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he experiment is to be tried… whether the children of the people, ‘T the children of the whole people, can be educated; whethe r an institution of learning, of the highest grade, can be success - fully controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few, but by the privileged many.” — Horace Webster CUNY Matters Founding Principal, The Free Academy cuny.edu/news • THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS THE FREE ACADEMY FALL 2011 From Lab yrinth to GRANTS &HONORS Recognizing Pathways Faculty Achievement HE UNIVERSITY’S renowned The new Pathways plan Udeogalanya faculty members continually for streamlining credit Twin professional-achieve - ment awards from prestigious transfers within CUNY organizations as well as research grants from government agen - promises to improve cies, farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured at academic quality and Brown left are just a few of the most graduation rates plus recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research pro - save money for students jects start here and continue inside. and the University. University Vice Chancellor for Kendrick Research Gillian Small has been awarded a $1,075,968 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan ASKED WITH transforming according to Executive Vice Chancellor for approves the Common Core structure, each Foundation to encourage and general education and stream - Academic Affairs and University Provost undergraduate college will specify individual support promising early career lining the credit-transfer pro - Alexandra Logue. courses that meet the 30-credit Core scientists — students and facul - cess, a distinguished panel of The Pathways to Degree Completion ini - requirements. ty members — through two educators has begun to tackle Small tiative was established by a unanimous vote The Aug. 26 retreat at the Graduate awards plans: a Summer Tthe complexities of developing a new of the Board of Trustees in late June. The Center — the first joint meeting of the steer - Undergraduate Research program “Common Core” for all CUNY colleges as task force includes faculty, as well as student ing and working committees — focused on a and a Junior Faculty Fellowship well as a transparent, efficient and fair sys - representatives, from every CUNY college, as key piece of the initiative, identifying the program. tem for transferring course credits across well as every liberal arts major and transfer learning outcomes to be required for the the University. major of significant size. Common Core’s various multidisciplinary Kingsborough CUNY Law School Dean Michelle The 42-credit general education frame - areas, following “best practices” modeled at Community College has Steingart Anderson has been appointed by Chancellor work, to be implemented in 2012, will other universities. received a $1,874,604 grant from Matthew Goldstein to head the task force, include the 30-credit Common Core for all Anderson said committee members The Mayor's Fund to Advance New which will develop the Common Core by campuses and 12 “College Option” credits “broke into small groups to deliberate on York City for the “Young Adult establishing required credits and learning that each baccalaureate college will desig - possible cross-curricular learning Program: Access to Success," outcomes in broad disciplinary and interdis - nate. Currently, general education require - outcomes,” such as the ability to understand under the direction of Stuart ciplinary subject areas. ments vary by senior college campus from 39 and criticize sources of information, the abil - Schulman . The U.S. Department The task force comprises two committees to 63 credits, averaging 51 credits. ity to communicate through writing or ver - of Homeland Security has award - appointed by the chancellor after consulta - The task force convened on Aug. 26 for a bally, or to employ quantitative reasoning. Green ed $399,983 to David Green and tion with the Council of Presidents and the “tremendously successful” working retreat, “We came up with seven different versions Maria Hartwig of John Jay College leadership of the University Faculty and Dean Anderson said. Another retreat is that the steering committee will assimilate for a “Homeland Security Doctoral Student Senates: the 16-member steering scheduled for Oct. 14, and a preliminary draft and winnow… to provide a touchstone for the Research Fellowship Program.” committee, and a 39-member working com - of the Common Core proposal is to be work as we go forward.” Distinguished Professor of mittee to advise it and serve as a two-way sketched by Nov. 1 and circulated for feed - “I was very impressed with the engage - Psychology Anthony Sclafani and Karen Ackroff of Brooklyn College communication channel between the steer - back from the campuses before it is to be ment and intellectual commitment that the Hartwig ing committee and the individual colleges, presented to the chancellor Dec. 1. After he Continued on page 8 ‰ have received $341,475 in fund - ing from the National Institutes of Health for research concerning INSIDE “Carbohydrate Appetite, Fat Non-Profit Org PAGE Appetite and Obesity.” CUNY Matters U.S. Postage Enrollment Soars Office of University Relations PAID 2 — Along With Quality Hunter College 535 East 80th St. Permit # 153 New Haven, CT McCann Distinguished Lecturer Colum New York, NY 10075 PAGE McCann has won the Students, Museums Form International IMPAC Dublin 4 Profitable Alliances Literary Award, more than $140,000, for his latest novel: Let the Great World Spin . PAGE Ready to Serve: Kingsborough Community College professor of physical sciences 6 CUNY Connolly Reservists Harold C. Connolly was among a team of scientists who recently discovered a new mineral, named Krotite. PAGE Not Your 10 City College has received Everyday $2,699,999 in funding from the Trauma Center Liu National Science Foundation for Continued on page 3 ‰ TH ECHANCELLOR’ SDESK Rational Tuition Policy: A Primer Enrollment Soars S ANY CUNY graduate knows, the students in need. setting of tuition at CUNY and In addition to TTRACTED by academic quality SUNY by the state has tradition - helping families and continuing affordability, a Degree-Credit ally been done in a haphazard plan for the costs of record 269,300 students are A way. During economic d own - expected to enroll at CUNY this higher education Students at CUNY turns, students might experience very steep and protecting stu - A fall, including 8,200 more tuition increases, while in other years, dents in need, the state’s rational tuition undergraduates than last fall. This is the tuition levels would hold steady. plan has several other advantages. It allows University’s 11th straight year of growth. 1849-20 11 For the better part of a decade I have the University to keep all of the revenue More top students than ever factor in the advocated for a predictable tuition policy, from the new tuition, rather than returning mix. The University accepted 20,202 appli - one that allows students and their families, all or a portion of it to the state, as in past cants with a high-school GPA of 85 or above. and the University, to plan for the future. years. This important provision ensures that That’s 7.8 percent more top applicants than in The centerpiece of the CUNY Compact students’ investment in their education fall 2010 and a stunning 104.5 percent more model is the establishment of a rational stays at the University, supporting academic than in fall 2002 — a clear indication of the tuition plan, one that builds in modest, pre - priorities and student services. Moreover, it steadily rising esteem with which students 0,000 dictable increases tied to state funding and enables multiyear planning by the who have academic options hold CUNY. 30 protects the neediest students. University, which increases our overall effi - The University accepted about 69,000 In June, such a policy came to fruition. ciency. The plan also encourages freshmen, approximately 2,250 more than The New York State Legislature passed a philanthropy. It demonstrates to donors last year. It accepted about 28,200 transfer five-year tuition plan for CUNY and SUNY, 0 that the state is investing in the University’s students, close to equally split between stu - 250,00 after an agreement reached by Gov. Andrew financial stability and that philanthropic dents transferring from within and outside Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gifts are not substituting for a lack of state of CUNY; the total number of transfers is and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. support. roughly 5,300 more than last year. Actual Chairwoman Deborah Glick and Chairman The five-year plan also helps the enrollment figures and details will be avail - 00 Kenneth P. LaValle, who lead the higher University meet the growing needs caused able later this fall, but a trend seen among 200,0 education committees of the legislature, by record student enrollment. external transfer students last year is likely worked diligently to achieve a new This fall, the University’s enroll - to hold — students are changing colleges to statewide plan. ment of degree-seeking students secure a quality education in an unforgiving The legislation allows CUNY to The plan also tops 269,000. Over the last three economy. 0,000 raise tuition up to $300 a year in encourages years, senior college full-time This academic year, CUNY’s neediest 15 each of the next five years for philanthropy. equivalent enrollment increased undergraduates will continue to pay no undergraduates from New York by 10.7 percent. In the same peri - tuition, thanks to federal Pell awards and State. Effective this fall, full-time, od, the University's operating the state Tuition Assistance Program. in-state, undergraduate student 0 budget sustained reductions of $205 mil - Efforts to block a proposed cut of $845 from 100,00 tuition at the senior colleges is $5,130 a lion. This year, an additional $95 million the maximum $5,550 Pell grant were suc - year.