October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and as part of its educational mission, The College of New Rochelle (CNR) will present “Sexual Assault: It’s Everybody’s Business” a film and talk on the topic of domestic violence and other issues of victimization of women on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. in the Romita Auditorium of the Mooney Center on the Main Campus in New Rochelle. The talk will be given by Karen D. Carroll, RN SANE-A, NY-SAFE. Ms. Carroll is the Associate Director of the Bronx Sexual Assault Response Team, and has been a licensed Registered Nurse in the State of New York for more than 30 years.
 
The film, “No, The Rape Documentary” will also be shown and a discussion will follow. Representatives of Victims Assistance Services, a component of WestCOP, will be available to provide additional resources. This event, sponsored by the Social Work Department and the Women's Studies Program of the School of Arts and Sciences, and CNR’s Office of Student Development, is free and open to the public.

August 23, 2010 –Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny, president of The College of New Rochelle (CNR) and President-elect Judith Huntington announce the appointment of Dr. Colette Geary as the College’s Vice President for Student Services, effective July 1, 2010. As the Vice President for Student Services, Dr. Geary will be the Chief Student Services Officer and supervise  Student Development, Health Services, Counseling and Career Services, Student Services, Athletics, The Wellness Center, and Campus Ministry. She will report directly to the president as a member of the Executive Team. She succeeds Vice President Joan Bristol who has been with the College since 1972.
 
In making his appointment, Dr. Sweeny said, “With great excitement, we welcome Dr. Geary to this very important leadership position in the life of the College. We have found in Dr. Geary’s experience and expertise an outstanding congruence with the qualities desired in our Vice President. We find her to be, above all, passionate about our ‘non-negotiables’--our Catholic, Ursuline heritage, the commitment to women, the primacy of the liberal arts and the building of community from diversity.”
 
Dr. Geary comes to CNR from Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York, where she was the Dean of Students. She has held a variety of Student Services’ positions since March 1997 including Director of Counseling and Health Services and Staff Psychologist. She has also been a faculty member in Manhattan graduate programs for the past eleven years. Before her work at Manhattan, Dr. Geary was staff psychologist at the Veterans’ Hospital in Montrose, New York and had a private practice specializing in elementary to college age clients. She is a graduate of Manhattan College with a B.S. in Psychology. She earned the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from State University of New York at Stony Brook.

August 23, 2010 –Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny, president of The College of New Rochelle (CNR) and President-elect Judith Huntington announce the appointment of Keith Borge as the new Vice President for Financial Affairs. Mr. Borge, who is currently the College’s Controller, succeeds Judith Huntington in this position.
 
In making his appointment, Dr. Sweeny said, “Keith Borge has been a key person in the ongoing success of The College of New Rochelle. His 31 years with us have been characterized by great passion for our mission, and a reputation for careful, clear thinking with an enviable record of credibility within the community. We are very pleased to find the gifts and talents we seek in our chief financial officer in our own Controller who has already made us a stronger institution by his years of exceptional service.”
 
Mr. Borge came to The College of New Rochelle in 1979 as Chief Accountant. In 1981 he was promoted to the position of Assistant Controller and then to Controller in 1983. In this position, he supervises accounting & budget, payroll, accounts payable, bursar operations, and collections. His primary responsibility is providing leadership in meeting the specified financial goals for the College.
 
Mr. Borge is a member of the Financial Affairs Area Planning team and is the area member on the Middle States Steering Committee. He has had extensive experience working on behalf of the College with Middle States Self Study activities, and for 24 years has been an evaluator for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. He is an active participant in the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), serves on the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers (EACUBO), and has served as Chair of the EACUBO Financial Review Committee.

Mr. Borge has a BS in Accounting from Mercy College and an MBA in Finance from Long Island University.  He resides in Valley Cottage, New York with his wife Andrea. They are the parents of two sons.

New President to take office at the conclusion of Sweeny’s term in 2011

New Rochelle, NY, August 19, 2010 – The College of New Rochelle (CNR) Board of Trustees has announced the election of Judith Huntington as the 13^th president of the College, effective July 1, 2011. She will succeed Stephen J. Sweeny, Ph.D., who has served as president since 1997.

“To announce the selection of the president-elect a year in advance of her taking office is unique,” says CNR Board Chairman Michael N. Ambler. “But the board believes by doing so, we are ensuring a more seamless and successful transition of leadership.”

Ambler said the Board of Trustees’ primary consideration in the selection process was to choose a successor who respected the founding principles of the College’s mission and was dedicated to moving the College toward an expanded and prosperous future.

He said that the trustees overwhelmingly chose Huntington because they felt that she was the best choice for the continued success of the College.

“When we began this search, we defined the qualities and core values that we believed our new President should have, and Judith was a perfect match. She demonstrates an appreciation for the work of faculty and staff; she is a moral and authentic role model, as well as, an astute and capable leader with a passion for the College’s Mission. She is committed to the education of women, to the primacy of the liberal arts, to the College’s Catholic and Ursuline heritage, to solid career preparation grounded in the sense of service, and to the importance of building a community drawn from diversity. Finally, she is highly regarded in the concentric circles in the community. In short, she is exactly what this college needs to lead us into the future,’’ said Ambler.

Huntington joined the College in 2001 as Vice President for Financial Affairs, assuming full responsibility for all fiscal issues involving the College. Having served as an outside auditor to the College for eight years before her appointment, she was already well acquainted with the College’s financial affairs.

Dr. Sweeny said that her passion for the College’s Mission coupled with her fiscal leadership through difficult economic times convinced him that she was the best candidate to succeed him as President.

“As President for many years, I recognize the qualities that it takes to be President: the leadership ability, the commitment to the College and its students, and above all, the ability to be flexible and to balance competing interests. Judith has all these qualities and more.”

During her tenure, Huntington has amassed an impressive list of accomplishments which include overseeing the construction of the College’s $28 million Wellness Center, maintaining a BBB rating from Moody’s Investor Services, and improving the College’s financial outlook through conservative spending and investment.   

Huntington’s experience includes more than 20 years in the financial arena, working with not-for-profits and specializing in higher education. Prior to joining CNR, she served as audit senior manager in KPMG’s metro New York higher education, research, and other not-for-profit practice, providing audit and accounting services.  She also served as the engagement senior manager for several of KPMG's most complex clients, including Manhattan College, Pace University, Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, Save the Children Federation, and The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.

Among one of the youngest in her firm to be selected to serve on the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Norwalk, CT, she spent two years working to develop policy that is the standard in the industry including FASB Statement No. 116, "Accounting for Contributions Received and Contributions Made," and FASB Statement No. 117, "Financial Statements for Not-for-Profit Organizations."

She is a former member of the Yorktown Central School District Board of Education, serves on the Lower Hudson Valley Catholic Consortium, and is a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education’s evaluation team. In 2008 Huntington received an Apex Advocacy Award from the Westchester County Association for her participation on the Association’s Property Tax Alliance. Huntington holds a bachelor of business administration degree from Pace University.

Huntington and her family are residents of Yorktown Heights, NY.  Her husband of 23 years, Brad Huntington, is the President of Tri-State Engineering. They have two children, Amanda, a freshman at Sacred Heart University majoring in Theology and Psychology, and Bradley Jr., a sophomore at Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers, NY. They are parishioners of St. Patrick’s Church in Yorktown Heights and St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Church in Brookfield, CT.

Huntington said that she was honored to be chosen to carry on in the tradition of Presidents such as Dr. Sweeny and Sister Dorothy Ann Kelly, who had also come from within the College Community.

“For more than 18 years it has been my honor to be associated with The College of New Rochelle and to see first-hand the brilliant work of Dr. Sweeny and others who came before me. I will do my best to continue the fine work of Dr. Sweeny and to uphold the tradition of excellence here at CNR.’’

NEW ROCHELLE, NY, August 11, 2010 – The College of New Rochelle’s Castle Gallery will reopen to the public on September 7, 2010 with Nature/Culture. A free public reception will be held on Sunday, September 12, 2010, from 2 to 4 p.m.
 
This exhibition features several artists who address the dichotomy of nature and culture through a variety of media, toying with how these two concepts are often considered polar yet overlap; as nature informs culture, culture impacts nature. 

Featured artists include Jae Hi Ahn, Mia Brownell, Geoffrey Detrani, Charles A. Gick, Lenka Konopasek, Beili Liu, Julie Anne Mann, Roberta Melzl, Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Mari Ogihara, Troy Richards, Christopher Rose, Marcia Wolfson Ray, and Jason Salavon.  Organized by Katrina Rhein.  

The Wellness Center on the Main Campus of The College of New Rochelle has achieved LEED Silver Certification from the Green Building Certification Institute. The Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
 
The Wellness Center is one of a very few academic buildings in Westchester County to qualify for LEED certification. The ikon.5 architects, who designed the $27 million Center, placed one-third of the building’s square footage below grade which insulates the natatorium and offers a landscaped green roof visible to the community. “The green features of this project were designed to reinforce the paradisiacal design metaphor of the project while also meeting U.S. Green Building Council requirements,” according to Charles J. Maira, a principal of ikon.5 architects.
 
Other green elements include harvesting daylight through the skylights above the natatorium and concourse, as well as the clerestory windows in the gymnasium that provide natural day lighting of the major programmatic spaces and assist in reducing artificial lighting during the daylight hours. The granite that faces the building is a locally natural material. This reduces transportation expense and the use of fuel.

As the first Catholic women’s college in New York State, CNR is also the first College in the nation to offer a master’s degree in holistic nursing, and as a pacesetter in building ‘green’ buildings, CNR advances its mission to be good stewards of its resources.    

Dr. Mary Virginia Orna, O.S.U., Scientist in Residence at The College of New Rochelle, has been recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) as a 2010 ACS Fellows. This year 192 distinguished scientists were honored for having demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and making important contributions to ACS, the world’s largest scientific society.
 
The Fellows program began in 2009 to recognize ACS members for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and the Society. This year’s group, like the first 163 Fellows named in 2009, represents academe, industry and government. 

With more than 161,000 members, the American Chemical Society, a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress, is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
 
The Fellows will be recognized on August 23 during the Society’s national meeting in Boston. Dr. Orna is one of only 10 scientists from the State of New York to receive this honor in 2010.

From August 25 to September 20, 2010, The College of New Rochelle’s (CNR) Mooney Center Gallery will present Debris Trails: Ceramic Installations by Tomoko Amaki Abe.
 
Tomoko Abe is a Japanese artist originally trained as a painter in Edinburgh, Scotland, working with ceramic and mixed media sculptures and installations.

Tomoko Abe is a Japanese artist who works with ceramic and mixed media sculptures and installations. In her installations, seemingly trivial objects and debris are arranged in dynamic positions, using the power of clay as a universal and embracing media.

The Mooney Center Gallery is located on the main campus of CNR, 29 Castle Place, New Rochelle, NY. Castle Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.—9 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 9 a.m.—5 p.m. For additional information, tours, and directions to CNR, please call (914) 654-5423 or go to www.cnr.edu/cg.htm.

The College of New Rochelle (CNR) has announced the election of two new members to the College’s Board of Trustees: Brother Tyrone Davis, C.F.C., J.D., of Bronx, NY, and Kevin M. Service of Chester, NJ. Each will serve a three-year term.
 
“The wise counsel and generous support that our trustees have given this College play a key role in the College’s success,” says Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny, President of CNR. “Generously, the trustees hold in their hands the well-being of this vital institution. With these new trustees joining an already very talented and committed Board, we are in very good hands indeed.”  

Kevin M. Service   Kevin M. Service is vice president—Telecom Region Operations—for Verizon Communications. He oversees operation in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx. He is also the President of Empire City Subway, a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon that specializes in subsurface engineering and construction services. He is the former Vice President of Complex Services Delivery for Verizon Partner Solutions, responsible for special services operations in New York and New England. Before that he served as Executive Director of Complex Services Delivery for wholesale customers in New York and New England. He graduated from The College of the Holy Cross with a B.A. in Economics and English in 1987 and earned an M.B.A. from Suffolk University in 1992. He has also completed Executive Programs at the Wharton School, Boston University, and the Center for Creative Leadership.  

Brother Tyrone Davis, C.F.C., J.D.   Brother Tyrone, a member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, is currently the Director of the Office of Black Ministry - Archdiocese of New York. In addition to his work in pastoral ministry, Brother Tyrone is also an educator and an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. He was born and raised in Newark, NJ, where he attended public and Catholic elementary school and Catholic high school. He attended Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH, where he earned his undergraduate degree in elementary education and speech. During his years at CWRU, he had the privilege of doing some studies at the University of Nairobi - Kenya Science Teacher's College in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa and was very active in the African-American Students Society. While in Cleveland and before joining the Christian Brothers, he held teaching and administrative positions (including that of an elementary school principal) in the public and Catholic schools of Cleveland.  

In addition, reappointed to the Board of Trustees are Elizabeth LeVaca, daughter of CNR alumna, registered nurse, and former member of the Board of Hospice of D.C., who previously served on the CNR Board 2001-2009; Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., President Emeritus & former Professor of Theology, Georgetown University, who previously served on the CNR Board 2001-2009; and Ann Peterson, O.S.U., Prioress, Community of St. Teresa, New Rochelle, NY, and a former social worker/therapist who previously served on the Board 2002-2008.

Arts & Sciences and Nursing students at The College of New Rochelle are now Wellness Coaches, working under the supervision of Dr. Adrienne Wald, Director of Wellness Education at CNR. Wellness Coaches at CNR are undergraduate students who are selected for the program and who receive special training in order to explore ways to promote healthy behaviors on campus and to create a positive social environment and advocate for wellness and health prevention issues in the College Community.  

One such activity is the Healthy Monday Campaigns on college campuses.  

The College of New Rochelle has been a participating member of the Healthy Monday Campaigns since last fall. Created in 2006 by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, in association with the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, the campaign calls for Americans to adopt Monday as the day they get back on track by engaging in healthy behaviors. With a theme of "Monday: The Day All Health Breaks Loose," the campaign includes a variety of Monday-themed activities ranging from quitting smoking to eating healthily.  

This fall semester The College of New Rochelle will initiate ‘meatless’ Monday. According to Dr. Wald, “Monday is the logical day to commit to improving health and wellness — the day to trigger and sustain healthy behavior. Meatless Monday is not a vegetarian campaign. It is really a national public health campaign that aims to prevent heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer by encouraging Americans to reduce their saturated fat intake by 15 percent.”  

Other special Mondays on the CNR campus are "Mindful Monday" and "MOVE IT Monday," as well as "GO RED Monday". This campaign encourages women across America to wear red on Monday and make a point to help raise awareness about the avoidable risks of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women in the United States.