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Suggestion to consider Lehman College for CUNY School of Medicine expansion

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Council Member Oswald Feliz suggests Lehman College as a potential site for the CUNY School of Medicine's expansion, and Dr. Carmen Renée Green responds to the idea.

Feliz highlights Lehman College's spacious campus and its location in the Bronx, a historically disadvantaged community.
Dr. Green expresses openness to the idea and invites Council Member Feliz to visit the current CUNY School of Medicine.
The discussion touches on the school's focus on serving areas with significant health and educational disparities.
Dr. Green emphasizes the school's commitment to seeing potential in students and uplifting the human spirit in underserved communities.

Oswald Feliz

1:21:22

Lehman College, if you're looking for space, Lehman College has a large, beautiful green campus.

1:21:28

They have a lot of space.

1:21:30

So I'm sure they'll welcome a medical school with open arms.

1:21:33

But even more than that, they're located in the Bronx, a historically disadvantaged community.

1:21:38

And we always talk about making sure that Yeah.

1:21:40

People have access.

1:21:41

So we'd welcome, a tour and the conversation.

1:23:06

Yeah.

1:23:06

Well, I'll be interested in, continuing that conversation, seeing how we could potentially, bring the school of medicine to

Carmen Renée Green

1:21:46

Yeah.

1:21:46

Well, I I would welcome you to come visit our school, see what we do.

1:21:51

We have a very strong presence in the Bronx, in Manhattan.

1:21:54

I mean, those are areas where health disparities, educational disparities are troubling.

1:22:00

And that's the space.

1:22:01

So, you know, I you know, I have this quote, like Mother Teresa, she, and why she went to Calcutta.

1:22:10

That's where the work was.

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And that's kind of how we're focused, is where the work is.

1:22:14

And so, pardon?

1:22:20

Well, you didn't like her.

1:22:21

So I get it.

1:22:22

I'm but I'm she's joking?

1:22:25

No.

1:22:26

Oh, okay.

1:22:26

Well, you know, I never knew the woman.

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But from my perspective, I'm just saying that I'm talking about not her, I'm talking about the work.

1:22:35

I'm talking about the work going into communities where people are underserved and, and, and, and, and, and, actually, what I would say is that one of the neat things about the school is that we see potential.

1:22:48

Now, when you come to the school, you'll see kids, you'll say that person looks really young.

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That's because they really are.

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And sometimes they have a hole in their jeans.

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And I have to say, come here.

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Or they're showing but it's about seeing potential and the humanity and uplifting the human spirit.

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the fullest.

1:23:13

I think this is a good reference to that.

1:23:14

Well

Gale A. Brewer

1:22:18

I didn't like Mother Teresa.

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