Since its founding in the Spring of 2007, The Circle of 100 Scholarship & Emergency Fund has awarded twenty-two $1,000 scholarships and forty five $500 or less emergency grants. The Circle of 100 makes these emergency grants and scholarships available to students with excellent academic records who are close to graduating and graduates who need some help in making the transition to a four-year college. The circle of 100 was founded by the late and beloved Virginia Paris, Professor emeritus Gerald Meyer and Nydia Edgecombe.
Hostos Repertory Company wins two awards at Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival.
Wallace Edgecombe, also known as “Wally” retired after 38-years as Executive Director of the Hostos Center for Arts and Culture and being a leader of arts and culture in the Bronx.
Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development opens two new $1.4 million facility at the Bronx Terminal Market. CUNY in the Heights also moves into its new space in Manhattan.
Hostos celebrates official 45th anniversary. College marks its birthday with large community service project, THE BIG EVENT.
Hostos Repertory Company is the only community college from North America to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.
CUNY CareerPATH Community Health Worker Certificate Program sees first graduate to enter Hostos Community College.
Hostos’ partnership with Montefiore Medical Center, the Department of Education and CUNY conceived the Health, Education, and Research Occupations (H.E.R.O) High School where a first cohort of 100 ninth graders began preparing for careers in nursing and community health workers.
Caimans wins CUNYAC Regular Season title.
Hostos Community College receives $300,000 grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to launch a veterans support program called “Hostos Community Heroes.”
Hostos Community College, Phipps Neighborhoods, and Montefiore Health System Announce $1M Grant from JPMorgan Chase to support their Career Network: Healthcare partnership in the South Bronx.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that Hostos Community College would receive two grants—$2.2 million for an “Allied Health Training for Employment” initiative and part of $4.6 million for a new multi-campus media program— as part of Governor Cuomo’s CUNY 2020 initiative.
Hostos named one of the Top 10 Finalists for the 2015 ASPEN Prize for Community College Excellence.
Hostos receives $2.6 million Title V Grant Award from the United States Department of Education.
English Department Lecturer Cynthia Jones was selected as the 2014 New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Hostos opens College's first large farmer's market with GrowNYC.
Hostos Community College’s Division for Continuing Education and Workforce Development (CEWD) awarded a five-year, $10.7 million Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF).
Basketball coach Marquee Poole earned Community College Coach of the Year honors; Jefferson Francois, a forward on the men's basketball team won Player of the Year; and Corina Coles, a guard, earned Rookie of the year for her stellar play on the women's basketball team at CUNYAC Awards banquet.
40th Anniversary of Campaign to Save Hostos Community College celebrated with the documentary, "Hostos, The Struggle, The Victory."
Hostos finishes 1st place in National Technology Survey.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Abby Dobson performs and speaks about her female influences at grand Women's History Month finale.
Hostos and "Healthy Beverage Zone" gives the Borough better choices.
Piece of Hostos Archive on Exhibit at The Museum of the City Of New York - A 1976 flyer from Hostos Professor Emeritus Dr. Gerald Meyer’s “Save Hostos” collection is on display as part of the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibit titled, “New York at Its Core.” It is also featured in a new book about the 1970s fiscal crisis in New York City.
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Ribbon cutting ceremony inaugurates a $9.1 million renovated and redesigned 5th Floor in the 500 Grand Concourse Building.
National Science Foundation Awards Hostos more than $900,000 for STEM Projects.
Hostos Professor Rees Shad named 2012 New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
The Caiman's men's baskeball team enters Top 10 in NJCAA Division III rankings.
U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor becomes the first guest of the Hostos Heritage Lecture Series. Other speakers included journalist Cheryl Willis, and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz.
United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gives keynote address at the College’s largest commencement ceremony to date as Hostos confers a record number of 907 degrees in the New York City Center.
Hostos 175, a year-long commemoration of Eugenio María de Hostos 175th anniversary is held at the College, with numerous academic and artistic events.
Hostos receives $100,000 grant award from Citi Community Development for a pilot program, “Summer Success 101: Student Financial Literacy and Retention Program.
Hostos launches new Food Studies Program.
Proyecto Access STEP third-place prize from the 16th Annual STEP Statewide Student Conference.
Public Safety Director, Chief Arnaldo Bernabe received the 2014 Sloan Public Service Award
by the Fund for The City of New York. Chief Bernabe was also the first Hostos Community College employee to win this award and the first CUNY-wide Public Safety Officer (in the civil service rank) to receive the honor.
Internationally renowned artist Antonio Martorell, visits Hostos for its 175th celebration to give lecture, “Hostos By Us,” displaying a series of paintings, drawings, sculptures and other artwork represented who Eugenio María de Hostos was.
Hostos Unveils Portrait Painted By Famed Artist Pablo Marcano García.
Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture Presents New York City premiere of the groundbreaking project, "Identities Are Changeable," by MacArthur Fellow and internally renowned saxophonist/composer Miguel Zenón.
Shawn "Jay Z" Carter Visits Hostos to Talk About the State of Music Industry.
Hostos celebrates diamond anniversary of its Annual Golf Outing.
Hostos event celebrates the preservation of local history through Las Casitas Archives.
Hostos Community College graduates its largest graduating class to date.
Rapper Fat Joe releases new video at Hostos.
Hostos smashes #GivingTuesday fundraising goal (beginning at $7K ending $63K +).
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