David Hollander, J.D., clinical assistant professor at the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, received the Award for Distinguished Service from the Trans Insight Corporation on March 7.
Hollander was recognized “for his consistent and outstanding dedication, energy, and commitment to the sharing of ideas and scholarship with students and academicians from Japan in the furtherance of the highest global professional standards and ideals in the areas of marketing and consumer behavior in the field of Sports Business,” according to the Award’s citation.
Hollander with visiting students and teachers after receiving his award. Photo courtesy of Biwako Seikei Sport College.
Three times in the past two years, Hollander has delivered a lecture to groups of visiting students and teachers from Biwako Seikei Sport College. The students and teachers,whose visits were organized by Trans Insight, a marketing consultancy that advises Japanese sports businesses, also toured New York City-area sports venues and engaged in various sports-related activities throughout the city.
“It is my honor to present Professor Hollander with the Distinguished Service Award in recognition for his consistent and outstanding dedication to promote and deepen the US-Japan educational relationship in the field of sports management,” said Trans Insight Corporation Principal Tomoya Suzuki. “His lecture has been always fantastic and one of the highest rated activities in our week-long educational tour. He speaks like a poet. His English is very simple and easy enough for Japanese collegiate students to understand, but his conversation is always thought-provoking.”
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.
