CSI Faculty Member and Wife Honored at Celestial Ball for their Support of CSI and its Students
Gordon and Lorraine Di Paolo have been quite successful in their respective careers-Gordon has been an Associate Professor of Business at the College of Staten Island since 1971 and has had a career in marketing and sales for the Revlon Corporation, and Lorraine is the President of Benchmark Capital Advisors on Wall Street in New York. More importantly, the Di Paolos believe in sharing their success to help others achieve and, as a result, they will be among the honorees at this Saturday's first-ever Celestial Ball, a fundraiser, sponsored by the Alumni Association, CSI Foundation, and Friends of CSI, to support scholarships at the College.
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The Best and Brightest are choosing CSI!
Watch the NY1 News segment featuring CSI's High School Valedictorians and Salutatorians Scholarship Awardees.
Also, CSI sent busloads of students "On the Plaza" with Dave Price on the CBS TV Morning Show during College Month and then again during CUNY Month.
Visit the CSI Today Video on Demand channel to view the Morning Show Segments. |
CSI rising in the ranks of higher education
 News from SILive.com
When Frank Sinatra performed "My Kind of Town" back in the '60s, the Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen song boasted about such Chicago icons as the Wrigley Building and the Union Stock Yard.
If a similar song were to be composed today about Staten Island, it would most certainly include such local treasures as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the Staten Island Yankees and the College of Staten Island (CSI), which has made remarkable strides since the appointment of its third president in June 2007.
Upon his installation to the college's top administrative position, Dr. Tomás D. Morales hit the ground running, rocketing the Willowbrook-based school to new heights of accomplishment. Read More>
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Academy of Retired Professors Connects with Faculty Emeriti![[L-R]: Irene Deitch, Claudia Corradini, and Vicky Corradini at last September's reception at Dr. Morales's home](http://www.csitoday.net/story_img/images/deitch_arp_120209.jpg) CSI Professor Emerita Irena Deitch has had a longstanding idea to reach out to the College's retired professors in an effort to reconnect them to the College community. With the recent creation of the Academy of Retired Professors (ARP), that dream has become a reality.
Discussing the idea, Deitch explains, "We have the [CSI] Foundation, we have the Friends [of CSI] and I always felt that there was a piece missing from that and that was the retired professors...This is a really high-powered group. We've done great things within the College-academically, professionally, and certainly with the community-and it's a shame to lose all that potential." Read More>
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CSI Receives Stimulus Funds to Offer Job Training for In-Demand Addictions Professionals
 State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Commissioner Karen M. Carpenter-Palumbo has announced that OASAS-Certified Education and Training Providers will offer free tuition for unemployed New Yorkers to enter the addictions workforce, now one of the nation's top ten growing occupations.
The College of Staten Island was awarded $16,800. Other awardees include: City College of New York., Alcoholism Council of New York, American Institute for Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, Argus Career Training Institute, Kingsborough Community College, Outreach Training Institute. Statewide, OASAS awarded $500,000 in federal stimulus funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to 14 OASAS training providers. The Funding, provided by the state Department of Labor, will train nearly 130 unemployed or underemployed individuals in careers in the addictions field. path. Read More>
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