CHALKBEAT NEW YORK
August 29, 2024: Profile of NYC teen Jahsani Peters, a participant in LaGuardia’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). For the past two summers, LaGuardia’s SYEP placed him in paid jobs with Community Capacity Development (CCD), a Queens-based nonprofit supporting marginalized communities and combatting gun violence.

QUEENS CHRONICLE
August 29, 2024: With the new school year comes new courses, programs and more at LaGuardia Community College. This includes three courses serving the new Business Administration: Facilities Management major, for students interested in business operations and maintenance for spaces such as warehouses, office complexes, storefronts or residential buildings.

SPECTRUM NEWS NY1
August 28, 2024: Upon his graduation from LaGuardia Community College, Edward Molina transferred to Columbia University’s School of General Studies.

STAMFORD ADVOCATE
August 28, 2024: LaGuardia Provost Dr. Billie Gastic Rosado writes that teaching young people about respect, trust, communication, and consent from an early age equips them with the tools that help prevent the development of abuse behaviors and enable young people to recognize unhealthy relationships.

NSF NEWS
August 27, 2024: More than $530,000 was awarded to LaGuardia from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s inaugural Innovation in Two-Year College in STEM Education awards. The project is led by principal investigators Dr. Reem Jaafar (MEC) and Ljubica Depovic (CTL director) at LAGCC.

QUEENS LATINO
August 27, 2024: LaGuardia, Northwell Health & Memorial Sloan Kettering to Fill Job Openings.

QNS
August 23, 2024: LaGuardia Community College is partnering with New York hospitals to prepare New Yorkers with a high school diploma or the equivalent for entry-level jobs as Central Service Technicians.

WASHINGTON POST
August 23, 2024: Ari Richter’s ‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,’ explores the intersection of his family’s Holocaust history and Jewish identity. He is a professor of Fine Arts at LaGuardia Community College.

NOTICIA NY
August 22, 2024: LaGuardia Community College Lanza Nuevos Programas y Cursos para el Otoño 2024 (LaGuardia Community College Launches New Programs and Courses for Fall 2024)

QNS
August 21, 2024: LaGuardia Fine Arts student Nia Lland was one of 14 youth apprentices behind a series of vibrant murals now on display at Queens County Family Court.

QUEENS LATINO
August 20, 2024: LaGuardia introduces a new major, academic department, and courses for Fall 2024.

LIC POST
August 20, 2024: LaGuardia Community College Announces New Major, Academic Department and Expanded Course Offerings.

AMUSING JEWS (YouTube Interview Show)
August 19, 2024: Ari Richter is a visual artist and comics creator who’s a professor of fine arts at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. His debut graphic memoir is ‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance.’

THE FORWARD
August 15, 2024: Feature on ‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,’ a new graphic memoir by Ari Richter, fine arts professor at LaGuardia Community College, part of the City University of New York.

WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION
August 2024: As director of LaGuardia CARES, Dr. Rhonda Mouton manages the student support services and emergency funds at LaGuardia Community College, overseeing students receiving funding for books and tuition or money for unmet needs in their daily living expenses, such as housing, utilities, phone, internet and food, estimating her office serves anywhere from 2,000 to 5,000 students per academic year.

QUEENS CHRONICLE
August 15, 2024: The Queens Film Festival will run from Aug. 22 to 25 at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City.

CRAIN’S NEW YORK – HEALTH PULSE (Subscription Required)
August 12, 2024: LaGuardia Community College is partnering with major hospitals to recruit and train New Yorkers for entry-level health care jobs amid a labor shortage. The positions are for Central Service Technicians (CSTs), whose responsibilities include sterilizing tools used in medical and surgical care, critical to preventing infection in patients.

GAY CITY NEWS
August 9, 2024: Stephen Petrus, director of public history programs at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, curated The Battle for Intro. 2: The New York City Gay Rights Bill, 1971 – 1986, a new online exhibit highlighting New York City’s fight for a gay rights bill.

PIX11 NEWS
August 2, 2024: Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez and the U.S. Treasury Department hosted an outreach event for small business owners in Long Island City on August 2 at LaGuardia Community College.