Baruch College
When the World Shifts: Rethinking Education in the Age of Change
May 14, 2025
Note to the Reader: This is the only blog I’m releasing for the Spring 2025 semester, and it’s a long one. I’ve spent these past months reflecting on the many forces reshaping the future of work—and there are simply too many important ideas to fit into a short...Read more...
Seeing in Full Spectrum: The Art of Thinking in a Complex World
October 17, 2024
This summer, I found myself inspired by a class I attended, taught by Professor Natale Cipollina—a session that even caught the attention of the New York Times. The course, Politics 3316, focuses on presidents and the presidency. During the lecture, Professor Cipollina discussed the contrasting public perceptions of...Read more...
Cultivating Our Ability to Feel: The Resonance of Music and Generosity
February 28, 2024
As I sit to collect my thoughts, a Bach partita plays quietly in the background—a gentle reminder of the melody that has always lingered in the milieu of my life. Music, in all its ineffable power, often transports me to the realms of memories and gratitude. My earliest...Read more...
Why Should We Pay Close Attention to AI?
January 23, 2024
When I started writing my first blog post of the 2023–24 academic year, it was mid-September 2023, and summer’s reading and reflection were fresh in my mind. Also at the forefront were the launch of the College’s new Strategic Plan and the highly successful in-person community events celebrating...Read more...
To Explore or To Exploit—That Is the Question
May 31, 2023
Graduation season is upon us. It is difficult to believe the academic year is over and that life appears to have returned to a near “normal” pattern—at least when it comes to human interactions. As is common during April and May, I have had the opportunity to participate...Read more...
AI, the Future of Work, and the Education That Prepares You
April 26, 2023
In late March, I chatted with a few Baruch faculty members after an annual cross-college research symposium. Over the course of our conversation, the topic turned to artificial intelligence (AI)—specifically ChatGPT—and whether it is any different from other high-tech breakthroughs we have experienced in our lifetime. Two opposing...Read more...
What Does Art Have to Do with It?
March 29, 2023
One of my weekend routines is to take a long run to the west side of Manhattan, along the Hudson River, before the city wakes. After finishing my run, showering, and sipping coffee in the glow of the early morning sun, my wife and I plan where to...Read more...
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
February 28, 2023
This winter has been the cruelest season in recent memory. The first months of 2023 arrived with a barrage of disquieting news and revelations, each marked with the unanticipated and punctuated clarity of cracking thunder. The devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria killed tens of thousands of people,...Read more...
On Tribalism—It May or May Not Be What You Think
December 21, 2022
The holiday season is upon us, and my thoughts drift to my family’s tradition of spending time together in the small Pennsylvania town we lived in for more than 30 years, where our children were born and raised. We have a fuller house these days with our grown...Read more...
Appreciate the Complexity Around Us
November 30, 2022
Since moving to New York City, I alternate my routes as I walk home from campus each evening simply to enjoy the varying aromas, music, markets, languages, and people of the city—even if just for a moment. A Tale of Two Avenues Along Lexington Avenue, ranks of small...Read more...