• The visiting team of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) recommended the continued reaffirmation of accreditation of the School of Education (SOE). The School received a perfect score, meeting all of CAEP’s five standards, with no stipulations and no areas for improvement (AFIs). After a final review, the Accreditation Council will make a final decision and issue a formal letter of recognition in fall 2021. During its exit meeting with President Lemons, Provost Nwosu, EIC Serigne Gningue, Dr. Gaoyin Qian, and Ameeta Persaud, site team leader, Dr. Jerrie Brooks from Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, noted that this was the first time she has been a member of CAEP/NCATE visit in many decades that resulted in, “No AFIs and No Stipulation!” See my announcement to the campus community on April 28.  Congratulations to the School of Education for this terrific accomplishment! 
• As part of our Institutional Effectiveness Plan (IEP) and our continuing efforts to strengthen quality improvements across our academic programs, three academic programs completed their self-studies and began the process for external reviews. These programs are B.S. Recreation Education, B.S. Therapeutic Recreation, and M.S.E.D. Recreation Education. 
• Also, the Nursing program completed the external review of its program in April. The review will support the program’s application for re-accreditation of the graduate Family Nurse Practitioner’s Program by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). 

• About 100 faculty participated this semester in the College’s major initiative to strengthen General Education through ATLAS (Anchored in the Liberal Arts), a structured program of transformative classes in General Education for transfer students enrolled in the traditional liberal arts and professional programs at Lehman. The program is funded with a planning grant from the Teagle Foundation. We anticipate a large grant from the foundation in 2022 to scale the program. Discussions with the foundation’s Program Officer for funding for this initiative began last year led by Provost Nwosu, Vice President Ebersole, Associate Provost Brown, and Arts and Humanities Associate Dean Karin Beck. 
• With a planning grant from the foundation, Lehman launched the ATLAS project in January 2021 with initial meetings of the core curriculum group led by Professor Burns, Professor Parris, and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities Beck. Four workshops were held this semester to begin  an ongoing interdisciplinary discussions with stakeholder faculty:
• March 17, Silvio Almeida (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil) spoke on “Fighting Structural Racism: Transformative Texts for a Critical Pedagogy,” focusing on the global experience of racism and Luis Gama, often referred to as the Brazilian Frederick Douglass.
• April 5, Roosevelt Montas (Columbia University) delivered “Educating for Freedom: Frederick Douglass as a Transformative Text.” Montas focused on Douglass’ keen analysis of slave literacy as the gravest threat to the perpetuity of America’s system of chattel slavery.
• April 12, Melinda Zook (Purdue University) presented “For the Resurgent Liberal Arts: Revitalizing the Humanities Through the Cornerstone Program,” discussing the Purdue Cornerstone program as an example of general education revitalization and offered advice on the development of Lehman’s ATLAS program.
• April 28, Jessica Bacon (Montclair State University) spoke on “Exploring the Co-constructed Systems of Racism and Ableism Through Transformational Disability Studies Texts.” Her presentation added a critical element of intersectional and inclusive thinking.
• During the workshops and reflective discussions, strong interest in the transformative text program for our students emerged. Participants discussed the connections among anti-racist pedagogy, intersectionality, and transformative texts in expanding students’ minds and transforming their lives. The faculty also discussed the characteristics of a “Transformative” Lehman text, especially in the context of ATLAS. A related topic for faculty was the concern about students’ reading skills and how faculty may support students in the development of their critical reading. Consequently, a fifth workshop was added for May to focus on developing reading skills through transformative texts.
• A group of 10 full-time and adjunct instructors has agreed to pilot ATLAS by teaching transformative texts in Fall 2021. This group has met once with the core curricular group to discuss learning outcomes, syllabi, assessment, and specific support for transfer students. The College plans to pay a summer stipend for adjuncts out of the funds for professional development in the grant. Additional discussions have also been held with the Director of Transfer Advising for integration of support initiatives for transfer students in the ATLAS classes. Further meetings with advisors for health sciences and business are planned. Discussions have also been held with library staff on possibilities for an easily accessible repository of transformative texts that would utilize Manifold, a CUNY platform. Furthermore, the LEH coordinator has created a list of diverse texts taught in LEH 35x classes in Spring 2021. An outcome of the campus engagements on ATLAS this semester is the intense conversation amongst faculty to identify criteria for a Lehman transformative text and to develop a diverse and inclusive list. For faculty interested in participating in this critical work, I encourage you to reach out to anyone of the ATLAS Core Curriculum Group members (Burns, Parris, and Beck).

• March 1 and April 26 – Attended Lehman Labor-Management meetings. 
• March 2, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 18, 22, 30, 31 and April 1, 2, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 26, 28, and 29 – Held 1:1 meetings with deans (MacKillop, Gningue, Mahon, Harrison, Mills) and other direct reports to the Provost (Brown, Schlesinger, Begarley, Rhem-Jackson, Levy).
• March 2, 9, 30, and April 1, 13, 19 – Held 1:1 meeting with President Lemons.
• March 3, 8, 9, 16, 22, 31 and April 1, 12, 13, 22, 28, and 29 – Held 1:1 meetings with VP Ebersole, VP Sarmiento, VP Wright, VP Ewing Morgan, VP Rotolo, VP Bergmann, GC Barbera. 
• March 4 and 18, and April 1 and 15 - Convened Provost’s and Deans’ Council (PDC) and discussed the following agenda items: Curriculum Development and Articulation Agreements, Student Success and Faculty Technical Resources Webpage, Faculty Inventory and Substitute Appointments, Institutional Effectiveness, Fall 2021 Reopening, Strategic Plan Budget Implementation, Budget Process 2022, Recovery Return and Effort Policy Recommendations, Enrollment Updates, among other items.
• March 9 – Met with Julie Maybee, Chair of the F P&B TPCCE for Spring 2021, to discuss the candidates for promotion. 
• March 9 and April 19 – Met with Jada Quinland, President, SGA, to discuss student issues.
• March 16, 30 – Convened Academic Affairs executive leadership team meeting. 
• March 16 and April 19 – Participated in Lehman’s Vacancy Review Committee meeting. 
• March 18, April 1 and 29 – Participated in the President’s Cabinet Budget Working Group (BWG) meeting. 
• March 23 and April 6 – Participated in the F P&B meeting. 
• March 24 – Participated in the President’s Advisory Board (PAB) meeting. 
• March 25 – Convened the Deans’ monthly meeting with the Provost. 
• April 1, 19 – Participated in the President’s Cabinet meeting. 
• April 12 – Meeting with President Lemons and in-coming President Delgado. 
• April 19 and 26 – Participated in the Budget Committee meeting of Lehman’s Auxiliary Enterprises, as well as the full meeting of the Board to review FY 21 and FY 22 budgets. 
• April 20 – Met with school deans and the leadership team in Academic Affairs to provide an update on CR/NC flexible grading policy.
• April 21– Attended the FY 21 and FY 22 Senate Committee on Budget and Long-Range Planning meeting and gave a presentation on the implementation of Lehman 2025, the College’s new strategic plan and the related budget implications. 
• April 22 – Attended the College Senate Governance Committee meeting. 

• March 5 – Participated in the meeting of the CUNY Provosts’ Working Group on Academic and Resource Planning.
• March 8 – Attended the follow-up meeting to discuss potential funding from the Francene LeFrak Foundation for a Lehman Center for Career Advancement.
• March 10, 25, 31, and April 1, 14, and 27 – Held meetings with Annemarie Nicols-Grinenko, Joseph Zolner, Maria Camaj, and former President Keizs of York College regarding the CUNY Leadership Institute (TCLI).
• March 11, 23 and April 12 – Participated in the AASCU Working Group meeting with a focus on futures thinking. 
• March 10 and April 14 – Attended the CUNY Academic Council (AC) meeting as well as the meeting of the AC subcommittee on Academic Momentum. 
• March 11, 12, 18 and April 23 – Participated in the AASCU Design Cohort Student Success Institute for Chief Academic Officers and the Executive Leadership Academic meeting of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI).
• March 16 – Joined President Lemons in the monthly meeting of the Presidents’ Student Success Roundtable of select CUNY institutions. 
• March 19 – Attended the special Board meeting of the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP).
• March 26, 31 and April 14 – Participated in the Advisory Board meeting of REMOTE-The Connected Faculty Summit sponsored by Arizona State University.
• March 30 – Participated in the CUNY Academic Momentum interview with VP Sarmiento. 
• March 31 – Attended CUNY meeting for Chief Academic Officers to discuss three-year adjunct appointments. 
• April 16 – Participated in the Senior College Provosts’ monthly meeting. 
• April 20 – Convened the meeting of the BTAG Leadership Group comprised of chief academic officers, chief enrollment officers, and associate provosts for academic programs to discuss dual admission pathways and articulation agreements, among other issues. 
• April 20 – Attended the business meeting of the Board of Directors, national Association of Chief Academic Officers (ACAO).
• April 21 – Participated in a meeting of CUNY’s Academic Council Committee on Academic Policy (CAP).
• April 29 – Met with Associate Dean Karin Beck and Associate Provost Brown to discuss and finalize the quarterly report on the Teagle Foundation grant, which supports the College’s ATLAS program. 

• March 4 – Attended the President’s Briefing to the Campus community.
• March 4, 9, and April 28 – Participated in the Learning Recovery planning meetings with Dr. Althea Forde, Dean Mills, VP Ebersole, VP Sarmiento, and Associate Provost Brown, and CUNY Associate Vice Chancellor Donna Linderman.
• March 4 and 31 – Participated in the Return to Work Committee of the President’s Cabinet.
• March 12 – Met with the external review team of the Nursing Program as part of the College’s preparation for the accreditation of the Graduate Family Nurse Practitioner Program by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). 
• March 16 – Met with Dene Hurley to discuss the proposed School of Business. 
• March 16 and April 27 – Meetings with Maria Isabel Roldos, CUNY Institute for Health Equity Director and Dean Harrison to discuss progress on the work of the Institute, including the institute’s strategic plan and the process for meeting CUNY’s requirements on certification of all institutes and centers across all colleges. 
• March 30 – Meeting with President Lemons, VP Rotolo, and ORSP Director Begarly to discuss the College’s revised Indirect Cost Recovery Return Policy. 
• March 30 – Met with VP Rotolo and VP Ewing-Morgan, and Assessment Manager Donald Sutherland to discuss the implementation of the new strategic plan. 
• March 31 – Participated in an Enrollment Management meeting to discuss personnel and budget needs. 
• April 13 – Met with school deans and the leadership team in Academic Affairs to discuss the implementation of the strategic plan and presented a template, a set of planning, and budget assumptions to guide the development of action plans by each school and each unit in Academic Affairs. School deans and unit heads were urged to engage chairs, directors, faculty, and staff in their units in the development of their action plans. 
• April 13 and 20 – Met respectively with David Hyman, Interim Director and Interim Associate Director, Lehman Honors Program and Macauley Honors Program (LHP/MHP) to discuss the program’s leadership and related issues.
• April 15 – Met with the external reviewers for the self-study of the Chemistry program. 
• April 21 – Met with Dr. José Higuera López, Associate Director, CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, to discuss scholarship and the process for certification of institutes and centers, among other issues. 
• April 27 – Joined President Lemons, EIC Serigne Gningue, Goayin Qian, and Ameeta Persaud in the CAEP exit interview meeting with the CAEP virtual site visiting team for the accreditation of the School of Education. 
• April 29 – Kicked off the selection process for the Lehman Professors of Excellence (LPE) with the Selection Committee’s first meeting.

• April 1 – Extended invitation to faculty to register and participate in  REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit, hosted by Arizona State University, on June 9-10, 2021. REMOTE is a virtual conference for faculty and academic leaders on best practices for teaching virtually. The summit is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is free to all participants. 

• March 18 – Participated in a panel discussion on “Leadership Transitions in Higher Education” at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Council on Education (ACE).  
• March 23 – Gave welcome remarks at Lehman’s Bronx Environmental Summit and introduced the keynote speaker, Dr. Robert D. Bullard, who spoke of the topic: “The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice: Why Equity Matters.”
• March 24 – Provided opening remarks at the School of Education Alumni Forum. 
• April 25 – Gave welcome remarks to the site team for the CAEP accreditation of the School of Education (SOE). 
• April 26 – Gave welcome remarks at the F.U.B.U. 2021 Summit hosted by the School of Professional and Continuing Studies (SCPS). 

• March 2 – Kicked off the search for the Director of Strategy, Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research (SPAIR) with the search committee’s first meeting.
• March 15, 16, and 17 – Held virtual visits and open forums for the three finalists in the search for the permanent Dean for the School of Education. Also, met with Nancy Dubetz, Chair (ECCE), and Victor Brown (APAPEE) on March 10 to discuss semi-finalists for the permanent dean position.