow tuition revenue at historic rates. Despite rising access rates, demographic projections suggest that the number of high school graduates will decline over the coming decade, leading to a dramatic drop-off in the overall rate of enrollment growth. The traditional population of 18- to 22-year-olds will remain a majority at most institutions, but enrollment growth will come primarily from other student segments. Populations such as community college transfers, international undergraduates, professional master’s students, and adult degree completers offer the best opportunities to grow enrollment and tuition revenue. Serving them well requires significant investments, new organizational models, and cultural change on campus. This can be done in a financially sustainable way—fulfilling the university’s mission to serve a diverse range of students while providing financial resources to support the core. This brief analyzes the forces that will shape higher education over the next decade and highlights the strategies and competencies that colleges and universities will need to be successful.

Strategic adoption in a two-sided market : a study of college applications in Brazil

This paper measures the importance of indirect network effects in the adoption by colleges and students of ENEM, a standardized exam for high-school students in Brazil that can be used in college application processes. We estimate network effects and find that they are economically significant. Students are more likely to take ENEM the larger the number of colleges adopting it. Similarly, colleges are more likely to adopt it the larger the number of students taking the exam. Moreover, we find evidence that colleges play strategically and that heterogeneity determines their decisions. A college is less likely to adopt ENEM the larger the number of competitors adopting it. Colleges’ characteristics such as ownership and organization affect adoption decisions. In a counterfactual exercise we compare colleges’ adoption decisions under competition and under joint colleges’ payoffs maximization. Adoption rates are significantly reduced when colleges internalize the competitive effect, i.e., the effect of their decisions on other colleges’ payoffs. On the other hand, they increase when indirect network effects - the effect of students’ response to their decisions on other colleges’ payoffs - are also internalized. Competitive adoption rates are found to exceed joint optimum rates by a small difference. These results suggest that, without considering students’ welfare, adoption rates are excessive, but close to the joint optimum.

The effects of a centralized college admission mechanism on migration and college enrollment: evidence from Brazil

No Brasil, a recente reformulação do Exame Nacional de Ensino Médio (ENEM) e a criação do Sistema de Seleção Unificada (SISU), um mecanismo de admissão centralizado que aloca os alunos às instituições, promoveram mudanças relevantes no Ensino Superior. Neste artigo, investigamos os efeitos da introdução do SISU na migração e evasão dos alunos ingressantes a partir dos dados do Censo de Educação Superior. Para tal, exploramos a variação temporal na adesão das instituições ao SISU e encontramos que a adoção do SISU está associada a um aumento da mobilidade entre municípios e entre estados dos alunos ingressantes em 3.8 pontos percentuais (p.p) e 1.6 p.p., respectivamente. Além disso, encontramos um aumento da evasão em 4.5 p.p. Nossos resultados indicam que custos associados à migração e comportamento estratégico são importantes determinantes da evasão dos alunos.

Turning math attractive to computer science students: an application-to-model approach

This paper describes an innovative approach to develop the understanding about the relevance of mathematics to computer science. The mathematical subjects are introduced through an application-to-model scheme that lead computer science students to a better understanding of why they have to learn math and learn it effectively. Our approach consists of a single one semester course, taught at the first semester of the program, where the students are initially exposed to some typical computer applications. When they recognize the applications' complexity, the instructor gives the mathematical models supporting such applications, even before a formal introduction to the model in a math course. We applied this approach at Unesp (Brazil) and the results include a large reduction in the rate of students that abandon the college and better students in the final years of our program.

Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences Book of Abstracts 2010

The College of Arts and Sciences proudly presents the eighth issue of the Book of Abstracts, which highlights the work conducted by students in collaboration with faculty mentors. This collection of abstracts represents many hours of scholarly activity in which students further developed their research, critical thinking, and writing skills and engaged in learning well beyond the classroom.