Baruch College General Faculty Meeting
March 8, 2007
MINUTES
The meeting was called to order at 12:53 p.m. in VC 14-220 by President Kathleen Waldron.
I.
The following members of the Baruch faculty and staff were in attendance: (sign-in sheets).
II. Approval of Minutes: Minutes of the October 19, 2006, were approved without alteration.
III. Approval of Agenda: The agenda was adopted with no objections.
IV. Oral Report from President Kathleen Waldron:
Announcements
• Ethics Week has been running successfully all week, thanks to all who participated, either through special
events or by raising the topic in your classes. Particular thanks go to Associate Provost Dennis Slavin for
managing the Ethics Week program at Baruch. Ethics Week will conclude with a CUNY-wide Academic
Integrity Conference to be held in the Newman Conference Center;
• Johanna D’Aleo has joined Baruch as Vice President for Administration and Finance on March 29. She has
held a similar position at SUNY New Paltz for the last ten years. Thanks especially to Dean David Birdsell
for chairing this speedy and successful search, and to all the department chairs and program directors who
participated in the interviews;
• President Waldron thanked David Dannenbring, who continues to serve as Provost. He has been promoted to
Senior Vice President and Provost by the CUNY Board of Trustees;
• The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) confers an annual
Classic Award to one outstanding resource from each of 15 disciplines. The MERLOT Editorial Board for
Business has selected Baruch’s “Guide to Financial Statements” as the winner of its 2007 Classic Award.
“Guide to Financial Statements" is a web tutorial developed by the Baruch Computing and Technology
Center (BCTC) and the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, with technical assistance from Kognito
Solutions. Baruch makes the tutorial freely available for educational purposes, and it is used by students
and faculty nationwide. It is located on in the Digital Media Library on Baruch’s web site.
• Nancy Aries, of the School of Public Affairs, has been named a 2007-2008 American Council on Education
Fellow. This program is designed to strengthen institutions and leadership within American higher
education. Each fellow focuses on an issue of concern to the nominating institution (in this case, Baruch
College) while spending the next academic year working closely with a college or university president and
other senior officers at a host institution. The award is based on both academic credentials and potential
administrative leadership, and the selection process is quite rigorous. Many past participants in the
program have gone on to positions as provosts and presidents at some of the country’s finest colleges and
universities. We are very proud of Nancy, and grateful for the insight she will return to us with.
• Allan Wernick, of the Law Department, will be a guest on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC on March 9,
2007, at 11:05 am, speaking about the coming rise in immigration filing fees, why obtaining permanent
residency is so difficult for many people, and the upcoming CUNY/Daily News Citizenship Now! call in.
• A conversation between a revolutionary 20th century artist and her biographer, an acclaimed art historian,
takes place at Baruch College on Monday, March 19, 2007. The occasion: the launch of not one but two
books, Becoming Judy Chicago by Gail Levin, professor of art history, American studies, and women’s
studies at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and The Dinner Party: From Creation to
Preservation by Judy Chicago, the story of her single most famous and important work—a landmark in the
history of 20th century art and feminist consciousness. An exciting event, the dialogue between Chicago
and Levin takes place at Baruch College, The Field Building, 17 Lexington Avenue at 23rd St., in Mason
Hall at 6pm. The event is free and open to the public.
• Twenty new faculty lines will be provided through the CUNY Compact, but no additional HEO lines;
• Prof. James McCarthy has been named Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of Baruch
College, The City University of New York. McCarthy will take up his duties at Baruch in the summer of
2007, pending confirmation by the CUNY Board of Trustees. He is currently the Dean of the School of
Health and Human Services and Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of New
Hampshire. The President thanked AVP Arthur Downing and the Search Committee for a good, productive
and thorough search process, and thanked Provost David Dannenbring for his continued services and
patience.
• Next year, Baruch will start looking at the general education requirements—it has been 10 years since the last
review.
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Fund Raising
The College embarked on a capital campaign to raise an additional $150 million. The campaign will not be
publicly announced until we have reached the halfway mark on the target amount. Larry Zicklin has pledged an
additional $20 million dollar gift, and the recent trip to visit Baruch alumni in Florida brought in an additional
$10 million. The campaign is also finding younger alumni who are willing to give sizeable gifts. Three alumni,
with whom the College did not have contact 18 months ago, pledged gifts of $1 million each. Baruch's outreach
has become much more professionalized. The President noted that many alumni spoke about how much they
had learned from the faculty at Baruch, and the President thanked the faculty for creating such an impact on the
students.
Questions:
Prof. Glenn Petersen (Soc/Anthro) asked the President to address the building of a culture of service at Baruch.
The President noted that Baruch scores high on the CUNY faculty satisfaction survey, and that there would be a
new survey being conducted soon. She would like to conduct focus groups with faculty about the issues that are
important to them. She noted several issues that needed examination: conflicts between academic departments
and the Office of Administration & Finance over 'Other-Than-Personnel-Services' (OTPS) funds;
accountability of service of administrators to faculty, faculty to students, and administrators to students; and
improving the turnaround time for addressing facilities problems.
Prof. Christopher Hessel (Eco/Fin) pursued the facilities issue by noting that the bulb in the single-beam
projector (SBP) in one of his classrooms had burnt out, and the scheduling of classes was making its
replacement difficult. Jim Russell (BCTC) reported that the particular product line of SBPs has become
problematic, and are burning out faster than anticipated. The BCTC checks SBPs and bulbs four times a year,
but in case of a bulb failure, faculty should call the BCTC Helpline at x. 1010 at the first sign of a problem.
President Waldron noted that the entire Vertical Campus premises are heavily used, putting stress on the overall
plant. Baruch is trying to keep the FTE student number constant, to allow for a plan to check the plant
regularly.
V. Report from Provost David Dannenbring:
The Provost submitted a written report; the following was added in his oral report:
Briloff Ethics Awards: Joel Lefkowitz, Professor of Industrial Psychology, was the faculty winner of the
2007. Briloff Prize in Ethics for an article entitled “The Constancy of Ethics amidst the Changing World of
Work.” The two student winners were Jim Holovat, a second-year MBA student specializing in Industrial
Organizational Psychology, and John Pham, a student in the School of Public Affairs.
VI. Written Reports from other Officers:
These were already reported on line and are incorporated into the minutes.
Questions:
Report Availability: Prof. Burt Hansen (History) asked that the written reports be available earlier to the faculty
for more thorough study. Carol Abrams (Chief Communications Officer) said that the reports were available
online two weeks before the meeting.
VII. Elections to fill vacancies (Prof. Meir Lubetski):
The following nominations were made:
• Secretary of the General Faculty (8/29/07 – 8/28/10): Arie Harel (S/CIS)
• University Faculty Senate (5/14/07-5/13/10): George Hill (FPA), Ann Brandwein (S/CIS)
• University Faculty Senate adjunct representative: Stanley Wine (S/CIS)
• Committee on Financial Aid: Sarah Ryan (SPA): to complete the term of Diane Gibson (SPA);
• Committee on the Undergraduate Honors Program, WSAS (until 8/28/08): Alison Griffith (COMM) to
replace Robin Root (Soc/Anth)
All were elected by assent.
VIII.
Unfinished Business: None
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IX. New Business: None
A motion to adjourn was approved and the meeting ended at 1:48 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
William J. Ferns, Jr., Interim Secretary
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PRESIDENT KATHLEEN WALDRON
REPORT TO THE GENERAL FACULTY
OCTOBER 2007
UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF NEW FACULTY JOIN BARUCH
This year Baruch College welcomes 50 new faculty members, a record number of hires
for the College. This number includes 22 newly created faculty lines as well as
replacements for departing or retiring faculty members. This addition of faculty brings
our total number of full-time faculty for Fall 2007 to 534. The past two years have seen a
5% increase in faculty lines, the first time in over a decade that Baruch has added a
significant number of new positions. Given that we are holding our student enrollment
numbers steady, the gain in number of faculty hires should have a direct positive impact
on reducing class size.
Baruch College has grown in strength and size in every school and in disciplines ranging
from accounting to the environment and from journalism to nonprofit management. Here
is a look at the new faculty at Baruch.
Zicklin School of Business
The Zicklin School of Business welcomes 17 new full-time faculty this year, to bring
total full-time faculty to 185. Joining the Accountancy Department is Igor Vaysman. A
leader in the analytical area of managerial accounting, Vaysman has taught at France’s
INSEAD since 2001 and holds a PhD from Stanford. Also among the new hires in
accountancy are Christina and Shamin Mashruwala, a husband and wife team from the
University of Washington.
New to the law department is Maria Dimeo Calvelli who meets the College’s need for
an expert in the areas of securities law, corporate governance, and business ethics. A
partner in Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe since 1999, Calvelli received her JD from
Harvard Law. Adding his international expertise to the Department of Economics and
Finance is Sebastiano Manzan, who previously taught economics at the University of
Leicester in England. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Amsterdam.
Other new hires by the Zicklin School of Business include David Cenedella
(Accounting); Evengiya Duzhak (Economics/Finance); David Frame (Real Estate);
Donna Gitter (Law); Lale Guler (Accounting); Radhika Jain (Statistics/CIS); Bin
Wei (Economics/Finance); Rongning Wu (Statistics/CIS); and Assistant Professor
Xiaoli Yin (Management). We are also pleased to announce that three of our most well
regarded adjuncts have been named full-time faculty members: Elaine Anderson (Law),
William Heath (Marketing), and Eduardo Malca (Economics/Finance).
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Weissman School of Arts & Sciences
There are 28 new full-time hires at Weissman this fall, to bring total full-time faculty to
227.
We have two new faculty hires in the area of communications skills. They are, in the
English Department, Frank Cioffi from Scripps College, who has taught writing at
Princeton and Bard among other schools; and in Communication Studies, Brian
Householder, who previously headed the graduate program at the University of North
Dakota. He holds a PhD from the University of Georgia.
Three hires in the Department of Natural Sciences are in the fields of environmental
sustainability, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Jason Munshi-South recently
completed work for the Smithsonian, which included research in Gabon, Africa, studying
the African elephant. Chester Zarnoch, a former director of the Aquatic Research and
Environmental Assessment Center at Brooklyn College, applies his work in ecological
evolutionary behavior to urban aquaculture. David Gruber specializes in biological
oceanography. Natural Sciences also welcomes Jamal Jalilian-Marian from the
University of Minnesota and Justin Vazquez-Poritz from the University of
Pennsylvania, both physicists with extensive research and publication records.
Bringing their respective talents to the journalism program are Michel Marriott, an
urban journalist with an extensive career at The New York Times; and Vera Haller,
whose work in online journalism provides valuable expertise in a fast-growing field.
The interdisciplinary study of urban politics, community development, and immigration
is strengthened by three new hires: Vilna Bashi Treitler (Black and Hispanic Studies),
previously at Rutgers, has degrees from the University of Wisconsin in sociology and
economics, and specializes in West Indian immigration studies. Johanna Fernandez
comes from Columbia University. Her history of the gang the Young Lords, being
published by Princeton University Press, has led to a Schomberg grant for the spring
semester. Also joining the history department is Charlotte Brooks, a scholar of Asian
immigrants.
Weissman welcomes four new hires in psychology, with two focusing on health
psychology. Angela Marinilli Pinto comes from Brown Medical School. Holding a PhD
in philosophy and clinical psychology, she has extensive experience at Montefiore
Medial Center and John Hopkins Hospital. Catalina Lawsin followed up her graduate
research in health care reform at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. She specializes in
cancer treatment in minority and lower income communities. Catherine Good comes
from Barnard College and holds a PhD in math education and social psychology from the
University of Texas. She has received two federal grants for her work in learning,
reasoning, and academic performance, particularly in math and science. Also engaged in
this field is Jennifer Mangels from Columbia University.
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Weissman’s math department bolsters its financial engineering program with Carlos
Johnson, who has over two decades experience with Salomon Brothers; and Tai Ho
Wang, who comes from NYU and has worked with noted mathematicians in applied
mathematics.
Other Weissman hires are Esther Allen (Modern Languages); Michael Goodman
(Communications); Judith Broadwin (Math), Boris Maizel (Philosophy); Caryn
Medved (Communications); Gene Park (Political Science), David Sitt (Psychology),
Gregory Snyder (Sociology/Anthropology); Sandeep Sreekumar (Philosophy); and
Susan Tenneriello (Fine and Performing Arts).
We will welcome U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic to teach in the Spring 2008
semester. The poet’s many honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He
was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995. Simic will be coming
to Baruch thanks to the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Visiting Professorship,
funded by Sidney Harman (’39), which brings distinguished writers to the Baruch
College campus every year. We will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Harman Writerin-Residence Program in the spring with a special ceremony.
School of Public Affairs
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs James McCarthy has a faculty
appointment in the School of Public Affairs. He is a widely published authority on
adolescent and reproductive health care and on demography. Provost McCarthy was dean
at the University of New Hampshire and on the faculty at Columbia University, Johns
Hopkins University, and Trinity College, Dublin.
Two new faculty focusing on nonprofit management join the School of Public Affairs in
the fall. Nicole Marwell, who previously taught at Columbia, concentrates on analysis of
markets in which nonprofit and for-profit providers co-exist. She holds a PhD in
sociology from the University of Chicago. Hilary Botein, who works in housing and
community development, comes from the University of Connecticut and holds a PhD in
urban planning from Columbia University. These hires complement Baruch’s new
Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management. The center builds upon the school’s
leadership in graduate education in nonprofit administration and on five years of
programming specific to the needs of practitioners throughout the nonprofit sector in the
New York region.
Baruch has a total full-time and adjunct teaching staff of about 1,000 and has some of the
most distinguished, experienced, and driven teachers in academia. The new faculty hires
are a point of pride for the institution.
PRESIDENTIAL PROFESSORS
This spring we inaugurated at the College the recognition of Presidential Professorships,
a rare distinction given to full-time members of the faculty in recognition of exceptional
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scholarship, teaching and service over a long period. The bestowing of the designation of
Presidential Professor honors members of the faculty who exemplify the College’s
commitment to excellence and who have distinguished themselves by significant
contributions recognized both at Baruch College and in the world at large. The title and
honor carry with them prestige, research support and released time for scholarly activity.
It is my pleasure to announce that the first Presidential Professors at Baruch College are
Linda Allen, Carol Berkin, and Steve Savas:
Linda Allen, Professor of Finance, is well known in the world of banking and finance.
Professor Allen has most recently been developing a model to measure damages in
securities fraud litigation. Allen, who has consulted on several high-profile court cases,
says she is seeking to determine “what it means to be a damaged shareholder and how
you measure the damages for fraudulent disclosures or non-disclosures.” Professor Allen
has published scholarly work in major business and finance journals including The
Journal of Business, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the
Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance. She is the author of a widely-used
textbook, “Capital Markets and Institutions: A Global View,” and a co-author of several
professional works, including “Understanding Market, Credit and Operational Risk.”
Carol Berkin, Professor of History, is a scholar of early U.S. History and women’s
history and is well known to the public as a frequent commentator for televised historical
documentaries, including those on PBS and on the History Channel. She has appeared in
“The History of New York City,” “Ben Franklin,” “The History of Sex,” and “Founding
Fathers,” among others series. Berkin is the author of several books, including, most
recently, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for American Independence.
Professor Berkin has also written A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American
Constitution, and First Generations: Women in Colonial America.
E.S. Savas, Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College and an internationally
renowned expert in the field of privatization, has written numerous books and articles on
privatization. His groundbreaking work Privatization: The Key to Better Government , is
considered one of the most influential books on the topic. Savas has taught at Baruch
since 1981 and holds degrees from the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and
an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Piraeus in Greece. He served as
President Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research in
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1981-83.
EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION
The College held its annual employee service awards in April of this year. In addition to
recognizing 166 employees for longevity of service, the College presented the second
annual Service Excellence Awards to six staff members. The honorees were selected
from dozens of nominees and were cited by faculty, students, and coworkers alike for
consistently going above and beyond the call of duty. The 2007 Service Excellence
Award winners are Elizabeth Albert (Administrative Assistant, Mathematics
Department); Marco Inoa (Custodial Assistant, Conference Center); Gertrude Johnson
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(Telephone Operator, BCTC): Louisa Moy (Office Assistant, Newman Library); Jennifer
Salas (Enrollment Services Coordinator, Undergraduate Admissions & Financial Aid);
and Judith Tse (Director of Undergraduate Services, Zicklin School of Business).
STUDENTS
The College began the fall semester with 15,777 students as of September 4th. Of these,
12,744 were undergraduates and 3,033 were graduate students, similar to prior year and
consistent with our strategy of holding enrollments constant while we await additional
renovated facilities. Some three year data on student enrollments is provided below:
9/6/2005
9/6/2006
9/4/2007
Total First Time Freshmen
1,634
1,493
1,453
Entering Transfers
1,314
1,342
1347
Total
Undergraduate
13,135
12,734
12,744
New Graduate
912
988
1043
Total Graduate
2,796
2,969
3,033
Total Enrollment
15,931
15,703
15,777
Undergraduate Credits
161697
158430
157335
21761
24666
25013
1107
1118
1136
Graduate Credits
SAT scores
enrolled freshmen
(regularly admitted)
VISIBILITY
You may have noticed that we relaunched our website, www.baruch.cuny.edu, in late
August before the start of the new semester. The College’s home page has had over 10
million views since October 2006 and is a top access point for information about the
College for the public and for the Baruch community. Given how much the “look and
the feel” of the site contribute to people’s impressions of the College, we recognized that
it was time to redesign our site to make it more user-friendly and attractive. The scope of
the redesign covered the home page, top-level landing pages, and a common design
element for every page of the site.
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We plan to update some market research benchmark survey work that was done in 2003.
The results will help us to hone the Baruch College brand versus selected competing
New York area universities and to gauge the relative effectiveness of our messages. We
have retained the Consensus Research Group, who had worked with the College on
earlier rounds of research.
AWARDS
Baruch College is the winner of the American Advertising Federation’s 2007 District
Two Diversity Achievements Award for an Educator. The annual awards honor
individuals, companies, and institutions for their multicultural marketing efforts in the
advertising industry. The award was presented at a luncheon on September 26, 2007, at
the New York Athletic Club as part of Advertising Week New York.
United Way New York City will name Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs its
2007 “Community Partner of the Year,” in recognition of contributions to the Nonprofit
Leadership Development Institute. We believe this to be the first time the distinction has
ever been given to a university, and it represents a strong endorsement of the model of
professional development that SPA faculty have created. The ceremony will take place
November 13 in the Delegates’ Dining Room at the United Nations.
ALL-TIME HIGH IN U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLEGE RANKINGS
Baruch College was ranked #35 for all master’s degree-granting institutions in the North
in the just-released 2008 edition of U.S News & World Report’s guide to the country’s
best colleges and universities. The #35 spot, the highest Baruch has achieved since the
rankings were introduced in 1983, confirms the College’s growing academic excellence
and steady upward trajectory in the national polls. A total of 574 colleges and
universities were ranked in four geographic areas. Baruch’s standing is even more
impressive when it was compared to other public institutions. Overall, in the North
region, Baruch ranked #6 among public universities that offer a full range of
undergraduate and master’s programs. Baruch’s 2008 rankings represent a fifteen-point
rise from its position on the U.S. News & World Report charts just two years ago, and a
five point gain over the College’s rank last year.
Undergraduate business programs at Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business also showed
dramatic improvement, ranking #41 nationally in a tie with Syracuse University, George
Washington University and four other institutions. The 2008 ranking represented a tenpoint gain over last year. When compared to other public business schools, the Zicklin
School was ranked at #24 nationally.
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U.S. News and World Report’s rankings are calculated on a number of widely accepted
criteria in categories that include peer assessment, graduation and retention rates, faculty
resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.
MEDAL FOR PHILANTHROPY
Philanthropy at Baruch College is in early stages. A decade ago Baruch collected a little
more that $600,000 per year in cash from donors. We recently enjoyed two back-to-back
years of record fund-raising. Cash collected in fiscal 2007 surpassed $30 million. Multimillion-dollar major gifts from a few generous supporters made this possible. Once
Baruch received and announced gifts in the five, ten and twenty-million-dollar range,
repeated gifts in this range became viable. These exceptionally large gifts propelled our
fundraising to current levels and provided access to our current exceptional prospects.
The William and Anita Newman Medal for Philanthropy is a new Baruch College
award designed to recognize multi-million-dollar donors and their unique caliber of
contribution. We seek to encourage consistent donations at this level. The Newman
medal will formalize a platform to celebrate these donors. By demonstrating to others
how we honor our most generous supporters, we encourage their generous support. It is
appropriate to name the medal after William and Anita Newman not only because of their
early and extraordinary generosity to Baruch College but also because of their continued
sustaining generosity.
Medal recipients will be selected through a process that is similar to the way Baruch
College awards other marks of distinction such as Honorary Degrees and commencement
speakers. Because the award recognizes generosity to Baruch, and the role of that
generosity in Baruch’s growth, College Advancement is charged with submitting a list of
five to ten potential medal recipients to the Cabinet of the College annually. The medal
will be awarded regularly but not necessarily annually at an appropriate event.
I know you will join me in celebrating the announcement that the very first William and
Anita Newman Medal for Philanthropy will be awarded this fall to our dear friend and
benefactor, Larry Zicklin.
BARUCH COLLEGE FY 2007 FINAL COMPACT REPORT
Financing of the FY2007 COMPACT Program
In FY 2007 Baruch invested over $3.2M on COMPACT Initiatives to provide better
services to our students and faculty. Just over $2M of this spending was achieved with
new tax-levy dollars provided to the campus. The College used its philanthropic
resources to fund an additional $760K of this new spending and self-financed
approximately $100K of the program through administrative cost savings initiatives. The
remaining $345K of COMPACT spending was for related fringe benefit costs paid for
centrally by the University.
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Creating a Flagship Environment
With a $1.6M investment towards enhancing the flagship environment, the bulk of our
effort focused on hiring new faculty. We were successful in achieving nine new faculty
hires, effective fall 2006. To provide additional support for assessment of learning
outcomes and to administer our programs, we also hired an assessment coordinator for
Institutional Research. In our efforts to improve undergraduate communication skills, we
spent over $90K on additional part-time communication fellows to work with faculty on
integrating communication intensive assignments throughout the curriculum. We used
over $140K of funds to purchase computer equipment for faculty. An additional $300K
of philanthropic funding was used to support full-time faculty with graduate assistants,
summer research support, and attendance at professional meetings and conferences.
Academic Support
The bulk of academic support funding (almost $250K) was used to expand the holdings
of the Newman Library, particularly in print areas that had been underserved in the past.
In addition the Library hired an Electronic Resources Coordinator. In support of the
College’s efforts for the Campaign for Student Success our tutoring center spent $67K
providing expanded opportunities for students to obtain classroom support. The College
also spent $67K to strengthen our Writing Center, hiring a full time director, expanding
the hours of operation with additional part time help, and providing equipment for the
Center staff.
Student Services
Our $730K investment in Student Services allowed the College to develop a more
meaningful undergraduate experience that builds and sustains a vibrant campus-based
community committed to student success. Among these investments were initiatives to
improve student enrollment services and to design and fully implement web-based tools
to increase efficiency, productivity and most importantly student satisfaction. We
revamped orientation and enhanced visibility of intercollegiate athletics, developed
quality programming in student activities, enhanced web-based student services, and
identified common themes to promote community building and to more fully integrate
Academic and Student Life. The investment has allowed us to begin creating a model to
guide student learning in four critical dimensions: intellectual exploration; individual
identity development; interpersonal relationships and community development.
Investments in the Starr Career Development Center account for $260K of COMPACT
spending from philanthropic resources. In the Starr Center, we designed an infrastructure
and a battery of co-curricular initiatives that develop personal skills that distinguish the
Baruch graduate. Skills such as networking, team building, communication skills, selfconfidence, public speaking, reflective practice, leadership, and collaboration have been
developed through carefully designed workshops, interactive simulations, intensive
coaching sessions, meetings and presentations.
Workforce and Economic Development
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The College spent $110K to hire a Program Developer for Continuing Studies and to
supplement marketing expenses to alert a broader level of community constituents to the
workforce development training available.
Information Management Systems
Baruch spent $122K to hire a full time Senior Applications Developer to improve a
variety of technology based or dependent services.
Upgrading Facilities Infrastructure
COMPACT resources funded a new full-time Environmental Health and Safety Officer
to insure that the College continues to comply with state and federal regulations
regarding the handling of hazardous materials and other environmental issues. With the
available balance of annual funding for this position Baruch also covered a series of
critical new needs to maintain, repair and upgrade elevator/escalator, fire alarm and
HVAC systems. In addition, $200K was spent to renovate the Student Multipurpose
Room, used by students for a variety of campus activities.
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Office of the Provost General Faculty Report
Fall 2007
Newman Library
Library Camp 2007 On August 14, the library hosted a one-day conference on next-generation
library technology (e.g., microblogging; XBRL; web 2.0 services and library 2.0; grid services)
that attracted attendees from as far away as New Zealand. The attendance included
representatives from universities (Princeton, American University, RIT), public libraries
(Boston, Connecticut), and special libraries (Getty Images, American Institute of Physics). The
conference was organized by Stephen Francoeur.
Archives The library completed a self-study and external review of its Archives. This included
a site visit and report by the chief archivists for Rutgers University, Marist College, and the
Center for Jewish History. Sandra Roff organized the process.
Honor The Library Instruction Round Table of the American Library Association selected an
article by two members of the Newman Library faculty as one of the top twenty publications of
2007 in the area of information literacy/library instruction. Jerry Bornstein and Louise Klusek
were honored for “Information Literacy Skills for Business Careers: Matching Skills to the
Workplace,” which appeared in the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. This is the
third time that a member of the library’s faculty has received this distinction.
Geospatial Data Services The library has begun offering Geospatial Data services to support
teaching and research. The library recently appointed Assistant Professor Francis Donnelly, who
has expertise in the use of geospatial data and geographic information systems software, to help
faculty integrate the use of these resources into their courses. He is already working with faculty
in the Marketing Department and SPA
Grant The library will participate in a recently-funded CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant
project to assess students’ information literacy, critical thinking, and computer literacy skills.
Baruch Computing and Technology Center
Classroom Help The BCTC help desk has established a phone tree to give priority to faculty
members calling x1010 for assistance from a classroom. When the help desk’s phone lines are
busy an automated message will direct faculty who need help with classroom equipment to press
“1.” This will route the call to lines reserved for classroom assistance. Please do not use this
feature for other types of assistance because the BCTC needs to keep the priority phone lines
open for classroom emergency support.
Computer Replacement The second round of faculty computer replacement is underway. The
status of the deployment of the computers is posted on the BCTC web site at:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/facultypcchart.html
Please note that the name of the faculty member associated with any computer on the list is
based on the original assignment of the equipment. The actual user of the computer may have
changed. Faculty should contact their school technology coordinators for further information.
Office of the Provost
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Tablets One of the faculty development projects funded by the student technology fee this year
is the distribution of tablet PCs for use in classroom instruction. The tablets enable faculty to
mark documents or PowerPoint slides while projecting them in class. The saved files may be
distributed to students via e-mail or Blackboard. There are a few tablets still available. Faculty
who are interested in participating should contact Arthur Downing.
Network Performance During the summer the BCTC staff worked with IBM to stabilize
network performance until aging equipment can be replaced. The 6th floor computing lab in the
Library Building was re-cabled to resolve local and campus-wide network problems originating
there.
New Staff The BCTC has appointed a Multimedia Design Specialist (Tiffany Habay) to assist
faculty with the use of digital media in their teaching. Marlene Graham was appointed the new
Manager of Audiovisual Services, who is responsible for support with classroom technology and
audiovisual equipment at campus events. Betty West is the new manager of the help desk. The
search for a Director of Instructional Technology is almost completed. Mikhail Gershovich
(Schwartz Communication Institute) chaired the search committee that included Professor Paula
Berggren (English), Alan Evelyn (SPAR), Professor Myung-soo Lee (Marketing), and Frank
Werber (BCTC). A search is also in progress for an instructional design specialist to assist
faculty with Blackboard and other instructional technologies.
Office of Institutional Research and Program Assessment
The mission of the Office of Institutional Research and Program Assessment is to compile,
maintain, and analyze institutional and other data to support the organizational, decision-making,
and planning functions of the college. The Office works closely with Baruch’s administrators,
schools, departments, and faculty to improve student learning. To date, we have assisted in the
development of measures to assess students’ written and oral communication skills and
analytical skills in the Business School and the School of Arts and Sciences. In the spring of
2007 we began participating in the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement and will
continue to take part in the National Survey of Student Engagement. This fall, we are assisting
Freshman Orientation, the Writing Center, and the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication
Institute in developing their assessment plans. We also plan to go live with the college’s main
assessment website by October.
Over the past year, the Office has continued to refine data-mining techniques to examine factors
related to enrollment patterns, to develop models for placement of students in mathematics and
English courses, to understand retention behavior and the factors that contribute to academic
probation, and to monitor trends in graduation rates. In addition, we are developing cluster
models that will aid decision-making in student recruitment and enrollment management.
The Office will continue to support the mission and goals of the College by:
• providing reliable and accurate statistics for its internal and external constituencies;
• offering data support for the administrative offices within the College;
• developing evaluation plans and instruments for outcome assessment;
• conducting in-depth survey research and analysis; and
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coordinating external reporting (e.g. US News and World Reports, The College Board, and
Princeton Review).
Writing Center
In its mission to improve the College’s student writers, the Writing Center provides
comprehensive writing support to undergraduates and graduate students. Outreach to and
collaboration with members of the faculty and myriad academic support units continues to be
integral.
Writing Center Consultants are college-level writing instructors from multiple disciplines. Most
are doctoral candidates. Their areas of expertise are in ESL, rhetoric and composition, Writing
Across the Curriculum, literature, and/or creative writing. Several Consultants teach in Baruch’s
Department of English and/or its Immersion Program; three have become Fellows in the Bernard
L. Schwartz Communication Institute.
In 2006-07, nearly 2,000 students made 2,967 appointments to work with Writing Consultants
on assignments from 287 courses (12 in SPA, 47 in ZSB, and 228 in WSAS). In spring 2007, the
Center developed and expanded the following services to provide greater access to students and
support to members of the faculty.
In addition to one-to-one consultation sessions (by appointment and drop-in), students may now:
• sign up for the Center’s numerous small workshops;
• participate in synchronous and asynchronous online support;
• gain access to online and confidential session reports to track writing improvement;
• sign up on a “virtual waiting list” if no appointments are immediately available; and
• make Saturday appointments.
Faculty members from across the disciplines may now:
• bring their classes to the Writing Center for an orientation of our services or, when sections
are too large, arrange to have a Writing Consultant visit their class;
• collaborate with Writing Consultants to identify at which points in completing their writing
assignments students will most benefit from visits to the Writing Center; and
• use session reports as a tool for evaluating the writing assignment component of their course,
The Writing Center is committed to cultivating a student-centered community of writers at
Baruch. The spring 2007 collaboration with the students in Professor Zoe Sheehan-Saldana’s
Department of Fine and Performing Arts’ capstone course transformed the Writing Center’s
space into an inspiring environment for writers. The dynamic results of the project can be seen in
the Writing Center itself, its promotional materials, and its web site. Please visit!
The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute
In the spring semester of 2007, the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute continued its
support of a wide range of Communication Intensive Courses (CICs) at all levels of the
undergraduate curriculum including courses in Music, Theater, Anthropology, Sociology,
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English, Management, Business Administration and Policy, Finance, Economics, Accountancy,
Computer and Information Systems, Psychology and Marketing. Overall, the total number of
courses supported by the Institute last year was 31, with a total of 382 sections and with
enrollment of nearly 13,500. These figures are the highest in the Institute’s history. The total
enrollment in CICs for AY 2006-2007 was more than five times what it was at the Institute’s
founding in 1997. Total supported enrollments in AY 2007-2008 will likely exceed that figure.
In the Spring semester, the Institute once again sponsored a number professional development
programs for faculty. Based on the success of last fall’s faculty development seminar for fulland part- time faculty teaching Great Works of Literature courses (ENG/LTT 2800 and 2850),
Institute staff conducted another such seminar for the Spring semester as well as 2 similar
programs for Anthropology/Sociology faculty. The Institute was likewise instrumental in
planning a similar program for English faculty teaching introductory composition courses.
The Schwartz Communication Institute continues to be a leader within CUNY in the support of
integration of instructional technology into the curriculum across disciplines. As part of the
Institute’s work within CUNY’s Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiative, Institute staff
has been working with BCTC on facilitating faculty use of weblogs as an additional medium for
student writing. Currently, the Institute supports weblogs in several English, Music and
Communication Studies courses.
In the Spring semester, the Institute also began to redevelop an oral communication diagnostic
web application it had used for a number of years in an Introduction to Theater Course. The
Institute’s staff collaborated with members of Baruch’s faculty in Fine and Performing arts as
well as Communication Studies to redevelop the VOCAT (Video Oral Communication
Assessment Tool), a new, more robust, flexible and user friendly assessment application built
with an open source content management framework. The new version of the application will be
used for a variety of assessment purposes at the College and will be piloted in Baruch’s
introductory public speaking course, COMM 1010 as well as THE 1041.
During AY 2006-2007, the Institute conducted a national search for a Deputy Director to help
manage the rapid growth of the Institute. The search was a successful one. Suzanne Epstein, a
graduate of Baruch’s Masters Program in Corporate Communication and currently a faculty
member in the College’s Communication Studies department, assumed the duties of the Deputy
Director in early July.
The Institute’s 7th Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication-Intensive
Instruction took place on April 27, 2007. Titled “New Rules: Convention and Change in
Communication,” the 7th Symposium was the best attended yet and once again provided a
unique, interactive venue for educators and business professionals to engage in a productive
dialogue on the changing rules and conventions that shape our understanding of what constitutes
successful communication in academic and business settings. The Symposium once again
consisted of round table discussions featured keynote presentations by William C. Taylor, a
founding editor of Fast Company Magazine and co-author of Mavericks at Work: Why the Most
Original Minds in Business Win and Chris M. Anson, Professor of English and Director of the
Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University.
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Baruch College Now and Collaborative Programs
In 2006-2007, Baruch College Now and Collaborative Programs were awarded a New York
State grant to launch the Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP). The Baruch College
STEP Academy offers a science education and college preparation program for high school
students. It aims to build excitement around studying the sciences and then to solidify interest in
careers in the sciences by preparing these historically-underrepresented or economicallydisadvantaged secondary school students for entry into postsecondary degree programs in
scientific, technical, or health-related fields and the licensed professions.
The Academy started in the spring 2007. Presentations, panel discussions, and field trips were
used to enhance students’ general interest in science and health-related careers. Presentations
ranged from a slideshow on global warming to how to extract DNA from a strawberry; panel
discussions included health workers that served in Africa, current PhD students in chemistry and
environmental engineering, and professors and administrators involved with science topics; field
trips included visits to the Bodies Exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History, and to
Solar1 to test the water quality of the local river. An early-college awareness course helped
students identify interests, set goals, and develop an educational plan. They also participated in
mock college admission interviews and made decisions about student candidates in role playing
as members of an admissions committee. The inaugural semester successfully enhanced college
awareness and built excitement around the sciences for the 64 students involved.
Summer Programs Baruch College Now conducted three summer programs in 2007: the
Summer Journalism Workshop, Merrill Lynch Young Business Leaders’ Institute at Baruch
College and the College Experience, an academic and recreational program. In total, there were
247 New York City high school students enrolled in College Now programs at Baruch College;
this represents an increase in summer program enrollment of 11% in 2006 and 51% in 2005. The
overall retention rate was 90%, with 242 of the 247 students having completed the program. Of
the 232 students enrolled in credit-bearing courses, 94% of the students earned a C or higher and
63% of the students earned a B or higher. The three programs enrolled students from thirty-nine
high schools.
Mishkin Gallery
The spring semester exhibition program featured Oscillating Impulses / Pulsiones Oscilantes:
Contemporary Mexican Prints, which was co-sponsored by the Department of Black and Hispanic
Studies. In March-April the gallery featured a selection of photographs from the Ewing Galloway
Archives, and in May-June the exhibition Regrouping: Three Generations of Latin American Artists
in New York presented a wide range of Latin American art. An average of one class visited the
gallery each week for a talk/tour and additional students visited individually or to work on class
assignments.
Is a picture worth a thousand words? The opening exhibition this fall, Between Language and
Geography: Words, Signs, and Symbols in Photography, explores the relationship between words and
images and the ways in which photographs encode messages, recount history, express ideas, and even
transform the meaning of specific sites. The November-December show, Miniature Worlds: Art from
India from the 15th to the 19th Century, will bring important paintings and sculpture to the Baruch
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campus. These works of art span 400 years of Indian art and history and present portraiture, history
painting, and painting with religious themes.
Faculty Development
For the 2007-2008 academic year, the Baruch College Fund has provided generous support of
$400,000: $250,000 will support research and $150,000 will support activities related to
teaching.
International Faculty Development Program (IFDP) The last of the items mentioned above,
this program enables international faculty to receive 15 hours per semester of one-on-one
tutoring in accent reduction, and to attend workshops focused on issues related to teaching (such
as classroom management, motivating students, lecturing techniques etc.), continues to attract 810 members of the faculty (full-time, visitors, adjuncts, and GTEs) each semester. In spring
2007, the IFDP continued to sponsor a book club open to all members of the faculty. The book
was Donald L. Finkel, Teaching With Your Mouth Shut (Boynton/Cook, 2000). More than 50
members of the faculty participated in discussions. Professor Elisabeth Gareis, coordinator of the
IFDP, would welcome suggestions for a book for spring 2008.
Adjunct Development The Baruch College online Adjunct Handbook remains the first item to
appear in a Google search for “adjunct handbook.” Answering questions about a wide variety of
issues it is an important resource for members of the adjunct faculty:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/facultyhandbook/adjunct/. Technology support for adjuncts
continues to be available in all aspects of instructional technology, including basic computer use,
Blackboard, and classroom technologies. Members of the adjunct faculty at Baruch regularly
receive notification by email of events on campus, including faculty development seminars. They
are strong participants in the Master Teacher Series.
Faculty Handbook The Handbook receives more than 6,000 hits each month at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/facultyhandbook/index.htm. The PDF version compiled in
December 2006 contains nearly 400 pages. New items are added regularly, including links to
many college and CUNY documents.
Academic Integrity Initiative
The Office of the Provost, along with the Office of the Dean of Students and the Academic
Integrity Committee, works to help build a community that values academic honesty and
communicates those values well. While acknowledging that important goals of the Committee
have been achieved (including continued increase in reports of academic integrity violations to
the Office of the Dean of Students and greater awareness of the College’s policies on the part of
both students and faculty), the Committee is developing a long term strategic plan to affect the
kind of “cultural change” implicit in our mission.
The college has renewed its subscription to the online database and plagiarism detection software
provided by Turnitin.com. Faculty members interested in gaining access to Turnitin.com should
contact Prof. Gerard Dalgish (English).
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The Joint Committee on Curriculum and Articulation
In its role as Baruch College’s assessment committee, the Joint Committee developed and
administered an inventory of writing assignments offered across the college during the Fall 2006
semester and a similar inventory of assignments involving oral communication skills in Spring
2007. Members of the faculty were asked to answer a series of questions about the type of
assignments in their classes, the nature of the feedback they provide, and whether students have
the opportunity to revise their work. The Office of Institutional Research is working with the
Joint Committee to analyze the results.
The Committee developed a series of recommendations about grades and grading policies that
were passed by the school curriculum committees in Spring 2007. Beginning in Fall 2007, the
grades of ABS, PEN, and WF have been discontinued, with INC taking the place of ABS and
PEN.
The Joint Committee on Research
During the fall 2006 semester, the Joint Committee on Research (JCR) conducted a College-wide
survey of all Baruch faculty members. The purpose of the survey was to determine what the
needs of faculty members are for conducting research, as well as how faculty members perceive
the current state of research-related resources at Baruch College. The Committee examined the
results of the survey at its meetings during the spring 2007 semester and submitted a detailed
report, along with a list of recommendations, to President Kathleen Waldron and Provost David
Dannenbring in April 2007 (A copy of the report is available at the following Website:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/grants/JCR.htm). In addition to the survey of the faculty needs and
opinions, the Committee also met with Associate Provost Dennis Slavin and consulted with the
deans of the three schools about issues related to the availability of funds, the distribution of
Baruch College Fund, and the ways in which the administration planned to support and
encourage faculty research at Baruch.
The Institutional Review Board (IRB)
The Institutional Review Board consists of six members of the Baruch faculty and one
community member. The mission of the Baruch IRB is to facilitate quality research, with quality
in this context emphasizing balancing risks and benefits for human subjects. The IRB must
approve in advance all human-subjects research involving Baruch personnel. Researchers must
complete computer-based training and, prior to each new research study, must submit an
application to the Baruch IRB. In brief, the application asks for concise descriptions of a study’s
purposes, design and procedures. Important criteria for IRB approval include voluntary
participation, confidentiality, informed consent, and limited risk. The new chair of the Baruch
IRB is Prof. Hannah Rothstein (Management). More information is available at:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/irb/
Sponsored Programs and research
In fall 2006 members of the Baruch College faculty submitted the more PSC/CUNY
applications than those of any other college and, in spring 2007, were awarded the most grants.
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Baruch’s submissions and awards increased by 76% and 78%, respectively, over the previous
year. 144 applications were submitted, resulting in 130 awards, for a success rate of 90%.
PSC 38 Award Program
School
WSAS
ZSB
SPA
Library
Total
# of Proposals
74
47
19
4
144
Amount Requested
$
393,760
$
271,548
$
102,332
$
19,974
$
787,614
# of
Awards
66
44
17
3
130
Amount Awarded
$
260,261
$
178,111
$
73,881
$
10,397
$
522,650
Overall, during FY06-07, the dollar value of research proposals requested by members of
Baruch’s faculty increased by 14% compared to FY05-06. The average proposal amount was
$325,759. The School of Public Affairs requested the largest dollar value in proposals, followed
by the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, the Zicklin School of Business and other
administrative units.
External Proposals Submitted
School # of Proposals Amount Requested
25
$
4,567,050
WSAS
9
$
8,293,851
SPA
7
$
1,838,954
ZSB
7
$
936,624
Other
Total
48
$
15,636,479
Grants and contracts awards from all units totaled $4,841,497 (unaudited) for FY06-07.
Compared to the same period last year, the number of awards rose from 56 to 74; however, the
average award decreased by about $330,000. The total awards for FY05-06 had been
$5,175,054.
External Proposals Funded
School Amount Awarded
$
1,979,216
SPA
$
697,144
WSAS
$
705,518
CAPS
$
668,862
Other
$
790,758
ZSB
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Percentage
41%
14%
15%
14%
16%
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Total
$
4,841,497
100%
The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute
The Institute has received a $200,000 grant from William Newman for the commencement of its
new Program for Sustainability. The program addresses the growing needs of the unfocused
priorities within the real estate industry, which lacks a centralized way of disseminating
information on this topic. We will make available a committed approach to sustainability that is
innovative and multi-disciplinary and that leverages the Institute’s strategic partners and location
in New York City. As well as providing certificate courses and specialized conferences and
events, the program will deliver unique industry-wide Web-based communication and
workshops addressing pressing needs in this area. The program will officially launch in spring
2008 with a conference the theme of which will dovetail with the Mayor’s sustainability
initiatives as outlined in PlaNYC 2030.
The Institute’s Certificate Program has received approval from the New York State Department
of States Division of Licensing for its first course on sustainability, “High Performance Green
Buildings for Real Estate Professionals.” This course marks the first in a series that is being
developed as part of the Institute’s sustainability-education initiatives.
The Institute has successfully established a program with Standard & Poor’s that allows their
employees to take courses in the Newman Real Estate Institute Certificate Program, with fees
paid by S & P. The Institute plans to build such relationships with other corporate entities. The
Institute is expanding its historic relationship with many nonprofit housing and community development organizations across the state, notably the Local
Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), as it prepares a seminar this fall on Property Acquisition
for Non-Profits, an event co-sponsored by the Newman Institute.
The Institute’s research on the future of downtown Manhattan, Project Downtown New York
2020 approaches its climactic second phase. Reported on as a keynote presentation at the
national conference of the American Planning Association, this work’ high level of scholarship
was lauded by an audience of peers from the legal, urban, policy, and planning professions.
CAPS
Online The Division for Continuing and Professional Studies has continued its efforts to
provide superior non-credit programming to our community. Last year, we opened online
support services for our traditional classes. This year we released a fully online program with
cutting-edge technology. Over 50 courses and 6 certificate programs have been released for the
Fall 07 semester. Courses are 100% online and incorporate the use of live conferencing,
communities of practice methodologies and a vast array of other technologies to ensure a rich
and interactive experience of both students and faculty.
Professional Advisory Boards CAPS' first advisory board for the International Trade
Operations and Procedures program, which was created in conjunction with the Weissman
Center for International Business,was created last year. Based on the response from the
professional community and students, CAPS decided to expand the approach. The fall semester
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saw the development of Advisory Boards for Human Resources, Project Management, and
Banking. Several more are expected throughout the year. Members of our boards include
leading professionals in the corporate community and provide essential guidance on industry
trends and training needs.
Community Connections Through strengthened corporate outreach efforts, CAPS has seen a
significant expansion of it corporate training program. We have won five times the contracts of
last year, and more importantly they are choosing us as their long-term partners in internal
training programs. We have also successfully marketed our services and programs to the
corporate community in new and creative ways. One example is the development of a Banking
program. By partnering with banking professionals, we have designed an exciting program for
release in Winter 08. It will be pre-marketing to the banking community through its professional
advisory board and, due to the direct input of HR departments throughout New York, we are sure
to hit the needs of potential students. The buzz is making the rounds and we expect enrollments
to follow this winter.
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Baruch College
Office of College Advancement
FY 2007 first-quarter report respectfully submitted for
the Baruch College GFC meeting of October 18, 2007
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The Office of College Advancement (OCA) is the fundraising, alumni, government &
community relations, communications and marketing team for Baruch College. OCA works
to market and communicate the College’s vision to our external constituencies while
supporting our strategic goals by securing the short and long-term financial resources
necessary for success.
Fundraising
The fundraising office benefited from the recent arrival of three frontline fundraisers over
the summer: Brian Hoeft, Evelyn Roberts and Jessica Aronin. This new talent will multiply
our outreach to those who can be helpful to Baruch. B.B. Huff manages our 17 Lex Society,
along with our telefund and direct mail initiatives. Telefund and direct mail has been on a
significant upswing and we expect the membership size and revenue of our 17 Lex Society
to increase as our overall outreach increases.
Our Campaign continues in its silent phase with almost all of our BCF Trustees having been
approached for a commitment. To date, we have secured over $30 million in firm written
commitments. Additionally, we have over $20 million in verbal commitments that are
pending documentation. The amount of cash collected in FY06 and FY07 were both record
amounts and have propelled the assets of the Baruch College Fund over $100 million.
The Baruch Means Business Campaign is now moving forward with a new wave of
cultivation and “moves management” focused on the College’s top 1000 prospects. We
anticipate initiating solicitation of the next wave of principal gifts this fall. The Campaign
Plan calls for achieving the $50 Million mark in firm pledge commitments by January 1,
2008, a goal that is within reach. Overall, we have followed our underlying plan to capitalize
fully and effectively on fundraising growth of Baruch College over the last decade
In order to advertise our success and help make the pitch for more campaign dollars, the
Office of Communications and Marketing is producing another annual report this fall. Last
year, Carol Abrams and her team crafted an annual report that underscored the impact of
BCF funding. This annual report went beyond audited financial statements to illustrate the
money is being productively put to use. This year we aspire to improve on the report and we
expect to make this an annual tradition.
Communication & Marketing
We re-launched our website, www.baruch.cuny.edu, just before the start of the new
semester. The College’s home page has had over 10 million views since October 2006 and
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is a top access point for information about the College for the public and for the Baruch
community. The scope of the redesign covered the home page, top-level landing pages, and
a common design element for every page of the site.
The College has created a new advertisement to enhance the college’s image while
providing a consistent platform for school- and program-specific advertising, so that there is
a Baruch “look and feel” out in the marketplace. Baruch worked with BBMG Marketing,
the firm that completed the new viewbooks for SPA’s and Zicklin’s graduate programs. We
will launch the new Baruch ad in the NY Times Magazine Section on Sunday, September 30
when they run a specially-themed college issue. Ahead of the external launch, we plan to
highlight the ads internally and highlight in our own publications, such as our electronic
newsletter to alumni and our alumni magazine. To build on the September 30th launch in the
NY Times in print and on-line, we will also be running ads on October 1st in the on-line
versions of the Wall Street Journal and Crain’s and in print in Metro NY and AM-NY.
WQXR, the classical radio station of the New York Times, ran 30 one-minute public service
announcements during prime time for Baruch’s Computer Center for Visually Impaired
People free of charge for ten days, spanning August 24 through September 4. The purpose
was to raise awareness of the Center’s services for potential clients.
Alumni Relations
Since our last report our Alumni Relations Office led by Lisa Poullard-Burton (’90) hosted
our Alumni Reunion on October 13, 2007 honoring the classes of ’37, ’47, ’57, ’67 and ’82.
The dinner event on the 14th floor of the Vertical Campus was a particularly special occasion
as Larry Zicklin (’57) was awarded College’s first ever William and Anita Newman Medal
for Philanthropy by none other than Bill Newman (’47).
We also held the 75th anniversary celebration of the Ticker last spring that was featured as a
cover story in the last Baruch College Alumni Magazine. This event was very successful,
drawing numbers and a sense of excitement that should set the standard for our aspirations.
It also exemplified the kind of creative thinking that utilizes affinity-based methods for
reaching out to Baruch alums.
At graduation this May we were very happy to recognize the 50th-year class of 1957, which
was distinguished with gold sashes and joined the party of honor on the dais. On Friday,
October 12 we will host a second annual athletic hall of fame event, followed on Saturday
October 13 by the reunion festivities for the classes of 1937, 1947, 1957, 1967 and 1982.
In order to transcend the limitations of traditional events-based outreach, we have redesigned our alumni webpages, launched an on-line community and improved our outreach
capability. In the past two years we have increased our number of alumni e-mail addresses
on record from 19,000 addresses to 33,000. These addresses allow us to send update e-mails
to thousands of alums that are drafted and sent every two months.
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Strategic Partnerships
This spring Strategic Partnerships had its 11th corporate alumni event in 18 months with two
additional events scheduled this fall with Lehman Brothers and Citigroup (ColgatePalmolive and JPMorgan Chase are in negotiation.) Arranged by Donna Haggarty, these
receptions provide a unique and sophisticated means for us to reconnect at all levels with
companies. We find that Baruch grads literally come out of the woodwork and re-associate
in ways that accrue to Baruch benefit in recruitment, grant-finding, volunteer activity and
individual donations. Recent events have included Con Edison, Bear Stearns, CIT, Deloitte,
Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and
TIAA-CREF.
The Office of Government and Community Relations, in Strategic Partnerships, has also
been successful in fostering the College’s relationship with our government representatives
and expanding our relationships with the local community. At the conclusion of this year’s
City and State budget cycle, the College received an additional $455,000 (above the
College’s State authorized budget funding) from discretionary allocations of individual
legislators. These funds will help enhance the College’s information technology
infrastructure; help provide additional Counseling Center support; and enhance programs in
the School of Public Affairs.
Executives-on-Campus
This summer we had the hard news that Marilyn Kahn will step down from her director’s
position. Marilyn is a five-year veteran of the program and literally saw EOC through from
birth to robust growth that included 350 mentorships last year and over 4,500 student
encounters in lectures, career-building, personal presentation seminars and other invaluable
augmentations of our institutional graduate career management office and the Starr Career
Development Center. Marilyn has approached her departure from Baruch with grace and
generosity and allowed us a transition period to enable the optimal recruitment of a
successor. After a briskly conducted search (through a committee that included invitations
to all three of our deans, plus our career development colleagues), we received acceptance of
an offer extended to Ms. Yvell Stanford-Walker who joined us on September 19.
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2007 General Faculty Report Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management September 2007 Academic Support Both freshman and transfer orientation saw a major overhaul for students entering Baruch in Fall 2007. Students were welcomed with brief or no check‐in lines and a full day of interactive welcome activities that created clear expectations for academic performance and codes of conduct. Much was done to increase student engagement and satisfaction with orientation and make it a celebratory experience. Student leaders underwent a revamped and more in‐depth leadership training program and took a greater lead in running the interactive sessions with students—a departure from the more didactic approach of previous years. Convocation was transformed from a half day to a full day experience that combined Convocation and the freshman text discussion (this time with increased faculty participation and preparation), a Parent Orientation and reception, with several new components including: a Street Fair with 60+ clubs participating, representation from Baruch departments across campus, music, games, prizes, a barbecue; a lively and interactive presentation by The Improvoholics, that introduced students to the College’s learning goals regarding communication skills; a half‐day, small group, intensive award‐winning diversity training run by the Anti‐Defamation League; and a kick off breakfast and luncheon for all new students. Twenty‐six sections (26) of Freshman Seminar are running this fall; all sections are block programmed with academic classes. The classes are staffed by twenty‐four (24) trained student leaders and twenty‐six (26) faculty/staff leaders. This year’s program features a newly revised syllabus, a new textbook and a new student handbook/planner and, for the first time, a pilot community service project to introduce first year students to the importance of teamwork and service to Baruch and the New York community. The Freshman Learning Communities, now enrolling over half the incoming freshman class, participated in an intensive two‐day pre‐term kick‐off culminating in Convocation/Baruch Beginnings. The program included sessions designed to start students on the semester‐long projects that will be the basis of their newly designed, project‐based course. Service learning projects for the fall ranged from HIV/AIDS and alcohol awareness to microfinance, the redesign of the 17 Lex building, a history of student life at the College, and an assortment of diversity projects. The goal of the course is to introduce students to the communication skills, time management skills, research skills, team problem‐solving skills, project management skills, and self‐help skills that freshmen need to succeed in college through the experience of working on the project. Last year, the Center for Academic Advisement focused on retention by holding seven (7) sessions for various groups of students on academic probation. The sessions provided students with all of the required information and resources they would need to improve their academic performance. These sessions will continue for the 07‐08 year. The Center continued its outreach to Baruch students by launching a newsletter (“It’s Academic”) which will continue this year. Additionally, an event was held in the spring for Baruch CUNY BA Students. The event provided a networking opportunity for students that have selected Baruch as their “home” school. Overall, the staff of the Center for Advisement had over 17,000 “contacts” with students (including repeat contacts) during the 2006‐2007 year. These contacts included in‐person 1
advising appointments as well as e‐mail and phone advisement. For 2007‐2008, the Center will focus on expanded retention outreach, increased collaboration with faculty and other student service departments, DegreeWorks promotion, and the continued assessment of its services. In the Spring 2007 semester, Disability Services held very successful symposium entitled “Career Development & Placement for Students with Disabilities.” The symposium included a workshop, “Preparation: The Key Ingredient to a Successful Career,” and honors were presented to attendees who have been supportive of Disability Services at Baruch including the Honorable Councilman Oliver Koppell and Eric Lugo who was also honored for his outstanding support and persistence in securing financial support through the City Council to continue Baruch’s innovative work in this area. Over one hundred (100) incoming SEEK students participated in a summer experience that was designed to prepare students for their freshman year while immersing them in college level work. Students were challenged to embrace new ideas as they attended workshops, went on field trips, and took part in math or writing labs. In response to students’ prevailing difficulties with mathematics at Baruch, the academic support team at SEEK created an innovative math curriculum that aimed to drill students’ basic skills as well as simplify complex topics. On October 4th, the SEEK Beta Alpha Chapter of Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society will have an induction ceremony for SEEK students and Associate Provost Dennis Slavin will be this year’s honorary inductee. A total of 165 skills assessment tests were given for 4,901 students in the 2006‐07 academic year in the Office of Testing and Evaluation. In addition to institutionalized test sessions, small group and individual emergency sessions are also held on an as needed basis. These tests generate between 5,000 – 6,000 course placements. A total of 4,100 students were invited to test for the CPE and 2,730 took the exam with a pass rate of 89.4%, compared to 89.2% last year. A total of 3,484 students took the Simnet exam. The pass rate for the first attempt was 61.8%, for the second attempt it was 77.4% and for the third attempt was 99.76%. The pass rates for first and second attempts increased from 2005, when they were 61.2% and 71.1%, respectively. The third attempt pass rate, already at a very high rate of 99.79 in 2005, was 99.76 in 2006. Student Support Services During 2006‐2007, 2,730 students made 5,344 (compared to 4,234 in 05‐06) visits to the Starr Career Development Center. There were 3,766 on campus interviews in 06‐07 (compared to 2,212 in 05‐06). Additionally, Over 7,000 jobs and internships were posted online last year. For the fall term, 45 Job Preparation Workshops and 37 presentations by corporate representatives are scheduled. There are 90 companies already signed up for Fall 2007 Career Day to be held on September 28th. The Center’s resources have also improved. STARR Search, powered by Symplicity, replaces our former online career management system eRecruiting. Currently there are 1,635 registered employers, 889 job and internship postings and over 20,000 students and alumni in the system. The Center has also benefited by the addition of three additional recruiting rooms which will be available for on‐campus interviews and is hiring a full time Pre Law Advisor thanks to the generosity of one of our alum. The Counseling Center obtained grants totaling $80,000 from various sources including a research grant from the New York Community Trust in collaboration with New York University which will be used to study best practice methods for evidenced‐based treatment for managing 2
depression among college students. The Center upgraded to an electronic medical records program, which will assist with follow‐up, help manage high‐risk students suffering from depression and assist in the restructuring existing methods of treating students to a triage structure based on student’s level of symptom presentation. Additionally, the Counseling Center was able to increase clinical part‐time help which resulted in a 10% increase in the number of students seen, reducing student wait‐time for services. Finally, the Center recently submitted an extensive self‐study of its pre‐doctoral internship program to the American Psychological Association (APA) for accreditation. Ultimately, this will improve the selection of qualified training staff who will in turn improve service delivery to our students. During the year 2006‐2007, 48 families and 50 children were served by the Baruch College Early Learning Center. Currently (2007‐2008), there are 31 children enrolled at the Center with eight new families having joined the program for the new year. The Center has been involved in a self‐
study process working towards re‐accreditation through the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs which should be completed by Spring 2008. Enrollment Management Baruch’s enrollment for the Fall 2007 semester was 15,777 as of the CUNY flash report (September 4th). This is 74 more students than Fall 2006, with most of the increase in graduate enrollment. We registered 3,033 graduate students and 12,744 undergraduates, compared to 2,969 graduate students and 12,734 undergraduates enrolled last year. Our goal was to maintain enrollment at the Fall 2006 level. Baruch College accepted 4,399 new freshmen and 2,151 new transfer students for the Fall 2007 semester. A total of 1,453 new freshmen and 1,347 new transfer students registered for classes. Although we anticipated a decline in transfers this fall, transfer enrollment was 1,347, very close to last year’s enrollment of 1,337. The high school academic average for incoming freshmen increased from 85.4 to 87.4. In a year when the national average for SAT’s decreased by 4 points, Baruch saw an 18 point increase. Our average SAT score for Fall 2007 is 1136. While students of color for the incoming class increased from 67% last year to 71% this year, the percentage of all new undergraduates African American students dropped from 10.5% in 2006 to 9.3% in 2007. The percentage of all new Latino undergrads increased from 16.2% to 16.6%. The percentage of those who do not self‐identify as any group has increased dramatically from 15% in 2005 to 22% this year. We will continue to focus our recruitment efforts to increase minority student applications and diversity. Baruch College has enrolled 1,379 international students (421 graduate students, 875 undergraduates and 83 ESL & Certificate students). Last year, 1,239 international students were registered (394 graduate and 845 undergraduate students). The International Student Service Center has now completely revised its website which now lists the most current immigration information; new informational packets and new links to various sites. The Registrar’s Office is in the process of finalizing graduation for Spring and Summer 2007. We anticipate approximately 2,490 students (1,691 undergraduates and 799 graduate students) will have earned their degrees by the end of the Spring 2007 and Summer 2007 semesters. The Office is in the final stage of the implementation of an expanded eRoster with BCTC. This new version of eRoster allows faculty to certify enrollment via the web after the third week of 3
classes. Faculty will also be able to submit “WU” grades for undergraduates with excessive absences through the eRoster. This automated process will comply with federal guidelines for students receiving Title IV funds. We are also developing a Veterans website which we hope to have operational by January 2008. The Financial Aid Office processed over 13,420 applications last year. Over $58 million in aid was distributed to 8,980 students. This compares to $52 million last year distributed to 8,600 students. The 2006‐2007 academic year was the initial year for two federal financial aid programs, the Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) and the Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant (SMART). 582 students qualified for ACG grants for a total of $425,344. 46 students received SMART grants for a total of $82,214. Building Community through Extra‐Curricular Life The 42nd Commencement Exercises of Baruch College were held on Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at the Theater of Madison Square Garden. Due to a concert commitment by MSG, there were two ceremonies, one at 11 am and another at 3:30 pm. The Office of Student Life again coordinated the event and academic regalia, commencement tickets and all ceremony logistics. Over 2,365 degree candidates attended the ceremonies. This was the first time that we held two complete ceremonies with undergraduates and graduate students attending each. The 29th Annual Spring Fling Street Fair was held on Thursday, May 4, 2007. This event attracted well over 2,500 students on a beautiful spring day and featured food, games, music, and entertainment. The annual fall Club Fair will take place in the Main Gym on Thursday, September 27, 2007. The Office of Student Life will conduct a voter registration drive during the fall semester leading up to the deadline to register for the NY Presidential Primaries in February 2008. Voter registration forms will be distributed at a table on the second floor lobby and in Freshman Seminar classes. ʺLeaderquest” the 25th annual Student Leadership Training Weekend is scheduled to take place from November 9 through 11, 2007, at the Edith Macy Conference Center in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Approximately 85 student leaders from government, clubs and media will attend. The Office of Student Life continues to support various community service projects at Baruch. The Office held the 3rd Annual American Cancer Society Relay for Life on Friday, March 23, to Saturday, March 24, 2007 in the Baruch College gyms. Over 800 students participated in this 15‐
hour overnight program, which raised $72,000. The three Relays held at Baruch College have raised over $197,000 for the American Cancer Society. The 4th Annual Relay is scheduled for April 4, 2008. Additionally, Student Life is organizing a team of walkers for the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraiser walk for the American Cancer Society on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Finally, the Office will sponsor its annual Fall Blood Drive on Tuesday & Wednesday, October 16 & 17, 2007. For October 2006, Baruch College was recognized by the New York Blood Center for one of the top 10 most successful drives in NYC for that month. With back‐to‐back CUNY Commissioner’s Cup Championships to our credit, Baruch Athletics has risen to the top of CUNY colleges winning three CUNY Championships (Soccer, Tennis, and Men’s Volleyball), and finishing 2nd in four other sports (Women’s Basketball, Women’s Cross‐
Country, Women’s Swim, and Women’s Tennis). Our program will look to match and even better that record in 2007‐ 2008. Go Bearcats! 4
Report to the Baruch College Faculty
by Johanna D'Aleo
Vice President for Administration and Finance
September 2007
Facilities Operations, Planning and Construction
Campus Master Plan - This Master Plan will provide Baruch with information which will
assist with the planning of changes and additions to campus spaces for the next ten years.
The Campus Master Plan contract was recently awarded to FX Fowle, after being
receiving final approval from Albany.
The Campus Master Plan kick-off meeting is scheduled for October 12 with the
Executive Committee. Committee membership includes representatives from the CUNY
Office of Facilities Planning, Construction and Management as well as the campus
President, Provost, VP for Administration and Finance, VP for Student Development and
the AVP for Campus Operations.
During the next nine months the consultants will be organizing meetings with various
campus constituencies to obtain input to this very important plan which is slated for
completion during Summer 2008. This is a very aggressive schedule and campus
constituents are asked to respond to requests for information and input in a timely
manner.
Construction Projects - We completed 69 construction projects over the summer,
including the installation of 29 smart classrooms. The work was accomplished with inhouse staff. The current project list, which is distributed to the Cabinet, includes about
132 active projects.
Looking Good Program - Started this summer, the focus is on enhancing the entrances
and lobbies of our buildings. Accomplishments include: new floor mats at the entrances
of the NVC and the Library, new trees in the lobby of the library, new plants in the
planters around the VC and south campus, new signs installed replacing paper signs, new
trash receptacles on the Barbara Kent Plaza, gum removal from surrounding plazas and
exterior wall/door cleaning and polishing.
Policies
Car Policy - outlines the use of college-owned vehicles, approved August 9
Smoking Policy – identifies where and where/not smoking is allowed, approval pending
Look for Administrative Policies at: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/adminfin/policies.htm
E-Procurement
Purchasing and Budget Planning have installed E-Procurement for tax-levy purchases.
Campus users were trained over the summer. The new software is user friendly, has been
well received, and will be eventually be integrated with the new ERP system.
Newman Vertical Campus Canopy
The NVC canopy is under design and construction is planned for the summer of ’08. The
new canopy will protect our faculty/staff/students entering the 24th street entrance from
falling ice during the rare events when ice forms on the outside of the NVC.
Student Residence Hall
Baruch is participating with Hunter, The Grad Center, John Jay, and CUNY central in a
study to determine if there is enough student demand to justify the construction of a
dormitory in Manhattan that would benefit the four colleges. This study is planned to be
completed by the end of October.
Exterior Campus Lighting Project
Design consultants for the exterior north campus lighting project were interviewed. We
are awaiting approval on the selected consultant. Design is expected to begin this Fall.
The new design will utilize sustainable concepts to power the lighting.
Health and Safety
A desktop Emergency Procedures Handbook was completed and is available for
distribution. This publication covers a number of safety related and medical situations
and will be distributed to all faculty and staff.
Human Resources
Training Workshops
“Preventing Workplace Violence” has gotten off to a great start. A total of 237 faculty
and staff have participated, with additional sessions being offered through November.
“Effective Performance Evaluations” workshop has also been successful with 46
supervisors attending so far.
Faculty Development Website
In response to requests from the Baruch academic community, we are pleased to
announce the launch of a faculty development website this Fall. The goal of the site is
for faculty members to share and react to techniques and best practices for effective
teaching across disciplines. The website will take the form of a blog in which faculty
contributors will share their thoughts, opinions, and experiences regarding teaching.
Eight faculty members have volunteered to be regular contributors. Leah Schanke will
serve as a facilitator for this initiative and will also be the administrator for the website.
Faculty/Staff Recognition
On April 19, 2007 we held the annual Service Recognition Awards event. A total of 166
faculty and staff were recognized for 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 35+ years of service to
CUNY and Baruch.
In addition at the Service Award event six Baruch employees were given the Baruch
College Excellence Award. This is the second year Baruch has recognized employees in
this way. The six individuals were selected from dozens of nominees and were cited
again and again by the faculty, students, and their coworkers for being efficient and
knowledgeable about their jobs and, most importantly, for the way they handled
situations and treated people who came to them for help. They cared. The six are:
Elizabeth Albert, CUNY Administrative Assistant,Math Department
Marco Inoa, CUNY Custodial Assistant, Conference Center
Gertrude Johnson, Mail/Message Service Worker (Telephone Operator), BCTC
Louisa Moy, CUNY Office Assistant, William and Anita Newman Library
Jennifer Salas, Enrollment Services Coordinator, UGAdmissions and Financial Aid
Judith Tse, Director of Undergraduate Services, Zicklin School of Business
Benefits Open Enrollment
The month of October is the annual opportunity for employees to make changes to their
health care plan, flexible spending accounts and other benefits programs. More
information will be made available as it becomes available.
Finance
The College is conducting a search to fill the vacated position of Controller and we
expect to complete the process shortly. In June 2007, two positions in the Office of the
Controller were filled. Hamidul Karim was hired as Manager of Financial Reporting and
Georgette Racana as the TAP Coordinator.
Property Management
The Property Management unit formerly reporting to the Controller now reports to
Campus Facilities and Operations. This unit has move physically from the Controller’s
Office, to room 1207 of the Lawrence and Eris Field Building, at 17 Lexington Avenue.
Planning and Budget
The College received its 2007-08 Operating Budget Allocations, which included CUNY
Compact Plan financing of $3.46 million. This year’s plan allowed for the addition of 12
new faculty lines and 4 lines that provide direct services to students. The Plan is funded
by a combination of new state appropriations, Baruch philanthropy and productivity
savings.
Student Lending, Accountability, Transparency and Enforcement Act (SLATE)
This legislation, which goes into effect on December 1, governs potential conflicts of
interest between higher educations institutions, their employees and the lending
institutions that provide student loans. An update will be provided after issuance of the
regulations by the NYS Department of Education.
CUNY’s ERP Project
This project has been renamed FIRST (Fully Integrated Resources and Service Tool).
The project’s goal is to implement integrated student, financial aid, financial, human
resources, continuing education, and development software systems and procedures in a
consistent manner across the University. The most advanced areas are the Human
Resources and Payroll modules which are in the “fit gap” stage. The FIRST design
applications for those areas are being examined for consistency and conformity to CUNY
and campus business practices. Where “gaps” are discovered, they are addressed in
discussion with campus personnel.
Report of the School of Public Affairs to Baruch College General Faculty
Fall 2007
Enrollment:
The School of Public Affairs welcomes 282 new graduate students this fall semester,
representing a +3.3% increase in new graduate students from last fall’s entering class.
This fall the School of Public Affairs had a 3.4% overall increase in number of
applications from fall 2006. Traditional MPA applications were up 3.4%. By June 6,
2007, one week prior to our application deadline, SPA’s traditional MPA program
already secured confirmation of 84% of our enrollment target, versus 44% in 2006. MPA
applications at that point were up +32.7% from last year. SPA enrolled 284/270, or
105.2% of its target for entering first time graduate students. 433 continuing graduate
students registered at SPA this fall, bringing the total graduate student population at SPA
to 715 students, or +2.73%.
Women make up 71.9% of the graduate student body, representing an increase of +2.3%
from fall 2006. Of 711 students reporting ethnicity data, 40.9% identify as White, 22.2%
Black, 13.5% Hispanic, 4.5% Asian, 0.1% Native American, 6.2%, Other, and 14.6%
Choose not to Respond. The entering class reflects the growing diversity of an already
highly diverse graduate student population. The ethnicity data for new students is 38.5%
White, 25.5% Black, 16.2% Hispanic, 4.0% Asian, 0.4% Native American, 5.0% Other,
and 10.4% Choose not to Respond. SPA’s first-time graduate student population is
comprised of 71.9% women and 28.1% men.
New Faculty
SPA welcomes four new faculty this fall. Micheline Blum starts at SPA as a
Distinguished Lecturer and is the new Director of the Baruch Research Survey Unit. She
has directed research for NBC News and was President of Blum and Weprin Associates,
Inc., an independent public opinion research firm specializing in polls for media and nonpartisan organizations. Assistant Professor Hilary Botein joins us from the University of
Connecticut. She holds a JD from Columbia University and a PhD from Northeastern
University. Her research is centered on low income housing and community
development policies and programs in the United States. Sonia Jarvis rejoins the SPA
faculty this fall as a Distinguished Lecturer and Director for the Center of Equality,
Pluralism, and Policy. Finally, Associate Professor Nicole Marwell joins us from
Columbia University, her first teaching post after earning her PhD from the University of
Chicago. Prof Marwell’s research sits at the intersection of three subfields: urban,
organizational, and political sociology with a substantive focus on nonprofit
organizations, local and state policies, and Latina/o communities.
SPA’s Academic Programs and Centers
Academic Programs
The MSEd in Higher Education Administration program underwent an internal review
completed in spring 2007. The report from the internal review of the MSEd in Education
Leadership is expected this fall. Both committee reports will be under review by School
Curriculum and Executive Committees early this fall.
Centers
The CUNY Board of Trustees formally recognized the Center for Strategy and
Management (CNSM) on July 1, 2007 with Jack Krauskopf, Distinguished Lecturer, as
the founding director. The Center serves as a resource for research, professional
development, and policy analysis for the nonprofit sector. CNSM held its first event,
Using Research and Evaluation to Improve Services and Operation on September 20,
2007. For more information, please refer to the SPA website.
SPA has another newly redeveloped center, the Center of Equality, Pluralism, and Policy
directed by Sonia Jarvis, Distinguished Lecturer. Their first event, an all-day conference,
Lack of Access: Barriers to Higher Education, took place on October 4. The event was
chaired by Sonia Jarvis and co-chaired by Professor Lynne Weikart. A few of the
panelist include: Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, President Kathleen Waldron, David
Stern, University of California School of Education, William Zumeta, University of
Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs, and Anurima Bhargava with the NAACP
Legal Defense Educational Fund, Inc. Panelists discussed the structural, financial, racial
and political barriers to higher education and made policy recommendations designed to
broaden access to higher education.
SPA’s Executive Programs
The Executive MPA program welcomed its twenty-fourth cohort. Students come from
organizations such as, Health and Hospitals Corporation, RoundAbout Theater, Salvation
Army, Korean Consulate, Mayor’s Office, and the Central Synagogue of New York City.
Both programs meet on Saturdays.
New York City Housing Authority
In partnership with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and CUNY’s
School for Professional Studies, the School of Public Affairs launched an Executive
Leadership Development Program that provides an in-depth education in leadership,
management, communication, finance, and policy planning. The new program
complements the SPA/NYCHA Leadership Academy Program, now in its second year of
providing participants with best practices in leadership, management, communication,
strategic planning, government relations, and housing policy. Together, the two programs
provide an integrated development experience for NYCHA’s senior executives.
Programs with Health Care Organizations
In partnership with the Greater New York Hospital Association’s (GNYHA), the School
of Public Affairs will launch its first session of the Leadership Development in Reengineering Health Care Systems for Quality Outcomes. SPA has also worked with longtime partner, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) to create a
training program for behavioral health care senior managers and clinicians focusing on
best practices in health care leadership and management.
SPA Faculty News
At the end of June 2007, eight SPA faculty members traveled to China in efforts to attend
a conference on municipal services at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and to meet
with officials at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Fudan, Tongji, and
East China Normal universities, all in Shanghai. The School is exploring relationships
with all five institutions and anticipates a follow-up conference co-hosted with SJTU in
the spring.
SPA has also established an academic connection with Université Paris XII Val de
Marne. SPA is currently hosting students from Paris XII this academic year in its
traditional MPA Program and is in discussion of sending MPA students there next
academic year once our students are identified.
We announced last spring that Professor Aries, Executive Director of Academic
Programs had been named an American Council on Education Fellow. We are pleased to
have Professor Aries with us this year before she takes up her fellowship for 2008-09.
Professor Robert Smith has won the 2006 Thomas and Zanieki Award from the
International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association for his new
book, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of
California Press, 2005). The award is given annually for outstanding social science
scholarship in the field of international migration to a book published within the last two
years, placing Professor Smith in the top rank of scholars in his field. He has also been
named a Russell Sage Visiting Scholar for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Professor Steve Savas was named one of the College’s first three Presidential Professors.
SPA’s Student News
In spring 2007, SPA had two students win Fulbright Fellowship Awards. Joselyn
Muhleisen, a BS graduate has taken her Fulbright to the College of Europe in Belgium,
where she is currently working towards a master’s degree in European international
relations and diplomacy. Christopher Bell, a recent MPA graduate, has arrived in Kiev in
the Ukraine to study how local government authorities are going about the business of
spending revenues given the recent changes in Kiev.
Heather Reagan and Lori Bianchet have both been named Presidential Management
Fellows. Heather has accepted a position with the FDA and Lori has recently accepted a
position as Budget Analyst for the National Parks Service, Dept. of Interior.
Stephanie Roth, MPA ’08 was selected this past spring to the highly competitive Oregon
Performance Intern program for their class of 2007.
Lastly, ten MPA students represented SPA and traveled to Washington, D.C. in March to
attend the 2007 American Society for Public Administration National Conference. SPA
and GSA funded registration and hotel accommodations for the students that were
chosen.
WEISSMAN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,
GENERAL FACULTY REPORT (Fall 2007)
The Weissman School is committed to the ideal of education as a transformation of the
whole person through study of the arts and sciences, an effort that includes (but is not
limited to) the acquisition of superior communication and quantitative skills, the
development of critical and analytical abilities, and the cultivation of aesthetic, ethical,
civic, and cross-cultural awareness. This ideal is central to our mission as a school and
shapes the experience that we offer our students, whether their aim is to pursue a degree
in one of our own disciplines or in business or public affairs. It also informs all of our
efforts to discharge our responsibilities in the various areas where we have set goals for
ourselves and sought to better our past achievements: the delivery of the core curriculum
of general education. the extension of basic learning to deeper mastery of a discipline or
core of studies, the development of freshman learning communities, the recruitment of
new faculty and students, the encouragement of scholarship, and the promotion of
cultural activities.
Recruitment of New Faculty and Students
No hiring season in recent memory has produced such a wealth of new faculty members
as this one. Altogether, next fall we will have twenty-eight new full-time faculty
members and thirteen new substitute faculty members. Every department has seen the
recruitment of highly qualified teachers and scholars with excellent records of
achievement and high promise for the future. In keeping with the school’s and college’s
commitment to our students’ attainment of a high level of communication skills the
English department gained a Writing Director and the Communications department
recruited a director of the first year communications courses. We have every reason to
expect that they will become key players in our ongoing efforts to unify and extend the
various efforts of the college in this direction. The Natural Sciences and Psychology
recruited vigorously and well fostering initiatives of some importance in the School. We
can say with confidence that these new arrivals will transform the face of the school and
provide tremendous impetus to our initiatives.
At all levels, Weissman classes are better enrolled than they have ever been. The Tier III
minor requirement has increased the number of students in our upper-level undergraduate
electives, allowing our departments to offer a greater variety of courses than ever before.
The number of undergraduate majors in Weissman is approaching 3000. At the same
time, our graduate enrollments remain healthy with a dramatic increase in the number of
applications, thanks to the popularity of our MS program in Financial Engineering, which
received an extraordinary 329 applications for the fall of 2007 (45 were accepted). For
the second year in a row, one of our Financial Engineering students took second prize in
the Interactive Brokers Collegiate Trading Olympiad. As the Baruch College Alumni
Magazine recently observed, our program is now competing successfully with the very
best programs in the field.
Freshman Learning Communities and the Core Curriculum
The Weissman School devotes considerable effort to freshman learning communities,
which this fall offers places to some 720 incoming freshmen in thirty-seven communities-roughly half of the freshman class and about seventy of the school’s finest faculty,
including quite a few of the new hires. Grounded in the belief that learning has a social
dimension, our learning communities have proven that students who are at home in the
college environment and who feel connected to each other and to faculty and staff are
more apt to post higher grades and demonstrate a higher degree of commitment both to
the institution and to their own educations. Assessment data from 2004-05, 2005-06,
2006-2007 show that learning community students earned significantly higher gradepoint averages than those who were not. Although the program currently operates only
during the fall semester, these results held true for the entire freshman year. In accord
with the strategic plan the School, in cooperation with Student Development, intends to
expand learning communities to accommodate the entire first year class.
Across the country the performance of students in required mathematics courses is a
matter of deep concern. It is a stumbling block for many of our students as well though
the mathematics requirements for admission to Baruch are the highest in CUNY. The
School has tried a variety of experiments to increase the number of students who
successfully master essential quantitative skills. In the past year, we have seen some
improvement. The fall 2006 pass rates for precalculus (53.2%) and calculus (62.2%)
were higher than the fall 2005 pass rates for precalculus (45.7%) and calculus (58.8%),
and the spring 2007 pass rates for precalculus (58.3%) and calculus (55.7%) were higher
than the spring 2006 pass rates for precalculus (40.3%) and calculus (50.4%). Clearly,
these are not yet satisfactory pass rates, but the improvement is gratifying. The open
discussion throughout CUNY urged by VC Botman and Chancellor Goldstein has
resulted in the rise in the SAT math scores required for admission to Baruch and other
first tier CUNY colleges.
Encouragement of Scholarship
Over the course of the last year, Weissman faculty received an impressive variety of
grants and fellowships, including awards from such prestigious sources as the Fulbrights,
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Syracuse
University, and the New York City Department of Education. Thirty-three of our faculty
received PSC-CUNY awards, and six received awards from other CUNY sources.
Among the new hires, particularly those in psychology and communications, there are
scholars who are bringing grant revenues. In the spring 2007 semester, forty-five
members of the faculty were granted released time for scholarly activities; twenty-three
received released time for the following fall; and eighty-five were given financial support
for travel to academic conferences during the fall. Over the course of the year, thirty
people received research funds, and twenty-seven were awarded graduate assistants. Our
faculty have an outstanding record of scholarly activity, and the Weissman School
remains committed to supporting them.
Promotion of Cultural Activities
With the hiring of a new Director of the Baruch Performing Arts Center, the Weissman
School stands ready to build on the remarkable range of musical, theatrical, and other
events that enrich the life of the college. The Aaron Silberman Concert Series offered
four concerts of chamber music, including two by the Alexander String Quartet, which
celebrated an association of twenty years standing with Baruch College. This year the
Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Series marked its fifteenth anniversary with concerts by
Rufus Reid, Lonnie Plaxico, The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
led by Bobby Sanabria, and an unusual multimedia “lecture/demonstration” on the music
of Art Tatum given by Arnold Laubisch and Dick Katz. The Great Works readings
offered a reading/performance of TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill for Women’s History
month which was a production first for the program. Two student theatrical productions
were presented in the Nagelberg Theater, and the Sydney Harman Writer-In-Residence
Program sponsored readings by two notable authors, Susan Choi and Mark Kurlansky.
Weissman hosted an anniversary celebration for the Pushcart Prize with some of the top
poets of the nation reading their works. In keeping with the interests of the Weissmans,
the School remains an impressive center of cultural as well as intellectual and
pedagogical activity.
Report of the Zicklin School of Business to Baruch College General Faculty-Oct. 18, 2007
The Zicklin School of Business is comprised of seven departments, six of which offer programs of study
that lead to BBA, MS and MBA degrees. In addition, the Zicklin School trains students enrolled in PhD
programs through the CUNY Graduate Center.
New Faculty
The Zicklin School welcomed fourteen new faculty members: Accountancy-Lale Guler, Christina
Mashruwala, Shamin Mashruwala, Igor Vaysman (with tenure); Economics & Finance-Evgeniya Duzhak,
Sabastiano Manzan, Bin Wei; Law-Maria DiMeo Calvelli, Donna Gitter; Management-Xiaoli Yin;
Marketing & International Business-William Heath; Real Estate-David Frame; Statistics/CIS-Radhika
Jain, Rongyong Wu.
New Administrative Appointments
Professor Myung-Soo Lee (Marketing & IB) was appointed as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
effective July 1, 2007. Rezaullah Mahmud joined the Zicklin School staff as the new Webmaster.
Academic Programs:
The Zicklin Undergraduate Program accepted more than 1000 new students into business majors from
March 15, 2007 to September 15, 2007. Four very successful orientation programs were held (July,
August and September 2007) with more than 80% of newly admitted students attending. These programs
provide an opportunity for students to meet with Dean John Elliott, Associate Dean Phyllis Zadra, a
representative from the Career Development Center and Dr. Ronald Aaron to learn what is needed to
successfully complete the BBA program. Students meet with advisors from their respective majors and
with their student colleagues.
The BBA Learning Assurance Committee continues to move forward in assessing the learning goals of
the Zicklin undergraduate program. Most recently, the committee developed a scenario which would
measure civic awareness/ethical decision-making. Data were collected in the summer from five Zicklin
classes. These data will be analyzed in the next few months.
Based upon the results of the written communication and analytical skills assessments, the BBA Learning
Assurance Committee recommended that the Zicklin faculty provide more communication and analytical
skill assignments for Zicklin undergraduate students. The Committee also challenged Dean Elliott to
emphasize the importance of teaching by providing focused faculty development opportunities and
rewards for faculty who commit to making their courses more responsive to the BBA learning goals and
our student needs. With the support of the Committee, the Zicklin School organized a Summer Seminar
for nine faculty teaching pre-business and business core courses. This Summer Seminar was supported by
the Provost’s Office and the Zicklin Dean’s Office. The participants/courses were as follows:
ACC 2101
ACC 3000
BPL 5100
CIS 2200
ECO 1002
Joseph Kerstein
Donal Byard
Al Booke
Raquel Fich
Michael Carew
FIN 3000
LAW 1101
MGT 3121
MKT 3000
Sonali Hazarika
Valerie Watnick
Lou Stern
Nermin Eyuboglu
The four day Summer Seminar (in June 2007) provided a forum for faculty to consider ways of making
their courses more interactive and to reflect on some of the most influential literature on college teaching.
A hands-on approach in the seminar allowed all of the participants to present fully revised, interactive
lessons. The group provided candid feedback and freely integrated each other’s teaching/learning
strategies into their own lessons. These faculty members will pilot their new syllabi in fall 2007 or spring
2008. In addition, they will work with their colleagues who teach the same course to assist them in
bringing more interactive assignments into their courses.
A website containing information about the assessment initiatives of the Zicklin School is available at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/assessment/Zicklin.htm.
Zicklin Graduate Admissions processed over 1750 applications for fall 2007 - an increase of almost 8%
over fall 2006. In total 982 students were admitted (707 MBAs and 275 MS students) with an average
GMAT score of 599. At “Form A” day 700 new Zicklin graduate students (450 MBAs & 250 MSs) were
enrolled, which is an 8% increase over fall 2006 and a 21% increase in the past 4 years. Overall Zicklin
graduate enrollment has increased 24% since 2003. In total, there are 2259 Zicklin graduate students,
69% of whom are MBAs.
The Admissions Team will continue their canvassing of New York and beyond. They will be traveling to
DC, Boston, Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Amherst (MA), upstate
New York (Binghamton, Ithaca, Syracuse, and Buffalo), and India (New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, and
Mumbai). Locally, the team will represent Zicklin at various events including the Forte Foundation’s
annual MBA event; the World MBA tour in NYC and the MBA Tour in NYC.
The full-time honors MBA program welcomed its largest incoming cohort in 4 years this fall. The class
of 2009 is 25% larger than last year and 43% larger than in 2005. Also, the program completely
refashioned its typical 3-day orientation to a full 2-week pre-term program. Entering honors MBA
students enthusiastically received instruction and exercises in team dynamics and communication,
leadership, conflict management and negotiations, and began their career management process. Another
new initiative in the honors MBA program this fall is Friday Morning Coffee, where students, faculty,
and administration can gather informally, catch up with each other, share ideas, and build community.
The Flex-Time/APT Orientation, held on August 18th, drew over 300 new MBA & MS students. Student
leader volunteers increased to 28 including 8 alumni who returned to spend the entire day at Baruch
College. The Cocktail Reception at the end of the day included for the first time a graduate club fair,
which increased membership for all of the graduate clubs and demonstrated the culture of Zicklin and
Baruch. The fair created an opportunity for continuing students and alumni to meet with entering MBA &
MS students.
The School continues to seek new ways to enhance students' communications and team building skills.
For the first time, entering flex-time MBA and MS and accelerated part-time students had the chance to
take a voluntary pre-term workshop on "Powerful Team Presentations." Two sections of the workshop
were offered, each meeting for one evening, from 5:45 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Both sections filled and were
enthusiastically received. The Sub-Committee on Communications established by the Graduate
Curriculum Committee met throughout spring and summer to develop a proposal for new required
courses in oral and written communication. These courses will address the needs of international and
domestic students. A proposal will be presented to the Graduate Curriculum Committee in fall 2007.
The MBA Learning Assurance Committee continues to make head-way on piloting the eight learning
goals of the MBA program. In the fall 2006 the learning goals Teamwork and Leadership, Ethical
Awareness, and Communication (oral and written) measurement tools were created. In January 2007 a
second pilot was conducted and analyzed for Ethical Awareness. In Spring 2007 the Teamwork and
Leadership learning goal was also piloted for the second time and analyzed. A rubric was also created in
the summer 2007 on Knowledge Integration. Additional pilots are expected to take place this academic
year.
The Graduate Career Management Center reports that fall recruiting is up 44% over last year, in part due
to five new companies recruiting on campus: Anchin, Block, and Anchin; BDO Seidman; JPMorgan
Chase; RTTS; and Unilever. Further, companies including Deloitte, KPMG, and
PricewaterhouseCoopers have expanded their recruiting efforts to include new divisions and positions.
This follows a summer during which the number of students engaging in summer internships increased by
32%.
The Center, along with the Executives On Campus program, just launched the 5th year of the Executive
Student Partnership program. This fall, over 80 Zicklin graduate students from the class of 2009 will be
paired with executive mentors who will assist the students in their efforts to define their career goals,
develop their marketing strategies, and engage in their search for summer internship positions. This is a
change from previous years, when the program focused on graduating students. The executives and
students are excited for the opportunity to forge these relationships earlier in students’ academic program.
The Center also continues to broaden and deepen their employer relationships. Summer months were
spent visiting companies to introduce them to Baruch or review their recruiting efforts. Companies
visited include BDO Seidman, Colgate-Palmolive, Depository Trust, Deutsche Bank, Ernst &Young,
JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, New York Life, RTTS, UBS, and Unilever. These companies have been very
pleased with their hires and are looking forward to expanding their presence on campus this year.
The doctoral program continues to raise the admission standards as it expands to meet the needs of the
marketplace. This year 17 new students were admitted to various programs with GMAT scores of
admitted students continuing to average well above 700. For the first time two students were admitted in
finance who will be able to build a concentration in real estate. There is currently one student on a KPMG
Project Scholarship and 3 students who are Llewellyn Fellows. Graduates have taken positions at the
University of South Carolina, Loyola University, Sacred Heart, SUNY and Iona College. More than ten
students currently in the program were given support to present their work at professional conferences.
The most successful was Yi Tang (finance) who won the award for top dissertation paper (and $3,000
prize) at the Financial Management Association meetings.
The Economics/Finance Department again conducted executive training for four groups from the China
Construction Bank, the third largest bank in the country.
The Department of Marketing and International Business has received a $35,500 grant from the Graduate
Research Technology Initiative (GRTI) sponsored by CUNY. The grant will be spent to upgrade the
department's Behavioral Laboratory computer hardware.
The Department hosted several seminars in the Spring including- Ann McGill, University of Chicago;
Walter Kuemmerle, Harvard Business School; Mike Kotabe, Temple University; Nandini Lahiri,
University of North Carolina; and Nicolas Papadopoulos, Carleton University. The Direct and Interactive
Marketing Lab held two seminars as part of their Epsilon Interactive Lunch and Learn Seminar series.
The first seminar, on April 19, was titled "The Marketing Evolution" and featured a panel of three
speakers: Stephanie Pont (Pont Media Direct), Patti Devine (Devine& Company), and Ragy Thomas
(Epsilon Interactive). The second seminar, on the topic "Advertising: Television vs. Internet", was held
on May 1 and featured Lee Hoffman ( WebMD.com), Michael Kaplan (G2 Direct and Digital) and
Anthony Schneider (Peersuasion).
A Baruch student team, supervised by Professor J. William Heath from the department, won the regional
championship (District 2) in the National Student Advertising Competition organized by the American
Advertising Federation on April 28 and 29. The team presented a comprehensive advertising campaign
for Coca-Cola. Baruch student teams also competed successfully in the 2007 Collegiate Echo competition
organized by the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation. Baruch teams won 1st prize in the graduate
division and 3rd prize in the undergraduate division.
As part of Zicklin School's research support for our faculty and doctoral students over the summer
months, the Department of Statistics/CIS offered statistical consulting services to faculty and student at
their Stat-lab facility. Professors Shulamith Gross, Hammou El Barmi, and Matthew Johnson served as
consultants and about 15 faculty and doctoral students directly benefited from the summer consulting
services.
The Department of Real Estate received formal approval by New York State for the MS in Real Estate.
The program will begin accepting students in fall 2008. As part of the curriculum, the following eight
new real estate courses were approved:
RES 9860 Real Estate Development
RES 9910 Analytical Skills for Real Estate
Decision Making
RES 9920 Project Management & Construction
RES 9940 Real Estate Marketing
RES 9950 International Real Estate
RES 9980 Real Estate Entrepreneurship
RES 9930 (TAX 9930) Real Estate Taxation
RES 9990 Real Estate Research and Project
Zicklin Academic Centers
The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity sponsored 6 events throughout the spring semester of
2007. On March 8, Ronald Goldstock, Independent Private Sector Inspector General, moderated the
unrehearsed program “Corporate Integrity in the Global Economy.” Mr. Goldstock posited a situation
based on an actual corporate integrity dilemma facing the Chiquita Banana Company to a board of
directors constituted by Dean John Elliott, and Professors Lilach Nachum, and Michael Stauffer. On April
11, ZCCI sponsored “XBRL for Equity Research and Investment Analysis.” Speakers from regulatory
institutions demonstrated how XBRL can be used for equity research and analysis. Panelists from the buy
and sell side firms discussed about how XBRL will be implemented and used by analysts and investors.
The center co-sponsored an Oxford Debate entitled “Should Stock Options Be Abolished as Executive
Compensation?” with Sigma Alpha Delta Honor Society, and the Baruch College Debate Team on April
16. The debate featured two teams, each comprised of a Baruch undergraduate student, a Baruch business
professor and a business professional arguing opposing sides of the issue. On April 19, Judge John
Gleeson of the US Eastern District examined the uses and abuses of Corporate Criminal Law in
maintaining corporate integrity during the program “Corporate Criminal Responsibility.”
On May 3, ZCCI held its sixth annual Financial Reporting Conference Chaired by Professor Norm
Strauss. The all day conference provided a forum for interaction between business and accounting
executives and policy setters from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial
Accounting Standards Board. Finally, ZCCI sponsored the Corporate Governance Evening Seminar
Series, chaired by Professors Robert Laud and David Rosenberg. The four part program examined
governance issues including “Shareholder Activism” (March 28) “The Strategic Role of the Board” (April
25), “The Effect of Reputation on Corporate Performance” (May 16) and “Executive Compensation”
(June 13).
The Bert W. and Sandra Wasserman Trading Floor / Subotnick Financial Services Center hosted 387
events in the Spring 2007 semester. Events included 163 class sessions for for-credit courses in a range of
disciplines, 35 non-credit workshops on Reuters and Bloomberg, 48 corporate and executive education
events, 112 orientation events, tours and alumni association Telefund events, 19 special events including
trading simulations and coverage of Federal Open Market Committee testimony and 10 Information
System Research Workshops (http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/isrw/).
Highlights of the spring semester included a week of intensive training in May for Sponsors for
Educational Opportunity (SEO) interns prior to their internships in sales and trading and asset
management positions at leading financial institutions in New York. In March the Center provided two
weekends of training for student participants in the Merrill Lynch Entrepreneurship Competition.
The staff of the Center encourages faculty and students to visit the Center’s web site:
http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/centers/subotnick where students, faculty and staff can learn more about
the Center, view the calendar of events, sign up for free workshops, and join the Wasserman Trading
Floor / Subotnick Center Community on Blackboard to view tutorials and additional materials.
Other Items of Note
On May 11, 2007, the Zicklin School held its annual honors ceremony. At that time 102 students were
inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the management honorary society. In addition, Austin Marxe (’65)
received an honorary induction and delivered the Keynote Address. Professor Donald Vredenburgh was
the faculty honoree. Zicklin Teaching Excellence Awards were given to Thomas Kramer (Marketing and
International Business), Lin Peng (Economics and Finance), David Rosenberg (Law), John Shon
(Accountancy), Isak Taksa (Statistics and Computer Information Systems) and Cynthia Thompson
(Management). Beta Gamma Sigma Alumni Medallions were awarded to Monifa Brooks
(undergraduate) and Katrina Motch (graduate).
Service Excellence Awards were presented to Zicklin staff members Benjamin Enoma, Joseph Grandone,
Linda Moore, Rasal Mowla, and Troy Taylor.