The DSC is holding a Graduate Center wide Town Hall on the Presidential Search where we will discuss visions for the new president.

The forum will be open to all but speaking priority will be given to students and staff.  Faculty is of course invited and welcome to speak but we want to make sure we hear from students and staff first who have had the least opportunity to date to provide feedback.  Faculty and student members of the committee will be invited to attend to hear the concerns generated and answer questions to the best of their ability.

The format/agenda of the forum will be

1) Solicit from the community the following:  important characteristics they would like to see in the new President, what type of issues they feel the new president must address, and visions for an improved GC that they would like the new President to take on.

2)Go over the timeline (see below) of the search process to inform the community of various moments in which feedback can be provided and to whom.

 

The goals of the forum will be to:

1) Based on agenda item 1:  The DSC will create a list of priorities, characteristics, issues of relevance and concern and forward these to the members of the search committee and eventually to the President elect. Notes from this meeting will be posted on the DSC website at:  cunydsc.org.

2) Based on agenda item 2:  Clarify the timeline (currently described below as it now stands) and inform the community of additional opportunities to provide input.

At no time will specific candidates or presumed candidates be discussed since this information is confidential and none of the candidates have gone public with their application.  The moderator of the meeting will shut down any conversations of this nature.

The meeting will be held from 5:30-6:30 on Monday May 5th in room 5414

*If you have issues that you would like to address but can’t make the meeting please send them to dsc@cunydsc.org by Monday afternoon.

Timeline of the search:

  • The call for applications went out and applications were due on April 7th.
  • The hiring committee is reviewing applicants and holding interviews during the months of April and May.
  • Interviews will hopefully be complete in early May
  • The committee will pair down the candidates to a small handful that will visit the GC in mid May.  At this point the hiring committee will have officially completed its task.
  • Candidates will meet with several ‘invested constituencies’ that include student leadership, EO’s, central line faculty, and the graduate center cabinet.  There will also be an open community meeting where all members of the GC community will be invited to attend.
  • The applications of the final handful of candidates will be sent to the incoming Chancellor (James B. Milliken) who will make a final recommendation to the board of trustees.  Invested members of the GC community are encouraged to send their thoughts and recommendations directly to the Chancellor at that time.  The Board of Trustees will make the final decision based on the Chancellor’s recommendation.

 

Student Involvement: 

            DSC Co-Chairs Amy Martin and Colin P. Ashley serve as the student representatives on the committee.  They can be reached at ccsa@cunydsc.org(Amy) and ccb@cunydsc.org (Colin) if you have questions or suggestions. (Please remember that individual candidates can’t be discussed until their names are made public to the GC community.)