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York Soccer Star Vilsaint Finishes Season among NCAA Leaders - The 2008 NCAA Division III soccer season concluded this past weekend and York College sophomore Elysee Vilsaint finished the season ranked among the country’s elite. Vilsaint, the 2008 CUNY Athletic Conference Player of the Year, finished the season ranked third in the country in goals per game (1.18), sixth in points per game (2.53), and eighth in goals scored (20). Dec 08, 2008
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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. Dinapoli Featured Speaker at York College Executive Leadership Breakfast - New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli is the featured speaker at the York College Executive Leadership Breakfast hosted by President Marcia V. Keizs and The CUNY Aviation Institute at York College Friday, December 5, 2008, 8:00 – 9:30 a.m., in the Faculty Dining Room, Academic Core Building, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY. jetBlue Airways is the sponsor of the event. Dec 03, 2008
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PAC Review by "Jazz Improv NY" - "The York Performing Arts Center" By Gary Heimbauer - If you happen to be someone who has never heard of the York Performing Arts Center, you are probably amongst the majority of those that are yet to read this article, but as you discover what the venue has to offer, you will surely feel like you’ve been missing out. Nov 21, 2008
Department of English
Michael J. Cripps, Associate Professor of English, is the Coordinator for the College-Wide Writing Program. He is also the Coordinator for Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) at York College. He is Assistant Editor for Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Academic Writing, the major online peer-reviewed journal for WAC/WID scholarship housed at The WAC Clearinghouse at Colorado State University. He is also a founding editor of The York Scholar, a journal of undergraduate research writing at the College. Professor Cripps teaches freshman composition, and a variety of other writing and Writing Intensive courses.
His research interests include writing program administration, organizational change processes, and new media. He is engaged in an ongoing study of graduate student professional development in writing programs that employ doctoral candidates from across the disciplines. His 2004 article in Computers & Composition Online, "#FFFFFF, #000000, & #808080: Hypertext Theory and WebDev in the Composition Classroom," won the 2005 Kairos Best Webtext Award, and earlier work was a finalist for that same award in 2003.
