The Manhattanville College School of Education Early Childhood Education Department is hosting its third annual, Early Childhood Education Conference, on October 6, 2012. This year's topic is, "The Young Exceptional Child."

The Manhattanville College School of Graduate and Professional Studies (GPS) is hosting President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic on October 3, 2012. In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, GPS will host a roundtable discussion on Regional Development in a Global Context.

On Thursday October 4, Dr. Scott Christianson will deliver the 14th annual Henry Schwarzschild Memorial Lecture at Manhattanville College. The lecture, cosponsored by the New York Civil Liberties Union's Lower Hudson Valley Chapter and the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action, will feature a discussion and critique of capital punishment and the criminal justice system.

Manhattanville College's Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program will host a reading by three faculty members that joined the program in 2012: Neela Vaswani, Elizabeth Eslami, and Camille Rankine, on Monday, October 1, 2012.