HIGHER ED TODAY 
  
  
  
  
 The steps we take to guide The City University  
 of New York through the COVID-19  
 crisis are born out of CUNY’s historic mission  
 to support our students, promote equity  
 and make sure the most vulnerable are not  
 excluded from the learning process.  
  We see who the coronavirus is attacking  
 in  disproportionate  numbers  —  it’s  those  
 who  come from our most  diverse  neighborhoods, 
  the very communities that form the  
 backbone of this University.   
  The principled imperative to make sure  
 that no one is left behind has set the framework  
 for CUNY’s decision-making from the  
 moment I assumed the role of Chancellor. 
   As  I  approach  my  one-year  anniversary  
 on May  1,  I  couldn’t  be  prouder  of  the  
  
  
 work we have done over the last 12 months to  
 honor the founding values of this University,  
 a template of opportunity and inclusion that  
 led us most recently to announce the Chancellor’s  
 Emergency Relief Fund on April 8 to  
 provide an urgent lifeline to CUNY students  
 facing financial strain amid COVID-19. 
  Launched with  $3.25 million  including  
 $1 million each from the Carroll and Milton  
 Petrie Foundation and the James and Judith  
 K.  Dimon  Foundation,  and  $500,000  from  
 Robin Hood, the Fund has enabled us to begin  
 issuing grants of $500 each to thousands  
 of  CUNY  students  in  the  first  CUNY-wide  
 student assistance program of its kind. The  
 first checks were delivered this week. (Individual  
 contributions can be made at cuny. 
 edu/emergencyfund. 
 With  support  from  Governor  Cuomo,  
 CUNY  last  month  invested  $12  million  to  
 quickly purchase thousands of laptops and  
 tablets, without which a sizable number  
 of our students would have been unable to  
 make the transition to distance learning and  
 move forward with their courses.  
   We  have  broadened  CUNY’s  record  of  
 public service from participating in relief  
 work  in  Puerto  Rico  to  collecting  and  distributing  
 vital  personal  protective  equipment  
 for health workers and helping to create  
 face shields from campus 3D printers.  
   We continue to fill our ranks with pioneering  
 leaders,  individuals  like  S.  David  
 Wu, the incoming president of Baruch,  
 who will be the first Asian-American college  
 president  at  CUNY.  He  will  be  joined  
 by Robin L. Garrell, newly appointed president  
 of the Graduate Center; Frank H. Wu,  
 tapped  to  lead Queens  College  and  CUNY’s  
 second  Asian-American  college  president;  
 and  Daisy  Cocco  De  Filippis,  who  will  be  
 interim president of Hostos Community College  
 and the first Dominican woman to serve  
 as a CUNY college president. I am also proud  
 to have built a cabinet of tested leaders representative  
 of the City we serve.  
  As I joined a video conference on April  
 13 to cheer the inaugural graduating class  
 of  the  CUNY  School  of Medicine,  I  was  reminded  
 of the school’s mission to address  
 health  care  disparities  in  underserved  areas. 
   
  These newly minted MDs are a perfect  
 match for the moment as they graduate early  
 and embark on their careers at a time of unprecedented  
 demand, a shining embodiment  
 of the University’s mission to safeguard the  
 most vulnerable while creating social mobility  
 for our graduates. 
  I also have no doubt that the road to recovery  
 of New York City’s economy and public  
 health goes through CUNY. I’m proud to  
 see, for example, CUNY staff already working  
 with  government  and  health  leaders,  
 taking  steps  to  train and prepare  the  thousands  
 of  social  tracers  we  will  need  in  the  
 months to come. 
  It all underscores a truth about CUNY,  
 which I knew to be true 12 months ago when  
 I had the privilege to become chancellor, and  
 continues to guide me today: The ground beneath  
 us may shift, but our commitment to  
 the equity, inclusion and excellence needed  
 to  sustain  New  York  City’s  standing  as  a  
 world-class city will never, ever waver. 
  
  
  
         
  
  
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