Student Achievement
Guttman Community College Appoints Dr. Daniel Ambrose as Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs
June 27, 2023 | Admissions, Student Achievement
NEW YORK, N.Y. (June 28, 2023) – With approval from the City University of New York Board of Trustees, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College appoints Dr. Daniel Ambrose as Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs. A long-time staff member at the College, Dr. Ambrose is well poised to provide executive oversight and […]
Guttman Community College Celebrates 10th Annual Commencement, Confers 180 Degrees
June 22, 2023 | Commencement, Student Achievement, Student Engagement
2023 Ceremony Featured Keynote Speaker Andrea Shapiro Davis of the New York City’s Mayor’s Office New York, N.Y. (June 22, 2023) – On Wednesday, June 21, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College (“Guttman”) President Larry Johnson presided over the College’s 10th annual Commencement ceremony, which took place across the street from the College in Bryant Park […]
Two Guttman Selected for Prestigious Emerson College Education Abroad Program
May 22, 2023 | Student Achievement, Student Feature, Student Spotlight, Study Abroad
Two Guttman Community College students will participate in the James Baldwin Writer’s Colony at Kasteel Well in The Netherlands and will be taught by Emerson faculty who are also Baldwin scholars. The students were nominated by Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members and were selected as Guttman’s first participants in the program. The finalists are: […]
A CUNY Story About Soul-Searching, Calling, and True Love: Alumna Shaitasia Holley, ‘16
December 19, 2022 | Alumni, Alumni Achievement, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Global Guttman, Publication, Student Achievement
Have you ever started a conversation with the familiar “What do you do?” and found, a few minutes in, that you’ve somehow been pulled toward the more profound question of “Who are you becoming?” Talk with Shaitasia “Shai” Holley, and that’s where she gently steers the first five minutes of your dialogue. It’s not surprising, […]
Two Valedictorians for the Guttman Community College Class of 2022
July 11, 2022 | Academics, Commencement, Student Achievement
Guttman’s Chapter of PTK Achieves 5-Star Status and Wins Multiple Awards
June 23, 2022 | Awards, Student Achievement
Two Guttman Students Selected as Semifinalists for the Prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship
March 21, 2022 | Academics, Awards, Scholarships, Student Achievement, Student Government, Student Spotlight
Guttman Community College students Bashir Juwara and Camila Rodriguez have been selected as semi-finalists for the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, making history as the first Guttman students to receive the honor in the College’s ten-year history. Mr. Juwara and Ms. Rodriguez join a distinguished group of 440 semifinalists from community colleges around the country and are two of 22 CUNY students competing for the prize. The Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship offers coverage for students’ educational expenses for the two to three years necessary to achieve a bachelor’s degree at a transfer institution. Winners will be announced in May. The two Guttman scholars’ journeys leading up to the decision and graduation at the end of the semester are marked with resilience and perseverance.
Guttman Students Present at Global Scholars Achieving Career Success (GSACS) Fall 2021 Student Conference
January 10, 2022 | Academics, Career Development, Conference Presentation, Experiential Learning, Faculty, Global Guttman, Grants, Humanities and Social Sciences, International Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Research, Student Achievement
Guttman Community College students participated in the international Global Scholars Achieving Career Success (GSACS) Fall 2021 Student Conference held on December 1st and 4th 2021. GSACS is a collaborative multi-campus program that foregrounds United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and career readiness competencies in class-to-class virtual exchanges between students from five colleges at the City University of New York (CUNY): Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, LaGuardia Community College (lead), and Queens College of the City University of New York, and at four universities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (Morocco), The American University in Cairo, Jordan University of Science and Technology, and Palestine Ahliya University.
Guttman Community College Expands Scholarship Offerings
November 17, 2021 | Academics, Awards, Scholarships, Student Achievement
Guttman Community College is pleased to announce that it is expanding and deepening its scholarship offerings.
Guttman Students and Alumni Publish Anthology of Short Stories
October 20, 2021 | Academics, Alumni, Alumni Achievement, Experiential Learning, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Publication, Student Achievement
Twenty-three Guttman students have published an anthology of original short stories, Trauma and Triumph: 23 Tales. These first-time authors offered a range of stories in multiple languages including code. Stories played with the narrative frame by positioning the narrator as both passive and active. Stories also included fairytales and diary entries formats. The range of topics is prolific in scope often swinging from periods of grave trauma to heights of great and wondrous triumph.
