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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.
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They have a lot of space.
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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.
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And we always talk about making sure that Yeah.
1:21:40
People have access.
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So we'd welcome, a tour and the conversation.
Carmen Renée Green
1:21:46
Yeah.
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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.
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And so, pardon?
Gale A. Brewer
1:22:18
I didn't like Mother Teresa.
Carmen Renée Green
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.
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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.
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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.
Oswald Feliz
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
1:23:12
the fullest.
1:23:13
I think this is a good reference to that.
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Well