Friday, September 16, 2022 | Vol. 5, No. 5, Fall 2022 Semester

My Dear Colleagues and Students,

As I write these words, we are in the midst of multiple celebrations to honor Evelina Antonetty’s centennial. I remember as a young college and then graduate student following with interest and pride the path that this pioneering community organizer, educator created for so many in the Bronx and elsewhere. Hostos is proud of having participated as a major sponsor of this glorious week of celebrations, organized and lovingly planned by our very own Dr. Nydia Edgecombe, Mr. Wallace Edgecombe, Doña Elba Cabrera and a planning celebratory committee that did her memory proud. A special thanks to Professor Thelma Ithier-Sterling for her powerful performance of La Borinqueña. What a treat! Between the art, literature and multimedia shared, it was a beautiful and wonderful display.

As we engage in a more in person campus life, I am happy to be able to share with you my remarks at the opening ceremonies, held on Monday, September 12 at 11 a.m. in the A Building Atrium. As you enjoy opportunities to gather as the Hostos family, as we did just last Thursday with multiple supporters, elected officials and a large contingency from the Hostos family at the Evelina Antonetty playground adjacent to the campus, always remember the driving force its namesake was as a catalyst for change. Just like our beloved Eugenio María de Hostos Community College was named for a fierce advocate of human rights, women’s rights and the importance of teaching our people to reason: Enseñad al pueblo a pensar.

Evelina 100 Opening Program by President Daisy Cocco De Filippis

Good morning, Buenos Días y Bienvenidos.

Should you ever question the power of one dedicated and determined person to change the world, two words should erase any doubt: Evelina Antonetty.

Today marks the start of a week-long celebration of the life and legacy of this magnificent woman. Hers was a life of such achievement, we have set aside seven days to consider the roles she played in the history of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, the greater New York area, and — through her ever-shining example — the world.

Seven days of panels, discussions, readings, films, art exhibits, and music will only hint at the richness of her contributions. That is understandable. Her gift to us is perpetual, eternal; it will never be exhausted. It lives on in all who draw inspiration from Evelina Antonetty. How fitting Hostos was chosen to serve as the venue for both the opening and closing of the week’s activities since the College’s own founding mirrors Antonetty’s spirit.

She was one of three remarkable sisters, and I believe that in honoring one, we honor them all: Evelina López Antonetty, Lillian López, and Elba Cabrera. Their unstinting efforts over the years have helped to make New York a more just, more equitable, and better-educated city. A few words about Evelina’s sisters will illustrate their common roots as activists as well as their individual areas of interest.

Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Lillian López was among the first Puerto Rican librarians in the New York Public Library system. Her efforts to create library services and programs for Puerto Ricans and other Latinos broke new ground and are justly referred to as pioneering.

Elba Cabrera is known as La Madrina de las Artes. As an administrator, community organizer, and television and radio host, she has passionately championed Puerto Rican and Latino arts and culture. A beloved member of the Hostos Foundation Board, Ms. Cabrera was presented with an Hostos Honorary at the 2022 commencement.

Evelina López Antonetty came to New York City in 1933, where she devoted her energies to progressive politics and labor organization. In the mid-sixties she founded United Bronx Parents, which advocated for tenants’ rights, bilingual education, health services, childcare and legal rights. United Bronx Parents has served as a model for inner-city institutions across the United States.

In 2018 Chalkbeat New York, an online source for coverage of educational issues, featured an article by Ansley Erickson, Brian Jones and Adam Sanchez examining plans for an anti-bias program in the city’s schools. Expressing the hope that “the program recognizes and builds upon the work of the city’s anti-racist teachers” and the “rich sources of narratives about how New Yorkers have imagined their freedom and struggled for it,” the authors go on to say:

As a civil rights activist and union organizer Evelina fought for the working men and women of the South Bronx. A tireless advocate for social justice and educational reform, Evelina changed lives — and helped others to do the same. Our good friend the former Congressman José Serrano, to name only one example, has often spoken of how crucial her support was at the start of his political career.

Serrano and all who have been influenced by Evelina form a continuum of activists who take their place in the history of New York City. It is of the greatest importance to cite her accomplishments and shout her story to the rooftops. In January 2021 journalist Linus Glenhaber pointed out the ways in which conventional accounts of 1970s New York present one narrative: ruthless, racist urban planner Robert Moses versus Greenwich Village activist Jane Jacobs. This narrative is true as far as it goes, Glenhaber says, but the problem is it doesn’t go far enough. It leaves out Evelina Antonetty and any Bronx-based activism whatsoever. It ignores the contributions of people of color and robs reality of its glorious abundance. Glenhaber ends his reflections this way:

In the course of this week, the life and legacy of Evelina Antonetty will be viewed through a variety of perspectives. Her spirit is needed more than ever these days, and I am grateful to the organizers of Evelina 100 for giving us all the opportunity to reflect and draw upon that spirit. For those seeking more knowledge and information after this week, consider visiting our wonderful friends and colleagues at El Centro de los Estudios Puertorriqueños located in Hunter College. The archives are located in the library housed there.

We remember you, Evelina Antonetty. And we thank you for the gift of your unceasing belief in the citizens of the Bronx — for your generous and compassionate heart — and for providing us all with an example that inspires others to this day and always will.

Mil gracias y bendiciones, Daisy

Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Ph.D.

President

A POEM TO WELCOME HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

A Julia de Burgos

By Julia de Burgos

Ya las gentes murmuran que yo soy tu enemiga

porque dicen que en verso le doy al mundo tu yo.

Mienten, Julia de Burgos. Mienten, Julia de Burgos. La que se alza en mis versos no es tu voz: es mi voz porque tú eres el ropaje y la esencia soy yo; y el más profundo abismo se tiende entre las dos.

Tú eres fría muñeca de mentira social,

y yo, viril destello de la humana verdad.

Tú, miel de cortesanas hipocresías; yo no;

que en todos mis poemas desnudo el corazón.

Tú eres como tu mundo, egoísta; yo no

que en todo me lo juego a ser lo que soy yo.

Tú eres sólo la grave señora señorona;

yo no; yo soy la vida, la fuerza, la mujer.

Tú eres de tu marido, de tu amo; yo no;

Yo de nadie, o de todos, porque a todos, a todos,

en mi limpio sentir y en mi pensar me doy.

Tú rizas el pelo y te pintas; yo no;

a mí me riza el viento, a mí me pinta el sol.

Tú eres dama casera, resignada, sumisa,

atada a los prejuicios de los hombres; yo no;

que yo soy Rocinante corriendo desbocado

olfateando horizontes de justicia de Dios.

Tú en ti misma no mandas; a ti todos te mandan;

en ti mandan tu esposo, tus padres, tus parientes, el cura, la modista, el teatro, el casino,

el auto, las alhajas, el banquete, el champán,

el cielo y el infierno, y el qué dirán social.

En mí no, que en mí manda mí solo corazón,

mi solo pensamiento; quien manda en mi soy yo.

Tú, flor de aristocracia; y yo, la flor del pueblo.

Tú en ti lo tienes todo y a todos se lo debes,

mientras que yo, mi nada a nadie se la debo.

Tú, Clavada al estático dividendo ancestral,

y yo, un uno en la cifra de divisor social,

somos el duelo a muerte que se acerca fatal.

Cuando las multitudes corran alborotadas

dejando atrás cenizas de injusticias quemadas,

y cuando con la tea de las siete virtudes,

tras los siete pecados, corran las multitudes,

contra ti, y contra todo lo injusto y lo inhumano,

yo iré en medio de ellas con la tea en el mano.

To Julia de Burgos

Translated by Jack Agüeros

Already the people murmur that I am your enemy

because they say that in verse I give the world your me.

They lie, Julia de Burgos. They lie, Julia de Burgos. Who rises in my verses is not my voice. It is my voice because you are the dressing and the essence is me; and the most profound abyss is spread between us.

You are the cold doll of social lies,

and me, the virile starburst of the human truth.

You, honey of courtesan hypocrisies; not me;

in all my poems I undress my heart.

You are like your world, selfish; not me

who gambles everything betting on what I am.

You are only the ponderous lady very lady;

not me; I am life, strength, woman.

You belong to your husband, your master; not me;

I belong to nobody, or all, because to all, to all

I give myself in my clean feeling and in my thought.

You curl your hair and paint yourself; not me;

the wind curls my hair, the sun paints me.

You are a housewife, resigned, submissive,

tied to the prejudices of men; not me;

unbridled, I am a runaway Rocinante

snorting horizons of God’s justice.

You in yourself have no say; everyone governs you; your husband, your parents, your family,

the priest, the dressmaker, the theatre, the dance hall, the auto, the fine furnishings, the feast, champagne, heaven and hell, and the social, “what will they say.”

Not in me, in me only my heart governs,

only my thought; who governs in me is me.

You, flower of aristocracy; and me, flower of the people. You in you have everything and you owe it to everyone, while me, my nothing I owe to nobody.

You nailed to the static ancestral dividend,

and me, a one in the numerical social divider,

we are the duel to death who fatally approaches.

When the multitude run rioting

leaving behind ashes of burned injustices,

and with the torch of the seven virtues,

the multitudes run after the seven sins,

against you and against everything unjust and inhuman,

I will be in their midst with the torch in my hand.

Obra citada

Burgos, Julia de. Canción de la Verdad Simple: Obra Completa poética = Los Poemas Completos. Traducido por Jack Agüeros, Primera edición ed., Curbstone Press, 1997.

MESSAGE FROM SGA PRESIDENT LEAGHTON N. OZORIA 

TIME IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL

One must take pride in time for it is what stands before us, forever like knowledge. As time goes on, it grows on. We as a civil nation will go into time like a black hole. It takes a gradual effort. It is not time, the enemy, but fate. Faith sounds like fate so belief is the key. Believe enough to value, for your fate is like an advent while time is the cosmos in an expansion forward in symbolism of forever. Did God find the megastructure or did he make an angel? These are all questions to fathom.

As humanism is unique to humans, we are individuals into individualism. We naturally lead the way. When is intellectual freedom a remedy? We must persist that we can catch up to time due to freedom of the mind. A mind being free is a moral in an innocent mindset, in a guarantee of truth. Speak loudly with due reason and speak its truth. Truth is what we see also, but it cannot see us, for truth is blind.

And we naturally ask questions, what if? Where is it? Why should I? So lead the way by asking questions. Yes, I would say! Ask a teacher, ask a friend, and get an answer to work with.

CAIMAN CLUES

The “Caiman Clues” for the  Fall ’22 semester | Week 3

Dear Students,

Take note and mark your calendars for some important upcoming deadlines. Don’t miss out learning about transfer deadlines, career options and dual degree programs! 

Here are the Caiman Clues: 

• CUNY Transfer Application – The Spring 2023 transfer application deadline is September 15. 
• STEM and Dual Degree Programs Orientation Week – Beginning September 20, learn about our joint programs' requirements, transfer information and research opportunities. See the schedule here. 
• Learn Engineering Design – The Solid Works workshop invites STEM students to earn a certificate and learn how to interpret engineering drawings along with an introduction to solid modeling software and analysis. The workshop starts September 15. Sign up here.   
• Research your Career Options – Start your journey and understand the various career options available to you. Join in on one of two events on September 20 and September 21 at 4 p.m. Next, sign up and participate in a career hub session from September 20 to September 23 on how to launch your career with options in various sectors including Government, Law and Public Policy, Education and Human Services, and Art and Entertainment. 

Follow our Facebook (@HostosCC), Twitter (@HostosCollege) and Instagram (@HostosCollege) for helpful hints you can use all year round.

Read past issues of the Caiman Clues for helpful tips and reminders.

Don’t Miss Your Caiman Clues — Your Hostos Helping Hand to Success 

Sincerely, 

Hostos Community College 

Submitted by Sofia Oviedo, Ph.D., Director of Research Programs

Dear Students and Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that the new Ms. MacKenzie Scott’s Gift: President’s Initiatives Request for Proposals 2022–23 has just been issued this week! President Daisy Cocco De Filippis, in collaboration with the Hostos Advisory Corp members, are inviting members of the Hostos college community to submit proposals for funding to support one to two new pilot initiatives that can be implemented this academic year. As we continue to examine the impact of the President’s Initiatives, the committee seeks to engage the college community in sharing new project ideas that have the potential to advance the College’s important work in one or more of the key focus areas of our mission.

Proposals are invited for innovative projects that can be implemented over the course of three to four months or the academic year. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to apply. Student applicants will need to apply with a full-time staff/faculty member as a mentor. This RFP presents an excellent opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration across departments and programs and these types of applications are encouraged.

Funding will be available to support one to two new initiatives that will be selected for the 2022–23 academic year. Funding will be available for short-term or long-term projects.

(1) Short-term project (3 to 4 months) with a budget requesting up to $10,000.

(2) Long-term project (academic year) with a budget requesting up to $20,000.

Proposed projects should be aligned to the college’s six-fold mission pillars and can address any of the following areas:

• Support enrollment, retention, and graduation.
• Increase academic success through intentionality in advisement.
• Increase and support transfer opportunities to undergraduate/graduate education.
• Promote student health and wellness including efforts to address food insecurity.
• Provide students with opportunities for service learning and civic engagement.
• Support the needs of undocumented/immigrant students.
• Engage alumni as mentors and/or other student support roles.
• Increase student exposure and engagement in cultural learning experiences.
• Connect students to career development opportunities in the creative arts, digital/multimedia design, and technology industries.
• Activities designed to contribute to a more inclusive and equitable college climate for students, staff, and faculty.
• New creative ways designed to improve the learning experience for Hostos students and promote greater access to educational, social-emotional, career development and other community resources. This can include re-envisioning and/or restructuring any of the current pilot initiatives.

For complete RFP guidelines and application click here. 

The application deadline is Tuesday, October 11, 2022.

I invite all who are interested in learning more about this RFP opportunity, to attend an Information Session on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 4 – 5 p.m. Click here to register. 

For more information about the Ms. MacKenzie Scott’s Gift: President’s Initiatives, please email or call Sofia Oviedo at soviedo@hostos.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-518-4309.

INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS, RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT

Submitted by Rocio Rayo, Manager of Transfer Services and AJ Stachelek, Director of Assessment 

Assessment of Student Transfer – CUNY's Transfer Explorer

The goal of this week’s El Semanario contribution is to introduce a phenomenal tool that will help enhance and improve transparency on student transfer across CUNY. Recall that while CUNY is a system in and of itself, the interconnectedness of campuses across CUNY when it comes to transfer has often been a maze of articulations, dual degree programs, and a voyage into “Transfer What If."

The confusing process around transfer is starting to shift, with the advent of CUNY’s latest tool —Transfer Explorer (often referred to as TREX, because let’s face it — a dinosaur is easy to remember and hard to miss). With the support of funding institutions such as the Heckscher Foundation for Children and The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation, this new tool has been designed to provide a simpler and more powerful platform to explore the transferability of courses across CUNY. Even better, Hostos is involved with several of these grant projects to explore the transferability of our own courses across the CUNY system.

As part of the project undertaken at Hostos, a cohort of faculty members have already uncovered various issues in the transfer process across several courses listed in the Required Common Core Pathways areas. While the Pathways courses obtain the general elective credit guaranteed them through Pathways, these courses sometimes fall short of providing students credit for major requirements at the senior institutions. In the coming academic year, these issues uncovered by this cohort of faculty will be shared with faculty at the senior colleges to help facilitate the improvement of course equivalencies to ensure that students obtain the major credits they have earned at the senior colleges to which they transfer. Furthermore, Director of Assessment, AJ Stachelek, is exploring ways to integrate TREX into both the Annual Planning and Assessment Reporting Template (A-PART) and the Academic Program Review (APR) process on the academic side to facilitate curriculum and program review, design, and improvement, as well as transfer.

On the Administrative and Education Support (AES) side of this project, TREX has been used sporadically across campus for individual student needs. The TREX ambassadors on campus (AJ Stachelek and Rocio Rayo) are working to move away from using TREX with occasional evaluations to an institutionalized model that serves the entire College. This includes advisors sharing TREX with students, providing them with the ability to look at how any course choices they are making this semester will impact their future opportunities for transfer at various CUNY senior colleges. Lastly, the administration is in the process of formulating 2+2 degree maps to provide students with clearer information on transfer across CUNY, a process that necessitates a powerful tool like TREX.

Be on the lookout for the various staff and faculty trainings on TREX that will be offered in October by the Manager of Transfer Services, Rocio Rayo, and the Director of Assessment, AJ Stachelek. Can’t wait to show you all the cool things this tool can offer you and our students!

POLICY OF THE WEEK

Submitted by Executive Counsel and Labor Designee Eugene Sohn,

Esq. 

This week’s policy is the CUNY Sexual Misconduct Policy, which states:

CUNY students, employees and visitors deserve the opportunity to live, learn and work free from Sexual Misconduct. Accordingly, CUNY is committed to: 

1. Defining conduct that constitutes Sexual Misconduct.
2. Providing clear guidelines for students, employees and visitors on how to report incidents of Sexual Misconduct.
3. 3. Providing ongoing assistance and support to all parties after allegations of Sexual Misconduct have been made.
4. Promptly and respectfully responding to and investigating allegations of Sexual Misconduct, pursuing disciplinary action when appropriate and taking action to investigate and address any allegations of retaliation.
5. Providing awareness and prevention information on Sexual Misconduct, including widely disseminating this Policy, as well as a “Students’ Bill of Rights” and implementing training and educational programs on Sexual Misconduct to college constituencies.
6. Gathering and analyzing information and data that will be reviewed in order to improve safety, reporting, responsiveness and the resolution of allegations of Sexual Misconduct.
7. Distinguishing between the specific conduct defined as Title IX Sexual Harassment by the USDOE and the broader definition of Sexual Misconduct prohibited by this Policy.
8. Ensuring compliance with the federal regulations under Title IX, and other federal, state and local laws. 

This is CUNY’s sole policy to address Sexual Misconduct and it is applicable at all CUNY colleges and units. This Policy will be interpreted in accordance with the principles of academic freedom adopted by CUNY’s Board of Trustees. Read more here.

Submitted by Director of Governmental and External Affairs Eric Radezky, Ph.D.

NALEO and Civic Engagement at Hostos Welcome Day Barbeque

Last week at the Hostos Ready Set Go barbeque, members of the NALEO Educational Fund set up an information table and engaged over 100 Hostos students about the importance of voting as well as NALEO’s naturalization programs and services. Anyone who wanted to register to vote was given a paper registration form that could be filled out on the spot or mailed in later. If you missed the NALEO info table you may register using downloadable forms from the NYC Board of Elections website.

Also at the barbeque was an information table for the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC). This fall, Hostos will hold a Zoom event with the CEC to promote an NYC program called Participatory Budgeting. The idea will serve as an idea generation session in which we want to hear from students how the city should spend a certain amount of money in the community. Over 50 students stopped at the CEC table and signed up to receive updates.

For more information on these programs and services, email Dr. Eric Radezky at eradezky@hostos.cuny.edu

Submitted by Office of Academic Affairs

Hostos CC Works with Queens College to Find Academic Pathways for Students in Arts Administration

On August 22, 2022, colleagues from the School of Arts and Humanities at Queens College (QC) including Dean William McClure, Julia Del Palacio, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Development, and a few QC faculty and administrators visited Hostos to meet with Provost Shiang-Kwei Wang, her leadership team and the director of the liberal arts degree program Dr. Linda Hirsch. The group discussed what a liberal arts degree option in arts administration could look like in terms of courses, experiential learning and internships. A thoughtful conversation ensued over a light continental breakfast. The discussion proved to be worthwhile and strongly suggested the need for more conversations to determine how collaboration between the two institutions will benefit Hostos graduates. After a pause in the discussion, the Queens College guests were guided on a walking tour through many of the media and performing arts spaces at Hostos. Led by Humanities chairperson and associate professor Dr. Ana Ozuna, our guests learned about disciplinary curriculum offered in the Humanities Department; viewed music lab, sound labs and digital classrooms; visited the Black Box Theater, Main Theater, Repertory Theater, and Art Gallery. Finally, our guests were received by Hostos’ President Daisy Cocco De Filippis who nurtured this initiative starting with the implementation of the Community Advisory Council from which a subcommittee dedicated to forging partnerships with art organizations and community partners was formed. The creation of an Arts Administration option for liberal arts students is an extension of that work and is being led in Academic Affairs by Professor Charles Rice-Gonzalez and Professor Linda Hirsch, both, from the English Department. The Office of Academic Affairs looks forward to continuing to support this initiative over the 2022–2023 academic year.

NEWS FROM THE DIVISION OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT

Submitted by VP of Student Development & Enrollment Management 

La Toro Yates, Ph.D

Admissions

Last week, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment hosted a professional development activity that directly aligns with the work of Strategic Planning Workgroup #1. The staff had an opportunity to observe the work that goes into the planning process. They discussed recruitment and enrollment challenges and provided feedback on collaborating to improve various aspects of our recruitment, admission, and enrollment (registration) process. The Director, a member of the Strategic Planning Workgroup #1, will incorporate some of the feedback generated through team break-out activities and presentations. 

Athletics

The Women's Volleyball team played in four matches this past week going 1-3. They defeated Passaic CC 3-0 and lost two close matches against Ulster CC and Union CC. They are now 2-4 overall and have three upcoming matches next week against Nassau CC, Kingsborough CC, and Orange CC.

Children’s Center

The Children’s Center has already enrolled 32 children. The Children’s Center is currently working on the enrollment process for 10 more identified two-year-olds in order to open another classroom.

Yay! The Children’s Center received two classrooms worth of furniture for infants and ones, from the Robin Hood Foundation.

Financial Aid

Student Loan: Fresh Start Initiative: The Department of Education is helping student loan borrowers who are in student loan delinquency or student loan default get a fresh start on their student loans after the student loan payment pause through December 31, 2022 is lifted. Under the Fresh Start Program, borrowers whose federal student loans were delinquent or in default prior to the pandemic will be able to re-enter repayment in good standing.

To address the new Fresh Start Initiative, Campus Logic has done its best to identify a solution that will work for most students given the data available in the system. They have made the necessary updates to facilitate the submission of documents. For transactions created after the release of the new tasks associated with students in default, they will now receive a new Fresh Start acknowledgment form. The form will be able to be electronically signed and submitted to the school for review. For more information, visit Fresh Start for Federal Student Loan Borrowers in Default.

The Financial Aid Office has started Federal Work Study Placement for the Fall 2022 semester. Please contact Ms. Toya Pigford at 718-518-6582, for information.

Poem submitted by VP La Toro Yates

Harlem (A Dream Deferred)

By Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

    Does it dry up

    like a raisin in the sun?

    Or fester like a sore—

    And then run?

    Does it stink like rotten meat?

    Or crust and sugar over—

    like a syrupy sweet?

    Maybe it just sags

    like a heavy load

    Or does it explode?

NEWS FROM THE DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

The Division of Continuing Education and Workforce Development’s Hostos Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) was recently awarded $2,250,000 from the New York State Education Department. This grant award will allow the program to serve 1,800 students between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2027. LPP is a year-round accredited high school program that provides students with enrichment activities, service learning, and employment opportunities such as the Summer Youth Employment Program and Work Learn Grow. ​In addition, LPP helps transition students to college. Last year, LPP served 350 students. Of the 71 college-bound students they served during the 2021–22 school year, 57 or 80% were on track to go to college and four of them enrolled at Hostos. This multi-year grant award will also allow LPP to continue partnering with the Health Opportunities High School and Hostos Lincoln Academy of Science. In addition, LPP has identified two additional partner schools: Community School for Social Justice and I.S. 584.

Spread the Word

Please share information about CEWD’s current scholarships and no-cost programming opportunities, which can be found by clicking here and selecting the scholarships and tuition assistance programs link in our online course catalog. 

For additional information, please encourage prospective students to sign up for one of CEWD’s upcoming summer Virtual Information Sessions by visiting https://tinyurl.com/HostosCEWD. For those interested in information technology, please click here to learn about the Hostos Information Technology (IT) Academy. This self-paced online course is being offered at no-cost to students. 

Updates:

Register today! Hostos Annual Golf Outing Classic is just two weeks away!

The 16th Annual Scholarship Fund Golf Outing Classic is just a couple weeks away! Join us at the scenic Pelham Bay & Split Rock Golf Courses for friendly competition, an opportunity to network with local leaders, and, most importantly, a great way to help the Foundation expand opportunities for Hostos students. If you would like to learn more or purchase tickets, visit www.hostosgolfouting.com or email Idelsa Méndez. 

Changes to CUNY Tuesday



It’s hard to believe that Giving Tuesday, the national day of giving, is just a couple of months away! This year, our CUNY-wide “CUNY Tuesday” campaign will not include a payroll deduction option for CUNY faculty and staff. Instead, we encourage our giving community to enroll in recurring payments via the CUNY Tuesday website between October 8 and November 29. Recurring payments are the easiest way to support students with a manageable, monthly payment. Contact Idelsa Méndez if you have questions or want help planning your gift.

To set up your recurring gift at any time, visit www.givetohostos.com enter your donation amount, then click “add donation.” When more options appear, select “recurring gift.”

Kudos to Quick Acting Public Safety Team, Led by Chief Bernabe

Join us in commending Hostos Public Safety Sergeant Rodriguez, Sergeant Gomez, PO De Jesus, and PO Ortiz for their dedication to protecting the Hostos and local community. Their swift thinking on the morning of Monday, September 12, led to the pursuit and apprehension of a woman holding a knife near the B-building. Hostos’ Public Safety Officers alerted NYPD and EMS, and the woman was taken to a local hospital. No injuries were sustained. 

Hostos SSCU Staff Member Prepares Poem in Honor of Evelina Antonetty for E100 Celebration

9.19.1922

A Poem for Dr. Evelina Antonetty (1922−1984)

By Karina Guardiola-Lopez

The world was blessed on 9, 19, 1922

Born in the cusp of air and earth

Yet she was fuego, a force, a foundation 

They called her, the “Hell Lady of the Bronx”

Also known as Mrs. A

Titi 

Madre

Mother of the Bronx

Doctora

Evelina

She said she had an academic PHD and

A community PHD, as she called it

“Poverty, Hunger and Determination” a degree we could all relate to

Pillar to the people 

For the South Bronx

For New Yorkers 

For Puerto Rico 

For all Latinos

For all peoples 

Para la familia, los amigos y los vecinos

Nuyoquina

Woman and warrior 

A real revolutionary 

From Salinas to El Barrio to the South Bronx 

The eldest of three- like me

Las Tres Hermanas 

UBP (United Bronx Parents) in NYC

Liberating, educating, improving inequalities 

The force that fought for Hostos

The force that fought for Hunter

The force that fought for MADRE y los de Nicaragua

The force that fought for all

La fuerza, fuego, la fundación 

Big, bold, beautiful, bilingual, bicultural, belleza

Por dentro y por fuera

Her hands built, created, and fed

Breaking barriers to breaking bread 

She led 

And her legacy still leads

From pobreza to poder 

Surviving struggles to showing us the way

From the stagnant, stubborn, sick systems of society 

To striving, sustaining, and supervising the streets

In order to create successful stories

Her commitment to her community, colossal   

Consistent and constant, creating changes to excel 

Her drive, determination, and dedication, needed

For all generations, and the generations to come

The world was blessed on 9, 19, 1922

A time before mine 

A hundred years later 

We are here

We heal

We honor her

Activist 

Advocate, 

Now angel

Ella decía “Aquí Stoy”

Nosotros decimos, Aqui esta!

Evelina, Presente!

Ahora, y por cien años más 

International Conference of Universities Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration 

Friday, September 16 | 2-5:30 p.m.

Location: Hostos Community College Cafeteria, C-Building, 3rd Floor

Presented by Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of CUNY— Office of Community Relations and El Congreso Hispanoamericano de Prensa. Read more. 

To rsvp email or call Mr. Gerson Peña at cpena@hostos.cuny.edu | 718-664-2753

Sponsored by: Office of the President

Stated Meeting of the College

Wednesday, September 21 | 3:30-5 p.m.

Location: Hostos Café

Come hear the President and guests share updates on the current state of the budget, personnel and college matters at this annual convening.

Sponsored by: Office of the President

Roy Brown: Distancias… Featuring Zoraida Santiago

Friday, September 23 | 8 p.m.

Location: Hostos Theater

After a magnificent and sold-out performance at the Centro de Bellas Artes de Santurce, singer-songwriter Roy Brown returns to Hostos Center with Distancias: Recordando a Juan Antonio Corretjer, a tribute to one of the most important and immortal poets of Puerto Rico. Joining him is the beloved singer Zoraida Santiago. Together they bring us a beautiful evening of music, exquisite voices, harmonious duets and timeless poetry. Buy tickets here. 

Luego de una magnífica actuación a sala llena en el Centro de Bellas Artes de Santurce, el cantautor Roy Brownregresa al Hostos Center con Distancias: Recordando a Juan Antonio Corretjer, un homenaje a uno de los poetas más importantes e inmortales de Puerto Rico. Acompañandolo como artista invitada estará la querida cantante Zoraida Santiago. Juntos nos presentarán una hermosa noche de música, voces exquisitas, duetos armoniosos y poesía eterna.

An Afternoon of Art and Literature: Celebrating the Works of Julia de Burgos

Monday, October 3 | 3-5 p.m.

Location: Art Gallery

Join Author Chiqui Vicioso, Poet Urayoan Noel, Translator Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D. and Artist Alí García for an event honoring the pioneering Puerto Rican poet and activist.

Sponsored by: Office of the President

El Inolvidable Tito Rodriguez: A Tribute Concert

Saturday, November 12 | 8 p.m.

Sunday, November 13 | 4 p.m.

Location: Hostos Theater

Buy tickets here.

Celebrating 55 Years of Hostos 

Saturday, April 22, 2023

This coming spring, we will celebrate the college’s 55th anniversary. Suggestions about how we mark our 55th anniversary this coming spring are welcome. Please send a note to Executive Chief of Staff Diana Kreymer by the end of September.