TO:       The Baruch College Community
FROM:     President Kathleen Waldron and Provost Dannenbring (on vacation)
RE:       Departure of David Potash
DATE:     August 4, 2005

After seven years of imaginative, energetic, and dedicated service to
Baruch, Associate Provost David Potash will be leaving at the end of August
to join the administration at Hunter College as Associate Provost.   It has
been my great pleasure to work with him during the past year and I am sure
he will continue to be an effective leader in his new role at Hunter.

David came to the College in 1998 as the Director of Enrollment Services. 
He quickly moved to the position of Associate Provost for the Teaching and
Learning Environment, with a much expanded portfolio.  In that role David
was responsible for numerous improvements in the delivery of services to
students through the Advisement Center, the award-winning Student Academic
Consulting Center, and the Office of Skills Assessment and Testing. He has
overseen the growth and development of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication
Center and its integration into the academic life of the College.

Serving as the College’s “point person” on the Coordinated Undergraduate
Education program (CUE), David has devoted intensive effort to the general
education curriculum. 
He was a central figure in curricular developments over the past five years,
working with the faculty toward the adoption of the pre-business core, the
Common Core, several new majors and degree programs, and development of
assessment programs.  He also was responsible for developing our very
successful outreach program, College Now, which has become a model for
others. David was instrumental is working with the faculty on a new student
teaching evaluation which will be voted upon by the faculty at the next
General Faculty meeting in September.

Among his many contributions to the College has been his regular, and
inspired, teaching as an adjunct in the History Department.  Please join me
in thanking David for all of his contributions to Baruch College and in
wishing him much continued success.  We will miss him greatly.