• Began planning for the schedule of classes for summer to be offered primarily online with the draft schedule and implementation timeline presented to the Provost’s and Deans’ Council (PDC) by the Senior Registrar. Department chairs and school deans offering summer classes also reviewed the timeline, with final draft schedules expected to be submitted to the Registrar’s Office in March for entry in Coursedog, CUNY’s new electronic scheduling management system integrated with CUNYfirst. Summer registration will open for students on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
• Planning for Fall 2022 also commenced during the month with a draft timeline presented to PDC based on the new bell schedule approved in Spring 2021 by the President’s Cabinet following recommendations from a Bell Schedule Committee co-chaired by Senior Registrar Yvette Rosario and Associate Professor and former chair, Latin American and Latino Studies Teresita Levy. The new Bell Schedule, which takes effect in the fall, replaces the current schedule, which has been in operation since 2007. It includes 13 new bells, a pilot of the enhanced calendar based on an 8-week instructional module, and a new University Hour. At its February 15^th meeting, the Faculty Personnel and Budget (F P&B) Committee received an update from both the provost and the senior registrar on the fall schedule planning and timeline and the implementation of both the new bell schedule and Coursedog. Unlike fall 2021 and Spring 2022, CUNY will not set a target for in-person or hybrid modality. Rather, colleges have been advised to optimize schedules for what works well for each campus, what is best for students, including appropriate pedagogy, and support services to help students progress towards degree completion. President Delgado has asked that full-time faculty teach at least one in-person course during the fall as part of our planning. Registration for fall semester 2022 will open to students on Monday, April 25, 2022.

• On Friday, February 25, 2022, we hosted an all-day annual Academic Affairs and Student Success Leadership Retreat, which included members of the President’s cabinet, the provost’s and deans’ council, faculty personnel, and budget committee, and directors from all campus divisions. This year’s retreat, held at the Lovinger Theatre in Hyflex format, focused on: “AcMo 2.0: A Student-Centered Approach.”
• The retreat marked the formal launch by the college of Academic Momentum (AcMo 2.0) Campaign, a CUNY-wide student success initiative to improve the seamless transfer of students from CUNY community colleges to senior colleges. AcMo 2.0, which aligns with our new strategic plan goals, is expected to be implemented over three-years. The campaign is designed to propel transfer students towards completion and builds on AcMo 1.0 foundation, launched in 2017, to improve undergraduate graduation rates, especially for freshmen. AcMo 1.0 strategies included course redesign to improve gateway course completion, developing degree maps to provide a guided pathway for students, finish-in-four to increase credit accumulation at 15 credits per semester. AcMo 2.0 strategies include a review of enrollment, retention, and graduation data, review of system-wide data tools, work on curriculum alignment, course evaluation, and equivalencies with a focus on the largest sending and receiving transfer degree programs, improving advising, as well as examining processes, communications, and support systems at each institution, with the commitment to create more welcoming environments for incoming transfer students that foster, not impede, momentum.
• I am very grateful to CUNY Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Donna Linderman, who provided the keynote remarks at the retreat, which focused on system-wide data and the rationale for the campaign, and President Fernando Delgado, who framed the day’s event with a focus on Lehman’s data and the larger morale mandate to ensure those transfer students who come to Lehman can graduate and can do so on time. The retreat’s highlight included a student panel facilitated by Vice President for Student Affairs Jermaine Wright. Other presenters included Assessment Manager Donald Sutherland, Assistant Vice President of Information Technology Edi Ruiz, Director of Admissions and Recruitment Laurie Austin, University Chief Data Strategist Cheryl Littman, University Director for Institutional Research Zun Tang, and University Assistant Dean for Student Success Initiatives Kara Heffernan. The day-long retreat was moderated by the planning committee co-chairs Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Educational Effectiveness Victor Brown, assisted by Olena Zhadko, Director of Online Education, and Conrad Walker, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students. 
• CUNY has established AcMo 2.0 targets for colleges based on the following:

• As part of the retreat, each dean facilitated a three-hour discussion in their schools to discuss their transfer enrollment, retention, and graduation data and to begin to develop strategies and action plans in support of the college’s plan to meet its target. A half-day follow-up convening of the leadership team in Academic Affairs and Student Success, which includes deans and department chairs, has been scheduled for Friday, April 1, 2022, to discuss the action plans.

• Thursday, February 10: Met virtually with faculty in the Department of Economics and Business to provide an update and answer questions regarding our planned School of Business.
• Friday, February 18: Announced the establishment of a 20-member implementation committee for the new School. The committee is co-chaired by department chair Dene Hurley, NSS Interim Associate Dean Amod Choudhary, and Associate Provost Victor Brown.
• Wednesday, February 23: President Delgado and I met with committee members to formally charge them. The committee has an initial 45 days to complete the first phase of its work. The second phase, which also will last 45 days, will begin in April and conclude in May, when an interim dean for the school will be announced, along with the chairs of the three new departments in the school: Accounting; Business and Management Innovations; and Finance, Information Systems, and Economics. 
• The new school, which was approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees on December 13, 2021, will commence operations on July 1, 2022, and will be the only business school at any public college in the Bronx and Westchester County, positioning Lehman as a major pipeline for preparing diverse talent from underrepresented populations for local, regional, national, and international workforce needs.

• Began Lehman’s implementation of the CUNY Lecturer Hiring Initiative with the 14 lines allocated to the college. The lines are meant to support undergraduate instruction based on criteria established by CUNY.
• Job descriptions were developed and posted on the university job opportunity page, and search committees and chairs were appointed for all 14 searches (A&H = 4; SoE = 2; HS2N = 2; and NSS = 6). Position descriptions to be posted in early March in the Chronicle of Higher Education and review of applications to commence in mid-March. Searches are expected to be completed at the end of May 2022.
• Presented a report on the initiative at the Wednesday, February 23 meeting of the College Senate Committee on Budget and Long-Range Planning and answered questions from members. Also, I answered questions on the initiative later the same day at the General Faculty meeting.
• The 14 lines allocated to Lehman are among the 250 lines allocated across CUNY’s senior colleges, comprehensive colleges, and community colleges under this hiring initiative. CUNY anticipates an additional 250 lecturer lines to be allocated to colleges if the state legislature approves the Governor’s budget. Included in CUNY’s budget request that is now part of the Governor’s budget for FY23 is another 540 tenure track lines. We anticipate additional allocations of full-time lecturer lines and tenure-track lines to Lehman if the state legislature approves funding for these lines.

• Participated in the following internal meetings and discussions:
• 1:1 with the President (weekly)
• President’s Cabinet
• President’s Extended Cabinet (includes deans, chief librarian, and associate provost for academic programs and educational effectiveness)
• College Senate
• College Senate Governance Committee
• College Faculty Personnel and Budget Committee (F P&B)
• F P&B Tenure, Promotion, and Certificate of Continuous Employment (TPCCE) Committee for Spring Promotion Candidates
• Ad-hoc Committee on Best Practices for Tenure, Promotion, and Certificate of Continuous Employment (TPCCE) to charge the committee on its task
• Meeting with Department chairs Nancy Dubetz and Wesley Pitts to discuss the work of the sub-committee on best practices for tenure and retention
• Provost’s and Deans’ Council (PDC)
• School Deans
• 1:1 with Deans, Vice Presidents, Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Educational Effectiveness, Vice President for Diversity and Human Resources, Executive Director, Office of International Programs and Community Engagement, Director, Research and Sponsored Programs, and other direct reports
• Academic Affairs and Student Success Executive Leadership (A2S2) Team
• 1:1 with Provost’s staff
• Lehman Vacancy Review Committee
• President’s Briefing
• Lehman Scholarship Committee
• Honorary Degree Committee
• Economics and Business faculty
• School of Business Implementation Committee
• College Senate Committee on Budget and Long-Range Planning
• Academic Affairs and Student Success Leadership Retreat
• Auxiliary Board
• Participated in the following external meetings and discussions: 
• Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)-Reaffirmation of Accreditation Virtual Site Visit, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao as a team member
• Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Accreditation Virtual Site Visit for Lehman’s Master’s in Nursing Program (February 7-9)
• The CUNY Leadership Institute (TCLI) as program co-director
• CUNY Academic Council (of chief academic officers)
• CUNY Working Group on bylaws and bargaining implications regarding the CUNY Lecturer Hiring Initiative
• CUNY Committee on Academic Policy (CAP)
• Select CUNY Presidents’ Student Success Roundtable
• NYC-CUNY-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) in STEM Program as PI
• American Academic Leadership Institute Academy for New Provosts-planning webinar, as panelist and mentor
• Association of Chief Academic Officers (ACAO) to participate in Board and committee meetings and the January Townhall on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom: Teaching and Curriculum Considerations
• AASCU to participate in the Advisory Board on Academic Innovation and Transformation (AIT) as a member
• AASCU and Lumina Foundation national convening on Strengthening Democracy as well as the design team convening of select chief academic officers
• American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows Professional Development Committee
• Bronx Transfer Affinity Group (BTAG) Provosts and Chief Enrollment Officers convening

• Ryan McCarthy was appointed Director of Athletics and the APEX Center, effective Monday, March 14, 2022.
• Continued the search for the Associate Dean, School of Education.
• Interviewed candidates for tenure-track Assistant professor position in the Department of Mathematics.
• Search committees for full-time faculty positions were charged and are in varying stages of the search process.