The Baruch College Faculty Handbook

Last updated on 1/12/2003

In 1991 the first Presidential Commission was convene to create
a five-year plan for Baruch College. In 1993, the opening statement
of the “Planning Assumptions” of the Presidential Commission
was adopted as the College’s then current mission statement:

Baruch College is responsible for the education of a significant
proportion of the diverse community that relies on The City University
of New York to achieve its educational goals. Baruch’s primary
mission is to educate students for effective leadership in a global
political, social, and economic community, principally through
programs in business and administrative disciplines, but also
in the arts and sciences and in education. Baruch’s mission requires
the integration of exemplary, comprehensive programs in business
and administrative disciplines with a broad range of courses,
from introductory to advanced, in the humanities and the natural
and social sciences. Baruch’s mission also requires that it emphasize
the importance of both its undergraduate and graduate programs
and that its faculty be in the vanguard of scholarship and applied
research. In all its facets, the College is committed to incorporating
principles of leadership, social responsibility, modern technology,
and a global perspective into its programs. The largest collegiate
business school in the country, offering CUNY’s only BBA and MBA
programs, Baruch ranks nationally among the best business schools
for quality and cost. This is a distinguished record which has
extended CUNY’s mission to areas directly connected with the economic
welfare of the metropolitan region, and there was never a time
when the mission of Baruch was more important to CUNY and to New
York.