President's Leadership Summit for Student Leaders

Over 55 students attended the 4th Annual Presidents Summit for Student Leaders on Friday, October 17. The Summit was held at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. The day provided an opportunity for students to hear from President Hotzler and to engage in dialogue. Also speaking at the summit was Professor Reginald Blake who spoke about the principles of being a good leader, and Alexis Chaconis, director of Admissions, presenting information about opportunities for study abroad. Ms. Chaconis was joined by Johanna Silfa a former study abroad student.

Students were joined at lunch by members of the City Tech leadership team including vice presidents and deans. This was a highlight for many of the students.

One student's comment was "that the experience makes me feel like I'm a part of the
change instead of feeling like change is being forced upon me."

Sabor de la Salud

A celebration of music and food was the finale of Hispanic Heritage Month at City Tech. The event featured the music of YeraSon 8 piece Charange Orquestra and healthy latin food alternatives. Students took advantage of salsa dance lessons that were given at the beinging of the event. Several others joined in as the band offered great salsa music. The event was co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life and Development and the Student Wellness Office.

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New Tech Times Holds Event in Voorhees

To celebrate the release of the October issue of the New Tech Times the staff held a music session in the Voorhees Building. It is exciting to see a student group reaching out to students in Voorhees Building. It is often forgotten in their programming efforts.

Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk Event

Today the Student Life Office co-sponsored a fitness and voter registration event with the Student Wellness Center. Both departments encouraged students to Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk and Register to Vote before embarking on a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge. Political awareness paired with wellness awareness made for a great event. The photo above shows the staff of Student Life and the Wellness Center including Benjamin, Holly, Daniel, Patricia and Alice. The photos below are some of today's walkers.

Club Fair, September 25

The annual fall Club Fair was held on Thursday, September 25 during City Tech Club hours. Teh event had representatives from several student groups at City Tech. Students were able to talk with representatives from clubs representing academic majors clubs, cultural clubs, spiritual and religious clubs and social clubs. Below are pictures of just a few of the groups that participated. The International Student Club, (pictured above with Ben Oser, Club Coordinator and Sarah Conyers, SGA Vice President) won the contest for the best table display and will be receiving a pizza party valued at $50 from the Student Life office.

Lorenzo LaRoc

Monday marked the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. In celebration of the occasion we hosted a talented performer, Lorenzo LaRoc. LaRoc is a New York born, Dominican who plays the electric violin, a beautiful instrument crafted from clear Plexiglas. If you are a regular subway rider you may have seen him feature in the "Music Underground" series. This is the first of a number of programs being hosted to celebrate the rich history of Hispanics at City Tech and in New York.

New Student Orientation

New Student Orientation was held on Monday and Tuesday, August 25 and 26, 2008. The successful event was attended by over 1400 students and over 500 parents and family members. This is the largest number of attendees that I have seen. On Tuesday we were forced to use every available seat in the auditorium. This is a great way to start the year.

Kristin Skarie was the featured speaker both days. There were separate programs for the new students and for their families. Students met with faculty and were introduced to the college by the Student Orientation Guides. Parents met with the President, the Provost, the VP for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management and several other representatives from various offices.

Kristin Skarie

Students at Orientation

Parents Orientation Program

SGA Dinner with Kristin Skarie

Student Government members hosted a dinner with Kristin Skarie, motivational speaker and leadership trainer on Monday night. Krisitin is part of the Teamworks group and was in New York to present at City Tech New Student Orientation

The students had a very enjoyable conversation with Kristin. Some of the topics included how college student compared throughout the world (she recently traveled to South Africa), the exciting opportunity that the SGA has by being able to work with such a diverse group of students, leadership tips, characteristics of campus politics and how it applies to the world of work and how she started her business.

A highlight for me was when she asked the question "How do you define success?" I think it left all of participates thinking about their personal definitions of success.

Almost Ready for Orientation

On Thursday afternoon the Orientation Guides finished up the preparations for New Student Orientation. Here are a couple pics of them having fun preparing hats and just relaxing for a few minutes. This is a great group of students to work with as they are fun and dedicated to helping new students.

New Student Orientation Prep Work

Today was the first work day for a group of great new Orientation Guides. Some are returning and some are brand new and they are all excited. I am excited to have such a great group to work with. Today the guides worked from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. preparing information packets for new students. They successfully stuffed 2000 information folders and backpacks. It was a very productive day.

Here are a couple quick pictures from the day.

It's Back To School Time

After what seemed like a very short summer we are in full swing for the fall academic year. Students do not start classes until Wednesday, August 27 however we are preparing for New Student Orientation, Club Re-certification, and fall programs. Welcome back.

Student Affairs Conference

Members of the Student Life staff attended the City University of New York Regional Student Affairs Conference Friday, May 2 at York College. Vice Chancellor of CUNY Gary Moore, who attended our City Tech President’s Leadership Conference in the fall, was one of many inspirational speakers, stressing the simple - yet not always the case - notion of student affairs being there primarily for students.

Faculty and staff representing City Tech were later able to attend a variety of workshops ranging from emotional intelligence to student leadership and development to the social networking technology information, which focused on the student-friendly networks of facebook and myspace. It was a day dedicated for us to learn, being able to put into action new ideas and perspectives in the hopes of improving student life for all our students, the ideal of student affairs and services at City Tech.

Student Elections Begin

Student Elections are being held today through Wednesday, April 16 at 5:00 p.m. If you are a registered City Tech Student and have not yet voted you can go to the website from any computer with Internet access. The address is: www.elexpert.net/votecitytech.