2008-2009 Budget Request CU NY
The City University of New York York City University of New The The City University of New York The City University of New York University Budget Office 230 West 41st Street New York NY 10036 2008-2009 Budget Request Budget CU NY 2008-2009 Budget Request Acknowledgements The Request document was prepared by the University Budget Office. Editor: Catherine Abata Special thanks to the staffs of the Office of Budget and Finance, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Student Development, the Office of the Chief Operating Officer, the Office of Facilities Planning, Construction, and Management, the Office of University Relations, and the colleges, who he City University of New York, the nation’s leading public contributed to this document. urban university, plays a central role in the economic, cultural Design: Graphic Expression Inc, New York City, www.tgenyc.com Tand educational life of New York City and New York State. Targeted investments by the City and the State in CUNY during the past five years have enabled CUNY to advance its position as a key workforce driver and research presence, not only locally but nationally as well. Consonant with its Master Plan, the University, since 1999, has been pursuing a “flagship environment” model fostering national promi- nence in targeted undergraduate arts and science programs as well as professional and graduate programs. The flagship environment draws on the multitude of resources available to the system and on the rich- ness of the colleges’ combined strengths to foster greater opportunities within a more integrated university. The approach has been successful in accenting the high academic quality of CUNY’s programs and de- ploying the expertise of a world class faculty of stature and reputation.
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