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CCNY President Vincent Boudreau [left] receives the 2025 Building Futures Award from BCTC President Gary LaBarbera. Photo credit: Greg Morris.
Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, President of The City College of New York, is the recipient of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York’s (BCTC) 2025 Building Futures Award.
The honor, which recognizes labor, contractor, and government dignitaries who have made significant contributions to building a more inclusive and equitable construction industry, was presented to Boudreau, The City College’s 13th president, by BCTC President Gary LaBarbera.
"Without President Boudreau's understanding and support of the family-sustaining career opportunities the union construction industry can create for New Yorkers of all backgrounds, the innovative partnership between CSKILLS and CCNY would not be evolving in the way it is today," said LaBarbera, who is also President and CEO of The Edward J. Malloy Initiative for Construction Skills (CSKILLS). “He has full belief in the benefits the CSKILLS curriculum can offer CCNY student and is dedicated to helping provide more individuals in these programs a clearer path to the middle class. It was a pleasure to recognize President Boudreau's contributions to growing our programs and we are thankful for our collaboration with CCNY, which is giving more hard-working New Yorkers the opportunities to build the skills and experience necessary to lead a successful career in the trades."
Boudreau said CCNY’s Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative (RIWI) entered a new and exciting phase of its work when it partnered with BCTC. “Our historic vision of educating the whole people often did not reach deeply into the world of non-degree workforce development, but it should have. Working shoulder to shoulder with BCTC is a tremendous gift, especially because we see in them an organization whose values, aspirations and practices utterly mirror our own. Together, we have the chance to bring vast segments of our communities into lives of remunerative and stable work, and it’s been a joy to work together,” he added.
Established under Boudreau’s tenure, RIWI is a massive program that aims to address the lack of modern infrastructure jobs in the late U.S. Rep. Rangel’s old congressional district. With more than $10 million in funding procured, RIWI’s overarching goal is to prepare a diversified and democratically constituted workforce for the crucial, patriotic work of rebuilding America’s Infrastructure. It will equip historically underserved communities with analytical and operational skills through innovative curricula, simulation-based training, and experiential learning to help them pursue career paths in the rapidly changing urban infrastructure sector.
Previous Building Futures Award winners include:
- U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer;
- U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries;
- New York State Attorney General Letitia James;
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Janno Lieber;
- UA Plumbers Local 1 International Representative John Murphy; and
- Iron Workers International General Treasurer James Mahoney.
About the BCTC
The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC) represents more than 100,000 tradesmen and tradeswomen across New York City and consists of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions. Read more.
About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. Education research organization Degree Choices ranks CCNY #1 nationally among universities for economic return on investment. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Lightcast puts at $3.2 billion CCNY’s annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the “for dollar” return on investment to students, taxpayers, and society. At City College, more than 16,500 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity, and scholarship. In 2023, CCNY launched its most expansive fundraising campaign ever. The campaign, titled “Doing Remarkable Things Together,” seeks to bring the College’s Foundation to more than $1 billion in total assets in support of the College's mission. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic, and visionary as New York City itself. View CCNY Media Kit.
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