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Nanette Shaw
Minority students aspiring to careers in college teaching will present research on topics ranging from Tennyson's poetry to the psychology of fear, race and Constitutional law to the implications of distance learning for diverse populations, at a special all-day conference at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, February 4. The conference is being presented by The Graduate Center's Pipeline Program, which encourages promising CUNY undergraduate students who come from traditionally underrepresented populations to become university professors. "The Third Annual CUNY Pipeline Conference: Imagining the Future Through Research" will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the 9th Floor of The Graduate Center's new campus at 365 Fifth Avenue. The program is free and open to the public. About 21 of Pipeline's current undergraduate students and alumni already in graduate school will present their research in three interdisciplinary panel discussions. The program will also feature a film, "James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket," and a keynote speech by Prof. Robert Viscusi, Executive Officer, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College. Through Pipeline, students explore the pathways leading to careers in academia. The program provides financial support and educational development programs, such as research projects, preparation for the Graduate Record Examination, and guidance in applying to graduate schools. Twenty-one undergraduate students are currently participating, and 75 Pipeline alumni are pursuing their doctoral degrees. The program is funded by the Aaron Diamond Foundation and is administered through the Office of Educational Opportunity and Diversity Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. The Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution of the largest urban university in the U.S. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, The Graduate Center draws its faculty of more than 1,600 members mainly from the CUNY senior colleges and cultural and scientific institutions throughout New York City. Established in 1961, The Graduate Center has grown to an enrollment of nearly 4,000 students in 31 doctoral programs and seven master's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Graduate Center also houses 24 research centers and institutes and administers the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. According to a recent National Research Council report, more than a third of The Graduate Center's rated programs rank among the nation's top 20 at public and private institutions, nearly a quarter are among the top ten when compared to publicly supported institutions alone, and more than half are among the top five programs at publicly supported institutions in the northeast. |