Agenda
8:00–9:00 am, Continental Breakfast & Registration, Newman Vertical Campus, (NVC), Rooms 14-220 and 14-250
9:00–9:15 am, Introductory Remarks, NVC Room 14-220
Introduction
Dennis Slavin, Associate Provost, Baruch College
Welcome
Kathleen Waldron, President, Baruch College
Selma Botman, Executive Vice Chancellor
and University Provost, CUNY
Judith Summerfield, Dean for Undergraduate Education, CUNY
9:20–10:05 am
Keynote Address: “Why Is General Education a Problem?"
NVC Room 14-220
Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English
and American Literature and Language at Harvard University
Break
Session I, NVC Classrooms
10:30-11:30 am
Break
Session II, NVC Classrooms
11:40 am-12:40 pm
Break
12:50-2:30 pm, Lunch, NVC Rooms 14-220 and 14-250
Provost’s Forum: Roundtable discussion on Gen Ed
James McCarthy , Provost and Senior Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Baruch College
Daisy DeFilippis, Provost and Senior Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Hostos Community College
Ivelaw Griffith, Provost and Senior Vice President
for Academic Affairs, York College
Vita Rabinowitz, Provost and Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Hunter College
Session III, NVC Classrooms
2:40-3:40 pm
Afternoon Refreshment Break, NVC Room 14-220
3:40-3:55 pm
Session IV, NVC Classrooms
4:00-5:00 pm
