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The conference, which took place at TIAA-CREF's New York City headquarters, was co-sponsored by TIAA-CREF's Corporate Governance Group, headed by Peter C. Clapman, TIAA-CREF senior vice president and chief counsel, Corporate Governance. The mission of the TIAA-CREF Institute, created in 1998, is to broaden and strengthen TIAA-CREF's longstanding leadership role in supporting lifelong financial security for individuals and their families. The Institute's fields of research and education include: pension and retirement issues; health, life and long-term care insurance; investment products and strategies; endowments and planned giving; higher education financing and trends; corporate governance; and financial literacy.
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The Center for Arts Education (CAE), the leading voice in restoring and revitalizing the arts in New York City public schools, is pleased to announce 150 new Parents As Arts Partners grants have been awarded for the Spring 2007 semester. The grants total nearly $450,000 and have been awarded to a rich variety of New York City public schools to implement original arts-based programs designed to suit the individual needs of each school.
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Ellen Goetz is the Director of Resource Development at Common Ground Community, a New York City non-profit housing and community development organization dedicated to solving homelessness. Prior to joining Common Ground, she was one of the founding staff members of the Center for Reproductive Rights. A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, Ms. Goetz was the Center for Reproductive Rights Development Director for eight years, before becoming Managing Director in 2001. During her tenure, the organization grew from a budget of $1.3 million to over $7.7 million. Ms. Goetz is the former Legal Assistant to the Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project (RFP) and a Staff Attorney at the Legal Aid Society. She was ... a Legal Fellow and consultant for the Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU, as well as a consultant at the Volunteer Lawyers Project in Boston, MA.
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New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein has been under some heavy and well deserved fire recently for his curricular policies. This blog entry is based on articles and opinion pieces by James Traub, Sol Stern and Andrew Wolf; and on the Web pages of New York City HOLD.
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Professor Bernstein closely follows New York City business growth and neighborhood economic development. Her teaching interests include journalistic writing, media ethics, feature article writing, covering New York City business, and covering the business of arts and culture. A recipient of Baruch’s Distinguished Teaching and Service awards, Bernstein is a graduate of Brandeis and holds a Ph.D. in English from N.Y.U. As a faculty fellow in Baruch College's Office of College Advancement, she helped create the literature and wrote proposals for The Campaign for Baruch, a fund raising initiative that has raised millions for the College.
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At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the driver which previous passenger might have left it, but the cabbie didn't seem to care. So Gunderson brought it home and showed it to her fiance, Brian Ascher. They decided that the only right thing to do was to find the owner.
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