President Regina Peruggi (center) presents the 2008 CUNY Sustainability Award for outstanding environmental education and advocacy to the Eco-Festival organizers: Professors Tara Weiss (left), Associate Provost Reza Fakhari (center), and Professor Betsy McCully (right).

Eco-Festival Co-Coordinators:

Betsy McCully Betsy is Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College where she has taught for a decade. She has recently completed a book based on 15 years of research into the natural history of the New York City region, City at the Water’s Edge: A Natural History of New York, published by Rutgers University Press (October 2006). Dr. McCully is also an environmental educator. Her educational website can be accessed at www.newyorknature.net.

Saundra Tara Weiss is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College and currently serves as the associate academic director/ESL of the Reading and Writing Center at Kingsborough Community College.

Please direct your comments, feedback and questions about the Eco-Festival and this website to the Kingsborough Center for Teaching and Learning (KCTL) at:

• Phone: (718) 368-5252
• email: kctl@Kingsborough.edu

Eco-Festival is under the umbrella of the Kingsborough Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE) Initiative, administered by Associate Provost Reza Fakhari.