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Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez announced Tuesday that CUNY will launch a Graduate Education Task Force this month, beginning a two-year process to reimagine and reinvigorate the university’s graduate programs to advance its core missions and strengthen its impact and commitment as a world-class model for graduate education and research.
The Task Force includes two CUNY SPH faculty: Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs Ashish Joshi and Terry Huang, Professor and Chair in Heath Policy and Management and Director of the Center for Systems and Community Design.
“The Task Force includes representation across different campuses and is very critical as it brings together strengths, opportunities and will play an important role to reimagine graduate education in this rapidly changing environment,” says Dr. Joshi. “We hope to bring to the committee the rich CUNY SPH experience in offering successful graduate programs that are cutting edge and meeting the diverse needs of our various stakeholders.”
Nearly 60 years ago, CUNY created a unique consortium model in which The Graduate Center drew upon the deep reserves of faculty talent at CUNY colleges and provided doctoral students access to faculty and research resources across the system. This model has evolved significantly over time, with CUNY colleges and schools offering both master’s and doctoral degree programs to some 30,000 students at any time and the university as a whole awarding nearly 10,000 graduate degrees each year.
Today, the national landscape in graduate-level credentials and professional degrees is changing rapidly.
“The time is right, therefore, to undertake a thorough strategic analysis that considers graduate education at CUNY as a whole; takes into account the distinctive aspirations and trajectories of our campuses; and yields a strong and unified strategy for supporting, improving, growing and promoting graduate education throughout the system,” Chancellor Matos Rodriguez said in a statement.
