News this week from the College of Staten Island

CSI Community Rise to the Challenge and Volunteer

The College of Staten Island is calling upon its community members to use their time, passion, skills, and willingness to help address New York City's most pressing needs and make a difference.

CSI is competing against 17 other NYC Colleges and Universities to see which college community volunteers the most time for community service, as part of the College Challenge. The Challenge is an NYC initiative to promote service and volunteerism at CSI and in New York City. Its aim is to achieve two overarching goals: make our city the easiest place in the world to volunteer and set a new standard for how college communities can tap the power of their people to tackle our community's most pressing challenges.

Noted Scholar and Commentator on Education to Appear at CSI

Scholar and commentator on education Dr. Diane Ravitch will present a lecture in the CFA on March 3.

Internationally known scholar and commentator on education, Dr. Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, will present a lecture in the CSI Center for the Arts Williamson Theatre on Wednesday, March 3 from 4:30pm to 7:00pm.

Dr. Ravitch will discuss the recent shift in her public statements regarding state testing, charter schools, and national standards. She now is critical when previously she was supportive. Dr. Ravitch will share her proposed solutions to the problems of U.S. public education, and will also conduct a book signing at the event.

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CSI Students Unite to Help Haiti

[L-R] Darone Scott, Marybeth Melendez, and Kelyn Potes staff the table in the CSI Campus Center.

The OUI Club (The Organization of Unique Individuals, The Students with Disabilities), supported by the Gay-Straight Alliance, the Christian Club, the Emerging Leaders, Student Government, and CSI staff members, took on last week's snowy weather and this week's cold to hold a two-day fundraiser, "A Little Love on Campus," for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, raising over $1,000.

NYC Film Premier of Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Life Savers at CSI

CSI will host a screening of Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Life Savers on March 4.

The College of Staten Island will host a screening of the film Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Life Savers on Thursday, March 4 in the Center for the Arts Williamson Theatre from 1:30pm to 3:30pm.

The film outlines the work of African American rescuers at Station 17, part of the U.S. Life-Saving Service that was founded in 1871 to ensure safe passage for seafaring persons and cargo, and the precursor to today's U.S. Coast Guard. The viewing is free and open to the entire College community.