Student Newsletter

Welcome back to a new semester from all of us in Student Affairs and Student Services. As of the start of the spring semester, Dr. Julia Wrigley, the Graduate Center's Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs (Acting), has been appointed Acting Provost. Dr. Jack Jacobs, of our Ph.D. Program in Political Science, has been appointed Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs (Acting). A search to permanently fill the position of Provost will be conducted this spring. I know that you join us in extending good wishes to outgoing Acting Provost Linda Edwards as she starts a sabbatical semester. In the Student Affairs area, I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Alissa M. Schamber as a new Staff Psychologist in the Wellness Center's Psychological Counseling and Adult Development Center. In the Wellness Center's Student Health Services, students may continue to obtain referral services and take advantage of scheduled workshops until recruitment and hiring of a hospital-employed Nurse Practitioner is completed, a process which is now under way. In the meantime, the Graduate Center is extending until February 6, and possibly beyond that date, the option for currently registered GC students to avail themselves of primary care health services at Institute for Urban Family Health clinics. Your individual doctoral programs have disseminated the detailed information about this option to you. Please see “Student Health Services” in this newsletter for more information.

This is again the time of year when I urge you to participate in the upcoming Doctoral Students’ Council elections, beginning with the nominations process, for which you will soon be solicited. Consider running for office yourself: It’s an opportunity to learn more about administration and to meet members of the community beyond your own department as well as beyond the Graduate Center as you participate in different University-wide student leadership initiatives. And, in a broader arena, I remind you that the online link to voter registration forms and information have been sent to you through your programs and are available in you program offices and Student Affairs; also, we can provide assistance with mailing or delivering voter registration as well as with citizenship information.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us in Student Affairs at any time: Room 7301; 212-817-7400; studentaffairs@gc.cuny.edu.

—Matthew G. Schoengood
V.P. for Student Affairs