Writing Instructor’s Book One of The Times’ Ten Best
Adjunct Instructor Matt de la Pena’s book, A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, has been named one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2011 by The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Pena, who teaches Novel Writing, is the author of four other books.
SCPS Extends its Global Reach with Tools for New Diplomats
Every third week of September, thousands of diplomats descend on the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. While they represent the most advanced industrialized countries as well as the least developed ones, those diplomats on first assignment to the General Assembly have something in common: little or no prior exposure to multinational institutions. 
Recognizing that the absence of previous exposure to a complex institutions such as the UN is a challenge to many diplomats, Vera Jelinek, divisional dean of the Center for Global Affairs, launched the “Tools for New Diplomats” preparatory workshops in 2000.
Career Coach Says, “Take Control of Your Job Search!”
Robert Hellmann
The latest employment figures released by the government provided no comfort to the 14 million unemployed Americans, but career and executive coach Robert Hellmann, an adjunct instructor in the Department of Career, Education, and Life Planning says that many of them are unaware of options that may help them find work.
CGA’s Galeotti comments on Russian spy ring
Professor Mark Galeotti of the NYU-SCPS Center for Global Affairs has been interviewed extensively regarding this week’s arrest by the FBI of 10 members of an alleged Russian spy ring.
An expert on espionage and Russian crime syndicates, Galeotti said during this interview on Bloomberg News that the ring was a “massive operation” and evidence of a greater “tempo” in Russian spying activities.
“The Cold War never really ended,” he said.
Links:
“What’s the state of Russian foreign espionage?” In Moscow’s Shadows (Mark Galeotti’s blog)
It’s summer, and the Class of 2010 has entered the workforce. NYU-SCPS career expert Rob Hellmann offers these useful, timely career tips for new college grads in a recent interview with ABC News:
- Before looking for a career, look inward and do some self-assessment.
NYU-SCPS McGhee alum broke “Runaway General” story
The man pundits are saying “turned the American war in Afghanistan upside-down” is an alum of the Paul McGhee Division for adult undergraduate students.
Former NYU-SCPS student Michael Hastings wrote the article “The Runaway General” in Rolling Stone magazine that quoted General Stanley McChrystal (the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan) and aides criticizing the White House and which resulted in the general’s firing by President Obama.
As reported by Reuters today (06/23/10), capital spending by the U.S. lodging industry will decline in 2010, by approximately 10 percent, according to a new report from the Tisch Center’s Bjorn Hanson.
NYU Publishing Center Heads To Abu Dhabi
The Center for Publishing at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies and KITAB—a joint venture company between the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) and the Frankfurt Book Fair— will collaborate on a new executive training program, to be hosted at the newly opened temporary NYU Abu Dhabi campus, beginning in fall 2010.
Rosemary Scanlon, one of the nation’s leading experts in regional and urban economics, has been named Director of Academic Affairs at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate.
As NYU Schack’s Director of Academic Affairs, Scanlon will oversee all academic components of the graduate program as well as work with Divisional Dean James Stuckey and the faculty in developing strategic planning initiatives. Additionally, she will spearhead recruitment, interviewing, evaluation, and promotion of all new faculty members.
Bo Sacks — self-described “avid publishing futurist” and owner of The Precision Media Group — opened this year’s Summer Publishing Institute at NYU-SCPS, telling the gathered class of about 100 future publishing professionals that “print is not dead” but “it will not be the primary way to read in the future.”
