THE PRESIDENT SERVES AS THE CHIEF ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER OF THE INSTITUTION

The Chancellor and Brooklyn College seek a dynamic, visionary leader, noted for personal and professional integrity, to inspire students, work well with faculty, engage its distinguished alumni, and guide the institution to yet higher levels of achievement and renown to serve as President of Brooklyn College.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE POSITION INCLUDE:

• A demonstrated record of senior management success in an institution of higher education or institution of comparable scope, with proven strengths in strategic planning, budgeting and management;

• A commitment to the College’s mission to provide a top-quality education to a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic student body, and to building an inclusive and diverse community fully engaged with the rich cultural, ethnic, religious and economic pluralism of New York City;

• A record of leadership in developing quality academic programs and supporting a distin-guished faculty, in an environment of shared governance;

• An earned doctorate, university-level teaching experience, and a record of scholarly achievement and professional distinction;

• A strong record of success in attracting financial support from foundations, corporations, governmental sources and private donors;

• A commitment to enhancing the quality of student life and strengthening the delivery of edu-cational and support services to an urban and diverse student body;

• A record of leadership in technological innovation; and

• The capacity to communicate persuasively the College’s mission and programs to multiple local and national constituencies, including alumni/ae, the community, and governmental bodies.

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FACING A NEW PRESIDENT

Committed to high standards in teaching and research, dedicated to a clearly-defined academic vision in an urban setting, and with significant potential for the future, Brooklyn College offers many opportunities and challenges for a new President. These include: • Maintaining the momentum created by its three-pillars strategic plan, the appointment of

significant numbers of faculty, the enrollment of high-achieving students, and the rejuvena-tion of its facilities.

• Expanding yet further its role as a “model citizens” in both the college and the larger community, and drawing on the borough as both a resource and an object of study.

• Building up its strengths in the liberal arts by improving and enhancing undergraduate programs and creating new programs that respond to the interests of its students and meet

the needs of the community.

• Fostering the importance of graduate education in its overall strategic direction and expand-ing opportunities in doctoral education, especially in the sciences.

• Nurturing innovations in curriculum and pedagogy, including the use of technology to enhance student learning.

• Supporting comprehensive performance measures, strengthening academic program reviews, and creating learning outcomes to ensure that all college programs remain of the

highest quality.

• Developing a marketing plan that conveys to local and national constituencies the College’s strengths as a premier institution of higher education, the accomplishments of its faculty,

students, and alumni, and its role as a source of knowledge and services to the community.

• Continuing to recruit and retain a high-quality and diverse faculty, and working with the faculty to reach higher levels of external support for research by forging new partnerships and initiatives.

• Enhancing student services that support community, increase retention and graduation rates, and maintain the quality of its student-centered campus.

• Leading and working with an effective management team to create a safe and hospitable environ-ment for the academic community and its purposes.

• Collaborating with the office of academic affairs and faculty leadership to explore a possible reorganization of the College’s academic structure.

• Taking a leadership role in fundraising by enhancing the institutional development strategy and engaging in direct solicitations to expand the College’s resource base.

• Demonstrating a “streets smarts,” dynamic and collaborative style of leadership that shows courage, transparency, and imagination in dealing with differing needs, opinions, and cultures in order to build bridges among potentially competing interests and differing points of view.

HOW TO APPLY: The position is available on or before September 1, 2009. The review of applications has begun and will continue until the position is filled. Submission of applications is encouraged by April 10, 2009. Applicants should send (1) a letter of interest that addresses and demonstrates how they meet the Search Committee’s preferred qualifications, (2) their curriculum vitae, and (3) the names of five references. References will not be contacted without the applicant’s prior permission. Please submit an electronic version of application to executivesearch@mail.cuny.edu. Nominators should send a letter of nomination and, if possible, the nominee’s curriculum vitae. Applications and nominations should be sent to: Ms. Dolly Martínez, Executive Director, Executive Search and Evaluation, The City University of New York, 535 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075.

Brooklyn College is an innovative liberal arts institution with a history of academic excellence in both undergraduate and graduate studies. Since its founding in 1930, the College has offered men and women – many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants, often the first in their families to go to college – a high-quality, affordable education leading to a productive career and a life rich in opportuni-ties. Noted for its outstanding faculty, a beautiful campus, and a commitment “to be the best,” Brooklyn College has been designated one of “America’s Best Value Colleges” by the Princeton Review for the past five years, and in 2009 was cited as one of the top 50 Best-Value Public Colleges in the nation.

A major capital construction and renovation program is currently underway. Over the past fifteen years, New York State has allocated more than $500 million in capital funds to the College. The West Quad project, almost completed, consists of a spacious quadrangle, state-of-the-art physical education and athletics facilities, and the consolidation of student services under one roof. Other major capital projects are a performing arts center and a new science complex for which architects have been selected. A privately-built and managed residential facility is under construction; it will provide the first-ever housing provided for Brooklyn College students.

BBBROOKLYN CCCOLLEGE HHHIGHLIGHTS • Brooklyn College has increased both the size and academic quality of its student body

over the past ten years. Students are better prepared, as evidenced by SAT scores and high school averages, and the College’s academic standards have become correspond-ingly more rigorous.

• The Honors Academy at Brooklyn College is made up of six separate academic programs, including the Macaulay Honors College. It attracts top-achievers and, over the past four years, has produced a Rhodes, a Truman, and several Gilman Scholars.

• The Morton and Angela Topfer Library Café is CUNY's only 24/7 computing facility. Modeled after a downtown internet café, the Library Café has grown into a full service computing facility, with more than 80 workstations, all with Internet access and a legion of software applications.

• A private developer is currently constructing a multi-story student residence two blocks from campus that will house some 220 Brooklyn College students. It is expected to open in fall 2009.

• The Magner Center for Career Development and Internships, established through the generosity of Marge Magner, ’69, offers across-the-board services to students interested in internships and looking for career counseling and assessment, interview training and job placements, and contacts with alumni mentors and employment recruiters.

• Fundraising since 2000 was conceptualized as a successful 75th Anniversary Campaign, which exceeded the goal of $75 million by 2006, and reported a total of $112 million raised by December 2008. A new campaign -- the “Foundation For Success” – has set a fund-raising target of $200 million target by 2012 to support (i) student success, (ii) academic leadership, teaching and research; (iii) improved facilities and campus expansion, (iv) the annual fund, and (v) a graduate school of film. A case for support has been developed and the Brooklyn College Foundation is actively considering an appropriate launch date.

• A major telecommunications and network infrastructure, including an extensive high-speed fiber connecting all buildings, modern voice and data cabling in over 96% of the campus's classrooms, labs, and offices, and upgraded core network data switches, was implemented over the last decade. Internet bandwidth has been tripled and WiFi coverage in public areas is being expanded. The College’s BC WebCentral portal includes customized infor-mation services for students, faculty and staff, and offers many administrative functions on 24/7. Using student technology fees, the College has upgraded classrooms and lecture halls with “smart” technologies and acquired technology carts and mobile laptop labs that facilitate technology instruction in classrooms.

• The library, renovated and enlarged in 2002, is one of the largest and technologically most advanced academic libraries in New York State. Endowed with ample space for collec-tions, Internet and computer access, research, and cultural events, it holds 1.3 million volumes, 4,200 print journals, and provides access to over 40,000 electronic books and over 28,000 electronic journals. Between three and four thousand students and faculty use the library each day.

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THE STUDENTS

Brooklyn College regards student success in its various forms as its primary goal. In fall 2008, total enrollment stood at 16,690, with 78% undergraduates and 22% graduate students. Undergraduate students are career-oriented—the top five undergraduate majors are Business, Management, and Finance; Accounting/Public Accountancy; Psychology; and Childhood Education and Early Child-hood Education. The top five graduate majors are English, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Middle Childhood Education (Math Specialist), School Counseling, and Adolescence Education (English). 77% of the students come chiefly from Brooklyn and 17.2% from NYC’s other boroughs. They hail from 140 different countries and speak 89 languages. Of those reporting ethnicity, about 34% were white/non-Hispanic, 21% were Black/non-Hispanic, 12% were Asian/Pacific Islander, and 10% were Hispanic. Graduates go on to law, medical, and graduate schools including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania. THE FINANCES

The 2008-2009 operating budget is $114.7 million, funded through New York State, student tuition and technology fees. New York State capital funds allocated to the College were $223,427. THE ALUMNI AND COMMUNITY

The College has more than 100,000 alumni worldwide. Through the Brooklyn College Alumni Asso-ciation and the Office of Alumni Affairs, it provides services, activities, and programs to maintain and enhance the alumni connection to the College. Alumni serve as mentors, career advisers, and sponsors of internships and scholarships. Alumni hold leading positions in business, law, medicine, academia, public service, and the entertainment industry. More than 3,000 are listed in Marquis Who’s Who; more than 300 are presidents, vice-presidents, or chairpersons of major corporations. As a public institution, Brooklyn College assumes public responsibilities. It has actively broadened its engagement with the surrounding neighborhood and with Brooklyn's cultural and social organiza-tions, and partners with high schools throughout the borough. Its community newsletter brings campus services, facilities, and appropriate programs to the attention of Brooklyn residents. The Brooklyn College Foundation raises funds to encourage and promote the academic and the educational welfare of students, faculty, alumni, and the community. An Executive Director, who is also the College’s Vice President for Institutional Advancement, manages the Foundation. More than $85 million in private funds has been raised since 2000, and as of December 2007 (before the market downturn) total managed assets stood at over $57 million. Unrestricted and restricted funds are used to support scholarships, travel funds, professorships, endowed chairs, faculty research time, and most recently, construction (the Leonard and Claire Tow Performing Arts Center). ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNANCE

Brooklyn College is a constituent member of CUNY. The University is governed by a 17-member Board of Trustees, which sets policy for the entire system. Brooklyn College has its own govern-ance plan (approved by the Board of Trustees), which provides for a faculty council, a committee of chairs, and three student governments. The College is subject to the provisions of the various collective bargaining agreements between the University and the faculty and staff unions.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

The College offers Baccalaureate, Master’s, and Doctoral Degree Programs. It awards bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in more than seventy undergraduate programs of study, including nationally recognized programs in business, creative writing, education, and the per-forming arts, and offers more than sixty master’s degree programs. Doctoral degree programs are offered in conjunction with the CUNY Graduate Center. Doctoral students in the sciences work with faculty researchers in the natural sciences, in computer and information science, and in psychology. The Core Curriculum, long a national model, is the College’s signature program. The On-Course Advantage—the first program of its kind in the CUNY system—enables students to graduate in the traditional four years by giving them priority registration, guaranteed access to required courses, and one-on-one advising throughout their college careers.

RESEARCH CENTERS AND INSTITUTES The Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center conducts research on marine and freshwater organisms so as to understand the response of marine biota to environmental forces, organism behaviors, and the development of aquaculture. The Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts is a community-oriented organization that sponsors high-quality performing arts and arts education programs, reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse commu-nities. The center annually attracts over 70,000 people to the campus. Artists that have graced the stage include Luciano Pavarotti, Isaac Stern, Gregory Hines, Ray Charles and Itzhak Perlman. The Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies promotes a dynamic multicultural academic environment through policy initiatives, public forums, curriculum and faculty development, student empowerment, and community-based internships. It advances intellectual diversity by helping recruit and support women and protected racial and ethnic populations within the College. The Center for the Study of Brooklyn is the first and only research institution devoted exclu-sively to the study of public affairs and policy issues in the borough. The center’s staff works with Brooklyn-based constituencies to provide access to relevant data and research, to serve as a catalyst for critical change, and to promote inclusive civic engagement in the borough. The Children’s Studies Program and Center is an interdisciplinary and inter-departmental field of study that draws together knowledge from the humanities, social and biological sciences, medicine, and law to focus on specific aspects of children and childhood. It provides better opportunities for the shaping of public policies that affect children and young people. The Speech and Hearing Center is a state-of-the-art facility that provides diagnostic and reha-bilitative services for people with speech, language, voice and hearing impairment, including disorders of articulation and phonology, language, voice and stuttering, hearing impairment and those with auditory processing disorders. It also serves as a clinical training facility for students in the speech-language pathology master’s program and the doctoral program in audiology. The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities stands for excellence in research, publication, teaching, and all forms of academic discourse. It sponsors lectures, seminars, colloquia, conferences, and study groups with the aim of keeping public conversation at Brooklyn College in touch with advances in the humanities and social sciences. THE FACULTY

As of fall 2008, full-time faculty numbered 538; more than half of them having been hired since 2000. Of that number, 507 are tenured or on tenure-track lines. Members of the faculty have received Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships and music, art, and writing awards; many are recipients of major grants from, among others, NASA, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. The faculty includes Pulitzer-prize-winning historian and writer Edwin Burrows, Pulitzer-prize-winning author, Michael Cunningham, and composer Tania León, a recent Guggenheim fellow. Award-winning short-story author Amy Hempel and world-renowned concert pianist Ursula Oppens joined the faculty this past year.

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For more information, please visit www.brooklyn.cuny.edu or www.cuny.edu Publication prepared by CUNY Office of Executive Search & Evaluation in cooperation with Brooklyn College—March 2009

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