Faculty Accomplishments During the 40th

In its April 14, 2008 issue, the editors of New York Magazine chose 196 cultural works they felt have defined the city since the magazine began (which, coincidentally, was the same year Lehman College was founded). Lehman Professor William M. Hoffman's play As Is was included on the list:

"As theater artists were dying by the score and American society refused to face AIDS, two dramatists demanded that it do so. In The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer was fierce and angry; William M. Hoffman, in As Is, was gentler and more restrained. Both proved that social drama still works, that New York playwrights can help force an issue onto the agenda."