You are our Dean and de facto the leader of science at CSI.

It also has been painful to see our CUNY colleagues return to their scientific activities while we remain on the sidelines. It has been painful to watch our graduate students’ career paths be put on hold. It has been very painful for us to lose more than half a year of research time. Nevertheless, even within this context, it is critical that scientific research and science education remain vibrant. We are fully aware that these are historic times and that the College of Staten Island is experiencing unprecedented challenges. We think that, as faculty involved experimental research, it is important that we be able to view you as our advocate at the administrative level. We are writing to thank you and to tell you that we are encouraged by the recent movement toward a return to research activities at CSI. I would like to ask that each of you send a welcome message to your students this week

They are particularly concerned about how to attend the first day of a class that is not in a classroom. Our students, particularly incoming students, have been contacting our advisement offices with questions about beginning the year remotely. Still, I have some optimism that your message has gotten through, and that people in the Administration are pulling together to make it happen as soon as possible.įor my part, I have emphasized to the Administration that the people who are being most vocal about this issue are amongst our most productive and impactful faculty members.

If I have a difference with some members of the faculty, it is that I am more sympathetic to the difficult decisions that lie before the Provost, Cabinet and President in this awful time for higher education. Research is the smartest way to reopen our campus, in my opinion, and I have not been bashful in making that opinion known in the venues available to me. You should be taken to the familiar CUNY login prompt where you enter your login credentials.Ĩ/20 Science Dean response to request to champion a swift research re-openingĪs I indicated earlier, I have been doing little else for the past two months. In an effort to manage the operational issues that arise, the college may revise the phased reopening at any time. The phasing plan will allow for a limited and controlled reentry with a significantly reduced capacity. The phased reopening of our expansive horizontal campus will be challenging. To add/suggest news, please email John Verzani College A summary of some new news related to CUNY's and CSI's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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