{"id":131732,"date":"2026-02-12T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131732\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:10:16","slug":"shulman-still-helping-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131732\/","title":{"rendered":"Shulman still helping students |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens College, in partnership with the Queens Chamber of Commerce Foundation, announced a new scholarship on Feb. 5 named in honor of former Queens Borough President Claire Shulman.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship will support undergraduate and graduate students in the college\u2019s Urban Studies Department. Funded with a $48,000 check, the awards will help defray the cost of tuition and assist with internships.<\/p>\n<p>Shulman served as Queens borough president from 1986 to 2002, the first woman ever to hold the post. She died in 2020 at age 94.<\/p>\n<p>Those in attendance at the ceremony included QCC Foundation President Marian Conway, left; Chamber President and CEO Tom Grech; Borough President Donovan Richards; Shulman\u2019s daughter, retired astronaut Dr. Ellen Baker; Queens College President Frank Wu; Urban Studies Department Chair Melissa Checker; QCC Foundation board member Eileen Auld; and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Gannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens College, in partnership with the Queens Chamber of Commerce Foundation, announced a new scholarship on Feb. 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[54474,9,24,63,752,122,5807,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-131732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-claire-shulman","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens-college","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-chamber-of-commerce","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}