CSI/CUNY News Release
	For Immediate Release - Monday, February 10, 2003

New Jersey Regional Council Event Announcement

A Sunday Brunch serves up Food for the Mind

Staten Island, NY  --  The College of Staten Island (CSI) may have a local sounding name, but nearly thirty years of graduates and hundreds of new faculty additions and the college has established itself as a regional, national, and even international presence. 

On Sunday, March 9, CSI visits the Lincroft Inn’s Jefferson Room, when their alumni association establishes their New Jersey Regional Council.

"We have over 5,000 alumni in New Jersey,” said Richard Truitt, CSI’s vice president for college advancement, “and this event allows us to visit with friends and meet new ones, and is a great opportunity to network, socialize and learn a little bit more about their college that has changed so dramatically in the last 25 years.”

CSI’s New Jersey Alumni Committee has chosen professor George Stern, Jr. as guest speaker at the event.  Stern, who is the best selling author of What Do You Think? ( A Survival Guide for the Everyday Challenges of Life) will share with guests “Some Ideas to Grow By.” 

Having devoted his career to the fundamental study of human behavior and personal motivation, Stern notes “we live in incredibly challenging and complex times… as parents, we are competing for the well-being of our children; as business people, our capacity to communicate will make our business not simply prevail, but thrive.” 

And thriving seems to be a word that can also describe CSI.  The New Jersey Regional Council joins other active alumni programs that CSI already holds in Manhattan and Florida.

“We believe that CSI will be among the most important colleges in the region,” continued Truitt, “and through their participation in events like this and volunteer efforts, alumni can make this vision real.”

CSI began as two small campuses on Staten Island, Richmond College, known for its progressive approach to classroom instruction and Staten Island Community College.  Today, CSI has a 204 acre state-of-the-art campus right over the Goethals Bridge, and is home to a nationally renowned china program, an unsurpassed teacher education and nursing program, and is performing the basic analytical biochemistry research that may revolutionize the treatment for burn victims. 

Recently, CSI faculty members have returned from the Antarctic where they were developing datasets to establish international protocols on the commercial harvesting of krill, and a new species of American snake was recently identified and catalogued by a faculty zoologist.

CSI’s Sunday Brunch with George Stern is March 9 at 11:30 a.m. in the Jefferson Room of the Lincroft Inn, at a cost of $10 per person.  The Lincroft Inn is located at 700 Newman Springs Road in Lincroft, NJ.  Space is limited but there are still a few seats left.  For more information and reservations, call CSI’s Alumni Association at 718-982-2290.

The College of Staten Island (CSI) serves over 47,000 alumni throughout the world.  The alumni of CSI and its predecessors are an integral part of the college and its future.  The alumni association exists to strengthen the mutually enriching relationship between alumni and CSI.  The association promotes alumni participation in CSI's pursuit of excellence in education, research and community service.  The association holds approximately 15 cultural and educational events each year with the help of over 150 volunteers and community members.  These events such as Alumni Day, the Taste of the Mediterranean and our Regional Council Programs reconnect alumni and friends with the College each year. 

The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a comprehensive college of The City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s leading urban university. CSI offers 35 academic programs, 15 graduate degree programs, and challenging doctoral programs to 12,000 students. The 204-acre landscaped campus of CSI, one of the largest in NYC, contains an advanced, networked infrastructure to support technology-based teaching, learning, and research. For more information, visit www.csi.cuny.edu

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