• AcMo 2.0 Campaign Launched: Following the February 25^th Academic Leadership Retreat on AcMo 2.0, all six academic schools (includes the new School of Business), the Library, Enrollment Management, and Student Affairs began work on developing action plans to support and enhance the seamless transfer of students from community colleges to Lehman. AcMo (Academic Momentum) 2.0 Campaign is a three-year CUNY-wide student success initiative to improve recruitment, retention, and completion rates for transfer students from CUNY community colleges to senior colleges. The campaign builds on work begun in 2017 and includes course redesign to improve gateway course completion, developing degree maps and course rotation plans to provide a guided pathway for students, increasing credit accumulation to accelerate completion and reduce student debt, strengthening curriculum alignment, course evaluation, and equivalencies, improving advising, as well as examining processes, communications, and support systems to create more welcoming environments for incoming transfer students that fosters momentum. At Lehman, transfer students comprise more than 60% of our student population.

• I am pleased to report that progress on the implementation of the new School of Business continued, thanks to the work of the committee established by President Delgado and myself for this purpose. Following multiple discussions, which I held with various stakeholders, a temporary space in Carmen Hall to house the new school has been identified. The space will house faculty offices, the three new departments, and the office of the dean of the school. In addition, documents outlining the process for electing department chairs and Personnel and Budget Committees of the three departments which are expected to take place during the first week of May, along with responsibilities thereof, were developed by Professor Mary Rogan and Professor Dene Hurley; the position description for the interim dean was developed by the provost in collaboration with Human Resources; and, discussions commenced on the appointment of an interim dean. Furthermore, updates in DegreeWorks for courses and programs based on the three new departments, as well as changes in discipline codes in CUNYFirst, were completed by the Sr. Registrar, and the process for marketing and outreach began, with the shells created for the website of the school and the three departments. Lastly, searches for two new faculty positions in Accounting and Marketing were completed, and the search for two positions, lecturer lines (from the CUNY-Lehman Lecturer Hiring Initiative) commenced. Additional updates will be provided in my April 2022 report.

• Continued the work and progress on Phase 1 of this initiative, which is designed to significantly increase the number of full-time teaching lines with CUNY adding funds to campus-based budgets and each college supporting this effort by utilizing a portion of the funds currently used for adjunct recruitment. The first phase includes the hiring of 250 lecturers in spring 2022 for fall 2022 appointments. Campuses are to use these lines to support programs with high full-time to part-time faculty ratios and priority areas that include lower-level pathway and gateway courses in pivotal majors with high enrollment and high Drop, Withdrawal, Incomplete, and Failure (DWIF) rates, among other factors. Lehman received 14 of these lines. President Delgado approved my request, with input from school deans, for allocations as follows: A&H (4); SoE (2); HS2N (2); NSS (6), with two for the School of Business. The search process is underway; candidates’ interviews started in March. Searches will close the week of May 23-27, 2022.
• CUNY anticipates hiring another 250 lecturer lines for fall 2023 appointments, contingent on approval of CUNY’s FY23 budget request by the state legislature. We expect some allocation of lecturer lines for Lehman from this pool.

• The committee, chaired by Professor Nancy Dubetz, continued its work, meeting bi-weekly, with guidance from Counsel to the President, Bridget Barbera, to develop guidelines to streamline the processes for faculty around tenure and promotion. The committee has also begun work on the outline of a guidebook that would include an overview of the relationship between tenure/CCE/CLT and promotion across the career span, as well as clarify expectations, processes, and timelines. I have been in discussions with Professor Dubetz and Professor Pitts to provide guidance as the committee continues its work. The ad hoc committee, established by the College Committee on Faculty Personnel and Budget (FP&B), was charged by me in late January of this year to produce a guidebook of best practices to make transparent the procedures currently guiding Lehman’s tenure, promotion, and CCE processes, and thereby support faculty success and retention. The committee was also charged with providing recommendations to improve the college’s governance structures and address professional development needs related to TPCCE and faculty retention. A key area of concern in the 2019 CUNY COACHE Survey for faculty is department and institutional cultures that do not clarify tenure and promotion standards and procedures. The committee’s work responds to this concern. Committee members are Nancy Dubtez (Early Childhood and Childhood Education), Elhum Haghighat (Political Science), Brenda Williams-Gray (Social Work), Janet Munch (Library), and James Mahon (Arts and Humanities).

• Participated in the following internal meetings and discussions:
• 1:1 with the President; President’s Cabinet; President’s Extended Cabinet (including deans, chief librarian, and associate provost for academic programs and educational effectiveness); College Senate; College Faculty Personnel and Budget Committee (F P&B); Provost’s and Deans’ Council (PDC); School Deans Only meeting; Academic Affairs Executive Leadership (A2S2) Team; and President’s Briefing
• 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
• 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; the CUNY Leadership Institute (TCLI) as program co-director; CUNY Academic Council (of chief academic officers); CUNY Committee on Academic Policy (CAP); NYC-CUNY-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) in STEM Program as PI; 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; and the Bronx Transfer Affinity Group (BTAG) Provosts and Chief Enrollment Officers convening

• Continued the search for the Associate Dean, School of Education.
• Interviewed candidates for CCE-track Lecturer position in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. Searches were completed with hires in the Department of Mathematics [Brian Allen, Assistant Professor] and the Department of Economics and Business [Ji Yu, Associate Professor and Jin Pyone, Assistant Professor].

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