{"id":304083,"date":"2026-07-23T20:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:28:39","slug":"queens-college-professor-honored-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304083\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens College Professor Honored &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens College faculty member N\u00faria Rodr\u00edguez-Planas has been elevated to the rank of distinguished professor of economics. Rodr\u00edguez-Planas teaches in the college\u2019s school of business and at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. The title of distinguished professor is the highest academic honor that CUNY can offer its faculty, conferring it in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement. The appointment was approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees in June, bringing the college\u2019s total number of distinguished professors to 15. A renowned scholar in labor economics, gender economics, and the economics of education, Rodr\u00edguez-Planas examines how gender norms, public policy, and economic institutions shape opportunities and outcomes over the course of people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-207173 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DSC08317rev2-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2085\" height=\"2560\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens College faculty member N\u00faria Rodr\u00edguez-Planas has been elevated to the rank of distinguished professor of economics. Rodr\u00edguez-Planas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-304083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304083","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=304083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}