MARCH/APRIL 2010
Selected Articles

WOMEN SHAPING HISTORY

What’s Up Down South
Exclusive Interview with Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools
By Adam Sugerman
The 2007 version of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins suffered through a disastrous one-win season. A few weeks before the saga ended, the organization hired football guru Bill Parcells to run its football operations...READ MORE

Doris Cintron, Dean
The City College of New York
How did you choose your current career?
I came from Puerto Rico when I was four years old. I grew up in the South Bronx and attended New York City Public Schools...READ MORE

Veronica Kelly, Director Special Projects, The Bowery Mission
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Doubters, cynics, stand aside. Veronica Kelly, volunteer extraordinaire for The Bowery Mission, is The Real Thing: a dedicated, deeply committed advocate of The Bowery Mission’s special program for women, a former medical sales representative who, on retirement in 2000, began to turn her skills to helping establish and then serving the 131-year-old institution’s Upper East Side residence for homeless women...READ MORE

Janet Alperstein: Leading the Way in International Education
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Women can indeed empower other women, especially if role models run in the family....READ MORE

Nancy Ploeger, President,
Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
How did you choose your current career?
I fell into it, as I have done my entire working life. One thing just led to another and I was very lucky to have met great people who mentored me and gave me a chance...READ MORE

Pat Winchester: The Good Dog Foundation
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
When Pat Winchester was recently transplanted from Virginia with her husband, James, who was offered the job as chief of nephrology at New York City’s Beth Israel Medical Center, she quickly set about making herself useful in the Big Apple...READ MORE

COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS

President Dario A. Cortes
Berkeley College’s Fast-Growing Appeal
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
The Berkeley Advantage: It’s a term many New Yorkers have heard, if only subconsciously, as the rapidly growing Berkeley College, which started as a secretarial school in 1931 but now educates some 8,000 students on seven campuses in New York and New Jersey, broadens its appeal throughout the greater metropolitan area....READ MORE