ANNOUNCEMENT: Baruch Freshman Year Funded Programs
TO: Baruch College Instructional Staff
FROM: David Dannenbring, Provost and Vice President for Academic
Affairs
Each year CUNY receives funding from the state for its Coordinated
Freshman Year (CFY) Programs. In early spring the CUNY Office of the
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs circulates an RFP and requests
that each campus submit a proposal to fund projects for the upcoming
academic year. CUNY and Baruch College view freshman year programs as
essential to the mission and health of the university, and despite
budget problems, early indications are that funding for freshmen year
programs will remain stable.
I invite faculty and staff to submit project proposals for funding from
the CFY grant. Project proposals should further the mission of the
College and our multi-year plan. CUNY will target funding for projects
that have measurable goals, whose effectiveness can be documented, and
that accomplish any of the following:
• Move underprepared students through necessary preparatory work as
quickly as possible, with a focus on summer and winter immersion
programs and the transition from “Prelude to Success” into the
mainstream curriculum
• Prepare students for the CPE
• Serve all incoming students who have completed fewer than 30 credits
• Focus on the academic aspects of the freshman year and use allocated
funds mainly for instructional expenses (administrative and counseling
costs should be covered almost in their entirety by the constituent
sponsors)
• Develop basic skills and core competencies through faculty
development, curricular and pedagogical innovation, block programming,
orientation, and other support services
A series of discussions have led to the focus of Baruch’s Freshman Year
programs (BFY) to address these criteria with particular emphasis on
community building through the following goals:
• Establishment of freshman core competencies and creation of
innovative programs to develop them, with assessment built into these
efforts as a key programmatic component
• Greater collaboration/coordination of curriculum throughout blocked
courses to move us closer to a true learning community model
• Introduction of a priority focus on ethics and citizenship at the
College through curricular and extracurricular initiatives
I encourage faculty and staff to apply for funding. The application
process has been streamlined and is available at . The application
consists of
• An application form
• A budget request form
• A detailed description of the program plan including goals,
activities, target populations, course sections and enrollments and
justification
• An assessment plan (see attached sample and instructions) Specify
performance indicators and plans for data collection and analysis
against which the success of the program can be evaluated (including
registration data, attendance data, pre and post testing data, student
achievement data including grades, demographic data if requested by the
central office)
The deadline for submission is March 14,, 2003. Applications and
questions should be directed to Mark Spergel, Director of Student
Orientation and Baruch Freshman Year Programs at
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Thank you very much, and I look forward to your participation in this
important effort.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Statistics Consulting Laboratory
The Statistics Consulting Laboratory aims to enhance quantitative
research in all Business, Science, and Social Science disciplines at
the College, and to promote collaboration between statisticians and
other faculty, while training graduate students in communication and
problem solving.
Services will range from short-term consultations in the choice and use
of statistical software, to projects that will be partly or entirely be
carried out by graduate students, under faculty supervision at the lab.
Services are provided free of charge to faculty and students doing
unsupported research.
Statistics Professors Larry Tatum, and and graduate students are
regularly available for consultations with Baruch College faculty and
graduate students engaged in and planning research projects, and in
data analysis. The laboratory is equipped with five computers that
support both standard statistical software such as SAS and SPSS, and
more advanced, sophisticated or specialized software such as MATLAB,
SPLUS, and STAT EXACT that will enable Baruch researchers to use the
most up-to-date analytical procedures in their work.
For more information about the Statistics Consulting Laboratory, see
http://stat.baruch.cuny.edu/statlab/
Location and hours of operation are as follows:
11th Floor, Vertical Campus
Monday - Thursday, 10 AM - 4 PM
Tel 802 - 6234
Fax 802 - 6234
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EVENT : Can Environmental and Business Goals Be Aligned? The Quest For
A Clean Car
The Nonprofit Group of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College
is excited to present a topic of global Importance to both the private
and nonprofit sector. Is it possible to be business smart and
environmentally sensitive at the same time? Our panelists believe this
is not only possible, but essential. Join us as our panelists tackle
this important issue.
Tuesday, March 4, 2003
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Reception to Follow
Baruch College Library Building
151, East 25th Street, 7th Floor Conference Center
Speaker : Daniel Sperling, PhD., Professor, Department of Environmental
Science and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies,
University of California, Davis
Panel: Bob Epstein, Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs, Sybase,
Zight and Britton-Lee; Nathanael Greene, Senior Policy Analyst, Natural
Resources Defense Council; James R. Olson, Senior Vice President,
External Affairs and Public Policy, Toyota Motor North America
Moderator: Roger Ullman, Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs and
President, Roger T. Ullman & Co.
Refreshments Will Be Served
For More Information call (212) 802-5914. To RSVP, call (212) 802-5735
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EVENT: White Collar Crime In The Post-Enron Workplace
To: Baruch College Faculty and Staff
From : Linda Lach, Associate Director, Center for Financial Integrity
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to a panel discussion moderated by David
Leibowitz of Nomura Securities International, Inc., on the topic of
White
Collar Crime in the Post-Enron Workplace, on Thursday, March 6, 2003,
from
1:00pm to 2:30pm. The discussion will be followed by questions from the
floor.
Panelists include Thomas Barden of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Wayne M. Carlin of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Roslynn R.
Mauskopf, United States Attorney of the Eastern District of New York and
Eric R. Dinallo, Chief for Investor Protection and Securities Bureau in
the
Office of Attorney General for the State of New York.
This event is free and open to all interested professionals and carries
1
CPE credit. Light refreshments will be served after the event.
Location: Baruch College - Vertical Campus Conference Center at 55
Lexington, 14th Floor - Room 14-220.
For more information, see our web site at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cifr/index.html
RSVP by March 3rd by calling 646-312-3231, sending a fax to
646-312-3232.
You may also contact us by e-mail at [log in to unmask]
I look forward to seeing you,
Linda Lach
Associate Director
Center for Financial Integrity
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EVENT: Ethics Across and Beyond the Curriculum
FEBRUARY 27: Gail Levin, Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Ethics and Collecting Art
Guest: Elizabeth A. Sackler, public historian
The entire Baruch community is invited to attend and participate in this
ongoing weekly seminar series. Led by faculty from all three of our
schools, the
discussions focus on issues that are particularly timely for the largest
accredited business school in the country. For schedule and more
information, see
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/facultyhandbook/ethics_seminar.htm
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