Schools of Public Engagement Fact Sheet
Degrees Offered
Creative Writing (MFA)
Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (MS)
Environmental Studies (BA, BS)
Food Studies (BA, BS)
Global Studies (BA)
International Affairs (MA, MS)
Liberal Arts (BA, BS) Media Studies (BA, BS, MA)
Media Management (MS)
Musical Theater (BFA) N
onprofit Management (MS)
Organizational Change Management (MS)
Psychology (BA)
Public and Urban Policy (PhD)
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MATESOL)
Urban Policy Analysis and Management (MS)
Urban Studies (BA)
Certificates Offered
Undergraduate
Undergraduate Creative Arts and Health English as a Second Language
ESL + Design
ESL + Food
Film Production
Screenwriting
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
TESOL Summer Institute
Graduate
Documentary Media Studies
Leadership and Change Media Management
Organizational Development Sustainability Strategies
Other Programs
-Continuing education for adult students in social sciences, humanities, media studies and film, writing, foreign languages, English language studies, visual and performing arts, management and entrepreneurship, and food studies
-Summer Writer’s Colony
-The Institute for Retired Professionals (the nation’s oldest peer-learning program for older adults)
-The Center for New York City Affairs (InsideSchools.org, Feet in Two Worlds, Child Welfare Watch)
Leadership
Mary Watson, Executive Dean
Gustav Peebles, Associate
Dean of Faculty Affairs Michelle J. DePass, Dean of Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy
Carol Wilder, Dean of the School of Media Studies
Laura Auricchio, Dean of the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students
Luis Jaramillo, Director of the Creative Writing Program
Carin Kuoni, Director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Lesley Painter-Farrell, Director of MATESOL
Kristen Morse, Director of the Center for New York City Affairs
Student Population
1,999 in degree programs (473 undergraduate and 1,526 graduate)
Student Demographic Information
18% international; 44% from out of New York State, 50% in-state
Faculty Population
86 full-time, 316 part-time*
Notable Alumni
Thomas DiNapoli, MS ’88, New York State Comptroller; Patricia McCormick, MFA ’99, National Book Award nominee; Carolyn Mugar, ’67, executive director of Farm Aid; Laura Poitras, BA ’96 documentary filmmaker and MacArthur Fellow; Sufjan Stevens, BA ’00, singer/songwriter, Danyel Smith Wilson, MFA ’06, editor, Vibe magazine; Emily Youssouf, MA ’77, former president of New York City Housing Development Corporation; Mira Jacob ’10, novelist; Hannah Fidell ’13, filmmaker; Jacques Jiha ’91, Finance Commissioner, NYC; Emily Youssouf ’77, Vice Chair NYC Housing Authority; Beth Rudin DeWoody ’75, President, The Rudin Family Foundations; Alan Jenkins, Executive Director and Co-founder of The Opportunity Agenda. In addition to these alumni, adult education students have included Eleanor Roosevelt, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry and Jack Kerouac. * Part-time faculty includes only those teaching at the start of the 2014-2015 academic year.