The Conservatory of Music, the Department of Television and Radio, the Department of Theater, and production departments collaborated on the first television production of Aaron Copland’s 1952 opera, The Tender Land. The pro duction won an Award of Distinction from Communicators Awards in 1995.

In 1996, President Lattin initiated the Center for Teaching, which will promote quality teaching. The center will build on the experiences that faculty members have gained in workshops on collaborative learning and multimedia instruction, in seminars conducted by master teachers, and in core curriculum faculty-development seminars. It will provide access to multimedia resources through the library, sponsor programs on teaching methods, and encourage faculty to develop team-taught and interdisciplinary courses.

The Department of Art introduced an undergraduate program in computer graphics in 1992. The 1996 opening of a state-of-the-art computer graphics instructional laboratory put the college in the fore f ront of this field.

Micha Tomkiewicz, Tow Professor of Physics, will direct a new environmental studies major with a liberal arts orientation, one of the first such programs in the nation.

For students in early childhood, elementary, and special education, the School of Education introduced an innovative curriculum linking education with the arts and sciences. Extending this program in 1995, the school began working with Lincoln Center Institute to integrate aesthetic education into the teacher-training curriculum. It also developed a joint program in early childhood/elementary education with Kingsborough Community College. Recently the school proposed graduate programs in bilingual and multicultural education and for teachers of English to speakers of other languages.

Brooklyn College is a lead college in the Alliance for Minority Participation, consortium of CUNY and private colleges, businesses, and national science laboratories. From 1992 to 1995, the college increased graduation rates for its minority students in the program by fifty percent.

Teaching initiatives are being developed in video, multimedia, distance learning,and the Internet. The Faculty Training and Development Laboratory, which opened in January 1995, permits faculty to explore these technologies, create teaching materials, and share research. Two computerized classrooms, opening this year, will facilitate teaching in a multimedia computerized setting.

Study - abroad programs were expanded in 1995 to include colleges and universities in Israel.

The Scholars Program, a component of the Honors Academy, recognizes the interdependence of different, and often disparate, areas of knowledge.

Recent Brooklyn College faculty awards:

Nehru Cherukupalli, professor of geology, Outstanding Educator Award of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists -- Eastern Section, 1995.

Ann Hunt Currier, instructor of art, Guggenheim Fellow-ship, 1995.

Gerald Friedman, professor of geology, Twenhofel Medal of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists; Kapista Gold Medal of Honor from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London (UK), 1996.

Distinguished Professor Allen Ginsberg, Department of English, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1992.

Hardy Hansen, professor of classics , Award for Teaching Excellence, American Philological Association, 1994.

Judith Lorber, professor emerita of sociology, Jessie Bernard Career Award, American Sociological Society, 1995.

A free-standing major in journalism was introduced in 1996.

The Women’s Studies Program and the American Studies Program, currently requiring dual majors, are being expanded to free-standing majors.

A theater program draws on the college’s strengths in theater history, criticism, and dramaturgy and combines them with a program at New York City Technical College, which provides courses in stage design and pro duction.

A President’s Resource Grant program has funded over seventy - five projects that encourage academic departments, campus programs, and student groups to develop creative projects or instructional initiatives.

E. Lynn Savage, professor of geology, John Moss Award for Excellence in College Teaching, Eastern Section, National Association of Geology Teachers, 1994.

Distinguished Professor Anthony Sclafani, ’66, Department of Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, 1992.

Beth Singer, professor of philosophy, Herbert W. Schneider Award, Society for the Advancement of American Science, 1994.