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Cabinet Meeting
Monday, August 18, 2025
10:00 am - Noon

MINUTES

President called the meeting to order at 10 a.m. In Attendance

V. Boudreau; D. Cintron; A. Couzis; S. Gurba; E. Lamboy; T. Liss; V. Meléndez; JC Mercado; D. Mozeleski; R. Miller; I. Mukerji; N. Nwosu; P. Occhiogrosso; M. Owumi; I. Perez; M. Ramirez; T. Scala;

R. Stark; M.R. Strzeszewski; J. Yafar; Konigsberg, S; D. Jeruzalmi

Absent

K. Foster; S. O’Brien; L. Koehler

Agenda

1. Review of July 7th Minutes

   • Minutes were adopted, no changes requested

      

2. President’s Announcements

   • Budget – President Boudreau gave an update on the PMP Deep Dive Meeting with CUNY Central. Overall, the meeting went well, received some recommendations, should have about

     $1M in reserve. Anticipating some changes from the Governor’s Budget Office, some campuses may be hit harder than CCNY. Medicare will hit next year which will have more of an impact.

     Budget request was also submitted, they will most likely ask for edits. Tone around the budget was grim, the CUNY BOT is in executive session later today, these issues will be discussed, may do something at the university level, more to come.

      

      

     Budget Discussion / Q&A:

     • Any idea of the criteria or metrics they will use, will it be across the board? – Don’t know what they will do, across the board or it can be a certain percentage, but nothing is guaranteed.

     • What percent of our budget will be clawed back, what limitations do we have? – We will know by the end of October, before thanksgiving, where the College will be in terms of the budget.

     • Has there been talk about combining schools within CUNY? – No further discussion at this time.

   • Dean Search Update:

     • Colin Powell School – Four (4) final candidates have been identified and will come to campus in September for final interviews.

     • Dean of Science – Provost is currently in the final stages of assembling the Committee to begin reviewing applications.

   • CSOM – Is now formally independent, some items around governance are still being finalized.

   • Intramurals – CUNY is having CCNY reinvigorate athletics. Recruitment will begin in a couple of weeks to seek interest. Will have someone manage intramurals, and will start on a school/division basis – finalist has been identified with a possible start date in the Fall.

3. Recap (Infectious Diseases)

   • Two health related cases were identified at the College:

     1. Measles – Individual followed DOH protocol, Administration sent out targeted broadcast to the Science Community)

     2. Legionnaires – Bacteria was identified in one of the cooling towers in the Marshak Building. There are a total of 3 cooling towers on campus. This does not impact ventilation, it is used to cool the water, and is separate from the air conditioning. The College followed all compliance to testing, cleaning, and disinfecting water tours by engineers and also used a third party that cleans, followed by an inspection from the DOH. The Towers are tested every 60-90 days. This was discovered through an off-cycle visit, because of what is happening in the Harlem area. CCNY was notified on 8/8, they identified a trace of Legionnaires, the College then had 48 hours to clean, which was completed on 8/10 and 8/11 as well, testing then took place again 3-5 days following to retest. On 8/13, CCNY sent notification to DOH declaring that the Towers were cleaned, then a notice went out to the campus.

        Recap Discussion / Q&A:

        • What is the timeframe when people may have been exposed to when the College was sent notification? – The student was sick for a while undiagnosed before it was confirmed.

          However, whatever the DOH protocol is, how can we give the best information possible to the campus community within the shortest timeline.

        • Better protocols, specifically for people running summer programs, they need to know CCNY's protocols in addition to DOH (tightening protocols, responsibilities, and vulnerabilities)

          • What are the protocols for dorms, summer programs, do they follow the same protocols?

        • Signs did not go up in the NAC (don’t know where the student may have been unless the student notified campus officials) should have provided more signage

        • Should identify any kind of gaps for improvement in the future.

          • Getting a notice out as soon as possible, get better about sharing information with staff

          • With leadership, getting information out in various forms, none targeted announcement (inform as broadly as possible) how to avoid panic, but consequences could be greater

          • Deans were not notified (information should be shared for better communication). Send info to Deans, separate from the campus email to notify them what is going on, in order to be prepared to handle the response from their staff

        • For Legionnaires, given what is going on in Harlem, the information should have been shared, understand that proper inspections are being done, but this summer is a special case given the concerns

        • Resend the campus communication on infectious diseases protocol at the start of the semester

4. Title VI Letter

   • CUNY schools have begun receiving letters from independent organizations on letterhead, sighting violations on DEI (per new Administration protocols). This includes explicit identification of DEI proxy language (9 CUNY campuses have received them including CCNY). CUNY is asking to do an inventory of scholarships/programs, identifying areas of vulnerability and opportunity – Dee Dee’s area has already completed this list.

   • Do not make any changes to what we have or we are doing at this time. General Counsel has contracted with a law firm that is arguing against these violations. CUNY believes that we are not in violation of the law, as the law did not change.

     Title VI Letter Discussion / Q&A:

     • Impact on Grants (portfolio is very heavy on training grants, can make CCNY more vulnerable)

     • How do we say we are in compliance with DEI new standards?

     • What is the RF assistance with protecting those that did sign these compliance forms

     • May see FOILs on faculty emails on certain words relative to DEI.

5. Master Plan

   • SVP Gurba noted that the Steering Committee had another workshop the previous week, which resulted in a set of recommendations for sequencing all these bodies of work, planning for the campus, urban space and buildings. They laid out a 15-year horizon, what should be done first, systematics, etc. 4 bodies of work to prioritize, 1 floor on NAC, Marshak, Student Center, Wingate, NAC plaza (much deeper cost analysis propels to go to CUNY to ask for capital). One of the conversations is 100sf of space in the library, comprehensive holistic study of the library (CUNY will pay for it).

      

6. PMP

   • President Boudreau shared a handout with Cabinet Members that included CUNY's response to the Deep Dive, things we are doing well, or areas for opportunity. Our continued work for the year will address these areas, also reviewing the goals that we have set for ourselves to hold us accountable (also posted outside of the President’s Office).

   • Will review the PMP in depth at another meeting, all Cabinet members to CUNY's comments

   • May need a Town Hall early in the semester, specific discussion items will be DEI, Federal Funding, etc., (early October or so).

   • Adopt Handshake – a career website, CUNY is using it and it is available for use

      

     PSA:

   • Orientation, has over 3000 RSVPs (tough year for students coming in, help them understand their opportunities as early as possible)

   • HR Head of Talent Acquisition starting next week The meeting was adjourned at 11:45 a.m.