Dear Zicklin Community,
Happy Spring! Spring is a wonderful season; a time to celebrate change, a time
to think about new beginnings and a time to bid farewell to what has passed.
As I write this note, I think about all of you - and about endings and beginnings.
For our students who will be graduating soon, you have much to celebrate. Gone,
at least for a while, are long days and nights of study. Ahead is a future, made
brighter by what you have gained here at Baruch – both in terms of knowledge and in
terms of friends. My wish for you is that both stay with you for many years to come.
For the Zicklin faculty and staff – together we’ve made it through another academic year.
Together we have worked hard and succeeded. This newsletter will give you insights into
some things we have accomplished and some things that are yet to come. Read about our progress
in Hybrid and Online Teaching, our plans for a new 3-school Baruch graduate program in the arts,
the PhD in Business Program at Zicklin, and much more.
It is appropriate that, with this issue, we have added a section on “Comings & Goings”. Here you will meet faculty and staff who are new to Zicklin. Here also, you will find news on those who are leaving us. This is my own cue to bid farewell. As most of you know, I will be leaving Baruch’s Zicklin School at the end of this semester. I will be taking a new position as Dean of the Business School at the University of Connecticut. So this will be my final Dean’s E-Newsletter message.
Sadly, I am not the only person leaving. As many of you also know, Frances Murphy is retiring and so this will be her final newsletter as well. Fran has been instrumental in publishing these newsletters over the past 4 years. She has been the director of graduate admissions during my entire term as dean and it has been a great experience to watch her hire and train an excellent team. Together they have created ten successive years of great new students. They have developed an approach toward open houses and recruiting, as well as toward selecting and welcoming students, which many of our students have told me were critical experiences in solidifying their decision to join a program here in the Zicklin School. Thanks Fran.
My time here at Zicklin has been wonderful – because of all of you. While I look forward to new beginnings, I will miss you and I will miss Baruch. I send each and every one of you best wishes. It has been a pleasure and an honor to have worked side-by-side with you over these past 10 years.
Thank you and best regards,
John A. Elliott
Dean, Zicklin School of Business