Higher Education

Since moving to New York City, I alternate my routes as I walk home from campus each evening simply to enjoy the varying aromas, music, markets, languages, and people of the city—even if just for a moment. A Tale of Two Avenues Along Lexington Avenue, ranks of small...Read more...

Earlier this month, I was interviewed by ABC News as part of their coverage of the upcoming Supreme Court case concerning affirmative action in college admissions. The reporter was most interested in how a selective institution like Baruch achieves a diverse student population when race is not a...Read more...

This is graduation season and the completion of another unusual academic year—not only for the graduates but for everyone in the Baruch community. The transition from virtual to traditional face-to-face settings has influenced us in ways that have been quite unexpected, at least that is the case for...Read more...

As spring arrives and the weather warms, I can feel every bit of change in the City’s pulse during my early morning runs—by the number of people out and about and even the expressions on their faces. As we enter the final stretch of the academic year and...Read more...

In my February blog, I invited your comments regarding our upcoming strategic planning process. Specifically, I asked for your thoughts about Baruch: What do you think are the College’s strengths, assets, and accomplishments that differentiate us? What is your idea of an aspirational future for Baruch? What do you...Read more...

Every five years, Baruch renews its institutional strategic plan: the 2013-18 plan positioned the College as a global leader in public urban education; the 2018-23 plan forged a comprehensive and ambitious blueprint to further that aim. This spring, we will continue that tradition and launch an institutional strategic...Read more...

Earlier this month, my wife and I attended an on-campus musical theater performance by Baruch students of And Then There Was Us. This amazing two-hour production featured students from a variety of majors—international business, marketing, psychology, journalism, art administration—all of whom acted and sang with a passion no...Read more...

In my September blog, I argued that humanity has reached the point where knowledge is so abundant and easily accessible that we are able to solve some of the greatest puzzles from previous generations. In this blog, I want to push further and suggest that the time has...Read more...

As we are at the beginning of a new academic year, I thought it would be appropriate to turn our attention to a topic of some intellectual interest—knowledge creation, appropriation, and dissemination. Ironically, the idea for this two-part blog was sparked while I was taking my summer hiatus...Read more...