Monthly Archives: October 2013

CUNY FoodFEST this Sunday

foodfest

Want to talk food justice with CUNY students, faculty and other movement organizations/people from around the city? If so, come to CUNY FoodFEST this Sunday, November 3rd at Macaulay Honors College. While there, meet KCC Urban Farm manager, Silvia Torres to talk all things urban farming.

“CUNY FoodFEST is an event for CUNY students and the general public focused on educating and engaging participants in stimulating conversation about various topics in the food justice movements. Students attend workshops and meet with various food justice organizations from around the city. Workshops are led by experienced members of the food community and cover such topics ranging from food policy and hunger to composting and ethical food businesses. There also will be an Indian cooking lesson where Mukti Bannerjee will teach participants healthy and delicious recipes–and we all reap the benefits at the communal, reflective dinner to conclude the event.”

CUNY FoodFEST 2013 will be at :
35 West 67th Street
New York, NY 10023
10:30am-8:00pm

Homecoming at KCC Urban Farm

Last Sunday, KCC Urban Farm continued our tradition of hosting cooking demonstrations and farm tours at KCC’s annual Homecoming. Denia, our cooking demo CLT, showcased farm-fresh salsa with homemade chips and a variety of sauteed greens. Our fall greens include five varieties of Asian greens, turnip and radish greens, collard greens, and kale. In a few weeks, mustard greens will be ready to add to that list!

Denia and her daughter making salsa and greens

Denia and her daughter making salsa and greens

Farm-grown salsa with homemade chips

Farm-grown salsa with homemade chips

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CUNY CareerPATH at NCWE

Last week, CUNY CareerPATH administrators Dr. Babette Audant, Executive Director of CEWD, Ms. Alissa Levine, Director of Programs at CEWD and Ms. Ashley Dallman, CareerPATH Program Director, traveled to Milwaukee, WI for the National Council for Workforce Education (NCWE) conference. The three led a panel talking about CCP’s experiences using technology to develop tools that manage both the $19.8 million TAACCCT grant and 8-college career advancement and college readiness program. The programs highlighted during this panel include Ning, a social networking tool which provides both a community meeting place for consortia members and a secure location for housing key documents, and a Quality Assurance system, developed especially for CCP, which tracks and produces real-time reports informing program delivery.

In addition to this panel, Kingsborough’s Project Rise was nominated for the Exemplary Program award for Non-Credit Workforce Programs. Congratulations to the winners!

Congratulations, Project Rise Cohort 3!

Just last month, Project Rise held a Finishing Ceremony for our third cohort of participants. The results of this cohort far exceeded the program’s expected outcomes:

13 participants earned their GED
9 completed internships (a whopping 180 hours, each)
10 earned jobs through Project Rise efforts
3 were accepted at Kingsborough Community College (taking credits with them!)

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Proof

We’ve talked briefly about how to stand out at job fairs, the importance of claiming your online persona and given you tips about preparing for interviews, but it seems we might have left out one of the most important things: putting together a well written application packet.

A while back, behiring.com put together an infographic about what recruiters are thinking as they review applicants. The numbers might have changed, but the basic ideas still remain.

behiring-infographic-1

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GIS at KCC

Enroll now for a course in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) through CEWD and Continuing Education at Kingsborough Community College. This course integrates hardware, software and data for acquiring, managing, investigating, evaluating and presenting all forms of spatial information. Let our course help you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared. This course is perfect for the real estate industry, education professionals, conservation organizations & all types of businesses!

To register, click here or call 718.368.5050.