Marymount Manhattan College’s Ferraro Institute for Breakthrough Civic Leadership is pleased to announce its inaugural event: Bill T. Jones on the Arts and Social Justice, in conversation with Lane Harwell of the Ford Foundation on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 on the MMC campus. The Rudin Foundation is also a sponsor of this event.

International Studies major Raghib Allie-Brennan ’13 assumes his position as State Representative in Connecticut’s Second District today.

As part of the ir   IS 398: Movement for Social Change   course,  five MMC student s  organized a protest to  draw attention to  the lack of accessibility in the NYC Transit System.

MMC is pleased to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith will be awarded an Honorary Degree at the  College’s 70 th  Commencement Exercises on May 17,  2019.  

On November 13, MMC’s Journalism in the 21^st Century and Future Directions in Journalism classes headed to the US District Court – Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn to hear opening arguments in the trial against Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, one of the world’s most dangerous drug dealers. The goal: write a breaking news story on one of the biggest trials of the year and network with news outlets.

In 2017, MMC proudly celebrated the 20^th Anniversary of the Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP). As the sole degree-granting institution of the BHCP since 1997, MMC has awarded more than 200 academic degrees to the incarcerated women of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State’s only women’s maximum-security prison.