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    2015 September 12-November 30

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    GENERAL COVERAGE Sep 12 Daily Trust (Nigeria)

    Rukayya Nasir Sani wrote a first-person essay for Abuja’s leading daily newspaper about her experience as a Mandela Washington Fellow at Wagner College this summer.

    Read the Daily Trust Nigeria essay
    Sep 16 Staten Island Advance

    Editor Claire Regan wrote a short preview of the upcoming scholarship and awards dinner held each year by Wagner College’s DaVinci Society.

    Read the story about the awards dinner
    Sep 16 Advance

    Annalise Knudson wrote a story about the New York Women’s Foundation’s annual Neighborhood Dinner, hosted this year by Wagner College.

    Read Annalise Knudson's story
    Sep 18 Advance

    Carol Ann Benanti wrote a story about the DaVinci Society dinner.

    Read the story about the DaVinci Society dinner
    Sep 26 Forbes

    Kristina Killgrove wrote about how Wagner College anthropology professor Celeste Gagnon brews traditional Peruvian chicha corn beer in a laboratory with her research students to help in studies of how an individual’s diet, as evidenced in her skeletal remains, could help tell a story about life in ancient societies.

    Read Kristina Killgrove's story in Forbes
    Oct 4 Al-Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

    The state-run daily newspaper in Riyadh published a story about how Wagner College students celebrate Eid el-Adha.

    Read the story in Al-Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
    Oct 15 Huffington Post

    Sandra Kwesi Cameron wrote a review on her Huff Po Arts & Culture blog of a photo exhibition in Wagner College’s Spotlight Gallery: Fern Metcalf’s “Cuba and Its Magic.”

    Read Sandra Kwesi Cameron's story
    Nov 2 Advance

    Tracey Porpora wrote about how several civic and cultural institutions on Staten Island — Wagner College among them — had testified before New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission in opposition to imposing landmark status on some of their oldest buildings. The LPC is considering the resolution of a 1966 landmark nomination for Cunard Hall that was left unresolved by the commission after a 1976 public hearing.

    Read Tracey Porpora's story in the Advance
    Nov 4 Advance

    Diane Lore previewed a Kristallnacht observance by Wagner College’s Holocaust Education & Programming Center.

    Read the story about the Kristallnacht observance
    Nov 15 Sunday Times (U.K.)

    Martin Daubney wrote about a new wrinkle in the “male rights” movement that’s best known by its acronym, MGTOW — Men Going Their Own Way. One of the experts quoted in the story was Wagner College psychology professor Miles Groth, a pioneer in the field of male studies.

    Read Martin Daubney's story in the Sunday Times
    Nov 19 Advance

    Ryan Lavis wrote a news story about a community forum at Wagner College on heroin abuse on Staten Island, co-sponsored by the Staten Island Advance. The event was also covered by the national Fox News morning program, “Fox & Friends,” for later broadcast.

    Read Ryan Lavis' story about the community forum
    Nov 27 Advance

    Kathryn Carse wrote about Wagner College art professor Bill Murphy’s newest project: graphically documenting the progress of construction on the New York Wheel, being built on the St. George, Staten Island waterfront.

    Read Kathryn Carse's story about Bill Murphy's project
    Nov 30 Quad City Times

    The Davenport, Iowa daily paper published an op-ed essay by Wagner College art history professor Laura Morowitz, “Turning Away Refugees is Inhumane.” The essay was first published by the online op-ed distributor Inside Sources on Nov. 27.

    Read the essay for the Quad City Times
    COLLEGE RANKINGS Oct 2 New York Times

    In his “Common Sense” column, New York Times business writer James B. Stewart ranked Wagner College #6 on a list he created of the highest “value added” colleges in the nation.

    Read the column and watch a related CNBC interview
    Oct 21 New York Post

    Erika Prafder wrote a story about the Princeton Review’s new book, “Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers by Going Beyond the Classroom,” in which Wagner College was prominently featured. She interviewed modern languages professor Margarita Sanchez for the story. Read both versions of the story- from the print edition, and the significantly longer online edition.

    Read both versions of Erika Prafder's story in the New York Post
    PRESIDENT GUARASCI Oct 13 KFAB-AM

    Wagner College President Richard Guarasci was interviewed on KFAB, a news radio station in Omaha, Nebraska, in connection with the annual conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, of which he is also president. The CUMU conference was being hosted by the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Also interviewed was UNO Chancellor John Christiansen.

    Listen to the KFAB-AM interview with President Guarasci
    Oct 21 Inside Higher Ed

    Kellie Woodhouse wrote about how, according to President Guarasci, Wagner College made a decision in the challenging times after the 2008 financial meltdown to “protect quality rather than chase volume” by either reducing admissions standards or raising the discount rate.

    Read Kelly Woodhouse's story for Inside Higher Ed
    Nov 11 Courier-Post

    In an op-ed, President Guarasci wrote, “Racism isn’t an issue confined to college campuses, but as the events of the past week at the University of Missouri have shown, the college environment can be a microcosm that highlights challenges our entire society is experiencing.” The essay was also published in Newsday.

    Read the op-ed essay in the Courier-Post
    PORT RICHMOND PARTNERSHIP & 30,000 DEGREES Sep 21 Huffington Post

    In his Huff Po Religion Blog essay, Wagner College government professor and campus rabbi Abe Unger writes that Wagner College’s Port Richmond Partnership is an exemplar of how modern American colleges should engage with “the global village” in their own back yards.

    Read the Huffington Post Religion Blog essay
    Nov 10 Advance

    Diane Lore wrote about an event at Wagner College celebrating 30,000 Degrees, a 10-year initiative designed to boost the number of 4-year college degrees held by Staten Islanders. Wagner College is one of the partners spearheading the initiative.

    Read the story celebrating 30,000 degrees
    Nov 13 New York 1 & NY1 Noticias

    Stories aired in English and Spanish about the collaboration between Wagner College and Port Richmond’s P.S. 20 in a public art installation by artist Lina Montoya called “Las Mariposas Amarillas (The Yellow Butterflies).”

    Read the story about the collaborating
    Nov 17 Advance

    Lauren Steussy profiled artist Lina Montoya after the Nov. 13 installation of “Las Mariposas Amarillas” on the Wagner College campus.

    Read the profile on Lina Montoya
    CAREY INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM Sep 28 Newsweek

    Joshua Spivak, senior fellow at Wagner College’s Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform, published an opinion essay, “You’re Fired! Boehner Succumbs to the Republican Way of Leadership.”

    Read Joshua Spivak's op-ed essay in Newsweek
    Oct 12 Reuters

    “Under the U.S. Constitution, the House of Representatives was originally designed to be the unruly chamber of Congress,” Spivak wrote in his op-ed essay about the succession struggles on Capitol Hill. “Last week, Americans got to see some of what the founders expected.”

    Read Joshua Spivak's op-ed essay in Reuters
    Oct 14 Time

    Joshua Spivak wrote on op-ed essay about a “ridiculous” loophole in the Constitution’s description of who can become Speaker of the House.

    Read Joshua Spivak's op-ed essay in Time
    Oct 20 The Hill

    In this essay, written after a strong debate performance by Hillary Clinton but preceding Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not run for president, Joshua Spivak looks at the history of presidential runs by vice presidents and former veeps.

    Read Joshua Spivak's op-ed essay in The Hill
    Nov 2 Education Week

    A news story about a school board recall election in Jefferson County, Colo., drew upon Joshua Spivak as an expert source. Spivak is one of the country’s leading experts on recall elections.

    Read Joshua Spivak's essay on Education Week
    Nov 4 The Gazette (AP)

    A news story reported that several members of the Jefferson County, Colo. school board had been ousted in a recall election. Joshua Spivak was tapped as an expert for the story.

    Read Joshua Spivak's essay in The Gazette
    WAGNER COLLEGE THEATRE Oct 1 Advance

    Entertainment editor Rob Bailey wrote a preview cover and centerspread story about the upcoming Wagner College Theatre production of “Damn Yankees!”

    Read the story about Damn Yankees
    Oct 5 Broadway World

    A story previewed Wagner College Theatre’s upcoming Stage One production of the Obie-winning play, “Dutchman,” by LeRoi Jones, and the musical short, “21 Chump Street,” by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

    Read the Broadway World story about Dutchman and 21 Chump Street
    Oct 8 Advance

    Nicole DeRosa wrote a preview of “21 Chump Street” and “Dutchman.”

    Read the preview of 21 Chump Street and Dutchman
    Nov 2 Broadway World

    A preview of Wagner College Theatre’s Advisory Board benefit show, “Wagner Sings Rock & Roll,” for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

    Read the story about the benefit
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