Reporting to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Goldstein congratulated Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators for the passage of an historic new funding mechanism to provide some financial stability for public higher education. The new state law, which calls for small tuition increases while ensuring continued financial aid protections for students in need, is based on the proposals of the CUNY Compact developed by the Chancellor nearly a decade ago. In response to the new appropriations language from the State, the Chancellor requested that the executive committee of the Board meet in the coming weeks. Chancellor Goldstein also reviewed New York City funding policies and the impact on community colleges and efforts to increase private fund-raising.
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Public meeting of the Board of Trustees, June 7, 2011.
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Public hearing on items on the Board of Trustees Calendar for the June meeting of the Board and the Bronx Borough Hearing of the CUNY Board of Trustees, June 20, 2011
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CUNY’s class of 2011 celebrated their achievements at commencement events held across the City. Playwright Tony Kushner, attorney and activist Lynn Paltrow, essayist and The New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, educator Geoffrey Canada and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein were among the distinguished speakers who challenged this year’s graduates to achieve and challenge wrong despite overwhelming resistance.
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Nearly two decades after World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the German SS officer who was labeled the mastermind behind the Holocaust, was arrested in Argentina. The Israeli agents who captured Eichmann in 1960 said they weren’t going to kill him, but instead told him, “We are going to give you what you never gave your victims — a fair trial,” says Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University. Lipstadt delivered the Samuel D. Ehrenpreis Memorial Lecture at Bronx Community College, where she discussed her recent book, “The Eichmann Trial,” about his trial in Israel for crimes against humanity and its relevance today to current atrocities in Africa and beyond.
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Six out of every ten females worldwide will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the United Nations’ UNITE to End Violence Against Women campaign. “Violence against women and girls is not a women’s issue — it’s everybody’s issue,” says Carmella Marrone, founding director of Women and Work (W&W), a free, 15-week life-skills program for women in need and based at the Queens College Extension Center. In April, W&W earned membership in the UNITE to End Violence’s “Say No” campaign, which will enable the organization to expand its educational and outreach efforts even further. “The work we do locally now has a global face,” says Marrone.
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Seeking compensation for the thousands of victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, court-appointed trustee Irving Picard, so far has recovered about $11.5 billion — through “clawback suits” — of about $17 billion in principal lost, according to Peter Henning, New York Times White Collar blogger. “No one is getting all their money back,” says Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University School of Law. “The idea is to see that the victims share their losses equally.” At an event at Baruch entitled, “The Madoff Clawbacks: Whose Money Is It?” Hennings was joined by Seth Lipner, professor of law at the Zicklin School of Business.
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As a war correspondent in Iraq, George Packer’s reports for The New Yorker often included interviews with ordinary Iraqis, a technique he learned as a 20-something volunteer for the Peace Corps. “I learned how to approach people with whom I had almost nothing in common and draw out the thread of their lives,” said Packer, recalling his time in a remote village in Togo, West Africa. Packer, the author of two novels and four books of non-fiction, including the award-winning “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq” (2005), spoke at “The Art of the Feature Essay,” at the Graduate Center, along with fellow New Yorker contributors Paul Goldberger, Jane Kramer and Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, June 6, 2011.
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Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Facilities, Planning and Management, Monday, June 6, 2011.
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