Latin MA Program and Latin Advanced Certificate Program (Hunter College Classics and Hunter College School of Education)

Zoom Information Session! Thursday, October 29, 5:30-6:30 pm

Are you an undergraduate interested in continuing your education in Classics? Might you want to teach? 

Do you already have a graduate degree in Classics (MA or PhD)? Do you want to become marketable for jobs teaching Latin at the secondary level, including in public schools? Our Hunter MA and Certificate graduates teach in public, independent, and charter schools in the greater New York City area and beyond. Some also have experience teaching as adjunct faculty at the college level. They serve in leadership positions within the profession of Classics, have presented at conferences, and have published in classics journals. 

Learn about the unique features of the Hunter programs! If you are interested in attending this information session, please RSVP to Prof. Ronnie Ancona at: rancona@hunter.cuny.edu  She will then send you the Zoom link.

Direct all enquiries regarding the Latin Graduate Programs to Professor Lawrence Kowerski, the Director of the graduate programs in Latin in the Classics Program (lawrence.kowerski@hunter.cuny.edu).

Click here to view/download Latin Graduate Programs flyer (PDF)

Please see below for 2020 SCS Awards for Excellence in Teaching award nominations and deadlines for submission:

Precollegiate Level: The Joint Committee on the Classics in American Education invites nominations for the 2020 SCS Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate Level – deadline is October 15,2020. Click on this link for details: https://classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/scs-awards-excellence-teaching-precollegiate-level

College Level: 2020 SCS Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level – The Committee on the Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level invites nominations for the 2020 SCS Award for Excellence in Teaching – deadline extended to 5pm EDT on Friday October 2. Click on this link for details: https://classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/awards-excellence-teaching-classics-college-level-0

There is an Auction and Raffle under way to support the SCS-WCC COVID-19 Relief Fund (Official WCC Website for the Fund, Profile of the fund in Eidolon).  Since its foundation this past spring the fund has given away nearly $70,000 to more than 150 graduate students and contingent faculty in need. Many thanks to all those organizations and individuals who have donated via WCC (The Women’s Classical Caucus) or SCS (The Society for Classical Studies).

You can help in several ways.

RIGHT NOW, please consider buying raffle tickets for one of the three drawings: 1) an unbound archival version of the Barrington Atlas; 2) Lifetime Membership to the SCS; 3) 5 years of AIA-SCS annual meeting registration costs. The cost of the tickets goes directly into the fund for immediate use. The drawing will be held live on Facebook noon EST, Friday, Sept 11.

Also, if you are an author or a crafter or have a special talent to share, consider offering your book, handiwork, or services for auction. Before you do so, take a look at other offers  so you get a sense of the tone and style of the auction. Once you have done this, just fill out the auction item donation form and Liv Yarrow, who is running this auction, will be in touch.

Bidding opens 9 am EST, Tuesday Sept 8 and closes noon EST, Friday Sept 11. There are some truly fantastic items.

 https://www.biddingowl.com/Auction/home.cfm?auctionID=23034

Our biggest goal is to raise awareness of the fund, so that we not only build the donor base but also help ensure those who need the fund know about it. To learn more about and apply to the fund, go to the WCC page.

Thank you for your support and generosity!

Best,

Helen Cullyer

Executive Director, SCS

In mid-July, the officers of the Philadelphia Classical Society received a very special envelope from the Philadelphia Foundation.

Philadelphia Foundation President and CEO Pedro A. Ramos wrote a welcoming letter of introduction and enclosed checks to the various recipients of annual grants to support their respective efforts in promoting Classical Studies in their regions.

Click here to read the full article

Radnor High School Latin student Becca Zajac designed the 2020 award-winning signature t-shirt for the Philadelphia Classical Society’s 81st Annual Latin Week Competition.

Click here to read the article

News has reached CAAS (and many of you will have already heard) that the administrations at two liberal arts colleges—Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, and Carthage College in Kenosha, WI—have proposed to eliminate programs and faculty positions in Classics and other Humanities programs.

Details, and opportunities to register your own protest, can be found here for Canisius College:

https://www.change.org/p/canisius-college-stop-canisius-from-firing-professors?recruiter=61088022&recruited_by_id=d79fb895-1d42-4db4-b52e-01d03969e4ac&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard

And here for Carthage College:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z5ZIFgweZK58zekHiC9gnoI6J8FL9wNT3A7kQSdBwxQ/edit?usp=sharing

I have sent letters with the endorsement of the CAAS Board’s Executive Committee to administrators and the boards of trustees at each College, registering our alarm at, and strong disapproval of these proposed actions to eliminate their Classics programs.

Ralph M. Rosen

CAAS President

Click here to read online obituary published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Please read below tribute written by Henry Bender, CAAS Treasurer

Click here to read tribute in PDF format

On August 7, 2019 Lawrence E. Gaichas passed away. For long time members of CAAS, the mention of his name brings back many decades of Larry’s meticulous and patient work to produce and maintain the Directory of College and University Classicists in the United States and Canada.

The CAAS Directory consisted of four editions. Sponsored by CAAS, each was the product of exhaustive information gathering achieved through the cooperation of Duquesne University.

The first three editions, the third of which appeared in 1992, were published by Classical World and appeared in the normal binding of the Journal.  The thickness of each Directory steadily increased. Their frequent use often led to the breaking of the gum back bindings and pages would inevitably fall out.

While 1992 edition contained about 400 email addresses, under Larry’s direction, registrations utilizing the internet, email, and surface mail, grew exponentially. In four years, the Directory more than doubled reaching a data base of over 2000 classicists.

The 1996 Fourth Edition of 336 pages featured a unique metal comb back binding making the book durable and easy to use. It took its rightful place between the Liddell and Scott and Oxford Latin Dictionary on every Classicist’s desk—a tome of contact information. Proudly on its final page appeared: LAURENTIUS ME FECIT.

Larry was a personable, steady and humorous educator whose close friend and “co-conspirator” was CAAS’ unique Jerry Clack. That duo of Larry and Jerry, the Duquesne Classics core, marked many CAAS Board meetings and social gatherings. My recollections of which go back to 1981. Larry was dependable, patient, and sensible. A gifted airplane pilot, he often flew his plane at fund raising events taking small groups airborne.  He is mourned by his large family and we, his extended CAAS family, remember him with fondness.

Henry V. Bender

St Joseph’s University