ABSTRACT
As the tuition battle raged in 1991, Ann Reynolds proposed a plan that circumvented the politically troublesome open admissions policy. By 1999, Giuliani spoke of the City University of New York (CUNY) with great bellicosity and in his State of the City address that year, proposed the decimation of the entire system. At the end of the fall term in 1985, Yale University announced the successor to outgoing President A. Bartlett Giamatti, who had presided over the Ivy League institution since 1977. The Benno Schmidt report commissioned three studies from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to provide an independent overview of the university's financial affairs. The Schmidt report documented what it considered a systematic deterioration of university governance. In order to centralize institutional strategic planning, a new governance structure for CUNY was to be "founded on the principles of performance, standards, and accountability".
