ABSTRACT
When Matthew Goldstein was appointed as chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1999, Christoph Kimmich left the central administration to return to his former home at Brooklyn College as its president. By all accounts, the early part of the 21st century saw a CUNY renaissance with wide eyes open to the possibilities of new colleges, programs, and faculty to help rebrand the university. The Macaulay Honors College offered a particular niche of public education that Goldstein used to secure additional investments to continue building sections of the university that could compete on a national level. At its meeting in June 2004, the Board of Trustees voted to reorganize the Graduate School and University Center and delineate the separation between its doctoral and other programs. The board adopted a revised governance document that included the formation of a School of Professional Studies (SPS). CUNY approved the development of the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) in 2004.
