“[If] you don’t fight for your home, you’re gonna lose it,” Frances Goldin, a community activist until her death in 2020, says in the new documentary, Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square. So Goldin fought, and won.
Laila Gad came to Hunter College to prepare for a career in medicine. But after she took a course titled Peopling NY through the Macaulay Honors College, Gad became fascinated with climate change and its effects on public health. She decided to add a second major in journalism, to explore this interest and to find ways to write about it for a wide audience.
Professor Alyxaundria Sanford remembers traveling to New York for the first time to intern for the “Today Show.” While there, she became interested in national news and the variety of topics covered in a morning broadcast. After getting a taste of being a journalist in the city, she knew she would be back.
Hunter College’s journalism program has grown significantly in recent years, with more students enrolling, working journalists coming in to teach and new courses being added to the curriculum.
Applications for the Deadline Club scholarship are due March 26th. Last year the club disbursed six merit-based scholarships of $2,500 each. The number and size of scholarships available this year is yet to be determined.