he experiment is to be tried… SUMMER 2017 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 GRANTS&HONORS Recognizing Faculty Achievement he University’s Mogulescu renowned faculty Tmembers continually win professional achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from government agencies, Spokony farsighted foundations and leading corporations. Pictured are just a few of the recent honorees. Brief summaries of many ongoing research projects start here and continue inside. Ahmed John Mogulescu, Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs and Dean of the School of Professional Studies, has been awarded a four-year grant totaling Knikou nearly $6 million from the U.S. Department of Labor for CUNY TechWorks, a partner- ship with Borough of Man- hattan, Kingsborough and Queensborough Community Spear Colleges to strengthen career-focused associate degree programs in software application development, web development, and IT systems administration. The At the Graduate Center’s ASRC program will serve 1,225 students over the grant Rauceo period. Valerie Westphal headed the proposal effort, while Nikki Evans created Science Connected the concept and wrote the winning application with HEN KEVIN GARDNER ARRIVED at CUNY in “I walked onto this floor with four people I brought with Micah Gertzog. 2014 to create one of the scientific initiatives at the me and there was almost nothing here but the walls,” recalled University’s new Advanced Science Research Center Gardner, a top biochemistry researcher who was recruited from of (ASRC), he found a gleaming $350 million building the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as the David Kennedy John Jay College has been with exhilarating potential and at that time, little else. founding director of the ASRC’s Structural Biology Initiative. August awarded two grants: WA decade in the planning, the ASRC was conceived as a “We had power and heat and we had a bunch of instrumentation. $1,607,270 from the U.S. game-changer for science at CUNY — an interdisciplinary and We’ve gone from that to 25 people on this floor and dozens more Department of Justice – highly collaborative academic research center of great ambition on the four other floors. And people from every CUNY campus Office on Violence Against for a public university. As the building edged toward its long-an- coming here to collaborate and use our core facilities.” Women, for “The National ticipated opening, attention turned to constructing a team of Two and a half years after its doors opened, the ASRC is hitting Network for Safe Com- world-class scientists and researchers — and connecting it to the its stride. The center is not only a leader in innovative scientific munities: An Approach to rest of the University. Please Turn to Page 6 Reducing Serious Domestic Kennedy Violence”; and $121,586 from the Community Foun- INSIDE dation of St. Joseph County, for “Reducing Serious PAGE New tech platform PAGE The University’s PAGE WorkWell NYC: Violence in South Bend, 2 will aid faculty in 3 students and 10 a number of Indiana.” The National Insti- designing courses alumni score preventative, tutes of Health has awarded and expanding big in the 2017 educational and other a $623,476 grant to Mark Steinberg Steinberg of City College for access awards season health-related programs Continued on page 4 ➤ Online Learning Jumps Ahead New Tech Platform Will Aid Faculty in Designing Courses and Expanding Access, Boosting Opportunities HE CITY UNIVERSITY of New York opportunities we have in making CUNY Chancellor Milliken sees this as an instructional and technical support includ- is moving swiftly on a core element of a more powerful 21st-century University opportunity “to think deeply about the ing advising and orientation for students TChancellor Milliken’s Strategic Frame- is to build on our record of using the best role of online education at CUNY, use it as well as faculty development, and ease of work – increasing educational access by 21st-century tools to increase our eective- to promote best pedagogical practices, registration and credit transfer.” sharply expanding the opportunities for ness and our reach.” raise CUNY’s profile, and develop a unit- It laid out these core principles: students to take high-quality, online courses, The Strategic Framework is the new ed approach to vetting, supporting, and • Developing a coordinated approach certificate and degree programs. The Univer- vision of how CUNY can reach a higher branding online programs,” the task force that maximizes CUNY and campus brand- sity has issued a request for proposals (RFP) level of success by expanding access, sup- report says. “The group saw this as a unique ing to build enrollment and enhance to build the technology platform, which porting more students as they work toward opportunity to plan for future needs, when student access while cultivating common will guide CUNY faculty as they design and their degrees and giving students more online and face-to-face instruction will policies and practice for branding, recruit- implement an expansive array of new courses experience to help them get started on merge into numerous hybrid opportunities ment, technology use, IP policies, and qual- and programs. the most promising career opportunities. for our students.” ity assurance. The system will ensure that there are Online learning is a key means of achieving At the group’s first meeting, the • Focusing coordination strategically, uniform standards, and use of the most those objectives. Chancellor noted the strong alignment on programs rather than courses, which eective online teaching models and the The RFP grew out of a task force of col- between the CUNY mission and the power would “bubble up” from the campuses and best platform for making prospective stu- lege presidents and other University lead- of online education “to enhance access follow established review processes. Those dents aware of CUNY’s capabilities and ers that the Chancellor appointed last year for those who otherwise could not get an reviews should be sensitive to the goals of oerings. Faculty will receive consistent to discuss the status, present and future, education; to increase academic momen- growing online programs, including review instruction in precisely how to adapt cours- of online education at CUNY. Chaired by tum and progress to degree for students for market viability, fiscal viability and dif- es for the best online experience. Ann Kirschner, a former Special Adviser to already enrolled; to encourage our faculty ferentiation. The online learning initiative will open the Chancellor, Strategic Partnerships, and to engage in the most eective pedagogy; • Having CUNY’s Oªce of Academic the door to far more students and give now a professor at the Graduate Center, to facilitate cross-pollination across our Aairs take an active leadership role in existing students new opportunities for and John Jay College President Jeremy campuses; to grow enrollment in a time cultivating new online programs, com- satisfying some of their degree require- Travis, the task force found that the of revenue shortages; to build platforms municating priorities (especially those ments. University “currently lacks an integrated that will expand our reach beyond the city that promise growth in access and student “Expanding our presence online will approach to oering online programs and boundaries to the rest of the world.” success), looking for synergistic intercam- help us address the critical goals of improv- needs to expand … [its] overall oerings to The task force recommended a pus opportunities and overseeing quality ing access and completion,” Chancellor meet student needs and to remain compet- shared-services approach that allows control. James B. Milliken says. “One of the great itive with other large university systems.” cross-campus collaboration, a common • Engaging colleges that already are at platform and agreed-to standards for an advanced stage of online readiness to instructional quality and branding. There prototype branding and marketing strategy. BOARDOFTRUSTEES will be central support for the program • Promulgating practices and models The City University of New York CUNYMatters rather than central control. that encourage collaboration among cam- The task force stressed the importance puses. William C. Thompson Jr. Barry F. Schwartz James B. Milliken of a strong and specific branding identity Creating an in-house CUNY Online Chairperson Vice Chairperson Chancellor • and unified instructional quality stan- Accelerator to build capacity for program dards for CUNY Online. “We believe this development. Wellington Z. Chen Mayra Linares-Garcia Frank Sobrino Richard Firstman Director of Media Relations Barbara Fischkin approach will leverage current strengths Easing the path of students and facul- Una S. T-Clarke Robert F. Mujica • Lenina Mortimer and will allow CUNY to leapfrog to a lead- ty to use a global search to make it easy to Lorraine Cortés- Brian D. Obergfell Kristen Kelch Neill S. Rosenfeld ership position in online education,” it find online courses; use a common “learn- Vázquez Jill O’Donnell-Tormey Managing Editor Writers André Beckles stated.