OPEN CAMPUS
January 31, 2025: LaGuardia Community College and Columbia University are the only two colleges currently teaching at Rikers Island. Criminal Justice Professor Cory Rowe directs an initiative, in partnership with the nonprofit College Way, offering a college-level course to detainees housed at Rikers.

BROADWAY WORLD
January 30, 2025: The Calpulli Mexican Dance Company and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center partner to present BODA MEXICANA on March 23.

QUEENS LATINO
January 28, 2025: The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY announces its Spring 2025 lineup, featuring a diverse array of performances that celebrate cultural richness and artistic excellence.

THE COMICS JOURNAL
January 27, 2025: ‘Humans are designed to search for logic in chaos’: Ari Richter, Fine Arts Professor at LaGuardia, on his graphic memoir, “Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz.”

JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
January 26, 2025: LaGuardia Fine Arts Professor Ari Richter comments on scenes of ‘dark tourism’ in an Academy Award nominated film. Richter is author and illustrator of “Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,” describing Richter’s visits to the places where his Holocaust survivor grandparents lived and suffered.

EL DIARIO NY
January 25, 2025: Enfermeros con títulos de otros países pueden capacitarse gratis en LaGuardia Community College. [Nurses with degrees from other countries can train for free at LaGuardia Community College.]

SUNNYSIDE POST
January 24, 2025: LaGuardia Community College received a $1.2 million grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to enhance its program for internationally-trained healthcare professionals.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE DAILY
January 23, 2025: Three grants recently awarded to LaGuardia Community College will support programs that help internationally trained healthcare professionals enter the U.S. workforce, expand access to English language classes, and create new pathways for students who complete workforce and pre-college training transition into associate degree programs.

QUEENS CHRONICLE
January 16, 2025: Two-time national karate champ Gloria Rosendo studies childhood education at LaGuardia Community College.

CITY LIMITS
January 16, 2025: A new exhibit “Living in the Shade” exploring NYCHA’s open spaces, will be shown at LaGuardia Community College from March 27 to May 23.

NEW YORK TIMES
January 16, 2025: LaGuardia President Kenneth Adams was one of 40 New Yorkers asked to weigh in on New York City’s affordability crisis. He proposed extending the public school calendar by two weeks to help students who fell behind during the pandemic and provide child care savings for families.

LIC POST
January 15, 2025: LaGuardia Community College awards over $500,000 in named scholarships.

THE GUARDIAN
January 15, 2025: Dr. Stephen Petrus, a scholar of 1960s folk music and director of public history programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, on the film A Complete Unknown and the relationship between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

PATCH
January 15, 2025: A performance by Afro-Dominican Flamenco artist Laura Peralta at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 1 is part of the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), an expansive program providing New York City choreographers and dance companies with creative residencies on CUNY college campuses.

NYC GAZETTE
January 9, 2025: Two LaGuardia students, Quashawna Hutcherson and Laniel Collazo, were awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, a prestigious award from the U.S. State Department for students with limited financial means. Both students will use their scholarships to study in Japan this summer.

QNS
January 9, 2025: LaGuardia is a designated location for New York City’s 20th annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate project. The overnight event on Jan. 28 is a key part of addressing homelessness across the five boroughs.

PIX11 NEWS
January 7, 2025: A blood drive will be hosted at LaGuardia Community College on Monday, January 27.

GAY CITY NEWS
January 7, 2025: Dr. Stephen Petrus, historian with the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, on the legacy of Ed Sedarbaum, known as the ‘grandfather’ of the Queens LGBTQ movement.

QUEENS CHRONICLE
January 2, 2025: The $5.8 million grant to LaGuardia Community College from the New York State Education Department to provide pre-employment transition services to students with disabilities is included in a roundup of major news stories impacting Western Queens in 2024.

QNS
January 2, 2025: LaGuardia first-generation student Tabia Tarannu was named a 2024-25 Kaplan Leadership Scholar.

GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW
January 2, 2025: A new online exhibition from the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College provides an introduction to the passage of the “Gay Rights Bill” by the New York City Council, for scholars, students, and the general public. The exhibition was curated by Dr. Stephen Petrus.

WNYC THE BRIAN LEHRER SHOW
January 2, 2025: Stephen Petrus, Director of Public History Programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, is interviewed about “A Complete Unknown,” the newest biopic about Bob Dylan and his early years in the folk music scene, staring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan.