Cabinet Meeting Minutes June 9, 2025

1. 1. Dr. McDonald prepared a statement that can be considered for inclusion on the syllabus, including CCNY support services for students to create more awareness, specifically with challenges going on worldwide as it relates to ICE.
      1. Will share the statement and other documents with the Cabinet to ensure that all the same information is being provided, and can also be shared with the Faculty Senate.
      2. A syllabus template is provided and encouraged, but cannot be mandated. Some students may not read it, but it will reach some. Can also be discussed at the start of the semester in the classroom when they review the syllabus.
2. Middle States Update
   1. The revised self-study design was submitted and approved by Middle States. Previous feedback received from the draft was incorporated into the following sections:
      1. Institutional overview was updated extensively, to ‘brag’ more about the great work being done at CCNY, other areas revised were enrollment trends, lines of inquiry, section 6 was also updated, regarding the Commission’s actions from the last self-study, this was just a summary as regular updates are submitted through the monitoring reports and/or supplemental reports
      2. The final self-study will be shared by the co-chairs with the entire Cabinet
   2. The committee will work over the summer to prepare an official kick off in the fall when the semester begins, including a video with the President and Provost.
   3. Handout provided the five goals; below are the agreed upon goals, which will be shared and discussed with Faculty Senate:
      1. Promote all our students’ holistic success and prepare them to make an impact.
      2. Advance research, scholarship and creative activity
      3. Build a caring community of the whole people that serves the public good.
      4. Ensure financial stability
      5. Maintain and enhance campus facilities.
   4. Further discussion items including Institutional Learning Outcomes, and Standard 6 criteria – this is relative to decision making processes – will be brought back to Cabinet later in the summer or early fall for deeper discussion.
3. Preliminary Planning for PMP
   1. Goal one—deans and divisions would be more involved in recruiting students who had been accepted:
      1. Naomi will provide data on the conversion rate.
   2. What went well?
      1. Open houses were more successful when faculty were in attendance and engaging with the students. Would be great to get representation from all departments across majors, direct one on one outreach from the different areas (department open houses, in addition to the big open house)
      2. Financial aid advisor, how do students afford college (this has been a game changer, should be expanded) this is an area to expand, more workshops for incoming students (financial literacy workshop and JP Morgan Chase also does a workshop) – Naomi will provide more information on this.
   3. What were the problems? – rolling admissions, other schools have early decision deadlines, we need to do more across the calendar, more frequently, more face to face at any stage in the cycle, need more messaging to parents (they attend most).

1. 1. The expansion of recruitment (i.e. building out our coverage area):
      1. What went well?
      2. What were the problems? – Didn’t have enough financial resources to expand on this.
      3. Is there a role for faculty, coordination with the admissions office would help to expand
      4. New recruitment video will be in production – week of July 14 for filming, not a lot of opportunity to film activities during the summer, but can integrate from prior events that we have high quality film.

1. The use of Navigate
2. What went well?
   1. The expansion of areas that use Navigate - Advisors and the various offices that use navigate, student affairs, enrollment management, bursar (EAB Navigate) for outstanding bills, emergency support.
      1. Foundation Board - will ask for 10 more advisors at the next meeting, this will help with retention, need to keep investing in this area.
3. What needs to be improved?
   1. Integration of Academic side
   2. Professional Studies don’t know anything about Navigate (Naomi will reach out to the advisors – Juan Mercado)
   3. Delays in admissions from the last academic year have generated potential strategies including proactive review of applications, implementation of Slate for the graduate side of CRM (then it will move to undergraduate), integration with Brightspace
   4. A lot of adjuncts do not login to CUNYFirst (70-80 percent of classes are taught by adjuncts) need to feel more welcomed, provide better onboarding and training, etc., and need a program to engage them. – think about what the new contract will pay them at, may be inclined to do it because it is not in their contract

o    What will our strategy be?

Expand online offerings:
What do we want to do on this front?—what did we do last year and how do we want to approach it in the future?

1. Have a new online fully BA and BS, was given money to design the program but not to recruit the students.
2. There are several online master’s programs, and two more coming in the next few months, waiting for Albany to authorize. One of the challenges is that we want to expand the target area, specifically people outside of NYC, to include people from around the Country.
3. There are several graduate Master’s and advanced certificates that are not very popular, with very little interest (some in education and pop music).
4. Recruiting students out of state in an online program is challenging because they lose In-State tuition from their hometowns.