Dear Graduate Center colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that a recommendation has been made to the CUNY Board of Trustees to appoint Julia Wrigley as interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, effective December 10, 2018.
Professor Wrigley has been a leading member of The City University of New York academic community since 1991.
From 2014 to 2015, she served as CUNY’s interim executive vice chancellor and university provost. Prior to that, she served as associate university provost, and from 2005 to 2008, she was the acting associate provost and dean for academic affairs at The Graduate Center.
Most recently, as The Graduate Center’s interim dean for master’s programs, she helped establish six new master’s programs, with a seventh underway.
She is a professor in the sociology and urban education programs at The Graduate Center, and her work focuses on social class and inequality. She is the author of Class Politics and Public Schools, on conflicts over the control of Chicago’s schools, and Other People’s Children, on how domestic workers and middle-class parents negotiate class differences in children’s care. Her publications include a study of working-class education in science in nineteenth century Britain in the American Journal of Sociology and an analysis of how organizational features of child care affect rates of injuries and fatalities in the American Sociological Review.
She received a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan and her master’s and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught at UCLA before coming to The Graduate Center in 1991.
I would like to extend my appreciation to Julia for taking on this role and invite you to join me in congratulating her.
Best wishes,
From the Provost - Archive
Joy Connolly is the Provost and Senior Vice President at the Graduate Center. As the institution’s chief academic officer, she ensures the quality and performance of all degree-granting programs. Her current priorities include opening up the Graduate Center to larger numbers of the public, including masters students, who seek access to the GC’s intellectual strengths; developing creative non-degree programs; strengthening global partnerships; lifting the GC’s distinctive public-facing profile; and fostering innovation and experimentation in graduate education.
Before joining the Graduate Center in August 2016, Connolly was the Dean for the Humanities and Professor of Classics at New York University, where she was responsible for about 400 faculty in close to 30 departments, programs, centers, and institutes. Previously, as the Director of NYU’s College Core Curriculum, she put in place a post-doctoral program that featured workshops for graduate students on pedagogy and practical preparation for the job market. Earlier in her career, she taught at the University of Washington and at Stanford.
Connolly’s research focuses on Roman ideas about aesthetics, communication, ethics and political action, particularly as they relate to the 18th century and the contemporary world. Her first book, The State of Speech (Princeton, 2007), examined the role of communication in Roman ideals of citizenship. The Life of Roman Republicanism (Princeton, 2014) analyzed key themes in Roman thought: freedom, recognition, antagonism, self-knowledge, irony, and imagination. Connolly is also the author of Going on the Market, a handbook available on line that helps students navigate graduate school as well as the job-application and post-doctoral fellowship processes. Along with scholarly articles and book chapters, she has written reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation and The New York Times Book Review.
Connolly earned her AB from Princeton University and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She first studied classical literature and culture at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and is a member of the School’s board of trustees.
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Email: jconnolly@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7229
Reporting to the Provost and serving as deputy, the Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs assists in supervising a variety of administrative and fiscal areas, including all doctoral and master’s programs, interdisciplinary studies, the certificate programs, students’ professional development, the Graduate Assistant Programs, annual dissertation awards competition, oversight of the CUNY Performance Management Process (PMP) annual reports for GC goals and outcomes, and the Language Reading Program. The Associate Provost and Dean for Academic affairs also plays a key leadership role in the Humanities, Social Science and Science Discipline clusters, and is a significant partner in the implementation of the Graduate Center’s Strategic Plan.
Email: dolan@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7205
Reporting to the Provost, the Dean for the Sciences oversees all of the science doctoral programs (including the health science programs). The Dean for the Sciences also monitors admissions and the 5-year student fellowship packages offered by the joint doctoral degree programs in the bench sciences, and plays a leadership role in the Science Discipline cluster.
Email: jbrumberg@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7215
Brian Peterson is dean for academic initiatives and strategic innovation at The Graduate Center. His priorities include supporting the work of the faculty and staff to develop innovative educational experiences that will serve diverse partners; leading new academic programming opportunities to open The Graduate Center to the public through certificates, hybrid, and online courses, and non-degree offerings; and advancing and strengthening global partnerships.
Before joining The Graduate Center in 2018, Peterson was associate dean of student and community affairs at the CUNY School of Professional Studies. He has over 25 years of experience of planning, leading, and administering higher education programs and initiatives. His accomplishments at CUNY include designing University-wide academic, workforce development, and continuing education programs with partners that included public and private universities, New York City cultural institutions, and government agencies. Peterson led the teams that established the CUNY School of Professional Studies in 2003 and launched the University’s first-ever first online degree program in 2006.
Peterson earned his B.S. in communications from St. Cloud State University and his M.P.A. from Baruch College. He is deeply committed to public education for the social good and to CUNY’s commitment to academic excellence and to equal access and opportunities for all students, faculty, and staff. His interests include the study of social justice and the arts, the impact of street art to not only raise awareness of social and political issues but to beautify public locations, and the practice of photography.
Email: bpeterson@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7252
Julie Suk is dean for master’s programs and professor of Sociology. Prior to joining The Graduate Center, she was a tenured law professor at the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, and taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and UCLA. She has held research fellowships at Princeton University, the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome. She is a leading scholar of comparative law and society, having published dozens of law review articles and book chapters, primarily on discrimination and inequality in employment and constitutional law in the United States and Europe. She has chaired the Association of American Law Schools sections on Employment Discrimination Law and Comparative Law, and founded its section on European Law. Dr. Suk received her A.B. summa cum laude in English and French Literature from Harvard University, her M.Sc. and D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She is passionately committed to interdisciplinary research and CUNY’s public mission as an engine of opportunity. She is excited to bring her experience of interdisciplinary teaching and research in the professional school setting to strengthen master’s education at The Graduate Center.
Email: jsuk@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7251
Yun Xiang, the associate dean for institutional effectiveness at The Graduate Center, aims to design and implement a holistic data strategy so that information can transcend data silos to inform strategic planning and decision-making.
She is responsible for assessing student learning, organizational effectiveness, and the implementation of The Graduate Center’s 2017–2022 strategic plan. Her office coordinates assessment, accreditation, and evaluation efforts. All the data centered on these efforts will be collected, organized, analyzed, and disseminated to support good decision-making at various levels at The Graduate Center.
Xiang joined The Graduate Center in 2018 after serving as director of institutional research and assessment at the University of New Hampshire. In that position, she elevated the role of data in critical institutional areas, including academic affairs, enrollment management, and student affairs.
A published scholar, Xiang focuses her research and writing in the field of educational research and data analytics. Her recent presentations include “Strategic Enrollment Management and In-House Predictive Analytics” and “Building Storyboards for Enrollment Management” for the Association of Institutional Research (2016 and 2017).
She received her Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation from Boston College and her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Boston University.
Email: yxiang@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7209
Bazan, Margarita
Associate Director for Academic Operations
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(212) 817-7238
Brumberg, Joshua
Dean for the Sciences
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Joy Connolly
Provost and Senior Vice President
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Doneger, Myra
CUNY Administrative Assistant
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Ellis, Anne
Director of Graduate Assistant Programs/
Special Assistant to the
Associate Provost and Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences
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Ellis, Edward
CUNY Administrative Assistant
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Fish, Barbara L.
Director of Faculty Administration and Academic Information Systems
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Gayle, Tamra L.
Administrative Executive Coordinator
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Jiménez, Olga
College Assistant
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Kinger, Mansha
CUNY Office Assistant
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Maldonado, Rosa A.
Academic Operations Specialist
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Modica, Stacy
Assistant to the Provost
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Olan, David
Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs
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Peterson, Brian
Dean for Academic Initiatives and Strategic Innovation
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Sponzo, Rachel
Associate Director of Student Research Fellowships
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Suk, Julie
Dean for Master's Programs
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Tiongson, Stacie
Executive Director of Academic Affairs
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Wong, Steven
Assistant Director of Faculty Administration and Academic Information Systems
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