Review Committee Updates and FICA Exemptions for CUNY PhD Students
Addressing recent developments within the Review Committee and the necessary actions to ensure FICA exemptions for CUNY PhD students affected by new guidelines. Details include moving students to College TL payroll, maintaining FICA exemption, and implications for PhD student appointments. Additionally, highlights the designation of 2019-20 as the Year of Sustainability & Environmental Justice at the institution, showcasing upcoming events and initiatives in the field.
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Review Committee September 4, 2019
Todays Agenda 1.Approval of the minutes 2. Assorted items 3.Personnel actions
FICA Issues for Students o CUNY has issued new guidelines regarding FICA exemptions for students o The Research Foundation discovered that it is not qualified to issue FICA exemptions to students o Problem for PhD students funded through grants administered by RF o About 80 PhD students affected (others are exempt from FICA by virtue of their visa status) o By September 29 we will move the affected students to College TL payroll (reimbursed from grants) to maintain FICA exemption. o Fringe rate will be 2% (same as RF GRA appointments) o Appointments will be to GRA and GRB titles o Note that GRA appointees can not have any other appointment in CUNY o Ultimately all PhD students will be moved to College payroll (reimbursed from grants)
Year of Sustainability & Environmental Justice o The President has designated 2019-20 as the YoSEJ, highlighting the broad spectrum of work in this area across campus o President+Provost will support department/division colloquia and seminars on related topics o Send short (few paragraph) proposal and budget to provost@ccny.cuny.edu o Minimum 6-weeks before event to allow Communications to be looped-in. o CPS launched Climate Policy Fellow program for UGs o Kickoff event: Climate Roundtable Thursday September 26 4:30-6pm SH350 o The State of the Climate: Science, Economics and Policy. Jonathan Pershing, Former Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State
Incomplete list of other YoSEJ events o September 6 Lauren Toth (US Geological Survey) Geological perspectives on the degradation & restoration of Florida s coral reefs o September 20 Emmanuela Shinta (Filmmaker & activist) - The Influence of Palm Oil on Deforestation, Indigenous Land Rights, and Environmental Instability in Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo (Earth & Environmental Science Seminar Series 12:45pm MR107) o October 7 - A. Mridul (Architect / Entrepreneur) Contemporizing Traditional Water Architecture: Regeneration, Mainstreaming & Replication of the Indian Step-Well (6:30pm Spitzer 107) o October 7 - Paul J. A. Kenis (ChemE UIUC) - Converting CO2 waste into valuable resources (GSOE ChemE seminar series) o October 23 Shalini Vajjhala Sternberg Family Lecture - On Climate Change and Sustainability o March or April 2020 Greta Schiller Sneak Preview of The Land of Azaba (Documentary Forum)
SEJ Gen Ed Course o Jorge Gonzalez (ME) & Yana Kucheva (Sociology) are planning a Gen Ed course for spring semester focused on campus work on sustainability & environmental justice. o No pre-reqs meant for everyone (Gen Ed Science badly needed) o Lectures from faculty across campus on their work o Please encourage your faculty to volunteer to give a lecture
Institute Reviews o During AY18-19 CRC developed procedures for 5-year reviews of all CCNY-based Institutes o Two outside experts, one each chosen from Director s list & Dean s list + Dean(s) or designee, CUNY VC for Research or designee, CRC Chair or designee o Written report from institute to reviewers at least 2 weeks before review date o 1-day review with oral presentations from Institute + closeout from review committee o Fall 2019 reviews (chosen by who was ready) o Dominican Studies Institute October 17 o Energy Institute October 21 o Levich Institute November 4
Personnel Actions Deans: New SSA Dean, Lesley Lokko starts 12/2/19 Three finalists for Dean of Science on campus in late September CSOM dean search to begin this month Senior staff Celia Lloyd appointed VP for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management Wendy Thornton is Assistant Vice President for Student Development Faculty Leslie Trinidad Sub Assistant Prof in MTM (w/ SAB) (Supported for first 2 years by Grove MTM funds) David Simon Sub Lecturer Landscape Architecture Ryan Williams Assistant Prof BME Sherry Muyuan He Assistant Prof Art Pilar Newton Sub Assistant Prof Art Sarah Muir Lecturer->Assistant Prof (retention) Joan Robinson Assistant Prof CWE James Hammonds Sub Assoc. Prof ME
More Personnel Actions Failed faculty searches: Organic Chemistry Economics Art (EDM) SABs & supplements Carlos Meriles, Physics appointed Martin & Michele Cohen Professor Vinod Menon retention SAB Jorge Gonzalez retention SAB Deidre Anglin SAB James Hedberg, Physics appointed Director of the Planetarium and Coordinator for Science Outreach Retention (2 mo. Summer salary) Retention-prevention SABs (funded for 2 years by faculty grants/GSOE) to Yiannis Adreopoulos Feridun Delale Roger Dorsinville Fred Moshary Ying Li Tian
Still more personnel actions o Staff positions o 3 student psych counselor offers awaiting CUNY HEO approval o Michael Locke Compliance Officer, Financial Aid o Katherine Neris Financial Aid Advisor (aHEO) o Katherine Gloede Sustainability in the Urban Environment Program Director (HEA) (replacing George Smith who is retiring) o Substitute CLT for EAS (replacing Stephanie Devries)
Medical School Personnel Actions o Faculty/Senior Staff o Maria Lima Associate Dean for Research & Medical Professor CHASM o Miguel Munoz-Laboy Assoc. Medical Professor (tenure-track) CHASM o Lynn Hernandez Assistant Dean for Diversity & Inclusion o Staff o Matthew Casanova, Enrollment Registrar Director o April Chester, HR Generalist (HEa) o Maria Aguirre, Finance Budget Coordinator (aHEO) o Kevin Gonzalez, Academic Testing Coordinator (aHEO)
Approved searches for FY20 o Post doc in History, funded by ACLS grant o Assistant Prof in English, funded by Pforzheimer Fellowship o Ed Theater Assistant Professor sub appointment for January o Director of MPA Program (ECP) o Assistant Professor in Economics ( failed search in FY19) o Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry (failed search in FY19) o Art 3D Gaming (failed search in FY19, current sub) o Assistant (or Associate) Professor in Biology o Assistant Professor in Physics (Flatiron Institute 7-year cost share) o Staff o Two staff departures in GSP (Yao Fu, Alvaro Munoz-Hansen) will be replaced o aVP for Enrollment Management
