A TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT MARLENE SPRINGER
Dr. Marlene Springer served as President of in developing a new Facilities Master
CSI from 1994 to 2007. In her 13 years of Plan. Through this plan, CSI now has the
leadership, Dr. Springer advanced campus opportunity to address its considerable
technology, established public-private growth since the original Master Plan of
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partnerships, initiated an international 1986, and to develop facilities to better
distance education program, developed serve the changing needs of its students.
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an international high school on campus, Also, due largely to Dr. Springer’s vision,
increased the College’s enrollment to preparations for adding residence halls
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record levels, and strengthened academic to the campus are also underway. This
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standards. She made CSI a recognized dynamic addition will transform campus
leader locally, nationally, and internationally. life, provide new options to students who
ordinarily would not have attended CSI in
Former provost Dr. Mirella Affron the past, and enrich and further diversify
remembers the beginning of her tenure as a the campus community.
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ENGAGING
T “very propitious moment” that came with a
OR new campus, new opportunities for hiring, Dr. Springer is sought after internationally
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and an ethos of collegial vitality. President for her perspectives on women’s leadership,
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Springer oversaw the replenishment of the and was selected as one of only four U.S.
faculty due to retirements and the addition delegates to the Annual International
of new faculty lines: over 57% of CSI’s Forum of Female Presidents in Higher
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faculty were appointed between 1994 Education in Beijing; she is also one
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and 2006. of only seven U.S. college presidents
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who founded The Oxford Conclave on
Over the years, Dr. Springer maintained a Global Ethics. The Conclave, at Oxford’s
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OUND beautiful campus under the considerable historic Balliol College, involves intense
challenges of placing 21st-century demands collaborative study of global trends
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atop an 85-year-old infrastructure. At her such as population growth, resource
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urging, The City University of New York management, technological change,
(CUNY) last year approved the process knowledge development, economic
through which the College is now engaged integration, conflict patterns, and
HIGHLIGHTS FROM PRESIDENT MARLENE SPRINGER’S TENURE
The CSI Honors College was In 2004, CSI inaugurated its Center In 2005, CSI inaugurated the CSI High School for
founded in the fall of 1997. for Engineered Polymeric Materials International Studies in partnership with the Asia
In 2002, CSI joined the CUNY (CePM), funded by NYSTAR with a Society and the NYC Department of Education,
Honors College. Each year the five-year $2.5 million grant. CSI was with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates
applicant pool has grown larger one of two distinguished colleges in Foundation. The school continues to draw the
and academically stronger. New York State to receive the grant. greatest number of applications of any new small
high school in New York City.
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