Vincent Boudreau and Tony Liss
Dear Faculty and Staff,
It is with mixed emotions that we write to announce that Dean Andy Rich will be leaving City College after the Spring semester to become President of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We could not be happier for Dean Rich as he makes this exciting career move, but he will be missed on our campus.
Dean Rich started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University in 1999 before moving to the Political Science Department at City College in 2003. After holding a number of leadership positions in the Colin Powell School, Dean Rich left City College to become President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute in 2009 before moving on in 2011 to become CEO and Executive Secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation where, still today, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Friends of the Truman Foundation. Six years ago, in early 2019 we were fortunate to lure Andy back to City College to serve as the Dean of the Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership.
During his six years of leadership the Colin Powell School has seen growth in every measure, most obviously in the number of undergraduate students as the Powell School became the largest undergraduate division at the College, as measured by numbers of majors, and he has overseen a fundraising campaign for the division that has secured more than $85 million in pledges and gifts since 2020. Among other things, the funds raised have supported several new faculty hires and a number of new leadership programs including Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice and the Moynihan Center at City College. Most recently Dean Rich has overseen the creation of the Social Mobility Lab at CCNY dedicated to understanding how social mobility is created.
During his time with us, Dean Rich has built a strong and resilient division of social sciences, one that supports our students and carries out the mission of City College every day. The school has an extraordinary staff and faculty, and it benefits enormously from the guidance and support of a 28-person Board of Visitors, chaired by Linda Powell. It is a division we are confident is well positioned to attract its next dynamic leader. We will be announcing interim leadership for the division very soon, so that the interim dean will have the advantage of working side-by-side with Dean Rich between now and June 2025, and we will be beginning a nationwide search for the next permanent dean in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, please join us in congratulating Dean Rich on this exciting career move.
Sincerely,
Vince Boudreau
President
Tony Liss
Provost