A Message from Chancellor Goldstein
The City University of New York is enormously proud of the vitality and quality of its faculty and welcomes the broadest array of candidates for positions at all of the University's colleges and professional schools. As we endeavor to continue to advance our great university system — the leading urban university in America — I want to express my appreciation for the historic contributions made by Latino faculty throughout CUNY to the intellectual life and social well-being of CUNY. I believe that we can significantly do more to strengthen outreach to the Latino community in higher education to attract a substantially larger pool of applicants in light of increased faculty opportunities at the University.
In that spirit, I have asked a distinguished expert in international criminal justice, human rights, and the history of Latina/o communities, Professor José Luis Morín of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, to lead this new recruitment initiative.
Professor Morín's charge, working closely with both the CUNY Central Office and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies located at Hunter College, CUNY, is to develop and implement outreach to successful graduate students nearing completion of their advanced degrees as well as to currently employed faculty throughout the United States in order to identify, cultivate, and encourage candidates for consideration for tenure-track positions at CUNY campuses.
I have also asked President Ricardo Fernández of Herbert H. Lehman College, a prominent educator, formerly Chairman of the Board of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and currently Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education (ACE) to chair a special committee of the CUNY Council of Presidents on deepening ties with colleges and universities in the Caribbean and elsewhere, and, in particular, with colleges and universities in Central and South America. The CUNY Latino Faculty Initiative will also very much benefit from the assistance of Sara E. Meléndez, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Independent Sector and current Adjunct Professor of Nonprofit Management in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University.
This initiative is intended to support the commitment of all CUNY colleges and professional schools to access and excellence by working to connect highly qualified candidates to searches for faculty positions at the University.
