NYSHEI News

ProQuest CSA has stepped forward to sponsor the June 4 NYSHEI Annual Meeting at the bronze level.

NYSHEI Executive Director Jason Kramer said, “I am so grateful to ProQuest for this sponsorship. They were brought into this process late, and despite having already committed their marketing dollars elsewhere still found a way to support us. This is a great indication of ProQuests desire to partner with NYSHEI.”

Please be certain to visit ProQuest in the vendor area at Taylor Hall.

Governor Eliot Spitzer has issued an executive order charting the mission and composition of the Commission on Higher Education.

Since the January announcement of his intention to form this Commission, we have eagerly awaited these details. While we were not successful in getting an academic librarian named to this commission, your letters and phone calls to the Governor’s office succeeded in letting everyone know that academic librarians must be a part of this conversation. The energy NYSHEI members demonstrated has opened a dialogue with the Governor’s office that will give us access to the Commission, and a voice in future policy decisions.

Spitzer named Cornell University’s former leader to direct the commission. Hunter Rawlings, president emeritus of Cornell and the University of Iowa, is chairing a group that must report back by Dec. 1 and complete a final recommendation document in June of 2008.

The Commission operations will be run by Manuel Rivera, Deputy Secretary for Education, John Reid, the Assistant Secretary for Education, and Lloyd Constantine, Senior Advisor to the Governor. John Reid will serve as the Commission’s Executive Director.

The members of the Commission are:

Hunter Rawlings, President Emeritus, Cornell University Chairman
Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University
Don Boyce, Student, Rockefeller School of Public Affairs
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Syracuse University
John Clark, Interim Chancellor Nominee, State University of New York
Milton Cofield, New York State Board of Regents
Lois DeFleur, President, Binghamton University
John Dyson, Chief Executive Officer, Pebble Ridge Vineyards and Wine Estates
Peter Fishbein, Special Counsel, Kaye Scholer LLP
Hon. Deborah Glick, Chairwoman, Assembly Higher Education Committee
Matt Goldstein, Chancellor, CUNY
Carl Hayden, Former Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents
Elena Kagan, Dean, Harvard Law School
Dr. Marcia V. Keizs, President, York College of the City University of New York
Abraham Lackman, President of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities
Hon. Senator Kenneth LaValle, Chairman, Senate Higher Education Committee
Eduardo Marti, President, Queensborough Community College
Richard Mills, Commissioner of Education
Myron Mitchell, Faculty, State University of New York
Robert Paaswell, Faculty, City University of New York
Hon. Crystal Peoples, Member of Assembly
Bruce Raynor, President, UNITE HERE
William Scheuerman, President, United University Professions
John Sexton, President, New York University
John Simpson, President, State University of New York at Buffalo
Tom Schwarz, President, Purchase College – State University of New York
Marc Shaw, Trustee, City University of New York
Lauren Talerman, Student, Queens College
Adam Urbanski, President, Rochester Teachers Association

Apple is supporting the June 4 NYSHEI Annual Meeting as a silver sponsor.

This welcome contribution marks Apple’s first involvement with NYSHEI. We are most grateful for their support and hope to build an on-going partnership with this innovative company.

Please be sure to visit Apple in the vendor area and thank them for their sponsorship.

The NYSHEI website is banned in China.

In an effort to keep open a discussion of censorship and information freedom, a group calling themselves “the Great Firewall of China” has established a way to check what URLs are actively blocked by the communist government of the People’s Republic of China.

Apparently, almost anything with a blog – like the NYSHEI site – is blocked.

Elsevier will provide a SCOPUS demo and offer a free trial at the NYSHEI Annual Meeting on June 4.

Elsevier is also offering NYSHEI members additional discounts on its already discounted introductory pricing for Scopus.

▪ An additional 10% discount off the introductory offer

▪ At least a 10% discount off the 2008 price–with the possibility of even higher discounts—up to 27.5% based on the number of NYSHEI subscribers to Scopus (on October 1, 2007).

Learn more about this offer.