State of the College Address · 2019-03-26 · Outstanding Faculty Recognition Prof. Jason Kliot, Capernaum Cannes Grand Jury Prize Producer of Capernaum led to a Cannes Grand Jury
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Spring Stated Meeting and State of the College Address March 19, 2019
• New CUNY Chancellor • Facilities Highlights • Outstanding Brooklyn College Recognition
• Campus, Staff, Student, Faculty, & Alumni
• Accreditation Progress • Strategic Plan Progress • Preview Commencement
New CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez starts May 1
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This is good for us at BC, Pres of Hostos CC and then president of QC. No learning curve about the challenges we face; Understands political and social context in which everything has happened over past decade at CUNY. He is an academic and understands the scholarly agenda of the campuses. QC is the closest thing to BC in the CUNY system. Felo is personal friend.
Facilities Highlights The Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
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New east entrance to the campus. 30-ft high glass entry welcomes community to BC campus. Gorgeous building featured in Architect Magazine
Facilities Highlights Tow Center Ribbon Cutting on Nov. 1
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Len Tow and daughter Emily Tow Jackson on the right. Chancellor Rabinowitz two over from her on the right.
Facilities Highlights Don Buchwald Theater Opening on Feb. 20
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Don and Maggie Buchwald inside the acoustically superb theater.
Facilities Highlights Boylan Lecture Hall 3129
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Three slides of renovated lecture halls.
Facilities Highlights Whitehead Lecture Hall 320
Facilities Highlights New Ingersoll Lecture Hall 148: “Skurnick Hall”
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Sam Skurnick '38, (math & physics). His widow made a contribution to BC to name the hall. Now, we have many other lecture halls that need work, including 2 in Ingersoll, but we are making progress under excellent leadership of SVP Alan Gilbert.
Outstanding Brooklyn College Recognition Named a “Best Value College” in New York
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Top 30 out of hundreds colleges in NY, offer excellent education at affordable price. = Access to education for diverse students we serve: 1st & 2nd gen IM, 1st in families to attend college, low income students who we propel into middle class.
Outstanding Staff Recognition Ana Valdez, February Employee of the Month
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Ana joined BC family as a custodial assistant in 2014. She takes the initiative to learn new skills and help wherever needed. Her work ethic is unparalleled, but her warm disposition is what makes her really stand out.
Outstanding Staff Recognition Leticia Medina, March Employee of the Month
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Leticia has been at BC for 11 yrs. She works as an Office Assistant in Anthropology/Archaeology, makes welcoming environment. Patient & dedicated, esp. when advising students/instructors on Degree Works. “Couldn’t imagine dept. without her.”
Outstanding Student Recognition Chris Moye, NY1 New Yorker of the Week
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TV/Radio at BC. Won for inspiring & mentoring students. He says: "You have a goal, a dream, the world needs you. I want these kids to remember that — you are important.” Mr. Moye is a Youth Devel. Special. at Good Shepard after-school program.
Outstanding Student Recognition Jasmine Rogers, NHA Excellence in Teaching Award
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Grad student in School of Ed. working toward her masters in math educ. 4th-grade teacher at Brooklyn Scholars Charter School. One of only 11 recipients of this year’s National Heritage Academy’s annual Excellence in Teaching award.
Outstanding Faculty Recognition Prof. Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award for The Friend
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MFA prof. NYT: “an acerbic but often poignant exploration of love, friendship, death, grief, art and literature, which drew euphoric reviews from critics, who hailed it as a subtle, unassuming masterpiece.”
Outstanding Faculty Recognition Dist. Prof. Tania Leon commissioned by NY Philharmonic
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for Project 19, an all-women, multi-season celebration of the 100th anniversary of the #19thAmendment's ratification.
Outstanding Faculty Recognition Prof. David Balk, ADC Academic Educator Award
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Honored with the 2019 Academic Educator Award by Assoc. for Death and Counseling to recognize excellence in teaching and research in the field of thanatology (the scientific study of death and the processes associated with it).
Outstanding Faculty Recognition Prof. Jason Eckardt, Carnegie Hall recital of his music
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“Echoes’ White Veil,” performed Jason Hardink. NYT: Eckhardt’s piece is “a dizzying, manic 12-minute work of almost stupefying difficulty. There is just a hint of hesitancy at the start, with percussively repeated notes and sputtered trills. Then the music takes off — and how, with frenzied runs in each hand crisscrossing like strands of unhinged counterpoint, bursts of pummeling cluster chords leaping the length of the keyboard, and more.”
Outstanding Faculty Recognition Prof. Derrick Adams, New Icons at Mary Boone Gallery
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Brilliant new young faculty member in art dept. Large scale, vivid, oil paintings on subjects such as Grace Jones, Colin Kapernick, and Sista Souljah. The NYT says, “Where many people might only see black trauma, Adams has a profound ability to recognize the quiet resistance and fearless determination that have defined black history.”
Outstanding Faculty Recognition Prof. Jason Kliot, Capernaum Cannes Grand Jury Prize
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Producer of Capernaum led to a Cannes Grand Jury Prize, Golden Globe nom, and Oscar nom. NYT calls “a defiant and heartbreaking look at a boy’s life in Beruit; a sprawling tale wrenched from real life, beyond the conventions of documentary or realism; a fairy tale and an opera, a howl of protest and an anthem of resistance.”
Outstanding Faculty Recognition Prof. Jeffrey Biegel, Grammy for Best Classical Compendium
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Wins a Grammy Award as a featured pianist with the London Symphony Orchestra playing Kenneth Fuchs’ "Piano Concerto, Spiritualist,” in the category of best classical compendium. Allmusic heralds it as “an abstract program, mostly focused on virtuosity in its own right, with exciting performances by pianist Jeffrey Biegel.”
Outstanding Alumni Recognition Tyquane Wright ’06, Oscar for Best Animated Feature
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“Into The Spider-Verse” Rotten Tomatoes calls it 97% fresh and the Atlantic says it is: “The latest entry in a fully saturated genre that somehow, through sheer creative gumption, does something new.”
Outstanding Alumni Recognition R.O. Kwon ’08, The Incendiaries, Best Book of the Year
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A breakout first novel named a best book of the year by over forty publications. The New Yorker says: “It is full of absences and silence. It’s the rare depiction of belief that doesn’t kill the thing it aspires to by trying too hard. It makes a space, and then steps away to let the mystery in.”
Outstanding Alumni Recognition Nari Ward ’92, ”We the People” at New Museum
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NYT says, his work is “a contemporary version of the sublime, in which you are awed and overwhelmed by the magnitude of stuff gathered in one place: now we are awed by the amount of consumer objects in existence, plastic in the ocean, or the vastness of landfills. Ward reminds us that our world is filled with potentially magical objects and if we shift our perspective, we’ll see that everyday life is really just art waiting to happen.”
Outstanding Alumni Recognition Jumaane Williams ’01 & ’05, NYC Public Advocate
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Strong supporter of BC. Known for social justice activism. Took acceptance speech as a moment to discuss his own therapy to open up mental health issues for men of color and for black boys in particular. Took bravery.
Accreditation Progress—program level CACREP Site Visit in early March
Positive visit with Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Education Programs (CACREP) Site Team to accredit our School Counseling Graduate Program.
Not CACREP accredited yet! Final assessment in July.
Accreditation Progress—school level AACSB Site Visit in early March
Positive recommendation from Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business Site Team to accredit the Koppelman School of Business Not AACSB accredited yet! Final assessment in July.
Accreditation Progress—college level MSCHE Site Visit March 24–27
Site Visit starting next Sunday to accredit Brooklyn College. Eight Site Team members will visit for four days to assess our college against high standards of academic excellence.
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Comprehensive Self Study complete, Emphasizing the mission of College
Strategic Plan Progress SAMPLE Y1 BENCHMARKS AND RESULTS
• Assessment Goal: 50% of departments will complete assessment reports. 97% of departments completed assessment reports.
• Degree Maps Goal: Develop and publish degree maps for all undergraduate programs. Almost 100% completed.
• Fundraising Goal: Increase external fundraising from $6.75M to $7.1M. We’ve surpassed goal, and already raised $7.36M. More to come!
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Preview Commencement 2019 May 30 at Barclays Center
Commencement 2019 Tarana Burke, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
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CR activist and founder of MeToo movement to raise awareness of pervasiveness of SA. Time named Burke, among a group of other prominent activists "the silence breakers", as Time Person of the Year in 2017. Burke is Sr Dir. at Girls for Gender Equity.
Commencement 2019 Jimmy Smits ’80, Distinguished Alumnus Award
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Actor best known for work on LA Law, NYPD Blue, West Wing, and Dexter. He was also Bail Organa in Star Wars movie, Rogue One. Won Emmy, Golden Globe & Screen Actors Guild. Fndr National Hispanic Found. for Arts. Excited to honor him & Burke.
