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Award-winning News Correspondent Ti-Hua Chang to Deliver Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctorate
Ti-Hua Chang
New York City College of Technology (City Tech) will mark the annual rite of passage for graduating students at its 64th Commencement Exercises on Thursday, June 3, beginning at 10:30 a.m., in the Theater at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. President Fred W. Beaufait will confer more than 1,500 degrees, including approximately 1,000 associate and 560 baccalaureate.
Delivering the commencement address and receiving an honorary doctorate in humane letters is Peabody and Emmy Award-winning reporter Ti-Hua Chang, who has worked for WNBC News since 1993.
The President’s Award will be conferred on Marva Clark Gordon ’69, who is being honored for her nearly three decades of leadership in the clinical, administrative and research areas of the nursing profession and for establishing the Dr. Marva L. and Mr. John Gordon Scholarship Fund, demonstrating her strong commitment to future generations of City Tech students.
The Class of 2004 valedictorian is Dianne A. Monrose, 32, who is graduating with a bachelor of technology degree in computer systems. As an undocumented immigrant from Jamaica, she struggled for six years to save money from her earnings as a babysitter and nanny in order to attend college.
Ti-Hua Chang has been a reporter with WNBC News in New York since 1993. In 1996, he won the prestigious Peabody Award for a series of reports he filed on accused drug-dealing murderers who escaped to the Dominican Republic and how that government's extradition policies prevented U.S. police from arresting them. He has reported from Tel Aviv, Israel, on a string of terror blasts overtaking the city and from Bosnia, filing reports from that war-torn country as he traveled with an Americares convoy throughout several combat-ravaged cities.
Some of Chang's investigative reports for WNBC include features on New York City's takeover of the Fulton Fish Market and the surprisingly easy ways to order a gun through the mail. In January 1998, Chang filed a series of live reports from the White House on allegations that President Clinton had an affair with a White House intern and allegedly directed her to lie to an investigative panel.
Chang joined WNBC from WNYC-TV, New York, where he was host of his own talk show, “New York Hotline.” Previously, he was a reporter at WCBS-TV and an investigative producer at ABC News. Among the stories Chang covered for ABC was a report from inside a Mexican jail that had been taken over by armed drug dealers and an investigative piece on the death of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, in which he uncovered four new witnesses to the murder, eventually leading to the re-opening of the case.
The recipient of many awards and honors, Chang has won four Emmys; the Philadelphia, Denver and Detroit Press Association Awards; and the Associated Press and United Press International Awards. Very active in Asian-American community affairs, Chang was both a national and local New York board member of the Asian-American Journalists Association. He also has been published in a number of magazines, including the Sunday New York Times and The Detroit News.
Chang received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and a master’s degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1977. He is married and has a newborn son.
5/17/04
