Raab’s tenure, Hunter’s fortunes have risen considerably. (The governor chooses a majority of the board.) The unrest at Hunter, one of CUNY’s top colleges, comes at a critical time, with the system seeking a new chancellor and the mayor’s office, which chooses 5 of the 17 board members, about to change hands.
“Those issues really have to do with the kind of assumption and behavior that you can lead on the basis of fear, intimidation and humiliation,” he said, and “on the basis of threat, withdrawal of resources, particularly those who have something at stake like department chairs.”īarbara Bowen, head of the union, said the number of complaints about the atmosphere at Hunter far exceeded the number from any of the 17 other colleges in CUNY. Raab, like Michael Fabricant, a professor at the school of social work and a member of the union representing the City University of New York’s faculty and staff, attribute the many departures to what they describe as a highly temperamental style of management. Some of these administrators left on good terms. And at Hunter’s prestigious high school, three principals left within five years. The fund-raising office has gone through 11 shifts of leadership. The school of arts and sciences, which accounts for 17,000 of the college’s 23,000 students, has had six official or temporary deans during that period. Raab’s tenure has seen many such changes. Anderson’s departure came amid those of three senior administrators: Hunter’s legal counsel, its chief operating officer and its dean of arts and sciences. “I have watched her publicly shame and humiliate people to serve her own purpose,” the assistant dean, Maria Doelger Anderson, said of Ms. But the summer began on a different note, after a departing assistant dean wrote and distributed a letter denouncing “personal attacks and a culture of fear and mistrust.” Raab, who has led the college for 12 years. This was supposed to be a moment of unqualified victory for Ms. Raab will cut the ribbon on Phase 1 of a $45 million redesign of the college’s library - a bright, inviting, communal space that could transform the compact vertical campus. A science and health building that Hunter is constructing with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center won approval last month from the Department of City Planning. Raab, the fast-moving, fast-talking president of Hunter College, recently landed a $25 million donation, the largest in the college’s history.
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