CMsummer13_CM Spring 09 6/4/13 6:42 PM Page 1 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 UNIVERSITYMatters OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 SUMMER 2013 GRANTS&HONORS Recognizing Faculty Achievement HE UNIVERSITY’S renowned Small faculty members continually Twin professional-achieve- ment awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from govern- ment agencies, farsighted foun- dations and leading corpora- Morabia tions. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief sum- maries of many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside. Vice Chancellor for Cano Research Gillian Small is the principal investigator for a collaborative project involving CUNY, Columbia University and New York University that is Chancellor Goldstein with known as the NSF I-Corps New Interim Chancellor Kelly York City Regional Innovation at the CUNY Welcome Center Mondesir Node, or NYCRIN, and is designed to fast-track research to the marketplace under a three-year $3.74 million grant MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, CUNY’S CHAMPION, RETIRES from the National Science Foundation. “Its aim,” Vice Chancellor Small said, “is to William P. Kelly Is Named Interim Chancellor Chan become a global leader in technology innovation and ILLIAM P. KELLY, president of the Graduate Trustees approved President Kelly to serve in the interim post entrepreneurial business School and University Center, has been named starting July 1. development by leveraging the interim Chancellor following Matthew Goldstein’s “I want to say what an honor it is to carry forward the extraor- existing innovation ecosystem in 14-year tenure that transformed the University dinary work of Chancellor Goldstein,” Kelly said at the April 23 New York City, which meshes into a truly integrated world-class institution, Board Executive Session unanimously approving his perfectly with other current revamped and expanded to promote academic suc- appointment. “I am grateful beyond words for your confidence. I Molina initiatives aimed towards cess and access for students of all levels. pledge my very best effort to be worthy of that confidence.” W building research and President Kelly, a distinguished scholar of American literature, Chancellor Goldstein’s announcement that he would step entrepreneurship at CUNY.” vice chairman of the CUNY Research Foundation, and trustee of down brought expressions of praise for his leadership, and cast a NYCRIN will offer educational the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, has served the spotlight on an extraordinary period in CUNY history that began and networking services to all University for nearly four decades. when a mayoral task force, led by Benno Schmidt, former presi- regional technology start-up At Chancellor Goldstein’s recommendation, the Board of ‰ Continued on page 8 entities. Auguste Debra Auguste of City College has been awarded INSIDE $2,295,000 from the National Non-Profit Org PAGE Institutes of Health for CUNYMatters U.S. Postage More Access, Diversity “Personalized Therapeutics for Office of University Relations PAID With Transfers, Development Permit # 153 2 Inhibiting Breast Cancer 205 East 42nd St. New Haven, CT New York, NY 10017 Steiner Metastasis.” David Steiner of PAGE Martin Luther King Hunter College has received 6 At City College in 1963 $890,459 from the N.Y. State Education Department for “2008-2013 21st Century PAGE Getting the Community Learning Centers 12 Know-How Program.” The National to Provide Jafari Endowment for the Humanities has provided $157,807 to Clare Financial Savvy Carroll of the Graduate School and University Center for PAGE Timing Your “Researching Early Modern Retirement Manuscripts and Printed Books.” 14 Marzie Jafari of Lehman College Friebel Continued on page 3 ‰ CMsummer13_CM Spring 09 6/4/13 6:42 PM Page 2 THECHANCELLOR’SDESK Dr. King Spoke to My Life Chancellor Matthew Goldstein graduated from The City College of New York in June 1963 at a turbulent time in the nation’s history — the height of the Civil Rights movement. He reflected on his own graduation, and on the challenge posed by its celebrated CUNY Transfers, commencement speaker, in his own commencement address to CCNY’s Class of 2013. The following column, Dr. Goldstein’s last as Chancellor, is excerpted from his address. For the full address see: cuny.edu/chancellors-speech IFTY YEARS AGO, I sat in Lewisohn That day in June 1963 was an awakening New Facilities Stadium, waiting for my CCNY for me. I began to focus more deeply on the diploma. I was in my best shirt and road ahead. The way I made choices started tie, my mortarboard was square on to change. Was I only doing the expected, my head — and, I admit it, I was a what might make me look good? Or was I Flittle bored. trying to do good? The truth wasn’t always Drive Access and But something unusual happened the comforting. But over the years, I began to night of June 12, 1963 — because the speaker understand that when I attempted difficult who rose to address our class was Dr. Martin things because I knew they had the potential Luther King Jr. for real impact, the answers to those ques- It was less than 24 hours after civil rights tions changed. Expanded Diversity activist Medgar Evers had been murdered. My life has taken turns I never could have And one day after Gov. George Wallace had expected. I certainly never expected to be RANSFER STUDENTS are streaming into the University’s tried to prevent two black students from chancellor of this wonderful institution — four-year baccalaureate colleges at unprecedented rates — entering the all-white University of the most fulfilling choice I ever made. expanding diversity as a CUNY redefined by a decade of Alabama. And just one night after President I grew up on Manhattan’s Lower East improved academics, record-breaking enrollments and Kennedy’s televised address in support of his Side in a family that didn’t have much. $1.8 billion in campus facility upgrades is increasing access civil rights bill. When I came to CCNY, I encountered a mag- to a high-value education as never before. So Dr. King wasn’t at City College to sug- ically different world. It was like being let The upward transfer trend, evident among all major gest how we might achieve personal success. into a secret place in the city, an enclave of racial and ethnic groups — Asians, blacks, Hispanics and whites — has He was there to tell us what our education great architecture, smart people and big Tenhanced racial diversity at the 11 senior colleges, where transfers was really for. ideas — just like it is today. Since then, I’ve increased from 15,423 in 2001-2002 to 24,056 in 2011-2012. We live in a day of great crisis, Dr. King seen thousands of graduates have their lives The trend not only spotlights an increasingly well-trod path told us. Our dilemma was that “we have transformed by it. In turn, they’ve of access to CUNY’s baccalaureate programs, but also the allowed the means by which we live to out- transformed the lives of countless others. robust mobility within its more tightly integrated system of distance the ends for which we live.” A com- That journey happened because Dr. colleges. A majority — 62 percent — of the transfers came plete education, he said, bestows not only King was right. There is no room for from within the University, and almost all of the within- “the power of concentration” but also “wor- boredom or apathy or silence in your CUNY transfers, 87 percent, moved from a less-selective thy objectives upon which to concentrate.” life. “Human progress never rolls in college to a more selective one, according to the Office of Dr. King’s call for moral clarity and action on the wheels of inevitability,” Dr. Institutional Research. carried to every corner of the stadium King said 50 years ago. “Human Broken down by race, the 10-year transfer trend is a through his emotion, his cadence, the timbre progress comes through the tireless significant factor in expanding CUNY’s diversity — of his voice. “We must honestly see that the efforts and the persistent work of dedi- A majority — already a given with the overwhelming number of fresh- harvest of violence that we are now reaping cated individuals.” • men entering from New York City’s diverse public and is due to seeds of apathy planted in the past,” Graduates, you haven’t reached this 62% private high school systems. he said. What’s more, the violence wasn’t day in order to be something; you’ve — of the From 2001-2002 to 2011-2012, Asian transfer enroll- just a result of “the vitriolic words and reached this day in order to do something transfers ment in the four-year colleges went up from 2,230 to actions of the bad people,” but “the appalling — something meaningful. Dr. King under- 4,593 or 19.1 percent of the transfer enrollment; black silence and apathy of the good people.” stood that graduation isn’t about accom- came from within transfer enrollment increased from 4,473 to 5,879, or And indeed, there was silence in the stadi- plishment; it’s about commitment. the University, 24.4 percent; Hispanic transfers climbed from 3,151 um. Word by word, my own boredom and Education doesn’t bestow privilege, but and almost all to 5,651 or 23.5 percent of baccalaureate transfer apathy were held up to me.