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Dr. DeCesare Quoted in Clarion Article

Dr. DeCesare was quoted in PSC-CUNY newspaper article on closed presidential searches.

Dr. DeCesare was quoted in this Clarion article on the City University of New York’s (CUNY) new policy on presidential searches. Clarion is the newspaper of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, a union representing more than 27,000 CUNY faculty and staff.

June 30, 2017 By Office of Communications

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