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MAY 2007

CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein Named Carnegie 2007 Academic Leadership Award Winner

Recently, Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, announced Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of The City University of New York, as the latest recipient of the Corporation’s Academic Leadership Award. The award recognizes leaders of institutions of higher education who have an abiding commitment to liberal arts and who have initiated and supported curricular innovations, including development of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programs that aim to bridge the gulf between the theoretical and the practical. In addition, the award honors leadership that actively supports K-12 school reform, strengthens teacher education and emphasizes community outreach. Goldstein will receive $500,000 to be used for his academic priorities.

“By raising standards, strengthening student preparation, revolutionizing financing and adding new schools to the system, Matthew Goldstein has truly reinvigorated the City University,” said Gregorian. “The Academic Leadership Award celebrates excellence,” he added. “It builds on the foundation’s long tradition of developing and recognizing the importance of leadership in American institutions of higher education. Clearly, Matthew Goldstein’s accomplishments prove that excellence in leadership is much more than effective management.”

A number of initiatives underway in the CUNY system demonstrate Goldstein’s effectiveness and reflect the criteria for the award:

Commitment to liberal arts is the hallmark of CUNY’s William E. Macaulay Honors College, which offers free tuition and other benefits to the city’s highest achieving students (an enrollment of 1,200) who might otherwise not be able to afford higher education. The presence of more high academic achievers has garnered several prestigious awards for the university, both from the Macaulay Honors College and other programs, with students winning Barry Goldwater, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Truman scholarships in 2007, in addition to recent Fulbright and Rhodes scholarships.

Curricular innovation characterizes CUNY’s Decade of Science (2005–2015). Over $1 billion has been dedicated to new and expanded science facilities throughout the CUNY system as part of this commitment to bridging theoretical research and practical outcomes, ensuring a healthy pipeline to the science, math, technology and engineering fields critical to the evolving global economy. The Teacher Academy was launched in 2006 as part of the New York City Partnership for Teacher Excellence within the New York City Department of Education in support of this highly innovative effort, and incorporates interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programs to train math and science teachers for high-need New York City schools.

CUNY has formed partnerships with the New York City Department of Education to enhance students’ readiness for, and participation in, higher education. The university has developed a network of 15 high schools housed on its campuses and opened ten early college schools, with four additional schools in the pipeline. The successful College Now program helps 32,000 students annually in over 280 New York City high schools meet high school graduation requirements while preparing for college success.

“The opening of CUNY’s new Graduate School of Journalism clearly demonstrates Matthew Goldstein’s sense of the university as a cultural and economic force in New York City as well as his understanding of the changing role of media throughout the world,” said Vartan Gregorian.

Goldstein is the first alumnus of the university to be appointed chancellor, the highest position within the nation’s largest urban public university.

Shortly before Goldstein was named chancellor in 1999, an advisory task force issued a report calling the CUNY system “an institution adrift.” But his reform plan, which included converting the loose federation of colleges into a unified system of flagship programs and adding over 1,000 full-time faculty throughout the CUNY system, has turned the university around. As a result, enrollment is at its highest level in 31 years: more than 470,000 students, from 167 countries and speaking 119 languages, now attend CUNY’s degree-credit and continuing education programs.#

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