President Boudreau’s Cabinet Meeting Minutes Monday, March 6, 2023

President Boudreau’s Cabinet Meeting Minutes

Monday, March 6, 2023 10:00 am – Noon
In-Person and Zoom Meeting

Facilitator: Dean Susan Perkins

Presenter: Dean Juan Carlos Mercado 

  1.  Doris Cintron, Senior Associate Provost 
  2. Alex Couzis, Dean, Grove School of Engineering 
  3. Teresa Flemming, Executive Associate to the President
  4. Scott Gurba, COO and Chief Operating Officer 
  5. Marta Gutman, Dean, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture 
  6. Ken Ihrer, Vice President of Operations and Coronavirus Coordinator 
  7. David Jeruzalmi, Chairman, The Faculty Senate 
  8. Felix Lam, Vice President, Finance and Administration 
  9. Edwin Lamboy, Dean, School of Education 
  10. Tony Liss, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs 
  11. Celia Lloyd, Vice President, Student Affairs and Enrollment Management 
  12. Juan Carlos Mercado, Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies at CWE & Professional Continuing Studies 
  13.  Renata Miller, Dean, Division of Humanities and the Arts 
  14.  Dee Dee Mozeleski, Senior Advisor to the President and VP & Executive Director, Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications and External Relations and The Foundation for City College 
  15. Naomi Nwosu-Stewart, AVP of Enrollment Management
  16. Paul Occhiogrosso, Executive Counsel to the President 
  17. Susan Perkins, Dean, Division of Science 
  18. Andrew Rich, Dean, The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
  19. Ruth Stark, Chairperson, Faculty Committee on Personnel Matters 
  20. Mary Ruth Strzeszewski, Associate Provost and Chair, CCNY Graduate Constituent Council
  21.  Vanessa Valdes, Associate Provost for Community Engagement 
  22. Rosemarie Wesson, Associate Provost for Research 

Absent: 

Carmen Green, Dean, CUNY School of Medicine

Dean Susan Perkins as the facilitator opened the meeting at 10:00 am and called for a motion to approve the Minutes from the February 6th Cabinet meeting. After the Minutes were approved, she asked President Boudreau to share his announcements. 

 

President’s Announcements:

  • We have a meeting on March 16th with RISE; an energy project with the School of Engineering.  The project has currently brought $10M into the college.  More is likely to come in that will turn into revenue through our Workforce Development program and research for the School of Engineering.  Pending approval from NYSERDA, the project will bring in an additional $10M.
     
  • Later this month we have the NYC Economic Development Council and the Partnership for New York as well as the Empire State Development Council coming to campus.  Originally, they were visiting to get more information for the Life Sciences Project, but they’ve also become interested in our capacity to work in semiconductors.
     
  •  Micron, which also specializes in semiconductors called and are coming for a campus visit today and are bringing their top leadership to see what our potential is to work with them.
     
  • Today, we have the third visit with the New York Knicks operation.  They are looking at the operation of the gym to make sure there are no barriers to that relationship.  We are close to signing a 10-year relationship with what will be called, The Harlem Knicks.
     
  • No VRB’s are going through at this time.
     
  • Lobbying: I have met with everyone in the Higher Education Committee.  The focus is on the idea of a STEM supplement that would be $52M to the University; for us, we could probably multiply the number of engineering, science and architecture majors by 1,000 and that would give us the number coming int the college.
     
  • The Alumni Association requested the CUNY “Gold Sheet,” the official set of lobbying priorities that has been put together by the University.
     
  • COO Gurba is working on a budget savings plan by March 13th.  The submission deadline is March 17th.  Professor Jeruzalmi asked to share the plan with Faculty Senate, President Boudreau suggested having a meeting after March 13th with a small group of faculty and staff to make them aware of the plan.  A number of Deans shared what their enrollment plan is for their divisions.
     
  • Renata Miller is no longer attending Cabinet at an Interim Dean; she is now the Dean of Humanities & Arts.

Report Back on:

  1. EDC and RISE conversation.

VP Lloyd asked everyone to take a look at the Navigate training video in Dropbox and provide feedback.  Dean Gutman suggested the video be shortened and focus on the exact purpose of engagement.

Action Plan:  President Boudreau asked VP Lloyd and AVP Nwosu-Stewart to take the second point from the last minutes as a game plan in addition to bringing together divisions in Gateway for advising, how we integrate these various components; the Stony Brook Model, the Meta-Major Model and something more concrete about how we’re planning so that we can use it as an action plan at the March 20th Cabinet meeting.

Provost Liss spoke about cost-saving Teaching Modalities.  He previously asked the Deans to work out examples of what the cost savings would be.

President Boudreau stated that VP Mozeleski and COO Gurba had a meeting with Adult and Continuing Education and Workforce Development.  He stated they will manage the financial model for Adult and Continuing Education.  He also stated that he would like to set revenue targets for Workforce Development and Adult and Continuing Education.

President Boudreau mentioned that he asked for nominations from the divisions about people who want to be involved in the formulation of the First-year Introduction class.  Those who want to be involved in the formulation of the curriculum should send their names to Teresa Flemming.  Dean Rich stated that the Deans have set up a meeting to talk about the core elements of the curriculum and how they would pilot and expand in each of their divisions.

Note:  The topic of the First-year Introduction class is now off the Cabinet agenda and now on the Deans agenda.

President Boudreau the spoke about budget remediation and planning and asked COO Gurba to first discuss the general budget remediation situation and then the status of stimulus spending. 

President Boudreau then went on to speak about the College Research Framework.  He stated we have a number of major research proposals that are under consideration now that are going forward that have involved some coordination among different elements of the college.  He stated it’s time with guidance from the Faculty Senate, Provost Liss and Associate Provost Wesson as well as others to reevaluate whether our framework for getting the most of our research potentiality is working at this point with the apparatus we have set up.  He stated this will be put on the agenda for a future discussion.

Professor Jeruzalmi informed President Boudreau that they’ve come up with a proposal that they’re going to make to him and will go to the Senate for its first reading at the March Plenary.

Dean Mercado then presented his division to the Cabinet.

Lastly, President Boudreau reaffirmed a preliminary agenda for the March 20th meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 12:05 pm.

President Boudreau’s Cabinet Meeting

Monday, March 20, 2023 10:00 am - Noon
Agenda

 

Meeting Facilitator:  Prof. Ruth Stark

Divisional Presenter: Dean Susan Perkins

 

  1. Approval of Minutes
  2. President’s Announcements
    1. Crisis Leadership Course
  3. Budget Remediation plan
  4. Retention Initiatives/Student Success
    1. Updated report on moving students out of Gateway
    2. Articulation Agreement
    3. 1847 Academy
    4. BMCC
  5. More conversation on Research Framework
  6. Commencement
  7. Divisional Presentation
  8. Formulation of next meeting’s Agenda

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