Dear Faculty and Staff Members of the Baruch College Community:  

After several years of great service to the Baruch community, Brian Kell
will be leaving to take a new position as director of communications and
marketing for the American Thoracic Society here in New York. Brian joined
the College in 2002 as Executive Assistant to the President for External
Affairs. In this role, he worked on community and government relations,
wrote extensively for the president, and played a key role in organizing and
marketing many of the activities of the new Center for Financial Integrity
(now the Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity). Brian worked especially
well with students, bringing many of them with him on lobbying trips to
Albany and around the City and working with the Office of Student Life on
voter registration drives and on encouraging student participation in the
legislative process.

Last year, Brian left the President's Office to join College Advancement to
establish an Office of Government and Community Relations. He has been
instrumental in helping us to build legislative and community awareness of
Baruch's value to New York City. He led the successful effort to obtain
funding for the renovation of Mason Hall from the City and has helped us to
identify and leverage our broad network of connections to government and
civic organizations. 

A search for a new director of government and community relations will be
launched shortly. In the meantime, please join me in thanking Brian for his
outstanding contributions to the College, and in wishing him well in his new
endeavors.

Sincerely,

David Gallagher
Vice President for College Advancement