Memorandum to: The Baruch College Community
From: President Kathleen Waldron
Re: Vice President for Student Development and Enrollment Management
Date:  June 16, 2005


I am delighted to announce that I intend to recommend to the Board of Trustees of the City
University of New York that Dr. Ben M. Corpus be named Vice President for Student Development
and Enrollment Management and Dean of Students at Baruch College, effective August 8, 2005.
Dr. Corpus competed in a national search that drew 92 applicants and he emerged as the leading
candidate of three finalists who visited campus. The three finalists interviewed with the Student
Affairs Committee, the President's Cabinet, and senior members of Student Development and
Admissions. Several students sat on two of the groups. Dr. Corpus received overwhelming support
from all groups.

Dr. Corpus currently serves as Vice President for Student Development and Enrollment
Management at Hostos Community College where he oversees 14 departments, 96 employees and
a $4 million budget.  Under his enrollment leadership, Hostos experienced a 34% increase in
student enrollment and developed intercollegiate athletics, including a national championship
men's basketball team. He also hosted the first ever athletics fund-raiser at Hostos with good
success.

Dr. Corpus brings to Baruch sixteen years of progressively more responsible positions in higher
educational administration. In addition to his four years at Hostos, he has held positions at New
York University and at SUNY, both at the University at Albany and Plattsburgh State University. He
was Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at SUNY Plattsburg
from 1999 to 2001 and Associate Director of the Center for Urban Community College Leadership
at New York University from 1995 to 1998. He holds a PhD in higher education governance and
policy from New York University, and has taught courses in higher education administration at
Baruch’s School of Public Affairs and at NYU. Dr. Corpus is an active member of the Hispanic
Caucus of the American Association of Higher Education, NASPA, and the Council for the
Advancement and Support of Education.

The Board of Trustees will consider our recommendation at its next meeting at the end of June. I
wish to thank all the individuals who participated in the search process for their time and energy.

In the meantime, I wish once again to thank Sam Johnson, who steps down on June 30, for his
many years of dedicated service to the students of Baruch College. Sam remains a valued
colleague and rejoins the teaching faculty in the coming spring semester.

Ron Aaron, Associate Dean of Students, will serve as Acting Vice President for Student
Development beginning July 1, until Dr. Corpus’s arrival in August. I am grateful to Dr. Aaron for
his leadership and experience during this time of transition.