Good morning, Chairperson DeFrancisco, Chairman Farrell, members of the Finance and Ways and Means committees, staff, and guests. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today about The City University of New York and the 2012-13 State Executive Budget Proposal. I will ask the senior officers of the University accompanying me to introduce themselves. With [...]
I am delighted to welcome you to CUNY’s first-ever colloquium on community colleges. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to Eduardo Martí, CUNY’s vice chancellor for community colleges, who has brought us together today for what I hope will be an illuminating task: rethinking what we thought we knew about community-college education. I want [...]
Good afternoon, Chairperson Recchia, Chairperson Rodriguez, and members of the Finance and Higher Education committees. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about the Mayor’s 2012 Executive Budget and its effect on The City University of New York, especially our six community colleges: Borough of Manhattan, Bronx, Hostos, Kingsborough, LaGuardia, and Queensborough. [...]
Thank you, Pola. I am delighted to join all of you today. Pola, I must begin by thanking you for your outstanding work at “Education Update,” which we always say is required reading at CUNY. And I am very pleased to congratulate all of today’s honorees, including those receiving the Distinguished Leaders in Education Award: [...]
Good morning, Chairperson DeFrancisco, Chairman Farrell, members of the Finance and Ways and Means committees, staff, and guests. Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today about The City University of New York and the 2011-12 State Executive Budget Proposal. I will ask the senior officers of the University accompanying me to introduce [...]
You may have seen an attention-grabbing headline last month: “Illinois Legislators Approve 66% Tax Increase.” If you did, you may have looked twice to make sure it said “Illinois.” The jump in the state’s income tax rate—from 3 percent to 5 percent (and 4.8 to 7 percent for corporate taxes)—reflects Illinois’s profound financial crisis: a [...]
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 [...]
Good morning, Chairperson Recchia, Chairperson Rodriguez, and members of the Finance and Higher Education committees. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you this morning about the Mayor’s 2011 Executive Budget and its effect on The City University of New York, especially our six community colleges: Borough of Manhattan, Bronx, Hostos, Kingsborough, LaGuardia, and [...]
I am delighted to join you today and want to begin by paying tribute to Sy Fliegel and the extraordinary work he has done on behalf of our city’s students. As a teacher and superintendent, as well as a founder of the CEI and president of the CEI-PEA, he has been an important and effective [...]
Good morning, Chairman Kruger, Vice Chairwoman Krueger, Chairman Farrell, Senator Stavisky, Assemblywoman Glick, members of the Finance, Ways and Means, and Higher Education committees, staff, and guests. Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today about The City University of New York and the 2010-11 State Executive Budget Proposal. I will ask the [...]
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