Baruch in the Media

2006

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Baruch in the Media - Archive - December 2006

Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...In the early going the trend, analysts said, suggests that Spitzer - who will
be inaugurated during a public ceremony tomorrow - is reluctant to bring anyone into his inner circle who he has not worked with in the past... Doug Muzzio, a political scientist from Baruch College, said the appointment
of Cortes-Vasquez - Ramirez' former chief of staff - may fulfill a larger
political purpose, but her credentials, including almost 13 years as a manager
in the New York City Department for the Aging, make her a good choice.
"There was a Ramirez connection at one point but she's perfectly acceptable," Muzzio said."
"New Governor Spitzer Era Begins" Newsday (12/31/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"When Christine C. Quinn became speaker of the New York City Council last January, she inherited a rabble-rousing body that relished its role as heckler of the establishment... ''Here you have a liberal Irish lesbian woman speaker working well with a Jewish Republican billionaire pragmatist mayor,'' said Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College. ''The political environment has changed.''
"Under Madam Speaker, Conflict Gives Way to Collaboration" The New York Times (12/30/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"CFOs are concerned about both inflation and recession, but on balance today see recession as the larger threat," said John Elliott, dean of the Zicklin School of Business at New York's Baruch College, which conducted the poll with Financial Executives International."
"Market ends 2006 far better than analysts had predicted" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (12/30/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Google is also getting into new areas such as wireless services, where the
company has little experience. That's consistent with Schmidt's aggressive
leadership, says Robb Hecht, an adjunct professor of marketing at Baruch College in New York. "He encourages risk taking and even encourages people to fail at the company," he said. "It's usually the opposite at other companies."
"Investor's Business Daily Chooses Google's Eric Schmidt as CEO of
the Year of 2006" Investors Business Daily (12/29/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Some think that up until now, Spitzer, who defeated Republican John Faso by 40 points in the November election, has been viewed as whoever people wanted him to be. "He's been a Rorschach test," said Douglas Muzzio, a political-science professor at Baruch College in Manhattan. "Everyone has seen in him what they want to see. There's a lot of wishing and hoping," Muzzio said. "He's like Barack Obama" - the Illinois senator considering a presidential bid in 2008 whose views on specific issues are not widely known."
"Just how liberal is Spitzer? Only time will tell" The Journal News (12/29/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"At least on an hallucinogenic level, we have four presidential candidates,"
said Douglas Muzzio, a political scientist at the City University of New York's Baruch College. "I don't think Pataki and Bloomberg are really serious, but it reflects the changing fortunes of the city. After 9/11, there's a lot of interest and sympathy for our candidates."
"Today, It's New York: Tomorrow, Oval Office?; Presidential Hopefuls Abound in State" The Washington Post (12/28/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"A move to Albany for either Mr. Thompson or Mr. Carrion would shuffle the 2009 deck by removing a top Democratic contender from the field. The two could end up battling for overlapping blocs of black and Latino voters. "Nobody in the Democratic Party is really looking forward to the Carrion-Thompson primary," the dean of Baruch College's School of Public Affairs, David Birdsell, said. "That has the potential to be an enormously divisive primary."
"In Spurning Albany, City Comptroller Sends Clear Signal on Mayoral Race" The New York Sun (12/27/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Among New Yorkers who recall the dark days of the 1970s, former President Ford will be remembered best for something he never actually said. "Ford to City: Drop Dead," cried the front page of the New York Daily News on October 30, 1975, after the president rejected a request for a federal bailout to rescue the city as it teetered on the edge of bankruptcy... "I've got a copy of that newspaper in my house, along with the letter from the city Board of Education telling me I was laid off because of the fiscal crisis," said Doug Muzzio, who was a public school teacher at the time and is now a professor of politics at Baruch College. "It was chaos. Literally from week to week we didn't know whether the city of New York was going to go into default."
"In New York, Ford's passing brings to mind the famous `Drop Dead'
headline" The Associated Press (12/27/06)
Baruch College News
The Alexander String Quartet's Shostokovich performances at BPAC was second on the the New York Times' classical music critic's Top Ten list for 2006. "2. The Shostakovich centennial was celebrated by the Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall and the Alexander String Quartet at the Baruch Performing Arts Center with competing cycles of the 15 quartets, performed in chronological order. It was a special privilege to hear the dynamic Alexander performances in Baruch College ’s intimate 176-seat auditorium. Seldom have these anguished, playful, ironic and masterly works seemed so profoundly personal."
"The ‘Ring’ Recycled, the Met Revitalized" The New York Times (12/24/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"How do you persuade a group of politicians that has a 4-1 advantage
in fundraising to surrender that in the name of reform? That's the challenge Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer faces in trying to get the Republican majority in the state Senate to overhaul the way election campaigns are financed in New York... A political science professor from Baruch College in Manhattan was more cautious. "Something might happen," said the professor, Douglas Muzzio. "But this isn't low-hanging fruit. There has got to be a quid pro quo in there, and I don't know what that might be."
"State Senate may be hurdle to campaign finance reform" The Journal News (12/24/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer vows to shake up Albany's insider culture, but his
secretary of state pick has political roots that run deep. Spitzer's nominee for the plum job is Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez, a one-time chief of staff to influential former Bronx Democratic party boss and state Assemblyman-turned-lobbyist Roberto Ramirez...It's not as if [Spitzer is] nominating an inconsequential hack...She's a substantial, accomplished woman," said Doug Muzzio of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs, who has worked with her. "That doesn't take away from the fact that there is this obviously political element to the choice."
"Spitzer chooses insider for Secretary of State" Daily News (12/22/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
Zicklin School of Business Dean John Elliott was interviewed by CNBC's Joe Kernen on the key issues concerning the nation's chief financial officers as we begin 2007. Watch the interview.
CNBC (12/20/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
Robert Fosky, a professor of management at Baruch's Zicklin School of Business was on NPR's Marketplace as part of a story on franchising.
"Working for the chain gang" Marketplace, NPR (12/19/06)
Baruch Alumni News
"...Fortunately for the NFL, its teams and fans, Santo Labombarda of the Elias Sports Bureau and Joe Ferreira of CBS SportsLine.com possess the brainpower to deduce what no machine can...Outfitted with pens, pencils, paper, updated expanded league standings and some basic computer data about common opponents, Ferreira, 45, of Coral Springs, Fla., and Labombarda, 41, of Staten Island, N.Y., focus and project the NFL playoff possibilities each Sunday and Monday during the waning weeks of the regular season..."It probably takes a total of eight hours between Sunday and Monday," said Labombarda, who began working as a part-time researcher at Elias, the NFL's official statistician, while in high school and studied business at Manhattan's Baruch College. "But it depends on how many teams I'm looking at and how involved it is."
"These guys break ties" The Cincinnati Enquirer (12/17/06)
Baruch Alumni News
"Reverend Walter Wilson (BA,'90) describes himself as "a man who believes in hope." An African-American who struggled against the dynamics of integration, he offers his testimony in "Against All Odds: A Harlem Story," a book that has powerful implications for Black youth and men of today. Sparing no detail of his own descent into crime as a career, Wilson offers an alternative mindset, incorporating faith in God and faith in oneself, to those who may feel they have no choice but to break the law in order to survive or succeed."
"Former 'Career Criminal' Tells the Story of His Conversion" PRWeb (12/17/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"..A Newsweek poll finds 86 percent of registered voters say they would back a qualified woman nominated by their party. For a black person, 93 percent say they would be willing to back the candidate. The survey also found Americans think their fellow citizens still are a bit reluctant to elect either. Only 55 percent say the U.S. is ready to elect a woman; 56 percent say they can see the country selecting an African-American. "You've got a real societal change," said Baruch College political scientist Doug Muzzio. "You've got a woman of national prominence and more women across the country in prominent roles, and it's the same for blacks."
"Poll: Black candidate would have better chance than a woman" Daily News (12/17/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...Most Iranian analysts and academics in American universities and research institutes said in interviews that they emphatically supported negotiating with Iran. Some question the wisdom of such talks right now, however, suggesting that the United States needs a long-term strategy for confronting the repressive regime rather than ad hoc discussions based on a need to extract American troops from Iraq. First, the Iranian experts reject the comparison with Hitler. President Ahmadinejad, they point out, does not control the armed forces, which lack an air force and a navy anyway. The economy is so decrepit that Iran, a leading oil producer, has to import an estimated 40 percent of its gasoline. ''It's time for a reality check -- Iran is a third world power,'' said Ervand Abrahamian, an expert at Baruch College on Iranian opposition movements."
"How Iran's Leader Keeps the West Off Balance" The New York Times (12/17/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Three percent. That's the breathtakingly microscopic percentage of Republican voters willing to back Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a head-to-head matchup against John McCain, according to the fine print of this week's Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll..."Hillary's been telling people that she can get some red states that Kerry and Gore couldn't," Baruch College politics professor Doug Muzzio said. "But early in the game it seems that McCain has more of a chance to expand his base than Hillary does."
"Clinton's crossover act a tough sell" Newsday (12/15/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Participants in a panel discussion on investment in South Asia, urged foreign investors, especially the Americans, not to ignore India, when scouting for investment opportunities. ''If you don't have India and China, you're going to lose out,'' said Anil Gulati of Coda Capital, a private equity firm. The panel discussion, titled 'Investing in India - Opportunities and Challenges,' was held at Baruch College whose Zicklin School of Business co-sponsored the event. Rajarishi Nahata, assistant professor of finance at the college, pointed out citing some estimates that India had a 20 per cent share of world trade in the year 1800."
"American investors urged not to ignore India" Deccan Herald (12/14/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...Another thought came from Henry J. Stern, a former city parks commissioner, now director of a watchdog group called New York Civic. If the State Senate or Assembly removes Mr. Hevesi, or if he is forced to resign, a new comptroller will be chosen by the very politicians he is supposed to monitor. Not good, Mr. Stern wrote the other day in his organization's newsletter. ''The state comptroller is an independent elected official for a valid reason,'' he said. Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, framed the issue even more bluntly: ''Do you have a lapdog watching over you?''
"Keeping Faith With Ethics, And Voters" The New York Times (12/12/06)
Baruch Alumni News
"Bundled up in a puffy down vest, sweatshirt and thick wool scarf, Salvation Army volunteer Penny Varana (BBA, '95) seems dwarfed by the dozens of gleaming green and red donation bins surrounding her. We’re standing on the second floor of a drafty warehouse just off Sixth and Market, and the atmosphere is clearly one of calm before the storm. The holiday rush of receiving and processing toys and holiday meal boxes is just on the horizon. “We hope to fill all of these empty barrels soon, even though donations have really fallen off over the last few years,” she notes. Penny is definitely in a position to know; she has volunteered at the Jesse Street location for five years. Ever since she was introduced to the program through a corporate employer, she has become a perennial fixture at the center, returning year after year for Easter, back-to-school clothing drives, and Christmas toy and food distributions.
"Santa's Helper" San Francisco Downtown (December 2006)
Baruch College News
Baruch College’s revolutionary use of mobile phones on campus through its AirBaruch applications was ranked 50th in Campus Technology’s special year-end issue: 101 Best Practices in Smart Classroom, Connectivity, and Administrative IT. Using innovative technologies created by Rave Wireless Inc., students have access to unique community-building and academic applications through their mobile phones. Baruch College was an early adopter of Rave, and more than 100 other universities and colleges are currently implementing or exploring mobile phone applications and services similar to AirBaruch. More than 90 percent of students own and/or use cell phones, and Baruch’s AirBaruch applications highlight the trend towards building a sophisticated mobile campus at higher education institutions, including large, public colleges.
“101 Best Practices in Smart Classroom, Connectivity, and Administrative IT” Campus Technology (December 2006)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The nation may get to see the heavyweight match that never was, now that the 2008 presidential cycle has kicked into gear and both Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are moving toward running for the White House. "This is the fight of the century - this is the rematch of the fight that never happened," said Doug Muzzio, a political expert with Baruch College. "This would be the premiere - certainly for us New Yorkers, [but] even for the rest of the country. This is the fight card that everybody's looking for."
"Hill and Rudy on the road to rematch" The New York Post (12/10/06)
Baruch Staff Expertise
"...For months, Clinton was the runaway leader of the field in national polls. As Obama surged, her normally tight-lipped aides started confirming a series of people in line to be campaign manager, communications director and the like in a Clinton presidential campaign."This is the Barack Obama moment. You can't allow him to dominate the news cycle. So you're getting a much more open, talkative -- for them -- operation," said Doug Muzzio, a political scientist at Baruch College in New York City."
"Obama draws crowds as he tours New Hampshire" USA Today (12/11/06)
Baruch Staff Expertise
"Stephen Francoeur is Information Services Librarian at Baruch College's Newman Library, New York. Can a web browser make reference work a bit more efficient? Probably, if you are using the Firefox browser. For several years, the Mozilla Foundation has been releasing new versions of the open-source Firefox browser, a tool that has been quickly embraced by a growing community of volunteer developers building free extensions that can make the browser smarter and easier to use. It is these add-on programs that turn an elegant browser into a handy Swiss Army tool right at the reference desk."
"Firefox at the Reference Desk" Library Journal (12/15/06)
Baruch Alumni News
"Howard Fox (MBA, '91) dreams of one day running an online empire. But for now he's settling for three e-commerce Web sites that cater primarily to the demanding tastes of brides-to-be. "As I go through stages in life, I find new products to sell," says Fox, 38, who recently moved to Glen Rock with his wife and infant child. That explains the origins of his most profitable site, sensibleweddings.com, which he started in 2004, around the time he got married. After discovering how expensive specialty wedding merchandise can be -- products such as bridesmaids' jewelry, garters, ring pillows and personalized cake servers -- Fox created a Web site devoted solely to the small items that make a wedding day unique for the bride and groom. "I was looking for another business and I happened to buy some wedding accessories," he says. "I never thought I'd be selling garters. I'm a guy. But I've learned to sell garters and I'm now an expert on bridesmaids' jewelry." A data analyst for the city of New York with an MBA from Baruch College in Manhattan, Fox began moonlightingin e-commerce in 2000, when he and a partner opened liteach.co, an online resume database for Long Island teachers looking for jobs."
"Web honeymoon; Entrepreneur's niche is good news for brides" The Record (NJ); NorthJersey.com (12/3/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Under fire from police unions for prejudging the undercover cops who fatally shot Sean Bell, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday sounded a very different tune, discussing the case for 40 minutes without repeating his assessment that police used "excessive force." "We don't know what happened," Bloomberg declared on his weekly WABC radio show...While Bloomberg didn't back off any statements, he found ways yesterday to both empathize with those outraged by the shooting and to stress that cops put themselves on the line to protect the public...Doug Muzzio, a professor at Baruch College, described Bloomberg's position as "the wise thing to do." "He's already made those statements. He hasn't retracted them, so they still stand. Clearly, he's not going to emphasize it," said Muzzio."
"Mike Holds Fire Vs. NYPD" The New York Post (12/2/06)

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Baruch in the Media - Archive - November 2006

Baruch Faculty Expertise
"... it's easier to rise among your own as there's less discrimination and there are shorter ladders to the top, says Ryan A. Smith, an associate professor of public affairs at Baruch College at the City University of New York. Using census data and surveys to look at white, black, Asian and Hispanic managers working in mainstream businesses, Prof. Smith and co-author James Elliott discovered that managers can get trapped on a "sticky floor." That happens when they are matched with employees of their own background at the entry level of a big organization. They're hired, in part, to reduce cultural friction between the ranks. Then, the managers get stuck there if the level over their heads is more ethnically diverse. "Our study provided strong evidence that many minorities never get close enough to the glass ceiling to butt up against it because they are stuck at the bottom with no decision-making authority, or restricted to supervising other minorities," Prof. Smith said.
"Immigrant job ghetto can turn into a Velcro rut" Globe and Mail (Canada) (11/29/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Call it a tale of two shootings. In each, an unarmed black man is killed in
New York in a hail of bullets fired by police, fearing, rightly or wrongly, for their lives...You learn from your errors," says Douglas Muzzio, a political analyst at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College in New York. "The reaction reflects in part the mayor's personality and the police commissioner's professional personality, but they learned from what Giuliani did, and they're not going to make the same mistakes."
"Police shootings and New York: lessons learned" Christian Science Monitor (11/29/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
“Within moments of the release of the New York's Commission on Healthcare facilities report, the political backlash heated up..."This provides a super structure for trying to figure out who merges with whom, who closes, who gets to continue. But there are a lot of smaller scale decisions that have to be made and there still will probably be a shortfall in medical support in New York,” said David Birdsell of Baruch College."
"News Of Hospital Closures Prompts Political Backlash" NY1 News (11/28/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Edward Rogoff, a professor of management at Baruch College, said he saw room in New York for small players like Joe. “People like local places,” he said. “Maybe part of the formula is just not being Starbucks.”
"Forging a Coffee Chain Just a Few Links Long" New York Times (11/26/06)
Baruch Alumni News
"The dog-eat-dog competition for pet care dollars in New York has become even fiercer with the recent launch of Ruff Runners, a service that matches competitive runners with slovenly Manhattan dogs in need of shaping up...Miss (Justinia) Holiat combined her love of running and dogs to found her company in July after graduating from Baruch College with a master's in higher education. But she is taking on a well-established competitor, Running Paws, that offers the same running services, and dog sitting and day trips to the country for cooped up dogs. She has five employees, all accomplished runners."
"Runners Help Fat Dogs Shed Those Unwanted Pounds" The New York Sun (11/24/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Ten Baruch College faculty and staff members will be honored in CUNY’s 2006 Salute to Scholars. In 2005-06, 231 CUNY faculty members achieved outstanding national recognition for their research, scholarship, and other accomplishments. The annual event celebrates CUNY’s extraordinary faculty while informing the larger community about their exceptional accomplishments."
(11/22/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"A recently published research article by two Baruch College library faculty members highlights the importance of strong information literacy skills for students seeking business careers. Authored by Professors Louise Klusek, Head of Reference, and Jerry Bornstein, Deputy Chief Librarian for Public Services, the article examines the demand for information literacy skills in today’s job market, particularly business and finance positions."
“Information Literacy Skills for Business Careers: Matching Skills to the Workplace” Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship (11/22/06)
Baruch Faculy Expertise
"The International Center for Corporate Accountability and the City University of New York are mentioned in an article discussing Freeport McMoRan's human rights program in Indonesia, along with coments by Dr. Prakash Sethi, a Distinguished Professor of Management at Baruch's Zicklin School of Business."
"Criticism Circles Indonesian Mine" The Arizona Republic (11/21/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"AdvisorMax, (www.advisormax.com), the first complete practice management site on the web for financial planners, will launch November 22, 2006, as a one-stop destination for all the resources top financial advisors need today -- live coaching, expert discussion forums, news on products, compliance, and research -- to serve better their clients and attract new ones...The AdvisorMax coaching staff is led by Ray Sclafani, a leading industry consultant and member of the International Coaching Federation who founded ClientWISE(TM) LLC. Other leading industry experts on the coaching staff include, at launch time, Liz Manibay...the director of coaching services at ClientWISE(TM) LLC. She has more than seven years of experience as a consultant and executive coach to the financial services industry. Prior to joining ClientWISE, she worked for UBS Financial Services, where she coached top revenue-producing branch managers and financial advisor teams. Her specialty is team and leadership development, communication skills, and strategic planning. She teaches executive coaching and organizational development at Baruch College and has managed her own coaching and consulting practice."
"AdvisorMax.com Launches as The Financial Advisor's Advisor" Marketwire (11/21/06)
Baruch Alumni News
"For the first time since November of 1969, long-time sports statistician (and Baruch alumnus) Burt Beagle missed working a men's basketball game for Baruch College. Beagle entered tonight's 2006-07 season opener for Baruch having worked 930 consecutive games as the official stats scorer. He has missed only one game in the entire history of the men's program that started in 1969. Unfortunately, the streak came to an end this evening in Baruch's 74-64 home victory against Yeshiva University. Team manager Joe Caffarelli took over the book duties this evening. Beagle has been dealing with health issues, and was unable to make the trip to the ARC Arena from his home in the Bronx. The streak began when Richard Nixon started in the White House and the New York Jets won Super Bowl III. "It was the strangest thing to witness someone else in Burt's seat at press row," said Baruch Head Coach Ray Rankis. "Burt has had a tough few months and I know it must have hurt him to miss tonight's game." The streak of 930 is the longest among NCAA schools for a statistician book keeper."
"Burt Beagle's Baruch Streak Ends at 930" Daily News (11/21/06)
Baruch Student News
"Matt Soja of Baruch College, a junior from Clifton, won the City University of New York Athletic Conference men's championship. He finished first in three of four conference meets, placing second in the other."
"Van Alstine named top freshman in A-10" NorthJersey.com (11/21/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"There are more developments in the investigation into embattled Comptroller Alan Hevesi. Governor Pataki has signed an executive order giving the attorney investigating Hevesi more power..."It's going to be very difficult for Hevesi to hold onto his office," said Baruch College professor David Birdsell."
"Pataki gives attorney investigating Hevesi more power" Capital News 9 (11/21/06)
Baruch College News
"Do voters in the home states of some potential 2008 White House contenders think their favorite sons or daughters would make a good president?..."The useful thing about this exercise is that citizens from the home state presumably know more about the candidate than most other Americans this early in the race," said David R. Jones, an associate professor of political science at Baruch College, City University of New York. Jones says the key indicator may be whether "your home state is a state that a candidate from your party would normally expect to win in a presidential race."
"Home Cookin' Favors Obama, Clinton" CBS News (11/20/06)
Baruch College News
"Reviving compulsory military service is not a smart idea, some MetroWest teens said yesterday, but at least a handful said they would not shy away from the draft if they were called. U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., during a speech yesterday at Baruch College, a branch of The City University of New York, said he will introduce a bill next year requiring Americans to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18."
"Teens say draft would bring problems" Metrowest Daily News; "Rangel: Giuliani in 2008" Gotham Gazette; "Back to the Drafting Board" Slate; "US wary of Iran, Syria role in Iraq" The Associated Press, Houston Chronicle; "Rangel is all about the draft" Gothamist; "NY's Rangel: Push to revive military draft is call for answers" Newsday (11/20-21/06)
Baruch College News
"Eight months ago, Andrew M. Cuomo gave a speech at Baruch College in Manhattan in which he called for a series of proposals to tighten ethics rules in state government.The speech on that March morning got little attention, but it heralded a major goal that Mr. Cuomo hopes to accomplish once he becomes New York State's 64th attorney general in January."
"Cuomo to Seek Big Changes In Ethics Rules" The New York Times (11/20/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
“Home employers might frown upon associates pursuing external business interests, but not Lew Meltzer. As managing partner of the Mineola law firm Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, Meltzer encourages the firm’s senior-level attorneys to invest themselves in outside endeavors…Meltzer Lippe’s philosophy drew associate Avi Kestenbaum to the firm in 2005. Kestenbaum serves as an adjunct tax professor at Baruch College, lectures and publishes articles in professional journals. He can spend 100 hours preparing one article – time other firms might require he devote toward the immediate bottom line. The hours spent “will not only better me, it betters the firm,” Kestenbaum said.”
“Personal interests can be good for business” Long Island Business News (11/17/06)
Baruch College News
"Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, working with the Baruch School of Public Affairs, gathered dozens of civic leaders yesterday to start an effort to evaluate the quality of city services. The group identified housing, traffic congestion, school safety, illegal drugs and police-community relations as among the areas in need of the most improvement. BaruchÕs Survey Research Unit plans to use those results in formulating a poll to assess Òcitizen satisfactionÓ with government services to help identify and repair those areas in need of improvement."
"Manhattan: Evaluation of City Services" The New York Times (11/16/06)
Baruch College News
"Kognito Solutions, LLC, an interactive learning company, announced today that academic institutions across the U.S. can now purchase modified versions of the online tutorial entitled "Guide for International Students." The interactive tutorial introduces students to immigration guidelines, U.S. academic customs, employment options, and school-specific services and activities, with which they will need to be familiar as they study in the U.S. Developed in conjunction with the International Student Service Center at Baruch College of the City University of New York and subsequently adopted by New York University's Office of International Students and Scholars, the 35-minute interactive tutorial organizes information into easy-to-follow topics, augmented by state-of-the-art multimedia, including animations, videos, and narration to make the material easier to understand and remember. For example, the tutorial utilizes highly-engaging Flash animations to highlight documents such as the SEVIS I-20 and the I-94 card and interactively shows students the proper way to read and fill out these forms."
"Kognito Relases Online Interactive Guide for International Students" PRWeb (11/15/06)
Baruch College News
"Most people working in the business world know what to expect when they have to attend company-sponsored leadership training. They'll file into a large conference room or lecture hall to listen to a seminar on management skills and then be required to participate in some kind of role-play where volunteers act out how best to deal with delicate work situations based on what they were supposed to have learned in the preceding lecture. A group of Baruch College students understood how awkward, embarrassing, and ineffective that type of training can be, and they wanted to start a leadership-training company that used computer games to build management skills. That idea led to the formation of Kognito, which was co-founded three years ago by Baruch alumni Ralph Vacca and Ron Goldman, just after they graduated, and the school's psychology department chair, Glenn Albright. Trying to start a company from scratch can be an intimidating task, especially for young adults right out of college. But the school tries to encourage just that with its annual Baruch College and Merrill Lynch IPO Challenge, inviting students - both graduates and undergraduates - to submit their ideas for start-up businesses. Competitions like Baruch's are increasingly becoming applicable off campus. More than mere simulations, these contests give ambitious students not only the opportunities to conceive of useful solutions to real-world problems, but also the resources to put those solutions into action. And the result is that many young adults are running their own businesses immediately after graduating from college."
"The Starting Line: At Baruch, campus entrepreneurs scratch their itch to get businesses off the ground" The Village Voice (11/14/06)
Baruch College News
"Specialized master's programs have been proliferating lately -- everything
from luxury-goods marketing to health-care management -- but the
financial-mathematics degree is especially hot. Carnegie Mellon University, for example, reports a 21% increase in applications for its computational-finance master's so far this year, after a 48% jump last year...Business schools, however, aren't the most common place to find such programs. Many mathematics departments offer the degrees, as do a few engineering schools. At Baruch College in New York, for instance, the financial engineering program is housed in the mathematics department, with courses taught by a mix of academics and professionals from the financial-services industry."
"Wall Street Warms To Finance Degree With Focus on Math" The Wall Street Journal (11/14/06)
Baruch Alumni News
When Sam Quan Krueger joined the small staff of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas in September, he knew there would be no easing into the job. As chief operating officer, Mr. Krueger is responsible for coordinating the museum's move from a cramped, two-room exhibit space on Mulberry Street into a sleek new home late next year. He must also manage the millions of dollars earmarked for the expansion...The tiny nonprofit has retained renowned architect Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, to develop the new space...It's his job to make sure that MoCA proceeds in the right direction. Hired for his business acumen, Mr. Krueger has worked in the nonprofit sector for a decade, most recently with the United Way, helping groups in New York City develop business plans...The city has given it $2.25 million over the past three years and wants to know that the contribution is well managed...Getting it wrong is not an option for Mr. Krueger, who feels a deep connection to the museum, though he is Vietnamese...Mr. Krueger still remembers the day in 1975--in the final months before the fall of Saigon--that he, his 4-month-old brother, and his mother and stepfather, a soldier in the U.S. Air Force, were airlifted out of the country...He was later named a National Urban Fellow, which covered the costs of getting his Master of Public Administration degree from Baruch College at CUNY."
"A Far East expansion; New COO supervises ethnic museum's big move; welcomed as calming influence" Crain's New York Business (11/13/06)
Baruch College News
"Baruch College, one of the 11 senior colleges of the City University of New York, has also had success attracting money from grateful alumni, a process that was begun in earnest during the late 1990s after state financing for the institution began to decline. Bernard M. Baruch, the Depression-era financier and presidential adviser, endowed Baruch College with $9 million in 1953. But by 1998, the college's endowment had barely budged. Now, however, the endowment stands at $100 million, thanks to a throng of alumni who appreciate the education they received at Baruch...''Most of the donors are not shy about saying that they may have gone on to law degrees at Harvard and other degrees at Columbia, but they give back to Baruch because without Baruch they would not have gone on at all,'' said Kathleen M. Waldron, Baruch's president. ''These are primarily men and some women who came from the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, who took the subway to college who could only go to Baruch because it was free.'' One major donor is Lawrence Zicklin, a former chairman of Neuberger Berman, the money management firm that is a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers. A Baruch graduate who wanted to give back to the institution that gave him his start, Mr. Zicklin donated $18 million in 1998 to build the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch... ''You learn how to be hungry at Baruch,'' he said. ''You learn how to scratch.''
"Aiding the Schools That Gave Them a Chance" The New York Times (11/13/06)
Baruch Student News
"Student Gustavo Agosto-DaFonseca has just published an op-ed article in the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario de la Prensa that focuses on the limited educational and career opportunities available to young people like him in NYC and the tempting option of joining the military as a reservist as a way to pay for college. However, he also says that if he had known of the other options availabe at CUNY beforehand he may have taken a different route. He speaks very highly of CUNY as an institution and of the support he has received here."
"Mi paso por el ejercito" El Diario (11/13/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...Before leaving for a post-election vacation in Florida this week, Nick Spano, like Kelly, said he would await a recount of the votes in the 35th state Senate District before acknowledging the official results. But political experts say the campaign also may be tinged with fallout- and perhaps bitter feelings - from the close election battle between Spano and Stewart-Cousins two years ago. "Nick Spano is pressing it," said Doug Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College. "There is probably no way conceivable that a recount will pull him more than a couple of hundred votes. So, to a certain extent, this is ... simply a case of chop-busting." "This is the second time he's gone head-to-head with this woman," Muzzio said. "He barely beat her last time, and he's going to torture her a bit. In this case, I think at a certain point it becomes vindictive and it becomes really a case of sour grapes."
"Election recounts: Sour grapes or hoping for champagne?" The Journal News (11/11/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Stephen Minarik took over a state Republican Party hanging off a cliff. He may soon leave it near rock bottom. After Republicans were swept by Democrats in all statewide races, some GOP leaders and political experts estimate it may only be a matter of weeks until Minarik leaves the state job...The outspoken Minarik also at times sparred with GOP leaders, including once saying early in the campaign that Faso was in "la-la land," a quotation that Democrats brought up over and over again during the campaign. "He's consistently overpromised and underperformed and does it in a way that antagonizes people," said Douglas Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College."
"Minarik takes heat after GOP debacle " The Journal News (11/10/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday he expects the New York congressional delegation to "bring home the bacon," now that Democrats control the House and Senate...As a top-ranking member of the Transportation Committee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler of Manhattan will have tremendous influence over the transportation budget, which New Yorkers hope will lead to more funding for infrastructure upgrades, such as the expansion of Staten Island bridges or a new Hudson River express tunnel. Bloomberg's message yesterday was clearly meant for lawmakers like Nadler, said Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College in Manhattan. "The fact that the mayor put them on notice right away is good," he said. "We haven't gotten what we deserved for too long. And we've been loyal voters."
" 'Bring home the bacon,' mayor tells the Dems" Staten Island Advance (11/9/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Pirro's loss brought at least a temporary halt to a political career that was dogged in recent years by controversies and missteps..Analysts expressed doubt yesterday whether she could ever rebuild her political career. "Politicians have this Lazarus-like quality but the resurrection doesn't always happen," said Doug Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College in Manhattan. "The image and narrative of this campaign was pretty negative."
"Pirro lost Westchester in A.G. race" The Journal News (11/9/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"By the end of the day, half a dozen anti-Minutemen protesters are under arrest, one for allegedly spitting in a cop’s face...The only other deviation from the script occurs when a large figure dressed in an alien get-up walks nonchalantly past the scene, heading towards Park Avenue. En route to a movie shoot nearby, the invader quiets the crowd momentarily. Hector Cordero-Guzman dashes after the figure, hoping for a picture. He returns huffing. “I asked him if he was a legal alien, and he told me yes,” he recounts when he returns. Cordero-Guzman, who is Puerto Rican and chair of the Black and Hispanic Studies Department at Baruch College, grins widely. “I guess they have special exceptions too, like me. Only in New York!”
"Immigration Hysteria Hits Gotham" The Brooklyn Rail (11/8/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) emerged from the war over the Senate as the Democratic Party's newest hero for his drive to take the Senate back from the Republicans... Doug Muzzio, a political analyst at Baruch College, said, "There is the possibility of a full-blown, all-out war" to block the GOP from scheduling votes on any bills - such as controversial security programs - that might make Republican candidates look good in the 2008 races."
"Dems hail Chuck as new star in fight to 'take country back' " Daily News (11/8/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Giuliani and Hillary Clinton and everybody else have been making the goodwill trips and debt-obliging trips," the dean of Baruch College's School of Public Affairs, David Birdsell, said. "They are doing things that people will owe them for come 2008. In some sense they are already in campaign mode, the question is when the declarations come."
"Clinton, Bloomberg, Giuliani Get Set To Shift Into High Gear for 2008" The New York Sun (11/8/06)
Baruch Facutly Expertise
"Following his long-expected landslide win Tuesday, Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer promised to make good on his lofty campaign pledge to reform Albany by doing away with its entrenched culture of gridlock, finger-pointing and petty partisanship. It won't be easy. Spitzer has set the bar unusually high - a fact underscored by his "Day One, Everything Changes" slogan. Supporters and critics alike will undoubtedly seek to hold him to the promise. "He's coming in with such high expectations that even an elected official of his intelligence and drive and direction is going to find it difficult to do it all," said Douglas Muzzio, a Baruch College political science professor. "He's promised a lot."
"Now, Spitzer faces real challenge" The Times Union (11/8/06)
Baruch College News
"In taking more responsibility for preparing its future leaders, Springfield is hardly alone. Many urban districts have created their own training regimens for administrators in recent years. What makes Springfield different is the extent of the authority it’s been granted. In almost all other states, candidates in district-run programs can only get licenses for administrative positions if they also matriculate at a college or university. New York City’s 3-year-old Leadership Academy, for example, has a partnership with Baruch College that lets participants get a state credential."
"Mass. District Steps Into Licensing Role for Administrators" Education Week (11/8/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Eliot Spitzer scored a resounding victory in the governor's race Tuesday night, crushing his Republican opponent and returning the state's executive branch to Democratic control for the first time in 12 years. The expectations are incredibly high on him, so I would expect that he's going to be extraordinarily active the first 100 days, and it will set the tone for the next four years _ and perhaps more than that," Doug Muzzio of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs said. "He's made lots of promises, both financial and otherwise, and it's going to be interesting to see if he can deliver on them."
"Spitzer wins governor's race in N.Y." Daily News (11/7/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Mr. Spitzer and Mrs. Clinton are listed on today's ballot on both the Democratic and the Working Families line, along with the other Democratic candidates for statewide office. A vote on either label would count toward the candidate's total, and leaders in the Working Families are hoping a large turnout by left-leaning voters could send a message to top Democrats who are primed to take office...Working Families got 90,533 votes in the 2002 gubernatorial election, a little more than half the total of 176,848 ballots for the Conservative Party, which has largely cross-endorsed Republican candidates. With a stronger slate of Democrats running this year, the Working Families Party has a decent shot at overtaking the Conservatives, the dean of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, David Birdsell, said."
"Working Families Party Comes Out for Spitzer, Clinton" The New York Sun (11/7/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Josh Mills, a SABEW board member who joined Bloomberg News this summer to start up its reporting of the world of education and how it intersects the business world, has left the wire service and is returning to Baruch College, where he previously taught journalism. In an e-mail Mills said, “There are lots of great journalists there [at Bloomberg]. I’m impressed with a lot of the markets, finance and corp coverage. And I’m grateful that Matt Winkler and his team gave me the chance to see how well I could fit in. Baruch College/CUNY was kind enough to offer to take me back, and asked me to helped build the best undergrad journalism program in NYC. It’s a good challenge, and puts me back doing what I love most — training young journalists and then sending them out to all of you.”
"Mills leaves Bloomberg and returns to Baruch" Talking Biz News (11/6/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Bass Pro store could shake local outdoor" retailers. Although fewer
Americans are outdoor enthusiasts these days, Bass Pro, based in
Springfield, Mo., is on an expansion binge with a mix of scale,
showmanship and unrivaled stock that shoppers drive hundreds of miles to buy..."It's the Starbucking of outdoor recreation retailing," said City
University of New York marketing professor Robb Hecht. Chains like Bass Pro and competitors such as Cabela's Inc., based in Sidney, Neb., are
responding with the sprawling megastore approach because the stores' sheer
spectacle can create new enthusiasts and steal customers from other
retailers, Hecht said. "The local stores lose," he said, "and the megastores win."
"Reeling in Shoppers" The Sacramento Bee (11/6/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...That such an overwhelming percentage of likely voters cite the war in Iraq as "very important" (78 percent) or "somewhat important" (16 percent) to their voting decisions spells trouble for Republicans in the middle of an incumbent president's second term, analysts say. The poll's margin of error for likely voters was plus or minus 3 percentage points. "That number says in big, gold letters, 'Bad News For Republicans,'" said Doug Muzzio, a political scientist at Baruch College. "If that large a percentage of the electorate sees the war as critical to their votes, it's going to be a blue tsunami."
"A war at the polls" Newsday (11/6/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...Fifty years after the invention of the standardized container revolutionized the freight industry by making the worldwide delivery of goods easier and cheaper than ever before, architects and entrepreneurs have found new uses for them. The room-size boxes are being made into artsy stores, galleries, schools and homes. That’s welcome news in some quarters: The sharp increase in imports and the low cost of new containers have led to a glut of rusting, unused containers that are creating a junkyard nightmare for many port and factory towns. But not all communities have welcomed cutting-edge architecture made of the industrial-issue containers. “Containers are sturdy and plentiful, but would the costs and stigma be worth re-using them?” said Barry Hersh, an associate director of the real estate program at Baruch College."
"Shipping containers: from eyesore to architecture" azcentral.com (11/6/06)
Baruch Student News
"Tumbleweed is not exactly blowing through the nation’s student unions just yet, but digital has transformed the very essence of how college students meet and greet, form and manage friendships. From left, Victor Chu, Jessica Baptiste, Max May, Liana Harper and Diana Calle met on the campus of Baruch College in Manhattan. They share an interest in the arts, and are in constant touch through text, pictures and videos on the networking sites Facebook and MySpace. But they gather in real space maybe only three times a month."
"Buddies at Baruch" The New York Times (11/5/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"We asked three money mavens about what Tuesday's election mean to the economy. Robert A. Schwartz, economist and professor of finance at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business: "The market never likes uncertainty. If the Democrats prevail, there will be some initial uncertainty about what will happen."
"Markets Election Watch" The New York Post (11/5/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"It was expected to be among the state's most competitive races, pitting Westchester's former district attorney against a former federal housing secretary and the son of one of New York's most famous governors. As it unfolded, though, the race between Republican Jeanine Pirro and Democrat Andrew Cuomo for state attorney general seemed, more often than not, to be all about the Pirros. "It was prime-time soap opera," said Doug Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College in Manhattan. "It was primarily a Pirro soap opera. Forget about the attorney general's race, it began with the Senate race and her blowing it up with the 32-second gap. And then it got worse."
"Pirro's gaffes sink her in polls" The Journal News (11/4/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
Rep. Peter King may win his election Tuesday and still lose big: If his Republican party can't keep its majority in the House, he will give up the gavel atop the Homeland Security Committee..."On a basic level, if Democrats get control of the House, it benefits all the Democratic members, and hurts all Republican members, but among the Republicans, Peter King has to be at the top of the list, because of that chairmanship," said Doug Muzzio, a politics professor at Baruch College."
"NYC-area lawmakers' positions of power at stake in election" The Associated Press; Newsday (11/4/06)
Baruch College News
"Ask anyone who has been through it, and they will tell you that getting a business idea to become a reality can be taxing. But, a New York City college is offering help, for free. NY1’s Cheryl Wills filed the following report...But Gaby Sherrow, of Gaby’s Granola, confronted the same question that roughly 600,000 Americans face every year when they decide to start a business. "How do I take something that I thought about, at work or at home, and bring it to the world at large?” asked Sherrow. To find the answer, Sherrow went to the Lawrence Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College. The center offers one-on-one advice and weekly seminars to entrepreneurs. The services, which have been available for more than a decade, are all free of charge. "A lot of the people who come in here don't have a lot of money to spend to get professional services to get them to start a business that's why there here,” said Edward Rogoff, the academic director at the Field Center. “If we can help them avoid a mistake or identify a good opportunity in a meeting or two, it's time and money well spent."
"Local College Gives Free Counseling To Entrepreneurs" NY1 News (11/3/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...Some attributed that judgment on Hevesi's part to an arrogance of power they see in the comptroller. Part of it's arrogance and hubris, and part of it's, if not a pattern of questionable behavior, instances of it, a professor of public administration at Baruch College, Douglas Muzzio, said of Hevesi's lapse."
"Scandal Could Derail New York Comptroller" The Forward (11/3/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"(Article author) David R. Jones is an associate professor of political science at the City University of New York, Baruch College..."In the wake of the Mark Foley congressional page scandal, Congress' already dismal job performance ratings are at their lowest point during an election season in more than a decade — just 29 percent in the most recent CBS News/New York Times poll. But what effect, if any, will low congressional approval ratings have on Election Day?"
"Will Anger At Congress Sway Voters?" CBS News (11/2/06)
Baruch Staff News
The New York Times' Tech Talk segment featuring Karen Gourgey of Baruch's Computer Center for Visually Impaired People and the Talking Tactile Tablet, for which Karen was just awarded a patent, is now posted on The New York Times' Web site at and is also available through iTunes. Karen appears in the second segment which runs roughly ten minutes.
(11/2/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Vice President Cheney gleefully reminded conservative supporters about Sen. John Kerry's botched joke yesterday. "Aren't we lucky he lost that election?" the veep cracked during a campaign speech in Montana..."Kerry's timing was perfect, if you're a Republican. It didn't just remind Republicans why they don't like Kerry, it reminded a lot of Democrats, too," said Baruch College political scientist Doug Muzzio."
"Botched joke draws veep laughs" Daily News (11/2/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"We'll never really know if Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake." But we'd certainly know if she made that infamous (and perhaps fictional) political gaffe today: The video would have thousands of YouTube hits within an hour. Which is why, analysts say, Sen. John Kerry's much-quoted remarks on education and Iraq, which he apologized for Wednesday, show that now more than ever, danger lurks when a politician strays off script. And it shows that successful politicians (and their staffs) must hone a few crucial skills: listening to yourself speak, and correcting a mistake the minute it happens. Because if you wait any longer, "the toothpaste is out of the tube, and you can't push it back in," says Douglas Muzzio, professor of public affairs at Baruch College in New York. "You can't have a do-over."
"Kerry's gaffe, and others like it, show need for self-editing" The Associated Press; The Washington Post; KHOU; Calgary Sun (11/1/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"If polls are correct, the closest race this election season may be for state comptroller, with Republican Christopher Callaghan trying to use the scandal surrounding Alan Hevesi to catapult past the Democrat..."It's not going to be a referendum on Callaghan at all,” said Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College. “It's all Alan Hevesi. It has almost nothing to do with Callaghan." Muzzio also said Callaghan's lackluster debate performance against Hevesi last month might also be a reason to focus on his opponent rather than his own record. "He wasn't very effective in that debate at all,” said Muzzio. “So he's gotta make the issue Hevesi."
"Callaghan and Hevesi Launch New Ads Before Election Day" NY1 News (11/1/06)
Baruch Facutly Expertise
"Politicians and their operatives are no dummies. YouTube might have
started out as a site for ordinary people to post their own videos, but it
is now well seeded with videos produced by candidates -- both focusing on
themselves and on their opponents. Consider YouTube, says Robb Hecht, an adjunct marketing professor at the City University of New York's Baruch College and social tech media strategist. "Its role in this year's elections cannot be underestimated,"he tells the E-Commerce Times. "While people need to tune into CNN, they also need to check out YouTube's vault of political videos and sites like WhereIStand.com to find out where [the politicians] stand on issues."
"An Alternative Guide to Election 2006" E-Commerce Times; TechNewsWorld (11/1/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Faso is also handicapped by the times. Republicans are struggling across New York. The war in Iraq is unpopular. Pataki recently registered the lowest approval rating ever for a New York governor in the Marist College poll. And in "a certain sense," Faso is running on a Pataki-like platform of tax cuts while saddled with Pataki's record, said Doug Muzzio, a Baruch College political science professor. "It's just the wrong time for John," Muzzio said."
"Long-shot Faso maintains hope on the trail" Utica Observer-Dispatch (11/1/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Today's two-way brand economy-where consumers can talk about your brand to anyone who will listen, via blogs, podcasts and more-has spurred the rise in CIOs, says Robb Hecht, chief innovations consultant for the imc strategies lab and adjunct professor of marketing at Baruch College in New York City..."Marketing used to include one-way media," says Hecht, referring to TV, radio and billboards and the like. "The CIO arose when technology met marketing. A CIO [encourages] consumers to accept marketing messages and become part of the marketing process...CIOs [develop] productive and innovative killer apps that attempt to maintain 'control' of brands in an atomizing economy," says Hecht. "A CIO anticipates where potential customer threats or concerns will arise and heads them off."
"The New CIO" Entrepreneur Magazine (November 2006)

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Baruch in the Media - Archive - October 2006

Baruch College News
"Business schools have largely ignored the burgeoning trend of aging baby boomers starting their own businesses. Baruch's out to change that. Its Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship convened a forum of experts yesterday to define "later-life entrepreneurship" - meaning business creation by the 50-plus crowd - as a field of study. "We need to find out - what are the needs of this population?" said academic director Edward Rogoff. The conference wasn't open to the entrepreneurs themselves - but next spring, their day will come. The center will host entrepreneurship fairs for over-50s."
"50 & blazing own biz trail" Daily News (10/31/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"John Spencer, who hopes New Yorkers might one day call him senator, last week became the guy who called Hillary Clinton ugly... Despite plunging polls numbers, Spencer isn’t giving up...“Being on the losing end of what looks like a very, very wide margin is rarely a good way to start a political career,” said David Birdsell, dean of Baruch College's School of Public Affairs. “You wind up with no national support, no state party support and very little prospect except sitting around and hoping that the Clinton campaign blows up.”
"John Spencer: The Tough Guy from Yonkers" Resident Publications (10/30/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Historian and professor Carol Berkin addressed approximately 150 high school students at Arcata High School on Friday morning. Berkin is a professor of history at Baruch College in New York, and is the author of many historical books and has been involved in numerous Public Broadcast Systems and History Channel documentaries. Humboldt State University professor Dee McBroome said Berkin is “one of the most pre-eminent colonial historians we have today,” and that Berkin has extensively researched the American Revolution from both the loyalist and patriot perspectives. McBroome said Berkin highlights the role of women in history, and strives to project history as realistic."
"Historian addresses Gilder Lehrman students in Arcata" The Eureka Reporter (10/28/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The race for New York governor has been surprising for its lack of surprises. Democrat Eliot Spitzer commanded a big lead from the moment he announced and hasn't stumbled since..."It's been a race utterly without drama," said Baruch College political science professor Doug Muzzio. "That's the way the Spitzer people planned it and that's how it worked out."
"Campaign 2006: Spitzer's lead keeps governor's race quiet" Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (10/28/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"New York's junior senator has raised nearly $38 million for her reelection
bid against her little-known Republican challenger, John Spencer, and political
analysts say she can stop spending money and still win in a landslide. A
professor of public affairs at Baruch College, Douglas Muzzio, said "she could give her opponent a few million dollars and still win in a landslide."
"Team Clinton Campaigns on Senator's 59th" The New York Sun (10/27/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"But Bloomberg, a Republican, has refused to take a position in any of New
York's major political contests, where the GOP candidates are decided underdogs... Bloomberg explained that he has to work with whomever gets elected. It would be imprudent, he said, for him to express his personal views in New York State races. Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, said the mayor isn't being candid about his reasons for staying out of the statewide races. "The stated rationale is bull," Muzzio said, suggesting that the mayor is staying silent because Democrats figure to be "landslide winners."
"For Mike, All Politics Isn't Local" Daily News (10/27/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The state comptroller's wife is being driven around on the taxpayer's nickel? That's an old story for Jay Weiser. He says he used to see the same thing when he was a boy going to Public School 268 in East Flatbush, Brooklyn...Professor Weiser -- he teaches real estate law at Baruch College -- recalls that a big black car bearing the license plate of a high-ranking state official swung by the school most afternoons to pick up Mrs. Levitt and chauffeur her. Back then, that sort of practice raised few, if any, eyebrows. ''The general approach of our imperial class is to grab as much as they can and hope they don't get caught,'' the professor said."
"Politics Reborn As Soap Opera Of Family Woe" The New York Times (10/27/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"It is the prosecutorial Pirro -- smart, tough, sometimes a little bit hectoring -- who has been most on display during the campaign, especially during the debates and at news conferences and speeches. At a forum where Ms. Pirro and Mr. Cuomo both appeared (separately), ''She was much more the factual prosecutor,'' said Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College who moderated the event. ''Andrew's more conceptual and broader, but Jeanine showed that she could speak on her feet.''
"On a Trail of Ill Fortune, Pirro Camp Perseveres" The New York Times (10/27/06)
Baruch College News
"The Weissman Center for International Business of Baruch College has just updated its NYCdata web site. This updated version is a well designed site which provides access a wealth of data about New York City. It is arranged into 16 chapters with a tremendous amount of detail in each. According to the description, "all the neighborhoods in the five boroughs, all the museums, colleges, art galleries, theatres are included. Most of these have links to their own home pages..." Also included are ethnic groups, languages, newspapers, major firms by business, and major sports teams."
"Baruch College Updates NYCData Web Site" New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library (blog) (10/26/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"With big bucks and a big name, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is headed toward a second term with New York voters saying they will back her whether or not she leaves to run for president in 2008..."She's strong," said Douglas Muzzio, Baruch College professor of public affairs at The City University of New York. "She is a truly national politician in the way nobody in New York is."
"Hillary Clinton faces likely re-election in NY" Reuters; The Washington Post ; Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) (10/26/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic candidate for governor, withdrew his endorsement of Comptroller Alan Hevesi for re-election. .. ``Spitzer just put another bullet in,'' said Douglas Muzzio, a political scientist at Baruch College in Manhattan. ``Even if he wins the election, I've got to believe that a resignation is in his future, if not removal if he refuses to resign.''
"New York's Spitzer Pulls Support for Hevesi Campaign" Bloomberg.com (10/26/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Embattled State Comptroller Alan Hevesi went face to face with his Republican rival on NY1 Wednesday, trying to stave off calls for him to step down from office, and as NY1's Molly Kroon reports, he had to appeal to voters' sympathies and dip into his personal life to try to fight for his political one..."He needed to come out aggressively to defend a position that he is going to portray as the right position to defend his wife to meet state ethics standards, etc., regardless of the conclusion of the ethics commission. And that's a position that he has to sustain for at least the next two weeks, arguably through January 1st," said David Birdsell, dean of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College."
"Hevesi Gets Personal In Comptrollers Debate" NY1 News (10/26/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Actor Michael J. Fox is nailing GOP candidates for fighting stem-cell research that could potentially cure his Parkinson's disease - but they say his attack is just "Spin City." In jarring new TV spots running in three races, Fox zings President Bush and Republicans for holding back scientific research that the star says could eradicate diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes. The national GOP's hesitance to attack Fox directly means "they understand the power of the ads," said Baruch College political analyst Doug Muzzio. "It's giving me goose bumps, his personal view is so powerful," Muzzio said."
"Flak for Michael Fox Over Stem Cell Ads" Daily News (10/25/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Mexican phone giant Telmex is expected today to announce the purchase of a group of Spanish-language phone directories based in the U.S. It could be a very smart move, Ashley Milne-Tyte reports... Andy Grein teaches marketing and international business at New York City's Baruch College. He says Telmex intends to keep these customers even as they migrate to a digital world..."And at the same time, you can sort of look at the trajectory of how this demographic is gonna develop, and think you know one day these people will be quite well off and they'll also be online."
"Telmex coming over the border" Marketplace (10/24/06)
Baruch College News
"Alumnus Roger Hertog ‘65, director and Vice Chairman of the AllianceBernstein Corporation, has donated $1 million over the next four years to expand the number of undergraduate honors scholars at Baruch College. The gift is the largest in the history of the College’s Honors program. The gift will fund a group of students within the Honors program who will be known as Hertog Scholars in recognition of the donor’s generosity."
(10/24/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi violated state law by improperly using a government employee as a chauffeur for his wife without paying the state, the state Ethics Commission charged...Hevesi may survive the election and still be forced from office, said Douglas Muzzio, a political scientist at New York City's Baruch College. ``It ought to be Hevesi being a dead man walking,'' Muzzio said. ``I don't know how he stays in office with a finding of a violation of ethics, the possibility of criminal charges,'' Muzzio said. ``Once it gets into the legal system, public opinion doesn't matter because the rules of the game are much more rigorous and much more formal.''
"New York's Hevesi Violated Ehtics Lawes, Panel Charges" Bloomberg.com (10/24/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The State Ethics Commission ruled Monday that State Comptroller Alan Hevesi violated New York law by failing to reimburse the state for using a staffer as his ailing wife's chauffeur... Hevesi is seeking re-election as the state's chief financial officer and an aide says he is not resigning. It's still too early to see what this ruling will do to his re-election bid, but a recent poll showed Hevesi with a huge lead over Callaghan. One local expert says Hevesi's chances for re-election are still strong. Dean David Birdsell, of Baruch College's School of Public Affairs, says the comptroller has a larger network of support and enjoys more name recognition than his challenger. “This is obviously a very serious charge, a very serious problem. The only reason why it's not going to make more of a difference in the election is the vast distance in this case between the Republican and Democratic candidates for state-wide office,” said Birdsell."
"Ethics Commission Says Hevesi Violated State Law" NY1 News (10/23/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Senator Clinton's Republican challenger, John Spencer, said yesterday that the New York senator would make a "tremendous" candidate for president in 2008, but criticized her stance on Iraq, votes against tax cuts, and the rest of her record in Congress.Mr. Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, used his airtime in the second and final Senate debate to cast Mrs. Clinton as an opportunist using the Senate as a springboard to the White House...The dean of the public affairs school at Baruch College, David Birdsell, said Mrs. Clinton did a solid job. "One of her goals here is to rack up as many Independent and moderate Republican votes as she can," Mr. Birdsell said. "John Spencer is a good person to do that against because he appeals to more rock-ribbed conservatives."
"Spencer, In Debate, Denies Hating Clinton" The New York Sun (10/23/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...Spitzer has been accused of trying to threaten and intimidate those he has targeted as attorney general, raising protests from opponents that his temperament is unfit for governor...That prosecutorial personality can be effective as a government leader, but it can also create a backlash, as Rudolph Giuliani found out early in his tenure when he clashed with leaders when he made the switch from prosecutor to New York City mayor, some political observers said. Politics requires more compromise than the courtroom, they added. Spitzer is "very aggressive, he's very smart, he knows what he wants and he doesn't like people getting in the way," said Douglas Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College in Manhattan. "It's not a bad trait, and if it's an intelligent toughness it's a good thing. But it can't be a blind toughness."
"Spitzer's image as crusader at stake" Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (10/22/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Robert Schwartz is the Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance at Baruch College, CUNY..."Why do we need middlemen in financial markets?..."For small orders and big-cap stocks -- the plain-vanilla stuff -- with electronic trading and order management, you really don't need the traditional services of an intermediary. Even retail customers can handle their own orders of that stuff…and the trading platform keeps records and does trades. The computer becomes the intermediary, and the computer doesn't charge as much. "But for big orders and any-sized orders for small- and mid-cap stocks, intermediaries are needed. When you get away from no-brainer trades, trading remains a complex process, and the intermediaries have a role to play."
"Death of a Middleman" The Wall Street Journal Online (10/22/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"FROM BIKINIS: Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein, professor emeritus at Baruch College"
"Quotes" The Vancouver Sun (10/21/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer won two big legal victories yesterday. It's good news for a man who's hoping to be New York's next governor, Ashley Milne-Tyte reports. Douglas Muzzio teaches public affairs at New York City's Baruch College: "It simply reinforces the dominant image and the narrative about Eliot Spitzer that he is the Sheriff of Wall Street and he is protecting the people from people like Grasso and corporations like CBS and others."
"Two down, one big win to go for Spitzer" Marketplace (10/20/06)
Baruch College News
"Enrollment at The City University of New York reached its highest levels in more than three decades this semester, and administrators reported that applicants to the colleges are more qualified than ever before. CUNY reported that 226,213 students were registered at its campuses this semester, a 2.5 percent increase over last September when there were 220,727 students, the highest total since 1975. Significantly, almost 19,995 students transferred to CUNY colleges from other institutions of higher education, an 8.7 percent increase last year when 18,399 chose to switch to CUNY...The improvements in the academic backgrounds of applicants can be seen across the board. The number of those admitted to the top-tier colleges — Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter and Queens — with averages of 85 or better increased by 9.6 percent this year. Those with averages of 90 or above grew by 11.8 percent. Chancellor Matthew Goldstein said he is pleased with the numbers, which confirm that CUNY is increasingly recognized as the place where a high quality education can be obtained."
"CUNY has record enrollment" Queens Tribune (10/20/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"A PR blog fiasco. A defunct community site. And now a holiday site that's incited a child advocacy backlash. Can Wal-Mart do no right online?
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has launched a petition against the mammoth retailer's new holiday toy site, claiming Wal-Mart ToyLand prompts kids to nag their parents into buying them over priced or inappropriate toys..."Certainly this online strategy to, in effect, annoy parents is going to close the wallets of the parents who were supposed to open them," noted Robb Hecht, marketing consultant at the imc strategy lab and adjunct professor of marketing at Baruch College. This is especially the case, he added, "if the reinforcement to nag is not coming from a kid down the block, but from a Wal-Mart branded Web site any parent could visit, and discover the culprit."
"Will Recent Online Flubs Hurt Wal-Mart's Brand?" ClickZ News (10/19/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"A big developer purchased Stuyvesant Town yesterday for a whopping $5.4 billion. Alex Goldmark looks at what's next for Manhattan's last bastion of middle class housing... Professor of Real Estate at Baruch College, John Goering, says that new ownership won't change rents right away because most of the 11,000 units are protected by rent stabilization laws."
"Stuyvestant Towners movin' out?" Marketplace.org (10/18/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is dating a 20-year-old model and restaurant hostess. In some cities this might trigger a major controversy, but not in the Bay Area...And why would a young woman be interested in dating a man almost twice her age, even if he is the mayor. It's all about the power, baby. "What makes him more appealing is how much power he wields," says Carol Berkin, a political historian at Baruch College, who points out that Confederate leader Jefferson Davis was 38 when he married a 17-year-old girl. "What gets the heart beating fast is that he's got a chauffeur or that he's the top man in San Francisco. This is what women have been conditioned to find attractive."
"Golden Boy Newsom Dates 20-Year-Old" abc7news.com (10/18/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Queens Democrats stood in solidarity with Assemb. Brian McLaughlin yesterday, praising him as a "stand-up guy" whose personality differs sharply from the portrait of a corrupt politician and labor leader painted by federal
prosecutors...Doug Muzzio, professor of public affairs at Baruch College, said McLaughlin was a major player in city politics and in the labor movement, and was liked by most people."
"Defending 'stand-up' guy" Newsday (10/18/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The Power To Persuade: FDR, The Newsmagazines, And Going To War, 1939-1941 by Micheal G. Carew (Assistant Professor Of Economics at Baruch College, New York) is the true story of the roul four magazines played in generating support for America's involvement in World War IIagainst the Nazi-led Axis. At the time, the magazines "Life", "Look", "Newsweek", and "Time" reached over 40 million readers--almost 50% of America's electorate, mostly middle to upper class. By the end of November 1941, enough of the formerly anti-war opposition hand changed their opinions and joined Roosevelt's electoral consensus. The Power To Persuade scrutinizes how a nation could go from neutrality to active participation in the war against the Axis in two short years, drawing on a wealth of compiled data presented in various charts. Appendices packed with even more statistics and bibiolography round out fascinating insight into a crucial phase of American history."
"The Power To Persuade; Brief article; Book review" Reviewer's Bookwatch (Fall 2006)
Baruch Alumni News
Baruch alumnus Trevor Edwards, Nike’s VP of global brand and category management was quoted in a piece on the company’s Digital Marketer of the Year Award. “Naming Nike Digital Marketer of the Year almost welcomes the charge of unoriginality…But don’t hold that against the Beaverton, Ore-based shoe and apparel giant. Its pioneering work is redefining interactive marketing, taking advantage of the web as a medium for commerce, brand extension, relationship building, and conversation starting…”We create demand for our brand by being flexible about how we tell the story,” says Trevor Edwards, VP-president, global brand and category management. “We do not rigidly stay with one approach…We have an integrated marketing model that involves all elements of the marketing mix from digital to sports marketing, from event marketing to advertising to entertainment all sitting at the table driving ideas.”
“Who’s leading the way in web marketing? It’s Nike, of course” Advertising Age (10/16/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Prop 85 on the November ballot would require doctors to notify parents at least 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor. Some in the medical and legal community have serious reservations about the measure. But supporters maintain it makes sense for parents to be involved in their children’s medical decisions...Thirty-five states have parental involvement laws on the books. A recent study sheds some light on the effects of such measures. Economist Ted Joyce, from Baruch College at City University of New York, is the study’s lead author. His research looks at changes in abortions and births caused by the parental notification law in Texas. It took effect in 2000."
"Abortion Notification Measure Back on Ballot" KPBS (10/16/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Trailing in the polls and entangled in a federal investigation, the Republican candidate for attorney general, Jeanine Pirro, attacked her opponent yesterday, saying Andrew Cuomo is unqualified to be the state's top lawyer...The dean of the school of public affairs at Baruch College, David Birdsell, said Ms. Pirro was "plainly on the offensive" and "highly articulate," but that her negative approach could be seen as extreme. Mr. Birdsell said Mr. Cuomo is clearly trying to avoid making waves in the final three-week stretch of the campaign."
"Pirro Goes on the Offensive In First Debate Against Cuomo" The New York Sun (10/16/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Eliot Spitzer was at another of a thousand campaign stops, this time a gay pride dinner, sitting over the banquet steak he was not going to eat. Then he rose to mingle and chat, in rare candor, about where he is in his life...The question now is whether a man who has been an attorney and prosecutor for most of his life, a man who has never fully probed the engines of government, can transform himself from a litigator to the shepherd of 19 million diverse sheep. The job of attorney general is measured on a case-by-case basis, through settlements and convictions -- tangible victories. Governors face ever-changing crises where success is difficult to measure. "What can be an advantage as a prosecutor can be a disadvantage as an executive," said Doug Muzzio, a political scientist from Baruch College. "It's not juggling two balls. It's juggling 15 balls and the balls are conscious actors."
"Can Spitzer go from lawman to shepherd?" Newsday (10/15/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Jeanine Pirro gets the opportunity she has craved for weeks: a debate tomorrow against her Democratic rival for attorney general and the chance, perhaps, to remind voters that there's more to her than just controversy... "If it is her last best chance, it is a real slim reed," said Doug Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College in Manhattan. "It is doubtful that anything that happens in the debate, unless Andrew foams at the mouth, will make that big a difference."
"Pirro aims to refocus spotlight" The Journal News (10/14/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Unless Republican John Faso raises a lot of money fast, he could wind up being the lowest-funded gubernatorial candidate in New York since 1990... The reason Faso is having a hard time, many agree, is the polls... “There’s a very pragmatic element to contributing,” added Baruch College political scientist Doug Muzzio. “When you’re consistently 30, 40, 50 points down ... you’re not going to invest.”
"Faso could be lowest fund-raiser since '90" The Ithaca Journal (10/13/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Both state attorney general candidates have enough marital drama to launch a miniseries. But when Republican Jeanine Pirro and Democrat Andrew Cuomo square off on Sunday for their first televised debate, they must prove they are politically savvy and above the personal fray to win, experts said... Pirro needs him to make a major gaffe during debates to score points with voters, said David Birdsell of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs. "[Pirro's campaign] is like a baseball team who knows they can still win a World Series but has to wait for the other teams to lose to get in the playoffs.. . . This year, he is very well-coached," said Birdsell."
"AG Rivals Urged to Rise Above Messes" Daily News (10/13/06)
Baruch College News
"Federal Reserve Gov. Fredric Mishkin Thursday noted that big China holdings of U.S. assets and U.S. Treasuries is not a "good long-run situation." Mishkin said it is better for China to develop its own solid trustworthy financial institution, keeping the money in China. Mishkin spoke in the context of a speech, reported earlier, in which he advocated more capital flows into emerging market economies such as China. The speech marked Mishkin's first public speech as a new Fed governor. He chose the location of Baruch College because his father Sydney graduated from there and also had an art gallery on campus named in his honor."
"Mishkin Q&A:China Should Develop Own Strong Fin Institutions" The Main Wire (10/13/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The Democratic front-runner for Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has refused to weigh in on the Pirro investigation since the story broke two weeks ago. Federal investigators are looking into whether Pirro wiretapped her husband to find out if he was cheating. Cuomo is leaving it to his supporters to condemn Pirro. “It's very unlikely Andrew Cuomo will ever say anything about Jeanine Pirro's personal life,” said David Birdsell, of Baruch College. Birdsell said it is a textbook strategy. “He wants to keep hands off,” said Birdsell. “Have as many other people as possible saying as many damaging things as possible about Jeanine Pirro and not touch that subject himself."
"Cuomo Avoids Pirro Issue, Finds Support from Schumer" NY1 News (10/11/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"There was enough Democratic star power to light up an auditorium - but party stars Sen. Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer weren't playing to a big crowd yesterday. Instead, they chose a Long Island living room for their first official joint campaign event, chatting about property taxes and schools... Doug Muzzio of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs said Clinton and Spitzer were capitalizing on the chance to join forces and expand their base of support. "They both want to win big and they both want to appeal to Republicans," Muzzio said. "This is a homey way to do it."
"GOP Stop for Eliot and Hil" Daily News (10/11/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The state would be better off if a single party didn't control the entire government - and so might the nation, Mayor Bloomberg suggested yesterday in a shot at the GOP in Washington... "It sounds like he's taking a slap at Republicans," observed Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio."
"Mike A '1Party' Pooper; Zings GOP Rule" The New York Post (10/11/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Four years ago, some deemed Alan Hevesi's election as state comptroller a
consolation prize after his last-place finish in the 2001 Democratic mayoral
primary in New York City. But as Hevesi, 66, of Forest Hills, seeks re-election against an unheralded Republican challenger in next month's election, he speaks as if he's found his dream job... "It was Lazarus-plus," said Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College. "Not only did he rise from the dead but he rose to a higher place in heaven."
"ELECTION 2006; Hevesi's own Cinderella story" Newsday (10/11/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Twenty-five years after the courts first allowed states to prohibit teens younger than 18 from having an abortion without a parent's knowledge, Oregon remains among a few states with no such law. Measure 43, on the November ballot, would require a parent to be notified 48 hours before a 15-, 16- or 17-year-old daughter could have an abortion. The state Legislature and voters have defeated similar proposals in the past. As Oregonians once again consider such a law, what, if anything, could they learn from other states? ...Those teens who did not tell their parents were typically older -- 16 and 17. Their biggest concern was hurting or disappointing their parents. Yet 30 percent said they did not tell their parents because they feared violence would occur or they would be forced to leave their home. Among the most recent studies is a 2006 report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Theodore Joyce, a professor of economics and finance at Baruch College, City University of New York, looked at Texas, which began enforcing its parental notification law on Jan. 1, 2000."
"State enters debate over abortion, parent role" The Oregonian (10/10/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...Plagiarism on U.S. college campuses is on the rise. Of 51,611 undergraduates surveyed in a 2005 study by Duke University's Center for Academic Integrity, 37 percent admitted copying Internet material without attribution, compared with 10 percent in 1999. Yet less than 20 percent of Georgetown's faculty members use the plagiarism detection software, Turnitin.com, that's made available to them and that flagged the history paper. About half of the 4,140 colleges and universities in the U.S. -- including the entire Ivy League -- don't use commercial programs, according to the software makers...At Baruch College at the City University of New York, only about 75 of 400 faculty members use Turnitin, says Gerard Dalgish, acting director of the writing program. Some teachers don't receive papers in electronic form -- a requirement for using a detection program -- while others prefer checking questionable sections on an Internet search engine like Google, he says. Dalgish used Turnitin to catch two plagiarists in a linguistics course in 2005. He failed them and reported them to the dean of students."
"Ivy League Shuns Anti-Plagiarism Tool as U.S. Cheating Rises" Bloomberg.com (10/10/06)
Baruch College News
"More than a quarter, or 28%, of companies had made changes or were
considering making changes to their company's retirement plans as a result of
the Pension Protection Act of 2006, according to a new survey of chief financial officers. The survey's findings from the third-quarter 2006 CFO survey showed that executives weren't wasting any time in adjusting their retirement plans. The CFO survey was released Oct. 3 and was conducted by Financial Executives International, an advocacy group for corporate financial management based in Florham Park, N.J., along with Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business in New York."
"CFOs mull changes" Investment News (10/9/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"To the Editor: Re ''Who's Afraid of Shinzo Abe?'' (Op-Ed, Sept. 30):
Yoshihisa Komori and his newspaper have been lauding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for standing up to China because Beijing has not accepted Japan's 20-plus formal apologies for its wartime transgressions. Mr. Komori did not mention that Mr. Abe and his ruling party have steadfastly opposed Japan's formal apology for imperial Japan's aggression and atrocities... But he and his ruling party have refused officially to atone for the hundreds of thousands of Koreans, Chinese and others who were systematically abducted by imperial Japan as its soldiers' sex slaves and forced laborers. Two years ago, it was revealed that in 2001, Mr. Abe, then a deputy cabinet secretary, forced Japan's public broadcaster (NHK) to drop the airing of the proceedings of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The tribunal found imperial Japan guilty of committing mass abduction of Korean sex slaves.
Yoshi Tsurumi
Scarsdale, N.Y., Oct. 4, 2006
The writer is a professor of international business at Baruch College."
"Japan's New Leader" The New York Times (10/7/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Michel Martin in Washington. A conference in New York begins tomorrow to celebrate the life of a woman
many have never heard of, but whose legacy is essential to understand who we are now. Harriet Jacobs was born into American slavery in 1813. She escaped 23 years later and went on to tell her own story. David Reynolds is a distinguished professor of English at Baruch College and the graduate school of the City University of New York. He's also author of a recent biography, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War and Seeded Civil Rights. He joins us from our New York bureau."
"Slave Narratives, Then and Now" NPR (10/5/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Immigrants have always been the backbone of the Sunset Park community. As Sunset Park grows and changes, more members of the community are undocumented immigrants who face increasingly complicated struggles. In response to the growing alarm among local service providers, Center for Family Life helped to organize a coalition of local organizations to begin to address the needs of the undocumented members of the community...On May 23, 2006 the Sunset Park Coalition for New Immigrants hosted the Sister Mary Geraldine Symposium on Immigration Reform: National Challenges and Local Responses, our first major public event...Other panelists included: Hector Cordero-Guzman, professor at CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College, Tarry Hum, professor at Queens College-CUNY, and Reverend Terry Troia, Executive Director, Project Hospitality." Center For Family Life in Sunset Park (10/5/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Just imagine the power of the AOL brand once it gets every employee
focused on the one big goal of building the world's biggest and most
engaged audience based on brand utilitarianism," says Robb Hecht, adjunct
marketing professor at Baruch College and owner of the blog Media 2.0, where he analyzes business branding issues. "AOL owns and operates
[instant messaging service] ICQ. It owns and operates Mapquest, Netscape,
Moviefone, Weblogs, Cityguide, and AOLmusic.com. And, now it has other
non-AOL branded media properties such as In2TV, TMZ, and Engadget that are all hits. If AOL gets its brand right, AOL could re-establish itself as
the 'go-to' social online media property it was originally destined to
be."
"The Rise & Fall (And Rise?) of AOL" Techweb (10/4/06)
Baruch College News
"Baruch College is an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features the school in the just-published 2007 edition of its “Best 282 Business Schools.”
(10/4/06)
Baruch College News
"In a recently released paper by The Education Trust, an independent nonprofit organization advocating high academic achievement, Baruch College was singled out as the only large, four-year college in the country with 50 percent of the student body receiving Pell Grants–an indicator of significant financial need–and a six-year graduation rate of more than 50 percent. Titled “Degrees of Access: Policies that Restrict College Opportunities for Poor and Minority Students,” the paper highlighted Baruch for successfully implementing measures that improved graduation rates from 35.5 percent in 1998 to 53 percent in 2004. Today, Baruch’s six-year graduation rate stands at 58.7 percent."
(10/4/06)
Baruch College News
"Despite reported recession fears, CFOs’ economic optimism dropped only slightly in the third quarter to 67.6, compared to 68.6 in the second quarter, according to the “CFO Outlook Survey,” conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Company-specific optimism declined even less, to 75.5 from 76.3 last quarter." (10/3/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"The city's political calculus could be affected for years to come by a sharp
increase in the proportion of its homes that are owner-occupied, experts are saying in the wake of new United States Census figures. A professor of public affairs at Baruch College, Douglas Muzzio, said the numbers show growth in New York's "bourgeoisie" and a "stabilizing middle class" that he says is spreading to the outer boroughs. He said the demographic shift could have "profound policy implications." "They don't like property taxes, they like services. If they are homeowners, they are more likely to have kids and want better schools," Mr. Muzzio said. "They would be conservative on things like property taxes, but not necessarily on all dimensions of social policy."
"New York Politics Could Feel Impact of Home Owners" The New York Sun (10/3/06)
Baruch Alumni News
“He’ll get to talking about innovations, yes, but first, Trevor Edwards needs to make one thing clear: “I have one of the best jobs in the world,” he said of his post as VP-global brand and category manager for one of the most revered marketing organizations: Nike. “We get a chance to stay connected to young consumers. That’s what helps me stay energized every day.” Mr. Edwards, 44, leads brand management for the Beaverton, Ore.-based sports-equipment-and-apparel behemoth, a company with revenue of $15 billion and an overall demand-creation budget-for advertising, promotions, endorsement contracts-of $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2006…Mr. Edwards joined Nike in 1992 after spending seven years at Colgate-Palmolive, and he brings to his post a globetrotter’s perspective. Born in London, he moved to Jamaica when he was 14. From there, he went to New York to attend Baruch College”
“The Innovators: CMO Strategy - Trevor Edwards" Advertising Age (10/2/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Baruch College professor Robb Hecht put it this way: "The power of brands is what attracts people to marketing. Most marketers want to work on the biggest brands, brands [with sales] the size of some countries' gross national products. Many marketers, once behind the dashboard of driving a brand, feel the power of the reach of a brand."
"Inside the Mind of the Marketer" Brandweek (10/2/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"...As enrollment in university accounting programs across America continues to climb, firms are looking to implement creative recruiting strategies. The American Institute of CPAs reported a 19 percent increase in enrollment and the number of graduates - 53 percent of whom are women - in accounting programs from 2000 to 2004....Of course, pay is also a key factor in choosing a firm, said Doug Carmichael, accounting professor at Baruch College in New York and former chief auditor at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. But being flexible and feeling "at home" is just as important. "I try to find out what students are interested in doing. I tell them a personal chemistry with a firm is important," he said. "If you go somewhere and you have a sense that you feel at home, that's definitely the place to go."
"Time for a new poster?; Recruiting strategies have to change with the times" Accounting Today (10/2/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments isn't practicing what it preaches on a controversial shareholder-rights issue. The Boston-based financial firm says it generally supports efforts to get companies to adopt so-called cumulative-voting procedures. Yet Fidelity doesn't seem to actually cast its votes in favor of these proposals. Rather, it regularly abstains from voting on plans that support it...(professor of accountancy) Burton Rothberg, who co-authored a study on mutual fund voting for Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business in 2004, said abstentions for shareholder-sponsored proposals could also be interpreted as a form of approval."When a big one like Fidelity abstains it means something it means they're not giving their support" to management, he said. "Let's face it, the default vote is to vote for management, and if they don't, it means something."
"Fidelity's voting record, policy at odds on shareholder voting reform" AFX; The Associated Press; Dow Jones Newswires; The Houston Chronicle; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (10/2/06)
Baruch College News
"Sound and enthusiasm pulsed through Columbia University's Roone Arledge Auditorium last Saturday as students came together to enjoy dancing, poetry and live music at Latino Heritage Month's Semi-Formal and Cultural Showcase. Caban also praised the Student Government Association for its help with coordinating events. Of the 17 acts that performed, 14 were Columbia student groups, while three were from outside organizations. She also emphasized the addition of "more obscure cultural groups" that performed, including Bolivian folklore dancing and cumbia by Baruch College's Por Colombia."
"Show kicks off Columbia U. Latino Heritage Month" University Wire (10/2/06)
Baruch Faculty Expertise
"Economist Erik Sirri, a former official of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, has rejoined the regulator as its new director of market regulation... Robert Schwartz, a business professor at Baruch College in New York City, applauded the appointment. "Erik Sirri is a well-experienced economist who has excellent credentials," he said. "He is well re