As promised in my letter of April 28, I am pleased to make available the revised version of the resolution concerning student transfer at CUNY. This resolution will be considered by CUNY’s Board of Trustees at its June meetings.
Responding to requests by the University Faculty Senate and others for further discussion of the implications of the transfer report, as well as to requests for a specific draft proposal addressing the challenges CUNY students face, in January EVC Logue’s office established a website for collecting together all documents and other information related to what we now call the Pathways to Degree Completion Project (see www.cuny.edu/pathways).
Governor Cuomo and the leaders of the New York State Legislature have reached an agreement on the Fiscal Year 2011-12 operating and capital budgets, and I write to provide you with a summary of the impact on The City University of New York. On the operating side, the adopted budget includes a new reduction in [...]
In January, the CUNY Board of Trustees appointed Carole Berotte Joseph as president of Bronx Community College, following a national search. Berotte Joseph, currently president of Massachusetts Bay Community College, previously served as vice president for academic affairs at CUNY’s Hostos Community College and a faculty member at CUNY’s City College. She will begin her tenure at Bronx Community College this summer.
Thank you, Sy. It is always a very great pleasure to join you and the CEI-PEA. It gives me a chance to acknowledge your tremendous work as an educator and a New Yorker. Most of you know that The City University of New York counts Sy as one of our own. This morning I’d like [...]
Dr. Scott E. Evenbeck, a professor of psychology and dean of University College at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, has been appointed the Founding President of The City University of New York’s new community college, which opens in 2012 as an innovative model for improving student performance and graduation rates, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein announced.
Chancellor Matthew Goldstein’s Statement on the Earthquake in Chile and CUNY’s Relief Efforts
As you know, the nation of Haiti is confronting the devastating effects of a powerful earthquake that struck on January 12. Many of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni trace their ancestry to Haiti and may have family members, friends, and colleagues in the affected areas. I know that you share my deep concern about the tragic impact of [...]
Two years after its start, a City University of New York program strongly supported by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and aimed at helping community college students earn degrees as quickly as possible has graduated more than 30% of its original students in just two years. The program is likely to exceed its goal of at least 50% receiving their diplomas in three years, according to a new report.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, City University Chancellor Dr. Matthew Goldstein, Dormitory Authority of the State of New York Executive Director Paul T. Williams Jr., and Judy Rapfogel, Chief of Staff to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, today broke ground on the new $259 million Fiterman Hall in Lower Manhattan for the Borough of Manhattan Community College. The 15-story Fiterman Hall building adjacent to the World Trade Center site was severely damaged in the September 11th attacks.
