This article offers several news related to the H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music as of the Fall of 2014. James B. Milliken, the Chancellor of City University of New York, revealed in a major policy address that "a Global University" is the primary goal of his tenure. Institute Director Jeffrey Taylor joined a panel on "Rethinking Jazz Piano" during the Jazz Beyond Borders conference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in September 2014.