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News and Events of Interestto the College Community
January 28, 2009
Worth Noting
February 2-3
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4th Annual GuggenheimConference on Crimein America
A New Beginning Exploring the Criminal Justice Challenges for the Next Four Years.
Presented by the Center on Media, Crimeand Justice. Includes presentation of the annual John Jay Excellence in Journalism Awards.Room 630, Haaen Hall
February 3
7:30
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Happy Birthday,Felix Mendelssohn!
A concert celebrating the 200thbirthday of the Romantic composer.Narrated by Eli Wallach.Gerald W. Lynch Teater
February 20
10:00
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Forensic Linguistics forInvestigative Practitioners
A workshop presented by the Center forModern Forensic Practice andthe John Jay Department of English.RSVP to jdoyle@jjay.cuny.edu.Room 630 Haaren Hall
February 23
12:30
PM
3:00
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Making (Much) Better Senseof the Culture of Black Menin Crisis
Dr. Alford Young Jr.University of MichiganCo-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Department of African AmericanStudies, Gender Studies Program, CUNY Black Male Initiative and the Center onRace, Crime and Justice.Gerald W. Lynch Teater Lobby
Since 9/11, John Jay has aggressively focusedon developing programs to meet the changingsecurity imperatives of the private sector. Theopening of the Center for Business Preparednessis the latest addition to this strategy. Thisresearch hub will be led by a recognizedexpert in corporate security and business riskmanagement.Thomas E. Cavanagh, whose appointment wasannounced by President Jeremy Travis on January22, comes to John Jay from The ConferenceBoard (TCB), where he was Senior ResearchAssociate, having joined TCB’s research staff in1998.“With corporate security expert TomCavanagh as its director, the Center onBusiness Preparedness will be able to offera comprehensive program of research andnetworking opportunities that will keeppractitioners abreast of the latest developmentsand enable them to benchmark their effortsagainst the prevailing standards,” Travis said.Cavanagh, who holds bachelor’s and master’sdegrees from Yale University, has served asprincipal investigator for a number of majorreports on corporate security and preparedness,including “Corporate Security Management:Organization and Spending Since 9/11,”“Navigating Risk: The Business Case for Security”and the forthcoming “Preparedness in the PrivateSector.”“The field of business preparedness isrelatively new and is evolving very rapidly,”Cavanagh observed.“It incorporates a lotof different elements,ranging from routinesecurity managementto business continuityand disaster recovery.At John Jay, we willbe able to draw onan extensive body ofexpertise on protectionmanagement,emergency response,cybercrime andterrorism to create adynamic and excitingprogram on businesspreparedness.“John Jay has a tradition of effectivelyintegrating top-quality research with practicalexperience, so it is an excellent home forthis new program, and I look forward to thechallenge of developing it,” Cavanagh said.As a research and information clearinghouse,the Center for Business Preparedness will explorebest practices, preparedness standards andprocedures, and analyses of public safety andcorporate security strategies. Its first initiative,undertaken in conjunction with The ConferenceBoard, will be an in-depth examination ofpreparedness in the private sector. Researcherswill interview corporate security executivesto determine the extent to which specificTwenty-two employees were honored asthe latest winners of the Bravo! EmployeeRecognition Awards on December 19.“I don’t often get a chance to say to a groupof employees like the ones we have here howappreciative I am of all your hard work,” saidPresident Jeremy Travis. “You have strengthenedthe core values of this institution.”The third semiannual group of divisionalBravo! award winners were recognized for their“new and creative ideas, innovative problem-solving and superior customer service,” saidRobert Pignatello, Senior Vice President forFinance and Administration. Pignatello wenton to note that a new wellness and work lifeinitiative will soon be unveiled at John Jay, asan outgrowth of the successful Bravo! SummerInstitute launched in 2008.The College’s vice presidents were called tothe podium in alphabetical order to introduce theemployees in their units who were to receive theBravo! awards. The winners were:
Academic Affairs:
Priscilla Acuna(Interdisciplinary Studies Program), David Barnet(Office of Educational Partnerships), EsperanzaLopez-Herrera (Department of Government),A great college, like a great city, deserves agreat performing-arts program, and with thatin mind, John Jay’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater hasunveiled its Spring 2009 Series of concerts, playsand other events.The season commences on February 3 witha 200th birthday salute to Felix Mendelssohn,who is perhaps best known for his “WeddingMarch,” originally composed as incidental musicfor a production of Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
. The free concert narrated by actorEli Wallach will include selections from the stringoctets Mendelssohn wrote as a youth, arias fromhis oratorio “Elijah,” and his Trio for Piano in DMinor.Another bicentennial — that of the deathof composer Joseph Haydn — will be markedin a series of performances beginning February18, as the Gotham Chamber Opera presentsthe New York City stage premiere of Haydn’s
L’isola Disabitata
(Desert Island). The production,directed by acclaimed choreographer MarkMorris, will also be presented on February 21, 25,27 and 28.Theatre, theology and the judicial processcollide when the Department of Communicationand Theatre Arts, in conjunction with theAPACHE Project, presents
The Last Days of JudasIscariot
, directed by Professor Dana Tarantino.The serio-comic play, which will be performedfrom April 21-25, takes an imagined look atthe plight and fate of the New Testament’smost notorious sinner in a trial of “God and theKingdom of Heaven and Earth v. Judas Iscariot.”The Spring 2009 Series also includes:¶
Water, Our Most Precious Resource,
anarrated free concert of traditional spirituals,gospel and folk music to celebrate World WaterDay on March 22;¶ “
Killadelphia,”
the latest work fromaward-winning playwright and performer SeanChristopher Lewis, which runs April 29, 30 andMay 1, and uses hip-hop and documentarytheater techniques to tell the story of murderedteaching fellow Beau Zabel;¶
Culturefest!,
a weeklong festival ofperformances and events from March 2-5 tocelebrate John Jay’s cultural diversity;¶
Ballet Academy East
presenting the springperformance by its Pre-professional Division, May22-24, with works choreographed by leadingartists of the dance world;¶
Barnes & Noble Storytelling Hour,
onFebruary 4, March 18 and April 8, a special storytime for children and caregivers.Complete details of coming events, includingtimes and ticketing information, are on thetheater Web site, www.jjay.cuny.edu/theater. E-mail theater@jjay.cuny.edu to get regular updatesabout events.
Music, Drama and More Fill the Teater’s Spring Bill
The newest recipients of the Bravo! Employee Recognition Awards, joined by Senior Vice President Robert Pignatello and President Travis, have plenty of reason to smile after they were honored on December 19.
College Says Bravo! to Latest Groupof Employees Who Go the Extra Mile
New Center Focuses on the Private Sector’sChanging Security-Preparedness Needs
Ashton Franklyn (Criminal Justice Center), SusyMendes (Office of Sponsored Programs);
Student Development:
William Altham(Health Services), Ma’at Lewis Coles (CounselingCenter), Premwati Sukhan (Office of Internshipsand Cooperative Education);
Finance and Administration:
Yagris Diaz(Bursar’s Office), Christine Johnson (HumanResources), Ynes Leon (Facilities Management),Cadelie Neat (Business Office), Louie Perillo(Department of Information Technology), ShirleyRobinson (Mailroom), Barbara Wala (Security);
Enrollment Management:
Crystal Brathwaite(One-Stop Center), Ariel Del Rosario (One-StopCenter), Dawn Layne (Registrar), Mariela Nuñez(Graduate Admissions), David Primak (Registrar),Sara Scaldaferry (Registrar);
Strategic Planning:
Gail Hauss (InstitutionalResearch).preparedness standards have been implemented.The project will also gather and report data oncorporate procedures for emergency response,disaster recovery and crisis management.The research will be funded by a grant fromthe U.S. Department of Homeland Security toThe Conference Board.“We’re delighted to see that the work webegan here will continue in partnership withJohn Jay, and we congratulate them on theestablishment of the Center,” said David J. Vidal,founder of The Conference Board’s security andpreparedness research programs and directorof its Center for Corporate Citizenship &Sustainability.
Thomas E. Cavanagh (left), director of John Jay’s new Center for Busi-ness Preparedness, and the cover of one of his recent reports for TheConference Board.
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