To the Baruch College Community:

After more than four years serving ably as Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs of Baruch College, Dr. David Dannenbring has announced
his intention to step down from the position in the coming year and return
to the faculty. I shall forever be grateful to David for his encyclopedic
knowledge of the College, his sage and forthright counsel, and his warmth
and humor as I navigated my way through my first year as president. He is,
and will continue to be, a very valued colleague and friend.

David Dannenbring has served this college well as Provost. During the past
four years, he led a successful Middle States periodic review, a
successful AACSB reaffirmation, a successful NASPAA review and other
accrediting reviews. He was responsible for overseeing the hiring of more
than 100 new professors during his tenure as Provost, and for building a
robust honors program at Baruch. Student retention and graduation rates
have improved dramatically and the quality of the undergraduate students
has increased significantly, as measured by SAT scores and high school
averages, while maintaining the diversity that characterizes Baruch
College.

Under David's guidance, the Newman Library received the Excellence in
Academic Libraries Award (the first public college to do so) from the
Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Student Academic
Consulting Center (SACC) earned the Frank L. Christ Outstanding Learning
Center Award from the National Learning Center Association. During his
tenure the College received a grant from the Mrs. Giles Whiting
Foundation, which provides $150,000 per year to fund faculty fellowships
in the humanities and was recently renewed for another four years. He
provided leadership in launching important initiatives at the College in
such areas as academic integrity, outcomes measurement and assessment,
revision of the student teaching evaluation instrument, and the launch of
a new online student advisement system.

In the coming weeks, we will begin a search to identify a Provost
candidate who will become the new academic leader of Baruch College. We
will utilize a nationally known search firm to assist us in this process
and we expect that this will conclude in time for the fall 2006 term.

Provost Dannenbring graciously has agreed to stay on in the position until
such time as we identify a new provost. Following that, he will return to
the faculty, but for an additional year I have asked David to join my
office as Special Assistant to the President, working closely with me on
our strategic initiatives.

Please join me in saluting David Dannenbring for his hard work,
dedication, and wisdom. We look forward to working together during what I
expect to be a smooth and productive transition period.

Kathleen Waldron
President