Audio interview with George Calderaro, 2020 Jan 7
Scope and Contents
George Calderaro was interviewed by Julia Foulkes on January 7, 2020. In the interview, Calderaro discusses his ten-year employment in the Adult Division of The New School (renamed in 2005 The New School for General Studies and in 2011, the Schools of Public Engagement) from 1995 to 2005. He oversaw advertising and promotion for the wide variety of programs in the division including the BA program for adults and graduate programs in writing, media studies, and international relations. He discusses people he worked with, the relative separation of the divisions at that time, and the centralization of marketing and communications at the university in the mid 2000s.
Dates
- 2020 Jan 7
Extent
440.1 Megabytes (1 Wave file; 00:41:44 duration; includes PDF transcript)
Participant Biography
George Calderaro is director of community relations at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. Formerly, he served as communications director at The New School, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Neuberger Museum of Art. An active preservationist, he is a board member of the Historic Districts Council, the 29th Street Neighborhood Association, the Victorian Society of New York, the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts and No Longer Empty as well as a committee member of the Landmarks50 Alliance, the City Club of New York and the New York City Board of Education Career and Technical Education Business and Finance Advisory Board.