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Frances Degen Horowitz
to Step Down as GC President

Since 1991, Dr. Frances Degen Horowitz has tirelessly advocated for The Graduate Center and its students and faculty. She also managed the GC’s move from 42nd Street to 365 Fifth Avenue—no easy task, but one that President Horowitz handled witih skill. At every opportunity, Dr. Horowitz spoke of the need for tuition remission for GC graduate students who teach at CUNY campuses.

Recently, she forged a valuable tie with Ronald Canestrari, the Chair of the Higher Education Committee of the New York State Assembly. Students were present on several occasions as she explained to Assemblyman Canestrari the inequitable situation in which GC students operate in comparison with SUNY graduate students and others around the country. These meetings laid the groundwork for greater recognition for the GC in the state legislature and may proove crucial in the years to come.

Dr. Horowitz will also leave the GC’s Foundation with a respectable $28 million. In general, students will remember Frances Degen Horowitz as a mild-mannered, pleasant administrator whose of?ce was always open to students. This sort of open-door, student-friendly presidency is one which students hope will continue with her successor. There will be a concert and reception in her honor on Thursday, May 19, 2005.