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Change at UDC
Those who have been following this blog surely have read about the winds of change coming to the University of the District of Columbia. Allen L. Sessoms, the former president of Queen's College of the City University of New York, assumed the presidency of UDC this past September and has since pushed the creation of a two-campus system geared toward providing accessibility as well as instituting college-level admissions standards. ACTA praised the move and commended the UDC Board of Trustees for supporting these reforms. Now, Kathleen M. Pesile, a trustee of CUNY and the chairman of ACTA's Institute for Effective Governance, has penned an op-ed in the Washington Post lending her support for UDC's leadership at this crucial moment, noting how similar measures helped CUNY's remarkable turnaround. And she also points to what she calls "the lesson of CUNY's renaissance":
When endowments are tumbling and families face acute financial pressures, more of the "same old, same old" simply doesn't cut it: It doesn't inspire confidence in our universities and it doesn't attract those increasingly rare philanthropic dollars. Bold, well-informed leadership--in the form of presidents who will challenge the status quo where needed, and boards who will stick with them--does.
UDC's board seems to have learned this lesson. May others follow.
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak on March 23, 2009 at March 23, 2009 02:37 PM
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