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Welcome to Lehman
It is a pleasure to welcome you to the faculty of Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY).
Lehman College is the only public senior college in the Bronx and with a faculty of more than 300 full-time and approximately 400 adjuncts serving more than 8,000 undergraduate and 2,000 Master students.
Lehman is a college on the move and an exciting place for teaching and scholarly activity.
Over the last three years enrollments have been increasing by 3% a
year and support for research and scholarship has increased by over 5% a
year. While teaching clearly is our primary mission, the college is
justifiably proud of the research, scholarly and creative works of the
faculty, six of whom have been designated CUNY Distinguished Professors.
Nearly 20% of Lehman faculty also hold appointments at the CUNY Graduate Center where the University's Ph.D.
and other doctoral programs are organized.
You will
find Lehman's students eager to learn and diverse, not only ethnically but
also with respect to life experiences. Most are the first in their families
to attend college, 72% of undergraduates are female, 87% are members of
minority groups (Lehman is a federally-designated Hispanic Serving
Institution), 60% full time and most also hold jobs. 60% of the students who
graduated last year were transfer students from community colleges. To be
sure that all of these students experience some component of Lehman's General
Education curriculum, the curriculum has been extended to upper division
students who are required to take at least one writing intensive course and two interdisciplinary courses, LEH 300 The Humanities and the Sciences and
LEH 301 The American Experience. Both of these topics can be approached from
many disciplines and I encourage you to consider teaching one of these
courses, which are described in more detail on the General Education website.
For a
more detailed picture of the College, I invite you to review the Periodic Review
Report to the Commission of Higher Education Middle States Association of
Colleges and Schools, which was submitted as our mid-cycle accreditation
report in June 2004.
Some of the most important things you should know can be found in Things You Need to Do to Get Started, but please refer
to our Faculty Handbook for any other information you may need.
Once
again, welcome and congratulations on your appointment. I look forward to
meeting each of you in the near future.
Mary A. Papazian
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
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