Hunter College News

Michael Thomas, author of "Man Gone Down," a novel about post-9/11 aggression, greed and racism, will read at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

Bonus reform could hit Gracie Mansion. Mayor Bloomberg's aides - " conditioned to expect windfall bonuses for helping achieve bigger margins of victory on Bloomberg's last two reelection campaigns - worry their billionaire boss will only dole out lumps of coal for his meager third term win this go around.

A former Hunter College staffer convicted of ripping off the school allegedly roped far-flung investors into funding a fictitious online fitness magazine to help repay the school, prosecutors said.

Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won re-election yesterday in a tighter race than public opinion polls had projected, becoming the first three-term chief executive of the largest U.S. city by population since 1989.

City Controller William Thompson, Jr. campaigns through Chinatown in a down-to-the-wire blitz.

Anniversaries are by their very definition about looking back. And because our culture is so enamored of them -- there's likely something primal at work having to do with the relentless changing of the seasons and an awareness of our own mortality -- we end up spending an inordinate amount of time commemorating the past.

CUNY , the City University of New York, has nearly 250,000 students enrolled in its 23 institutions located through the New York City region.

Mildred Cohn, a chemist who overcame both religious and sexual prejudice to make major contributions in applying physics to problems of biology, died of respiratory failure Oct.

Twelve-year-old twins living in Gracie Mansion. Town hall meetings in the Bronx or Queens, late into the evening.

With men accounting for 72 percent of the nation's job losses since the beginning of the recession, many American families are looking to mom to bring home the bacon.

Photographer Roy DeCarava , whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats who performed there, has died.

CNN host Campbell Brown criticized the White House tonight for their accusations of bias at Fox News.

Bill O'Reilly has a long history of sending out producers to ambush people who won't appear on his Fox News show, and his latest target is Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson.

There has been a mantra of sorts going around education circles over the past few years: "Nothing matters more to a child's education than good teachers." Anyone who's ever had a Ms.

In a relatively quiet electoral season, education is making some noise in a number of campaigns around the country, from the New York City mayoral race and New Jersey governor's contest to ballot measures in Washington state and Maine.

The New York Times reports from New York Chinatown on the switch away from Cantonese to Mandarin as the dominant language: With Mandarin 's ascent has come a realignment of power in Chinese-American communities, where the recent immigrants are gaining economic and political clout, said Peter Kwong, a professor of Asian-American studies at Hunter ...

Like some of the most successful entrepreneurs, Hype Machine founder Anthony Volodkin got his start by trying to solve an everyday problem.

A memoir about a young woman, who spent her childhood and adolescence in Prescott, "Dance When the Brain Says No," is Kathleen Price's poignant account of her daughter's battle with catastrophic illness - a malignant brain tumor.

In the inaugural year of a scholarship program, the Staten Island Council of Churches recently awarded $4,000 to eight students, making the college experience just a little more manageable.