CUNY TV's Study With the Best

Season 16, Number 5

On this month's show: Blind or visually impaired toddler get a much needed new mobility tool; Laguardia College and the history of the gay pride in Queens; Did you know snail had a venom that could potentially save lives? Watch and find out more!

Season Finale

On this month show: an astronomer searching for earth like planets, photographing marching bands, and the stories of various communities in NYC

Culture and Identity

On this month’s episode: the women’s movement as seen through the CUNY lens. CUNY’s The Feminist Press is approaching 50 years of publishing, and recently welcomed a new leader to carry out its vital mission; Women’s and gender studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College; Michelle Fine of the Graduate Center talks about Title IX and the current state of sexual harassment laws on campus.

Season 17 Episode 4

On this month’s Study With the Best: Religion and Spirituality through the CUNY lens. Michael Prettyman is a Hunter College grad who also went to Harvard Divinity School, and we look at his most recent church commission. Shamanism in New York City is thriving and we look at it through the eyes of the former director of the Center for Alternative Health at LaGuardia Community College. John Jay’s Noe Dinnerstein talks with us about music and spirituality; Reporter Ari Goldberg visits with Doyal Gauranga, a a student at Hunter College and Program Director of the Bhakti Center; and Professor David Orenstein of Medgar Evers College explains what humanism means and its relationship to the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Season 17 Episode 3

SWTB New Season! Justice and Freedom: Kinan Azmeh; Concerned Scientists; Elalliance; transitional justice.

Season 17 Episode 1

On this month’s Study With the Best, we look back at our season of programming and highlight our most unique stories. Two CUNY teachers showed us the secret parrots of Brooklyn; a fiber art exhibition took place at multiple CUNY galleries; hip-hop professor and CUNY graduate Chris Emdin; the music iconography collection at the Graduate Center; and Douglas Rushkoff talked with us about news algorithms and the future of journalism

Season 16 Episode 12

On this month’s SWTB: Rewoven, an innovative fiber art exhibit that took place a Queens College and Queensborough Community College; the preservation of the costume collection at Queens College; a Hunter College sociologist talks about the film Excuse My Gangsta Ways; political science professor John Krinsky talks about workers in the city’s parks and the preservation of the workforce; and the new VR lab at Lehman College.

Season 16 Episode 11

Barry Mitchell sits down with Queens College alumna and famous comedian/talk show host Joy Behar; Kingsborough Community College’s radio program helps broadcast Brooklyn Cyclones games; Chris Emdin, a graduate of the Graduate Center, teaches science using hip hop; fashion scholar Elizabeth Wissinger; and Turkish-born composer Nisan Ak

Season 16 Episode 10

On this month’s Study With the Best, we explore the animal kingdom. We’ll look at a secret society of parrots in Brooklyn, a lab at Hunter College, city dogs, the monarch butterfly, and the Lahti Lab at Queens College

Season 16, Episode 9

This episode is a special presentation of the film 'Raisin/Rosedale' - featuring the students from the LaGuardia Community College Theater Program and directed by Sandy Chase.

Season 16, Episode 8

The Press Under Duress! Explore CUNY's response to the news under seige: CUNYJSchool; DouglasRushkoff; JeffJarvis

Season 16, Episode 7

On this month's show: New Yorkers for Children; Baruch College Trader's Club; the Medgar Evers College pool; and more.

Season 16, Episode 6

Music @ CUNY: Nisan Ak, Grammy winner Arturo O'Farrill, music iconography, the CUNY Cultural Corps, and Jasmin Klinger

Season 16, Number 4

Farm to App: Study With the Best Season 16, Episode 3

Season 16, Number 3

Study With the Best is CUNY TV's show about CUNY. This magazine show focuses on the best and brightest professors, alumni, and programs that CUNY has to offer students, delving into a CUNY system that contains over 500,000 students and a wide and divergent alumni reach. The series highlights the rewards of a college education and the excitement of student life around the system's 24 institutions. The host of Study With the Best is Tinabeth Pina.