≜ Donors who have financially supported Kingsborough every year for the past 10 years or more. ≜ Donors who have financially supported Kingsborough every year for the past 10 years or more. KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY TRUSTEES COLLEGE FOUNDATION MS. GINA ARGENTO July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016 CEO, Broadway Stages The Kingsborough Community College Foundation’s MR. MICHAEL CORRERA Board of Directors draws its members from a wide Owner, Michael-Towne Wines & Spirits range of professional and academic backgrounds. MR. JAMES A. CROSS, JR. These Board members bring their expertise, their drive, Vice President, Customer Analytics and Risk Management, and their wholehearted commitment to helping the National Grid college realize its vision of the future. MR. MICHAEL FARMER MS. JOAN BARTOLOMEO Chairman, Farmer & Company Chair Community Development Specialist MS. JULIET LEWIS Signature Bank Manager, Brooklyn Public Affairs, Con Edison MR. FARLEY HERZEK MR. STEVEN V. MAKSIN President Managing Partner, Maksin Legal Group, PLLC Kingsborough Community College PROF. JOHN MANBECK MS. SUZANNE M. MURPHY Professor Emeritus, Kingsborough Community College Vice Chair MR. FRANK RUGGIERO Vice President for Development and External Affairs Owner/Manager, Delta Phase Electrical Corporation Teachers College at Columbia University MR. RONI SHOYFER MR. EDUARDO RIOS Vice President, Retail Market Manager, Investors Bank Secretary/Treasurer Vice President for Finance and Administration MR. JAMES P. SLATTERY Kingsborough Community College Brooklyn Volunteer Lawyers Project DR. ELIZABETH BASILE MS. KELLY SULLIVAN Executive Director (Ex-Officio) Partner, Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher Vice President for Institutional Advancement Kingsborough Community College MR. ALEC TEYTEL Vice President, Branch Manager, TD Bank NA MR. WILLIAM CORRENTI Secretary/Treasurer July 1-June 30, 2015 MR. DAVID WOLOCH Vice President for Finance and Administration Executive Vice President, Brooklyn Public Library 2 KingsboroughKINGSBOROUGH Community COMMUNITY College COLLEGE | ANNUAL REPORT 2015/2016 A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Friends of Kingsborough: People give to people, not to causes. It’s hard to imagine a better cause than giving to support educational opportunities for all. More than 16,000 full- and part-time students come to Kingsborough each year—many the first in their families to attend college, many new to our country, and many new to our way of life. Often, they are financially unprepared for the challenge of seeking an education. With more than 70 percent of these students receiving financial aid, 60 percent of our students coming from homes with annual incomes of less than $20K, the Kingsborough Community College Foundation is a vital lifeline for many of them, and is often the resource through which your generosity is shared to meet a need. Every gift made to the KCC Foundation celebrates these Yet, they seek their piece of the American dream as they special-and for some-very personal connections. train for jobs, earn transfer credits, or enhance professional skills. Through your generosity, you ensure that our students This one-time biennial report, which covers FY2015 and have the very best chances of success, which we see through FY2016 shows the inspired giving and increasing generosity of their determination and commitment to their studies, very you, our friends, to whom we are infinitely grateful. often balancing other challenges of family, work, and other responsibilities. This year and every year, we thank you for all you do to support Kingsborough’s vital educational mission and our amazing With a committed faculty and staff to serve our 16,000-plus students. Your support is changing the world—one heart, one students annually, plus an additional 22,000 in continuing job, and one higher education degree at a time. education and workforce development programs, the breadth of work at KCC is vast. We all work collectively to make sure We look forward to strengthing our partnerships with you and that our students’ time here at Kingsborough results in a path to the continued sharing of news and successes of our students. toward continued education or directly to the workforce. The complexity of it all is sometimes difficult to fully comprehend. What you, as our friends and supporters understand, however, is the significance of how doing something extraordinary for others can result in far greater Farley Herzek rewards and accomplishments for those on the receiving end. President You are the ones who touch their hearts and will inspire them to forge ahead in spite of the challenges because they know that Kingsborough and its team of supporters will not let them down. ASSISTME® APP Innovative AssistMe® App Aids in Student Retention ixty percent of KCC KCC developed the AssistMe® app, a unique students come from technological intervention tool, and the first of households with incomes its kind within the City University of New York S system. This innovative student-initiated app— below $20K. Often, they are downloadable to smartphones, also accessible working part-time if they are by computer—allows students to communicate working at all, taking care of directly with a KCC staff person who connects their families, and as a result them to the appropriate campus resources. have difficulty making ends Buttons on the AssistMe® app include meet. Many of our students are Tuition Assistance, Textbook Assistance, immigrants, or are the first in Transportation, Food, Counseling and Wellness, their families to attend college; and Childcare, among others. Students can for a large number of students, request specific assistance by providing a brief English is their second language. description of their concern or need. In addition to these tangible, financial assistance options, Too often, some of our students are forced to drop students can also receive academic support, as out before actually taking courses in their majors, well as counseling and wellness support, and be because they have exhausted their financial aid provided with appropriate childcare, housing, and taking remedial courses. Fifty percent of our residency referrals to additional resources students leave because they owe tuition, and an as needed. additional 25 percent leave due to loss of financial The App facilitates access to immersion classes aid. Based on financial hardships, many leave such as developmental math—with which the before they can graduate, and others opt to enter majority of students struggled—allowing them the workforce, often at lower wages because they to take advantage of intensive math boot camp lack a degree. classes before financial aid was impacted, so they KCC data indicated that students left for reasons could enter their majors without worrying about other than academics, so we convened a series of losing their financial aid. focus groups to gain a better understanding. The app would track the students’ use from fall The top four reasons included: tuition; the cost entry through their graduation to see whether the of textbooks; transportation, and access to food interventions, or focused academic advisement for themselves and their families. The challenge interventions had an impact on their continued was to find a way of connecting them to the enrollment and subsequent completion. appropriate resources so they could stay in school. 4 KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | ANNUAL REPORT 2015/2016 KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | ANNUAL REPORT 2015/2016 5 6 KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | ANNUAL REPORT 2015/2016 CUNY FATHERHOOD ACADEMY Kingsborough selected as an expansion site for CUNY Fatherhood Academy ingsborough Community development, college readiness, and career College was selected exploration and preparation among unemployed as an expansion site and underemployed fathers. The program also K provides referrals to many on-campus resources for the CUNY Fatherhood including the Men’s Resource Center, Single Stop, Academy (CFA) in 2015. A grant Career Services, and the Child Development gave Kingsborough the added Center. capacity to help approximately Participants, who are recruited through 40 young fathers in the CFA, KCC’s relationship with community-based prepare for, and enroll in college, organizations, may receive benefits screening, and/or training programs. money management resources, legal assistance, and childcare, as well as health and nutritional The Office of the Mayor and the Center for information. Economic Opportunity provided an additional $1 million to the two sites through the Mayor’s CEWD KCC’s Fatherhood Academy and the Young Men’s Initiative (YMI). two other CUNY expansion sites are funded by the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity and Kingsborough’s extensive experience with the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City’s similar programs and populations, its strong federally funded Social Innovation grant. A total program model, and a commitment to providing funding of $2.1 million in 2015 aimed to serve significant leveraged resources contributed to its more than 200 fathers over a year at three selection as an expansion site. CFA sites. CFA, a program of the NYC YMI, is a free, 16-week high school equivalency and college preparatory program for resident New York City fathers who range in age from 18 to 28, and 18 to 30 respectively. The CFA program, housed in the KCC’s Center for Economic and Workforce Development (CEWD), promotes responsible parenting, personal growth and KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | ANNUAL REPORT 2015/2016 7 PSC-CUNY Awards