Colin Powell School for Civic & Global Leadership
Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
In 2013, The City College of New York formally established the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. The Colin Powell School united CCNY’s Division of Social Sciences with the the College’s Colin Powell Center for Leadership and Service.
The mission of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is to transform students, faculty, communities, and the traditional university experience by adopting problem-based approaches to education. By promoting the values of service, engagement, and leadership, we enable our students to energetically address the challenges of the 21st century. By fostering creative and public scholarship, we ensure that our faculty produces and disseminates scholarship that is both relevant and in-touch.
The school, located in historic Harlem at The City College of New York, addresses pressing global issues such as expanding rights and democracy, community stability and health, economic growth and national wealth creation and promoting education and the general betterment of those in need. The school focuses its research and teaching activities on fostering solutions that further equality, prosperity, stability, and peace for the whole people—in Harlem, in New York, and around the globe.
The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is built upon an exceptionally strong tradition at CCNY. Nearly a third of all CCNY degrees are awarded in the social sciences. The merging of the Division’s excellent academic traditions with the innovative leadership and public service programs of the Center affirmed the new School’s founding values: to be a leading center for social, political, and economic research and education with a particular emphasis on addressing problems that impede equity, diversity, prosperity, stability, and peace in our society and across the world; and to maintain and support a faculty dedicated to the highest standards of research and to the university’s democratic and public obligations, including the responsibility to disseminate research in usable forms to concerned audiences, particularly to those striving to redress injustice or disparity.