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.
The first stage of the transformation of general education that will increase standards while facilitating transfers at CUNY has been proposed by a task force of distinguished educators and accepted by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, who hailed the plan as key to the University’s academic renaissance and to providing all students with a truly rigorous, broadening and more valuable college education.
The University’s renowned faculty members continually win professional-achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from government agencies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside.
During three mid-January weeks, students can fulfill prerequisites, earn extra credits — even study abroad. For as long as she can remember, Sarah Leibowitz has had a keen interest in visiting the Galápagos Islands. But working on a double major in neuroscience and psychology at Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, she never had the time or the budget to fit a trip into her rigorous schedule.
A unique exploration of “The Great Recession” in the context of economic upheaval throughout U.S. history is now available on a dynamic website and a richly illustrated companion calendar.
There are hidden treasures throughout CUNY, programs launched and nurtured by faculty members with a particular blend of vision, passion and wherewithal. One of them is the Department of Photography at LaGuardia Community College, a program that started small in 1986 and became what remains CUNY’s only degree-granting program in photography. Its students’ work has become a signature of the college, earning the department a growing reputation as a jewel of the community colleges.
At Hostos Community College, students win prizes for using home grown technology to register for classes early and perform other tasks. At Brooklyn College, long lines at the registrar have thinned, thanks to a new online appointment scheduler for face-to-face advisement. And IT staff at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have devised a secure wireless link between two college buildings without using expensive fiber optic wiring.
That man from Stratford was an expert on the arboreal. He knew from deciduous.
Take Macbeth, who wistfully observes just before his demise, “My way of life/ Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf….” Or the
How do CUNY employees — or workers anywhere — deal with change at the office? How do they handle new protocols, new supervisors, new schedules — or a new way of working online? The short answer: Change is
“CUNY Rising,” a rousing video produced by CUNY-TV that celebrates the role that more than $2 billion in philanthropy has played in the University’s transformation of the past decade, debuted at a January gala for more than 400 alumni and other friends, corporate and foundation partners, and institutional advancement officials. That philanthropy has supported scholarships, faculty hiring, facility construction and groundbreaking research. Keynoter William Macaulay (CCNY, honors, 1966) said that gratitude for the only college education he could afford had led him to underwrite what is now called Macaulay Honors College.
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