he experiment is to be tried… whether the children of the people, ‘Tthe children of the whole people, can be educated; whether an institution of learning, of the highest grade, can be successfully controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few, but by the privileged many.” — Horace Webster Founding Principal, The Free Academy CUNYcuny.edu/news • THE CITY UNIVERSITY OFMatters NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS THE FREE ACADEMY DECEMBER 2011 GRANTS&HONORS What is CUNY Value? More than 58 percent of all CUNY full-time undergraduates — Keeping Pace about 100,000 students — received a need-based, tuition-free college education in 2011. These students are fully covered by federal Pell grants and state Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), or are eligible for federal tuition tax credits that supplemented Recognizing with Growth partial aid. A total of 170,000 Faculty students — full-time and part- Achievement Helping students academically time undergraduates — received $770 million in Pell and TAP, HE UNIVERSITY’S renowned and financially, expanding one of the critical ways the Stanley faculty members continual- University offers both high- Tly win professional-achieve- innovative programs and adding quality educational programs ment awards from prestigious expert faculty are top priorities and affordability at a time organizations as well as when demand for both is research grants from govern- in University’s 2012-2013 budget. increasing. Combined with ment agencies, farsighted foun- scholarships, grants and oth- dations and leading corpora- Wasserman er aid, financial assistance to tions. Pictured at left are just a ew full-time faculty hiring, expansion of innovative CUNY students exceeded $1 few of the most recent honorees. community college programs and student services, and billion last year. More at Brief summaries of many ongo- Nan initiative to help students defray tuition increases are www.cuny.edu/value ing research projects start here among the priorities detailed in the University’s $2.8 billion budget and continue inside. request for 2012-2013. The request was scheduled for the Board of Trustees’ vote at the end of November. ability, and a challenging, uncer- CUNY’s Career PATH Proposed as the University experiences its 11th straight year of tain economy. A record-breaking 271,000 students, Nanin program has received a grant growth, the request seeks $2.824 billion — nearly $2.1 billion for the including an increased number of high-achieving students with high totaling $19,860,087 for a pro- senior colleges and nearly $767 million for the community colleges. school averages of 85 or better, are expected to enroll this fall, ject to offer out-of-work adult That is an additional $102.5 million for baseline needs and $91.9 according to early University figures. New Yorkers who are changing million for programs over the 2011-2012 adjusted level. Initiatives to meet the steadily pressing demand for a CUNY edu- careers a new way to retool for Also included in the package of funding sources for the cation by strengthening the University’s academic offerings, today’s job market. The grant University is a multiyear tuition plan. The plan calls for a $150 per- services and the CUNY student experience itself, factor significantly was awarded to a consortium of semester increase through 2016, or $300 per year, with financial- in the budget request. Kennedy six community colleges — aid coverage for all TAP-eligible recipients and other financial-aid The top priority is a continued commitment to full-time faculty Borough of Manhattan, Bronx, enhancements. hiring — 400 positions for next year to support CUNY’s “cluster hir- Hostos, Kingsborough, LaGuardia The new tuition schedule, which includes proportional increases ing” to enhance programs, many in the sciences, that are poised for and Queensborough — and two for other student categories such as graduate, doctoral and non- national prominence. senior colleges, the College of state residents, was approved by the state Legislature in June and “Faculty renewal requires major investment each year because Staten Island and New York City CUNY’s student population continues to grow,” the resolution College of Technology. The grant also reflects the University’s successful CUNY Compact funding Rachal model, which envisions incremental, predictable tuition increases explained. “CUNY has created hundreds of new faculty positions — the only one awarded in New — along with committed government funding, internal University over the last few years, but still finds itself unable to keep up with York State — is part of nearly efficiencies and a focus on philanthropic contributions — to stabi- the pace of enrollment growth.” $500 million in grants lize CUNY’s finances. Other funding priorities would bolster student services and pro- announced by Secretary of Labor Prominently included in the 2012-2013 budget resolution were grams educating for nursing and other high-demand healthcare pro- Hilda L. Solis and monies to help strapped CUNY students with the higher tuitions, fessions; support the first year of operation of CUNY’s innovative Undersecretary of Education and to help defray the cost of textbooks. The $5 million Student New Community College, slated to open in August 2012; expand the Martha Kanter. Chancellor R. Hernandez Financial Assistance Program “will be utilized by the colleges to successful ASAP program to help motivated community college stu- Matthew Goldstein praised the assist those students who will be placed at risk of continuing their dents graduate faster; and continue CUNY’s decade-long upgrade of many faculty and administrators matriculation due to higher tuition rates,” the Nov. 28 meeting res- buildings, including many science facilities — a capital program that on those campuses who con- olution said. It “will help students defray the proposed tuition is transforming the student experience throughout the University. tributed to the idea, particularly increases and underscores our commitment that no student in need Significant new buildings opened this year at John Jay College at the lead campus, of financial assistance will be denied access to the University.” (see centerfold pages 6-7 ) and the new CUNY School of Public Kingsborough. Among those he singled out were Vice Chancellor The budget request comes at a time of record enrollment at Health at Hunter College in East Harlem. New construction or Eynon CUNY, fueled by the University’s academic renaissance, its afford- upgrades are to be completed on three more campuses next year. Eduardo Martí, who first pre- sented the idea of making a pro- INSIDE posal; Suri Duitch, University Non-Profit Org associate dean for continuing CUNYMatters U.S. Postage PAGE Expanded Programs education; John Mogulescu, Office of University Relations PAID Speed Student Progress senior University dean for aca- 535 East 80th St. Permit # 153 2 demic affairs and dean of the New Haven, CT New York, NY 10075 Smith CUNY School of Professional PAGE CUNY and Stanford Studies; Stuart Schulman, exec- Form Partnership utive director of the Center of 5 Economic and Workforce Development at the Central PAGE New Facilities Office; and Shayne Spaulding, 6 Transforming Director of Workforce Campuses Schwartz Development at CUNY. Brooklyn College profes- sor of psychology Nancy Romer PAGE Honoring and Diane Reiser of the col- A Champion lege’s Community Partnership 8 for Research and Learning have Of Equality Continued on page 3 ‰ Orgel THECHANCELLOR’SDESK Saluting – And Helping – Our Vets New Efforts Speed T CUNY’s first-ever “Thank You for They must also be Serving” event on Nov. 1, I had the able to access appro- N A COMPREHENSIVE response remediation. “The problem CUNY faces is privilege of visiting with the many priate assistance with to the surge of underprepared high how best to accelerate developmental edu- CUNY faculty, staff, and students the very real A challenges faced by school graduates who are enrolling cation for the vast number of students who who are veterans and to join with others at in CUNY’s community colleges, the the University in thanking them for their veterans across New need it — more than 15,000 last fall,” the UniversityI is broadening efforts not only to task force wrote in its August report to distinguished service to our country. York State — whether mental health issues, support current and incoming students who As I told the assembled group, listening unemployment, or difficulties with their Executive Vice Chancellor and University need remediation, but also to boost the to their stories and experiences reminded disability evaluations. Provost Lexa Logue. academic and learning skills of high school me of the first time I met veterans as a very Several CUNY campuses have hired full- Two key notions underlie the students. young boy. On a warm night in 1945, my and part-time staff to enhance campus- University’s thrust. First, as Chancellor The University’s hallmark program for mother took me to see a parade of soldiers based programs and services for student Matthew Goldstein has often said, “a degree incoming community college freshmen — walking from Avenue D to Avenue C on veterans. Their dedicated efforts help hun- matters” and the University needs to sup- ASAP (Accelerated Study in Associate Seventh Street, where we lived. My mother dreds of student veterans navigate the port students in earning diplomas as quickly Programs) — has already proven that it can gave me a pot and a wooden spoon and told University and the transition to civilian life. and cost-efficiently as possible. That means move even remedial students far more me that while I was too young to understand In fact, for the second consecutive year, The conserving their limited financial aid for quickly to associate degrees and into bac- what was happening, she knew that this City University of New York has been recog- credit-bearing courses, rather than spend- calaureate programs than standard remedi- experience would be etched in my memory nized as one of the “Top Military-Friendly ing it on noncredit remedial ones. Second, it al courses. for the rest of my life. Then I heard the Colleges and Universities” by Military means encouraging them to attend full time, Another success story is CUNY Start, an bugles and the drums and out of nowhere Advanced Education. The publication cited if possible, so they can finish their work in a intensive immersion program which, prior came hundreds of returning veterans walk- the University’s “inspired effort” in making timely manner. to matriculation, offers underprepared high ing through Manhattan. Cheers emanated it easier for our men and women in uniform The disconnection between a city high school graduates the writing, reading, math from those crowded on sidewalks, children to advance their careers by enhancing their school diploma and the ability to do college- and study skills they need to succeed in banged on pots, and people cried out, education. level work has grown since the University community college and beyond. “Thank you! Thank you!” Like many other But there is much more that we can do to raised admission standards, particularly in And with a relatively new effort called women, my mother was crying. And she was fully understand and address the challenges math. In part because of CUNY’s urging, in At Home in College, CUNY is deepening its right: That experience has stayed with me that may compromise the ability of our stu- part because of a national concern that so relationship with the city Department of ever since. dent veterans to have a full and rich experi- many students are inadequately prepared Education by providing remedial and col- Today, our veterans continue to return ence at the University. for college, the state Education Department lege-readiness instruction to students while home from their military service — but they That’s why I announced at the “Thank is building college-readiness into its assess- they are still in high school. It complements are not always met with parades and effu- You for Serving” event that the University is ments of high schools and is rethinking its two longstanding high school sive gratitude. They may even be met with creating an ad hoc committee of the Council Regents exams. CUNY has found that scores collaborations, College Now, which offers indifference or skepticism. And they may of Presidents to strengthen services to vet- of 75 on the English Regents and 80 in math college-credit-bearing courses to high find themselves facing very real challenges erans. The committee will be chaired by often translate to a college C. And the school students, and CUNY-run Early as they try to return to their lives. As President Tomás Morales of the College of Regents exams do not assess essential skills College High Schools, which enable high President Obama noted recently, almost 3 Staten Island and will recommend changes like problem-solving, critical thinking or school students to earn college credit and million servicemembers have transitioned in University policies and procedures in analytical writing. even associate degrees. back to civilian life over the past decade. A order to better serve our student veterans. Only a quarter of city high school gradu- The University’s latest thinking about million more will return over the next five The committee will draw on the suggestions ates who enroll at CUNY’s community col- remediation comes from an Office of years. Yet more than 850,000 veterans and experiences of student and alumni vet- leges, where most remediation takes place, Academic Affairs special task force on nationwide remain unemployed. erans across the University, who know first- are college-ready. A stunning 74.4 percent Our CUNY veterans have served their hand of the barriers that impede progress country honorably, and the University is and the programs that have real potential. deeply committed not only to celebrating The goal of the committee — just like the their return but to ensuring that they can goal of our Office of Veterans Affairs, ably access the opportunities and assistance directed by Wilfred Cotto (U.S. Navy, they need to advance their educational, retired), as well as all of our campus services Aspiring Oncologist’s Rx for professional, and personal goals. and programs — is to improve student veter- This includes the 3,000 student veterans ans’ engagement with their education, their currently enrolled at CUNY. This number success in their program of study and their inai Cuahutenco is on a mission to work as part-time call center representatives represents a 55 percent increase in student preparation for the workforce. They have become an oncologist to honor her within New York City's Customer Service Center. veteran enrollment over the last two years already given much to our country. Now we mother, who died of colon cancer at GED in hand, she enrolled at Hostos alone. It places the University among the need to give them every opportunity to age 30 when Sinai was 13. And thanks Community College in fall 2009, opted into the top 10 public university systems for student reach their fullest potential. toS four CUNY programs that help talented but ASAP program and earned an associate degree veteran enrollment. On behalf of the entire University, I academically underprepared and financially in two years. It is critical that CUNY’s student veter- extend my profound gratitude to all of our needy students, she’s on her way. She entered Hunter College with a 3.9 grade ans know how to take advantage of veterans and our sincere commitment to She was 3 when the Cuahutencos came to point average and is an honors student and Phi enhanced post-9/11 GI Bill educational ben- ensuring the support that every veteran has the States, and attended elementary and middle Theta Kappa member. efits, including tuition payments made earned. schools here. But when her mother died, she and Now 21, she wants to finish her baccalaureate directly to institutions, and living her three younger siblings had to return to work as soon as possible. “I want it to take, the allowances and stipends for books and Mexico to live with grandparents. maximum, three years,” she says, before she materials paid directly to students. When she returned moves into medical training. to New York in fall Hunter counselors advised 2008, Cuahutenco, then When she becomes a that the quickest route to a 18, enrolled in CUNY physician, she intends to focus B.S. degree would be by capi- Prep, which helps stu- talizing on credits she already BOARDOFTRUSTEES CUNYMatters on underserved communities, The City University of New York dents develop the aca- had by majoring in psycholo- Matthew Goldstein demic skills to earn a gy. And, she said, “In order to Benno Schmidt Chancellor in either urban or rural areas Philip Alfonso Berry general equivalency give proper care to anyone, Chairperson Vice Chairperson Jay Hershenson Secretary of the Board of Trustees and diploma (GED). While — and to encourage other it’s of the utmost importance Valerie L. Beal Peter Pantaleo Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations there, she joined immigrant students like her. to be able to understand Michael Arena CUNY’s College Now human psychology. It changes Wellington Z. Chen Kathleen M. Pesile University Director for Communications and Marketing program, which offers a lot when people get sick.” Rita DiMartino Carol Robles-Román Barbara Shea Managing Editor college-credit-bearing courses to public high When she becomes a physician, she intends Freida Foster-Tolbert Charles A. Shorter Rich Sheinaus Director of Graphic Design school students. She gained career skills to focus on underserved communities, in either Judah Gribetz Solomon A. Sutton Charles DeCicco, Ruth Landa and Neill S. Rosenfeld through paid internships arranged by the CUNY urban or rural areas — and to encourage other Writers Joseph J. Lhota Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Prep Job Corps program; she tutored English and immigrant students like her. “I want to motivate Miriam Smith Issue Designer Hugo M. Morales statistics and was a human resources assistant students so they’ll stay in school….It just takes André Beckles Photographer for the CUNY/311 Project, in which students focus to get to what you want.” Articles in this and previous issues are available at cuny.edu/news. Kafui Kouakou Sandi E. Cooper Letters or suggestions for future stories may be sent to the Editor by Chairperson, Chairperson, e-mail to [email protected]. Changes of address University Student Senate University Faculty Senate should be made through your campus personnel office.

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Remedial Students’Progress Continued from page 1 received three grants, totaling $1,130,047, need one or more remedial courses. ASAP Track Record from the New York State Education Department A sizeable portion — 22.6 percent, or for “21st Century Community Learning some 12,442 students, in 2010 — were so- 2007 Cohort 2009 Cohort Centers,” and “Extended Day at Bushwick called “triple lows” who needed remedia- Campus High Schools.” The MacArthur tion in the three areas of reading, English Participants: 1,132 429 Foundation has awarded $600,000 to David and math. Remedial: None 77% Kennedy of John Jay College’s Center for Crime Prevention & Control for research on “The “That so many students need remedia- Associate Degrees (3 years): 55 % (2 years): 27.5 % Associate Degrees Innovative but Proven ‘Focused Deterrence’ tion is inextricably tied to our own, and oth- Projected 3-year rate (2012): At least 50 % er urban community colleges’, low Intervention Approach.” graduation rates,” Logue told the City Comparative Rates: Comparative Rates: (2 years): David Hernandez of Bronx Community Council Higher Education Committee in 16% nationally, 7.2 % for similar CUNY students College's Office of Institutional Advancement/ 24.7% for similar CUNY students October. Just a quarter of CUNY communi- Grants has received a $1,568,538 grant from ty college students who need at least one Post-associate (To be calculated in 2012) the New York State Education Department for an remedial course graduate within six years. Baccalaureate Enrollment: 72.4 % “Institutional Improvement” project. In contrast, 42 percent of entering commu- Comparative Rate: (To be calculated in 2012) “Mathematics Teacher nity college students who do not need any 62.2% for similar CUNY students Transformation Institutes” remediation graduate in that time span. Pre-associate Baccalaureate enrollment: (To be calculated in 2012) — directed by Robert Since the early 1990s, Logue testified, the 17.9 % Feinerman, Serigne six-year degree completion rate for freshmen Comparative rate: Gningue, Suzanne Libfeld entering associate programs has oscillated 26.2% (higher since ASAP helped (To be calculated in 2012) and Marcie Wolfe of between 25 percent and 28 percent, which in more students through associate degree) Lehman College — has part reflects a considerable dropout rate by received $957,960 from the underprepared students. But, “possibly due National Science Gningue to recent innovations” like ASAP and CUNY study include tuition waivers for students cohort, which had the same proportion of Foundation. The U.S. Start, more freshmen are returning for a sec- who are eligible for financial aid and, for all students who needed remediation as the Department of Education has awarded ond year — 68 percent for those entering in students, free monthly MetroCards and use general community college population — $575,000 to Patricia Rachal of Queens College fall 2009 became sophomores, compared to of textbooks. roughly three-fourths. ASAP worked just as for “The New York Deaf-Blind Collaborative.” 63 percent in fall 2005, she said. “This rise ASAP propelled 55 percent of students in well for them. More than a quarter earned Arthur Flug of Queensborough Community signals hope for improvement in graduation the 2007 pilot toward associate degrees associate degrees in two years and the College’s Holocaust Resource Center and rates,” she added. within three years. That’s more than twice cohort appears on track to match the goal Archives has received $500,000 from the A linchpin of this effort is the voluntary the rate of baccalaureate enrollment among set by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and National Endowment for the Humanities. ASAP program. Key ASAP elements include similar community college students (24.7 Chancellor Goldstein of half earning associ- Hunter College has received a $1,427,329 required full-time study in cohorts in a lim- percent). And 72.4 percent of the ASAP ate degrees within three years. grant from the National Science Foundation for ited number of majors, consolidated course pilot program’s three-year graduates ASAP is cost-free for students who quali- “A New Partnership to Transform Urban schedules, small class size, comprehensive enrolled in bachelor’s programs, compared fy for financial aid, thanks to grants from Secondary School Mathematics & Science advisement, academic and career develop- to 62.2 percent of similar students. the New York City Center for Economic Experiences,” directed by Pamela Mills and ment services, and special programs to sup- All of the pilot’s participants had finished Opportunity and the Leona M. and Harry B. Sarah Bonner. Distinguished Professor of port student growth and success. Financial any remedial requirements before entering Helmsley Charitable Trust. Physics Myriam P. Sarachikand associate pro- incentives that remove barriers to full-time the program. That changed with the 2009 Meanwhile, the University has ramped fessor Sergey Vitkalov of City College have up CUNY Start, an immersion program that been awarded a $366,847 research grant from originated in 2009. It now brings a broader the National Science Foundation. The Graduate mix of incoming students up to speed in the School and University Center has been awarded three remedial areas and study skills before $149,999 in grant support from the National they enroll as freshmen. A team of CUNY's Science Foundation for “Science Facilities: Success: CUNY Aid x 4 adult educators developed and continues to Communicating STEM Research to the Public refine a unique curriculum. Through the Arts,” directed by Brian Schwartz. Two-thirds of students who complete CUNY Start test out of remediation. The The New York State Office of Children Several University & Family Services has awarded a $735,680 support programs other third begin degree programs needing far less remediation. Based on its early suc- grant to Hunter College for a “Protective helped Sinai Services for Adults Training Resource System,” Cuahutenco soar cess, CUNY expanded the program from directed by Jean Callahan. LaGuardia from GED to Phi four to seven colleges and more than dou- Community College has received a $332,640 Theta Kappa in bled enrollment to almost 700 this grant from the New York State Education three years. semester. The University charges only a $75 fee for Start, a fraction of tuition for a regu- Department for a curriculum revision project lar remedial course. directed by Bret Eynon and On the secondary school level, the Roslyn Orgel. A John Jay University has joined with the city College project “To Department of Education on several major Integrate the Extremist initiatives. At Home in College, started two Crime Database, Global years ago with funding from the Robin Hood Terrorism Database, Foundation, involves several thousand stu- American Terrorism Study dents at 62 high schools in special math and Freilich and Terrorism English courses designed to prepare Organizational Profiles students who otherwise would be likely to Databases,” directed by need remediation at CUNY. College Now, Joshua Freilich, has received $196,711 in grant which engages high school students in col- support from the University of Maryland via the lege-credit-bearing courses, serves more Department of Homeland Security. than 20,000 students in 350 high schools Soyeon Lee, a student in the Graduate more than two decades after it started. At School and University Center’s Doctor of Musical CUNY’s 12 Early College High Schools, stu- Arts music performance program, won First dents can earn one or two years of college Prize in the prestigious 2010 Walter W. credit; at Hostos Lincoln Academy, for exam- Naumburg Piano Competition out of 42 pianists ple, 40 percent of the first graduating class from around the world. Her prize includes two last spring earned both a high school diplo- fully subsidized concerts in New York City, ma and a Hostos associate degree; 38 percent including a recital in Carnegie Hall; concert more graduated with 12 to 60 college credits. engagements throughout the U.S.; and a cash And real-time data sharing by the University award of $10,000. She has also been invited to and the DOE now allows the two institutions Continued on next page ‰ to better align their programs.

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Continued from page 3 Hostos to Honor a Patron’s Patron join the roster of performers in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. N HIS FOUR DECADES at Hostos Meyer hopes students Lehman College has received a $350,000 Community College, Gerald Meyer and faculty will call it — grant from the National Science Foundation for Ihas been a history professor whose the Marc Room. research under the direction of Distinguished personal history has been defined by his Meyer hopes his Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science activism in behalf of political, social and three-year $25,000 gift Victor Pan. Research concerning the genetics of educational causes — perhaps none so will be the first of many cell signaling, directed by Cathy Savage-Dunn, close to his heart as the college itself. by retired faculty, alum- deputy chair of doctorial programs at Queens As a member of Hostos’s full-time fac- ni and other members College, has been awarded $310,000 in grant ulty for 30 years and an adjunct the past of the Hostos commu- support from the National Institutes of Health. seven, Meyers founded the campus chap- nity. And he’s taken Jose Nanin of Kingsborough Community ter of the Professional Staff Congress and Matos-Rodriguez’s idea College’s Department of served on the executive board of the a step further. He’s Health, Physical Education Hostos Senate. If you ask him to list his included another & Recreation has received activities in support of students and facul- $25,000 to Hostos in $130,000 from the Centers ty through the years, he says, “I was on his will and asks long- for Disease Control and almost any committee you could name.” time colleagues to con- Prevention for a “Minority Indeed, Meyer had begun teaching at sider a similar bequest HIV/AIDS Research Hostos in 1972, four years after it was cre- in theirs. ated in response to demands by Hispanic Circle of 100 dona- Pan Initiative.” Professor Ramona Hernandez, direc- leaders in the South Bronx. When a pro- tions have funded tor of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at posal emerged during the 1970s fiscal cri- grants to 150 Hostos CCNY, has received a $50,000 start-up grant sis to fold Hostos into Bronx Community students in the four from the National Endowment for the College as a cost-cutting measure, Meyer years since it was start- Humanities Office of Digital Humanities to helped lead a campaign to oppose the ed. For many, Meyer develop an online resource to study four cen- move and secure new facilities. says, it may have made turies of Spanish writing styles. In his youth, he marched for civil the difference between rights, against the Vietnam War, and pick- staying in school and New York City College of eted everything from White Castle (for dropping out. “We have Technology has received $877,322 in grant failing to employ African-Americans) to students burnt out of funding from the National Science Foundation the Newark Board of Education, support- their homes who lost for “FUSE LAB: Collaborative Education,” ing striking teachers and getting arrested everything, incredibly directed by Shelley Smith. The National in the process. Among the many student tragic situations, and Institute of General Medical Sciences (National organizations he's mentored at Hostos is Hostos president Felix Matos-Rodriguez, right, says of we’ve been able to enter Institutes of Health) has awarded $490,647 to the campus's gay and lesbian club. activist/fund-raiser Gerald Meyer, left: "He loves this into such situations and assistant professor Stephen Fearnley of York In the past few years, Meyer, now 71, college like few other people." found a way to turn College for research. has turned his activism to money — for his them around.” Another Kingsborough Community College beloved Hostos. A generous donor himself, force of philanthropic support to the insti- 30 students have earned scholarships after tution,” says Matos-Rodriguez. “I thought if has received $1,151,463 from the New York he co-founded, in 2007, the Circle of 100 completing 40 credits and performing civic somebody broke the ice, it could send a good State Education Department in support of “Carl Scholarship and Emergency Fund to stimu- volunteer work. message to others.” D. Perkins Career and Technical Education,” late giving by his colleagues. Circle of 100 “We target those who are close to gradua- Naturally, he thought of Meyer first. “I directed by Lawrence Pero. The Robin Hood members — an ever-growing group that now tion, are involved with the community and approached him with the idea. He loves this Foundation has awarded $320,000 to Elizabeth numbers 140 — contribute $1,000 or more are good students,” Meyer said. Payamps-Rodriguez to provide emergency grants of up to $500 Rocio Rayo, 29, studied history and politi- of Bronx Community to students in need and $1,000 scholarships In the past few years, cal science at Hostos and received a Circle of College for an to those transferring to four-year colleges. 100 scholarship that helped her graduate “Education “In recent years there’s been a great col- Meyer has turned his activism last spring. “It was nice to know I had such a Collaborative.” lapse of support for public higher to money — strong support system that said, 'We believe education,” Meyer says, “and I think we in you,’ ” she said. "When I graduated he Micheline Blum of Payamps-Rodriguez Baruch College’s need to restore that support.” for his beloved Hostos. [Meyer] gave me a book about student School of Public Affairs has received a Carlos Velasquez, for one, a former stu- unions and organizing.” She said she $107,000 grant from Public Health Solutions dent of Meyer’s, has given about $40,000. college like few other people.” admired his legacy, “of which one day I want for a “DOHMH HIV Testing Initiative Survey.” Last spring, the Hostos president, Felix Meyer said yes — but he didn’t want his to be a part.” Rayo is continuing her studies Matos-Rodriguez, came up with the idea of own name on a plaque. He asked that a room at City College and hopes to eventually pur- Suzanne Wasserman of the Graduate encouraging more large gifts from retired be named in honor of his favorite overlooked sue a doctorate — and then teach at a com- School and University Center has received two faculty with a small-scale version of the tra- figure of New York political history: Vito munity college like Hostos. grants from the New York City Department of dition of institutions naming wings and Marcantonio, a World War II-era congress- Meyer is part of Vito Marcantonio’s lega- Education, totaling $513,073. Clarence whole buildings for major donors. For a man from East Harlem who was renowned cy. A protégé of Fiorello LaGuardia, Stanley of Lehman College has been awarded a $25,000 gift to the Hostos Community for his fearless advocacy of civil rights, Marcantonio was elected to Congress in $306,000 grant from the State University of College Foundation, donors could have a unions and other liberal causes. So in 1934 and served until 1950. He was such a New York/Research Foundation in support of a room at the college named in their honor. February, Room B-115 of the college’s passionate champion of immigrants, “New York State Small Business Development “In many cases retired faculty and staff Building B will be renamed the Vito minorities and the disenfranchised that he Center.” Queens College has received $199,821 members of colleges can be a very powerful Marcantonio Conference Room. Or — as became known as “a national spokesman for from The U.S. Department of Education for the American left,” said Meyer. “Project Multicultural Matters: Training School As Marcantonio’s champion, Meyer has Psychologists in Culturally Responsive Prac- Yahaziel Acevedo, a Hostos graduate now written a biography — Vito Marcantonio: tices,” directed by Emilia Lopez of the depart- studying at John Jay College, is one of 150 Radical Politician, published in 1989 and ment of education and community programs. students who have been helped via grants now in its fourth printing — and still funded by Circle of 100 donations. lectures about him, on and off campus. Queensborough Community College has Soon, a biographical plaque will hang in the received a $755,313 grant from the New York Vito Marcantonio Conference Room — the State Education Department — U.S. “Marc Room” — and his hero’s importance Department of Education in support of the “will be acknowledged in perpetuity,” Meyer “21st Century Community Learning Centers: said. He hopes students will “become aware The Community Campus Project,” directed by of this man and his work on behalf of the Denise Ward of the department of continuing people, and, in their own way, find ways to education and workforce development. Carlo be of service to the people the college serves Lancellotti of the College of Staten Island has and that he served.” been awarded $209,499 from the National A reception honoring Vito Marcantonio Science Foundation for a “Mathematical — and Gerry Meyer — is planned for Feb. 29 Foundations of Plasma Kinetic Theory” project. in the room formerly known as B-115.

4 CUNY MATTERS — December 2011 NOTED"ED Stanford@CCNY Considered a Leading Proposal For NYC Science/Engineering Campus

UNIQUE PARTNER- with City College, which has a A SHIP between CUNY rich tradition in engineering and Stanford University and technology. has emerged as a leading Even in advance of the contender among seven city’s decision, Stanford and proposals in the fierce CUNY announced plans to competition to create a immediately start an East NEW YORK CITY REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL world-class applied science Coast demonstration site on and engineering campus in the City College campus for Strategic Plan New York City. Stanford’s undergraduate cur- Last spring, the city riculum in entrepreneurship, called for proposals from technology management and major research universities related areas. to conceive and build a new “City College and City November 14, 2011 graduate center whose ulti- University have been educat- mate mission will be cut- ing the students of New York ting-edge economic for more than 160 years and development. Mayor share our commitment to Governor’s Regional Council Michael Bloomberg and his innovation and technology Releases 5-Year Strategic Plan administration boldly envi- commercialization,” sion a research center Stanford’s Hennessy said. UNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and his co-chair of the capable of incubating a “CCNY also has an excellent CNew York City Regional Economic Development Council, colony of promising new track record for bringing American Express Chairman & CEO Kenneth Chenault, have technology companies that underrepresented minorities released its five-year strategic plan. The council was launched this could establish the city as a into engineering, which is a year by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo with the goal of redesigning the competitor to high-tech clear national priority. We relationship between the state government and businesses to stim- meccas like Silicon Valley. believe there is tremendous ulate regional economic development and create jobs statewide. To lure top universities potential through our part- “The comprehensive plan reflects New York City’s essential role into the competition, the nership with CUNY to bring in the New York State economy, while addressing the city’s increas- city is offering a $400 mil- Stanford’s curriculum to some ing global competition as well as its significant opportunities to lion package of incentives of the best and brightest stu- leverage its historic assets in the 21st century innovation economy,” — including city-owned dents in New York.” the co-chairmen reported. land (on Roosevelt Island, “This collaboration offers The plan’s strategy rests on four key pillars: Improving the quality Governors Island or at the our students the opportunity of life; creating a pro-growth, pro-jobs environment; investing in Brooklyn Navy Yard). to learn side by side with the future; and fostering innovation and interregional cooperation. Discussions between peers enrolled at one of the The strategic plan identifies several projects as top priorities: CUNY Chancellor Matthew world’s finest private univer- redeveloping the Hunts Point Produce Market; creating a new Goldstein, Stanford sities,” said CCNY President Green Manufacturing Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; redevel- President John L. Hennessy Lisa S. Coico. oping a long-vacant industrial building in Harlem to accommodate artists, artisans, small businesses and community services; bringing (a native New Yorker) and Stained-glass windows in CCNY’s centenarian Shepard Hall “Stanford@CCNY will cre- manufacturing and distribution companies to a largely vacant 1,100 top officials of both univer- celebrate major American colleges at the time of its ate partnerships between our acre site in Staten Island; expanding a program that nurtures sities led to a joint academic construction, including City, top, and Stanford. research-active faculty and research entity called their colleagues at Stanford, entrepreneurs and connects them to funding and markets to build Stanford@CCNY. In who helped create and sustain innovation industry clusters; and developing a new international October, the two institutions submitted their proposal: a Silicon Valley, and these partnerships will incubate inno- convention and exhibition center in Queens with accompanying long-term plan by Stanford to build a $2.5-billion science vation and entrepreneurship in the technology sector hotel accommodations. and engineering campus and offer a joint-degree program right here in New York.” Find the complete report at: www.nyworks.ny.gov

Walking on the Wild Side with the Urban Forager HEN NOT in the classroom, College Growing up in a Chinese family whose Wof Staten Island associate professor meals often included mushrooms, Chin of creative nonfiction and journalism Ava became curious about these familiar fungi Chin often can be found searching and discovered they could be found all urban woodlands for natural around New York City — growing wild. recipe ingredients. Realizing she needed help identifying them — “You have to be careful with mushrooms; some are poisonous while some are incredibly edible” — she also discovered the New York Mycological Society, whose members share a passion for, and knowledge of, fungi. Chin is now considered a top expert in the field — she writes the Urban Forager blog for The New York Times and is working on a memoir for Simon & Schuster. Her audience ranges from “survivalists to Freegans to people who are simply curious about food and nature.” Being a forager also has changed the way she sees the world. On ‘Women in Politics and Public Service: Opportunities and Challenges’ a visit to England’s Stonehenge, while other ISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY and political leaders gathered to advise — and salute — tourists focused on the monument, Chin Dstudent leaders at the recent CUNY/New York Times in College Women’s Leadership spent more time noticing how many edible Conference. Among student leaders honored were 20 members of CUNY’s 2011 Public plants grew in the area. “You cannot not see Service Internship Programs, who are receiving first-hand experience in the offices of it once you know it’s there,” she said. female legislators — including the conference keynote speaker, N.Y. Sen. Kirsten E. You can find her blog at http://cityroom. Gillibrand, who has introduced a national campaign to encourage more women to partici- Ava Chin blogs.nytimes.com/author/ava-chin pate in public life and to run for public office.

CUNY MATTERS — December 2011 5 New state-of-th sports facili e

Performing Arts Center that will bring the college’s stages These projects are the latest in a decade-long, multibillion- HE NEW BUILDING on Eleventh Avenue near West and studios into the 21st century. dollar capital program aimed at modernizing and repairing 59th Street is a shimmering glass structure, both box- In the Bronx, Lehman College’s strength in the sciences — the University’s sprawling, 23-institution physical plant. like and beautiful, 13 stories and 620,000 square feet and CUNY’s embrace of “green” facilities and practices — Every campus, and student, stands to benefit from the of light-filled classrooms and cyber lounges and cut- will be showcased by a 69,000-square-foot science hub with changes, providing critically needed upgrades while reflecting ting-edge labs. Walk its sleek and silvery halls, stroll laboratories, learning centers and a research facility. The in steel and glass the resurgent, forward-looking face of the ontoT the elevated, football field-sized “campus” uniting the project is expected to be the first CUNY building to receive a University — and changing the CUNY student experience. new structure with historic, limestone-trimmed brick Haaren LEED Gold Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. As the University continues to attract increasing numbers Hall around the corner, and experience what it means to be a Renovations proceed at CUNY Law of students seeking value for their student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice today. School’s new headquarters in Long educational dollar in a harsh econ- Some 70 blocks to the northeast, at Third Avenue and Since 2000, about $2 billion worth of Island City, Queens — six floors pur- omy, those students — attending East 118th Street in East Harlem, another new building is chased through a public/private part- community colleges, senior changing both a neighborhood and the experience of CUNY nership with Citigroup. new construction and renovation colleges and graduate programs — students pursuing graduate credentials in the fields of public And the CUNY Advanced Science are seeing their educational experi- health and social work. The new CUNY School of Public Research Center (ASRC), now under projects have been completed at CUNY. ence transformed by CUNY’s grad- Health opened this fall in the eight-story, 147,000-square- construction at City College, will pro- ual but steady march towards foot structure, which is shared by the CUNY School of Social vide a 206,000-square-foot research facility to support the modernization. Work at Hunter College. concept of an integrated University, housing state-of-the-art The University has about $2 billion in projects in the Downtown, the new 390,000-square-foot Fiterman Hall laboratories for CUNY’s top research faculty in photonics, pipeline, from state-of-the art laboratories to major renova- at Borough of Manhattan Community College is rising, to structural biology, neuroscience, and water and tions of historic buildings. In the 2010-2011 fiscal year, replace the building destroyed on 9/11. environmental sensing. A second 190,000-square-foot build- CUNY spent $604 million on capital projects across 21 cam- At Brooklyn College, construction is under way on a new ing will provide new facilities for CCNY’s Science Division. puses, an increase of about $44 million from the previous

6 CUNY MATTERS — December 2011 he-art academic villages, science labs, performance spaces, ities and more are transforming yesterday’s campuses into tomorrow’s— enhancing student experiences University-wide and also benefiting local neighborhoods.

year. Collectively, these projects will provide about 1.9 next five years. CUNY has plans for an additional $2.4 billion million square feet of space and generate an estimated in major new construction and renovation projects, including 14,000 jobs over the lifetime of the work. $486 million in spending for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. About half of the planned buildings are dedicated to Projects in the pipeline include a high-performance com- science, in line with Chancellor Matthew Goldstein’s puter center at the College of Staten Island; a science-focused Decade of Science initiative. facility at New York City College of Technology; an interdisci- HE FOLLOWING CUNY construction projects are in the plan- Other projects completed in recent years include: the plinary science building at Brooklyn College; the new T ning and design stages: $16-million Multimedia Center at Lehman College, used Academic Village and Conference Center at York College; and by art, music and journalism students as well as others; the major renovations to the Field Building at Baruch, and the Baruch College 195,000-square-foot Academic Building I at Medgar Evers Fitzgerald Gym building and Remsen science facility at Field Building Renovations: The Lawrence and College in Brooklyn, with high-tech classrooms and labs and Queens College. Eris Field Building, Baruch's 284,000-square-foot facility at a dining facility; the CUNY Graduate Center, the 350,000- Such efforts 17 Lexington Ave. was built in 1928 on the original City square-foot former B. Altman’s department store redesigned are part of a College site and has had minimal upgrading. This project will as a state-of-the-art graduate school; at Queens College, reno- sustained devel- renovate the 16-story building in phases. vation of 217,000-square-foot Powdermaker Hall and opment effort construction of the 506-bed Summit Residence Hall, the col- at the nation’s Brooklyn College lege’s first dormitory; Baruch College’s 17-story, 808,000- leading public New Science Facility: This project will demol- square-foot Newman Vertical Campus, housing 100 urban universi- ish Roosevelt Hall and construct a 180,000- high-technology classrooms and research facilities, an athlet- ty. Since 2000, square-foot science facility with high-tech instructional ics complex, theaters, conference center, food court and book- about $2 billion laboratories, general-purpose classrooms, faculty offices, and store, and the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of worth of new support spaces. Architecture at City College. construction City College Brooklyn College added the glass-fronted West Quad and renovation Colin Powell Center: Design is under way for a Physical Education building, including a 75-foot competition projects have new building at the northwest portion of Marshak pool, racquetball and squash courts, dance studio and more, been completed Plaza. About 60,000 gross square feet, it will house the Powell and its LaGuardia Hall, the college’s original library, was reno- at CUNY. Center and a new conference center to serve the college as a vated. At Kingsborough Community College, the 42,000- Creating a whole. Fundraising is under way to cover some costs. square-foot Academic Village complex houses offices and high-quality classrooms and a child-care center; the Bronx Community educational experience — as reflected in this fall’s move of City Tech College Early Childhood Center, constructed from modular John Jay students out of a dilapidated old shoe warehouse- Academic Building – Science Building: This parts, offers family services and an early childhood educational turned-college and into the spectacular new Eleventh Avenue 350,000-square-foot, mixed-use facility will house facility; and City College opened its first residence hall, The building, designed by the celebrated architecture firm classrooms, computer and science labs, a 1,000- Towers, offering 164 fully furnished suites. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill — is a key driver of CUNY’s cap- seat auditorium, physical education facilities, administrative The drive to repair, renovate and redesign CUNY’s facilities ital program. offices, student services, a nursing simulation center and a over the past decade has been spurred by growing enrollments, But so is saving historic and functional buildings, and mak- dental hygiene clinic. the problems of structural deterioration and deferred mainte- ing them safe and efficient. Bronx Community College, a cam- College of Staten Island nance throughout the system, and the lower construction costs pus of stunning, Beaux-Arts buildings designed by famed Interdisciplinary High Performance of recent years. architect Stanford White, experienced Computational Center: This 175,000-square-foot In addition to providing CUNY bursting pipes, a sinkhole and steam geyser facility will house a high-performance computer that will students with the laboratories and the And the construction boom will likely several years ago. serve as a University-wide resource for computer-based mod- high-tech equipment, and enough continue for the next five years. A University survey of the state of eling and simulation. The facility will contain spaces dedicat- space to deliver the University’s 21st CUNY facilities catalogued a litany of leaks, ed to state-of-the-art scientific computing hardware, century academic programs, the fragile heating and electrical systems, laboratories, general-purpose classrooms and dedicated stu- ambitious capital plan has also served as an economic develop- cracking facades, malfunctioning elevators and escalators. A dent work areas. ment engine, generating billions of dollars in economic activi- consultant put the price tag for repairs at more than $1 billion. ty in New York State for construction, renovation and critical Since then more than $200 million has been budgeted for such Hunter College maintenance that benefit campuses and communities. “critical maintenance” — repairs and upgrades — of CUNY’s 26 Weill Cornell Medical College & Smaller projects also enhance quality of life on CUNY’s million square feet of infrastructure and buildings. CUNY/Hunter College-Medical Research Building: CUNY will campuses. The University's Critical Maintenance Program, The other side of preserving CUNY’s extraordinary physical purchase a floor in the Medical Research Building (“MRB”) created in 2008, is ensuring that the campuses meet health, plant is expanding and improving it with facilities like the new Cornell is constructing at 69th Street between York and First safety, security and facilities preservation and code standards. multi-use building at John Jay, structures that make the state- Avenues for Hunter College’s use. This 21,000-gross-square- A number of new facilities, such as Lehman’s new science ment that the halls of public education can encourage, focus foot condominium will be a standard laboratory floor designed building, incorporate environmentally sustainable strategies. and inspire not only with great ideas and great teaching, but for life sciences research. Hunter scientists will have access And the construction boom will likely continue through the with transformative surroundings. to core research and conference facilities in the MRB on the same basis as Weill Cornell scientists. LaGuardia Community College Opposite page, the new Center 3 Facade Replacement: The nearly 100- Fiterman Hall rising at year-old terra-cotta facade is deteriorating and Borough of Manhattan has been slated as one of CUNY’s significant Community College will critical maintenance needs. The 168,000-square-foot façade replace the building will be replaced to protect the building’s interior and prevent destroyed on 9/11. energy loss. At right, students prepare a commercial in Lehman Queens College College's new Multimedia Fitzgerald Gymnasium and Remsen Hall Center, which provides Renovations, Phase II: This 175,000-square- teaching, learning and foot facility has been used for physical educa- production facilities for tion, recreation, and competitive sports since art, music and journalism 1957. Renovations will upgrade interior and mechanical sys- projects. tems to meet the functional and instructional requirements of the college. The Remsen Hall project will continue to upgrade, At top, opening celebration modernize and reorganize the college’s science facilities. for John Jay College's shimmering new building. York College Academic Village/Conference Center: The 160,000-square-foot facility will be built on the site of the existing Classroom Building.

CUNY MATTERS — December 2011 7 CUNYHERO

We wanted to “create a program so that the injured of our society could occupy positions of power. ”— Percy Sutton

Conferring with Percy Sutton, center, in an undated photo, are two other members of the State Assembly’s one-time “Gang of Four": David Dinkins, left, and Charles Rangel. Honoring a Champion of Equality

The name: The Midnight March. Since the Gang of Four cannily crafted responsibility in the classroom to the stu- understands the struggle to compete to The year: 1966, when the struggle for civil the legislation without mentioning race, dents who were sitting there before us, and enter the college atmosphere and the drive rights for African-Americans dominated the from the start it attracted students from all we had to reach them. And reaching them that it takes to stay. The staff of the Percy news and Puerto Ricans — then the city’s ethnicities. Today, SEEK’s 11,000 partici- was a new educational experience for the Ellis Sutton SEEK Program understands dominant Latino group — engaged in a par- pants come from every corner of the globe — people in our college and throughout the this fight and is willing to fight this fight allel push for equality. like the rest of CUNY’s student body. University.” with you.” SEEK’s success later led Making SEEK work Or ask state Sen. Adriano Espaillat (D- The conspirators: Harlem’s legendary the state to create the meant new instructional Manhattan), who met Sutton long after his Gang of Four — then-Assembly members Education Opportunity Watching techniques and approaches tenure as Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, Basil Paterson, Charles Program for SUNY and to counseling and supporting (1966-1973), when Sutton had become a Rangel and Percy Sutton. Higher Education SEEK learners – thrusts that CUNY prominent businessman and the first The goal: Convincing Assembly Speaker Opportunity Program for continues to refine to this African-American to own radio stations in CUNY-TV producer Anthony Travia to move a bill that would New York’s private colleges. day. the city (WLIB-AM and WBLS-FM). Sara Porath’s vibrant open The City University of New York to Similar efforts followed At the recent CUNY “I told him how the SEEK program documentary, “Second impoverished and academically ill-prepared around the country. SEEK celebration at City changed my life. It didn’t necessarily open Chances: The CUNY SEEK minority students. Without it, they stood Basil Paterson, a former College, Assemblyman Keith the door to higher education — it kicked it and CD Story” – the source little chance of entering — much less gradu- Manhattan Borough Wright (D-Harlem) told the down! What does a country boy from the of the historical quotes in ating from — a college. “We wanted to cre- President, has called SEEK crowd that soon after Sutton Dominican Republic have to say about this? this article – can be seen at ate a program so that the injured of our “the single piece of legisla- died in December 2009, for- I couldn’t have graduated from Queens had www.youtube.com/ society could occupy positions of power,” tion that has done more to mer Deputy Speaker Arthur it not been for the SEEK program,” Espaillat watch?v=94Wnpp07FXk Sutton later recalled. break the cycle of poverty for O. Eve (D-Buffalo) phoned said, nor “have the command of this The achievement: At the historic DeWitt the disadvantaged of this and all but ordered him to language.” Clinton Hotel, across the street from the town than anything else that rename SEEK after Sutton. Sutton’s granddaughter, Keisha Sutton- Capitol in Albany, the Assembly’s Black, we may have done.” “When Arthur speaks, you listen,” Wright James, vice president of Inner City Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caucus Passing the SEEK law and having it recounted. (The Higher Education Broadcast Holdings, said Sutton was proud- surrounded Travia, “sitting in a small room, signed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who vast- Opportunity Program for private colleges, est of having been Malcolm X’s attorney, some on the floor, some on the radiator, ly expanded public higher education, was enacted in 1969, now bears Eve’s name.) rescuing the Apollo theater from oblivion, some on the side of the bed, led by Percy one thing. Implementing it was another. With support from Sen. Dale Volker (R- beginning the revitalization of 125th St. in Sutton and Shirley Chisholm,” Dinkins later SEEK already was in operation at City Depew), the bill cleared the Legislature. Harlem, winning the NAACP’s Spingarn recalled. “And we said, ‘Mr. Speaker, we’re College, which had adapted a 1964 commu- What has SEEK meant to students? Ask Award for outstanding achievement and politicians, too, and we need to take some- nity college pilot called College Discovery Jeffrey McClellan, now a Baruch College writing the SEEK law. “He put so much thing back home.’ ” that still supports academically shaky stu- sophomore with a 3.8 GPA. Speaking at the energy into trying to improve himself and Phrasing their blunt message with a gen- dents at the associate-degree level. celebration at City College, he said: “As a trying to improve the lives of his people, the tleman’s delicacy in his retelling, Dinkins But the program faced resistance. As for- first generation college student,” he knew community and, most importantly, those added, “We explained to him that there mer CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker put it, “the transition from high school to college is who were underserved and who did not have would be the inability of him to be re-elect- “The institutions seemed to be catering to a tough one. No one in your family truly the opportunities that he had,” she said. ed speaker if our votes were not available. primarily white students who were in the That night the SEEK program was born.” upper part of their graduating class in high *** school. Nowhere was it more dramatic than Sutton’s leadership has been widely rec- at City College, sitting in the middle of ognized. The Legislature last year named the Harlem as a primarily white, heavily Jewish SEEK program after him and in October institution.” Bowker dispatched Senior Vice CUNY held a glittering celebration of him Chancellor Julius C.C. Edelstein to sell the and the program at City College’s Great Hall. program to college presidents and faculties. The country’s first such initiative, SEEK Edmund L. Volpe, former chair of City — the Search for Education, Elevation and College’s English Department and later Knowledge — has since helped an estimated president of the College of Staten Island, 50,000 CUNY students earn baccalaureate said faculty “began to recognize that we degrees. were teachers, not simply professors of lit- erature, or scholars of literature …. We had a College Discovery students and staff from LaGuardia celebrate renaming SEEK in honor of Percy Sutton.

8 CUNY MATTERS — December 2011 BOOKTALK

Is Mideast Peace Possible? Thus Spake Wayne Koestenbaum In Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (Cambridge University Press), Humiliation is “unspeakably horrifying” but it is also wonderful when it's over, Dov Waxman, associate when we have survived it — as countless high-profile victims can attest. professor of political science at Baruch Koestenbaum never once uses that splendid witness.” Perfect photographic examples of By Gary Schmidgall College and the CUNY word so pertinent to this subject: schaden- this, Koestenbaum observes, are the publi- Graduate Center, and ————————————————— freude. cation of Annie Leibovitz’s images of Susan Ilan Peleg, government Humiliation He pauses to wonder, “Is education pos- Sontag’s death-spiral and corpse and the & law professor at By Wayne Koestenbaum sible without humiliation? Can we imagine grisly genre explored in a book titled Pennsylvania’s Lafayette Picador a classroom in which no humiliation, how- Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in College, explore causes and ————————————————— ever accidental, ever takes place?” Later on, America. consequences of the conflict between he recalls some notable academic embar- But the pulse of Humiliation lies in the Israel's Jewish majority and NYONE holding in hand Wayne rassments of his own: “I wrote a commis- gems of fearless self-revelation the author Palestinian-Arab minority. They argue Koestenbaum’s little book sioned essay about politics for a magazine. scatters in his wake. The “price of writing that a lasting solution depends on a A Humiliation — at once shameless The editor told me, ‘Everyone here agrees this book,” he says, is “the need to incrimi- resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian and shame-full — owes it to the author to that your piece won’t fit in our issue.’” nate myself, to establish my bona fides as a conflict within Israel as well as in the recall one’s own squirmy moments of The arena of sexual humiliation looms humiliation expert.” And so, when a teacher Occupied Territories. humiliation before opening its harrowing large, as in the sex ad that requests, “you in second grade says “Wayne is a Jew. He pages. must be very verbal and very degrading and can explain Chanukah to us,” he admits, “I Why Sharing Online Is Good So, here goes. Working on a wall-map humiliating.” The Marquis de Sade of course couldn’t explain it. I didn’t even try.” Then Jeff Jarvis, an associate professor at the project in elementary school, I wrote figures here. The author concludes, he adds, “From a bad case of internalized CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, “Bering Straight” in bold letters; the whole “Intimacy with humiliation is anti- maintains that despite well-meaning class chortled. This happened about 50 part of our corporal inheritance.” Semitism I’m advocates for privacy despairing that all years ago, but the humiliating sting has Several times Koestenbaum slowly recov- this internet sharing is stuck with me. More recently, I was giving a suggests the writer’s life is no ering.” making us dumber, short eulogy at a CUNY event celebrating a fun at all. “The process of The last crasser and vulnerable famous, recently deceased poet. Apparently making art — no “Fugue” to threats of all kinds it it was not short enough: The moderator cut party — has the begins with is in fact doing the me off, and I had to slink from the podium. atmosphere of an the assertion opposite. In his new Ouch! internal crucifix- that "humili- book, Public Parts: How Koestenbaum has produced a serendipi- ion.” A few ation is Sharing in the Digital tous unflinch- always per- Age Improves the Way ing exploration sonal," and We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster), of his own life’s then one final he explores ways in which the internet experience of HUMILIATION long “litany of and publicness allow us to collaborate humiliation, small humili- and think, manufacture and market, observed in himself and voyeured in others. ations” is buy and sell, organize and govern, teach He even refers to autobiography as “that unfurled. and learn. Yet he makes an urgent case humiliated genre,” confessing at the outset “Making this list,” that the future of the internet requires that his book was written to figure out “why desubjectification he says, “I am torn as much protection as the physical humiliation is, for me, an engine, a catalyst, between joy and space we share, the air we breathe and a cautionary tale, a numinous scene, pro- disgust.” Among them: “A violently negative the rights we afford one another. ducing sparks and showers.” It is “unspeak- review of my book started rolling out of my ably horrifying,” he fax machine”; (when this happened again New Cinema, Italian Style adds, but “it is also Koestenbaum pounces on several years later, we are told, “I threw away my fax Mediated Ethnicity: New Italian- exciting.” It is also red-letter days for humiliation — machine”). American Cinema begins with a section wonderful when it is Koestenbaum, however, also slyly on Defining Italian-American Culture, over, when we have Michael Jackson’s treatment by reminds us now and again that humiliation then in following chap- survived it. Emily Santa Barbara sheriffs, Susan Boyle can be a good thing. “Shakespeare humili- ters covers subjects Dickinson’s “After ates the prior body of language, lack- including art, music, great pain, a formal magnificently foiling it with her luster before he came along and food, religion, immigra- feeling comes” is splendid voice, Richard Nixon schadenfreude renovated it.” (He aptly notes how tion and more. It is edit- quoted. Sonnet 29 shows the bright side of ed by Giuliana Muscio, “Humiliation col- resigning the presidency, Eliot humiliation.) He also pays poignant homage Joseph Sciorra, ors the way I see the Spitzer’s fall, and Alec Baldwin’s to his late colleague Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Giovanni Spagnoletti world,” the author as a pioneer of “shame studies,” quoting her and Anthony Julian Tamburri of the tells us. Varying the enraged voicemail to his daughter. remark apropos Henry James, “Shame is John D. Calandra Italian-American familiar notion of gay- both peculiarly contagious and peculiarly Institute at Queens College, which is dar, he boasts of his “hum-dar.” It is almost pages later: individuating.” He adds, “I would not be the publisher. an aesthetic for him: “I prefer literature and “Language hurts. writing this book if she had not introduced art that seems to have been humiliated.” Language humiliates. . . .” This, Ending Gang Violence shame as a sexy, redeeming, unbashful spot In Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street A Distinguished Professor of English at Koestenbaum says, is Jean-Michel in contemporary intellectual life.” Fellowship, and the End of Violence in the Graduate Center and author of several Basquiat’s point in employing written lan- Humiliation, in fact, “can metamorphose Inner-City America (Bloomsbury USA) books of poetry and nonfiction works on guage in his raucous paintings. ... into redemption.” Koestenbaum believes, David M. Kennedy tells how his popular culture (notably The Queen’s Koestenbaum pounces on several red- “along with Jean Genet, Jesus Christ, and approach has stopped gang violence in Throat, Andy Warhol, and Jackie Under My letter days for humiliation — Abner Oscar Wilde,” that “humiliation is a kiln cities across the nation. Skin), Koestenbaum is also a visiting profes- Louima’s, Larry Craig’s, Eliot Spitzer’s, the through which the human soul passes, and Kennedy -- professor of sor of art at Yale. He casts his book in the soldier Lynndie England’s photos in the where it receives burnishing, glazing, and criminal justice at John form of Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, Iraqi prison, and Susan Boyle magnificently consolidating.” Jay College and direc- with numbered aphoristic sections, mostly foiling it with her splendid voice. Alec He tells of his last visit with Eve, when tor of its Center for brief but occasionally as long as three pages. Baldwin’s enraged voicemail to his daughter she was paralyzed and (her words) a “full- Crime Prevention and He calls his 11 chapters “Fugues,” apt for the and Michael Jackson’s treatment by Santa fledged crip.” She joked about navigating the Control -- envisioned brisk counterpoint of his fanciful rhetorical Barbara sheriffs are also analyzed. city legless. “Thus again she proved herself everyone from gang jetés. One aphorism makes a lexical point: Attention is drawn to what Oscar Wilde an expert at turning humiliation — or suf- members to cops to “‘Humiliation’ means ‘to be made humble’ said was the worst day of his life: Nov. 13, fering, or depression — into an imaginative, citizens coming together in one big To be made human? . . . in Latin the two 1895, when he was jeered by a mob on a loving enterprise.” That clearly is the impe- intervention. Offenders are told vio- words — humanus and humiliation — sug- train platform during transfer to a new jail tus behind Humiliation. lence must stop, that cops want them to gestively share a prefix.” cell. Nixon’s worst day is also served up. “My stay alive and out of prison, that their Along the way, some “philosophy” of primal scene of spying on someone else’s families support swift law enforcement humiliation is introduced, concepts like surrender was watching Richard M. Nixon CUNY Matters welcomes information about new if violence continues. In city after city, desubjectification and anhedonia; Giorgio resign the presidency.” books that have been written or edited by facul- the miracle he envisioned has occurred. Agamben, Walter Benjamin and other Some hum-theory is also offered: “humil- ty and members of the University community. philosophers are cited. But by some miracle iation is always a triangle: tyrant, victim, Contact: [email protected]

CUNY MATTERS — December 2011 9 THE BIRTH OF A MODERN UNIVERSITY By Ruth Landa N A SPRING DAY 50 years ago, a Just two weeks earlier, the Board had teachers, and offered baccalaureate, asso- “great gathering” of 2,200 guests announced, “Governor Nelson A. ciate and master’s degrees. It was overseen reflecting the highest echelons of Rockefeller’s pen signed into history today, by the Board of Higher Education, fore- government and academia filled April 11, 1961, at 4:30 p.m., The City runner of CUNY’s Board of Trustees, the Assembly Hall of Hunter University of New York.” The signed legisla- which had just recently appointed its first College.O The momentous occasion marked tion codified university status for the sys- Chancellor — Everett — to manage the two milestones: the granting two weeks ear- tem composed of City, Hunter, Brooklyn pre-University system and coordinate its lier of university status to New York City’s and Queens colleges, and Staten Island, widening constellation of schools as an 114-year-old municipal college system, and Bronx and Queensborough community col- integrated institution. In 1961, the system the inauguration of The City University of leges, and envisioned a centralized institu- was still largely funded by the city and par- New York’s first Chancellor. tion empowered to develop Ph.D. programs. tially by student fees — tuition — for The senators and congressmen, college At the time, the system had some 91,000 courses taken by part-time and nonma- presidents and political leaders heard students, employed some 2,200 full-time triculated students, as well as those keynote speaker U.S. Secretary of enrolled in community colleges Health, Education and Welfare or graduate programs. Abraham Ribicoff challenge the CUNY was born as The Free new City University to “help young Academy in 1847, but its estab- people to achieve” and “imbue CUNYThenandNow lishment as a Ph.D.- granting them with the desire for institution in 1961 provided the excellence.” The new Chancellor, foundation for CUNY the modern Harry Gideonse, and Hunter College Dr. John Rutherford Everett, a for- public university. Its evolution President John Meng — a group of educa- mer philosophy professor, quoted would proceed slowly, involving tors representing most of the top officials of Pericles as he likened New York power, funding and political bat- the City University system. City to ancient Athens and defined tles revolving around city-state It was a bare-knuckles showdown in a university’s mission as the nur- relations, local politics, and at what had been a two-year power struggle turing of great citizens. times controversial approaches to between Bowker and the Board — and, “The names of the great centers fulfilling CUNY’s historic mission another turning point in the development of learning echo down the ages of providing New Yorkers both of CUNY. from the past: Oxford, Cambridge, access and excellence in higher A World War II statistician and former Paris, Bologna,” declared Mayor education. It would now be possi- dean of graduate studies at Stanford Robert F. Wagner Jr. that April 24. ble, Mayor Wagner told the inau- University, Albert Bowker had, like Everett, “Our own American heritage con- gural audience of dignitaries that been stymied in launching the University’s tributes Harvard, Yale, Princeton … day in 1961, “for a New York boy Ph.D. programs and in obtaining adequate Now the four senior colleges or girl to progress from funding to cope with rising enrollments and Queens, Brooklyn, Hunter and Kindergarten to the Doctor of inadequate campuses he would later recall City, and the three community col- Philosophy degree within the as “slums.” Bowker, whose mumbling leges will be coordinated by the schools and colleges comprised masked a shrewdly strategic mind, had Chancellor to make them all part of 1961 2011 within the City of New York.” repeatedly butted heads with Board of one great university….” ENROLLMENT The soaring speeches celebrat- Higher Education Chairman Gustave Lawyer Gustave Rosenberg, ing The City University’s promise Rosenberg. 91,450* (fall 1960) 480,000* chairman of the Board of Higher must have seemed an ironic Bowker “found essentially the same Education, which had coordinated CAMPUSES memory four and a half years lat- problems which had beleaguered his prede- cessor: too little authority, too much inter- the system since the 1920s, invoked 7 24 er, on Saturday, Nov. 20, 1965, its historic mission: “that in a City College, 11 Senior Colleges when another milestone was ference by the Board, and an underlying democratic society, the higher Hunter College, Brooklyn College, 7 community colleges, about to take place. It was already resistance to change. He found that these Queens College, William E. Macaulay Honors College problems seriously inhibited his capacity to reaches of education are not the Staten Island Community College, Graduate School and University a changed institution, but not exclusive privilege of an elite, but Bronx Community College, Center, CUNY Graduate School of necessarily as expected. Everett build a doctoral program — the job he was an opportunity and a necessity for Queensborough Community College Journalism, CUNY School of Law, was no longer Chancellor, having recruited to perform,” wrote Sheila C. CUNY School of Professional Studies, Gordon in her well-received 1975 Columbia all qualified citizens who desire it, CUNY School of Public Health resigned two years into the job regardless of race, creed, or color.” after what one newspaper called University Ph.D. dissertation, “The Academic excellence. Public FACULTY MEMBERS “a behind the scenes struggle for Transformation of The City University of New York, 1945-1970.” service. A centralized system. (fulltime instructional teachers) control” of the University. New (day session) State officials’ actions added to the pres- Opportunity for all. These ideas 7,084 York Herald Tribune education 2,158 sure. “Shortly after authorizing the new had propelled public higher educa- (1959-60) (March 2011) reporter Terry Ferrer reported tion in New York City almost since “smoldering arguments …. They University, the State conveyed to the City the founding of The Free Academy involved everything from the its intention to provide no financial sup- in 1847, through more than a cen- future of university graduate pro- port, to the dismay of those who were plan- tury of expansion to meet a rising grams, to interference by Mayor ning the doctoral program,” Gordon wrote. demand for seats. Now, buffeted by Wagner,” futile attempts to obtain “It was generally believed that the State was political, social, financial and insti- city funding for the proposed doc- withholding funds in order to extract cer- tutional forces, the system needed toral programs, and slights such tain commitments — specifically the inten- to expand again. A tsunami of stu- as the Board’s rehiring of Dr. Buell tion to charge tuition — from the City as a dents, born in the post-World War Gallagher as president of City condition of future aid.” II years, was expected to flood the College, without consulting with There were precedents for charging city’s colleges in the early ’60s. Everett. tuition. Dating to the founding of The Free With only four, selective four-year And now, five days before Academy in 1847, free tuition had been held public colleges and three commu- Thanksgiving of 1965, Everett’s as a sacrosanct tradition that had permitted nity colleges, and graduate offer- successor, Dr. Albert Hosmer high-achieving students to earn diplomas ings capped at the master’s degree Proud marches: Recent Macaulay Honors College grads, above, and an Bowker, was resigning too, along free of charge from the legendary “Harvard level, the system was unprepared early Hunter College coed class, at top, head for graduation ceremonies. with Dean of Students Harry of the Proletariat” — City College — and the for the coming influx. *Includes academic credit and continuing education students Levy, Brooklyn College President other public colleges founded during the

10 CUNY MATTERS —December 2011 Hunter College student teachers look in on an elementary school class via closed-circuit TV in 1961.

University) was often a pawn,” (More) wrote Gordon. It was in this atmosphere On the Web at cuny.edu that Chancellor Bowker, frus- trated by his inability to get the doctoral program off the ANNUAL CUNY CAMPAIGN ground, and by his dealings with Rosenberg, went public HE 28TH ANNUAL CUNY Campaign for Voluntary Charitable Giving is now under way. Operating in in 1965 with a proposal for a conjunction with United Way of NYC, this longstanding tradition — for 2011-2012 titled “Building funding mechanism to pay for T Tomorrow Together” — provides everyone at the University an opportunity to support community-based his desperately needed capital charities that help New Yorkers striving for a better future. projects. His plan called for Last year, nearly $630,000 was raised CUNY-wide for such charging students $400 THE charitable organizations. During these difficult economic tuition, which would be fully times, it’s even more important that this year we make an offset by federal, state and city CUNY CAMPAIGN extra effort to support charities that help student scholarships and in for Voluntary Charitable Giving our neighbors access much-needed the end cost students nothing. services. Night students, graduate students, community college students and adult education students had for years been paying fees that had come to search.cuny.edu “CUNY Campaign” comprise a significant portion of the system’s revenues. Yet Bowker’s proposal was PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT explosive enough to draw a rebuke from the Board of early 20th century to serve a surging pop- Higher Education, which HE UNIVERSITY OFFICE of Professional Development and Learning Management offers various ulation fueled by immigration. But only along with alumni associations of the old- Ttraining opportunities for CUNY staffers. Courses are designed to enhance your knowledge, skills students who met selective requirements er four-year colleges, passionately guarded and abilities to be productive in your professional and personal lives. The fall schedule’s topics include were eligible to matriculate tuition-free in the free tuition policy and were wary of “Stressmakers and Stressbusters (Dec. 1), “Time Management Strategies” (Dec. 2) and “Mind Tools for the four-year colleges. Many “non-matric- state attempts to bring the tuition model Memory” (Dec. 9). In addition, “Technology Fridays,” designed to provide training courses to improve ulating” students whose high school aver- in place at the State University, to the city. your computer skills, are taught in half-day or full-day ages fell short, paid to attend the public “So then the Board met,” Bowker recalled formats, depending on the topic. Discuss your individual colleges. in a 1993 interview, and declared that the training needs with your immediate In fall 1909, under the presidency of college presidents “had not shown proper manager and obtain approval to John Houston Finley, City College fealty to the Board, and [Brooklyn College attend a course. launched an evening President] Harry baccalaureate pro- Gideonse [made] the gram serving 200 Academic excellence. Public wonderful statement, students. Over time, ‘Fealty is for medieval search.cuny.edu “Professional Development” in the decades that service. A centralized system. serfs. I am not a slave.’” followed, the Opportunity for all. These ideas The four University system’s night administrators resigned. TRANSFER POLICY Schools of General had propelled public higher The battle was on for con- Studies served tens trol of The City of thousands of “non- education in New York City University. HE RESOLUTION adopted by the Board of Trustees regarding establishment and implementation of matriculating” stu- “Bowker had persisted Tan efficient transfer system by the chancellor is consistent with authority granted to faculty dents who paid almost since the founding of through two frustrating councils and the University Faculty Senate by the Board’s Bylaws as interpreted by case law. In a Nov. tuition for their years of attempting to 3 message, University General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs Frederick P. courses. In fall of The Free Academy in 1847. change minds and pro- Schaffer said the Board has clear and final authority to 1957, while nearly grams,” Gordon wrote of adopt academic policy as set forth in that resolution and to 36,000 attended the this turning point in direct the chancellor to implement it in accordance with the city colleges for free, some 24,000 paid as CUNY’s history. “In the brinkmanship procedures established by the Board. much as $10 a credit or $300 a year, based style which was characteristic of him, he on a 15-credit semester — still a value publicly confronted the Board over the compared with the $900 per year charged issue of the professional autonomy of the that year by private New York University. Chancellor.” Also paying tuition in 1957 were 546 After several months of maneuvering community college students, 8,737 gradu- and back-channel talks with City Hall, of search.cuny.edu “transfer policy” ate students and 12,371 in adult-education “dramatic public hearings, daily front- courses. An early-1960s newspaper ad page news coverage, student demonstra- touted “Evening Courses for Men & tions, and attacks on all fronts,” Bowker Women” at Hunter, offering a smorgas- “emerged victorious.” WE REMEMBER — LAURENCE WILSON bord of classes including accounting, Rosenberg eventually was eased out as “cookery” and TV writing, for “$20 per Board chairman; his departure had been ORMER COLLEAGUES of the late Laurence Wilson, longtime music director and chairman of the course and up.” one of Bowker’s conditions for his own Music and Art Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College, extol him as a Tuition and other student fees return. Rosenberg served for several F consummate musician, outstanding educator, innovative administrator and beloved comprised 19 percent of the system’s $46.8 months as the first chairman of The City friend who shared his talent with audiences worldwide and his knowledge and million in total receipts for the 1956-57 University Construction Fund and resigned support with students and associates. fiscal year, according to Board of Higher to take an appointment as a city judge. “He made my soul feel at home in the world,” said one former deputy. Education reports. Merit-based free tuition — already a Professor Wilson, a classical pianist who was retired, died Sept. 3 at In the early 1960s, the state Legislature battlefield between city and state — age 79. removed the mandate for free tuition in survived another decade, Rising rapidly from humble beginnings, he the city, but the tradition of providing it to until the fiscal crisis of the earned degrees at The Juilliard School, made his the top students continued. However, the ’70s. >> Read the entire story debut at Carnegie Hall and performed at top- “abandonment of the free tuition require- of “The Birth of a Modern ranked music centers around the world. ment was to launch a City-State struggle University” at in which the doctoral program (at the City www.cuny.edu/cunyhistory search.cuny.edu “Remembrances”

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